34th Annual Ft.Worden Kitemakers Conference

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1 34th Annual Ft.Worden Kitemakers Conference The Warm Beach Camp and Conference Center, Stanwood, Washington March 10, 11, 12, & 13, 2016 Check-in and registration begins on Thursday, March 10th, at 2:00 p.m in the Maple Center. Welcome to a weekend of fun, learning & kite building! We hope you are joining us for the 34 th conference. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. OUR TEACHERS are world class instructors, coming with interesting projects and ready to share their expertise. We welcome them and extend our thanks for their hard work in preparing classes for us. Our first-time conference instructors: Carsten Domann, Helene Morgan, the Thralls, Cindy and Rod, and Jon Trennepohl. Our international instructors: Robert Brasington, St. Helens, Tasmania, Australia, Carsten Domann, Berlin, Germany and Helene and Paul Morgan, Shropshire, United Kingdom. Dan Kurahashi, from Burnaby, BC, Canada, is techically also an international teacher but we all consider Dan as local! Returning local instructors: Barb Meyer, Deb Tumminia, Gerry Pennell, Cat Gabrel, and Bob & Charmayne Umbowers plus Mark Engbaum leading the Roundtable. The local teachers come from Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and Oklahoma. Our Staff: Sam & Cari King, Gerry Pennell, Rob Pratt, Maura & Bob Alford, Kara Zubal, Rod Beamguard, Mark Engbaum, and Charmayne Umbowers. IN ADDITION TO CLASSES: Kitemakers Reception: Stop by on Thursday evening after you check in for a light supper and an informal gathering. Meet instructors and greet old friends and welcome our newcomers. Details: Thursday, 5:00-9:00 p.m. in the Program Center Auditorium. Raffle: Be sure to visit the Raffle in the Cedar Lodge Chapel to make donations, check out the marvelous collection of kites and kite related items which will be raffled, and of course, buy tickets! (To comply with state law, tickets may only be sold to members.) Kara and her staff will make the raffle available Thursday afternoon through Saturday (including Friday evening until 9:00). Raffle drawings are held at meals; our fabulous raffle concludes Saturday evening, when every item is gone. See the web page for more details plus forms you can fill in before you arrive. It speeds the process. Evenings: After dinner and the raffle, you can visit or continue working on your kite project, check on the progress of other classes, check out the raffle room, buy extra class project kits as available. The evenings are open! Kitemakers Conference Annual Meeting: Registered attendees are strongly encouraged to contribute feedback on this year s conference and make suggestions, elect officers and volunteer for next year s conference. This is on Sunday (after lunch) in the Program Center Auditorium.

2 Ft. Worden Kitemakers Conference 2016 Class Offerings **see our web site classes page for large color photos & additional photos of all projects** Robert Brasington Powers Train kite St. Helens, Tasmania, Australia #1, all day Friday Robert is returning this year with yet another wonderful kite project. The Powers Train gets favorable comments wherever it is flown and we are privileged to be the first kite workshop to offer the Powers kite as a class. Your kit will have everything prepared so it will be a relatively straight forward assembly project plus Robert will help demystify the handling and use of organza. The end result will be an elegant kite with flowing tails which has the potential of being a train of 3. Individual kites are 130 cm wide by 80 cm high with a 3 meter long tail, made from ripstop nylon, organza, carbon and fiberglass. Students may choose one to three kites in their kit and their desired colors. Red, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, white, black and gray will be the available options. Robert will contact students. Choices need to be made by 12/31. (Limited choices past that date.) Enjoy watching the tails dance in gentle winds while you fly an original design by Robert in this simple and stylish butterfly kite. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 20 Fee: AUD$ for a single kite, AUD$ for 3 kites Conversion to US dollars in March, (Approximately US$65.00 and US$ in 10/2015. Note this may change!) Bring: Sewing machine and supplies* including black thread. Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Robert outside of class if you do not enroll for the Powers Train kite class. Robert Brasington Electric Slim kite St. Helens, Tasmania, Australia #2, all day Saturday and Sunday morning Robert has been building and flying kites for 25 years, teaching many kitebuilding workshops including multiple classes for Ft. Worden Kitemakers Conference. Join Robert for a day and a half class in which you will make one of Robert's signature kites, the Electric Slim. Taught originally in Stuttgart, Germany in 2015, you will use appliqué techniques, hem, fold, sew and then assemble your very own Brasington-designed Electric Slim. The kite is a very pleasing and popular design; it flies in light winds and is reliable in upper medium winds as well due to the 3 dihedrals and long, long streamer tails. The kite has a wing span of 2.1 meters and is 1.45 meters tall. Robert will contact students for choice of color combinations. He needs this before 12/31. Options will be limited past that date. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 20 Fee: AUD$ Conversion to US dollars in March, (Approximately US$95.00 in 10/2015. Note this may change!) Bring: Sewing machine and supplies* including black thread Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Robert outside of class if you do not enroll for the Electric Slim kite class. * See page 10 for supply suggestions.

