Handweavers & Spinners Guild of Victoria

Workshops

The Guild's Teaching Committee selects and offers workshops on all aspects of weaving and spinning.
Workshops may be held midweek or on the weekend.
Classes are held at the Guild rooms unless otherwise specified.

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Each couple of months, we will be offering a spinning workshop for anyone interested in furthering their spinning skills.

These workshops will also suit those who are looking ahead to joining in the Certificate Spinning course, which will be held in 2012.

Download an Enrolment Form here.

If you are not a member and would like to join, download a Membership Application Form here.

Beginning Knitting

Dolores Anderson will be running a mini-workshop for Beginning Knitting. This will be for everyone who has always wanted to knit, but didn't know how, so now's your chance to learn the basics of this very handy and creative skill.. The workshop will run from 11am until 12.30 with a maximum of 10 people. The cost is $16 for members, $20 for non-members.

Next Step Spinning

Helen Keefe will lead you through the Next Step Spinning – Exploring Silk.

This workshop will cover the preparation and spinning of all types of silk, including tussah, mulberry, caps and silk noils. You will also learn the skill of blending silk with other fibres. Silk is such a fascinating fibre you will be entranced by the textures and yarns you can make.

The cost is $55 for members, $70 for non-members.

Beginning Felting

Sue Hilton will run a series of workshops to Begin Felting.

Sunday May 29 will enable you to make a fabulous individual scarf; Sunday June 12 will cover a delightful tea-cosy using resists; Sunday August 28 will have you making a stunning front for a cosy cushion. Sue is a very fine felter and teacher and this will be a great opportunity to learn the basics of felting from the start with some lovely surprises along the way. The cost is $55 for members, $70 for non-members for each day.

Finding Your Personal Colours

Janet Knoop's workshop in Finding Your Personal Colours. This will enable you to always find the right colours in your creative works and with your clothing that will suit your skin tones and specific colouring. There will be a maximum of ten participants, so you will have to be quick for this workshop. The cost is $55 for members, $70 for non-members.

Refresher Spinning Class

The class will cover areas of getting the best out of your wheel, wheel maintenance, fibre preparation, spinning, plying and washing of fibre and hanks, hand spinning and drum carding.

Cone Pixies

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Cone Pixies is a needle-felting workshop with Jenny Romano. You will create a character face on cone shaped wool batt. Learn the techniques of creating a face from wool and embellishing it in a choice of hand-dyed Corriedale fleece. These little pixies stand approximately 20 cm tall.

Cost for this workshop is $85 for members and $95 for non-members. You will need to bring a piece of foam approximately 10 cm high, on which to work (an off cut from Clarke rubber or a car washing sponge work well). If you have felting needles bring them with you… (sizes #36 for coarse wool, #40 for fine wool). Jenny has some which you can purchase at $2 a needle.