lorida ropical eavers`Guild

Ramona Abernathy-Paine
RAP Weaver
Talllahassee, FL
rapweaver.com
[email protected]
An award-winning weaver for 20 years, Ramona Abernathy-Paine is a handweaving instructor
who lives and weaves in Tallahassee, FL. Her work has received awards from Handweavers Guild
of Ameria, Florida Tropical Weavers Guild and has been published in Handwoven Magazine. She
teaches weaving to weavers of all levels.
Ms. Abernathy-Paine has been fascinated by textiles all her life. “Learning to weave in 1994
opened new avenues for me,” said Ms. Abernathy-Paine. “I learned to create my own fabrics,
explore color and its interaction with structure. My work has been shown in galleries in the
Southeast,at Convergence, and published in Handwoven magazine. Teaching is one more way in
which I can share my passion for weaving.”
She recently explored additional dimensions in weaving, playing with doubleweave pick-up and
multiple layers. She was inspired by Kay Secamachi’s work with 4-6 layers and that inspiration led
her to weaving structural pieces that exceed the two dimensions which usually characterize traditional weaving styles. She will explore deeper constructive design work by incorporating doubleweave pick-up and boxes into a single piece.
Ms. Abernathy-Paine will present the basics of weaving in her topic, Immersion Weaving, at the
2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. This is an ideal
class for non-weavers or anyone who wants to review the basics: winding a warp, dressing the
loom, reading a draft and planning a project. Students will leave the class ready to weave on their
own. This is a class to learn the process, not to produce a product, although you’ll leave with a
project to finish on your own loom at home.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Inge Dam
[email protected]
Ontario, CAN
Inge Dam has been weaving for 31 years.
In 1992, she completed an in-depth study
for Ontario Handweavers and Spinners to
become a Master Weaver. The subject of the
study was Iron-Age Textiles from Northern
Europe dating back to the period 500 BC
until 800 AD. In the course of her study, she
became interested in tablet (card) weaving.
Her research took her to Denmark to see the Iron-Age textiles found in bogs and burial grounds
and exhibited in museums there. Tablet-woven borders are present in those historic garments.
Through inspiration of these textiles, she now incorporates tablet weaving into fabrics by weaving
the tablet borders and bands simultaneously with the fabric on the loom. She also makes unique
jackets and bags from leftover handwoven fabrics.
Her professional engagements have taken her throughout the US and Canada where she enjoys
sharing these historic techniques through workshops, seminars and in print.
Her book, “Tablet-Woven Accents for Designer Fabrics: Contemporary Uses for Ancient Techniques,”
was recently published. She has previously presented at FTWG in 1999 and 2004 and at the HGA
Convergence in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010 and to over thirty conferences given to weavers and
spinners guilds across the United States, Canada and Great Britain.
Ms. Dam will share her knowledge on Tablet Borders Woven Simultaneously with Loom
Weaving at the 2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16,
2014.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Geri Forkner
Weaving Arts Studio
Sweetwater, TN
www.weavingschool.wordpress.com
[email protected]
Geri Forkner creates felted and woven works of art from her studio in Tennessee. Geri teaches
fiber arts classes regionally, nationally, and internationally to both children and adults, and is the
recipient of an Artists-In-The-Schools grant. She has exhibited her work in juried exhibitions in
Tennessee, Georgia, and New York. She is represented in Chattanooga, TN by Tanner Hill Gallery. A
member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, Geri cherishes the old traditions and skills while using
fibers in innovative ways to push established boundaries.
“More years ago than I’d like to admit, I did a collaboration piece with an artist friend who wanted
to embed rocks into felt,” Geri says. “After months of experimenting with making heavy weight
felt, I finally succeeded. When the project was completed, I decided to change directions and go
lightweight. Every time I think I’ve made one of everything possible in nuno felting, I find something
new to try. Combining color and texture are like painting with wool and cloth. Shaping garments
by shrinking selected areas is akin to sculpture. It’s been a fascinating journey. I love passing on
these hard won skills in my classes. I gain energy from the smiles and enthusiasm students generate
while working on their own creations.”
