Feeling frustrated with fingers and faces? Linda Van Alstyne will return to Margie's Muse to guide you to the
next phase in creating your fantastic figures.
$50 includes materials and instruction from Linda, the coauthor of Needle Felting Art Techniques and Projects.

Class limited to 8.

Wet-felted eggs! Just in time for Easter

Sunday March 18, 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Cheryl Flett returns to guide us in a class of wet-felted eggs! $30 includes wool for felting

Felting is an ancient tradition of forming matted fibers into something useful and beautiful.
Participants will make a colorful wool egg that can be decorated and filled with treats. Optional: bring beads, sequins and fancy buttons to embellish your egg if you wish. This is fun and easy, and you'll leave being exited to make lots more to fill the Easter Bunny's basket to the brim. 20% of Margie's Muse's proceeds from this class will be donated to CHABA, Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (www.chabha.org ).

Needle Felted Woodland Birds and Creatures Workshop with Lorna McMaster
(Children over 12 accompanied by an adult are welcome in this workshop)

Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

**note: to be re-scheduled

$70 for instruction, includes supplies - Great for beginners, this introductory needle felting class will show you how to create a whimsical robin using Lorna's pre felted wool Cocoons.
These finished creatures make adorable toys, ornaments and collectibles. Additional kits for other creatures will be available for sale at the shop. Though older children are welcome to attend this workshop, parents need to be aware that needle-felting tools are sharp and are therefore not suitable for all children. Lorna comes from a 20 year background in public education, which she left behind in 2003 to become a full time artist, shepherd, and freelance educator. Her fiber artwork reflects the very nature of the wool that she raises, and sharing her passion for needle felting with other fiber enthusiasts is her favorite work of all! Lorna holds a masters degree in Gifted and Talented Education and currently teaches Textiles at Becker College, Nature Drawing at Antioch New England Graduate School and "A Shepherd's Life" traveling school program in schools all over New England. Her needle felted dolls have been accepted by the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, and was recently accepted into the Juror's Choice Exhibit at the Thorne Museum in Keene, NH. CEU credit is available for all workshops. She attended Linda VanAlstyne's first needle felting class for Margie's Muse a few years ago, which evidently fueled her inspiration. Lorna taught a sculpted Gnome class here in the fall of 2006, and now, by popular demand, returns to bring us more of her inspired direction.

"Beginning Weaving"

with Diane Yelton $30 includes frame loom and materials

Saturday March 31, 9:30 am- 12:30 pm

Lots of folks have asked about weaving lessons at Margie's Muse. Diane Yelton is a weaver extraordinaire and will come to teach anyone aged 8 and up "Beginning Weaving". Using a small frame loom, students will have the opportunity to explore yarn textures and colors
while creating a small treasure book, with the woven cover, complete with sewn-in pages.

More wet felting to spark your imagination and have the feel of wool in your
fingertips is available with Linda VanAlstyne, who returns Saturday April 28
from 10am - 2pm.

$50.00

Create flowers for spring, which can be worn on your lapel, adorn a bag, or arranged in the felted bowl you made last week! The
techniques of layering and sculpting felt will be covered, as well as making
attachments. Again, your imagination is the only limit with this medium.
Join us!

Lorna McMaster returns with more needle felting on May 26!

Using a felting needle as a wool sculpting tool, make woodland birds to place in the felted nests you've made previously. Learn the techniques for shaping wings, beaks, eyes... Make a chickadee, robin or cardinal. Welcome bird song by shaping some birds of your own.

June 2 - Beginning Wheel Spinning with Patricia Blomgren

Have you ever wanted to try spinning wool into your own yarn? This workshop offers the opportunity to try your hand, even if you don't own a spinning wheel (or bring your own if you like).
You will learn the basics of fleece selection and preparation (washing and carding), and basic spinning techniques on Ashford spinning wheels. If you own sheep or are thinking about raising sheep there will be some discussion about breeds for handspinning.

INDIGO ~ Explore The Mystery, A Dye Workshop with Nancy Zeller
June 16th, 10AM ~ 2PM

Paired in teams of 2 you will learn how to make your own indigo stock,
prepare and manage the indigo vat by balancing the pH and oxygen, and then
dye up to 8 ounces of your own yarn to the blue hue of your choosing! You
will also learn how to manage the vat for future use. You’ll never forget
the magic of indigo!

$40 includes instruction and dye materials.

Class materials included: all the necessary ingredients to make the indigo
stock and vat, instructions and color charts for correct pH and oxygen
reduction, burners, thermometers.

Students please bring:
1. One plastic pail large enough to hold your yarns
2. 8 ounces or less of washed, wet yarn. Keep WET for class No mordanting
is necessary, but if you want to mordant prior to class just use Alum
Sulfate only, at the rate of 15% to weight of fiber.
3. One dye pot (not a kitchen food pot!) either stainless steel or blue
enamel canning, 18 qt size. I recommend the canning pots because they are
inexpensive and work nicely for all types of dyeing.
4. Rubber gloves & apron
5. Container to take home dye stock (perhaps a canning jar or other glass
jar with lid)