3 Carsten Domann Trigon Box kite Berlin, Germany #3, all day Friday Carsten also has 25 years of kitebuilding experience and we welcome him as one of several new teachers at our Conference this year. He brings a cellular kite, an original design called the Trigon Box. He published the plan in December 2013 as an online workshop. About 30 kites were built as a result. Carsten also presented the Trigon Box in a German workshop in Your kit will be custom made for you with your choice of color to contrast the black center design of each panel. All the choices are on our web page under the classes tab (Carsten will contact students). Utilize appliqué and edgebinding techniques plus a very clean and simple reinforcement method to end up with a spectacular box kite with a single tow point. This kite will garner you many comments on the kite field as you fly it in moderate winds. It stands about 4 feet (122 cm) tall. You can combine several (or many!) of the boxes into various configurations. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 15 Fee: $70.00 Bring: Sewing machine and supplies* including black thread. A double fold bias tape binder will be helpful but is optional. Carsten will bring several Suisei A9S for students to purchase if desired. Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Carsten outside of class if you do not enroll for the Trigon Box kite class. Mark Engbaum Westport, Washington Bridles and beyond alias Kitemakers' Round Table #15, Sunday morning Our ever popular Sunday morning Round Table is your opportunity to join in an open discussion focused on specific kitebuilding topics. In 2016, master kitebuilder Mark Engbaum will lead us through the intricacies of bridles to demystify this vital part of every kite. Learn the function, types and styles, how to adjust them, lots of tips you will use each time you put a kite into the air. Detangle that pile of line into functioning bridles! This will be a two-way conversation, not just a lecture, so if you have ideas or questions, we want you to speak up. As always, if you have another kite building conundrum, bring it along; chances are good that Mark and your companion attendees will have an idea or two to help solve your problem. Bringing samples and examples of your problem is definitely encouraged. Level: All Class Size: unlimited Fee: $0.00 Bring: Paper and pen for notes, samples, examples, problems, ideas. * See page 10 for supply suggestions.

4 Cat Gabrel Stillwater, Oklahoma Giant Train of kites #4, Saturday all day Cat is yet another long time kite builder with many classes taught worldwide, including Ft. Worden. She is a no-sew kite expert and this time brings us her plastic diamond kite train. A small kite made huge by sheer numbers! You have two design options: 1) all white, left plain or decorated at home prior to class with Sharpies and 2) a rainbow colored train decorated with the word dragon in Kanji. The rainbow train can be a set of either 60 or 70 diamonds. Cat will contact students. Materials are plastic skins, bamboo spars and tape. Saturday morning will be spent building your kites. Working with a friend is a great idea as you are building kites. There is an old adage many hands make for light work! Saturday afternoon is reserved for the assembly of your individual diamond kites into the train. Again, 2 or 3 people working together make the train assembly process smoother and quicker. On your own? That will work, too! Having a really long train in your kite bag is wonderful on light wind days. Become a train engineer! Trains are show stoppers and loved the world over. Join Cat for a day and leave the sewing to someone else! Level: All Class Size: 20 Fee: $66.00 for the white 60 kite train kit $58.00 for the Kanji Rainbow 60 kite train kit $62.00 for the Kanji Rainbow 70 kite train kit Bring: Bring your favorite tool for pressing down Scotch tape plus a good tape dispenser, if available, although tape will be provided in the kits. Also a smooth flat surface for taping (small cutting mat) would be nice to have. Dan Kurahashi Burnaby, BC, Canada Japanese Rokkaku kite #5, all day Friday and all day Saturday Do you need a really impressive wall hanging or an authentic Japanese seven foot tall paper kite to fly? Then we have the perfect class! Dan is our resident Japanese kitebuilder with over 50 years of kitemaking experience and he has been one of our teachers for 29 of 34 conferences plus he's taught at many other workshops. This year Dan is offering 3 sizes of traditional Japanese kite-paper Rokkaku skins made and painted in Shirone by a Japanese kite artist. Each kite skin is unique and you will be given your choice of design from those Dan has available in each size. Dan has a finite number of skins in each size. He will contact students for their size and design choice. The two days of class will be spent turning the kite skin into an actual kite. This includes using the proper techniques for finishing the skin and learning how to bridle the Shirone Rokkaku. Whether it be a kite to fly high in the sky or to adorn a wall, this is an opportunity to finish a true work of art with Dan as your expert instructor. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