Geri will answer the question: “What’s New with Nuno?” at the 2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’
Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Linda Hartshorn
Eureka, CA
[email protected]
Linda Hartshorn is an award winning weaver known
for unique dyework and lively use of color in her
handwoven textiles. When she’s not weaving or
teaching classes at The Ink People Center for the
Arts in Eureka, California, Linda can be found
traveling nationwide to workshops with dyepots
and looms. She is a recipient of the Victor Thomas
Jacoby Award.
“In weaving, I have discovered the threads that connect us to other weavers, to other places and
other times,” says Ms. Hartshorn. “For me, weaving is an essential part of being human. I try to
express this in my work, which is influenced by many textile traditions but is still very much my
own. I use natural fibers, a diversity of weave structures, and hand dyeing, including the extensive
use of plant and mineral dyes, to create artistry in fiber.”
Ms. Hartshorn maintains memberships with the Handweavers Guild of America, Complex Weavers,
Mendocino Art Center, and Humboldt Arts Council. She is active in her craft by serving as judge for
the Humboldt County Fair, as a member of the Northern California Handweavers and member and
program chair of the the Humboldt Handweavers and Spinners Guild. After a busy schedule
supporting her fiber artist friends, she enjoys returning to her studio in the California mountains.
Ms. Hartshorn will present Indigo Shibori at the 2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild conference
at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. The natural blue dye, indigofera tinctoria, has unique properties
that make it ideal for resist dyeing. Shibori is the Japanese art of stitching, tying, binding, and
clamping cloth to create resists. In this class, students will dye silk and cotton fabrics using the
Japanese techniques of kumo, itajime, arashi, and more! Use indigo alone for traditional blue and
white, and in combination with other natural dyes for wonderful color effects. Students will prepare
the indigo vat and dye their prepared fabrics, watching fibers magically change from green to blue
in their hands! Open the fabrics to reveal beautiful dyed patterns. This class will appeal to fiber
artists of all skill levels. Students should wear old clothes and/or apron, gloves and bring scissors,
pen and paper for notetaking, a spool of buttonhole twist thread in white or natural, handsewing
needles, a number-2 pencil, seam ripper, a ball of size 10 crochet cotton or some 10/2 cotton in
white or natural.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Rebecca Bowen
St. Augustine, FL
Sunshine Knit Designs
[email protected]
Rebecca Bowen brings a lifelong enthusiasm for knitting to the classroom. She believes in the
intelligence of knitters, and wants her students to be independent, thinking knitters. Her classes
are popular and well-attended. She designs and publishes her own line of patterns, Sunshine Knit
Designs (www.sunshineknitdesigns.com), has had patterns published on KnitNet, and has done
designs for yarn companies. She dyes wool and fibers for spinning and felting as Long Dog Handspun.
She has a degree in elementary education, and a full major in art.
Ms. Bowen lives near St. Augustine and is a member of the Textile Arts Guild, an organization
that preserves the historical significance and authenticity of hand-made fine crafts such as dyeing,
spinning, weaving, knitting, crochet, and lace making. She will instruct on creating a Knitted
Lace Edged Triangle Shawl/Scarf at the 2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild conference at
Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. The lace-edged shawl/scarf is a good project for an advanced
beginner who wishes to learn new techniques. Most of the knitting is plain stockinette stitch.
The lace edging forms its own shape, and does not need to be severely blocked. Students will
knit the shawl/scarf to their preferred dimensions. They will learn how to select the correct
needle/yarn sizes for a project, how to read and use charts in their knitting, different types of
edge stitches, how different increases and decreases work to shape knitted fabric and basic
blocking techniques.
Students should bring lace-weight or fingering-weight yarn – about 730 yards; a wool or wool
blend is easiest to work with. This garment works well with shaded or multi-colored yarns.
