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Beautiful Beaded Bind Offs

Description: Come learn a couple of different ways to add beads in your bind-off. Jean Elizabeth will demonstrate ways to add beads to your bind-off then you will practice them with her there to help you every step of the way. You will love how these techniques make your pieces even more beautiful! So many possibilities in so many different ways. Shawls, hats, scarves, gloves, socks. A few beads at the end can easily add a little sparkle to so many projects! #BetterWithBeads

Skill Level: Basic

Ages: Any age with skillset - cast-on, knit, knit front and back, bind off

Cost: $40

Material Fee: $30 pay by cash, check, card

Materials Provided: 1 mini-skein Merino fingering from Chicken Coop Dyeworks, 1 tube Bead Biz Japanese long Magatama seed beads (color choices available), Fleegle beader .8mm, big eye needle, instructor will email instruction pamphlet

Materials for students to bring: 2 pairs Size 2-4 needles straight or circular, scissors, small bowl for holding beads

Max Participants: 25

Min Participants: 3

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Room 1

Instructor: Jean Elizabeth Glass with Bead Biz

jean@beadbiz.org

Begin to Spin

Description: Learn to make your own, unique handspun yarn on a spinning wheel! We’ll play with several types of prepared wool while we discuss wheel maintenance, drafting, treadling, plying, and finishing techniques to make a balanced yarn. As time permits, we’ll touch on various types of fiber preparation and non-wool fibers. No previous experience required. Warning: Spinning can be addictive!

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 14 and up

Cost: $65

Material Fee: $10 pay by cash, check and Paypal

Materials Provided: A treadle-driven spinning wheel in good working order, or rent one from the instructor for $10.

Materials for students to bring: Any treadle-driven wheel in good working condition. If you will need to borrow a loaner wheel, please contact the instructor at UndeniablyLoopy@gmail.com. There is a $10 rental fee to be paid directly to the instructor for use of a rental wheel.

Max Participants: 7

Min Participants: 3

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Room 5

Instructor: Marcia Weinert with Undeniably Loopy

undeniablyloopy@gmail.com

Broom Corn Brushes

Description: Create some useful kitchen brushes with broomcorn.

Cake tester, pot scrubber, vegetable/ mushroom brush

Skill Level: Beginner

Basic

Ages: 18 and up

Cost: $75

Material Fee: $55 pay by cash, check, card, venmo, paypal

Materials Provided: Broomcorn, nylon twine, tampico, scissors

Materials for students to bring: n/a

Max Participants: 15

Min Participants: 8

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 9:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Room 2

Instructor: Sue Muldoon with Redux for You

suemuldoon@suemuldoonimages.com

Children's Fabric Pumpkin

Description: Participants will do some basic stitching, pumpkin stuffing and attaching the stem.

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 5 and up, with adult mandatory.

Cost: $45

Material Fee: $10 pay by cash

Materials Provided: All materials included, fabric for pumpkin, fluff filling, button and stem,

Materials for students to bring: None

Max Participants: 15

Min Participants: 5

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Room 3

Instructor: Marcy Young with My Sisters Fabric and Fiber

mydry79@aol.com


Classic Gnome

Description: Needle Felt a gnome. Join Jennifer and Melissa of Going Gnome and go back to their roots with this beloved classic gnome, an original from their gnome collection! In this fun and fast paced workshop you will learn to make a solid three dimensional felted form, make and attach pieces, and add surface decoration. This is a great workshop for people wanting to take a stab at needle felting, and also has plenty to offer an experienced felted wanting to push thier skills to the next level with some great tips and tricks. Finished gnome measures about 5" tall

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 15 and up

Cost: $35

Material Fee: $25 pay by cash, check, cc, venmo

Materials Provided: wool, felting needles, and foam pads

Materials for students to bring: None

Max Participants: 20

Min Participants: 6

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Room 3

Instructor: Jennifer VanSant with Going Gnome

goinggnomefelting@gmail.com


Corded Wool Stool

Description: Corded Wool Stool

Skill Level: Beginner

Basic

Ages: 18 and up

Cost: $80

Material Fee: $55 pay by cash, check, card, venmo, paypal

Materials Provided: Wool, stool, tape, instructions

Materials for students to bring: scissors

Max Participants: 12

Min Participants: 8

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Room 1

Instructor: Sue Muldoon with Redux for You

suemuldoon@suemuldoonimages.com

Felted Soap

Description: This workshop will cover wool selection, how to blend wool, and how to wet felt soap.

