Over the past year while I was developing my lecture series, I had to think about ways to inform people remotely. I didn't have the capacity to do live video teaching, and besides there are others already doing that - and doing it very well - like Jane Stafford.
I had no desire to 'compete' with those people in what is a rather small niche in a niche 'market', so I decided to focus on principles of the craft.
To say I am pleased that the School of Sweet Georgia picked up my lectures and are adding them to their course offerings would be an understatement.
As part of the school, they also publish articles by their various instructors and in our meeting at the beginning of the month we talked about the lectures and I showed them a blog post I'd written. They asked if they could publish the blog post, but I wanted to do something more detailed, more...professional...in terms of the information I feel needs to be made more available to those who want to know more.
Once I got home I looked at the blog post and dug through my resources, expanded the information in the post, added more photos, more examples and more information on the count numbering systems - imperial and metric.
People who have registered for SOS have access to the article along with all the other articles that have been published by the instructors and it's really a very good resource that might go unnoticed.
This morning I got an email from Handwoven and they also have an article on the numbering systems. I am really pleased to see that other instructors are getting good information out. I probably didn't cover the topic in complete detail so it's always a good idea for people looking for information to read what a variety of people have to say.
Understanding our materials means we can make good choices when we plan our projects.
The first lecture, A Good Yarn, will look at yarn characteristics. It's more of an overview, so if people want to know more detail, there are other resources. My go-to resource is the book by Jackman and Dixon, A Guide to Textiles for Interior Designers.
If anyone is interested in following along with my classes for Sweet Georgia, you can register here.
Once a member, students have access to ALL of the school content - workshops in spinning, dyeing, weaving, felting, knitting, crochet. Plus the articles as mentioned and beginning May 4 my lectures.
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