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Instructors and Teachers

 

3D Fiber

Julie B. Booth
Description: Wrapped wire animals; adult/child class; doll pin using folded and rolled fabric
Description: Sculpture built around padded wire armature; fabric applique
Location: G Street Fabrics, Rockville and Falls Church locations
Contact: threadborn@aol.com
Website: www.threadborn.com

Beading

Carolyn Atwater
Description: Bead weaving
Location: Springfield & Alexandria, VA
Contact: cwovenexp@mindspring.com

 

Donna Barnako
Description: peyote stitch, spiral, net; Bead crochet for left handers
Location: Vienna, VA
Contact: donna@jewelworx.com
Website: www.jewelworx.com

 

Joanne Strehle Bast
Description: Off-loom beadwork stitching of jewelry & non-jewelry items
Location: Anywhere
Contact: jbast@jbast.com
Website: www.jbast.com

 

Stephanie Corina Goddard
Description: Beading on cloth, bead crochet
Location: MD/VA
Contact: bobbins@intercom.net

 

Crochet

Margaret Fisher
Contact: margaret@fisher-designs.com
Website: www.fisher-designs.com

 

Susan Shildmyer
Description: Beginning to master level
Location: Northern Virginia, Maryland, eastern panhandle West Virginia
Contact: seshildmyer@aol.com

Dyeing

Candace Edgerley
Description: Immersion, low-water immersion
Contact: edgerley@hotmail.com

 

Lori Flood
Description: Dyeing wool & protein fibers using acid dyes
Location: Nationally
Contact: spinsterstreadle@hotmail.com
Website: www.spinsterstreadle.com

 

Joyce Keister
Description: Warp painting
Contact: keist@aol.com

 

Shirley T. Waxman
Description: Hand dyed silks
Location: G Street Fabrics
Contact: shirleywaxman@verizon.net
Website: www.shirleywaxman.com

Embroidery

Shirley T. Waxman
Description: Exotic ethnic embroidery
Location: G Street Fabrics
Contact: shirleywaxman@verizon.net
Website: www.shirleywaxman.com

Felting

Nan Crawford
Description: Beginning felting for children, beginning and advanced felting for adults
Location: Central and northern Virginia
Contact: feltingfrenzy@earthlink.net

 

Lori Flood
Description: Handmade felt wearable; sculpture & home décor
Location: Nationally
Contact: spinsterstreadle@hotmail.com
Website: www.spinsterstreadle.com

Garment Design and Construction

Stephanie Corina Goddard
Description: Cutting and sewing techniques for handwovens, combining knitting with sewing in same garment
Location: MD/VA
Contact: bobbins@intercom.net

 

Jewelry

Marla Rudnick
Description: Woven or knitted metal
Location: Instructor or student home
Contact: marlasrud@netscape.net

Knitting

Donna Barnako
Description: Modular techniques
Location: Vienna, VA
Contact: donna@jewelworx.com

 

Margaret Fisher
Contact: margaret@fisher-designs.com
Website: www.fisher-designs.com

 

Debra M. Lee
Description: All levels
Location: Northern Virginia
Contact: debraknits@yahoo.com
Website: www.leeaccents.com (under construction)

 

Karen Richardson
Description: Knitting classes for individuals and groups -- all levels of experience. Specialize in knitted sculpture and toys
Location: MD, VA, DC
Contact: karenprich@aol.com

 

Marla Rudnick
Description: Metal knitting: learn how to make stunning metal jewelry using fiber technique
Location: Instructor or student home
Contact: marlasrud@netscape.net

 

Susan Shildmyer
Description: Beginning to master level; speciality is colorwork and couture
Location: Northern Virginia, Maryland, eastern panhandle West Virginia
Contact: seshildmyer@aol.com

Metal Work

Donna Barnako
Description: Basic techniques of wire work
Location: Vienna, VA
Contact: donna@jewelworx.com

 

Marla Rudnick
Description: Learn how to make stunning metal jewelry using fiber techniques
Location: Instructor or student home
Contact: marlasrud@netscape.net

Paper

Silvia Souza
Description: "felted" paper
Location: Leesburg, VA
Contact: silviasouza@comcast.net

Prayer Shawl

Shirley T. Waxman
Description: Includes embrodery, construction, history
Location: Home, Potomac, MD
Contact: shirleywaxman@verizon.net
Website: www.shirleywaxman.com

Quilting

Eileen Doughty
Description: General techniques and landscape design
Location: Vienna, VA
Contact: artist@DoughtyDesigns.com
Website: www.DoughtyDesigns.com

 

Lynda Poole Prioleau
Description: Art quilting, machine, embellishment, fiber structures
Location: Northern VA, DC, and MD
Contact: matlynddsqn@aol.com

 

Betsy True
Description: Hand and machine piecing and quilting, original design
Location: Alexandria, VA
Contact: betsy@betsytruedesigns.com
Website: www.betsytruedesigns.com

 

Spinning

Lori Flood
Description: Handspun yarns from wool and silk fibers
Location: Nationally
Contact: spinsterstreadle@hotmail.com
Website: www.spinsterstreadle.com

 

Sally L. Jenkins
Description: Drop spindle or wheel; beginner & intermediate levels; fiber selection and preparation; private or group
Location: Silver Spring, MD or will go to client location for a group lesson, demo & talk
Contact: gldspindle@aol.com

Surface Design

Julie B. Booth
Description: Blockprinting on fabric; fabric painting techniques
Location: G Street Fabrics, Rockville and Falls Church locations
Contact: threadborn@aol.com
Website: www.threadborn.com

 

Candace Edgerley
Description: Blockprinting on fabric; fabric painting techniques
Contact: edgerley@hotmail.com

 

Stephanie Corina Goddard
Description: Couched fiber by hand or machine
Location: MD/VA
Contact: bobbins@intercom.net

 

Susan Shildmyer
Description: Threadwork, trims, beading, embroidery techniques
Location: Northern Virginia, Maryland, eastern panhandle West Virginia
Contact: seshildmyer@aol.com

 

Silvia Souza
Description: Altered T-shirts for kids
Location: Leesburg, VA
Contact: silviasouza@comcast.net

Temari Balls

Ellen Turner
Location: Alexandria, VA
Contact: ellenturner@comcast.net

Wearable Art

Nimi Rao
Description: Knitting, crochet
Location: Anywhere in Metro Washington, DC
Contact: nimirao@aol.com

Weaving

Carolyn Atwater
Description: Beginning to advanced
Location: Springfield & Alexandria, VA
Contact: cwovenexp@mindspring.com

 

Bonnie Inouye
Description: Design, weaving software, intermediate through very advanced. Workshops, programs, individual tutoring.
Location: Maryland, Metro DC
Contact: bonnieinouye@yahoo.com
Website: www.bonnieinouye.com

 

Joyce Keister
Description: Multishaft
Contact: keist@aol.com

 

Diane Kelly
Description: Tapestry; beginning
Description: Shaft loom; beginning 4 & 8 shaft; individual classes focusing on requested structures
Location: Cooksville, MD studio
Contact: kelde@verizon.net

 

Anna Bird Mays
Description: Tapestry; basic classical tapestry techniques
Location: Arlington, VA
Contact: abmays@erols.com

 

Ellen Turner
Description: Tablet weaving and card weaving
Location: Alexandria, VA
Contact: ellenturner@comcast.net

 

 

If you teach and would like to be included on this instructor list, please fill out the Instructor List Form and return it to the Membership Chairman at 7921 Deepwell Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817-1927.

 


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