Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit
About Freestyle Weaving for the Creative Spirit
Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple, easy-to-use floor loom. Experiment with color, texture, and technique, and take home a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!).
What will students learn:
Students will learn the basic skills of freestyle weaving on a highly approachable, easy-to-use two-harness floor loom. The class will emphasize individual exploration of color and texture in the service of personal expression; a few simple weaving techniques will be taught along the way. Students will take home what they weave.
Materials, Equipment, and Supplies the Student Must Bring to Class
N/a; instructor will provide all necessary tools and materials. If students want to bring something personally meaningful to them to incorporate into their weaving if possible, they're welcome–indeed, encouraged–to do so. Some past examples: specialty paper, pieces of jewelry (this is a fun use for unmatched earrings and stray pendants), locks/fleece (washed and dried), handspun yarn (handspun of all sorts weaves up wonderfully), dyed or undyed fiber, leftover quantities of treasured yarn too small to knit or crochet into a finished item. Otherwise, students just need to bring their willingness to experiment and explore--and to practice imperfection!
Materials Kit and Kit Description
Your class registration fee includes a materials kit with a value of $65 which includes:
Use of warped two-harness floor loom and associated tools (shuttles, bobbins, etc.); use of a wide variety of different weaving materials (yarn, embroidery floss, fabric scraps, fiber, trim, Mylar, etc.); all cloth woven in class. Each student will also get a bag of fibery treasures to keep; these can be used in class, in a future weaving, or both. And of course, students will take home whatever they weave!
Pre-class Homework
None
Age Range
Minimum age requirement for workshop: 12
Skill Level
All Levels
What skills or knowledge do students need to take this workshop?
No previous experience with weaving required (though experienced weavers are as welcome as complete novices). Freestyle weaving is intended to be accessible to everyone, no matter their level of skill or knowledge. Class open to students 12 years old and up; students must be tall enough to reach the floor pedals on the looms and able to focus for the duration of the class.
Contact the Teacher
Send a direct message from the teacher's profile page with any questions you might have about the class.
When
Single 3-hour live in-person seminar.
Class Location
Classroom 1
How It Works
Register and enroll above. Enrollment is not complete until payment is made on the next page, by credit card or Paypal via our secure platform. Enrolled students will receive an immediate email confirmation of enrollment..
Refund Policy: To cancel an enrollment or request a refund, contact [email protected]. For 30+ days before, we refund 95%. Between 30 and 5 days, receive a 75% refund. No refunds within 5 days of class start date.
Liza Q. Wirtz
Liza Q. Wirtz, better known as Q (aka the Chief Feline), runs multifaceted fiber-arts business The Foldout Cat from her home studio in Alabama with the frequent and welcome assistance of partners Fiber J and Maker J and the help of a fluctuating number of cats.
Back to Carolina FiberFestAbout Lessonface, PBC & the Carolina FiberFest
Lessonface's mission is to help students achieve their goals while treating teachers equitably. Since 2012, we've hosted more than 30,000 students and 2,000 teachers for over 500,000 music, language, and arts lessons and classes online. The 20th annual Carolina FiberFest is March 13-14, 2026 at the NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh NC. Workshops will be held Thurs. March 12 - Sat. March 14, 2026.