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 12 and up

Cost: $55

Material Fee: $50 pay by Cash, Check, Venmo, PayPal

Materials Provided: Goat milk soap ( two bars), wool, bubble wrap, rubber bands, organza bag, felting instructions, plastic container paper towels, water

Materials for students to bring: Small hand towel

Max Participants: 25

Min Participants: 15

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Room 1

Instructor: Nancy Butler with Lyric Hill Farm

lyrichillfarm@yahoo.com

Felted Vessels

Description: It is both magical and easy to use unspun wool to fashion a 3-dimensional purse, pouch or other vessel around a flat form that “resists” felting and shrinking! All tools and materials included in fees. We’ll play with a mountainous rainbow of fluff and sparkle to make unique, small bowls—and discuss how these same techniques can be used to develop into hats, handbags, and vases, perfect for gifting!

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 13 and up

Cost: $65

Material Fee: $10 pay by cash, check or Paypal

Materials Provided: grip mat, all wool and add-ins, mesh, scissors, resists, handouts

Materials for students to bring: n/a

Max Participants: 12

Min Participants: 3

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Room 5

Instructor: Marcia Weinert with Undeniably Loopy

undeniablyloopy@gmail.com

Hyperbolic Crochet

Description: In this fun interactive workshop you will learn to make a basic crocheted hyperbolic ball, that can be used either as a toy or a decoration. No math skills required.

Skill Level: Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Ages: 18 and Up

Cost: $95

Material Fee: $2 pay by Cash

Materials Provided: Printed Handout.

Materials for students to bring: (2) Skeins of Worsted Weight Yarn. Solid Light Colors Are Recommended, Crochet Hooks:F,G or a Size or Two Smaller than you would normally use for your chosen yarn, (4) Locking Stitch Markers, Scissors, Darning Needle, Pen/Paper, Some Ribbon and any embellishments if you wish to decorate your finished piece (Depending on time)

Max Participants: 10

Min Participants: 2

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Room 3

Instructor: Susan Rogers with Cosmic Kitten Crochet

Jskitty922@yahoo.com

Knitting for Comfort and Wellness

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Description: Knitting for Comfort and Wellness

In this workshop, we’ll knit an easy, practical hat for knitting on-the-go. As we knit, we’ll explore gentle stretches, discuss mindful techniques for healthy knitting and reflect on how our craft supports relaxation and balance. We’ll take our knitting for a walk around the expo- because creativity and movement go hand in hand.

Skill Level: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced

Ages: 13 and up

Cost: $45

Material Fee: $20 pay by Cash or check

Materials Provided: Knit Fit hat kit - hat pattern, 3 mini skeins for Superwash wool (Jaggerspun), Size 8 bamboo circular needles

Materials Provided: Knit Fit project bags for use during workshop

Handouts and articles

Water bottles

Materials for students to bring: Enthusiasm and comfortable shoes

Max Participants: 12

Min Participants: 5

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Room 1

Instructor: Michelle McCann with Knit Fit LLC

get.knitfit@gmail.com


Learn to Knit with Beads!

