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June Guild Meeting
June Guild Meeting
When: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 10:00 to 2:00
Where: Pioneer Craft House, 500 East 3300 South
What: Warp Painting, by Deanna Baugh
The June 14th meeting is our last one for the summer. We
will be meeting at the Pioneer Craft House on Saturday,
June 14, from 10:00 to 2:00. We are planning a potluck
luncheon with the Guild providing the main dish, drink,
and paper products. Please bring a side dish or dessert.
We also will show the results of our Guild Challenge, so
please bring the fiber project you have created. (If you
are still working on yours, please see the article about
the Guild Challenge in this newsletter). We all are
looking forward to see what everyone has created from
their stash using the pictures we picked out at the
beginning of the year as our source of inspiration.
We will then have a demonstration by Deanna Baugh about
how to paint warps and what dyes to use. Deanna has
provided instructions for how to prepare a warp that you
can paint during the meeting. You can also come without
a warp just to watch and learn.
Instructions from Deanna for preparing the warp: We will
be using Procion MX fiber reactive dyes, which work on
cotton and other cellulose-based fibers. For the warp, I
have designed a towel with painted warp stripes. You
will measure the warp for the stripes and bring it to
the meeting to paint. After the dye is set and the warp
is dry, you will warp it with an unpainted ground. The
towels will have stripes of painted warp and stripes of
lace. I will have copies of the draft for you at the
meeting. The pattern is from Marguerite Davidson's
Swedish lace weaving patterns.
Using 10/2 or 8/2 cotton yarn, measure a warp 3½ yards
long. This will make three towels. You will need to
measure 120 ends. This is for two stripes, plus an extra
end for each stripe in case one thread breaks.
You will want to loosely tie the start loop and end
loop, also the cross, and at least 3 or 4 additional
places along the warp. I like to use a loose chain
stitch or a multiple figure eight type tie. Keep the
ties loose enough that you don't get "tie-dye." To
complete the towels, you will need between 12 and 16
ounces of yarn. You can use white, natural, or any light
color so that the dye will show up. The cost of the dye
will be $1.00 per warp, or $1.00 per ounce of warp if
you make a longer warp. (Please contact Deanna
beforehand if you want to do a longer warp.)
Bring a roll of plastic wrap, and a plastic bucket or
tub to take your warp home in. Also, you will not want
to wear your favorite clothes; wear your "painting/dye"
clothes. You can also bring sponge brushes, rubber
gloves, and an apron if you have them. -- Susan
Hainsworth
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President’s Message
The Guild received notification
from the Utah Arts Council that we have been awarded
a $1,900 grant for the 2010 Utah Fiber Arts
Conference. I am very grateful to Marty Nielsen, who
wrote the grant, and to the Utah Arts Council for
the support they have given us over many years.
Sherry Waddingham retired on June 1 after 31 years
of service as the grants officer for the Utah Arts
Council. I spoke to her before she retired and
expressed the Guild's appreciation for her dedicated
help. She told me that our Guild is very well
respected by the council and that we do unique and
valuable things in our community. I was pleased to
get this good feedback from her, and I know I have
determined to be more grateful for the support we
receive from the state in our important efforts.
The studio tour was so very inspiring. We have
astounding weavers in our Guild, and it was very
helpful to see how they organized their studios and
how they work. I learned several things: (1) No
matter how much yarn I buy, I still don't have
enough (Teri Jo's studio); (2) I may seriously need
a beautiful but expensive new loom, the Louet Megado
(Karna's studio); (3) It's okay to have your studio
be all over your house (Patti's studio). Thanks so
much to Patti, Teri Jo, and Karna, who spent lots of
time getting their beautiful studios ready so that
we could be inspired by them.
I have my Guild Challenge project ready to bring to
the June meeting, and I know that many others also
have projects ready or are hurrying to get them
done. My project is made from my stash (except for a
few skeins of embroidery floss), and I have a
picture that goes with my project (I found the
picture after the project was finished). Please
don't tell anyone about my little variations from
the rules, but please do bring your own projects to
our warp painting meeting so that we can all learn
from each other and be inspired.
I want particularly to mention our Guild show coming
up in January and February of 2009 at the Utah
Cultural Celebration Center. Our show is about six
weeks earlier than usual, which means that it's only
seven months away. If you're like me, fiber projects
take time, so please start now to weave, knit, dye,
make baskets, etc. As part of the show, we will have
a small room containing historical textiles. If you
know of any beautiful older textiles, please let me
know, and we can consider including them in the
show. As far as the contemporary pieces, you can
make them in any type of fiber and any form, as long
as they are of high quality. Two years ago, this
show was seen by over 2,500 people, and the
Celebration Center was thrilled with both the
quality of the show and the viewer response. This is
such a great opportunity for us to share our art
forms with the public. So please start thinking now
about what you will enter. And remember, you can
certainly enter more than one piece! We have had a
wonderful year together in this remarkable Guild,
and I look forward to many more years of association
with all of you! Love to all of you, Susan ❖
Susan Hainsworth
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Guild Challenge for 2007-2008
• Choose a
picture that stimulates your creative senses.
•
From your existing stash as of the September 2007
meeting, determine a color scheme that reflects the
picture in some way.
•
Create
an art object from those yarns/items.
• Complete
the project and have it ready for presentation at
the June 2008 MMAWG meeting
Guild Challenge Photos
All photos on one
page
One photo per
page, 8x10's
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From the internet ---
Afghans for Afghans just announced a project to
create shawls for new mothers in the maternity ward
of the CURE hospital in Kabul. I was interviewing
Ann Rubin, the organizer, about the initiative and
after I explained the advantages of weaving (fast,
finer yarns, uses less materials, etc.) she said,
"Oh my gosh, I need weavers!"
This is a chance to show the knitting world what
weaving is all about, as well as warm up the lives
of mothers and their newborn babies in Afghanistan.
Want to help out? There are three ways to get
involved:
1) Spread the word: tell your guild, your weaving
buddies, etc.
2) Donate yarn. Got a stash of fine-weight wool that
you know you're never going to weave up? Send it to
me at WeaveZine
(http://www.weavezine.com/wz_Contact.php)
and I'll put it in the hands of a weaver who'll
weave a shawl in your name.
3) Weave a shawl (or two, or three...) and send it
to Afghans for Afghans. Details, including the
guidelines of what to weave are online at:
http://www.afghansforafghans.org/rectangleshawlcampaign.html
Syne Mitchell
WeaveCast/WeaveZine
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