'Buellwood Best ' 2022

 We had our last Monday meeting until further notice we are now going to meet at 1:00PM on the third Saturday of each month. Remember if you buy yarn from Halycon yarns be sure to select Buellwood Weavers Guild in the Guild reward program as our guild gets 5% back in January. Last year it was over $123. 

Laura arrived with a pot of 'Bluebirds of Happiness' plant decorations for each of us. Thanks, Laura, for brightening our day.

 We met on May 16 th for our 'Buellwood Best' 2022. Each year we come up with an idea that all fiber Artists can participate in. This year we yarn wrapped colors from a piece of art in the Finnish American Heritage Gallery and used those colors as our palette for our Fiber piece.

'Buellwood Best'

Melissa L wove and felted this beautiful cloth for her vest. She used the colors she selected from a painting. To her surprise the alpaca she used did not felt the same as the other wool. This created a challenge for her, despite the uneven felting she was still made a lovely vest. Weaving and felting more black wool to extend the length of the garment helped. 

Dawn took her colors and made a number of bands on her inkle loom. She was not happy with this small inkle loom. She used the color palette she found in a painting.

Jenny is a spinner, and she spun some skeins with the colors she chose. Her silk spinning is beautiful as are the other skeins. These were all spun on her collection of spindles in the box above. She collects spindles 'they are like candy' to Jenny. She just cannot resist them. 

on the left John chose an eight shaft pattern to explore with his colors (seen on the piece of wood above his piece) he used a straight treadling for this colorful piece. 

on the right, Phyllis's Crocheted circles on the right are created in sequence from cotton yarn. I think we will be seeing more of these circles in future exhibits. 

Kathie used the colors for a weaving on the rigid Heddle Loom.  Since these are her favorite colors, she actually found a skein of variegated yarn with all the colors in it. 

Mary used the colors from a picture, for a weaving on the a small tapestry loom.  One she has been traveling with for a number of years now and was excited to finally be actually have a reason to use it. The most difficult part was to find yarns that match the colors in her photograph. Even with an extensive stash to choose from!

Laura received a gift of a gallon flask and decided she really needed a carry bag for it.

She made herself a lovely wool felted bag with the  yarn colors she wrapped at the Finnish American Heritage Gallery last fall.  

Show and Tell

Nathen found a shirt that he could add to his indigo vat. Nice job on reviving this tossed garment into something spectacular. 

Sean brought in a sample of  Baltic style weaving this one done on his Rigid heddle loom. The detailed photo below really shows how fine his work is. 

 

Lois took the ceramic class at the Finnish American Folk School and she made this piece of pottery at the workshop. 

Melissa took the workshop with artist Liv Aanrud. She finished her piece and was very happy with the results. Visit the Gallery now until June 3 for more of Liv's art.  'Off the Hook'

Melissa also took Clare's fair isle knitting class and made a beautiful pair of wrist warmers. 

Dawn did some dyeing with Rhubarb leaves and then made this lovely crocheted flower. I think is looks like she followed Arne and Carlos Spring Crochet Along for this sample.

Poppy Sent me a picture of her sample from Arne and Carlos Crochet along. She dyed all the yarns herself with Natural dyes.

  

   

Mary M  is now the newest member of our Guild she was able to finish the sleeve on her Icelandic sweater with yarn she found in the Fiber Studio. She also wanted to join our guild! welcome Mary M. 

John finished weaving his wall/window hanging with images from his hike on the Camino de Santiago which he completed a couple of years ago. It is a very interesting adventure and John did a slide show for us at our 2019 retreat. John has been focusing on Transparency weaving for a while now.

Check out this Article in Quilting Arts Magazine Winter 2022 our talented Laura had her

piece of art  published. 

She also had a lovely woven purse to show today. 

Mary has been busy felting slippers and knitting this wool felted piece from the Kiki Mariko Rug pattern to see how the pattern works. It will be her contribution to the July 9th event at Emberlight 2022 Knitting Circle at Miners Park in Ironwood, MI. 

Kiki Mariko rug pattern

Our 2022 Guild retreat will be held at the Marsin Retreat Center on Canal Road in Houghton September 17 and 18th.

we have a few ideas for presentations offered. 

Saturday sept 17th at 1 pm to we will have a meeting to plan our presentations for 2022-23 year, so bring your requests and ideas.

 Let Mary B know if you need to stay overnight Friday and Saturday. I have been told there have been some new upgrade changes at the Marsin.

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday June 18th at 1:00 pm some of us will be warping looms for the Rug class. John will let us know if a meeting will actually be held.