Twisted Raindrops Bracelet

Description: Wear a string of shimmering raindrops on your wrist. This knitted bracelet is fun and easy to learn. Learn to knit with beads and make this amazing bracelet. #BetterwithBeads

Skill Level: Intermediate

Ages: Any age with skillset: must be familiar with knit, purl, cast on, bind off, pico stitch

Cost: $40

Material Fee: $30 pay by Cash, Check, Card

Materials Provided: (color choices available) 1 mini-skein Merino fingering from Chicken Coop Dyeworks, 1 tube (approx. 25 grams) Bead Biz Japanese Long Magatama Seed Beads, 1 .8mm Fleegle Beader, 1 Pattern

Materials for students to bring: Size 3 circular or straight needles, scissors, small bowl for beads

Max Participants: 25

Min Participants: 3

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Room 3

Instructor: Jean Elizabeth Glass with Bead Biz

jean@beadbiz.org


Learn to Thrum

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Description: During this 2-hour technique based workshop you will learn all about thrumming. Adding thrums to knitting creates a wonderfully warm and cosy fabric. Learn how to create thrums, add them into knitted fabric, learn what can be used as thrums and a bit about the history of thrums and where this technique originated.

Hélène has taught thrum specific workshops at many LYS, via Zoom, for knitting guilds and at Fiber Festivals including Shetland Wool Week where she has been returning each year since 2018.

Skill Level: Basic

Ages: 13 and up

Cost: $80

Material Fee: $15 pay by Cash or Venmo

Materials Provided: Hand-outs

Hard copy of mitten OR slipper sock pattern

Kit with about one ounce of roving as well as some yarn to practice the techniques I will teach

Materials Provided: Hand-outs "The World of Thrumming" and hard copy of my Thrummed Mitten or Slipper Sock pattern are free with workshop cost as well as a kit which will have about one ounce of roving for participants to use during the workshop as well as some yarn.

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Materials for students to bring: Needles you would typically use for a heavy worsted to aran weight yarn. These can be double point needles, long circular for working Magic Loop method or short circular for working small circumference.

Max Participants: 20

Min Participants: 6

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Room 1

Instructor: Helene Driesen with Kieran Knits

kieranknits@gmail.com


Lock Christmas Tree

Description: Participants will create a knit tree made of a knitted base with locks included. Each tree will be covered in colored or white Teeswater locks and come with a small stand of lights to set on a table as an individual decoration or one of a group.

Skill Level: Basic

Ages: All ages with a basic understanding of knitting - cast on and knit stitch

Cost: $80

Material Fee: $50 pay by cash,check

Materials Provided: locks, lights and base yarn

Materials for students to bring: size 7-8 16" - 24" circular needles

Max Participants: 10

Min Participants: 5

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Room 3

Instructor: Holly Partridge with Peartree

holly@granitehillschool.org

Needle Felted Soap

Description: Students will learn how to transfer designs and needle felt them on a bar of prefelted soap.

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 12 and up

Cost: $55

Material Fee: $50 pay by Cash, Check, Venmo, PayPal

Materials Provided: Felting needles, Felting Instructions, Design Template, Prefelted bar of goat milk soap, Merino wool for felting

Materials Provided: Pens, Scissors, Paper

Materials for students to bring: Pen, Scissors

Max Participants: 20

Min Participants: 15

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Room 4

Instructor: Nancy Butler with Lyric Hill Farm

lyrichillfarm@yahoo.com


New England Porch Weave Stool

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Description: New England Porch Weave Stool

Skill Level: Beginner, Basic

Ages: 18 and up

Cost: $55

Material Fee: $45 pay by cash, check, card, venmo, paypal

Materials Provided: stool, reed, tape

Materials for students to bring: scissors

Max Participants: 12

Min Participants: 8

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Room 2

Instructor: Sue Muldoon with Redux for You

suemuldoon@suemuldoonimages.com

Play with Clay for Kids

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Description: Kids will learn how to use polymer clay to make shapes, buttons, bowls and other fun things

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 8+ with adult

Cost: $60

Material Fee: $40 pay by venmo, cash

Materials Provided: stainless rolling pin, mat, 5 blocks of clay, 40- piece set round hole cutters, 30-piece set shape cutters, smoothing tools

Materials for students to bring: n/a

Max Participants: 8

Min Participants: 6

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 9:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Room 4

Instructor: Debi Leibovitz with Repertoire Design

deb@repertoiredesign.com


Playing with Clay

Description: Learn how to use polymer clay to make buttons, stitch markers, shawl pins, bowls, jewelry, and whatever other designs you can imagine

Skill Level: Basic

Ages: 13 and up

Cost: $80

Material Fee: $40 pay by Venmo, cash

Materials Provided: stainless rolling pin, mat, 5 blocks of clay, 40-set cutting tool for holes

30-set cutting tools for shapes, smoothing tools, knife

Materials Provided: all materials needs to make designs including the clay, rolling pins, shape cutters, mat. Supplies are for each individual student are theirs to take at the workshop conclusion.

