Melissa Brown is an enthusiastic teacher who loves to share her fiber knowledge with others. She has had extensive experience teaching everyone from beginners to experts and is especially loves learning and teaching new techniques. Knitting since childhood, she started spinning and dyeing wool in college, and now mostly dyes colorful gradient yarns at The Cat and Crow in Mt. Horeb, which she co-owns. http://www.thecatandcrowonline.com/home.html
Jane Carney studied at UW Oshkosh. She owned and operated her re-upholstery business for 20 years. In 1999, she closed her business and started teaching at the Fox Valley Technical College. Jane teaches Home Furnishings, Auto, Air and Machine re-upholstering classes. She also teaches home decor classes at the Waupaca Campus. As an artist, she does pottery, painting and cement castings, garden art, welding and glass making. Jane also does textile art projects – wool felting and many fiber arts projects. Her passion is to share her knowledge with others – Jane loves to teach!
Bonnie Feld has been knitting, crocheting and sewing most of her life. In more recent years, spinning and tatting have entered her realm of expertise. This has been an added joy. Since retirement she has been able to teach young girls and boys to knit as well as demonstrate spinning and carding. At the local Senior Activity center Bonnie has been able to help ladies refresh their knitting and crocheting skills and teach them to be more advanced knitters.
Ron Feld has been carving wood on and off since high school. His background includes a foreman in a wood furniture factory and owner of a photography studio for 30 plus years. He has seriously been carving for the last 20 years. Since retirement he has taken classes with ten different nationally known instructors. He is a member of the Kettle Karvers of Sheboygan. Most recently teaching elementary and youth students and adults at the Sheboygan Senior Center and Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival.
Katherine Hughes by day is a process development scientist in biotech, which pays enough to keep her in beads, wool and soap supplies. She started off knitting, which led (inevitably) to learning how to spin, along with an unreasonably large stash of fiber. She's always loved the skills that were necessary parts of life not long time ago: canning and preserving, spinning, making soap, etc. So Katherine does them for herself and teaches them to anyone interested.
Accomplishments? Ummmmmmm… she raised a really marvelous son who recently married an equally marvelous woman. She kind of thinks that’s enough for a lifetime.
Kathy Krause - The Krause’s started the family’s llama farm, Pine Knoll Llamas located in Clintonville, back in 1988. Kathy has been herd manager for several camelid farms in Wisconsin and has also shown throughout the U.S. The passion for fiber started with a llama outing where Kathy saw llama fiber being combed. An “internal switch” was flipped on that she says changed her life forever! She now shears around 50 llamas a year and processes about one half of those fleeces, so she always has fiber on hand. Kathy states that she loves every aspect of wool and all levels of processing, saying “There’s no greater joy than to take a fleece and to work with it to see the finished product.” She is one of the founders of “fiber thing”, an event that was held annually in Shawano, Wisconsin and still remains a committee member of the current “fiber thing” event now called “Winter Weekend Warm-up”. Kathy, and her husband Dick, have opened a retail yarn/spinning shop called The Copper Llama. The shop is located on their property in an old restored 1300 sq. ft. shed which offers a full line of yarns and accessories, rovings and fibers for the spinner/felter. Kathy is also a member of the Shawano Knitting Guild and Saxony Spinners. http://thecopperllama.com
Cheryl Stegert has been knitting, crocheting, weaving, spinning, tatting and teaching for well over 25 years. Passing on these traditional crafts is a passion for her and she hopes that her students will continue to pass it forward. Through her work in genealogy, weaving seems to be in her genes! She lives with her husband John and cats, Dexter and Woodrow in Appleton and spend the summers at their cottage near Crivitz. When not having yarn in her hand, Cheryl enjoys reading, walking, fishing, kayaking and canoeing. cstegert@new.rr.com
Carol Wagner - Carol Wagner has been spinning since 1988. She is passionate about all aspects of fiber....beginning with the animal, to washing, dyeing, spinning and finally knitting the yarn. She and her husband Paul raise Coopworth sheep and have a flock of 150 ewes. They also own Hidden Valley Woolen Mill near Valders where the goal is to assist the customer in the creative process. Carol is one of the founders of "fiber thing". http://www.hiddenvalleyfarmwoolenmill.com
Jane Carney studied at UW Oshkosh. She owned and operated her re-upholstery business for 20 years. In 1999, she closed her business and started teaching at the Fox Valley Technical College. Jane teaches Home Furnishings, Auto, Air and Machine re-upholstering classes. She also teaches home decor classes at the Waupaca Campus. As an artist, she does pottery, painting and cement castings, garden art, welding and glass making. Jane also does textile art projects – wool felting and many fiber arts projects. Her passion is to share her knowledge with others – Jane loves to teach!