They should also bring an assortment of 24” circular needles. Bring at least the size you think
you will need for your yarn and the size below it and the size above it. If you have a set of
interchangeable needles, bring them, too. As a guide, for lace-weight yarn, you would bring #1,
#2, and #3 needles. For fingering-weight yarn, you would bring #3, #4, and #5 needles. And
possibly more. For swatching, they should bring a small amount of smooth, light colored yarn (DK
or worsted weight) and appropriate needles (#6 or #8). Bring your gadget bag of tools, including
a crochet hook suitable for your yarn and lots of locking stitch markers or coilless pins, your calculator,
note paper, and pencil.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Esther Rodgers
Mebane, NC
JazzTurtle Creations
Where Fiber Gets Wild!
www.jazzturtle.com
Esther is a full time fiber artist from Mebane, NC. She is known as a creative art yarn spinner and
for her unique fiber preparation. Esther is also a felter, weaver and knitter which gives her the
perspective of how the yarns can be used. She is constantly innovating her spinning techniques to
create new textures and is on the cutting edge in terms of yarn design. Esther is very conscious of
where her fiber comes from, sourcing her wool from local and friendly farms, directly from wonderful
shepherds with happy animals.
Esther is an enthusiastic and patient teacher; possessing both national and international teaching
experience.
Her most recent press is an article she wrote for Autumn 2013 PLY magazine. Her press also includes
being featured in Lexi Boeger’s 2012 book “Handspun, New Spins on Traditional Techniques”, the Winter/
Spring 2011 issue of Knitscene magazine and the Fall 2010 issue of Spin Off magazine. She is currently
working on her first book.
Ms. Rodgers will present A Journey Through Creative Spinning at the 2014 Florida Tropical
Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. In this workshop, students will take a
personal journey of creating different textured and creatively spun yarns. We’ll start at the beginning
with different fiber preps: carding wild batts on different drum carders, carding rolags on a blending
board and pulling roving with a hackle. We’ll talk about the different styles of spinning and how
they relate to different preps and textures.
Then they will move into spinning- stepping outside the box with techniques that create unique
texture, while also focusing on spinning a sound and functional yarn. They will work on core
spinning in multiple ways, adding elements into yarns of halos, beehives, knots and different
physical add-in’s like sequins, ribbons, fabrics and anything else the students want to challenge
themselves with.
They will finish the workshop by pulling everything together! They’ll start with a concept or
inspiration and working through the design process to creating a finished yarn. Students will figure
out how to prep the fiber and combine techniques to spin a yarn that embraces their inspiration or
concept.
Students are asked to bring some inspiration photos or sketches to pull ideas from and be
prepared to have some fun!
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Audrey Smith
Fern Park, FL
[email protected]
Audrey Smith has been weaving since 1989 and
sending woven greeting cards beginning in 1990.
Her love of designing fits right in with her love of
weaving. After learning weave structure from the
renown Betty TerLouw, she decided to design
greeting cards in all different weave structures.
After many years of designing greeting cards and
teaching, she was encouraged to put her designs
into a book, ‘Woven Greetings to You’, for other weavers to enjoy.
A workshop with Mary Hettmansperge took her in a new direction: working with metals and an
exciting path to making metal jewelry - especially working with copper. The metals now take
center stage under the name Audrey’s Copperworks. Like weaving, working and designing in
metals keeps opening new doors for Audrey. “This is an exciting time in my life,” she says.
Audrey has been creating greeting cards for all occasions and holidays since 1990 and enjoys
sharing her many original designs with other weavers. She will instruct on Woven Greetings To
You at the 2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. In
this class, students will learn to create their own weaving designs for all-occasion greetings cards.
