Wire Sculpture by Adrienne Sloane

Level: All Skill Levels
Requirements: Basic knitting or Crocheting Skills preferred, but not necessary
Program: Winter
Status: Open
Length: 2 Days
Tuition: $ 300
Materials: TBA
Date: January 29, 2011 - January 30, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Metalwerx

This hands-on workshop will get students hooked on how versatile and exciting wire is as a medium and will entice them to explore it further. Using basic knit and crochet skills, participants will design their own small sculptures in beautiful colored wire adding beads and other found objects to make unusual and interesting pieces. The class will cover different approaches to creating stitches as well as resources, materials and design ideas.

Previous wire work not required but basic knit or crochet skills necessary.

You can see more of Adrienne's work on her website www.adriennesloane.com

Materials & Tools
There is no materials fee for this class. Wire will be available for purchase from the instructor as necessary.

Student Supply list:

• Bring size 2-8 metal knitting needles** (double pointed best)
• crochet hooks of similar sizes
• jewelry pliers (if you have them, Metalwerx has some available to share)
• 24-28 gauge wire as well as beads or other findings you would like to use if you have them. Materials will also be available for purchase from instructor as needed.
• This can be fine work so please bring magnifiers if you use them.

**Please note: It is not necessary to buy all the sizes of needles and crochet hooks. It is more a matter of what gauge stitch participants decide they are comfortable working with this craft wire. For those who haven't knit previously with wire, we suggest starting with the larger needles to get a feel for it, but usually people move smaller for creating some stability in the work.

Working with the hooks creates a more uniform stitch and the needles a more freeform look. So again, it will ultimately be knitters choice on tools.