Bonnie Feld has been knitting, crocheting and sewing most of her life. In more recent years, spinning and tatting have entered her realm of expertise. This has been an added joy. Since retirement she has been able to teach young girls and boys to knit as well as demonstrate spinning and carding. At the local Senior Activity center Bonnie has been able to help ladies refresh their knitting and crocheting skills and teach them to be more advanced knitters.
Ron Feld has been carving wood on and off since high school. His background includes a foreman in a wood furniture factory and owner of a photography studio for 30 plus years. He has seriously been carving for the last 20 years. Since retirement he has taken classes with ten different nationally known instructors. He is a member of the Kettle Karvers of Sheboygan. Most recently teaching elementary and youth students and adults at the Sheboygan Senior Center and Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival.
Katherine Hughes by day is a process development scientist in biotech, which pays enough to keep her in beads, wool and soap supplies. She started off knitting, which led (inevitably) to learning how to spin, along with an unreasonably large stash of fiber. She's always loved the skills that were necessary parts of life not long time ago: canning and preserving, spinning, making soap, etc. So Katherine does them for herself and teaches them to anyone interested.
Accomplishments? Ummmmmmm… she raised a really marvelous son who recently married an equally marvelous woman. She kind of thinks that’s enough for a lifetime.
Kathy Krause - The Krause’s started the family’s llama farm, Pine Knoll Llamas located in Clintonville, back in 1988. Kathy has been herd manager for several camelid farms in Wisconsin and has also shown throughout the U.S. The passion for fiber started with a llama outing where Kathy saw llama fiber being combed. An “internal switch” was flipped on that she says changed her life forever! She now shears around 50 llamas a year and processes about one half of those fleeces, so she always has fiber on hand. Kathy states that she loves every aspect of wool and all levels of processing, saying “There’s no greater joy than to take a fleece and to work with it to see the finished product.” She is one of the founders of “fiber thing”, an event that was held annually in Shawano, Wisconsin and still remains a committee member of the current “fiber thing” event now called “Winter Weekend Warm-up”. Kathy, and her husband Dick, have opened a retail yarn/spinning shop called The Copper Llama. The shop is located on their property in an old restored 1300 sq. ft. shed which offers a full line of yarns and accessories, rovings and fibers for the spinner/felter. Kathy is also a member of the Shawano Knitting Guild and Saxony Spinners. http://thecopperllama.com
Cheryl Stegert has been knitting, crocheting, weaving, spinning, tatting and teaching for well over 25 years. Passing on these traditional crafts is a passion for her and she hopes that her students will continue to pass it forward. Through her work in genealogy, weaving seems to be in her genes! She lives with her husband John and cats, Dexter and Woodrow in Appleton and spend the summers at their cottage near Crivitz. When not having yarn in her hand, Cheryl enjoys reading, walking, fishing, kayaking and canoeing. cstegert@new.rr.com
Carol Wagner - Carol Wagner has been spinning since 1988. She is passionate about all aspects of fiber....beginning with the animal, to washing, dyeing, spinning and finally knitting the yarn. She and her husband Paul raise Coopworth sheep and have a flock of 150 ewes. They also own Hidden Valley Woolen Mill near Valders where the goal is to assist the customer in the creative process. Carol is one of the founders of "fiber thing". http://www.hiddenvalleyfarmwoolenmill.com
