Where our love of the Earth meets our love of the Arts
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My Specialties
Clausens Fibre Garden is a small family farm located in Grand Forks, in the Boundary Region of Southern British Columbia. Our goal is to share our passion for the Fibre Arts through hosting individual and group classes, workshops and retreats.
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My Work
I don’t remember a time when Fibre and Colour haven’t played an integral part of my life, My earliest memories of my Grandmother was my being with her, in her sitting room while I learned to embroider. Come enjoy a spinning, weaving, felting or anyone of our other wonderful workshops with us..
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My Inspiration
I remember always wearing a new hand knit sweater that my mother made each year to head off to school. When we sold our Sheep farm and moved north my husband promised one day we would get sheep again. So with retirement coming up fast we decided to buy our little farm and set all those dreams in motion.
Home Grown and Hand Made
Your Fibre Friends
Mark & Sue Clausen
Our Workshops
Bring your creative self
It’s All About Color - 6 hour day
$50
Come on out to the farm, and make your day as colorful as a box of crayons. Where we will take beautiful long locks and create a rainbow of colors all along the length of the locks,
Try your hand at creating a myriad of colors in a crock pot by adding just 3 simple colors, Feeling creative let’s do some silk scarf painting,
$50 includes lunch, Fees include 100g of raw fibre and 1 silk scarf, additional will be available for sale
Beginners Spinning - 3 day course
$150 + $35 materials
Would you like to learn to Spin – this is a 3 day fibre workshop where you will learn to spin wool from the Fleece on up, we will start with: Learn about your fibres and preparation for spinning; Learn your wheel and understanding the process
Spinning on a Drop Spindle or Support Spindle, Spinning on your Wheel,Plying your yarns, Assorted Plying demo’s
Evaluating your end product
Demos on Understanding your direction of twist & twists per inch, an assortment of Ply’s; & playing with assorted Exotic Fibre
Fun with Felting - 6 hour day
$50
The amazing part of felting is that wool will felt without you even trying, pick out your favorite Sunset photograph or a picture of your favorite flowers and we’ll turn it into a Scarf, we will learn how to apply the fibres and then the simplest techniques for felting them together.
Includes materials and lunch.
Happy Workshops, we hope you enjoy your experience with us!!