Dyeing, Spinning & Knitting
- Lynne Vogel

Spinning and swatching to develop your personal color language is a goal of this workshop. You'll completely immerse yourself in color and yarn design and learn how to use a variety of color spinning techniques to turn handpainted rovings into a wide array of unique yarns. Students will be encouraged to recognize and develop their own personal color aesthetic as they design their own yarns and handpaint their own fiber, using low water cold pour techniques. You'll spin and swatch your dye experiments to understand more about the yarn design process. We'll cover foundation singles for art yarn techniques plus we'll combine those singles in several complex finished art yarns over the course of the week. Bring your needles and hooks so that you can see how your yarns look as fabric.

LYNNE VOGEL's energetic creativity is a delightful contrast to her warm, laid-back personality and teaching style. A talented dyer, spinner, knitter, Lynne is the author of The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook and has contributed to articles in both Threads and Spin Off magazines. Her innovative designs, successfully incorporating brilliantly-dyed fiber in unique color-ways, have won several distinguished prizes in competition. Her latest book, Twisted Sisters Knit a Sweater, came out in Fall 2007. Lynne lives with her husband, James, in Sewanee, Tennessee.