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October- December 2012
The EVFAC Newsletter
“weaving the threads of the past into New Mexico’s future”
325 Paseo de Oñate, Española, NM 87532 . www.evfac.org . [email protected] . (505)747-3577
Hours: Mon.- Sat. 9 am - 5 pm; Sun. 12 pm - 4 pm
A Note from your Director
Some Things are New at EVFAC!
Fall is just over the horizon here in Española. Kids are back at school, gardens all over
are bearing the fruits and vegetables of harvest time, and soon it will be knitting weather in New Mexico. From years of experience, I know that many of us put our needles
down during the hot summer months, and then pick them back up in September in the
rush to the winter holidays. The staff and a few others will soon be starting on a knitalong. Mountain Colors Yarn (which we carry) was featured in the book “knit, Swirl!”
by Sandra McIver (which we also have). We were smitten. So if you are looking for a
project and like knitting with others, join us for a knit-along starting in the next week
or two. There is no charge for the class; you don’t even have to buy the book. Once a
month we will meet to compare notes, ask questions and challenge each other to finish
the project. If the idea is intriguing, stop in and take a look at the pattern, talk to staff
and join us for some cooler weather knitting fun.
Another new program! You know how it is – you sign up for a class sometimes months
in advance, you’re all excited… then you get word that your class didn’t make minimum
enrollment. Even if you get your money back you are disappointed. Well, it has happened here at EVFAC on occasion. We are working on a number of ways to minimize or
avoid cancelled class unhappiness. Starting this summer we have engaged teachers of
these classes to sometimes offer private lessons to the one or two students in a class.
You will pay a wee bit more for this service and we can’t always get the teachers to
agree, but students who have availed themselves of this opportunity report that they
were thrilled to have the teacher for just one or two students. So, if your class is cancelled, and you are offered the opportunity, count yourself lucky and try it.
Bethe
Churro Weekend
November 2 - 4, 2012
Come Celebrate an entire weekend devoted to the NavajoChurro sheep and its fiber uses. The weekend will include
speakers, vendors, and a selection of Churro-related classes
- from traditional Colcha embroidery to spinning. Here is
just a sampling...
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EVENTS
CALENDAR
OCTOBER
6th /7th Taos Wool Festival
7th
14th
21st
28th
30th
Bring Yarn Over
Spinning Sunday
Quilting in the Valley
Cricket Group
Board Meeting
NOVEMBER
2 -4 Churro Weekend
nd
4th
11th
18th
22nd
25th
27th
th
Bring Yarn Over
Spinning Sunday
Quilting in the Valley
CLOSED
Cricket Group
Board Meeting
DECEMBER
2nd Bring Yarn Over
7th /8th Holiday Fiber Mrkt
9th Spinning Sunday
16th Quilting in the Valley
23rd Cricket Group
25th CLOSED
Congratulations to all
who participated in another
successful Rag Rug Festival!
Colcha Embroidery with Beatrice Maestas Sandoval- embroidery with fine Churro.
 The Long and Short of Churro Wool with Glenna
Dean- spinning with Churro.
As well as, lectures about Churro
Genetics, Churro Classification and
History.
Photo by Kitty Leaken on behalf of NM Women’s Foundation
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Teacher
Feature
Highlighting the talented artists teaching at EVFAC
Gary Houtz has been teaching
tatting for 35 years. Gary and
Randy Houtz, often referred
to as “the Shuttle brothers”,
have been teaching tatting
together since 1996. They have
published three books about
various tatting techniques and
taught across the country.
BIG YARN SALE
OCT. 27th - NOV. 2nd
EVFAC IS
CLEANING HOUSE AGAIN!
We have a large selection of yarns,
fibers and odds & ends at
bargain prices !
Gary and Randy Houtz ,
“The Shuttle Brothers”
In addition, the following regular
inventory items are
Tatting Experts
Describe your artform in one sentence:
Tatting is an old lace making craft that uses a simple knot to
create a multiple of geometric designs.
Has New Mexico’s culture or landscape influenced your
work? If so, how?
Not specific to New Mexico’s culture but probably had lots of
folks that brought the art of tatting with them during settlement.
What do you love about teaching?
Love to share our passion of tatting and pass along a very old art
form that was nearly lost because of the industrial revolution.
How do your classes help nourish fiber arts traditions in
New Mexico?
Keeping a very old art form alive.
What do you love about EVFAC? or How does EVFAC
contribute to your work as an artist and teacher?
Helping to spread the world of tatting.
30% OFF
• Clasgens yarns, except warp
• Brown Sheep yarns
• Children’s knitting, felting and weaving
kits - Great Christmas gifts!
• Assorted knitting needles
• LaLana Yarn
• Assorted Berroco yarns
• Select Plymouth yarns
• Grignasco Italian yarns and more!
Thank you Jeanne Aeby, Terry Meyer,
raffle ticket buyers and the board members
who helped sell all those raffle tickets for the
Lowrider Quilts!
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE SEPTEMBER YARD SALE
DONORS & VOLUNTEERS!
the final tally was
$1,101.49
EVFAC Float Takes 2nd Prize in
Heritage Blanket
Raffle Winner ...
Fiestas de Española Parade!