5 Dan Kurahashi, continued from page 3 Level: All Class Size: 12 Fee: $ inch high Rokkaku skin and kit including fiber glass poles $ foot high (2.1 meter x 1.8 meter) Rokkaku skin and kit including fiber glass poles $ foot high Rokkaku skin and kit including fiber glass poles Bring: Straight edge, scissors, knife, white carpenter s glue, clothes pins (20 or so), old newspapers to protect the table, medical gloves to protect your fingers from glue. Barb Meyer Maple Grove, Minnesota Swallowtail Delta kite #6, all day Friday Another teacher with 25 years of kite building experience is Barb. She is bringing a wonderful delta kite to make on Friday. This kite was designed by Lee Toy, enlarged to 7 feet tall and 7 feet wide, and simplified in the sparring and rigging by Barb. The kit includes spars, pockets, reinforcements, edge binding and all else needed to complete the kite and has an option to come with fabric or not. You are encouraged to design and piece or decorate your own fabric at home before the Conference. You will cut it out and construct the kite in class. A single color body needs 2.5 yards of fabric with 2.25 yards for the tail. Barb will contact students with design suggestions and dimensions. Should you desire, you can opt for the kit with a precut skin and have a plain Swallowtail with a vertical seam. Just let her know. Join the Keystone Kiters and the U-Make group who have also built Barb's Swallowtail. Barb warns to be prepared for lots of edge finishing but you will be happy to have this showy light wind kite next time you hit the beach! Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 15 Fee: $ without fabric $ or 2 color pre-cut kit including fabric Bring: Sewing machine and supplies* including black thread, thread to match sail, saw, hot cutter, snap blade knife, glue *See page 10 for supply suggestions.

6 Helene Morgan Shropshire, United Kingdom Tapered ba 6 kite #7 all day Saturday Choose 3 colors and either a symmetrical or asymmetric design prior to the class via . Come spend a fun day with professional kite builder Helene Morgan. Go home with a finished carbon framed kite with a matching tail. Spend happy hours at the beach watching your Tapered ba 6 kite fly. That is the short version. The long version? Helene returns to us for the 4 th time with yet another interesting project. This time Helene is in charge and Paul is the assistant! This dynamic pair has been making kites professionally for over 30 years. Helene will contact students for their choices and will have your customized kit precut and ready to go. Once you have finished the kite, you get to have more fun and personalize it further by adding stars, tassels, polka dots, whatever! It is another large kite, 2.1 meters tall with a wing span of 1.4 meters, or 7' x 4' 8. The angle of flight is good and it will do well in a wide wind range. Besides, it will look stunning in the sky! The kite and class will be well worth your time; you will learn, have fun, and take home a beautiful kite. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 20 Fee: $90.00 Bring: sewing machine and supplies* including your favorite marking method, pins or glue, ruler, favorite spar cutter Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Helene outside of class if you do not enroll for the Tapered ba 6 kite class. *See page 10 for supply suggestions.

7 Paul Morgan Shropshire, United Kingdom Telephone Box kite #8, all day Friday We give Paul a warm welcome back as he returns for a fourth Ft. Worden. Paul brings a pair of box kites to choose from: a classic British telephone box or Dr. Who s Tardis/police box. They are both single-celled boxes having different details and stand 1.2 meters or about 4 feet tall. Either choice should be ready to fly by day's end and students will be contacted in advance for their choice. The telephone box will have 4 pre-marked panels; these need hot cutting to form all the windows. Only simple sewing and appliqué of preprinted panels will be needed. The Tardis/police box will have 4 pre-marked panels as well. More appliqué is required on this kite but no hot cutting. You will appliqué pre-printed panels and strips of fabric for shadowed paneling. Join Paul to make a traditional British street fixture that will be completely non-traditional in the sky. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 20 Fee: $90.00 Bring: sewing machine and supplies*. Additionally for both kites you will need threads, favorite marking method, pins or glue, ruler, favorite spar cutter. For the telephone box, you will need a hot knife or soldering iron. Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Paul outside of class if you do not enroll for the Telephone box kite class. Gerry Pennell Olympia, Washington The Starting Point #9, Friday morning Gerry's 4 hour class is the starting point Friday morning for beginner kitebuilders and kite sewers alike. Learn basic must-know kite building information and invaluable hints and tricks. She will discuss helpful tools and basic how to s for kite sewing and will take students from I want to sew a kite" to "I made this kite!. You will do exercises to become familiar with the sewing machine and make either the wonderful Greger Hip Pocket Hybrid sled kite or a windsock. Gerry's class is also worthwhile for those wishing to brush up on sewing skills before continuing on to other sewing classes. Note: Extra kits will be available to work on in class, in the afternoon, or as a take home project for enrolled students. Level: Beginning Class Size: 10 Fee: Windsock $15.00 Kite $20.00 Bring: Bring a working sewing machine and know how to thread it and wind a bobbin. Instruction booklet is always good to have handy. Also bring 100% polyester thread, small scissors, glue stick, pins, and general sewing notions. Equipment will be available to use in class. *See page 10 for supply suggestions.

