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                 May Guild Meeting

                          What: Huck Lace, by Deanna Baugh

                          When: Thursday, May 10, 6:30 p.m.

                          Where: South Valley Unitarian Church

Greetings Weavers! Our May meeting will be all about Huck Lace. Deanna Baugh has graciously agreed to lead our discussion on Huck Lace weaves. Deanna is so knowledgeable about weaving in general, and we very grateful to be able to learn from her.

If you have any samples of your own or someone else’s weaving, please feel free to bring them to the meeting on May 10. It should prove to be most informative, and who knows? Maybe one of us will weave up a beautiful lace mug rug or placemat for next month’s challenge reveal!

Please feel free to bring anything you made in the Fiber Festival workshops to share during Show and Tell so that we can all learn from each other.

Happy weaving, Sonya Campana v

 

June 16    Potluck Lunch and Guild Challenge Reveal, Susan Hainsworth's home

 

President's Message

President’s Message
Cheers to Mimi Rodes and the many ladies of the Guild who helped Mimi put together an instructive and fun-filled Fiber Festival. Joanne Tallarovic earned high marks for sharing weaving tips that she has learned over many years as a weaver. She also shared stories (not always related to weaving) that kept us laughing. A very special thank-you to Joanne for allowing us to enroll all the Guild members who wished to participate, and a big thank-you to Judie Eatough and Deanna Baugh, who helped Joanne with thread repairs and one-on-one instruction. We had over 20 participants
instead of the usual limit of 15.
On the last day as one of the particularly difficult warps was finished, a large group of weavers queued up to weave their last sample. Someone suggested we weave this last sample in pairs, with one person to read the treadling sequence while the other wove. In this manner, almost everyone finished, and some made arrangements to go to Sonya’s home to weave while Sonya recuperates from knee surgery. The Fiber Festival took place at the Pioneer Craft House, and we had a special surprise there. Bill Hughes, who teaches flute making, donated one of his flutes for a drawing on Sunday and then surprised us again with another drawing at the end of the workshop. The lucky winners were Sonya Campana and Diane Haueter. We learned, we laughed, we shared, and we were all winners.
Looking forward, Deanna Baugh will be teaching us about Huck Lace in May. This is such a fun structure, and Deanna has a lot of experience and knowledge to share with us.
In June we have the exhibit of our Guild challenge and potluck at Susan Hainsworth’s home in Centerville. I heard some of the weavers saying that they would use the warp left on their looms to make a placemat, and I know some already have their placemat or mug rug finished. For those of you who have not woven something, you still have five weeks. But, even if you are not able to complete the challenge, please join us for the last fling of the year.
—Jo Stolhand 

  

On Line Study Group.  Now is the time to finish up Lessons #1 and #2.  When you have uploaded your drafts for a lesson, send an email to the list commenting on your experience.   Lesson #3 will be going on the web site right after the fiber festival.  Lesson #3 is about 3- and 4-shaft twills.  After seeing all of the wonderful twills this last month, this should be lots of fun.  

You can start at any point in this study.  Just start with the current lesson and go back as time allows.  Learning about weaving is not linear -- so you can start anywhere.  

You need
1.  to have internet,
2. be on the guild yahoo list,
3. have weaving software; OR use a demo programs (Fiberworks or PixeLoom have both Mac and Windows demos);  OR WeaveDesign for Windows (a donationware program);   OR Wif 'n Proof (www.WIFnProof.com) or iWeaveIt (App Store) for Ipad, Android, etc. ; OR scan your paper and pencil draft. 

I will put the information on the yahoo list.  The introduction assignment will be available there.  All of the work is virtual weaving unless you want to actually weave a sample or project.  You will participate by uploading wif files to the yahoo group folders,  or by uploading a picture of your draft from the screen print if you are using a demo, or by scanning a pencil and paper draft.  The drafts do not need to be original and you can use books, etc as you learn about the various structures.  The first assignment (the introduction) will be due by January 10th. 

 

Slide Shows, PDF files.   Close the little pop up window if Play does not work on your computer.

Beautiful Fibers, April 2011, Guild Show
September Guild Meeting, 2011

Guild Challenge

The Guild board made a decision to issue a challenge to the Guild for the upcoming year. We would like each member to participate by weaving a placemat or mug rug, and we will have a showing at one of our meetings late in the spring, probably a potluck luncheon in June. Further, we are asking experienced weavers to design something new, and those of us with less experience to use a structure we have not tried before. It was suggested that we could use our product at the
lunch�so whether you design a mug rug or a placemat might be dependent on whether you want to eat from a mug or a plate! Our new treasurer, Lori Webb, thought that with the wonderful foods that we have at our potlucks, she might make a tablecloth!

To Join The Guild's Yahoo! Group Email List: follow these directions.

 To join the list send, an email to MMAWG-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and an email to judie@eatough.net with your name and e-mail address so I can okay your membership. You do not need to be a member of the Guild to join the Yahoo group e-mail list. And you can ask or answer fiber questions on the list. This is a great place to get questions answered during the summer. When someone lets me know about a loom for sale, I post this information to the list.

November 2011 Workshop Information

File 1            File 2      Download these files for workshop directions and drafts.   For ?'s, judie@eatough.net

               




               These are two of the charted designs from the
                 Mary Meigs Atwater Recipe Book CD
            These were designed for use as double weave pickup.

 

 

 

 

 

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