Olympia Newman
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Please help with our
Holiday Giving Tree
The Sunday quilters group has been very busy
making Christmas stockings. This effort is for
charity with many of the stockings going to
children. The other half of this effort will help
individuals in local nursing and assisted living
centers. EVFAC will have a giving tree
in the store for the entire month of
November for EVFAC members to
help fill the stockings. Bring $5.00
and a few small toiletry items to
fill one or more stockings. The
funds will help our EVFAC
Scholarship Fund, and the
toiletries will go to someone
in a local elder center. Thank
you from all of us!
winter holiday Cookie
Exchange
This year’s member Cookie exchance
will take place on Saturday, Dec. 15th.
Bring a batch of your
favorite cookies to
share with your fellow
EVFAC members
and take home a
plate full of new favorites!
EVFAC HOLIDAY SHOWCASE
NOV. 1ST - DEC. 24TH
Start making those wonderful, artistic, one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted pieces to put in the
Gallery for sale during the months of November & December for the Holiday Showcase.
Please drop off new consignment items by Oct 29th to allow us to decorate & display
everything for a festive Winter holiday season!
Do you know how wonderful the participants in our Sunday Quilting Group are?
Let me tell you...!
If you ask me they’re quilting angels. They have taken it upon themselves to be the Secret Santa’s
for 85 children in the New Mexico foster care system by quilting each & every child a
personalized stocking for the holiday season. I’m told Pat Devries is the mastermind behind
this project, but I know there are many hands and hearts involved. Janice Quinn made the
initial appeal to the group and Pat (who is also the Volunteer Coordinator for Habitat in our
area) took it from there, providing the pattern, the experience, and 99% of the fabric that was
used for the 85 stockings. If you want to know more about this project and meet these fabulous
people, stop by on any 3rd Sunday of the month between 12:30 and 3:30 when the Quilting
interest group meets at EVFAC.
Yvonne Trujillo
Judy Johnson
Pat DeVries & Rosalin Whittet
Josephina Montowine DeVita
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BOARD REPORT
When I started here last fall, the board consisted of five
hearty souls, but three of them were at or near the end
of their terms. Since then, we have added new members
to the board which brings the number right now to 11.
Some of these are our old friends, such as David Salazar
and Helen Finney. Others are brand new to the board
experience. At the end of August, we held a board retreat,
which served as a training and group organizing event
for the board, but also gave board and staff members the
chance to dream a bit. And to put dreams into “done’s”,
we formed committees for the major areas of EVFAC’s
operations. We now have Finance, Fundraising, Education,
Outreach, and Membership Support committees. Each
committee is comprised of one staff member, one or two
board members, and other “members at large” as needed.
Some of our members were obvious choices for some
committees, but if you would like to serve on one of these
committees, please let me, [email protected] or Glenna
Dean, [email protected] know before Sept 27. Many
committees are meeting via email so you don’t have to
drive to get to meetings.
We want your input. This is an active board and they are
“fired up and ready to go”. The center relies on its members
and friends to keep growing and supporting fiber arts in
the area. Thank you for your help.
Bethe
News from our friends at
Tejedoras de Las Trampas
Did you know that Tejedoras de
Las Trampas has moved? We
have a new studio and gallery in
Penasco, and have also changed
our name to TDLT Fiber Artisans.
Our new name is in keeping with
our wider range of interests and
broader membership, which now
cover spinning, dyeing, crochet, knitting, felting, as well as our
first love: weaving in natural fibers and recycled materials.
With all the changes, we have fresh energy and new members
– currently numbering nine and growing. We have ideas for
new projects, and will be looking to partner with local fiber
producers to complete our cycle of animal to product, and
also to offer locally sourced supplies for fiber artists. We’ll be
adding new workshop offerings, and continuing our ‘Walkin-and-Weave’ program. Our activities complement EVFAC’s
programs, providing facilities for people living further away
from Espanola.
We meet informally on the first Wednesday of each month at
11am, May through October, although our studio is open most
days of the week year-round, where you’ll often find one or
more of us at work. We’d love to see you, so do stop by our new
home in Gaucho Blue Gallery.
Location: 14148 State Road 75, Penasco, NM 87553
(in Gaucho Blue Gallery)
Phone: 575.158.1730 (Barbara Ann Downs)
Email:[email protected]
Web:www.GauchoBlue.com/TDLT.html
In Memory ...
EVFAC would like to offer our
condolences to the families of former
member Gloria Weisberg; member &
gallery artist, Carol Hanson and
former board member Ken
Coleman.
Memories of Ken Coleman
(a compilation from our members and Ken’s wife, Ruthe)
Ken Coleman learned to weave while accompanying his
wife Ruthe on an artist workshop retreat. Once smitten,
he went at his craft with gusto. Ken was an active member
of Las Tejadoras, and was a founding member of their
tapestry group. He wove and sold many beautiful scarves
and generously shared many with friends and family. He
loved taking classes. He took classes with Jennifer Moore,
James Kohler, Northern New Mexico College, and many
workshops and assistance from friends. Ken and several
other members of the group entered the HGA Small
Expressions show during the Albuquerque Convergence
in 2010.
Then, there were the llamas! Ken and Ruthe’s son, David
and family were living in Durango and on one of our
trips to see them we ended up purchasing 3 llamas.
