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Boundweave and a pop-up shop

October 1, 2021 By Carolyn Foss

We’d been waiting for this for a long time! Since the class in 2020 was not able to be held, it had been five years since the last Boundweave class. It’s such a treat to see the rugs Lynn Stracka Shuster brings and the ones students plan, design and weave themselves. Sharpen your colored pencils and watch the rugs come to life on the looms! One of the students, who has taken many weaving and knitting classes here, had first come to Sievers for Lynn’s Boundweave class in 1997. She brought her rug back to show us now that it’s been 24 years off the loom. Another student used one of our table looms to weave her project. There’s a […]

Filed Under: Sievers School Tagged With: Boundweave Rugs, Deb Sharpee, Lynn Schuster, Sievers Shop, Susan Frame

Learning and making

August 28, 2021 By Carolyn Foss

Learning something new and making by hand is an exciting adventure. That being said, we’ve been fortunate to witness a lot of good adventures this year, including those in our August classes. Lynn Stracka Schuster guided several new basketmakers in her recent Covered Coiling Basket class. When travelling down a new path of learning, it’s good to have an experienced guide, and Lynn is that and more. This is her 40th year of teaching at Sievers. Lynn likes to tell the story of finding a notice about Sievers while studying art in college and realizing it was in Door County, a family vacation spot. A short time later, after graduating, she paid Walter Schutz a visit and he said that […]

Filed Under: Sievers School Tagged With: Beginning Weaving, Coiled Basketry, Lynn Schuster, Nancy Frantz, Open Quilt Studio

One or many

September 5, 2019 By Carolyn Foss

Maybe it was one coiled basket or maybe it was many marbled papers and fabrics that were completed in class during the last week of August, but whether it was one or many, it was a delight to see the student’s work progress through the three days of class. Most of Lynn Stracka Schuster’s Covered Coiling Basket students completed one special piece using unique yarns (some used handspun purchased at the Sievers Shop). From a small base, an expanding spiral forms into a one-of-a-kind basket. As Lynn says, “the basket will tell you where it wants to take you”. Lynn brought several examples of her own work illustrating various yarns used, shapes, choices for rims and embellishments. One by one, […]

Filed Under: Basketry/Furnishings, Book Arts/Paper Arts Tagged With: Coiled Basketry, Lynn Schuster, Marbling, Nancy Akerly

Express yourself

August 3, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

There are so many ways to express yourself.  Count our first two classes in August, Basketry: Covered Coiling with Lynn Schuster and Making Your Mark: A Fabric Journey with Stephanie Lewis Robertson among them! By completely covering the core material with various yarns and expanding or decreasing the spiral core while constructing a basket was the method used in this class.  As Lynn related to the students, the basket will tell you what it wants as far as its shape, rim and embellishment.          The students commented on the relaxed and meditative-type atmosphere that was inherent in the wrapping and stitching of their baskets.    Expressing yourself and telling your own story through fabric is the basis of Stephanie’s fabric printing and dyeing class.  Experimenting with […]

Filed Under: Basketry/Furnishings, Surface Design Tagged With: Covered Coiling Basketry, Fabric printing, Lynn Schuster, Screen Printing, Stephanie Lewis Robertson

Summer & Winter & Fall

October 17, 2017 By Carolyn Foss

Inside the studio recently, the focus was on Summer & Winter (weaving), but outside, it’s all about a different season.  First things first…weaving.  Summer & Winter has reversible areas of pattern and background on both sides with the “summer” side predominately showing the lighter colors and the “winter” side, the darker ones.  Lynn Schuster’s handwoven samples, some using fine 10/2 cotton, some using Brown Sheep’s Lamb’s Pride Worsted, gave a real variety of choices for students in planning their own projects.               The last morning of class, strong winds knocked power out to the studios.  Finishing up, looms were moved a little closer to the windows and cellphones were taped to the task lights to use the flashlight feature so that the […]

Filed Under: Seasons, Weaving Tagged With: Lynn Schuster, Washington Island, Weaving

Through July

August 1, 2016 By Carolyn Foss

It’s hard to believe we are approaching the half-way mark of our classes, but we’ve found ourselves there.  Bringing us through the end of July were three classes which overlapped a day or two on each end, Lynn Schuster’s Boundweave Rug Weaving, Deb Jones’ Spinner’s Color Workshop and Susan Hoffmann’s Landscape ‘Painting’ with Fabric. We started with Boundweave Rugs and the gorgeous wools and colorful designs created by each of the students.  One person was able to finish two rugs in class…a first in our recollection. (Some late hours were definitely involved.  We wondered if she wove after the 2 a.m. timer on the outdoor lights went off.  As some weavers know, that would not be a first!)            While […]

Filed Under: Dyeing/Knitting/Spinning, Quilting, Weaving Tagged With: Deb Jones, Lynn Schuster, Susan Hoffmann

Yarns and needles are for knitting…and baskets

August 23, 2015 By Carolyn Foss

They may be different yarns and needles, but the students in Carol Anderson’s Knitting on Location class and Lynn Schuster’s Covered Coiled Basketry class made wonderful things with both in a few short days.  Small, portable projects that travel worked well for Knitting on Location, including some made from Carol’s own Cottage Creations line of patterns.  Tips and techniques were shared in the studio during the afternoons.  Favorite locations for knitting included Sunset Resort, the Red Cup Coffee House, Fragrant Isle Lavender Farm and the fellowship hall at Trinity Lutheran Church.         Richly colored and textured yarns were favorites used in the Covered Coiled baskets.  These lovely baskets can be embellished with beadwork, special rims and with found objects, allowing each one to tell it’s own […]

Filed Under: Sievers School Tagged With: Carol Anderson, Lynn Schuster

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  • Paper Arts
  • Knitting/Spinning
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  • Weaving

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