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Julie has been raising fiber animals since middle school. Her college studies focused on Secondary Education and costume design. Raising fiber animals naturally led to spinning and weaving and then into teaching. Julie has taught throughout the United States, including Wisconsin Sheep & Wool festival and Oregon Flock & Fiber. Julie’s ranc
Julie has been raising fiber animals since middle school. Her college studies focused on Secondary Education and costume design. Raising fiber animals naturally led to spinning and weaving and then into teaching. Julie has taught throughout the United States, including Wisconsin Sheep & Wool festival and Oregon Flock & Fiber. Julie’s ranch, Tangled Yarn Farms, nestled in the Sky Islands of southern Arizona, specializes in Navajo heritage Angora goats, Angora rabbits and heirloom cottons. Her teaching style reflects her love of natural luxury fibers and joy in learning.
Melanie D Sanford, principal with Conserving Threads, is a boutique firm in Dallas, Texas specializing in the comprehensive consultation, conservation and installation services of historic textiles and related objects for private clients, historic societies and museums. Conserving Threads is also an online store providing plant-based fibe
Melanie D Sanford, principal with Conserving Threads, is a boutique firm in Dallas, Texas specializing in the comprehensive consultation, conservation and installation services of historic textiles and related objects for private clients, historic societies and museums. Conserving Threads is also an online store providing plant-based fibers and yarns to hand-spinners, knitters and fiber enthusiasts. Ms. Sanford has over thirty years studying textiles and fashions. She is a promotor of second-hand fashion, fashion flipping, and likes to look and re-image.
As an artisan Marti has worked in a variety of media. Her discovery of felting and fiber arts brings together a melding of passions from sculpting, playing with color and the tactile art of creating. She has always been curious and finds the path of learning and experimenting to be a continual source of creative inspiration. Marti’s appro
As an artisan Marti has worked in a variety of media. Her discovery of felting and fiber arts brings together a melding of passions from sculpting, playing with color and the tactile art of creating. She has always been curious and finds the path of learning and experimenting to be a continual source of creative inspiration. Marti’s approach to teaching is to explore and discover while having fun. The reward is seeing the excitement in students as they challenge themselves and succeed.
Karen Davis has been a fiber enthusiast since 2000 and fiber artist since 2004. She specializes in spinning, weaving, wet-felting and needle-felting with fiber from her own animals including alpacas, angora rabbits and llamas. In addition, in homage to her Danish heritage, she creates one-of-a-kind Viking weave necklaces and bracelets w
Karen Davis has been a fiber enthusiast since 2000 and fiber artist since 2004. She specializes in spinning, weaving, wet-felting and needle-felting with fiber from her own animals including alpacas, angora rabbits and llamas. In addition, in homage to her Danish heritage, she creates one-of-a-kind Viking weave necklaces and bracelets with wire-wrapped semi-precious stones. Her love of animals and nature led her to a career teaching high school biology, specifically AP Biology. She is happy to discuss animals and/or biology with you!!
Abigail Carter learned how to knit & sew from her mother and spent class days annoying teachers by knowing the answer even when she was “goofing off” knitting with two pencils. She later taught herself to crochet, and enjoyed making amigurumi critters. For the last four years, she’s been honing her spinning skills, taught by a lovely frie
Abigail Carter learned how to knit & sew from her mother and spent class days annoying teachers by knowing the answer even when she was “goofing off” knitting with two pencils. She later taught herself to crochet, and enjoyed making amigurumi critters. For the last four years, she’s been honing her spinning skills, taught by a lovely friend, and is so chuffed with the hobby that she can’t wait to share her knowledge! When she’s not at the wheel or spindle, you might find her hoarding a growing stash of fibers in need of processing, weaving on vintage looms, fiddling about with woodworking, or teasing her gremlin cat, Roxie.
Isabel is the chairman of Handwork and Sewing with the Comal County Fair Association in New Braunfels, Texas and has judged crochet, sewing, and embroidery in Comal and Guadalupe counties. Teach sewing to youth and adults in and around New Braunfels has been one of ehr passions along with teaching adult serger classes, providing private consults in swing and teaching.
Katy, our personal yarn enabler, wants to help you find the perfect yarn and accessories for the perfect project. She has been knitting for more than a decade and has been in the yarn industry for almost as long. Katy drives the Yarn Adventure Truck bringing gorgeous hand dyed yarns to yarn lovers and fiber artists across the MidWest.
