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| New Location! Hmmmmm- will Sr. Mary follow us???? Location: Fox Hills Resort 250 W. Church St Mishicot, WI Date: February 8-9-10, 2008 Time: Friday 3:00-5:00 PM to Sunday 1:00 PM Contact: Kathy Krause for flyers and to register for classes. Registration Form - please click WWW and print out this registration form. Come for a wonderful weekend filled with instruction and laughter! General Information Confirmations: Registrations for the Winter Weekend Warm-up are open beginning Dec 1, 2007 and to be received by January 24, 2008. Students will be contacted directly only if a class is cancelled or filled. After Jan 24, 2008 students may contact Kathy Krause for possible class openings. Cancellations & Refunds: Registration fees are fully refunded for cancelled or filled classes only. Conference refund Dec 31st: ...........90% Jan 1st-23rd......75% after Jan 23rd...............no refund WWW Retreat fee: Includes three 1/2 day classes and full room and board! Single occupancy Rooms- $300.00 Double occupancy Rooms- $275.00 (You may meet your new best friend!) Payments: Check or money order are accepted. Make the fee payable to: Fiber Thing's Winter Weekend Warm-up Kathy Krause E8558 Steenbock Rd Clintonville,WI 54929 715-460-0063 PKL7 @frontiernetet.net Materials fees: payable to instructor at class Lodging Information: The historic and beautiful town of Mishicot, WI will be hosting our event. The single or double occupancy rooms are beautifully appointed and have a small fridge, coffe maker, microwave and T.V. within the room. The Fox Hills Resort is a beautiful 750 acre full service resort which offers many amenities including a pool, hot tub and sauna for our pampering. There will be a supper at 6 PM Friday evening. Breakfast, dinner and supper on Saturday and breakfast and dinner on Sunday are included in the registration fee. Check in 3-5PM Fri, Check out 11 AM Sun After Hours A retreat is all about the pampering. This is a chance to indulge in your fiber/artistic passions plus treat your mind and body to some relaxation. This year’s 2008 Winter Weekend Warm-up will an ice breaker event on Friday evening, after supper in the Willowview Restaurant. Saturday evening we will enjoy a Show & Tell of what you did during your classes OR bring something from home to display!! An added bonus will be an opportunity for a 10 minute chair massage by Lisa Pavlowich, a Certified Massage Therapist, (fee of $10.00 payable to WWW at time of registration.) Please indicate on your registration form if you desire a massage as we will schedule an appointment time for you so no one gets missed!!!! Saturday- All Day Class Make a Round Yarn Basket- Basket Weaving Instructor: Stefania Isaacson 6 hours Class Limit: 15 Materials Fee: $30.00 Student to Bring: Lg bucket- fill with water and bring to class, ruler, scissors, pencil, spring type clothespins, old towel and flat head screwdriver. Learn to make a wonderfully useful round basket, perfect for any knitting project, or just to hold your yarns or roving (or anything else for that matter!). The weaving techniques will be a step up from plain weave and will include twining, 3 rod wale and overlay. By the end of the day, students will have a 12" round handled basket, 12" high. Each basket will be unique, as students will be encouraged to use their creativity as they weave the sides with their own design. No experience necessary. All materials for creating the basket, ie- cane in a variety of colors, sea grass, handle, handout and source list are covered in the materials fee. Crazy Quilt Instructor: Kathy Geis 6 hours Class Limit: 12 Materials Fee: $35 without silk ribbon (bring own ribbon) or $45 with silk ribbon Student to Bring: silk ribbon and sewing machine, ironing board, iron, sewing notions & an extension cord or power strip. You will learn the basics of foundation pieced crazy quilting and the use of silk ribbon embroidery for embellishment. This class is fun and creative, plus you leave with a beautiful block to be framed or you can finish as a pillow. The quilt block featured in Better Homes & Garden Quilt Sampler Magazine 2005 will be on hand to view along with other examples. The materials fee includes wool and foundation for base, with option to purchase the ribbon kit if you do not bring your own silk ribbon. Saturday Morning Polymer Possibilities Instructor: Lynn Bergschultz 3 hours Class Limit: 12 Materials Fee: $20.00 Student to Bring: a willingness to play with clay!! Students will be introduced to the unlimited possibilities of this incredibly versatile medium while learning basic bead and button formation techniques. If any workshop participant has a garment, fiber or project that needs a special ornament or closure, please bring them. Materials include all necessary materials, clay rollers, work surface/mat, blade, handout and bead needle. Wet & Wild Felting Instructor: Laurie Boyer 3 hours Class Limit: 8 Materials Fee: $10.00 Student to Bring: embellishments of your choice, a fun spirit and a plastic bag. We will create a 3 dimensional