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Fran Biel has been kitting since college, and loves all types of stitch and colorwork techniques. She’s been teaching technique-based classes for all knitting levels at Stash (in Corvallis), including courses on Fair Isle knitting and cabling. When not knitting, she does bacteriology research at OSU.
Workshops Offered:
Get Your Cable On, Sunday, June 23, 9am-noon
Diane Coon has been raising and showing Angora goats for over 30 years. She is an accomplished fiber artist and works from her farm to supply washed, dyed and processed mohair products to customers throughout the United States and Canada.
Workshops Offered:
Working with Mohair: Washing Angora Fleece, Friday, June 21, 2-5pm
Angela Davis is a Craft Yarn Council of America certified hand-knitting instructor and popular guest teacher at yarn shops and conferences (including the over-the-top Sock Summit 2009). She has taught knitting on European and Japanese tour buses and even started a knitting-for-charity club at an inner-city high school in Los Angeles. Angela has also knitted props for the Mad Men television show. The joy of sharing the skill with others inspires Angela to continue learning and teaching both locally and internationally.
Workshops Offered:
Knittin’ Mittens on Two Circular Needles, Saturday, June 22, 9am-noon
Fair Isle Knitting and Steeking, Saturday, June 22, 1-5pm Class filled
Not Just For Grannies or Squares! Sunday, June 23, 9am-noon
Carin Engen is an award winning fiber artist and workshop instructor who has been using her experimental, playful nature to explore felting and color seriously since 1992. She maintains a studio, The Tin Thimble, in Garberville, California, where she produces a line of hand dyed wool fabric and fiber as well as her felt art. She is an enthusiastic teacher who encourages innovation in her students’ work. A gallery of her work is available at Artfully Felt and sells supplies on Etsy at Carin Engen Fiber Arts.
Workshops Offered:
Holes and Ruffles: a Lightweight Wool Scarf, Friday, June 21, 1-5pm Class filled
Felted Boots, Saturday, June 22, 9am-noon and 1-4pm Class & Wait List Filled
Beyond the Basics of Nuno Felting, Sunday, June 23, 8:30am-12:30pm
Felted Hat, Sunday, June 23, 1-4pm Class filled
Nancy Finn has been working with color and textiles most of her life, and in 1969 she graduated with a BA in Textiles and Clothing. In 1990 she started the part of her business that focused on dyeing and named it Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks. Through this work, Nancy developed these workshops so that others can explore 
their own color stories.
Workshops Offered:
Painted Roving with Greener Shades Dyes, Saturday, June 22, 9am-noon and 1-4pm
Amelia Garripoli purchased a house that came with two llamas in 2001. Her life has been a whirlwind of fiber pursuits since, publishing "Productive Spindling" in 2009, and many monographs and articles on fiber arts, in print and on her blog www.askthebellwether.com. In 2012, Amelia opened her Port Ludlow, Washington studio where she explores fiber and holds weekend workshops.
Workshops Offered:
Fiber Processing without Tools, Sunday, June 23, 9am-noon
Fourteen Fringes, Sunday, June 23, 1-4pm
Ilisha Helfman is the inventor of Jazzknitting and the author of two books: "Jazzknitting, an Introduction" and "Butterfly Knitting, Adventures in Simultaneous Symmetry." Ilisha
is a graduate of Smith College and the Yale University School of Design.
Ilisha is “Jazzknitter” on Ravelry where you can see lots of pictures.
Workshops Offered:
Spinning on an Airplane—Turkish Spindling Sunday, June 23, 9am-noon, Class filled
The Chroma Hat Sunday, June 23, 1-4pm
Margaret Howard owns and operates Tawanda Farms in northern California. Prior to shepherding her Romney flock, she taught the sciences and math in Los Angeles inner city high schools. After writing "A Breeder’s Guide to Recessive Color in Romney Sheep," she presented her work to two seminar groups at Rhinebeck, New York in 2008. At present, she is writing a second book that compares and contrasts color pattern expression within six different sheep breeds.
