HI all.... I just joined this group and am going to jump right in. That Weave-zine article lead to teaching a class on weaving with wire. I've taught landscape design and knitting but never weaving-- I've only been on the student end of that relationship!  This will be a 7 hour class and I imagine we'll break a bit for lunch. Students are supposed to be comfortable weaving on an RH loom.  I wonder if I could get a little advice on a few things:

What's  the right balance of talking/demoing and hands on weaving?  I'm thinking about half hour demo/lecture bits with an hour of weaving time in between.  We'd end up with about 3 hours of weaving and a half hour of figuring out warps, designs and so forth.  About an hour for introductions and class overview and then a half hour each of talk on warping, weaving and finishing.

Do you think it's better to go over  a lot at first or to get warping and weaving right away? The way I have it set up now, it'd be a little over an hour before students get their hands on the wire.

Do you think I should I bring my loom and warp it there so they can see the process or bring it warped so there's something to demo on? I can always demo warping on a student's loom, but have sort of mixed feelings about that when it happens to me.

Any advice would be helpful! Thanks!!    

marie

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ingamarie

Well that went pretty well. .. I taught the class today.  :)

marie

bolivian warmi

So glad to hear it went off well. I suppose you learned a lot from it yourself. Were your instincts on track? Hope you get a lot more gigs in the future.

Laverne 

Silverwheelyarn (not verified)

How did it go?  What did you do you liked and what would you do different? 

ingamarie

Well, it went well. We all had fun. I wish I had had a more realistic idea of how experienced the students were-- I overestimated what they knew.  OTOH they were all very eager to get going.   But I would have started with  plain weave (we were doing basketweave) and then built up to it more.  And I think probably I'll spend more time on some basics next time.  marie

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