They lived with us on Hillside and enchanted us and the
neighborhood with their regal presence looking over
downtown Santa Fe. Ken learned to train them, shear
them, and weave with their beautiful blended wool. He
then was in the llama world with other people who loved
llamas.
As a board member of EVFAC, Ken was the squeaky wheel
to get the city or our neighbors to clean up the rotting
building that leans on ours. He contacted the LANL
Engineering service to prop that building up. Ken was
tireless in this effort, and looked for every opportunity
to help EVFAC. After two years on the board, Ken had to
retire due to poor health. But even up until this spring he
never stopped giving, the last of which was to donate his
weaving yarns when he could no longer weave.
Ken also decided to design and weave a tapestry.
Unfortunately, he didn’t finish it and it is on his loom.
Ruthe is wishing that someone will finish it for her before
she sells his beautiful Macomber loom.
In Ken’s passing, the family asked for memorial gifts
to the Center. We have received $350 to date. If you
would like to honor Ken’s service to EVFAC, we are still
accepting donations and are using these funds for board
development, such as our recent retreat.
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EVFAC Class Schedule
October - December 2012
325 Paseo de Oñate, Española, NM 87532 . www.evfac.org . 505-747-3577 . [email protected]
The two prices listed with the classes are member/nonmember prices. Please sign up early – classes with
insufficient signees are cancelled 2 weeks before the start date. A minimum 25% deposit is required. If a class is
cancelled, or if you notify us more than two weeks before the class starts that you cannot attend, the deposit will be refunded or applied to
another class. At 2 weeks the deposit becomes nonrefundable. Register by phone or mail in the registration form at the end of this section.
OCTOBER
FREE! Free Friday Talk!
TATTING TALK with Gary and Randy Houtz
“The Shuttle Brothers” will give a brief history about tatting
and where it’s headed. They will speak about various tatting
techniques and design capabilities, and demonstrate the
basic knot for tatting. This will be a rare opportunity to learn
from experts about this amazing lace-making craft!
Gary Houtz has been teaching tatting for 35 years. Gary
and Randy Houtz, often referred to as “the Shuttle brothers”,
have been teaching tatting together since 1996. They have
published three books about various tatting techniques and
taught across the country.
Friday, October 12; 6:00 – 7:00 PM
INTRODUCTION TO TATTING BASICS with
Gary and Randy Houtz - $80/100, $10 material fee.
Learn how to tat - an old lace-making craft. It’s a great
hobby that is portable and inexpensive. It fits in your pocket
and can be created anywhere! This class will show you the
basic knot used in tatting that can be used in a multiple of
geometric combinations to create
heirloom lace. This is a rare skill
that’ll you love learning from “the
Shuttle Brothers”- two brothers
who are famous for their tatting
skills.
Gary Houtz has been teaching tatting for 35 years. Gary
and Randy Houtz, often referred to as “the Shuttle brothers”,
have been teaching tatting together since 1996. They have
published three books about various tatting techniques and
taught across the country.
Saturday, October 13; 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
INTENSE BUSINESS WEEKEND with Olimpia
Newman - $90/125
Are you trying to start a fiber-related business?? Or are
you lost on where to go next with your current business
endeavor? This intense weekend seminar will walk you
through the process of identifying
potential markets and customers for your
products via analyzing current trends, and
then show you how they can be integrated
into your new product line. The class will
focus on the development of a product
portfolio that fits your business model and
then Olimpia will teach you how to address the demands of
your customers. Learn how you should develop profitable
products that are desired by your customers!
Olimpia Newman, former Textile Designer with a Master
in Business, has taught marketing at the Vienna Fashion
Institute in Hetzendorf. In parallel, she assisted entrepreneurs
with product, marketing and business development. She has
recently moved to New Mexico and is dedicating her time to
developing local fiber artisans’ businesses.
Saturday & Sunday, October 13 & 14; 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
PICTORIAL TAPESTRY with Robin Reider$300/375, $25 material fee.
Explore tapestry techniques and
color grading using hand-dyed
wool. Using a photograph or picture
of a landscape, the student will
make a cartoon and create their own
pictorial or abstract woven image.
Participants will use prior tapestry
knowledge to learn to follow curved lines as they grade and
combine colors chosen from the instructor’s hand-dyed
collection of wool. Both vertical and horizontal grading
techniques will be taught. The workshop is open to students
with beginning tapestry skills.
A recipient of many weaving awards and exhibitions
throughout the country, Robin finds her inspirations in the
glorious landscape, colors, and shapes in Northern New
Mexico. Having lived in various parts of the world during the
last 10 years, Robin uses an approach to “One World” tapestry,
to find shapes and designs that are shared around the world.
Thursday - Sunday, October 18 – 21; 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
COLOR CHANGE SHELL with Valentina Devine$75/85
Come learn how to knit individual
shell shapes and then place them
to create any kind of garment- this
is an especially handy technique to
use up scrap yarn. By using the rib
pattern stitch and placing it on point
(or diamond like) the garment grows
and grows! This a simple technique
with boundless potential!
Born in Moscow, Russia and growing up in Berlin, Germany,
Valentina has always been knitting. Since the mid-eighties, she
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has been creating one-of-a-kind garments and wall hangings
and teaching a technique called “Creative Knitting.” She is a
contributor to many knitting books and publications, and shows
her art-to-wear garments in different boutiques throughout
the US. Valentina cannot imagine life without knitting and
she hopes to continue inspiring many more knitters here and
abroad.