free-standing object by felting around a form. Basic felting skills are a plus. Materials fee includes wool, handout and felting mat. Saturday Afternoon Everlasting Moist Potpourri Instructor: Michelle Zahn 3 hours Class Limit: 12 Materials Fee: $25.00 Students to Bring: 1-2 gallon crock with lid (if none available a 1-2 gallon glass pickle jar, cookie jar or the like will do), a fifth of Brandy and wooden spoon. Optional- dried floweres/herbs/spices, mortar & pestle, large mixing bowl. We will make an everlasting moist potpourri using a centuries old recipe and technique. Keep moths and other pests out of your home in a pleasant chemical-free way! I have one in each room of my home. My first batch is 25 years old and still delightfully moist and scented. Never overpowering, this potpourri is a soft scent suitable to any taste. Unlike dry potpourris, you may change the scent to suit your desire at any time you wish or leave it in it's natural state for a fresh, light scent that is incredibly pleasing. Beautiful Boucle Instructor: Laurie Boyer 3 hours Class Limit: 10 Materials Fee: $10.00 Student to Bring: spinning wheel with a large orifice, lazy kate, two empty bobbins and a skein winder. Students will learn how to create a beautiful loopy boucle that mimics the expensive one's from the yarn store. Basic spinning skills are required. Sunday Morning Alpaca, Llama, Mohair and More! Instructor: Stefania Isaacson 3 hours Class Limit: 15 Materials Fee: $30.00 Students to Bring: spinning wheel, hand carders, extra bobbins, lazy kate, ball winder, niddy noddy, hang tags, notebook and pen. Learn the ins and outs of the exotic fibers! In this class, students will learn to blend a variety of these fibers with wool and to also spin them by themselves. There will be extensive discussions on the characteristics of these fibers, how best to spin them and the most appropriate uses for them in making an article of clothing. We will use alpaca, llama, mohair, angora rabbit, dog and cat as well as downy fibers like cashmere, yak or quiviet. Students will take home informational handouts on the fibers and many samples that they have spun during the class. Experience level is Intermediate. Materials fee includes samples of 11 different exotic fibers, wool to blend with them, handout & source list. Australian Locker Hooking Instructor: Bert Clements 3 hours Class Limit: 15 Materials Fee: $10.00 Student to Bring: Imagination!! In this class participants will learn the basic techniques used in making a Locker Hooked Rug. You will discover that even wool with alot of guard hair or from older animals can be turned into beautiful and very durable rugs or wall hangings. Using carded wool, a locker hook needle and rug canvas the participant will create a rug trivet. Once you have mastered the basic techniques taught in this workshop, you will be ready to move on to larger and more creative projects. Knowledge of crocheting is helpful, but not required. All materials are included in the materials fee. Double Knit Headband Instructor: Lynn Debenack 3 hours Class Limit: 12 Materials Fee: $0 Students to Bring: 2- 2oz balls of worsted weight yarn in contrasting colors, 16" circular needles in size needed for a gauge of 5 SPI ( 7, 8 or 9), scissors, stitch marker & cable needle. Knit a headband using the unique method of double knitting. You will create 2 layers at the same time, with no "wrong" side and have a reversible pattern. This is a technique class, not for beginners. Once learned, this knitting method can be adapted to other 2-color patterns. Polymer Possibilities Instructor: Lynn Bergschultz 3 hours Class Limit: 12 Materials Fee: $20.00 Student to Bring: a willingness to play with clay!! Students will be introduced to the unlimited possibilities of this incredibly versatile medium while learning basic bead and button formation techniques. If any workshop participant has a garment, fiber or project that needs a special ornament or closure, please bring them. Materials include all necessary materials, clay rollers, work surface/mat, blade, handout and bead needle. All About the Instructors Lynn Bergschultz- Fredonia WI Lynn- owner of Bergschultz Studios, is an illustrator & designer with a passion for polymer clay. Her original hand-formed beads and buttons are popular with fiber artists throughout the USA. www.bergschultzbuttons.com Laurie Boyer- Green Bay, WI Laurie was an illustrator until she received a drop spindle from a friend in 1995 and was immediately hooked on working with wool. Now a Fiber Artist, she specializes in using, and encourages others to use, fleece from rare or endangered breeds of sheep. Her work has won a number of awards including the 2002 National Award and 2003 Supreme Award for Majacraft’s Innovations in Handspun Fibre Competition. Her realistic illustrations have won many awards as well as those won by her fiber creations. Articles about her fiber work have been featured in Spin- Off, Handspinner.com and American Livestock Breeds Conservancy newsletter. Time-Warner Cable's "Vision for Today" has featured her as a local artist and