Category: Workshops past

This is a two-evening workshop.

Dates: Wednesday, May 22 & 29, 2024
Times: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: East Lion’s Community Centre – 1731 Churchill Ave
Instructor: Dan Lajoie
Participant Fee: Members $70, Non-Members $95
Material Fee:
Equipment to bring:

Description: During the workshop, participants will:

• plan a project (rug or table runner) for size and design,
• review basic twining techniques,
• prepare warp and weft materials for rug twining,
• practice two new twining techniques (salish and taaniko).

By the end of two classes, participants will have a finished piece.

Participant Requirements: know how to set up and weave on a frame loom.

Equipment to bring: a loom that has three inches of weaving at each end, and weft material to finish their project. Prep instructions will be emailed two weeks in advance, pending full registration fee received by the guild.

Dan has built special looms for this workshop**. Looms will be available for a $15.00 rental fee (cash payable directly to Dan).

Looms may be picked up two weeks early, used and taken home for the duration of the workshop.

At the end of the event, looms will be available for purchase at a cost of $60.00 (minus $15.00 rental fee already paid).

Warp thread will be provided with the loom.

**You may bring your own loom but first, please send a picture to Dan.

Workshop is limited to 8 participants, please register early. This class has a minimum number of 4 participants to proceed. If this number is not reached we’ll let you know about a week ahead. You will be refunded your full registration.

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

Class is sold out but a wait list has been added.

This is a three-evening workshop.

Dates: Wednesday, April 17, 24, May 1, 2024
Times: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: East Lion’s Community Centre – 1731 Churchill Ave
Instructor: Dan Lajoie
Participant Fee: Members $80, Non-Members $100
Material cost: to Instructor at class – price to be determined
Description: During the workshop, participants will learn how to:

• plan a project (rug or table runner) for size and design,
• assemble and warp a frame loom (warp thread will be provided in class),
• prepare warp and weft materials for rug twining,
• weave using two basic techniques (counter twining and same-pitch twining).

By the end of three classes, participants will have a finished piece.

Participant Requirements: For this workshop, participants will be expected to come prepared to the first session with enough weft material to finish their project. Prep instructions will be emailed two weeks in advance, pending full registration fee received by the guild.

Equipment to bring: Dan has built special looms for this workshop**.

Looms will be available for a $15.00 rental fee (cash payable directly to Dan). Looms may be used and taken home for the duration of the workshop. At the end of the event, looms will be available for purchase at a cost of $60.00 (minus $15.00 rental fee already paid).

**You may bring your own loom but first, please send a picture to Dan.

Workshop is limited to 8 participants, please register early. This class has a minimum number of 4 participants to proceed. If this number is not reached we’ll let you know about a week ahead. You will be refunded your full registration.

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

This class is a 2 hour class, offered on 2 different days

Dates: Thursday March 21 6:30-8:30 pm
or
Saturday March 23 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

This two hour class will introduce you to the art of Japanese decorative cord weaving. This is a unique way of making round, triangular or square cords that had many uses in Japanese society.  You will learn a bit a about the history of this woven artform, learn the basic pattern of a rounded cord and give you next steps for what you can do with these unique one of a kind cords. You will get a material package that includes a Kumihimo disk, some yarns, a handy ziplock and of course some instructions with resources. Come and learn something that you can take anywhere with you!  Be sure to bring some scissors to this fun class. 

Registration fee:  Members $25, Non Members $35

Material Fee: To be determined

Instructor: Sherry Dailey

Location: 1731 Churchill Ave, East Lion’s Community Centre, London, Ontario (This originally was incorrectly showing Boyle Community Centre)

Kumihimo Weaving– How to get started!

This two hour class will introduce you to the art of Japanese decorative cord weaving. This is a unique way of making round, triangular or square cords that had many uses in Japanese society.  You will learn a bit a about the history of this woven artform, learn the basic pattern of a rounded cord and give you next steps for what you can do with these unique one of a kind cords. You will get a material package that includes a Kumihimo disk, some yarns, a handy ziplock and of course some instructions with resources. Come and learn something that you can take anywhere with you!  Be sure to bring some scissors to this fun class. 

This class has a mininum number of 5 participants to proceed. If this number is not reached we’ll let you know about a week ahead. You will be refunded your full registration.

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

This class has been cancelled due to low enrollment. Keep an eye on our website, as this may be offered in the future.

This is a two-evening workshop.

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

This Spinning Wheel course is for the person who would like to learn how to spin on a Spinning wheel, and have fun making your own yarn from wool fibres. 

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

Dates: February 24 10:00 am – 12 noon

Registration now closed

Learn how to spin yarn on a Drop Spindle. This method is easy to learn, and allows the spinner to create yarn for other fibre arts projects.

This class will appeal to spinners who knit, weave and crochet.

Location: 1731 Churchill Ave, London ON – East Lion’s Community Centre

Instructor: Sherry Dailey

Cost: Members – $25, Non-Members – $35

Participant Requirements: No previous spinning experience required

Equipment to bring:

• Drop Spindle if you have one – There will be spindles available for use and purchase at the class
• Wool for spinning – if you have it – there will be wool included in the material costs

Material cost: to be determined payable to Instructor at class

This class will have a minimum of 6 participants and a maximum of 10. Cut off date for registration is February 15th. If the class has not met the minimum registrations you will be notified shortly after February 15th and full registration fee will be refunded

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

Date: Saturday, January 6th 2024
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: East Lion’s Community Centre 1731 Churchill Ave, London ON

All wheel and spindle spinners are welcome to a day of fun and games.   
Bring your lunch, your wheel/spindles and fibre that excites you. 

In the 17th Century, lyric poet and cleric Robert Herrick wrote of the tradition in his poem, “St Distaff’s Day or the Morrow After Twelfth Night”:

Partly work and partly play 
You must on St. Distaff’s Day: 
From the plough soon free your team; 
Then come home and fother them; 
If the maids a-spinning go, 
Burn the flax and fire the tow. 
Bring in pails of water then, 
Let the maids bewash the men. 
Give St. Distaff all the right; 
Then bid Christmas sport good night, 
And next morrow every one 
To his own vocation.

This was an excuse to play on the twelfth night as the next day , work begins again. The boys would try to burn the flax and tow while the maids tossed buckets of water on them. Delightful for January. Brrrr….

LDWS St Distaff Day will be much fun with games, prizes and lots of laughs. There will be time to socialize and try a few new things. It is a fund raiser for the guild.

Fee: Members: $15 Non-members: $25

***Cancellation Policy: Participants who cancel their registration up to 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  A participant who finds a replacement for his/her spot within 1 month prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund.  Cancellations within 1 month of workshops (with no replacement found) and “no-shows” will not be refunded.  If the Guild cancels a workshop for any reason, all registration fees will be refunded.  

• COVID Protocol for classes
• As of June 1, 2023 – Masks are welcome but not mandatory for the duration of each class
• Compliance with any other Covid-19 protocols set by the East Lions Community Centre