Saturday, October 20; 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
FREE!
FREE FRIDAY FILM!!
BLUE ALCHEMY: Stories about Indigo
Join us for a free screening of this feature-length
documentary about indigo, a blue dye that has captured the
human imagination for millennia. This film is also about
people who are reviving indigo in projects that are intended
to improve life in their communities, preserve cultural
integrity, improve the environment, and bring beauty to
the world. BLUE ALCHEMY was filmed in India, Japan,
Bangladesh, Mexico, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the USA.
Producer/Director Mary Lance will be on hand.
Friday, October 26th; 6:00 PM
CARDWEAVING with Caroline Rackley - $120/140
EVFAC is excited to host this hands-on exploration of cardweaving: an ancient decorative hand-weaving technique. In
fact, there is a lot of evidence that cardweaving started in the
early Iron Age! Students will learn the history, experience
varied card-weaving set-ups, and they will be able to give it
a try. This is a great class to learn the basics of an important
part of textile history.
Caroline’s textile training began in 1966 with her father John
Rackley, followed by studies with Trude Guermonprez, James
Bassler and Linda Moon-Stumpf. Today, Caroline designs
weavings for painted tapestry, cabinetry, sculpture and fine
furnishings. See her work at http://www.imagenm.com
Making her home in Las Vegas, NM, Beatrice is an accomplished
spinner, dyer, weaver, embroiderer, and tinsmith whose work
has won many prestigious awards. She is passionate about
preserving New Mexico’s fiber traditions, and her warm and
encouraging teaching style has made her a favorite with many
EVFAC students.
Saturday, November 3; 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
THE LONG AND SHORT OF CHURRO WOOL
with Glenna Dean- $68/85
Come learn the basics of preparing and spinning our local
beloved sheep breed- the Navajo-Churro. This class will
teach the differences between the outer and inner coats and
how you work with them. You will explore how with wool
combing and yarn construction you can make Churro yarns
that shine or how by combining
the course outer coat and fine
inner coat you can make a fiber
that spins like wire and wears
like iron. This is a great class for
learning an important part of
New Mexico fiber history.
Recently retired from the Northern Rio Grande National
Heritage Area, Glenna Dean holds degrees in archaeology and
botany and specializes in archaeobotany, the study of human
interaction with plants, pollen grains, basketry, sandals, and
other plant material. She recently became EVFAC’s Board
President and she is a talented spinner, knitter and weaver,
specializing in ancient techniques and having fun!
Sunday, November 4; 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
COLOR AND DESIGN FOR TAPESTRY WEAVERS
with Cornelia Theimer Gardella- $400/$450, $25
material fee.
(This class expands on color and design topics of Cornelia’s
previous class at EVFAC.) This class will explore color
and design principles that will help students create more
Saturday, October 27th; 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM and
compelling and engaging tapestries. The color section will
Sunday, October 28th; 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
focus on Josef Alber’s color theory and the interaction of
color, while the design side of the class will deal with shapes,
NOVEMBER
form and the use of grids. For the first three days of the class,
students will be introduced to a new topic and will be given
COLCHA EMBROIDERY with Beatrice Maestas
color and design exercises to complete on paper. Then the
Sandoval - $68/85
weaving part of this class will include dressing the loom and
Join us at EVFAC to learn the basic
weaving a sampler or a small tapestry as a study for a larger
colcha stitch and absorb the history
piece. The practical weaving part of the course will be tailored
of this uniquely New Mexican fiber
to each student’s previous knowledge and all necessary
art tradition from one of its master
tapestry techniques will be covered. Students are strongly
practitioners. Sabanilla labrada, or
encouraged to bring tapestry ideas and designs to class and
wool-on-wool colcha embroidery
are welcome to work on their own designs during class time.
work, is distinct because it may be one
Cornelia Theimer Gardella weaves abstract tapestries using her
of the few textiles developed in New
own hand-dyed wool. Born, raised and educated in Germany,
Mexico during the Spanish colonial
period. Yarns for class are supplied, and you can purchase Cornelia came to New Mexico in 2005 to study traditional
colcha yarn and sabanilla for a future project at EVFAC. Fiber Arts at NNMC under Karen Martinez and contemporary
tapestry with James Koehler. Together with James Koehler and
Students will need to purchase practice cloth (Osnaburg) at Walmart.
Rebecca Mezoff, she was part of the international tapestry
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exhibition Interwoven Traditions: New Mexico and Bauhaus
which was shown in Albuquerque and Erfurt, Germany in
2010. She teaches at Ghost Ranch and EVFAC. Be inspired at
www.corneliatheimer.com.
Wednesday to Sunday, November 7 - 11;
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
PINE NEEDLE BASKETS with Irene Smith- $68/85,
$15 material fee.
Irene Smith returns to EVFAC to teach some exciting coiled
basket techniques! Using long leaf pine needle and raffia
students will make a traditional coiled basket “start”, then
learn how to do increasing shaping, and explore various
stitches to create a small pine needle basket. Spend a day
making something useful and beautiful!
Irene has been making baskets and fiber vessels for over 30
years, and has many years’ experience in restoring Native
American baskets for galleries and private collectors. Irene
maintains Metier, her fiber studio and gallery in Dixon, NM.
