Join us for the Rigid Heddle Study Group at the School! Running from August 4th to August 26th, 2022; this study group will work through content from Amanda Wood's course: Colour & Weave on Rigid Heddle Loom, from weaving a colour & weave gamp, wet finishing your gamp and weaving either the class pattern or designing your woven cloth.

New lessons will be released on Thursdays each week. We're happy to have you here!

If you are intrigued by the beauty of hand-dyed yarns and fibres and would like to learn about using acid dyes along with a supportive group, join us in this four-week Acid Dyeing Study Group. We will start from the very basics—from setting up a dye space and mixing dye stock solutions, to finishing up some hand-dyed yarns and fibres. Let’s dye some magic together!

Join instructor Diana Twiss as she guides you through techniques to scale up from 30 grams of a unique fibre blend to 500 grams or more.  In addition to making larger amounts, learn spinning and plying techniques to illustrate the variety of yarns you can get from the same blend (whether done on a drum carder, blending board, or even hand carders).

Uplift your knits from “homemade” to “hand knit” by learning fine finishing techniques that add a touch of sophistication and polish to your projects, making them look better. In this skill-building course you’ll discover Holli’s favourite cast on, fully-fashioned increases and decreases, short row shoulder shaping, seams, weaving in ends, successful pick up and knit tips, buttonholes and more.

Join us for the upcoming Live Lecture Series with Master Weaver Laura Fry! The first Wednesday of every second month, Laura will join us live through Zoom to share a series of lectures on weaving fundamentals she's developed.

2022 Live Lectures Schedule:

• May 4th: A Good Yarn
• July 6th: The Toolbox
• September 7th: Goldilocks Zone: Tension
• November 2nd: Decoding the Code: Drafts and Drafting 

Join in learning eco printing, or contact printing, with Caitlin ffrench! Learn about the different methods of getting dye stuff, either wildcrafted, homegrown or store bought, to make prints of leaves and flowers onto fabric, yarn and knitted items. Whether you’d like to dye onto a sock yarn blank, and then knit, weave or crochet from this, or perhaps print directly onto a finished object you’ve already made, you'll learn all the steps needed to enjoy this beautiful form of natural dyeing!

Go beyond the wrap and turn and explore the incredible world of short rows! In this course, knitwear designer Ruth Nguyen teaches four alternatives to the wrap and turn: yarn over short rows, twin stitch short rows, Japanese short rows and German short rows. Ruth also teaches knitters tips and tricks to substituting short row styles in your projects, and when the W&T is an ideal short choice.

Join us for our first Tapestry Study Group at the School! In this study group, we will work through content from Janna Maria Vallee’s courses:…

Welcome to our first Knitting Study Group: Lace Mastery! This eight week study is broken into two sections for knitters – for the first four weeks, the focus will be on either becoming acquainted with lace knitting as a beginner, or challenging your lace skills with more challenging lace patterns. Then for the final four weeks, we will walk through the steps of designing a triangular lace shawl, working through the Design Your Own Triangular Shawl course taught by Tabetha Hedrick.

 All the content is available now. Join us and follow the week by week guidance at your own pace. Feel free to join us for the first four weeks, the last four weeks or the whole study group period!

Welcome to Magic in the Water: Wet finishing for Weaving. We're going to look at what happens when you take your project from the loom and wet finish it. The final step in bringing your individually interlaced threads into real cloth!

Whether you’ve always wanted to design something, or you just want to put a good stitch pattern to use, this course will walk you through designing your first top-down triangular shawl, step-by-step. 

Brioche has an undeserved reputation in the knitting community for being very difficult and fiddly, especially if you make a mistake. In this course taught by Matt Akers, you'll learn how to confidently fix common mistakes that occur in all of our brioche knitting, so when you come across one of them in the wild, you’ll have the confidence in your own skills to fix them without a second thought.

Taught by Amanda Wood, this course explores pattern and colour, and how these things work together in our handwoven projects. We learn how to approach a new to you yarn – trying different combinations, playing with the sett and learning about how to respond to its particular character. Amanda also covers weaving a gamp, giving us information about how pattern and colour work together, then taking this information to make a project entirely unique to ourselves.

In this course, master weaver Laura Fry shares her techniques for weaving efficiently and ergonomically. Join us to learn her practices for every step of the weaving process, from planning a project to winding a warp to dressing the loom.

Dip your toes into the world of needle felting with our Needle Felting Ornaments course! Taught by Charlotte Lee, this online workshop covers all the basics to get you started in this simple, fun and versatile craft.