Workshop Offered:
A Survey of Sheep Color Pattern Genetics, Friday, June 21, 1-4pm
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Galina A. Khmeleva, owner of Skaska Designs and author of "Gossamer Webs: The History and Techniques of Orenburg Lace Shawls" and "Gossamer Webs: The Design Collection," has earned the reputation as one of the most respected and knowledgeable lace knitting instructors in the country. Galina is a former clothing and costume designer who worked with the ‘aristocracy’ of St. Petersburg, Russia’s music and theater society, as well as being the principal student to Orenburg’s lace knitting elite. Galina brings the classic style and revered traditional knitting techniques of Russian lace to her classes.
Workshops Offered:
Russian-Style Continental Knitting Friday, June 21, 1-4pm
Class filled
Grafting with a Russian Twist & More! Saturday, June 22, 1-4pm
Class filled
Spinning for Lace Knitting, Sunday, June 23, 9am-noon, 1-4pm
Janel Laidman spins, knits and dreams in beautiful Eugene, Oregon. She is the author of two sock knitting books and the editor of "The Sock Report" and "Skein Theory" knitting magazines. She has taught at SOAR, Madrona, Stitches, and Vogue Knitting Live, among others. When Janel is not busy spinning and knitting, she enjoys hiking and exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
Workshops Offered:
Color Tricks in Spinning, Friday, June 21, 9am-noon and 1-4pm
Class filled
Woody Lane is a nationally known livestock nutritionist from Roseburg, Oregon. He owns and operates an independent consulting firm "Lane Livestock Services,” teaches courses in forages and livestock nutrition to ranchers in the area, facilitates three forage study groups for farmers, and writes a popular monthly column "From the Feed Trough...” for The Shepherd magazine. Woody is a popular speaker across the United States and Canada, and over the past few years, has helped develop the well-known SID Sheep Production Handbook. Woody earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and in the 1980s was the Sheep Extension Specialist for the University of Wisconsin. He has lived in Oregon since 1990.
Workshop Offered:
How to Grow Good Pastures and Graze Them Properly, Saturday, June 22, 12:30-4:30pm
Judith MacKenziehas spun, woven and knit for many years. Her love of textiles has led her to many places, including Peru and Turkey. She has taught throughout North America and Europe. Judith is a frequent contributor to Spin•Off, Handwoven, Interweave Knits and PieceWork.
She has six DVDs, including the new “Fleece in Your Hands.” Judith has published two books on spinning, "Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning" and "The Intentional Spinner." She lives happily ever after on the wild northwest coast of America.
Workshops Offered:
Wool Friends: Blending for Divine Yarns, Saturday, June 22 2-5pm
Class & Wait List filled
Designing Yarns with Luster Longwools, Sunday, June 23, 9am-noon
Class & Wait List filled
Dyeing Natural Colored Fleece, Sunday, June 23, 1pm-4 pm
Class & Wait List filled
Diane McKinnon is an avid weaver and spinner who especially enjoys seeing her students discover their own potential as they have fun with fibers. Her first loom was a rigid heddle loom that she bought while she was still in high school. Diane went on to study weaving during college. She did additional color, textile, and weaving studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Attending conference classes, working for two years in a weaving shop, and doing production weaving have increased her skills and knowledge over the years.
Diane is an active member of the Portland Handweavers’ Guild. She teaches at The Black Sheep Gathering, Northwest Regional Spinners Association Annual Conference, Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival, and holds regular fiber classes in the Thistle Patch Fiber Studio at her home. Diane is an enthusiastic spinner as well and she uses her collection of looms to weave her special handspun yarns into unique hand-woven items. She especially enjoys sharing the wonders of weaving with beginning weavers.
Workshop Offered:
Beginning Rigid Heddle Loom Saturday, June 22, 9am-noon and 1-4pm
Ruth Northrup will not be able to attend BSG 2013.