Since 1989 she has participated in the Dixon Studio Tour,
exhibiting baskets and weaving. See more of Irene’s work at
www.metierweaving.com.
Saturday, November 10th; 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
TRADITIONAL SCRAP DOLLS with Nadina
Barnes- $85/100
Dollmaking is easy with Nadina by your side! Come
learn the tricks of the trade for cloth dollmaking with her
and make a traditional rag doll in one day. There will be
a variety of patterns to choose
from and students are welcome to
bring fabrics they love and family
momentos to incorporate into their
dolls. Imagine grandma’s doily
having a new life as a beautiful doll
skirt. This is guaranteed to be a fun
class!
Nadina Barnes began sewing doll clothing at age 8 and never
stopped … she now has 45 years of creative sewing experience!
Nadina has also compiled extensive experience teaching in
both middle and elementary schools, as well as working with
adults and children in camps and in workshops. Her dolls are a
well-loved addition to the EVFAC gallery.
Saturday, November 17; 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
THE BEAD KNITTED SCARF: A Beginner’s Project
with Bethe Orrell – $40/50, $15 materials fee.
Bethe is the Executive Director of EVFAC. She
is a skilled knitter, spinner and weaver. She is a
gifted instructor in fiber arts, with a repertoire
including beads in fiber, dyeing, felting and
dressmaking. Her weaving is primarily
fabric for clothing, but she has studied
overshot techniques and other
antiquarian weave structures for
household linens and table ware.
2 Saturdays: November 17 &
December 1; 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
DECEMBER
FOUR OUNCE FELTED HAT with Libby
Casarez- $80/110, $45 material fee.
This fun and easy class will take students through all the
necessary steps to make a beautiful hand felted hat with only
4 oz of wool! Libby will start with preparing the fiber, and
move through felting, fulling, & shrinking. Students will take
home a full set of instructions, tips, a resist pattern, and a
felted hat with the hat form. **The hat will be wet and must
dry before adding finishing touches! Please consider signing
up for Felted Hat Finishing on December 8 to finish your
new hat. Optional brim and sweatband
finishing kits will be available for sale
($10) after class.
Libby Casarez is a fiber enthusiast
creating purses, hats, scarves, and
knitted & crocheted items for sale in
New Mexico and Texas. She balances a
focused attention to detail with artistic
interpretation in her work, pushing her
students to create their own experience
from what they learn with her and others.
Saturday, December 1st; 12:00 – 4:00 PM
CURVES IN TAPESTRY with Elizabeth Buckley$350/435, $25 material fee.
Curves present unique technical challenges in tapestry.
In this intermediate-level workshop
we will explore several approaches to
weaving curves as shapes, as well as
lines. Participants can expect to become
more familiar with empty and full warps,
eccentric wefts, and shading techniques
to depict shallow or steep curves,
organic shapes, and meandering lines.
This workshop will incorporate the use
of shape-building and how to design
weavable curves in tapestry, working
from either the front or the back.
Elizabeth Buckley is a well-known weaver with over 30 years
experience teaching. She is the owner of Heritage Tapestries in
Albuquerque and a published authority on tapestry weaving.
Many students learn to knit but soon give it up because- well
– it’s only a boring scarf. To fall in love with knitting, students
need to make something they can show off and be proud of.
This scarf is stunning and looks intricate and complex, but a
beginning knitter can make it! You will learn to cast on, knit,
load and set beads, edge stitch artistry, and other techniques
that will improve your scarf and your next knitted project.
You can purchase all necessary supplies at the time of the
class.
Saturday toTuesday, December1 - 4; 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
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FELT HAT FINISHING with Libby Casarez, $80/100,
$25 material fee.
JANUARY (preview)
This is a follow-up class to the Four Ounce Felted Hat on
June 23. Make your gorgeous felted hat into a unique piece
of wearable art work by learning how to give it that finished
look with needle felted flowers or any other lovely design idea.
Libby will walk you through finishing techniques, supporting
your design ideas and sending you home with even more
inspiration for your next hat. Learn how to properly apply
grosgrain ribbon around the edging and add wire to preserve
the structure of your hat. Bring any leftover fiber to use for
filling in the light areas as well. The materials fee includes
the wire, grosgrain ribbon and sweatband pieces. Available
colors for detailing will vary.
Libby Casarez is a fiber enthusiast creating purses, hats, scarves,
and knitted & crocheted items for sale in New Mexico and
Texas. She balances a focused attention to detail with artistic
interpretation in her work, pushing her students to create their
own experience from what they learn with her and others.
EXPLORING OVERSHOT WEAVING with Bethe
Orrell- $140/160
Sunday, December 16th; 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Saturday to Monday, January 26-28; 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
In this intermediate class students
will learn how to weave using this
traditional technique on a fourharness loom. Bethe will teach how
overshot threading is structured
and how to create overshot by using
a tabby shot between each pattern
shot. As students weave, they will
learn how to manage a complex
pattern repeat and understand the
structure. Overshot makes very
nice pillows, runners, or purses and bags. Before class,
students will wind warp and have it mounted on loom ready
to thread heddles.
