Fiber Gathering - Seiff, Joanne
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For fiber lovers, a festival is more than a setting for buying and selling materials--it's a gathering place where artisans, designers, farmers, and friends come together to teach, learn, share, and celebrate this timeless art in a unique 21st-Century marketplace. Join author Joanne Seiff as she details the rich heritage, sprawling agriculture, and unique flavor of eleven fiber events throughout the U.S. From the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival to Oregon's Black Sheep Gathering--and lots of others in between--you'll get a taste of what each festival has to offer through a rich mix of…mehr

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For fiber lovers, a festival is more than a setting for buying and selling materials--it's a gathering place where artisans, designers, farmers, and friends come together to teach, learn, share, and celebrate this timeless art in a unique 21st-Century marketplace. Join author Joanne Seiff as she details the rich heritage, sprawling agriculture, and unique flavor of eleven fiber events throughout the U.S. From the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival to Oregon's Black Sheep Gathering--and lots of others in between--you'll get a taste of what each festival has to offer through a rich mix of photography, essays, lore, and even a local recipe. Talented designers have contributed top-of-the-line patterns for you to knit, crochet, spin, felt, hook, and dye your own distinctive masterpieces using fibers that are ubiquitous to each festival. Whether you're working with a sophisticated mohair-silk blend or skirting a fleece on shearing day, the twenty-five projects in this book are representative of the best of America's fiber festivals. Perfect for the armchair traveler and fiber enthusiast alike, Fiber Gathering lets you bring America's most celebrated festivals into your heart and home--and inspires you to create clothing, art, and meaning from these time-honored crafts.
Autorenporträt
Joanne Seiff is a freelance writer, author, educator, and knitwear designer. Her articles have appeared in places as varied as the CBC online, The New York Jewish Week, The Forward, Salon.com, Vogue Knitting, and Interweave Knits. Joanne holds graduate degrees in Religious Studies from UNC, in Education from GWU, and a B.A. cum laude in Near Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Joanne is a fibre artist who enjoys making things from scratch, from sheep to finished garment. Her handspun yarn and handknits have won awards and her knitted fiber art has been exhibited and sold at several North American galleries. She also likes to bake bread, make jam, and make music. See more of her knitwear designs online at Ravelry.com and check out her blog, www.joanneseiff.blogspot.com.. Joanne lives in Winnipeg with her twin sons, a bird dog, and her husband, a biology professor.