Workshops Offered:
Graduated Shades from a Single Pot, Friday, June 21, 9am-noon and 1-4pm *** Class Cancelled ***
Drafting 201, Saturday, June 22, 9am-1pm
*** Class Cancelled ***
Crochet and Knit with Roving, Saturday, June 22, 1-4pm
*** Class Cancelled ***
Judie Overbeek has taken refuge in spinning, weaving and dyeing for over 35 years, incorporating the three disciplines into a single project whenever possible. A love of process and a deep desire to share her skills keeps her involved in these inexhaustible crafts both as student and teacher. Judie lives in NW Montana. She teaches spinning, weaving and dyeing throughout the Northwest.
Workshops Offered:
How Do I Warp a Loom? Friday, June 21, 9am-noon
Sample a Fleece in a Flash Friday, June 21, 1-4pm
Mary Scott Huff is the author of "The New Stranded Colorwork" and "Teach Yourself Visually Color Knitting." She fled the realm of Information Technology to pursue a more yarn-centered way of life. The many friends she found along the way have helped her become a nationally-recognized designer, teacher and author. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Mary shares a wee little house there with her husband, two children, some Scottish Terriers, and more yarn than is strictly necessary. You can join Mary on her adventures playing with string at www.maryscotthuff.com.
Workshops Offered:
Eeeks! Steeks! Friday, June 21, 9am-noon
Two Strings = Not Scary, Friday, June 21, 1-4pm
Lynn Ruggles has been exploring fiber in its many aspects from an early age and added spinning to her repertoire 25 years ago. She recently earned a Certificate of Excellence in Handspinning, Level I. She loves exploring the world of textiles and is always looking for unusual fibers and new techniques. Lynn has been teaching spinning for 15 years and, with her recent retirement from her engineering job, is now a full time fiber-geek.
Workshops Offered:
Traditional Wool Combing, Friday, June 21, 9am-noon and 1-4pm
Plying for Color, Saturday, June 22, 9am-noon and 1-4pm
Class filled
Laurie Weinsoft has been spinning for the last twenty years. After a lifetime of knitting, sewing and weaving, it was sitting behind the spinning wheel that gave Laurie the greatest joy. Laurie started teaching spinning within months of learning herself. She has taught a continuing class for beginning and returning students at Northwest Wools in Portland, Oregon, for the past twelve years. Laurie is one of the original members of the Twisted Sisters spinning group and was a contributor to the "Twisted Sister’s Sock Book" and "Twisted Sisters Sweater Workshop." Laurie’s handspun sweater and pattern is the last sweater design in the workshop book. Laurie has had her work published in Spin•Off as well.
"My main goal in teaching spinning is to share my enthusiasm for beautiful spinning wheels, incredible fibers and the sheer joy of creating amazing yarns."
Workshops Offered:
Beginning Spinning: I Really Want to Spin Straw into Gold, Saturday, June 22, 9am-noon and 1-4pm Class filled
Dan Wilson and his wife, Susie, own SuDan Farm in Canby, Oregon and direct-market many products from their flock of sheep. Dan grew up on a large diversified livestock ranch in northern California and is a long-time sharpener.
Workshop Offered:
Razor’s Edge, Friday, June 21, 8:00 am-noon
Susie Wilson and her husband, Dan, own SuDan Farm in Canby, Oregon. She is a shepherd, shearer, knitter, spinner and an enthusiastic lamb and wool promoter.
She began teaching this workshop in 1994, and it’s been a great success ever since. Many of her past students are now successfully shearing their own sheep -- and you can, too!
Workshop Offered:
Shearing On Your Own, Sunday, June 23, 8:30-12:30 (NOTE: Check-in and class are at the goat barn.)
Amy Wolf has been raising Angora goats and spinning mohair since the 1970s and still loves it. She is a respected Angora goat and sheep judge as well as a professional shearer. Amy and her family produce over 2,000 pounds of mohair and wool annually for resale to handspinners.
Workshop Offered:
Genetic Selection and the Angora Goat Sunday, June 23, 8:30-11:30am