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December 24, 2024
From: Fiber Fest Weekend Day Retreats?Need a day's respite from the challenges of life?
Join us for a peaceful, fun, fiber filled learning experience
A three-day class: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm daily
Participants may stay until 5:30 if additional time is needed
Each participant will make & take home several products every day
Classes may be virtual or on site, for virtual please call us to make arrangements, 918.342.5911
Three Fiber Fest Weekends annually.
Cost: one day is $99, all 3 days is $297 - materials included
Bring a sack lunch each day; we provide beverages
Schedule of Events:
Day 1: Wet Wool Fiber Processing Day Retreat
Wash - Dye - Wet Felt
Students will learn basic wool washing and dying, as well as wet felting
Each participant will make & take home a wool ball, a felted trivet, and a 3-D felted project
Day 2: Dry Wool Fiber Processing Day Retreat
Drop Spindle - Spin - Card - Pick
Students learn how to work with dry fiber in the arts using hand cards, hand picks, swing pick, box pick, drum carder and a blending board as well as use of the drop spindle and spinning wheel
Each participant will make and take-home hand spun yarn and rolags, punis or nests
Day 3: Finished Fiber Day Retreat
Weaving - Needle Felting
Students will learn basic weaving on an inkle loom and needle felting.
Each participant will make and take home a woven coaster, a woven sash, a needle felted coaster, a needle felted ornament and a needle felted 3-D ornament
Date: January 16 - 18, 2025
Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm
Location: Shepherd's Cross, 16792 East 450 Road Claremore, OK 74017