Weaving Classes

All weaving classes will be held in the Sparta United Methodist Church Fellowship hall.

Introduction to Inkle Loom Weaving with Roiana Buckmaster

Have you ever looked at the big harness looms and wondered if weaving was for you? This class is your chance to find out! We will use a mini inkle loom to explore weaving with a simple heddle system to create a basic warp-faced fabric that will introduce you to some of the principles used in weaving on the multiple harness looms. You will learn to warp your loom, tie heddles, create 2 different sheds to pass the shuttle through, how to keep your edges tidy, how to fix a broken warp thread, and how to begin and end your project. Class fee includes a handcrafted poplar wood loom and shuttle for you to keep, along with the yarn for your class project.

Friday morning - $85.00

Pattern Inkle Loom Weaving: The Baltic Star with Odetta Riley

Intermediate to Advanced

If you have done some inkle weaving, perhaps taken a basic class in this technique, and you now want to improve your skills, this is the class for you.  You will learn to do the Norwegian Star or Baltic Star pattern.  This will enable you to master pick-up weaving.  Drafting and converting patterns will also be discussed.  This class will help you take your weaving skills to the next level.

Saturday morning - $55.00 plus $15.00 for materials

Tri-Loom Weaving with Jackie Martin

Weaving on a triangle loom is fun, creative, easy and quick. There is no elaborate planning and measuring process. Continuous strand weaving has no separate warp and weft but uses one continuous strand of yarn. This three hour class teaches the basics about weaving a plain weave pattern on a one foot triangle loom. Students can expect to make one sample triangle piece.  More can be made later to join together for finished projects.   Looms provided to students.

Friday morning - $50.00 plus $10.00 if using yarn from the instructor and $25.00 for loom if purchased

Continuous Strand Weaving: A World of Possibilities with Jackie Martin

Beginner to Advanced

Continuous Strand Weaving can be done on a triangle, square, or rectangle loom.  Attend this presentation to see how to make such items as shawls, ponchos, cowls, throws or blankets, pillows or pocket books. Also see a square loom and items such as dish clothes or placemats made on them. The rectangle loom will also be shown and is wonderful for scarves. Come find out about these fun ways to use the loom you already have or to find a good reason to get something new and different.

Friday afternoon - $16.00

ROIANA BUCKMASTER currently lives in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, where she is working with her husband Mike and youngest son Nick to build a flock of Icelandic sheep (along with chickens, guinea fowl, ponies, puppies and whatever else she can smuggle into the barn when Mike isn’t looking). Roiana was given knitting needles at the age of 6 (to keep her out from underfoot), embroidery at the age of 10 (to encourage sitting still) and plunged headlong into the shadowy worlds of spinning, weaving, tatting and various other fiber arts from there. It’s a slippery slope, but what a ride!

JACKIE MARTIN loves Fiber Arts of all kinds. She started with knitting at the age of 4 with her 2 older sisters. Their mom taught them to knit to keep them busy. She also learned to embroidery as a child. When she was in college, crochet was all the rage, so she learned to crochet. From there she continued to add different arts. Jackie has been weaving for about 4 years. She first learned on a table loom, then added a rigid heddle, an inkle loom, and then the triangle loom. She had 2 shawls made with a triangle loom on display at Left of the Center , in downtown Roanoke, in November 2022. She sells her products at local craft shows.

ODETTE RILEY has been crafting since the age of five.  Her mom taught her how to sew and quilt, and a second grade teacher got her interested in weaving. She built her own inkle loom and has been weaving bands for the last several years. She has found that figuring out how people make things helps her deal with ADD.  Her unique vision and wide variety of interests is clearly evident on her Facebook page: Oak Leaf Beads and Crafts.