Anna Anderson
Anna Anderson has been teaching and giving demonstrations on wet felting techniques for several years. She is a fiber artist living in St. Regis , Montana with my husband, two teen children, and a variety of fiber and farm animals.
Anna is a fiber addict by heart, and enjoys all things fiber related. Hobbies include spinning, felting (both wet and needle felting), raising and rescuing fiber animals. She enjoys sharing the different techniques that she has discovered to create fun one of a kind fiber creations. Classes Anna will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Rosanne Anderson
I raise my own small flock of non-lamb burger sheep, love to knit and spin, and am fortunate to have a willing husband who will build almost anything for my sheep and craft - usually - I once almost had him convinced that I wanted to raise silkworms! I enjoy all the prep work with my wool and am excited to see a year's worth of dirty growth turn into beautiful fluff - ready to be dyed, spun, and made into exciting products.
I attend various fiber conferences and fairs in order to keep current, look for new opportunities to learn, teach, sell, and especially to enjoy the ambiance of other artists. Classes Roseanne will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Kimberly BeattyKimberly has been spinning since 2011. While she's dipped her toes in other fiber arts, her happy place is always the process of making yarn. She began with fiber from local dyers, then moved to processing her own fleece when she started the Master Spinner program at Olds College. She loves every part of the process — from finding that perfect fleece all the way through spinning the prepared fibers — and is excited to share that love with others.
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Heather Campbell
Heather Campbell has been in the fiber world since she was 15 when she purchased her first spinning wheel. Down the rabbit hole she went with a lifetime love of all things fiber arts. She’s an indie dyer, fiber producer herself (angora rabbits), and loves to learn. As owner of Purly Shell Fiber Arts LLC a brick and mortar yarn shop & dye studio, she lives the life of fiber. Her one of a kind colorways and dramatic color theory have made her yarn sought after in multiple markets. 2020 led her to be on the admin team of Wool and Fiber Arts. She and her fiber partner, Danielle, are active on social media with Purly Shell and have fostered a vibrant online community for learning and sharing.
Heather Campbell lives in Ilwaco WA. Learn more about Heather at www.purlyshellyarn.com. Classes Heather will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Karen Chabinsky
Karen Chabinsky has been a weaver, spinner and dyer for over 25 years. Spinning has always been to learn as much as possible and gain a greater understanding of the different fibers and she has learned and met the challenge of various types of fibers including Flax, Silk, Wool, Mohair, Exotic Fibers and yarn including Plied, Crepe, Cabled, Art Yarns and many others. Karen has taught many different types of spinning and weaving classes over the years, sharing her knowledge of fiber, and providing insight into fiber and process. Karen is also a Certified Judge through the NorthWest Regional Spinners Association.
Classes Karen will be teaching and co-teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Gay Chapman & Tisha Speer
Hello. My name is Gay Chapman. My friend, Trisha and I have been weaving all kinds of baskets for many years. We have started classes to share our knowledge and love of basketry with others. Our classes are for all levels of basket making but especially for beginners. I love seeing people's faces full of joy and amazement at themselves when they create a beautiful basket.
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Wendy Clark
My name is Wendy Clark owner of WeKare Farm and Fiber in Rochester, WA! I have been spinning for seven years and am currently a student at Olds College in Alberta, Canada training for my level 4 (of 6) Master Spinner certification. I started working with sheep in 2015 while working for a local organic farm. I am a shepherd to a small flock of Finn sheep on our small homestead. I have have had a love affair with fiber all my life including crochet, knitting, embroidery/cross-stitch, sewing, quilting, and recently weaving. But my first passion is teaching fiber arts. I teach wheel spinning, drop spindle, supported spindle, and fiber preparation in the Olympia/Chehalis area. I love taking a fleece from right off the sheep to end-product. I hope to inspire students to take a dive into the amazing world of wool and learn the unending variety, attributes, and gifts that sheep bring to the world and the environment.
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Lauralee DeLuca
Lauralee DeLuca has been spinning, teaching and felting since the 80’s. After 32 years in rural Alaska, life brought her down to Washington a few years ago where she is reveling in the fiber arts scene. Visit Lauralee at PhoenixxFibers.etsy.com. Classes Lauralee will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Kandi DodrillKandi Dodrill is a farm educator and owns a 5 acre fiber farm with her husband, Mark, in South King County. They have a motley crew of fiber growing animals filled with personality on their farm. Since she is a farm educator, she gets to share different skills that she has learned over the years from crafting to soap making, fiber arts, cooking, gardening, and embroidery. She has been a Girl Scout, Boy Scout, and 4-H leader. Kandi loves teaching people to enjoy the process of art and crafts. Her current favorite craft is using fiber from her farm to make beautiful art.
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Lisa EllisLisa Ellis is a freelance knitwear designer, owner of a wholesale pattern line and traveling knitting instructor in the Pacific Northwest. Lisa has two publications with Leisure Arts and is also a contributing designer to more than a dozen other books and magazines. In addition to her designs, she has written numerous articles on “knitting techniques”. Her passion is taking knitters to the next level.