Dip your toes into the world of crocheting with our Crochet Basics: from Fundamentals to your First Shawl! Taught by Charlotte Lee, this online workshop covers all of the basics steps of how to start crocheting including swatching for a shawl and troubleshooting!

In this first weaving study group, we will work on getting started with weaving on 4-shaft looms and work towards weaving our first twill gamp. Following this study group, you'll be able to design your own twill project using the yarns you've chosen to work with.

Explore the many ways you can weave twill fabrics using just four shafts, taught by Felicia Lo Wong! The first project in this workshop will be weaving a twill gamp, which is a way for us to experiment with many different variations of twill. And then using the information we learned from making this twill gamp, we’ll design our own project!

The rigid heddle loom is a wonderful tool for weaving small projects like scarves and cowls, and in this course, we'll explore two-colour interlocking projects, to create two very different scarves. Taught by Amanda Wood.

Socks may look complicated to knit, but by the end of this workshop taught by Tabetha Hedrick, you’ll be able to knit a pair of toe-up socks at any gauge, using any yarn.

Develop a functional, working understanding of colour and how it affects your spinning, plus gain more confidence in your abilities to spin colour with intention with Spinning Intentional Colour, taught by Felicia Lo Wong.

To spin better yarns you need to pay attention, be present and mindful while you work with the fibre at hand. Join instructor Kim McKenna in Nuances to Spinning Better Yarns, teaching techniques to take your spinning to the next level and become a better spinner.

A 9-week study group plan to work through the SOS spinning courses and content on a week-by-week basis.

Join in learning to grow your own dye garden and safe wildcrafting natural dye plants with Caitlin ffrench.

Taught by Debby Greenlaw, author of Krokbragd: How to Design and Weave and Krokbragd Patterns, learn about the beautiful Norwegian weaving technique called Krokbragd!

Harness the power of play and explore a world of colour combinations and fibre blending with instructor Diana Twiss in our SOS Colour & Fibre Play course.

Join in the magical world of indigo dyeing with Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors! In this presentation, learn about working with indigo dyes and creating an indigo vat, including tips and troubleshooting help, followed by a Q&A session at the end.

Yarn painting is one of the easiest ways to put natural colour on yarn. The colour choices are endless and the way that colour moves through the skein is fascinating and beautiful to our eye. Learn to handpaint yarns and fibres with natural dyes.

Teaching the essentials of functional and decorative punch needle embroidery, join instructor Sahm Jalbert and learn all of the basic steps to this fun fibre arts craft.

A 10-week study group plan to work through the SOS natural dyeing courses and content on a week-by-week basis.

In this fibre crafting course, instructor Charlotte Lee teaches how to make wet felted fibre projects such as felted soaps, felted brooches, coasters and bookmarks.

You're going to have a wealth of knowledge into everything you need to understand and adjust measurements for the perfect sweater every single time. Follow along with Tabetha Hedrick!

Learn how to use natural dyes with plant and animal based fibres. Instructor Caitlin ffrench guides you through all the steps of natural dyeing – how to scour, mordant and dye your materials (and the importance behind each step), along with the best dyeing practices for your home or studio set-up.  

Taught by Rachel Smith, explore the different classes of wool available to hand-spinners in this extensive workshop. An excellent foundation of learning, particularly for spinners new to spinning different sheep breeds and learning about the various types of wool.

In this course, Felicia teaches you how to develop a functional, working understanding of colour so that you can more confidently choose colours and colour combinations for your crafts. Expand and morph from essential colour theory vocabulary to traditional colour combinations and colour harmonies.  You will to be able to pick up any skein of yarn in any colour and have an idea of what you would combine with it and why. You will to be able to look at a knitting pattern and be able to envision what colours you would use for it and why.

The blending board can be your go-to fiber prep tool above all others and a few inexpensive additions can take this simple tool to the next level.  Learn how-to with Debbie Held

Mitered Square Blankets are soothing projects perfect for beginning knitters. Make-along with Tabetha Hedrick in our Patterned Jewel Blanket workshop.

The focus of this ongoing series will be on working with colour and incorporating handpainted and hand-dyed yarns into our handwoven projects. Specifically, we’ll look…

Learn to knit cables in this online course for beginners with Tabetha Hedrick of SweetGeorgia Yarns.

In this course, we expand on the techniques we learned in our Tapestry Weaving course and learn skills such as weaving vertical pillars and pick and pick.