Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit

Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit

Date/Time: Saturday November 2nd, 1:10 pm - 4:00 pm

Required Skills: No previous experience with weaving required (though experienced weavers are as welcome as complete novices). Freestyle weaving is intended to be accessible to everyone, no matter their level of skill or knowledge.

Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple, easy-to-use floor loom. Honor your inner sense of beauty and truth as you play with color, texture, and technique, and come away with a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!). The class will emphasize play, experimentation, and individual exploration of color and texture in the service of personal expression; a few simple weaving techniques will be taught along the way.  Students just need to bring their willingness to experiment and explore–and to practice imperfection! Students will take home what they weave.

Taught by Q Wirtz (Website | Instagram)

Students will receive:

Use of warped two-harness floor loom; use of associated tools (shuttles, bobbins, etc.); access to and use of a wide variety of different weaving materials, including yarn in various fibers, colors, and textures, embroidery floss, fabric scraps, fiber, trim, beads, wire, Mylar, etc. Each student will also get a bag of fibery treasures to keep; these can be used in class, in a future weaving, or both.

Students should bring:

N/a; instructor will provide all necessary tools and materials. If students want to bring something personally meaningful to them to incorporate into their weaving if possible, they're welcome–indeed, encouraged–to do so. Some past examples: specialty paper, pieces of jewelry (this is a fun use for unmatched earrings and stray pendants), dyed or undyed fiber, leftover quantities of treasured yarn too small to knit or crochet into a finished item.

Minimum Age Requirement: Class open to students 8 years old and up; students younger than 12 must have an adult present throughout the class. Students must be tall enough to reach the floor pedals on the looms and able to focus for the duration of the class.

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