Lisa is a native of Washington state, currently living in Gig Harbor. Learn more about Lisa at LisaEllisDesigns.com. Classes Lisa will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Gail Entwistle
Gail first started needle felting over 14 years ago and from the moment she first handled fleece she was hooked. She has won awards for both her sculptural felting and her wool paintings. Currently she teaches, demonstrates and sells at local galleries, fairs and festivals.
In the years since she started, she has taken a fleece from start to end to understand the process. She has dyed her own fiber with food safe dyes and commercial dyes. Through these processes she has learned about different breeds and the nature of their fiber. She learned that the processing of the fiber is not her strength so she has teamed with local Shepherdesses to obtain her processed wool. She continues to read about different breeds and to experiment with many types of fleece. Gail lives in the beautiful Kittitas valley with her husband and 2 cats. Visit Gail’s shop at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EntwistleStudio Classes Gail will be teaching at Fiber Fusion NW:
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Kody Friedrich
Kody Friedrich is the Snohomish County 4-H Sheep Program Leader and Evergreen State Fair 4-H Sheep Barn Superintendent. She raised sheep originally in the 1980s and 1990s with a small 4-H flock of polled Dorsets and her beloved Targhee, Priscilla and returned to raising sheep in 2018 with her flock of registered Border Leicesters. In addition to her wool flock, she also works with her youngest teen to raise a moderate sized flock of Hampshire-cross show lambs. Kody's farm is also a resource for local 4-H and FFA youth who use her farm as a learning experience for SAE and 4-H projects. Visit Kody on her Facebook page Nerd Girls Farm & Rabbitry Classes Kody will be co-teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Rachael Grow
Rachael Grow is pleased to be an instructor and has been sharing her “how to” tips with friends and family members for years. Her passion for fiber arts started when she was 6 years old and her mother taught her to crochet. It was love at first stitch and Rachael has pursued learning as many different fiber arts as possible. She has a passion for art yarns and loves to create projects with handmade yarns, especially small weavings. When Rachael isn’t frolicking with fiber she is playing with her family in Portland, Oregon.
Learn more about Rachel: www.eosunwomoon.etsy.com https://www.facebook.com/Eosunwomoon. Classes Rachel will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Tammy JordanTammy is a fourth-generation fiber artist who enjoys sharing her passion with everyone she meets. She has a fiber-arts business, Goldieknots Montana, specializing in Montana-grown wool, yarn, spinning fiber, and Made in Montana gift items. Prior to moving to Montana, she lived in Southern California and the Pocono Mountains where she was a former Humane Education specialist for the SPCA. Her teaching style is fun, creative, and interactive. When she’s not on the road teaching or in her studio creating, spinning, knitting, or felting, you can find her spending time with her dogs, sheep, horse, and other barnyard critters.
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Sarah Kain
Sarah Kain is the owner of Teton Yarn Company, nestled in the heart of the Grand Tetons. A self-proclaimed Park Service Brat, Sarah was born at Mount Rainer National Park and has lived in several national parks in the Western United States before settling in Teton Valley. Sarah started Teton Yarn Company to share her passion for color, knitting and the Tetons. When she is not the dye studio, you can find her and her dogs exploring the Tetons for inspiration for her next color way.
Visit Sarah online at tetonyarn.com. Classes Sarah will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Madeline Keller-King
Madeline of Wooly Witch of the West, is a fiber artist from Northwestern Montana. She endeavors to source her materials as locally and sustainably as possible, working with small scale ranchers for fiber and harvesting many of her dye plants from the surrounding woods. Each time she steps outside is a hunt for color. She is a regular contributor to Spin Off Magazine, and teaches natural dye & spinning classes. She offers naturally dyed, natural fiber yarns, breed specific Montana Millspun yarns, handspun yarns for special projects, and naturally dyed and hand blended fiber for fellow spinners.
Madeline resides in Montana. Learn more about Madeline at woolywitchofthewest.com. Classes Madeline will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Kathy MartinKathy put in her time in the non-fiber related rat race and now fills her days with caretaking her Angora goats and playing with natural fibers. Kathy has wheel spun, dyed, knitted, crocheted, and woven with triangle looms since the beginning of time. Wynham Farms and gotmygoat are recognizable from her workshops, online ventures, and fiber festivals.
Kathy, with her daughter and Great Danes, lives outside Sequim, WA. Learn more about Kathy and her farm at gotmygoat.com. Classes Kathy will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Al Schwider
Al Schwider holds a bachelor's degree in zoology from Oregon State University. He spent 34 years in materials and processes engineering in the aerospace industry, followed by 18 years managing the FFA Exhibition at the Puyallup Fairs. For the past 45 years, he and his wife. Lin, have been raising Romney sheep and Angora goats in Maple Valley.
Learn more about Al at www.thepinesfarm.com Classes Al will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Barbara Seeler
Barbara learned to knit when she was 5 years old and has a life long love affair with fiber. In the early 90’s she started spinning and quickly realized the pairing of spinning with knitting allowed the exploration of fiber, color and texture.
