April 2023 Buellwood Weavers and Fiber Artist Guild - Cedar Frogs

For our April meeting Karen Tembruell prepared kits for us to weave her Cedar Frog.

It was fun to make these little creatures with Karen. She prepared the Cedar strips for us in kits. I learned that they can also be made with watercolor paper, even Painted watercolor paper!

 

Everyone had fun making the frogs, while Karen showing us her techniques.

Starting by using the wet cedar from our kits, fold and weave, fold and weave and the little frog appears. 

The finished FROG.

Hand woven Towel Round Robin Five warps on five looms

Five opps Six weavers with five personal choices for wefts.

Individuals who joined the open loom access offered by the Finnish American Folk School were included in this Weaving Round Robin. The results are wonderful and the weavers were able to try out weaving different weave structures.

Was there a warp they loved to weave or a warp that was a huge challenge?

All towels were woven in 8/2 cotton.

Waffle weave towels

   

Show and Tell with our talented group of artists

Karen showing her

Inkle loom weavings

And two jar baskets that she wove from two different fibers. 

She took a weaving class at Finnish American Folk School and loved this classic sample pattern.

I think she is hooked on loom weaving. 

Karen loved this woven sample she made.

Karen’s jar Baskets

 

Sean showed us some uses for woven bands. He repaired a decorative bell with his bands and some nice shoe laces.

Sean has graciously offered to be our librarian. Along with keeping our guilds collection of books in his home. He will provide a list of guild member books online that we can borrow.

So if you own weaving or fiber arts books that you would loan to guild members, give Sean a list of those books. He will add them to the Buellwood Personal Library list on Buellwood google groups.

 

Melissa knit this soft cable hat with a plain color to accent

 the beautiful cables.

Phyllis felted this lady bug, a good sign that summer may be coming soon. She wove this sample of a blue and beige complimentary weave with honeysuckle twill from Tom Knisely’s book ‘Handwoven Table Linens’. 

 

The fabric below was also handwoven by Phyllis it has an

interesting pattern on the reverse side.

Clare was in the towel weaving group and showed some of her finished towels.

Kathie wove a linen scarf which turned out lovely this time the linen did not

cause her a problem when weaving.

David has been spinning, weaving and crocheting with his wool and Alpaca.

Nate was featured in an article in ‘Country Lines’ 

A very interesting introduction of Nate and Robyn and why they chose the UP for their home.

John finished a couple of rugs and a pillow with his colorful ‘Over the Wave Pattern’ or ‘Loves Path’ from the Wynne Mattila Fall 2022 workshop.

As promised Sean teaches card weaving on an inkle loom

in an am session

 

Our next meeting will be May 20 at 1:00 pm at the Finlandia Fiber Studio.

It will be the Buellwood Best - theme this year is water. Come share your fiber piece or see what others have done with a water theme.