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MN Knitters Guild Yarnover
Two Fish Fibers (Becka Rahn & Doreen Hartzell) will have a booth at Yarnover. It was an AWESOME show last year and we expect this year to be fantastic. Each year the Minnesota Knitters’ Guild has a weekend-long event called Yarnover held in the Twin Cities metro area. Prestigious local and national instructors teach a variety of courses and fiber vendors fill the Yarnover Marketplace. Classes are open to members only, but the marketplace is free and open to the public.…
Find out more »Stop Daydreaming and Design your Own Fabrics
Whether you daydream of designing fabrics for sale or making something special for your own projects, this class will get you started with the basics of digital fabric design on a modest budget. We will use free and low cost design software (no Photoshop required) to create a variety of repeating patterns and a basic cut-and-sew bag design. Learn everything you need to know to make a print-ready file that can be digitally printed onto fabric. You will need a…
Find out more »Instant Fabric Design
Curious about designing your own fabric? This hands-on session will give you a taste of what it’s like to go from blank page to finished fabric and you get to take home a fat quarter of fabric that you designed! Based on Becka’s popular “unexpected art” workshops, we will make paper collage designs from unusual materials, scan and manipulate those designs, and create a seamlessly repeating kaleidoscopic pattern. In just two hours, you will have a finished design ready to…
Find out more »The Introverts Guide to Surviving an Art Show
Whether it is your first show or your fifteenth, there is an art to representing and talking about your work without feeling like you are the one hung up for display. This talk will help you strategize ways to make your next art show an experience you love (and it might even help your sales too). This lecture is held as part of the MN Quilters 2018 Conference.
Find out more »Etsy Shop Behind the Scenes
Etsy.com is a vast online marketplace for handmade goods, and whether you have opened a shop already or are getting ready to take the leap, it can be overwhelming. Take a guided tour from an experienced Etsy seller and mentor to see how an Etsy shop works from behind the scenes. Learn about built-in sellers’ tools, tips for getting found in search results, demystifying the etsy vocabulary and more. This class is held as part of the MN Quilters 2018…
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