As a workshop “junkie”she traveled the US and Canada studying with as many different mentors as she could. Her day job as a biochemist for 30 years gave her the chemistry background to explore dyeing. She taught with the Greater Los Angeles Spinning Guild while living in Southern California, Peachtree Spinners Guild and Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild while living in Georgia and was on the board of The Handweavers Guild of America. She is currently an active member of Valley Spinners Guild in Snohomish and the Snohomish Knitters Guild. She teaches spinning at venues in the Northwest. Classes Barbara will be co-teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Hazel Spencer
Hazel Spencer is owner, with her husband Randy, of Hazel Rose Looms, and has been making small weaving looms since 2000. She taught art, including weaving & other fiber arts, to all grades at the local K-8 school for 17 years. She has been teaching weaving on the internet and at her booth & at fiber fairs for many years. Making clothing & other useful items for the home is her favorite use of her hand woven fabric.
Visit Hazel on hazelroselooms.com Classes Hazel will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Teresa Waldo
Teresa Waldo combines her passion for teaching with her passion for crafting. She is a retired elementary and special education teacher and has taught adult crafting classes for ten plus years. Teresa has been knitting since age five and has fallen down other fiber related rabbit holes (spinning, weaving, crocheting) in the last 20 years. Teresa loves sharing her excitement for anything fiber related with others and has a keen ability to break a skill down into manageable steps. She makes sure all her students are successful and leave with a new skill. Teresa has taught various knitting, spinning, little loom weaving, and crocheting classes in shops around the Pacific Northwest and at regional conferences. She resides in Auburn, Washington and is a member of NwRSA, Arachne Guild, Moonspinners’ Guild, Yarning for Community, and Covington Knitworms.
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Una Walker
Una is a Fiber Artist from La Grande, Oregon whose fashion and artwork has been exhibited nationally to rave reviews. As a sought after fiber arts teacher, her classes range from beginning to advanced techniques in a variety of mediums.
Una grew up in her parents’ craft supply store where she gained experience in a wide range of crafts as both an artist and teacher. An example being her appearance on HGTV’s ‘That’s Clever’ in 2009, making a pair of shoes! She got started punching over a decade ago at a craft show “make and take” where she first worked with the Oxford Punch Needle. Combining unique materials is Una’s most inspiring challenge in her work; she loves “figuring it all out”. From raw wool, to sewing the finishing stitch, she is always looking ahead to new and creative approaches. Una’s latest fiber experiments include explorations in dyeing and seeing how the color and texture bring life to her designs. Una’s work has been exhibited at craft shows across the country where she also sells under her business name of Wooly Walkers. Una has completed her Advanced Oxford Punch Needle training and has been teaching punch needle for the past 10 years. She has taught at Estes Park Wool Market, Toas Wool Festival, Oregon Flock and Fiber, Black Sheep gathering, Fiber in the Forest, Stitches West and SoCal. Una teaches with both patience and an attention to detail, that combined with her easy-going sense of humor results in a fun and rewarding experience for all. Una thrives on problem solving and she loves working with beginners. Una can be reached through her website, www.woolywalkers.com or directly by email at [email protected]. Classes Una will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Danielle WallaceDanielle Wallace has been crocheting for over 20 years. She came from the sheep world, and wool is her passion. Growing up in Central Oregon, she raised sheep and as an adult started spinning her own fleece. Going on shearing trips, along with judging wool shows, organizing angora wool, skein, garment competitions, and running a flock of Corriedale sheep has given her a deep understanding of wool and has shaped the way she designs. As the designer behind D Wallace Designs she creates patterns that take her unique understanding of wool, flare for color and combines them into wearable crochet for today.
You can see her designs at www.purlyshellyarn.com/shop/crochet-designs-by-d-wallace Classes Danielle will be teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Rhonda Wreggelsworth
Rhonda Wreggelsworth and her husband own and operate Rimini's Stilly River Ranch in Stanwood, WA. Its primary focus is fiber but has come back to its dairy goat roots this year with oberhasli dairy goats. She has been raising goats for thirty-five years. Her herd is a mix of registered white and colored angoras and oberhaslis. She also enjoys raising a small flock of shetland sheep and huacaya and suri alpacas. She enjoys mixing her three fiber types in her felting projects. Rhonda has been involved in 4-H for over 30 years. She leads Fiber, Feathers and Friends 4-H which concentrates on the fiber world and what you can produce within its realm. Classes Rhonda will be co-teaching at Fiber Fusion:
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Amy Wolf
Amy Wolf is from Snohomish, Washington where she is a curator of a fiber museum. She has raised registered, nationally awarded white and natural colored Romneys and Angora goats for over 45 years. She has been a professional sheep shearer, fiber artist, and livestock judge for over 35 years. She travels the western United States shearing, judging, teaching classes, and collecting fiber from local producers. Together with the Pines Farm, she processes over 2,000 pounds of fiber for resale to hand spinners, filters, weavers, and crafters. Her latest felting projects were featured at the “Super Bowl of Sheep Shows” in Louisville, Kentucky.
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