Bethe is the Executive Director of EVFAC. She is a skilled
knitter, spinner and weaver. She is a gifted instructor in fiber
Saturday, December 8; 12:00 – 4:00 PM
arts, with a repertoire including beads in fiber, dyeing, felting
WEAVING BASICS with Beatrice Maestas Sandoval- and dressmaking. Her weaving is primarily fabric for clothing,
but she has studied overshot techniques and other antiquarian
$250/275
Learn traditional weaving skills from a master New Mexican weave structures for household linens and table ware.
fiber artist. Covering loom construction, dressing the loom Wednesday to Friday, January 7 - 9; 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
and weaving, students will create two projects: a small Rio
Grande–style piece and a jerga-type twill piece. Take this CHIMAYO-STYLE TAPESTRY with Lisa Trujillo –
class if you have never woven, or as a refresher course if you $200/250, materials extra.
Begun in the early years of the twentieth century, the
are rusty and would like a review.
Chimayo style is basically two stripes and a center design.
Making her home in Las Vegas, NM, Beatrice is an accomplished
spinner, dyer, weaver, embroiderer, and tinsmith whose work This class is an opportunity to absorb the basics of this local
has won many prestigious awards. She is passionate about New Mexican weaving tradition from a master practitioner.
preserving New Mexico’s fiber traditions, and her warm and Students will learn how to combine angles and forms to create
this unique form of woven expression.
encouraging teaching style has made her a favorite with many
Students need to warp a Rio Grande
EVFAC students
loom prior to the class (please call
2 weekends:
EVFAC for warp specifications)
Saturday & Sunday, December 8 - 9 & 15 - 16;
and will work with Clasgen’s 4-ply
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
(EVFAC has a wide color variety).
Ideally, students should have enough
CREATE YOUR OWN IKAT SCARF with Bethe Orrellweaving experience to control edges
$45/60, $20 material fee.
well in weft-faced weave, but confident
This class is all about fun and ikat! Bethe wanted to make it
students with only limited weaving
simple so this class will use dyes that do not need to be set to
experience should also consider taking
learn three different dyeing techniques. Students will explore
this class.
clamp resist, stitch and tie, and pole wrapping methods to
Lisa’s work has received numerous
make a silk ikat scarf. The product from this class would
awards at Spanish Market and other venues and is part of
make a lovely handmade gift!
collections around the world. She and her husband, Irvin,
Bethe is the Executive Director of EVFAC. She is a skilled
have dedicated much of their lives to weaving, building their
knitter, spinner and weaver. She is a gifted instructor in fiber
successful business, Centinela Traditional Arts in Chimayo,
arts, with a repertoire including beads in fiber, dyeing, felting
and to the preservation of traditional fiber arts in New Mexico.
and dressmaking. Her weaving is primarily fabric for clothing,
Learn more about Lisa and see some of her weavings at www.
but she has studied overshot techniques and other antiquarian
chimayoweavers.com.
weave structures for household linens and table ware.
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FEBRUARY (preview)
class you will learn traditional design making using wax
and stitching with raffia. This will be a packed three days of
BATEMAN’S MULTIPLE TABBY WEAVES with
educational and cultural experience! If you love indigo- this
Melodie Usher- $120/150, $8 material fee.
class is a must!
This workshop explores the seldom used Multiple Tabby Gasali Adeyemo is a Nigerian artist living in Santa Fe. He
Weave structure that creates very complex looking weaves trained at the Nike Center for Arts and Culture in Africa for six
using only four to eight shafts. In this two day round robin years and he has exhibited work all over the world.
workshop you will recreate Dr. Bateman’s samples and in short
Friday to Sunday, February 15- 17; 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
lectures learn how he manipulated tabby weave structure to
create very intricate weaves. Each participant will arrive to
MARCH (preview)
class with a pre-warped loom from an assigned draft. Each
draft will have several treadling sequences so you will leave EXPLORING ITTEN’S COLOR STAR IN THE DYE
this class with many different samples to inspire your future STUDIO with Cornelia Theimer Gardella- $275/350,
weaving projects. Most of the samples will be woven on four $10 material fee.
shafts but six and eight shaft samples will also be included.
This dye class uses Itten’s Color Star as a compass for
Melodie Usher has been working toward becoming a weaver understanding color interactions. Johannes Itten taught
her entire life. Melodie majored in Interior Design at Purdue as the Bauhaus where he developed his color and design
University & ran her own Interior Designer business in Ohio. theories. His color star and the seven color contrasts are
Life changed completely for Melodie when she inherited her an essential part of his teachings. In this workshop we will
Grandmother-in-Law’s loom, a 4- shaft Bexell Cranbrook develop formulas and dye samples based on Itten’s color star
loom built in the late 1930’s. Once the first warp was on she using wool and Lanaset dyes. We will explore color theory
found her true passion in life. In September of 2010 Melodie
through practical experimentation with the color contrasts
received her Certificate of Excellence in Weaving, Level I from
developed by Itten and gain insight into color relationships
the Handweaver’s Guild of America.
by creating the desired colors in the dye studio. Students will
Saturday & Sunday, February 9- 10; 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM receive samples of all colors dyed in this class which can serve
as the basis for future experimentation.
TRADITIONAL YORUBA BATIK AND TIE-DYE
Cornelia Theimer Gardella weaves abstract tapestries using her
with Gasali Adeyemo - $200/250, $25 material fee.
