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 hand painted 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 hand paint 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. By composing swatches into groupings on a bulletin board as you go along, you'll be able to see how your yarns 'read' in knitted form and see your own color language taking shape. A camera will be provided so you can record various compositions as you add more swatches and rearrange combinations, as many of these combinations could eventually be sewn together into a finished piece (such as a bag or scarf, pillow or vest). By the end of the week many participants may even want to trade fibers and yarns and combine their swatch compositions to experiment with a larger palette, keeping a running photo record. On the last day of class we'll take an analytical and celebratory look at all the photos from the week. Everyone will get a disc to take home. Students can bring their own cameras too. Students should know how to knit & spin stable yarn.

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 and dogs, Monk and Pearl in Sewanee, Tennessee.