Morning (11AM): “10 Ways to Maximize Threading”
Afternoon (1PM): “Go Big with Color-and-Weave effects”.
Morning Program: “10 Ways to Maximize Threading”
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Warping a loom and weaving it as originally intended is only the start of the design process. Creating different textiles from one versatile threading maximizes the production efficiency of a long warp and wards off the temptation to grab the scissors when you just can't look at that design any longer, let alone weave it. This lecture explains how to change your design in the middle of a warp, without re-threading. Weaving software is used to demonstrate the step-by-step transformation of one draft into 10 different designs.
Afternoon Program: “Go Big with Color-and-Weave effects”.
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Weaving giant color-and-weave effects on handlooms is achievable with a thick-and-thin technique in a structure similar to shadow weave. Color orders and weave structures are applied to blocks of ends vs. individual ends. Participants will learn how to expand popular motifs using graph paper or weaving software.
About Karen:
In 2006, I was asked to teach a beginning class. I thought it was simply my way to pay my weaving education forward. Turns out, I loved it almost as much as weaving. Since then, my teaching practice has expanded in subject complexity, geographic range and technological adaptation. I have taught for guilds around the U.S., in addition to several regional conferences and HGA’s Convergence. When travel was limited by the pandemic, I learned how to teach what I know online. Even though traveling to teach has resumed, I continue to present workshops and seminars online for guilds and conferences.
My journalism training was not wasted. Rather, it has expanded opportunities to share what I have learned with other weavers. I write for and about weavers for weaving and fiber magazines, and a book is in the works.