Spinning Color Workshop

Saturday, January 18th, 2024

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Enfield Shaker Museum

447 NH Route 4A

Enfield, NH 03748

Join instructor Patty Williams to create vibrant colors and patterns in your own mini skeins of yarn in a 2-hour workshop. Students will create several mini skeins as they develop skills to create color changing yarns as they knit or crochet, change the colors of fiber without blending, keep braids and batts from being muddled, and change commercial yarn colors all by the spinning process. This fast-paced class is perfect for spinners who hate weaving in ends on multi colored projects (or do not dye), struggle with braids, or are gifted that skein they just don’t know how to use.

All spinning materials will be provided in class. Students should bring a working wheel or drop spindles to class.

Students should know how to spin and ply.

Who is Patty Williams?

Patty Williams is the owner of Aker Fiber Farm located in Enfield Center, NH. She began working with fiber arts as a young girl with her aunt and mom in Walpole, NH. She learned how to crochet, wash fleeces, draft, or treadle, and card wool along with tying her shoes. She began Aker Fiber Farm part time after leaving the Army with her husband in Virginia. They then purchased the flock that had been supplying their fleeces and moved everyone to New Hampshire where Patty added Shepherd to her resume. Aker Fiber Farm has evolved into a Farm to Yarn Company providing flax to linen and fleece to yarn to customers all over the US and Canada.

Patty began teaching fiber arts without even realizing that was what she was doing. Always wanting to share her passion, she taught friends how to crochet and knit while in grade school and continued as she gathered more skills and moved around the country. Today, she travels up and down the east coast teaching workshops and giving lectures on Shepherding skills, flax, linen, spinning, fiber prep, dyeing, and knitting. Her favorite students are folks that “never thought they could”, as Patty believes everyone CAN!

Cost:

Museum Member: $40

Non-member: $45

All proceeds go to the educational mission of Enfield Shaker Museum.

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