Heading into the second week of July, we’ve already finished Beginning Spinning and Rainbow Dyeing with Deb Jones and My Latest, Greatest Quilt class with Marianne Fons and Ellen Graf. Starting today is Lynn Schuster’s Coiled Basketry weekend class. Captured in these photos is just a little of what has been happening in the studios so far in July.
Slideshow Troubles?
If you are having trouble viewing the three slide shows included in the last post, try going directly to the News From Sievers School website at https://sieversschool.com/ . From there, if there are still problems, try hitting the refresh button. I hope it works for you!
A Colorful Week
Between the three classes in session this past week and weekend, Batik with Mary Jo Scandin, Waffle Weave with Nancy Adams and Japanese Temari Techniques with Judith Yamamoto, the studios were filled with so much color, each class deserved its own slide show! [slideshow_deploy id=’3199′] [slideshow_deploy id=’3213′] [slideshow_deploy id=’3268′]
The Irises are Blooming
Always a treat at the end of June, the Siberian Irises are blooming outside the Walter Studio. Inside, a lot of wonderful resist-dyed scarves are being created by the students in Chad Hagen’s Handfelted Scarf Collection class. Dyeing, pinning, dyeing, cutting, dyeing, creating bubbles with stones and dyeing all make these scarves extra special. In the weaving studio, Lynn Schuster’s Summer and Winter students are working on table runners based on Lynn’s samples seen here. or on Summer and Winter rug woven with wool. On the weekend, Useful Handfelted Objects with Chad and then next week, Waffle Weave with Nancy Adams and Batik […]
Of Workmanship and Scholarship
The beautiful workmanship by the students in Karen Tembreull’s Patchwork Birch Bark Basket class and in Nancy Frantz’s Beginning Weaving class has been one highlight of this week. Even the raw materials are lovely! Starting with these pieces of birch bark prepared by Karen, the layering and stitching involved resulted in eight special baskets. The weaving students have been busy learning the basics or renewing the basics of weaving on a floor loom. Nature has it’s own workmanship and it was found just down the road in the Jackson Harbor Ridges area this week. [slideshow_deploy id=’3134′] Sievers Scholarships Sievers has offered scholarships since the inception of the Scholarship Fund in 1999. Memorial donations […]
Quilt Studio Week
Last week saw twelve quilters using both the Sophie and Walter Studios to work on individual projects. Some of those projects had been to the Island before in an earlier class, in a different year or in a different format. There was extra time during the week to enjoy the Island, a potluck dinner and visits from the Frog Hollow Farm Bed & Breakfast quilters in addition to cutting, pressing and sewing! The quilts can tell their own story: At the end of the week, the sun shone on the blooming apple and crabapple trees along the Island roadsides.
Sievers Slide Show
This year, the great majority of our classes begin with an afternoon introduction with the start of class following immediately. Because of that, we’d like to share with you an online version of what used to be our Sunday evening slide show. This gives an overview of classes this year, beginning and ending with a spring and fall photo of East Side Road here on Washington Island. [slideshow_deploy id=’2930′]
A Virtual Trip to the Island
If you didn’t travel to Washington Island for the Memorial Day weekend, you may want to visit by watching this video, produced by Door County Today Online (www.doorcountytoday.com) titled, “Washington Island: A Documentary”. It is a half-hour tour of the Island including interviews with several people, including Ann at Sievers. You’ll catch a glimpse of Carolyn, weaving on the demonstration loom in the shop, several weavers in Rita Hagenbruch’s weaving class and Cindra, too, singing in the W. I. Music Festival Chorus shown later in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUKVkQZZNYw&feature=player_detailpage For a shorter five-minute video, just on Sievers with expanded footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTvnN4YJwU&feature=player_detailpage Of course, we hope we’ll see you in person, too!
