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BROWNFIELD — The Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts Workshop weekend will take place June 21-23 at the Brownfield Community Center, 90 Main St.

The three-day event runs Friday through Sunday. There are half-day classes and full-day classes. Participants can take just one class or as many as six classes.

Students are invited to gather before the morning session over refreshments to meet each other and the instructors and to view the exhibit of work on display. There is an hour lunch break between morning and afternoon sessions and students are welcome to stay after classes to visit and talk with the instructors.

Once again the ladies from Soldier Memorial Library in Hiram will provide an in-house lunch.

Classes include basket making, bookbinding, twined knitting, twisted stitches of Austria, introduction to Fair Isle knitting, knitting the leftie scarf, friendship slippers, needle felted animal pins, natural dyeing, working with angora, Waldorf dolls, nuno felted scarves, cobweb felted scarves, malleable felted bowl, jelly roll trivets, multi-media folk art rug hooking, punch needle miniature rugs, knitted log cabin rugs, wool jewelry techniques, beginning spinning, mixing color and fiber at the wheel, plying singles, carding textured art batts, spinning art yarns, locker hooking, making bears, weaving on a Weavette loom, inkle weaving, lucet braiding, wild scrap crochet carpets, fiber folk art dolls, tapestry weaving and photographing work.

Full information about each class and Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts can be found at www.pleasantmtfiber.com where there is also a printable registration form. To register print the form and send with a check so it will be received before June 15. To inquire about registering for a class after that date call 207-452-2687. Early registration is encouraged as classes are filling.

It will be possible to register for classes during the weekend if there are still openings.

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