In January we met again via Zoom for some show and tell and conversation. Since it can be hard to eat lunch and video chat at the same time, we will be changing the time of our next meeting to 11am (Monday February 15th).
Although Melissa has been nursing a rotator cuff injury, she embarked on a project that has allowed her to learn how to read weaving drafts. She has been working on cotton and linen samples from Davison's Handweaver's Pattern Book.
Karen had been working on stitching her gorgeous submission for the Animals of the Kalevala exhibit at the Copper Country Community Arts Center. The show is currently online and in-person at the CCCAC gallery in Hancock. She also showed us an ornament of family dog Runa.
Denise has continued with her days of the week embroidery and also showed off her new handwoven towels.
Mary finished a lovely collection of knit advent balls designed by Arne and Carlos . She also finished knitting a replacement fish hat for a young friend and weaving a Sword and Fern Horsetail table runner. The draft came from Handwoven magazine May/April 2020. She'd like to make more of these runners but with a heavier weight yarn like 5/2 pearl cotton or two strands of 10/2 pearl cotton used together. The weavers in the meeting agreed that this approach would probably work. She suggested a lesson on translating different weaving drafts into different yarns could be a good program in the future.
Phyllis has been working on concentric circles, first needle felting and then using some wet felting. She also discovered a helpful tip from the book Weaving Tricks by Susan Gilmurray that she plans to use in an attempt to finish the rug she's discussed in previous meetings.
Dawn showed us a cowl (dicky?) that she knit at the request of her daughter. It is similar to the Huntress Cowl, but she had to change the pattern to work with the yarn she had.
Stay warm and safe everyone, and we'll see you again soon!
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