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Meet Our Instructors!

 

Jill Dahle: Jill is a spinner, weaver, dyer, knitter and quilter.  She belongs to the Wasatch Woolpack Handspinners Guild and teaches spinning, dyeing and knitting at Three Wishes Fiber Arts.  Jill has been spinning for about 18 years.

 

Laurel Orthmeyer: Laurel started spinning 16 years ago when she purchased angora goats to eat knapweed.  Her fiber addiction quickly grew to include weaving, dyeing, knitting and needle felting.  Laurel’s work has been shown at the Holter Museum in Helena, MT, and she has won numerous awards for her creativity with fiber including Best of Show at the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival.  Laurel has studied felting with Pat Sparks, Ayala Talpai , Julie Williams of Australia, Annemie Koenen of the Netherlands, and Karliina Arivlommi of Finland.  Laurel enjoys teaching other fiber enthusiasts and loves fot find new ways of using her fiber stash.  Laurel especially enjoys creating colorful needle felted gnomes, pixies and tree sprites that lurk in her backyard.

 

Lynn Ruggles: Lynn has been exploring fiber in its many aspects from an early age and added spinning to her repertoire over 20 years ago.  She has spun just about any fiber that can be had, and enjoys fine-tuning her technical expertise, seeing just how far (or how fine) she can go.  She recently completed her COE in Handspinning, Level 1.

 

Carolyn Greenwood: Carolyn is the owner of Greenwood Fiberworks (www.GreenwoodFiberworks.etsy.com) where she spends hers days dyeing fibers and yarns.  She has been a contributor to Spin-Off Magazine and enjoys sharing her love of fiber arts with everyone she meets. 

 

Karl Tippets: About 11 years ago as a retired senior citizen Karl was looking for new things to do.  He read about weaving and took a weaving class and that was the beginning of his new hobby.  Currently he does only stick weaving.  The advantage is that it is portable and he can easily move it from his summer and winter homes.  The technique he uses is Stick Weaving Western Style.  (See his work at westernweaver.blogspot.com).