Holiday card original designs, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter, Fourth of July, St. Patrick’s
Day and Valentine’s Day, will be explored. Students will use her book, ‘Woven Greetings to You’,
to create card designs in weave structures such as Rosepath, Bound Weave, Crackle, Dukagang,
Summer and Winter, Point Twill, Half Satin, Bergman and Quigley. Included in the book and
discussed thoroughly will be profile drafting and Tied-Unit Weave Borders. This class offers
traditional weavers a new challenge.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Daryl Lancaster
Lincoln Park, NJ
www.weaversew.com
[email protected]
Daryl Lancaster received her BA/Cum Laude
degree in Fine Arts in 1977 from Montclair State
College, Montclair, NJ and has been actively
working since then as a weaver/fiber artist.
Comfortable with the sewing machine for more
than forty years, she spent 10 years as a
production craftswoman, selling her handwoven
clothing in craft markets and galleries
throughout the United States. She teaches garment construction and related topics to
weavers and other fiber enthusiasts across North America.
She was the Contributing Features Editor for six years, for Handwoven Magazine from Interweave
Press and wrote the Fashion and Color Forecast Column. She continues to write for various
weaving and sewing publications. A breast cancer survivor, she uses her work as a vehicle to
express who she is and the path that she has traveled. Daryl lives in northern New Jersey
(Morris County) with her husband.
Ms. Lancaster will present her unique topic, Weave a Memory, at the 2014 Florida Tropical
Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. Her class will appeal to weavers of all
skill levels and they should know how to warp a loom and follow a simple four shaft draft.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Terri Stewart
Sarasota, FL
Tapestry Artists of Sarasota
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.stewarttapestries.com
Terri Stewart started weaving tapestries in 1993 after
spending many years in other artistic interests. She has
owned a weaving shop, co-founded the Tapestry Artists
of Sarasota, and has taught tapestry publicly and privately.
In 2008, she was presented the Handweaver’s Guild of
America Small Expressions award.
Self-taught in tapestry and many other endeavors, Ms. Stewart has enjoyed the process of
creatinga cartoon to weave into the final product. She enjoys exhibiting the work with various
tapestry groups that she belong to. She has been weaving for almost 20 years and teaches
online as a mentor with the American Tapestry Alliance. She also teaches nationally and locally
with small groups or on a one-on-one basis. Her classes include the use of natural yarns such as
ramie, linen, wool, cotton, rayon, bamboo, and silk which gives the work a smooth, not textured,
finish. She loves color. She claims that it is the first thing that captures her attention and that
architecture and composition are equal partners after that.
Her style of imagery is realism and in the last few years has have become fascinated with 3-D
works. Her future cartoons are headed in this direction. “The process of weaving is such a calming
activity” says Ms. Stewart. “It is a sharp contrast to the hectic world we live and work in. I do not
weave every day but I will weave for hours when I can, often being surprised at how long time has
been spent at the loom. My imagery is all over the map. I like working in different themes to keep
the work interesting and fresh and to challenge myself and grow as a weaver. There is always a
technique to try, new yarn combinations to play with, and more ideas for designs than I will have
time to weave. Boredom will never be an issue.”
Ms. Stewart maintains memberships in British Tapestry Group, American Tapestry Alliance, TAOS
(Tapestry Artists Of Sarasota), Tapestry Weavers South, Handweavers Guild of America. Ms. Stewart
will present on Tapestry for Two-Two Levels of Experience at the 2014 Florida Tropical
Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Sharon Baiardi
Ocala, FL
TheBasketCases.com
[email protected]
The ‘Queen of the Basket Cases’, Sharon
Baiardi, is a seasoned professional basket
weaving instructor with over 10 years
experience. She’s never met a basket she
couldn’t weave! She teaches individuals and
groups with patience and direction, to create a
basket of personal design and construction.
“I have always been a bit crafty,” says Ms Baiardi. “I began by exploring cross stitch, knitting,
crochet, macrame, fabric painting - just about any craft that was available.” She had always
wanted to do basket weaving, but had no formal instruction, knew nothing about it or where to
find someone to teach her.
“I finally found an artist who was selling baskets at the McIntosh, FL Art Festival in 2002,” said
Ms. Baiardi, “and I started asking questions, wondering if she gave lessons. I was invited to join
that individual shortly thereafter and I have taken every class she has offered. I began by teaching
some friends and then classes started to grow. Soon, other classes evolved.”
In 2007, Sharon found her own sources for her materials and broke away from her mentor.
Acquiring the inventory of her instructor after she retired, Sharon started to have basket-making
parties in homes. After four years, a studio became available. There was a lot of hard work
ahead for her and her friends, but after a couple of weekends of hard cleaning, and initial workshops,
she was able to open her own studio, The Basket Cases, in June, 2011 and she has been busy
ever since. The Basket Cases provides instruction and home parties as fund-raisers for community
organizations.
Ms. Baiardi belongs to the Greater Ocala Women’s Club and has entered her work for the last three
years in competition and exhibitions. She has won local, district, and state awards for her work.
She makes a lot of baskets for charity auctions and they help raise money for the organization.
Sharon will demonstrate her basket weaving skills in her class, Claire’s Picnic Basket, at the
2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. “Everybody will
enjoy my class and be able to construct an attractive basket,” said Ms.Baiardi. “At the end of the
workshop, my students are asking when the next class is. Students find they have just created a
beautiful heirloom for themselves.”
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Peggy Ward
St. Augustine, FL
The Bead Chick,
thebeadchick.com
[email protected]
The Bead Chick is a teaching bead store, located in downtown St. Augustine, FL. The Bead Chick
is also Peggy Ward who holds classes in her studio covering a variety of techniques which produce
colorful wearables.
Peggy is mostly a self-taught artist, not formally trained. She comes from a creative family, and
enjoys making things with her hands.
In 2005 she bought an existing business, called The Bead Chick, and now teaches classes in all
things related to jewelry: wire-work, stringing, chain maille, fold-forming, enameling, polymer
clay, glass bead making and fusing, soldering, bead weaving, macrame’, pin weaving, and more.
The last Saturday of each month, The Bead Chick stays open until 9 pm, to join the rest of the
merchants in the historic district of St. Augustine for art openings, featured craftspersons, music,
food and more.
Peggy will instruct on Art Doll Bracelet, Personality Pins and Torch-Fired Enameling at the
2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014. This is a class
for people who like to use tools and live in danger! The Art Doll Bracelet class will encompass some
rustic stitchery, and creative use of beads for hair, arms and legs. The doll faces can be handdrawn, embroidered or pre-printed faces on muslin. The little dresses will be ready to stitch on,
having been hand cut from copper sheet, and enameled ahead of time – many colors and styles
will be available to choose from. The Personality Pins class will leave the students with a
finished pin, and new knowledge of how to mix materials, work with wire, and lots of tips and
tricks. The Beginning Torch Firing class is an intro into safety practices (working with fire and
powdered glass, safety is paramount!), and how different metals react with hot glass. Students
will have an opportunity to use the torch and make a few pendants with copper blanks, some
filigree beads, and more. Bring your tool box!
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org
Dave Barriger
Apopka, FL
[email protected]
Although this class usually attracts weavers’ husbands, last year several female members wanted
to join the fun. Dave will rent you a lathe, so all you have to do is sign up and you are sure to take
home some wonderful wood creations - even on your first attempt!
Dave has worked with wood since 1949, developing a deep understanding and appreciation for its
diverse and beautiful qualities. His understanding and appreciation of wood is built on experience
as a college level instructor of biology and botany which has given him extensive knowledge of the
growth characteristics found in the American hardwoods
Dave began turning wood in 1964 and has turned full-time since 1995. He has served on the
board of directors and is past president of the American Association of Woodturners.
Dave will teach Basic Wood Turning Techniques at the 2014 Florida Tropical Weavers’ Guild
conference at Lake Yale, March 13-16, 2014.
�lorida �ropical �eavers’Guild
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MARCH 13 - 16, 2014 • Lake Yale BAPTIST Conference Center, Eustis, FL
www.ftwg.org