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June Guild Meeting          

           What: Tartan Weaving and a Waulking, by Anne Carroll Gilmore

           When: Saturday, June 6, 10:00 to 1:00, with potluck lunch

          Where: Pioneer Craft House, 3271 S 500 E · Salt Lake City

     Anne's presentation on Tartan weaving will last from 10:00 until 11:30. We will have a potluck lunch from 11:30 to 12:30, and then the waulking will be held at 12:30. Please plan to bring a potluck dish to share.

At our June Guild meeting, Anne will be giving a complete overview and demonstration of  Tartan  weaving techniques and methods. She will cover Tartan history and myths, adjusting thread counts for yarn size and project/Tartan type, tips for rhythmic and consistent/even beat, and many other useful weaving tidbits—such as several types of weft color changes and which ones are most effective to the project. Special twill selvage threading will be discussed, along with color theory as it applies to plaids.

We will briefly discuss the making of kilts and some attention will be given to women’s wear in the highlands which will include the design, folding, and wearing of the woman’s arisaid. This discussion will be accompanied by many handouts, so even if you are a seasoned weaver who knows 2/2 twill inside and out, Tartan weaving can be a  great color educator as well as the perfect vehicle for honing your basic weaving skills. We'll cap this with a traditional highland style "waulking," so come prepared to get damp and fuzzy!

Anne Carroll has been fascinated with interlacements of color and texture all her life. She was brought up in Colonial Williamsburg, a living history community in Virginia. She was introduced to traditional methods of fiber processing and fabric construction at an early age by renowned Scottish Master Weaver Norman Kennedy who was an interpreter there. She also began knitting and designing around the age of 8, and early intensive training in Scottish Tartan Weaving
served to hone her basic skills and helped to develop her noted eye for proportion and color harmony. She has been fortunate to study under some of the best teachers and mentors in textiles: Sharon Alderman, Kaffe Fassett, Randall Darwall and of course Norman Kennedy. She has worked in fiber full time for the past 18 years, and from her studio in the beautiful and inspiring mountains of Park City, Utah, for the past 13 years.

Basket for IWC

We will be collecting fiber-related items at the June Guild meeting for our Guild's IWC basket. At each conference, baskets are raffled off to
 raise money. Our Guild's basket will have the theme "A Tribute to Mary Atwater." We will have several items related to Mary Atwater, but
the basket will mostly be made up of yarn, fiber, or small pieces of fiber equipment. Would you please look through your stash and see if
you have anything you could donate. If we have more than will fit in one basket, we will donate the items for the IWC board to use in other
 baskets.
 

Silent Auction

A longtime member of our Guild, Roz McGee, has donated many of her books, yarns, and pieces of weaving equipment to the Guild in order
 to benefit the Guild and its members. We are deeply grateful to her for doing this. At our June meeting, we are going to have a silent auction
for the items she has donated. The auction will begin at 10:00 and be completed at the end of the lunch time. If anyone can come only to the
potluck lunch, they will still have a chance to bid on the items. There is a Gilmore wooden swift, bobbin winder, many copies of Handwoven
magazine, weaving books, etc. It will be worth coming to bid! The proceeds of the auction will go to the Guild.
   

 

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President’s Message 

   In case you haven't noticed, I really like the Guild! The members of this Guild have meant so much to me in so many different ways. Recently I received yet another benefit from some Guild members. I enjoy doing small stitchery projects, and I recently decided to make a set up embroidered pillowcases because I got spoiled using the ones made by my greatgrandmothers (I wore out all the ones they had made).
I began with a set of beautiful pillow cases cut from lengths of pillow tubing, made decades ago out of beautiful cotton. Charlene Lind had given me these lengths, which had belonged to her mother. (That's the first Guild member helping me.) Then I found a book on embroidery that I had checked out of the Guild library (that's #2), and I found a picture of some stylized embroidered flowers that I wanted to put on my pillowcases. I called ReNee Page because I knew she owned the book. She and I each looked at our own copies of the book, and ReNee told me the name of each stitch that had been used to create the flowers (#3).
I showed the design to Jane Ann Peters and told her what I planned to do with it, and she proposed a much better way of adapting it to the pillowcases (#4). Then I got an e-mail from ReNee, who had recently purchased an embroidery book and had found an unusual and very practical way of transferring an image to cloth (#5). The method is so simple and useful that I want to share it with you so that I can be one of the reasons you have learned something from a Guild member today!
Tulle transfer method: Place a piece of non-waxed kitchen paper (lunch wrap) or tissue paper over your design sheet. Next, place a piece of fine bridal tulle or netting over the tissue. Use a permanent black fine-tipped laundry marking pen to trace over the design elements, thereby transferring the desired pattern to the tulle. Allow the pen marks to dry for several minutes. Remove the pins and discard the paper (which was only there to protect the original pattern sheet). Set the original pattern sheet aside.
Pin the tulle securely to your embroidery fabric, and use a water erasable fabric marking pen to trace over the lines made by laundry marker. The fine holes in the tulle allow the tip of the marking pen to penetrate and thus mark the design elements onto your embroidery fabric.
The piece of tulle is now permanently marked with this design, so you will be able to use it again or perhaps use portions of the design on another project. You can also reverse the design by turning the tulle over. Clever, huh!
Thanks to all of you for the many ways you have enriched my life. I have loved serving as the Guild president over the past two years and look forward to many more years of associating with all of you.
Much love, Susan
 Susan Hainsworth

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