I can provide entertaining and educational presentations on a variety of topics, structured to interest your group. Most presentations include a PowerPoint slide show. I always provide things to look at and touch. Each of these programs takes about an hour including Q & A. I can make it shorter if necessary and can easily fill more time by taking more questions and more discussion of things that I bring to show. Inquiries about other topics of interest are welcome. I have listed virtual options for most of these topics.
Guild Speaker Fee: $300 plus gas and housing, if overnight is necessary. Rate for virtual programs via Zoom is $200. To discuss dates and program choices contact me. Most of the classes I teach can be adapted to off-site workshops for guilds or other groups. The workshop charge is $800/day plus mileage (IRS rate) and housing if I stay overnight.
1-Day Workshop - Join the Fun with Clasped WARP and WEFT
1-Day Workshop - Join the Fun with Clasped WARP and WEFT
Clasped weft is a clever technique that enables the weaver to maintain two separate colors in a weft pick without using tapestry techniques. It can be used in a defined and planned manner or free-form as you weave. Imagine having that same freedom of color change in your warp!! We’ll do both in this class, warping our rigid heddle looms in the morning and weaving in the afternoon, sampling several different clasped weft ideas. Wool yarn in a variety of colors is provided.
Students bring:
1. Rigid heddle loom at least 8” wide with a 5 or 6 and/or 8 dpi heddle. Bring both if you want to choose sport or fingering yarn after seeing samples in class.
2. Loom stand OR clamp to hold loom to table while warping
3. Warping tools: peg and clamp for direct warping, hook, paper to pack warp (85”)
4. 2-3 stick shuttles, scissors, tape measure
Experience level: Must have warped and woven on a rigid heddle loom at least once.
Contact Robin to schedule a guild workshop.
Reference: Project and article in Little Looms, 2022 and Little looms, Summer 2025.
Experience: You must know basic operation of the RH loom and be able to weave plain weave.
Materials fee: None
Bring: RH loom warped and ready to weave & yarn for weft (you will get instructions prior to the class); 2 stick shuttles (may purchase at class); 1 pick-up stick (may purchase at class); 1 knitting needle, size 10 or larger, a little longer than the width of your warp; 1 crochet hook, any size; tape measure, scissors.
