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Three at a time

August 14, 2021 By Carolyn Foss

We’re back on schedule now with this post which covers three classes held in early August; Beading: Composing Components with Francie Broadie, the Beadwork Alumni Studio and Finding Our Way: A Dyeing Journey with Stephanie Lewis Robertson. We were very happy to welcome Francie and this new class to our 2021 schedule. Francie first came to Sievers in 2009 as a student in a Diane Fitzgerald beadwork class and has gone on to take many more beadwork as well as several fabric printing and dyeing classes here. She taught a workshop at the Sievers Gathering in 2018 and was scheduled to offer Composing Components in 2020. This was another new class that was long overdue! Students worked on creating rings, […]

Filed Under: Sievers School Tagged With: Beadwork, Dyeing, Fabric printing, Francie Broadie, Stephanie Robertson

Straw into gold

September 5, 2017 By Carolyn Foss

Well, maybe not technically spinning straw into gold, but the students in Deb Jones’ Beginning Spinning and Rainbow Dyeing class took simple wool fibers and turned them into something equally precious to a beginning spinner, their own handspun and hand-dyed yarns.       By the end of the first afternoon, these beginners were spinners!  You can see more photos from the class as Deb has posted them on The Fiber Garden Facebook page.  Her next stop, along with other Sievers teachers (Nancy Frantz and Mary Germain), students and friends is the Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival from September 7-10.     Spinning is one of the classes that’s been offered at Sievers each year since the start.  One of those first classes in 1979 is shown in the black and white photo.  Dyeing was added later, using […]

Filed Under: Dyeing/Knitting/Spinning, Washington Island Tagged With: Deb Jones, Dyeing, Spinning, The Fiber Garden

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