Monica is the founder of Gothfarm Yarn and has made her mark in the fiber art industry with her passion for the natural colors of heritage breed sheep. She has turned her passion into a business of grading, sorting and creating unique yarns.
Mission Statement: Gothfarm Yarn is dedicated to creating yarn and roving from undyed, naturally co
Monica is the founder of Gothfarm Yarn and has made her mark in the fiber art industry with her passion for the natural colors of heritage breed sheep. She has turned her passion into a business of grading, sorting and creating unique yarns.
Mission Statement: Gothfarm Yarn is dedicated to creating yarn and roving from undyed, naturally colored fibers. We don’t use dyes or synthetic fibers. Instead, we rely on fiber from rare and heritage sheep breeds, along with other fiber fauna. Our fiber comes from small farms and we work with small wool mills to process it into products.
We hope that Gothfarm Yarn can help build awareness of the rich diversity of fiber producing plants and animals. And we hope that the spectrum of colors and textures found in our yarn and roving inspires creativity of all kinds.
Darlene stumbled upon the joy of weaving when she found a loom and natural yarn at an estate sale. Teaching herself to weave, it quickly turned into a passion. Creating unique wall hangings, she loves working with natural fibers including cotton cord which she also uses in macrame leaves. Her weavings are all one of a kind, created organi
Darlene stumbled upon the joy of weaving when she found a loom and natural yarn at an estate sale. Teaching herself to weave, it quickly turned into a passion. Creating unique wall hangings, she loves working with natural fibers including cotton cord which she also uses in macrame leaves. Her weavings are all one of a kind, created organically, with texture created from the various techniques and the variety of fiber thicknesses used. Darlene wants to share with you her love of weaving and fiber, to help you create your own piece of art and to discover for yourself the love of fiber art.
Ellen Baize took up sewing, knitting and crochet as a teen but never dreamed of spinning and weaving wool from a sheep until her parents brought the first know flock of Shetlands to Texas in 1991. She took spinning, weaving and dyeing lessons from a master fiber artist, Anna Scott, and developed a passion for the world of fiber arts. Now
Ellen Baize took up sewing, knitting and crochet as a teen but never dreamed of spinning and weaving wool from a sheep until her parents brought the first know flock of Shetlands to Texas in 1991. She took spinning, weaving and dyeing lessons from a master fiber artist, Anna Scott, and developed a passion for the world of fiber arts. Now as a shepherdess of Shetlands she loves breeding for lambs to sell, shearing her sheep and skirting fleeces to send to mills or to scour and spin. She keeps her hands busy with fiber arts projects using yarns hand dyed with natural dyes or yarns of many beautiful natural colors from her sheep. Knitting is a favorite pastime and Navaho style tapestry weaving an art form she is enthusiastic about sharing. Ellen loves to teach all ages the skills she has learned hoping that these wonderful arts will be preserved for future generations.
In 1993, Sandy saw Docents in the Village of Yesteryear, at the North Carolina State Fair, spinning and weaving. She was intrigued with the process and searched for spinners in her area. She met a group of ladies that demonstrated spinning, carding, and weaving at a local historical site and they taught her to spin. One of the ladies gave
In 1993, Sandy saw Docents in the Village of Yesteryear, at the North Carolina State Fair, spinning and weaving. She was intrigued with the process and searched for spinners in her area. She met a group of ladies that demonstrated spinning, carding, and weaving at a local historical site and they taught her to spin. One of the ladies gave her two pillowcases of wool, loaned her a spinning wheel, and said “Whatever you spin, you can keep.” While she hand-carded and spun the two bags of wool, she fell in love with the process of changing raw wool into a finished product. Her husband, Jack, was in the Air Force and she was able to find fiber friends at each new assignment, even when stationed overseas. When he retired from the Air Force in 2002, they moved to his hometown of Newberg, Oregon, and began the search for land and fiber animals. They met some Shetland breeders and fell in love with the breed and the community that raised them. A primitive breed, Shetlands have 11 registered colors and a spectrum of fleece types. Sandy enjoys each fleece. During the skirting process, she determines how it can be used, soft inner wear, or outer garments, and rugs. She enjoys dyeing the colored fleeces as it gives such rich color to the finished product. She hopes to pass on the joy of working with fiber to each person she meets while demonstrating, showing sheep, or teaching.
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