Materials for students to bring: they can bring a knit/crochet/weaving project they are workin on to make coordinating clay items such as buttons or a shawl pin

Max Participants: 10

Min Participants: 8

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Room 4

Instructor: Debi Leibovitz with Repertoire Design

deb@repertoiredesign.com


Quilly Wool Trivet

Description: Students will learn to prepare the wool fabric for quilling, and then hand stitch them together into a solid base for a trivet for your dining table. Holiday designs are possible. Class will include materials used, techniques for preparing each quilly and method for stitching together for final project.

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: Adult

Cost: $50

Material Fee: $15 pay by Cash

Materials Provided: Wool fabric, needles and thread. Enough for 2 trivets. Only one will be completed in class.

Use of scissors during class. Sewing needles and thread will be provided as well as take home instructions.

Materials for students to bring: Everything will be provided by instructor.

Max Participants: 15

Min Participants: 5

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Room 3

Instructor: Marcy Young with My Sisters Fabric and Fiber

mydry79@aol.com

Thirteen from Three

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Description: In this class we will explore basic color theory using three natural dyes: indigo, cochineal, and Black Oak. By combining each of these colors,

students will learn how to produce secondaries and tertiaries. Materials include a notebook of class information, a color wheel, and samples of all colors.

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 14 & up

Cost: $45

Material Fee: $20 pay by Cash, card, check

Materials Provided: Dyes used in class, disposable gloves, printed class handouts, 13 samples skeins, color wheel, and metal ring for samples. Equipment used will include distilled water, enamelware pans, color boards, drop and table cloths, dyes and assists used in class.

Materials for students to bring: None

Max Participants: 15

Min Participants: 3

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Room 4

Instructor: Gina Levesque with Across Generations

gina_levesque@yahoo.com

Whisk Broom Making

Description: Whisk Broom Making

Skill Level: Basic

Ages: 18 and up

Cost: $35

Material Fee: $25 cash, check, card, venmo, paypal

Materials Provided: broomcorn, nylon twine, scissors

Materials for students to bring: None

Max Participants: 15

Min Participants: 8

Date & Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Room 2

Instructor: Sue Muldoon with Redux for You

suemuldoon@suemuldoonimages.com


Winter Scene Needle Felting

Description: Description: Learn the art of needle felting a two dimensional “wool painting” with Jen from The Felted Bee. In this beginner friendly workshop, you will learn skills and techniques specific to needle felting on a flat surface as well as how to make your own wool painting of a winter scene with birch trees and a moonlight night sky.

Needle felting is a technique of using a very sharp, barbed needle to repeatedly stab into the wool to create felt. Using this technique, we will place wool flat onto a surface and gently stab the wool into place to create images. Unlike needle felting something three-dimensional, wool painting can be very unrestricted, freeing and open ended. We are still using the same materials and tools; we are just keeping everything two dimensional. If you like painting or drawing, wool may be your next favorite medium.

Skill Level: Beginner

Ages: 13 and over

Cost: $65

Material Fee: n/a

Materials Provided: 5x7 wool felted piece of fabric, 2 Needle felting needles in 2 different sizes, foam work surface, wool to create project, photographic example & worksheet

Materials for students to bring: None, teacher will provide all the supplies needed to complete the project

Max Participants: 16

Min Participants: 4

Date & Time

Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Room 1

Instructor: Jennifer McCarthy with The Felted Bee

thefeltedbee@gmail.com


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