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2009 Winter Retreat Program Overview
Winter Retreat 2009 is our 10th retreat and we can hardly believe how the years have flown by. We have great teachers lined up for you including some from our early days in Gig Harbor. Stephanie Pearl- McPhee is back to help us celebrate and we are planning some surprises in celebration of the 10th Winter Retreat. Do you remember when? Were you there at first retreat in 2000? We'll be weaving in a celebration for all of us for Thursday evening of the retreat. Where would the Winter Retreat be without all of you -- students, teachers, vendors alike! We're a community and it's an opportunity for all of us to appreciate what we have together. We hope you will join us. In the meantime there is some serious planning going on!
We are delighted to announce that ELSEBETH LAVOLD, Sweden's premier knitwear designer, artist, and instructor, will be teaching classes in contemporary knitted Viking designs and patterns based on her meticulous study of historic Viking symbols. Ever wonder what your personal power emblem might be translated into an ancient Viking symbol that can be knitted? Elsebeth will show you in one of the two sessions of her RUNES class. Other classes will focus on incorporating Viking symbols and patterns into your knitting including one on Advanced Design with cables. You won't want to miss Elsebeth's richly illustrated talk at our Saturday evening banquet when she will walk you down ancient paths where the history of knitting and ancient Viking symbols intersect. Madrona Fiber Arts is grateful to our partnership with the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle as we are together sponsoring Elsebeth's visit to the Pacific Northwest. She will be opening an exhibit of her work, "Knitting Along the Viking Trail" at the Nordic Heritage Museum the weekend before the Winter Retreat and offering some different classes at the museum in connection with the exhibit opening. click here to learn more about Elsebeth and the exhibition at the Nordic Museum.
SALLY MELVILLE has been with us at every milestone - our very first Winter Retreat in Gig Harbor and the year we moved the Winter Retreat to Tacoma. And she is returning for our 10th anniversary with her Classic Making the Most of your Yarn Collection and new classes Knit to Flatter and Fit and Essential Skills for Self-Taught Knitters. BETH BROWN-REINSEL and GLORIA TRACY were with us that first year in Gig Harbor and we are delighted to have them here for our 10th. Beth, well known for her traditional knitting classes and patterns, will be teaching her classic Gansey Sweater Techniques, Top down Arans, Latvian Mittens and more. Gloria, after many years in designing, is now focusing on teaching. Her enthusiasm and simple methods will have you designing your own custom patterns in no time!
We also welcome back VIVIAN HØXBRO, JOAN SCHROUDER, and CAT BORDHI - wonderful teachers from our Gig Harbor days. Vivian reprises her Color in Knitting and Domino Knitting classes and adds a new one, Danish Night Shirts with a delicate intricate pattern. Joan brings us some wonderful lace classes and a great finishing class. So much has changed for Cat since she did that cartwheel at our Friday evening presentation so long ago. Cat brings her newest class that is always evolving – Hybrid Sock Architecture - and will be our speaker at the Friday evening Teacher's Gallery. She'll talk about what is closest to her heart in design and have you turning things upside down. You will neversee socks or anything else quite the same way again.
We are so pleased to have good friends also returning to help us celebrate. NANCY BUSH will be teaching classes from her new book on Estonian Lace along with sock class based on traditional Estonian patterns. LUCY NEATBY is back! Look for Even More Cool Socks for you advanced sock knitters, more double knitting tricks, and a special survey of signature Lucy techniques in a single class featuring Lucy's unique scarf patterns! JEAN WONG, Nihon Vogue instructor extraordinaire, continues offering her Tailored Knitting: The Japanese Way and will be teaching two sessions of her popular Fine Finishing. RUTH SØRENSON, who knows more than anyone about designing with self-striping yarn, brings her popular design class and a new one for mittens and gloves. Ruth has been researching designs at her local museum in Denmark and you will have a chance to knit an antique Danish wristlet with beads from a pattern that Ruth adapted.