8 Cindy Thrall Portland, Oregon Let s Create an Asian Style Banner #10, all day Friday & all day Saturday Welcome Cindy for the first time at Ft. Worden! She offers a unique banner idea for us. Start with six white ripstop nylon rectangles, each 18" x 24" and some basic information from Cindy regarding color and design. Then it is 1, 2, 3, create! She will bring fabric paints in pots, tubes and spray bottles, Design Master spray paints & dyes, fabric inks, all manner of masking materials, stamps & stencils, webbing spray paint, and additional colors of.75 oz ripstop should you choose to appliqué onto your white panels. It will be your choice as to whether you have 6 individual techniques, one technique throughout, similar panels, totally varying panels, a progression of an idea, etc. Your banner, your design, your choices. Even though the banner will be grounded, the sky is the limit for your imagination and creativity. Once your white panels are finished, 6 black panels of heavier ripstop nylon will get sewn to them. This could be a hard decision only you can decide which white panel goes into which position! All in a day's creative work! Your finished banner will be 16.5' tall x 24" wide. Your kit includes the 18 foot banner pole with top arm. Join Cindy for 2 days of fun. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 10 Fee: $95.00 for banner kit and pole with art supplies for in-class use. Bring: sewing machine and supplies* plus a respirator if you want to use Design Master paints or dyes. Rod Thrall Portland, Oregon Jordan Airform 27 kite #11, all day Saturday Rod joins Cindy as another first time teacher for us. Both bring two decades of kitebuilding and teaching expertise. Rod will assist students in building a 27 square foot Jordan Airform. Before the Conference, you will be able to design how your kite will look and execute that design on what will become the face of the Airform. In class, Rod will teach the assembly requirements and techniques for a foil type kite that can be used in the construction of any foil type kite you may want to build in the future. In addition there will be discussion surrounding the design of foils and some variations to the build. You will use your decorated (or plain!) face to complete the Airform. The kit will include all rib sections, the keels and a white back for the kite along with all other materials needed to complete the kite. Students supply the face fabric. Rod will contact students in advance of class. Are you hesitant to build a foil style kite on your own? Let Rod show you how easy a foil is to build and put the Jordan Airform 27 in your kitebag. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 10 Fee: $50.00 which includes the $20.00 license fee for Dean Jordan Bring: sewing machine and supplies* including fabric pencils and a long straight edge Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Rod outside of class if you do not enroll for the Jordan Airform 27 kite class. *See page 10 for supply suggestions.

9 Jon Trennepohl Plymouth, Michigan TYRO Ultralight kite #12 all day Friday and Saturday Jon is another kite builder coming to us for the first time. He also has 25 years of experience and gave this workshop it's trial run at the Maryland Kite Society retreat in It is a suspended wing delta built from.06 ounce polyester Icarex and.125 carbon tubes. Day one will be spent sewing the two sails using ¼ flat felled seams and rolled hems. Day two will be spent finishing the sails, if necessary, and then go on to framing and bridling your kite. The TYRO was designed by Jon and Wayne Brunjes as an indoor kite which you will be happy to fly outside on those no wind/light wind days, too. Once the wind fills in you can attach a drogue to your TYRO and keep on moving it through the sky. Level: Intermediate and Experienced Class Size: 25 Fee: $85.00 Bring: sewing machine and supplies* including size and 14 sewing machine needles, razor knife or snap-off blade knife. Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Jon outside of class if you do not enroll for the TYRO Ultralight kite class. Deb Tumminia Lincoln City, Oregon 12-Cell Gobel Star kite #13, Saturday all day and Sunday morning Deb offers an old-school kite for us this year. Bill Gobel designed this 12-cell star kite many years ago when hot cutting, no edgebinding and wood dowels were the norm for kite building. Spend the day on Saturday plus Sunday morning working with Deb, utilizing her 35 years of kite building knowledge, designing your kite, choosing colors, hot cutting pieces and sewing everything together. The Gobel Star was always a beautiful kite in the sky and yours is sure to be as well! Level: All Class Size: 15 Fee: $85.00 Bring: sewing machine and supplies* including a hot knife Note: Extra kits will be available for purchase. Please see Deb outside of class if you do not enroll for the Gobel Star kite class. *See page 10 for supply suggestions

