Buellwood Weaver and Fiber Guild, Hancock, Michigan

Please forgive my October absence.  Life got ahead of me.

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

Guild Meeting: Our next meeting is December 14, 2024.  It is a show and tell meeting.  So bring your projects to show.

Snowflake challenge: Our group has issued a challenge!  The theme is snowflake.  Make a project in any medium you would like to show at our May meeting.  The project must reflect the theme of snowflakes.  

MUSINGS:

Weavers are flexible people!  I have attended three classes recently and each class underscores the zen of weaving.  Weavers have to be able to deal with problems.  This teaches us to be adaptable and to be patient.  If you are not, you will get your warp in a tangle!  

Because of this zen vibe, I have found that attendees at classes/retreats tend to be nice, helpful and adaptable.  Have you experienced this as well?  

In my experience, weavers differ in what aspects of weaving appeals to them.  Some weavers like the technical side of weaving.  Some like the meditative process of the shuttle and the beating.  Some like more visual or picture making aspects (think Takana or tapestry) and some like the more utilitarian aspects of the product.  And yet, we all get along and enjoy the same craft!  

MMMMM if only weavers ruled the world!

ANSWER TO LAST GROUP QUESTION: (name a good weaving book)

Several folks mentioned Learning to Weave by Deborah Chandler.  

The Art of Tapestry by Rebecca Mezoff would be my suggestion for Tapestry.

PHOTOS:

Lisa showing a Ryijy that she made based on the tansy plant.

Gretchen showed a scarf from sock project remnants.

Phyllis showed some towels in twill with treadle variations

Phyllis also showed her retreat band.

This is a guild member's rug made from thrums twice woven

Made by Jean Hill in pat Toczydlowski’s collection

David showed some quilt blocks ready for his flannel quilt.

Denise showing baby hat from tin can knits.

Karen T. showed her birch ornaments

More birch ornaments (turtles with embroidered backs.)

Ginger from sew cranky showed some small sewing machines that worked!

Melissa showed a rag rug made on a union loom.  

She also told us about her road kill loom--ask her about it!

Nancy told us that her first project was tea towels.  This photo shows her latest sock project and sweater.

Nancy's latest cowl

Kathie's first sweater project made 50 years ago.

Anita's latest thrift find--NUNO!

Elaine knit some good bears with clothes!

Kathie's daughter brought a Serbian crocheted table cloth.

Karen M brought a reading throw made from her mother's wool from her mother's sheep hands-on by her mother.  The throw is for Karen's son.

Phyllis’s towels.

Sean brought in his new Logan inkle loom.  Michelle brought some vintage embroidery.  Denise also had a pink little girl's sweater to show that she knit.

TILL NEXT TIME.......