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Teacher Name: Sandra Willford
Name of Class: Modified Long Draw
Class time: length 2 hours (Saturday 3:45-5:45 PM)
Minimum Class size: 1
Maximum Class size: 15
Class Description: Learn to relax that death grip on your fiber and do a modified long draw method that allows the fiber to balance itself and you to spin a soft worsted single. This method produces a lovely soft yarn in less time than the traditional inch worm method.
Materials provided by instructor: Fiber Pack
Materials students need to bring to class: Spinning Wheel
Cost for Materials to be paid by students: $ 8
Meet Sandra: I have been spinning for 10+ years and teaching spinning for 8. I raise Finn sheep and Angora Goats as well as Knit, Crochet, Weave and Felt anything fiber. As a fulltime Farmer and Fiber Artist I am lucky enough to spend my days playing with animals and creating with fiber.

Name of Teacher: Cheryl Bateman
Name of Class: Sun Painting Silk Scarf
Class time: length 2 hours (Saturday, 3:45-5:45 PM)
Minimum Class size: 4
Maximum Class size: none
Class Description: Paint a scarf with special heliotrophic paint then place pressed leaves, cut outs, salt on. When dry, the leaves and cut outs are taken off the scarf and you have an imprint of the leaf or cut out. Salt is brushed off giving texture and movement to the scarf.
Materials provided by instructor: Paint, scarf, some pressed leaves, salt, plastic table wrap. Hand out.
Materials students need to bring to class: Pressed leaves (lacy leaves work best), pressed ferns, cut outs (can use paper or friendly foam).
Cost for Materials to be paid by students: $8.00
Meet Cheryl: I have been sewing, knitting, and crocheting since childhood, but have been spinning and felting for only about 15 years. I love to dye the best – be it fabric for quilts, tee shirts, or wool. For the things I enjoy doing the most there is a little “serendipity” to it. Meaning what happens -happens and must have been meant to be, even if it is not what I had intended in the beginning. Like the sweater that became an afghan or the felted hat that became a bowl. I have found that a “serendipity” philosophy gives me a much more creative outlet than thinking that if I start out to make a felted hat I must end up with a felted hat or the process has been a failure