Indigo has been used as a dye own hand-dyed wool. Born, raised and educated in Germany,
stuff in Africa for over 2000 Cornelia came to New Mexico in 2005 to study traditional
Fiber Arts at NNMC under Karen Martinez and contemporary
years and now here’s your chance tapestry with James Koehler. Together with James Koehler and
to learn about two techniques of Rebecca Mezoff, she was part of the international tapestry
indigo dyeing with artist Gasali exhibition Interwoven Traditions: New Mexico and Bauhaus
Adeyemo. Gasali teaches the which was shown in Albuquerque and Erfurt, Germany in
techniques of a specific people 2010. Be inspired at www.corneliatheimer.com.
in Nigeria- the Yoruba. In this Friday to Saturday, March 1 -3; 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Class Registration and Membership form
The two prices listed for classes are member/nonmember prices. Please
sign up early, classes with insufficient signees are cancelled 2 weeks
before the start date. A minimum 25% deposit is required. If a class is
cancelled, or if you cancel more than two weeks before the class starts, the
deposit will be refunded. At 2 weeks the deposit becomes non-refundable.
MEMBERSHIP LEVELS
Name
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Address
City
State
Phone
Email
Zip
q Individual - $50 q Family - $65 q Youth - $20
q Working - $20 plus 36 hours/year
q Organization - $75
q Supporter - $100 q Sponsor - $250 q Benefactor - $500+
Class(es)
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The Española Valley Fiber Arts Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation.
Contributions beyond the basic membership of $50 for individuals or $65
for families are tax-deductible.
or
EVFAC class prices are kept low to benefit a broad constituency. If you
would like to support our educational programs, we encourage you to
add a tax-deductible contribution to your class fee. If you prefer, you may
donate online at www.evfac.org.
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Send to Española Valley Fiber Arts Center, 325 Paseo de Oñate, Española, NM 87532 or call: 505-747-3577 or email: [email protected]
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EVFAC EVENTS
TAOS WOOL FESTIVAL - October 1-10, 2012
Visit EVFAC’s booth at the Taos Wool Festival, Oct 6 & 7!
EE Outstanding regional wool market, featuring
juried vendors displaying their wool fiber, yarns,
and artistic creations.
EE Fiber Critters Showcase – expect to see sheep,
alpacas, goats, angora rabbits, and more!
EE Demonstrations of shearing, spinning, dyeing,
and other wool related skills.
EE Competitions - see the best in hand spinning, wool
and fleece, and finished products.
EE Food vendors, featuring lamb delicacies, goat cheeses,
and other delicious choices.
www.TaosWoolFestival.org
CHURRO WEEkend- November 2 - 4, 2012
Come Celebrate an entire weekend devoted to the
Navajo-Churro sheep and its fiber uses. The weekend
will include speakers, vendors, and a selection of
Churro-related classes - from traditional Colcha
embroidery to Spinning!
FREE!
Sunday Interest Groups
Drop by anytime between
12:30 PM—3:30 PM
Bring Yarn Over, Knit Together with Bethe
Back by popular demand, join us for a relaxed knitting circle at
your favorite fiber shop. Bethe, our Executive Director, is ready
to help you solve your toughest problems, especially with
beading and sock knitting.
First Sundays: Oct. 7, Nov. 4, Dec. 2
Spinning Sunday with Glenna Dean
A talented spinner, Glenna will share her vast knowledge of
fiber and spinning with a fun and friendly spinning group.
Meet other spinners, bring your questions and take home new
tips and techniques. Beginners welcome!
Second Sundays: Oct. 14, Nov. 11, Dec. 9
Quilting in the Valley with Terry Meyer
Stuck on a quilt? Come brainstorm with us! Terry Meyer, owner
of Wild Wind Quilting, will be gathering quilters together to
teach each other new techniques, share experience and ideas,
and meet a network of talented quilters.
Third Sundays: Oct. 21, Nov. 18, Dec. 16
Cricket Weaving with Trish Spillman
Bring your Cricket and enjoy the company of other weavers,
led by EVFAC Founder and Board President Trish. Be inspired
by Trish’s enthusiasm and creativity while working on your
projects under her careful eye.
Fourth Sundays: Oct. 28, Nov. 25, Dec. 23
Holiday FIBER MARKET
December 7 & 8, 2012
Friday 12:00-7:00pm & Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm
Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM
Other Fiber Events
ONGOING LEARNING AT EVFAC
WALK IN AND WEAVE
For those who want to make a 26” x 36” rag
rug, but have no experience in weaving. Staff
will get you started. Cost is $25 plus materials.
Want a longer rug? Just $1 per inch for the
additional length. Please call 505- 747-3577 to
reserve a time.
Private Lessons
If you don’t see the class you were looking for, at
the time that is right for you...consider arranging
a private lesson. We can also arrange a specially
designed class for your small group! Call Karen at
505-747-3577 for more details.
Woven Stories: Weaving Traditions of Northern
New Mexico will be screened on Saturday, Oct 6th
at 6:00pm during the Taos Wool Festival at the Taos
Community Auditorium.
If you want your own copy of the DVD, EVFAC will
be selling them in the Gallery.
Where Exactly Is EVFAC?