We are very fortunate to have STEPHANIE PEARL-MCPHEE return to Madrona and we welcome her with open arms! Many of you saw her knit away with lightning speed Thursday evening at last year's Winter Retreat and wondered how she does it! This year Stephanie will show you how. She'll be teaching 3 sessions of Knitting for Speed and Efficiency or So Many Knits, So Little Time. You also won't want to miss Stephanie's special presentation on Thursday evening as part of our celebration of 10 years of Madrona Fiber Arts. You loved CAROL LANSINGER's class last year on knitting skirts and she is back with A Skirt for You: The Long and Short of It ! We are pleased to welcome a new friend, BETSY HERSHBERG, a long time knitter who fell in love with beads and will be teaching her incredible techniques for making knitted beaded items and embellishments, including a special class combining beads and Mosaic Knitting patterns! Maybe you saw CATHERINE LOWE'S booth in the Market last year and wondered about COUTURE KNITTING. Here is a unique opportunity to learn! Catherine has a class to explain and teach the Foundations of Couture Knitting.
We could not have a Winter Retreat or a celebration without much loved JUDITH MACKENZIE MCCUIN. All of you who want to dye for unique socks, Judith will show you how in Just Dyeing For Socks, a class that will be repeated in two different sessions. Silk, that luscious fiber of mystery and romance, is featured in On the Road to Samarkand and Judith will have you spinning and plying a jewel-like cable. Additionally, those of you who have wondered what to do with that champion fleece you purchased, Fleece in My Hands, is the class for you! JANEL LAIDMAN, author of the wildly coveted new sock book THE ECLECTIC SOLE, will be teaching Sideways Socks as well as her popular Spinning a Painted Skein and a new class, The Secrets of Spinning Lace. Have you tried Spindle Spinning and wondered how to become more proficient and productive? AMELIA GARRIPOLI has the answer in her class Productive Spindling! Ever try Nalbinding, a traditional Scandinavian technique? Amelia will show you how to do a very unique edging in The Nalbound Edge. SARAH ANDERSON, who has been spinning for 35 years, rounds out the spinning classes with an unusual spinning technique in her class, Spinning Wrap and Roll. CHRIS CONRAD, our resident Japanese Kakishibu expert returns with two classes in dyeing yarn and dyeing cloth using these unique Japanese organic natural dyes.
You clamored to try weaving last year with SYNE MITCHELL, the publisher of the new online weaving magazine WEAVEZINE. Syne is back with Lace and Textures on the Rigid Heddle Loom for those who are already familiar with rigid heddle weaving and she will repeat her introductory class with a Stash Busting Scarf you can learn to warp and weave in just one session! KARIN SKACEL will again offer Art Felt, an introduction into the use of Art Felt papers and fine fibers to create unique items and designs.
Everyone is doing colorwork whether it is Fair Isle, self-striping yarns, or intarsia. Many teachers this year will be talking about and showing you how to do their personal approaches to color. We've already reviewed some classes and here are some more. JANINE BAJUS, who creates her own inspired and colorful Fair Isle sweaters, will again introduce you to color basics and choices as a first step in designing your own Fair Isle patterns. This year she will also take the fear out of Steeks as she shows you what kind and when and how to use them. EUGENE AND ANN BOURGEOIS OF PHILOSOPHER'S WOOL will show you their simplified approach to Fair Isle knitting, and ANNE BERK, takes the mystery out of introducing color in the middle of a garment with her two Intarsia classes.
We're not done yet! We'll have some fabulous demonstration and help booths in the Pavilion Rotunda. SHIORI HATAGAWA will be our resident spinning expert to demonstrate and mentor you as you begin spinning, practice, or need to figure out your wheel or spindle. DANIEL HERRERA will again hold fort at the "Just in time Answers and Solutions Clinic" on Saturday and Sunday. Daniel is an expert at showing a way out of any knitting or crochet problem and getting you on the road again! UNA WALKER will introduce you to some needle felting and rug hooking. Syne Mitchell will have her looms for you to try out and you can try your hand at ART FELT with Karin Skacel. Be sure to drop on by!
Be sure to check out the Winter Retreat Class Schedule for the full list of classes. We'll see you in February!
Madrona Fiber Arts was started by fiber enthusiasts who wanted to bring great teachers to the Northwest. We love the camaraderie, creative energy, and the sharing that is generated among students and teachers by combining incomparable teaching, small classes and informal settings.
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