Mary Bajcz, Scrap Happy - Simple Ways to Add Color and Texture to Your Knitting
Mary Bajcz is an experienced quilting teacher who also loves to knit. You can see from this picture that she LOVES color and texture and her knitting reflects that. You can learn more by visiting her web site www.scrap-happy.biz.
Carol Densmore, Cross Wind Farm, LLC - There's No End To The Blend: New Fiber Colors and Textures
Carol’s interest in fiber and fabric began while growing up on a Michigan farm. She learned sewing, crochet, and embroidery from her mother, grandmother, and older sisters. Through her domestic and international travels she focused on local artisans and discovered the endless possibilities of fiber. Her fiber passion exploded when she started breeding alpacas, and now together with her husband operate Cross Wind Farm, where they raise purebred Bluefaced Leicester sheep, Lincoln Longwool sheep, Angora goat, Angora rabbits, and a few llamas as well as grow hay and a dye garden. Carol experiments with natural dye and is particularly interested in fiber preparation, fiber blending, and spinning using fiber from her animals and other quality fleeces that she picks up along the way.
Carol developed her skills through practice, classes and workshops and has won a number of awards for her handspun yarns. She is currenly in the Master Spinner program at Olds College in Alberta, Canada and is a member of two spinning guilds: Spinner’s Flock in Chelsea, MI and FlockUniversity in East Lansing, MI. You can follow her fiber journey at crosswindfarm.blogspot.com or visit crosswindfarm.com.
Lynne Kossarek, Never Enough Wool
Lynne's 30 year interest in collecting antiques and restoring her ca. 1844 Greek Revival home eventually led her to create primitive hooked rugs. After teaching for several years at Mt. Bruce Sheep and Wool Festival and Ewe'n Hook Fiber Shop in Romeo, Lynne began her home-based business Never Enough Wool in 2006
Lynne is an ATHA (Association of Traditional rug Hooking Artists) teacher, who began her love of primitive rug hooking in 1999. Currently, she teaches primitive rug hooking classes in her historic ca. 1844 home in Romeo, exhibits at numerous fiber shows, creates beautiful hand-dyed wool and is designing her own original patterns. She is a member of the Great Lakes Rug Hooking Guild.
Kathy Moskal - Learn To Spin With A Drop Spindle & Wet Felted Scarf
Kathy learned to knit in childhood, and took it up again after moving to a farm in Chelsea, Michigan in 1998. She volunteers at WaterlooHistoricalMuseum demonstrating spinning on a wheel and drop spindle, felting and weaving. She raises fiber animals: alpacas, llamas, angora goats and angora rabbits on her small farm.
Kathy is a member of Spinners Flock in Chelsea, MI. She is also co-owner of Criations by Leslie, Custom Embroidery and their web-site is http://www.criations.com
Roxanne Pett - Hairpin Lace & Spin A Funky Yarn
Roxanne Pett has had a love affair with fiber all of her life, with embroidery, quilting, knitting and crocheting being a passion while growing up. She acquired a solid foundation for good design and lasting quality in her work in college while studying for a commercial art degree. In 1992 natural fiber entered into her life and began a love affair that has lasted to this day. Roxanne loves to blend different mediums together to bring out the best of all attributes. Her days are filled with care of her many different fiber animals, dying yarn and fibers, spinning, felting and weaving. Her work has been showcased in fairs, fiber shows and art galleries in Michigan. Roxanne has also had work published in international and domestic magazines. Helping others find a creative spark in themselves and coaxing them to succeed is a real joy for Roxanne just as finding the right mix between a felted and beaded scarf brings happiness to her life.
Jan Vanden Hout - Spinning Angora Rabbit Wool and Grooming and Care of the Angora Rabbit
Jan started spinning in 1980 and raising Angora rabbits in 1982. She has specialized with the English Angora for spinning and show. Jan is a 25 year member of American, Michigan State, Ann Arbor and National Angora Rabbit Breeders Associations. She is also a member of Spinners Flock in Chelsea, MI.
Jan has taught multiple groups how to spin Angora wool and has worked with 4H groups on grooming and care of their Angora rabbits. Over the years Jan has demonstrated spinning Angora wool at fairs and annual events in Michigan and Ohio; helped to get hand-spun yarns and finished items as entries at local fairs; and worked with people to expand their expertise in working with exotic fibers. Her motto is: "If it's fuzzy, spin it!"
