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Winter Woolfest 2009 - Poppyfield Gallery
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10:00 - Spindle Spinning - learn to spin the cheap and portable way with Laura
Mead.  Spindles and fiber provided, but feel free to bring your own!

10:30 - Thrums! - Learn to knit or crochet cozy fleece-lined garments.  Bring worsted
or bulky wool yarn and corresponding needles or hook.  With the lovely Miss Nikol
Lohr.

11:00 - Reversible Cables - front and back exactly the same!  Just think of the
possibilities...with cable guru Heather Wilke.  Bring favored yarn, needles and cable
needles.  Heather will have a box of tooth picks to fill in for cable needles if you need
them!

12:30 - Two at time socks - Never have a orphan UFSP (unfinished sock pair) ever
again!  You'll be doing Magic Loop, so bring a nice long (40" or so) circular needle
and yarn.  With the talented Heather Wilke.

1:00 - Wire! - Learn to knit or crochet beaded wire jewelry or accessories.  Bring
small (size 2 or smaller) knitting needles or crochet hook(size C or smaller) and small
to medium beads of your choice.  With the lovely Miss Nikol Lohr.

1:30 - Contemplative Spinning - spinning as meditation and stress relief with bio-
energy  expert Laura Mead

2:00 - Fuzz Me! - Angora bunnies are the fiber producing animal you can keep in
your living room!  Learn all about the different kinds, their care, and fiber.  With
bunny fiberista Rosalie Truong.

2:30 - The Magic of Navajo Plying - Or how to turn one bobbin of handspun singles
into a
three plyed yarn.  Your magician will be the Wicked Stitch,  Jennifer
Schermerhorn.  Bring a slightly overspun single and an empty bobbin if you want
to try!

3:00 - Bonus Class! - The Norwegian Purl - Of course they do it different over there!  
A niftly , new way to do the hated purl stitch!
              
Laura's Pygoras

The Thrifty Knitter



Alpacas at Wildcat Hollow


The Yarn Peddler


Kansas Alpaca and Fiber Farms



The Treasure Goddess


Designs by Anna


- Handspun art yarn, wool and pygora rovings and fiber, felted
items and cards
- Hand-dyed yarn and fiber, batts, Make Your Own Batt Bar,
Fricke and Ashford Wheels, Strauch Drum Carders,
handmade date books, accessories.
- Yarn, rovings, fiber, lazy kates and finished Alpaca
products
- Yarn, needles, patterns, kits and Schact Wheels.
-yarn, rovings, spinning fiber and finished alpaca products from
an alliance of Kansas Alpaca farms.
- Hand-dyed fiber & yarns (lace and sock weights), handspun
yarns and art yarns, and cute fiber accessories.
-unique OOAK bags and purses, kumihimo jewelry, pendants
and more.