10 Bob and Charmayne Umbowers Gig Harbor, Washington Jolly Roger kite #14, all day Saturday Last in our line-up of classes is our Logo kite. The Jolly Roger is a Top Flite design many of us remember flying during our childhood days. Small, made from paper with wood sticks, the Hi-Flier, Alox, and Top Flite kites were basically disposable due to their fragile nature and all those kite-eating trees we could not seem to avoid. Running with the kite and usually too much wind did not help either. Not the one Bob and Charmayne will be presenting! You will build a ripstop nylon and carbon spar diamond kite five feet wide and nearly 6 feet tall. The Jolly Roger will be edge bound and have 3.9 ounce Dacron reinforcements for durability and a dihedral to join the spreaders. After completing the kite, you will add the skull and crossbones design using reverse appliqué. As always Bob will be showing you methods you can use on future kites and Charmayne will show good edgebinding and appliqué techniques. Bob and Charmayne also stand with many of our other teachers with their quarter century of kite building experience and many years of teaching classes. Spend the day to make your classic but updated and modern Jolly Roger kite. This kite is always a wonderful kite in the sky whether you are flying kites by yourself or at a festival. Level: All Class Size: 15 Fee: $70.00 for kite and bag Bring: sewing machine and supplies* including black thread and small, pointed-tip scissors for appliqué *See page 10 for supply suggestions.

11 Attention, please! Aufmerksamkeit, bitte! Attenzione, per favore! Attention, S'il Vous Plaît! Important information which can help you! A few important notes: Look for actual photographs of the projects and updates on the web at Illustrations in this brochure are not to scale to each other. We want everyone to have a great experience. If you have questions about your ability to handle a class, please read our skill level ratings on the Skill Level Information Sheet. Our registrar will be happy to help you with class suggestions appropriate to your level. Just ask! Once you secure a place on a class list, you've committed to taking that class. In fairness to the instructor, it is expected that you will reimburse him or her for materials purchased and prepared for you, even if you don't participate in the class. Class materials fees must be paid for with cash (exact amount appreciated) at the start of class. Please, no checks. Are you wondering what "sewing machine and supplies" refers to? Here is some help... "Sewing machine" means a working, well-tuned sewing machine complete with foot control, power cord, needles and bobbins and bobbin case. It is, of course, best to be familiar with your machine. Spending a few evenings of learning and practice if you are a beginning sewer or have a new machine will be of great benefit to you come class time. Be sure to tuck your instruction book in with the machine. The 'don't leave home without it' rule is always a good one for instruction books! "Supplies" refers to the sewing related supplies we normally use at home when making a kite. Sewing your kite skin? Then these supplies can include extra machine needles, extra bobbins, a seam ripper, Scotch tape, double sided tape, needle threader, seam gauge, scissors for trimming threads, scissors for appliqué, beeswax, assorted colors of good thread plus black & white, etc. Before and after sewing, you may be happy to have brought a straight edge, cutting tools for fabric and rods and appropriate cutting surfaces, hot knife or hot pen, Super Glue and accelerant. Nearly every teacher has suggested we ask their students to bring high quality thread and a freestanding light. A pencil and notebook plus a camera are always good to have with you, too. So are an extension cord & multiple outlet strip. Does the description indicate a possibility of making copies of the instructor's templates? If so, bring a roll of wide paper to trace those templates. It is a wonderful opportunity to build another kite at home and not have to draft your own pattern. Is this the whole list; is this everything? NO! Do you have to bring absolutely everything listed here? NO! Bring what you use at home, what you think you may use, maybe even what you think you should leave at home. A special note for those participants who need to fly into Seattle... We know it is hard to bring all your supplies plus a sewing machine. Think about packing your supplies and borrowing a machine for the weekend. Many of us have spare machines. Ask us for help if this is the only reason you are not attending! Or come try us out and take the non-sewing classes we offer.