Video Only Zoom Workshops are now available to non-members.
Fall 2026 - Live and Virtual Workshops
September 9, 2026
Barbara Burns
From Flat to Shaped With the Pull of a String
This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction into making a cartoon/pattern that will allow them to weave a small pulled warp piece. They will leave with a cartoon and knowledge to create another, as well as the information to weave and finish a small shaped, pulled warp tapestry from their cartoon.
Chriztine Foltz
Origami Paper Beads
In this workshop, you will learn how to braid paper strips into rounded paper beads that can be later used as a necklace. Instructions on how to cut the paper strips and fold them into beads will be given and how to mount them onto a cord, ribbon, leather will be discussed. Step by step instructions on how to create the beads and various colored strips will be given out.
Margery Erickson
Designing Repeat Motif Patterns on 8-Shafts
ZOOM WORKSHOP
Join me as we take a look at how motifs can be designed using an overshot technique or a summer winter threading. I’ve been asked,“Can these be woven on a rigid heddle loom? Or a 4-shaft loom?” We’ll also take a look at answers to these questions.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
October 14, 2026
Jill Braverman
Hetty Friedman
Extend your Weaving Life: Yoga for Weavers
Join us for a morning of conversation, demonstration, yoga-based movement and Q&A. We will practice gentle yoga poses and relaxation techniques. You will learn simple yet effective methods to strengthen and release tension in your body, which will allow you to weave longer and with more ease and grace.
Laurie Carlson Steger
Orbs and Sprites by Woven Lighté
Certain experiences with light and color reinforce a memory with profound meaning. Optical fiber carries light through an engineered strand for illumination and communication and is a powerful concept for a textile artist to explore. This make and take workshop explains the mechanics of fiber optics with skills to manipulate fibers using Off-Loom skills ie: braiding, twining, simple weaving, to integrate light output.
Michele Belson
Beyond the Shadows: Color, Structure and Value in Weaving
ZOOM WORKSHOP
Come at Color Theory from a new direction. Incorporate value and the impact of the relative weights of color to add a new level to your understanding of color theory. Explore how this affects the visual impact of your weaving. We will use paper and pencil activities, yarn wrapping, and woven samples to better understand color in woven structures.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
November 11, 2026
Kristin Crane
Creative Journaling for Weavers
In this workshop, Kristin will describe how creative journaling enhances and forms work at the loom. She will share images of her own journals and sketchbooks, as well as her favorite tools and supplies. During this workshop, Kristin will share exercises and prompts for gathering and documenting inspiration from experiences as big as world travels to as small as morning walks.
Laurie Autio
An Overview of Twills and their Use as Profile Designs for Block Weaves
Twills come in a great variety of forms, interesting in themselves, but also useful as profiles for block weaves. While a wealth of information on twills is available, including design and tie-up variations, information on block weaves tends to focus on the ins and outs of learning the particular interlacement rather than design. This lecture provides an overview of many twill threadings and treadlings, from skips, advancing, and irregular points, to interleaving and moiré; and twill tie-ups from regular to irregular, plaited to fancy.
Deb Essen
Create Pin Loom projects that aren’t flat!
ZOOM WORKSHOP
Would you like to learn how to use flat pin loom squares to create 3-dimensional projects? This class is for you! No previous experience necessary! No materials needed. Deb will demonstrate how to make squares into different shapes and techniques to create ornaments, boxes, creatures and more! No squares are cut in the making of the shapes.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
January 2027 Special 3 Day, Multiple Session Virtual Workshop
Three Saturdays:
January 9,
January 16, and January 23, 2027
Debby Greenlaw
Weaving Krokbragd
ZOOM WORKSHOP
3- DAY SERIES
This 3-day online workshop introduces participants to the history, structure, and common motifs of krokbragd. Debby Greenlaw, author of Krokbragd: How to Design & Weave and Krokbragd Patterns, offers guidance on choosing colors and yarns, managing selvages, and finishing techniques. Attendees will weave a krokbragd sampler during the workshop. The finale showcases inspirational pieces and guidance on planning and designing projects. It is a fun-filled 3 days!
NOTE: Registration for the live Zoom class will close on Dec. 10, 2026
Note: This workshop series is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY option for viewing for 30 days following each workshop day.
February 10, 2027
Note: This is a meeting, not a workshop, and attendance is free to all. Register for this ZOOM meeting by clicking on the 'Events' button on the Meetings Page.
View the Afternoon Speakers for the description of this program.
Winter 2027 - Virtual Meeting
Spring 2027 - Live and Virtual Workshops
March 10, 2027
Liz Spear
COMPOSE & COMBINE: Sewing Your Handmade Fabrics
Join Liz for two hours of inspiration in the wide world of successfully cutting and sewing your beloved handmade fabrics into garments. Beginning with a short digital presentation, Liz will present several hand-outs, and a whole rack of her handwoven/ pieced garments that often include pieces of others' handmade or quilted or surface designed fabrics, as well as her own nuno-felt.
Penny Lacroix
Creating Color Palettes with Confidence
This fun class is for all who love color and want to understand it more or be more deliberate about color choices. It utilizes Gist Yarn’s Palette Scout color deck. We’ll start out with some basic color theory, play with some guided palette development, and work into some creative challenges. This class is designed to help intuitive colorists as well as designers who lack confidence in their own color sense.
Kathrin Weber
Controlling Creative Chaos: Designing at the Reed With Multiple Warp Chains
ZOOM WORKSHOP
This presentation focuses on techniques for working with multiple warp chains while designing at the reed. There is huge freedom in sitting at the loom and making well informed decisions as you design and set up. But it can be a nightmare without a system to keep all your yarn under control.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
April 14, 2027
Gretchen Romey-Tanzer
Summer and Winter, and other Tied Unit Weaves
Summer and Winter is an extremely versatile weave structure. The reversible nature of the fabric makes it a standard for kitchen towels and coverlets. Pleasing results can be developed with 4 shafts, though 8 shafts will give the weaver an almost unlimited design potential. It is usually a two-shuttle weave, one for the pattern weft and one for the ground weft. This workshop will focus on understanding and using block threading, tie-up variations (including skeleton tie-ups), and varied treadling sequences.
Manon Pelletier
Seam Treatments for Handwoven Garments
This hands-on sewing workshop is for weavers who desire to turn their handwovens into one-of-a-kind garments. One aspect of a well-constructed garment is finishing techniques for seams. Participants will receive kits for a fee containing handwoven samples, sewing notions, and instructions for various seam treatments
Nathan Vierling-Claassen
Converting 3- and 4- shaft Drafts for Rigid Heddle
ZOOM WORKSHOP
Out of the box, a Rigid Heddle loom is set up “only” for plain weave, but with some creativity and a bit of know-how, you can weave 3- and 4- shaft drafts on this simple loom. In this online workshop, we’ll discuss techniques for using heddle rods and multiple heddles, how to make an RH-style threading and lift plan, and strategies for warp
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
May 12, 2027
Full day Annual Meeting