After moving across Canada six years ago to complete my degree at Concordia University's Fibres and Material Practices program and then getting suprised by an amazing opportunity to live in New York City for a few years I'm finally on my way back home to Vancouver this summer. I'm going to miss things like singing Return to Sender with Fedex workers in the elevator, spending time with the awesome ladies in the East Harlem knitting group, going to cheap night at the Whitney, doing skillshares in cafe's and on the subway, and cruising Chelsea galleries and then getting the best deals ever at the Chelsea Goodwill, But alas it is time for me to return to my motherland and be closer the awesome textile community in Vancouver again. I totally welcome the change. My mom recently visited and we filled our week with art, textiles and pastries and of course a trip to Purl Soho. It's always a treat to have mom visit. I have a few textile workshops lined up right when I return. There's Intro to Tapestry Weaving, a two-day intensive at Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA) which occurs just a couple of days after the end of a five-day natural dyeing workshop at the Metchosin International Summer School of Art (MISSA), which is not far from VISA, so if you're so inclined you can sign up for both for a very interesting week. In August I'm returning to VISA for a three-day Printing with Natural Dyes Workshop, which after teaching a bunch of times now I've refined to include a final-day challenge of creating a cohesive collection of scarves and yardages. The first two days will focus on prepping fabric and doing a whole lot of experimenting and sampling for our individual sample books.
Five Days of Natural Dyeing including indigo at MISSA located on beautiful Vancouver Island SIGN UP Intro to Tapestry Weaving at the Vancouver Island School of Art SIGN UP Printing with Natural Dyes at the Vancouver Island School of Art SIGN UP
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Welcome to the Vancouver Yarn blog! This space exists to celebrate and spread the word about all events, new local patterns, products and businesses. Submit the details of an event or new locally designed knitting/crochet pattern, or other local DIY news and I'll post about it here. Thank you! ~Janna Vallee Hi, I'm Janna. I'm the proprietor and natural dyer at Everlea Yarn, and the tapestry instructor at The School of SweetGeorgia. I am a tapestry weaver, longtime knitter and 2013 graduate of Concordia University's Fibres and Material Practices program.
I created Vancouver Yarn in 2008 as a space to hold as much of the textile awesomeness that I could find in and around Vancouver. Here on the VY blog I mostly share about local events, pattern releases as well as share Community Highlights. Do you have an event, KAL, yarn or pattern release, launch or other thing you want us to post? Just fill out the form at the top of this page, or send your press release to me at janna (at) vancouveryarn.com Thank you!
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