Description

Skill Level: Beginner. No experience required.

Age Requirements:Class open to students 16 years old and up. No adult accompaniment necessary. Students must have enough manual dexterity to hold and draft wool roving and must be able to focus for the duration of the class.

Student Should Bring: Instructor will provide everything needed for class.

About the Instructor: Liza Q. Wirtz, better known as Q (aka the Chief Feline), runs multifaceted fiber-arts business The Foldout Cat from her home studio in Alabama with the frequent and welcome assistance of partners Fiber J and Maker J and the help of a fluctuating number of cats. Q has been weaving freestyle since 2015, carding art batts and rolags since 2018, spinning since 2018, and dyeing since 2021. She teaches freestyle weaving, art-batt carding, and basic experiential e-spinning with the same philosophy that infuses her practice: create from your heart, make what gives you joy, and put beauty into the world. Q wholeheartedly believes that everyone’s an artist and that giving people access to fiber-arts tools and learning lets them prove it to themselves. Q also sells one-of-a-kind art batts built from the Foldout Cat’s unique Batt Buffet, hand-dyed microbatch yarn and fiber (including her famous five-skein and five-braid Littermates), hand-dyed carding add-ins such as wool and mohair locks, sari-silk roving, and silk noil and throwster, and simple fiber-arts tools (including Howard Brush blending boards, 3D-printed yarn bowls, and the amazing EEW 6.1 e-spinner). She has taught, vended, or both at fiber events and workshops in multiple states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.