FROM Farm
to FASHION
Come and enjoy a unique fibre workshop and farm experience! Meet our Icelandic sheep and learn about these amazing animals and their incredible wool.
Whether you're new to fibre art or are looking to expand your skill set, we have a variety of Workshops available for you. Hear about the full lifecycle of fibre and how it is slowly transformed from Farm to Fashion. Spend time with our flock and learn about our livestock guardian animals. Bring your camera and take lots of pics! Workshops will take place on the farm in the sheep barn, weather permitting. Meet the makers behind our beautiful wool. Truly connect with your project as you meet the sheep that your fibre comes from. They may even keep you company while you create with their wool! Includes all tools, supplies and fibre necessary to complete your project, unless otherwise indicated. We offer both public and private workshops throughout the year.
Interested in a Private Custom Workshop for you and your peeps?
Celebrating a birthday or special event? Looking for a unique idea for a get together with your family or friends? Consider booking a private custom workshop. We’d love to help you put together a one of a kind workshop and farm experience! Please contact us for more information and ideas and we’ll work with you to make it happen! (Minimum of 4-6 people, depending on type of workshop.)
Upcoming Workshops:
Felted Vessel / Pod: Saturday May 4, 2024 - 12:30 to 4:30pm
Felted Soap: Saturday May 11, 2024 - 12:30 to 3:00pm
Artistically Felted Fleece: Saturday June 8, 2024 - 10:00 to 5:00pm
Learn To Spin With A Drop Spindle: Saturday June 15, 2024 - 12:30 to 4:30pm
Stay tuned as more Spring 2024 workshops will be added soon! In the meantime, we’d be happy to customized a private workshop for your group. Please contact us.
Felting Workshops
Making felt from wool is considered to be the oldest known textile to man. Picking the wool and textures to layout is as interesting as the process to turn it into a usable piece of art. In the wet felting process, water and soap are applied to layers of wool causing the scales to open, while agitating them causes them to latch onto each other, creating felt. Needle felting produces felt without the use of water, using special barbed or "notched" needles. We offer a variety of both wet and needle felting workshops.
Whether you’re new to felting or you already have some skills, these workshops will be a unique experience for all. Spend time with our sheep and meet the makers of your wool! You will learn the skills that will assist you in making your own one-of-a-kind item to take home and be able to transfer these skills to other felting projects as well. All felting tools and materials will be provided.
Spinning Workshops
Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff (Wikipedia).
Whether you’re new to spinning or you already have the spinning bug, these workshops will be a unique experience for all. Spend time with our sheep and meet the makers of your wool! You will learn the skills that will assist you in making your own one-of-a-kind skein of yarn to take home and be able to transfer these skills to other spinning projects as well. All tools and materials will be provided, unless otherwise indicated.
Other Workshops…
More workshops coming soon! We are continuing to add to our workshop offering including knitting, natural dyeing, wreath making, etc. Please keep an eye on our website to see our current offering. If there’s something that you’re looking for that is not currently scheduled, please contact us.
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Our workshop facilitators include:
Wendy Fifield is a self-taught fibre artist, living in Thornbury, ON. Since the late 90’s Wendy has been experimenting with different types of fibre and how they mesh together to form a piece. Making felt from wool is considered to be the oldest known textile to man. Picking the wool and textures to layout is as interesting as the process to turn it into a usable piece of art.
In the wet felting process, water and soap are applied to layers of wool causing the scales to open, while agitating them causes them to latch onto each other, creating felt. Needle felting produces felt without the use of water, using special barbed or "notched" needles. Wendy uses both methods depending on the finished piece. Wendy’s art is as much about experiencing the process as it is the end result. Wendy’s talent and passion for creating art through wool will inspire you!
Jane Steeves has been spinning for over 20 years and loves talking, teaching and showing the joy and peace that handspinning yarn can bring. She is a graduate of the Ontario Handspinning program at Haliburton School of the Arts. She brings her enthusiasm for the art of Handspinning and her love of all thing’s fibre and sheep with her to share. Jane lives on Georgian bay and is the owner of 3dogknits Fibre Arts. She lives with 3 lovely rescued Australian shepherds and her husband in a house full of fibre.
Julia Lee washes and dyes wool, spins, knits, weaves, and teaches in Toronto and Haliburton. Julia graduated from the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners’ Spinning Certificate course in 2000, and is now a coordinator and instructor for that program. Founder of Provenance Yarns and Textiles and a member of Upper Canada Fibreshed, she promotes and uses Ontario-grown fibres in her work and in Provenance’s monthly Fibre Club subscription packages. She teaches spinning at her home studio and spins on commission – often turning clients’ pet fur into beautiful yarn to create lasting mementos. To complete the process, she knits or weaves her natural-fibre yarn into elegant or whimsical creations: garments, home textiles, and knitted tapestries. Julia is currently President of Toronto Guild of Spinners and Weavers as well as Spinning Education Chair for Ontario Handweavers and Spinners. www.provenanceyarns.com