Miscellaneous Classes

All miscellaneous classes will be held in the Sparta United Methodist Church fellowship hall.

Viking Knit Jewelry with Amanda Griffen

Viking Knit is a technique used to create beautiful, flexible chains by "knitting" wire around a mandrel or dowel. Learn the basics of this historical reverse engineered technique while making a lightweight, colorful bracelet! Students will leave class with a handmade bracelet and the basic tools to make more pieces of Viking Knit jewelry.

 In this class, you will learn best management practices for getting the most from your raw fiber.  The class is a comprehensive presentation of how to utilize your fiber to get the best products possible. It covers farm management, shearing, preparing your fiber for the mill, product options in the milling process and a set by set discussion of the mill process.   There will be a power point presentation with time for questions during and after the presentation. 

Friday afternoon - $45.00 plus $5.00 or $10.00 materisl fee

THE COLOR WHEEL WITH FIBER with Gregg Johnson

 Beginner to Advanced

Color surrounds us and beguiles us but can be intimidating. The color wheel is a good place to start organizing one’s thoughts about color, but it is often presented as aimed at painters and decorators. This class will build a color wheel using woven swatches and then go beyond the basic two and three hue color schemes. Whether you are a knitter, weaver, felter, quilter or needle artist, this class can help you in picking your colors. Learn how your choice of tints, tones and shades of hues changes the mood and impact of colors. We will cover how to build contrast, accent, depth and background in picking color combinations.

Friday Afternoon - $20.00

MULTICOLORED YARN! with Gregg Johnson  

Beginner to Advanced

Many yarn lovers fall for a multi-colored yarn but then do not know what to do with it. This class will tell you what you need to know about how a specific color-way will react. For weavers, knitters and crocheters this class will help you to not be disappointed in the results you get with that beautiful yarn and learn to use that yarn to its best advantage.

Saturday morning - $20.00