with Mary Graham and Kate Pullen. Learn how to use basic knitting and crochet skills to work with wire. To explore techniques of creating jewelry and small 3D items.

with Alison Daykin and Jane Deane.This is planned to free you of the fear of sketchbook design. There are no wrongs, just different ways of doing things, no artistic skill required, just the willingness to try the exercises.

with Rachel Hardy. Learn how to make a basic lucet cord then move onto variations using more colours, twists, picots and beads. End with advanced ideas using double lucet and make the connection to spool knitting and knifty knitters.

with Sylvia Glenister. For complete beginners the workshop will cover what to consider before you even go near a loom, winding a warp, dressing the loom, setts, yarn counts and simple variations on plain weave and twills.

with Jane Deane and Amanda Hannaford. Fancy spinning milk? This workshop will show you how and will also cover other new and exotic fibres. We’ll learn about how they are produced, their history, what can be produced from them and how to spin them and their blends.

A team of Online Guild dyers will lead you through a challenge to prepare and dye cellulose fibres, yarn or fabric of choice, whether familiar ones such as cotton or linen or more unusual ones such as we encountered amongst the whacky fibres. We will discover how well our fibres respond to our chosen methods of preparation and our choice of dyes.

A time of evaluation for the Online Guild. This week features an open discussion in which all members are encouraged to participate.

A free month with no scheduled workshop or programme offers time to catch up on Guild projects and just chat.

An Online Guild team of spinners and dyers will teach flat felt making and embellishments; 3 dimensional felt to make hats and bags; needlefelting and lastly complex 3 dimensional felting using foam shapes.

with Alison Daykin.Spinners will be encouraged to produce lively and exciting yarns by blending basic colours. It can be adapted by knitters, crocheters and weavers who do not want to spin the yarns but use mixes of coloured yarns instead.

with Karen Madigan. For beginners and intermediate weavers. We will learn how to design and tie the warp; to paint and dye the warp; to thread the loom and weave a warp faced fabric and to rethread the loom for a turned twill or plain weave.

with Francine Denot. This year the exchange theme will be a table decoration. Using any fibre related technique you will create a table decoration and send it to your exchange partner and receive a decoration in return from another member. The ideal opportunity to meet new friends and share our love for all things fibre in this festive month..

2009

with Jacqui Carey. The sound of these words makes me shiver with delight. I can while away happy hours handling textural fibres and sifting through shiny baubles just trying to decide what to use. Know the feeling? I believe that it is important to enjoy the process, as much, if not more, than the finished product, so please feel free to indulge yourself without guilt. Its good therapy, fat-free and smiling is contagious.

with Amanda Hannaford. A complete introduction to linen spinning starting from bought fibres. We will be using stricks of line flax, tow and flax tops. Preparing the fibres for spinning and dressing a distaff will be covered along with alternative methods of spinning line flax.

with Ulrike Bogdan. Without needing a large counterweight loom, you can make rather interesting and easy to weave fabrics on rigid heddle looms and backstrap looms. In the first half of the workshop, I will show how to build and use a backstrap loom, how to warp a rigid heddle and then we will weave some easy beginning plain weaves. In the second half, we will concentrate on the more complicated things we can do with small looms like pattern weaves and weaving with two heddles. Furthermore, we will discuss what to do with fabric 8'' (20 cm), 15'' (40 cm), and 23'' (60 cm) wide.

with Debbie Bamford. We'll look at using madder, brazilwood and cochineal, how to get the most from them and what variations of colour we can achieve.

with Steve Kennett. This workshop will cover setting up your loom, weaving your first design, pick up designs, making a bag, and getting adventurous with yarn and patterns. You will need an inkle loom but no experience is necessary!

with Averil Otiv. This course will involve the use of soft basketry materials, most of which are readily available in our gardens, including day lily leaves, red hot poker leaves, various grasses and sedges. We will create small decorative baskets and items of jewellery using natural fibres. A selection of basketry and weaving techniques will be covered, to include twining, knotting, looping, coiling and basket lace. Beads and other natural items may be used if desired.

A time of evaluation for the Online Guild. This week features an open discussion in which all members are encouraged to participate.

A free month with no scheduled workshop or programme offers time to catch up on Guild projects and just chat.

with Rachel Hardy. I will be showing you some weird and wonderful, but mainly easy ways to liven up your fabric, yarn or fleece using some diversions from the shibori techniques. I will give you some history of the proper Japanese tradition and then move on to experiments using things you might have lying around the house.

with Fi Morris. Domino/Patchwork knitting is a great way of using up small amounts of yarn and combining lots of colour (and texture) making items that require a minimal amount of sewing up when the knitting is finished. Over the course of this workshop we will look at make several different units and how to make these units into a finished garment or item.

with Liz Lovick. Extreme Lace - Spinning fine threads for knitting lace. The workshop will focus on spinning wool, and the methods of Scotland's Northern Isle, but will also touch on other fibres and methods. (In a later workshop we will be looking at knitting the lace.)

with Rachel Hardy.