Session 3: Deepening Impact Assessments toward Social and Climate Goals Why is taking a holistic perspective critical to meeting our goals, and how might we approach life cycle assessments to ensure our measurement and modeling are leading us in the right direction? Additional details to come. Register here
Welcome to Badass Brioche - a virtual 1 session class! Why Badass you ask? You get dimension, contrast and squish all in one! Plus, this project takes a comfortable, intermediate knitter into the world of "advanced"! Yee ha! We'll be making this darling cowl where you'll experience knitting brioche with two colors, in the round! […]
Welcome to the Cover Cropping Opportunities in Specialty Crops webinar series presented by Contra Costa County Resource Conservation District and UC Cooperative Extension. The program is free and funded by a CDFA Specialty Crops Block Grant. Webinar #1: Overview of Cover Cropping Benefits, Principles, and OpportunitiesFeaturing Billy Synk of Project apis m. and Seeds for Bees, a program that […]
Join expert knitter, Gayle Ravenscroft, for a virtual class on knitting with farm yarns. Some of the topics Gayle will address are: • Why knitters should consider farm yarns, and in particular, yarns from their Fibershed • How to find farm yarns • Projects that are particularly suitable and why • Breed specificity (including heritage […]
Indigo extract is a versatile saturating pigment, an ideal art medium. It has good lightfastness, which makes it suitable for a variety of applications, and works well with a variety of binders. In this online demo, Judi Pettite of BioHue will show you the basics of making water and oil-based paint using the pigment of […]
Please send me an email to receive more information about lodging accommodations. A PDF will be sent with more information about the location and amenities of each "room". alisha@fibercirclestudio.com This is 4 days and 3 nights relaxing knitting retreat!! Escape to the magical, refreshing forests of Mendocino and embark on a relaxing retreat […]
Do you promote a locavore lifestyle in your rural community? Have you thought about the next step of growing, producing, and composting local textiles? Our prospective speaker, Rebecca Burgess is working on just these goals in her northern California community and wants others to build Fibersheds too. Fiber offers a new frontier for localizing efforts […]
Join designer Dan DiSanto for a virtual sewing demo on tips for sewing shirts. This is our second class with Dan, and this time we will be using an overhead camera for the sewing demos, which will be filmed in advance. For the live Zoom class, we will be showing the demos and Dan will […]