EVFAC doesn’t show up on GPS or Google Maps
correctly, have you noticed? If you’re traveling
between Santa Fe and Taos on highways 285/84
and 68, you can follow the NM State-issued brown signs that say
Española Plaza to know when to turn. Call if you need to!
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GOODS & SERVICES
Rio Grande Cadillac Loom.This loom
is a tapestry and rug weaver’s dream!
60” weaving width, built of solid hard
rock maple. Two additional treadles
have been added to more comfortably
weave wider pieces. Excellent condition
and available for pickup in Taos, NM.
$4,750. For more information and to
view, please call 575-758-0095
WANTED
Marketing Consultant
Olimpia Newman, offers one-on-one consulting sessions that
will help you develop marketable products and grow your sales.
Call 505-377-8347 for a free consultation.
Inn at the Delta - 20% off for EVFAC students!
ocho(8) guesthouse - beautiful guesthouse in La Puebla, NM on the
way to the high road next to Chimayo. $38/night for EVFAC students!
www.ocho8guesthouse.com
SADDLE BLANKET WEAVERS: Equine Oasis is looking for
a weaver to make 8-12 38”x36” saddle blankets — Contact Tim
Bauer at Equine Oasis, 303-841-6770.
STITCHES FROM THE HEART - a non-profit which donates
knit, crocheted, and quilted items for babies and young children
to hospitals across the US needs volunteer stitchers to make baby
hats, blankets, booties, etc. To learn more, contact Barbara at 575770-2867
THANK YOU!
We appreciate the support of all our Donors!
EVFAC received an abundance of support & donations
during June, July and August. We would like to thank
FOR SALE
those who have donated goods, such as looms, yarn,
handmade items, books, and more: Jeanne Aeby,
Maryna Anatska, M. Susan Barger, Elena Benton, Mary
Bradshaw, Louella Dove, Pat Farr, Colleen Ferguson,
Rosalie Fernandez, Phillip Ford, Guru Nam Khalsa, Hari
Khalsa, Susan Lee-Bechtold, Sandra Lohsen, Roxanne
Maki, Donna Martin, Gloria Padilla, Jan Perelson, Liz
Pinkerton, Janice Quinn, Doris & Ron Rosen, Michelle
Rudy, Sharon White and Marilyn Whitney
48” 4-Harness Cranbrook Loom- $2,500 Call Donna at 505-466-1064.
For monetary donations, much thanks to Herbert
Anhaltzer, Karen & Raphiel Benjamin, Glenna Dean,
Beverly Elliot, Helen Finney, Jaqueline Marks, Judith
Reynolds, Michelle Rudy, Erika Schwender,Trish Spillman,
Joel Stein, Judy Sutton & Melody Usher.
In addition, we would like to give special acknowledgment
to those members who joined or renewed during those
months at levels beyond basic membership. Supporters:
4-Harness LeClerc Loom in great condition with bench and many
extra weaving materials (2-3 large tubs of wool, spinners, winders, Susan Hart & Toni Wanic.
16 Gourds- 6 bushel basket, 9” diameter & other shapes. 2 Gourd
Craft books. Various low prices. Contact Carla at 505-747-3364.
tools & books). $900. For more information, please call Barbara at
505-660-5692.
We love our Volunteers who make it all possible!
Thank you to Marie Absalon, Cecilia Burciaga, Evelyn
Antique Norwegian Cottage Spinning Wheel- 24”wheel, double Campbell, Winky Cherry, Dolores Garcia, Terry Meyer,
drive w/3 bobbins, built-in lazy kate for 2 bobbins. $325. Contact Josephine Montowine-DeVita, Gloria Padilla & Windsong.
Carla at 505-747-3364.
(If we’ve forgotten anyone– call and tell us.We appreciate you too
much to bear missing our chance to thank you!)
This project is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the
Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
6-Harness Cranbrook Loom. 60” weaving width, extra reeds
included. $1,000. For more information call 505-747-3577.
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Española Valley Fiber Arts Center
325 Paseo de Oñate
Española, NM 87532
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EVFAC BOARD
EVFAC YEARLY MEMBERSHIP
Benefits include 20% off yarn, most equipment, books,
and class fees; free ads in newsletter; lending library use;
equipment rentals; participation in EVFAC shows, sales,
and the consignment gallery.
Membership levels
Individual: $50
Individual Working: $20 + 36 hours per year
Youth: $20
Family: $65
REMINDER - Members, this is your
Organization: $75 newsletter. You are welcome to submit
news or items of interest as well as items
Supporter: $100
for sale. The deadline for submissions is the
Sponsor: $250
FIRST FRIDAY of the last month covered
Bebefactor: $500
by the previous newsletter – please send
ads and articles for the Jan/March 2013
newsletter by Dec 7.
Glenna Dean, President
Kathy Konecki, Vice-President
Leigh Alexander, Secretary
Helen Finney, Treasurer
Evelyn Campbell
Doreen Gunkel
Terry Meyer
Kristen Rowley
David Salazar
Trish Spillman
Windsong
EVFAC STAFF
Bethe Orrell, Executive Director
Linda Chickos, Purchasing
Andrea Garcia, Administration
Karen Schumacher, Education Coordinator
Jennifer Muldoon, Media/Marketing Coordinator
EVFAC HOURS
Monday - Saturday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sundays
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Interest Group Meetings
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm