The Carder, a Tool to Expand Your Spinning with Color and Texture

Fibershed is a non-profit educational and research organization that develops regenerative textile systems that are based on carbon farming, regional manufacturing, and public education.We envision the emergence of an international system of regional textile communities that enliven connection and ownership of ‘soil-to-soil’ textile processes. These diverse textile cultures are designed to build soil carbon stocks on the working landscapes on which they depend, while directly enhancing the strength of regional economies. Both fiber and food systems now face a drastically changing climate, and must utilize the best of time-honored knowledge and available science for their long-term ability to thrive.

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Join us, on October 28, at Windrush Farm and learn about the amazing uses of the drum carder to make your own creative and textured yarns!

Windrush Farm Fiber Arts

Join Marlie de Swart and Mimi Luebbermann at Windrush Farm for a class dedicated to the drum carder and all its magical uses! This class introduces the spinner to the drum carder and how to use this versatile tool to sandwich different fibers or mix colors. This enables you to make specially designed batts to spin into yarn colors that you will never see in yarn stores. Learn to make rainbow batts or, introduce sari silk thread, bits of yarn leftover, dyed roving, and wool curls into your batts for exciting new yarns.All materials are included.Class Schedule:<ul><li>Saturday, October 28, 1:00pm - 4:00pm</li></ul>Location: Windrush Farm, 2263 Chileno Valley Road, Petaluma, CA 94952.Please bring: Personal snacks and beverages. Windrush Farm is in a rural location outside Petaluma. The farm is located on flat but uneven terrain so please bring sturdy shoes.

------------------------About the Instructors:Marlie de Swart learned to spin as a young child at her mother’s knee in Holland, and she has been doing it ever since. For the last twenty-two years, she has been teaching spinning at Windrush Farm Fiber School in the Chileno Valley. Her book “Knitting Woolscapes, Designs Inspired by Coastal Marin Wool” has many sweater patterns developed to be made with hand-spun yarn. She is one of the first board members of Fibershed and, until recently, owned and operated the Black Mountain Weavers Store (an artist cooperative) in Point Reyes Station. Marlie’s passion is everything fiber, especially local fiber. Mimi Luebbermann moved to Chileno Valley in 1995 with the dream of living quietly on a farm. Instead, she ended up crazy about fiber and determined to create a fiber farm. Now, sheep, alpacas, llamas, goats, and rabbits all contribute to the Windrush Farm yarns. As a dedicated spinner, she works to educate people about the connection between fiber animals and yarn, through school field trips, her farmers market booth, private tours, and spinning classes to meet the animals and learn the process of transforming fleece to yarn. It is an endlessly fascinating life.Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/windrushfarmpetaluma/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@windrushfarmpetaluma</a>Web: <a href="https://windrushfarm.wordpress.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">windrushfarm.wordpress.com</a>

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __﻿ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Tuition Scholarships &amp; Transportation/Childcare StipendsFibershed offers one to two scholarships per workshop depending on the size of the class. In addition to scholarships for tuition, we are offering a limited number of stipends for transportation and/or childcare. If you would not otherwise be able to attend, and would like to be considered as a scholarship and/or stipend recipient, please answer a few brief questions on this <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7l9dTKeZFD0ZIqphxncMla6weXVbpFslvtwDnvROvqBX6eA/viewform" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Google Form</a>. Responses will be reviewed by Learning Center staff and kept strictly confidential.------------------CANCELLATION POLICY: Refunds (minus Eventbrite fees) are available up to 7 days before the event. If you cancel after 7 days before the event, we are unable to provide refunds unless we can fill your space from the waitlist. If someone who is waitlisted purchases your space, we will refund your ticket, minus the Eventbrite fees. Otherwise, there will be no refunds. You are also welcome to transfer your ticket to someone who wishes to purchase it directly from you._﻿ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Photos: Paige Green

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