allowed her to host a program that focused on Wisconsin's fiber industry. She has spent many hours demonstrating and teaching spinning and felting to many groups throughout WI. Alberta Clements- Random Lake, WI Bert and her husband have been involved in raising llamas and alpacas for the last ten years on their farm in Random Lake, WI. Over the years she has become an accomplished fiber artist using fibers from her animals. For several years she has taught classes in a variety of mediums including rug hooking, spinning, weaving and felting. Her works have been displayed at numerous shows across the country and have won several awards. Lynn Debenack- Appleton, WI Lynn has loved knitting since her grandmother taught her how to knit when she was a child. Knitting then led her to spinning and she has enjoyed spinning for 20+ years! A love of wool has also helped her expand her interests to rug hooking, quilting and felting. A keen interest and love for fiber arts makes her eager to share her knowledge with others. Kathy Geis- Fond Du Lac, WI Kathy owns the Wool & Needle, a quilt store in Fond du Lac, which was featured in Better Homes & Gardens Quilt Sampler Magazine of 2005. Store specialties are hand dyed wool fabric, roving, cotton and silk ribbon. Kathy, along with Suzy Peterson Letourneau teach many of their original designs. Kathy has taught canvas painting for many years and hand dyes all the wool fabric and roving offered in her store. www.woolandneedle.com Stefania Isaacson- St. Charles, IL Stefania, a former high school English teacher, has been a life-long knitter and started spinning and dyeing to supply herself with the “best yarns in the world”. She got her Certificate of Excellence in Handspinning from the Handweaver’s Guild of America in 1997. Since then she has opened her own business called Handspun by Stefania and taught numerous workshops dealing in natural dyes, spinning and basket making. She has spoken about fiber arts to many groups, and has appeared on the Carol Duvall Show. She sells handspun, natural dyed yarns and roving, original knitting kits and handmade baskets. www.stefania-spins.com Lisa Pavlowich- Green Bay, WI My experience in massage therapy dates back to my childhood. My father was a truck driver, and often when he'd return from a trip he would request a massage. My small hands went right to work on his tired back muscles. I completed the Optissage Program for Equine Sport Massages in July, 1996 and I began working on equine athletes. As horse owners witnessed a new state of relaxation and freedom of movement in their horses, they suggested I study human massage as well. I graduated from the Cooperative Training Systems apprenticeship program in March, 1998; the National Boards in July, 1998; registered as a Massage Therapist and Bodyworker from the State of Wisconsin in February, 1999; and was Wisconsin certified in March of 2003. I continue to expand my skills with ongoing workshops that provide me with new techniques for my equine, canine and human clients. I own and operate the Spirit of Massage. Michelle Zahn- Juneau, WI Michelle, known as The Soap Lady, has been making and selling soaps and bath salts for over 30 years. She has spent many years researching and developing organic methods for coping with sickness, skin conditions and pest control. An accomplished fiber artist, Michelle has been spinning and weaving for over 25 years. She lives on a farm with Jim, her husband of 34 years, where they keep sheep, horses, donkeys, chickens, cats and dogs after retiring from dairy farming in 2002. She has served as President of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, several years on the Board of Directors of the Beaver Dam Area Arts Assoc, is a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Dodgeland Dollars for Scholars Foundation and is President of the Rural Leadership Association Alumni Board of Directors. www.thesoaplady.com Directions: Fox Hills Resort, 250 W. Church St, Mishicot, WI From I-43, Take Cty Hwy 310 to the east towards Two Rivers. At the 3rd stop light, turn left onto Cty Hwy B. Continue on Cty B, turn left onto W. Church St. and park near the Lobby entrance. From 151, Turn north onto I-43. Take Cty Hwy 310 to the east towards Two Rivers. At the 3rd stop light, turn left onto Cty Hwy B. Continue on Cty B, turn left onto W. Church St. and park near the Lobby entrance. From Hwy 10- Take Hwy 10, when you go under the I-43bridge, the road becomes Hwy 310. Take Cty Hwy 310 to the east towards Two Rivers. At the 3rd stop light, turn left onto Cty Hwy B. Continue on Cty B, turn left onto W. Church St. and park near the Lobby entrance. |
| Treat yourself to a creative get away, chase away the winter blues and relax in a beautiful setting while you learn new skills, get inspiration and meet new friends. We are offering classes that have something for everyone. Come join us for a weekend packed with learning from accomplished instructors! A Fiber Thing event-WWW committee: Pat Herman, Vanessa Kessler, Kathy Krause and Carol Wagner |
| Fiber Thing's Winter Weekend Warm-up |
