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.
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Taught by Amanda Wood, this course explores pattern and colour, and how these things work together in our projects. We learn how to approach a new yarn – trying different combinations, playing with sett, learning to respond to its particular character. Amanda also covers weaving a gamp, taking this information to design a project unique to ourselves.
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Learn how to confidently fix common mistakes that occur in all of our brioche knitting, so that 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.
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Learn about what wet finishing is and the various ways to apply the process to your handwoven projects. The final step in bringing your individually interlaced threads into real cloth, we’ll look at how to full things, brushing a nap, working with different fibres, and explore how changes in your project can affect the end product.
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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.
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Led by Tabetha Hedrick, this eight-week study group is broken into two sections for knitters – term A, four weeks of focus on either becoming acquainted with lace knitting as a beginner, or for challenging yourself in your lace knitting. Following that,  term B includes four weeks of going through the process of designing your own triangular lace shawl.
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In this course, Caitlin ffrench teaches the different methods of getting dye stuff, either wildcrafted, homegrown or store bought, to make prints onto fabric, yarn or knitted items. Learn all the steps needed to enjoy the beauty of natural dyeing in this form – making prints of shapes, leaves and flowers!
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Elevate your knits from “homemade” to “hand knit” by learning fine finishing techniques that add a touch of sophistication and polish to your projects. Learn 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. 
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Join Canadian Master Weaver Laura Fry as she talks about the fundamentals of how fibre composition and construction make a different yarn. Originally presented as a live lecture, the replay is now available for watching.
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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).
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Join us for our first Tapestry Study Group at the School! Running from May 12 to June 9, this study group will work through content from Janna Maria Vallee's courses: Fundamentals of Tapestry, Stripes in Tapestry and Techniques in Tapestry, designing and working the different techniques into a set of 4 coasters.
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Join Canadian Master Weaver Laura Fry as she talks about essential weaving equipment, explaining the loom mechanics for different types of looms and tools that increase weaving efficiency and quality. Originally presented as a live lecture, the replay is now available for watching.
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Starting from the very basics—from setting up a dye space and mixing dye stock solutions to finishing up some hand-dyed yarns and fibres—dye some magic with us at this four-week study group! Originally running from July 7 to August 4, 2022, this content will continue to remain available for SOS Members to work through anytime!
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Walk through each step of Debbie Held's supported spindling process and alleviate any mystery surrounding the use of these spindles, demonstrating just how portable and spinning-friendly they are! The supported spindle has a unique beauty to it, not only in the finished yarn but in the fluid movements of spinning that yarn.
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Running from August 4th to August 26th, this weaving 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 own woven cloth.
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Developed in response to requests from the SOS community curious about how to choose and scour a fleece, learn about the difference between woollen and worsted yarn, equipment for carding and combing clean scoured fibre, how to prepare combed sliver and roving, carded roving and rolags, and how to finish your handspun.
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This will be a live Zoom lecture with Laura. 
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In post-production.

In pre-production.

In post-production.

This will be a live Zoom lecture with Laura. 
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In post-production.

In post-production.

In pre-production.

This will be a live Zoom lecture with Laura. 
Learn more here »

In pre-production.

In post-production.

In pre-production.

In pre-production.