About Workshop Instructors
2026 Instructors
Kira Dulaney
Kira Dulaney has been teaching fiber arts classes since 2002 and travels across the country. Her teaching focuses on providing valuable information in a stress-free environment and supporting students through the learning process. Kira designs knitting and crochet patterns and kits that are interesting to make and easy to wear.
@kirakdesigns on Instagram and Ravelry; @kiradulaney on YouTube; http://www.facebook.com/kirakdesigns
Kira is teaching the 2026 workshops:
Visible Mending with Speedweave Looms & Embroidery
Rima Greer
Rima is the owner of Eureka Fabrics, head of the Costume Department of North Coast Dance, sewing pattern designer, sewing & design teacher, spinner, weaver, tatter, and all around textile obsessive. In 2026 she began studying Italian needle lace in Venice, because she needs more fiber things to do...
https://eurekafabrics.com/
www.facebook.com/eurekafabrics
www.instagram.com/eurekafabrics
www.youtube.com/eurekafabrics
Rima is teaching the 2026 workshops:
Sewing for Handweavers & Upcyclers
Learn to Spin on a Hand Spindle
Make Beautiful Lace with Needle Tatting
Angelina Gregorio
"I've been a fiber artist for over 20 years, including knitting, needle felting, dyeing, and spinning. I enjoy the full spectrum of processing natural fibers, and I'm fascinated by the idea that with sticks and string, we can transform our world. Join me to learn the basics of this ancient and satisfying craft."
Angelina is teaching the 2026 workshop:
Beginning Spinning on a Spinning Wheel
Linda Hartshorn
Linda Hartshorn is a weaver and dyer known for lively color and dyework in her handwoven textiles. Linda taught workshops nationwide for over twenty years and continues to teach weaving classes locally. Linda weaves and dyes at her home in Bayside.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LindaHartshornWeavingandDyeing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indigoweaver
Website: http://www.lindahartshorn.com
Linda is teaching the 2026 workshop
Warp Painting for Weavers
Janet Heppler
Janet Heppler has been a fiber artist for over 45 years. She is a weaver, spinner and dyer. Her business is Nebo-Rock Textiles. She has taught dye classes for the Oregon Mycological Society, SOMA camp, Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, and local fiber guilds. Her big passion is collecting dye mushrooms and sharing that knowledge.
Janet is teaching the 2026 workshops:
Dyeing Yarn with Mushrooms
Dyeing Yarn with Lichens
Kay Sennott & Jane Cipra
Kay Jane
Kay Sennott is a practiced fiber artist with experience in textile design, weaving, spinning, knitting, natural dyeing, botanical printing, and basketry. Her background includes a textile degree as well as craft.
Jane Cipra is a botanist, painter, and textile artist with experience in botanical identification and a variety of arts and crafts. Jane is experienced in natural dyeing, block printing, sewing and embroidery.
Email address: ksennott@gmail.com
Kay & Jane are teaching the 2026 workshops:
Botanical Printing
Tracy Shapiro
Tracy is a traditional fiber artist, historian, and teacher with a passion for exploring
little-known folk and fiber arts. Along with studying with traditional artists, she continues
her own research to bring these crafts and the cultures that created them to life and
share them with others.
redwoodcoastartsandcrafts@gmail.com
Tracy is teaching the 2026 workshop:
Basic Double-Walled Oblique Woven (Plaited) Basket Weaving
April Sproule
April Sproule is an award winning textile artist with a lifelong passion for fabric, design, and making. In her workshops, she makes complex techniques approachable, guiding students through creating and embellishing textiles while encouraging creative voice. Her supportive, engaging style builds confidence and elevates each artist’s practice.
April is teaching the 2026 workshops:
Creating Patches, Pins, and Pendants with Stitching
Creative Mending with Boro Style Stitching
Hope Wright
Hope Wright learned felting from Carin Engen has been wet felting for 20 years now. Hope says, "It is great fun to have some roving and be able to turn it into something beautiful and/or useful. I love to teach folks how to do this."
Hope is teaching the 2026 workshops:
Wet Felting Fun