September 2017 Buellwood Weaver and Fiber Artist Guild -Wire woven bracelet demonstration

Jean Woven Metal basket

The Buellwood Weavers and Fiber Artist Guild meet in September. Again we had a great turn out of members and visitors all interested in working with Fibers. We had another great show and tell! An election of officers and planning for our Fall Retreat. Added to this was a Wire Woven Bracelet Demonstration by Jean.

Karla and Terry drove up from Iron Mountain and Green Bay to share their love of weaving.

Karla and Terry visit from the south, Iron Mountain and Green Bay

Karla had taken Dawn's natural Dye Class at the Porkies Folk School in July and was eager to share her beautiful hand woven scarf using all the colors from our dye day samples.
She also shared a pouch she wove for her phone and a couple of Tablet woven bands.

Terry also shared a handwoven bag she made out of cotton with I believe a rep weave pattern.

Karla's woven scarf from Natural Dye day at the Porkies Folk School

Karla's woven phone pouch

Karla's tablet woven bands

Terry wove this handbag out of cotton

This wall hanging was a created in memory of Karla's mother with all scarps from her favorite clothes.

A memorial woven wall hanging of all mothers favorite clothes

Dawn is always coming up with new natural plants to create more color for her yarns. This blue was the result of using her home grown Woad to dye the yarn. She also shared a new source to purchase silk and wool fiber at a very reasonable cost. RH Lindsay wool

Dawn also promises new colors for our retreat with double red colored sweet corn using the husks and tops and an interesting jar of Bracken in alkaline solution.

Dawn had success with her home grown woad

Silk and wool from RH Lindsay waiting to be dyed with plants

kathie shared her cordage and inkle weaving

Kathie is auditing the Finlandia Fiber Class with Phyllis. She is enjoying the class and weaving many new techniques. Although she is not too sure what she has gotten herself into with competing with the young talented students in her class. She shared her inkle loom projects and a cordage piece.

  It is good to see Karen L able to attend our meetings once in a while. She brought in an Interlock hand knit scarf made with variegated yarn and short rows.

Karen's interlock hand knit scarf

another view of Jean's woven metal basket

Wire and bead loom

 Jean took a class on how to weave with copper wire last summer at Convergence in Milwaukee she has a lovely basket she is working on here and a simple wire bead loom that she just had to have.
I must say it is small and portable! something we fiber people love to tote along with us. She did a demo program for us at this meeting.

Clare has been busy making woven bracelets and small woven pieces using the same warp. She had some for sale last weekend at the Algomah Acres Honey House Meadery fall sale. Check out their facebook page for more information about events. The pattern she used for this sample and her cuffs was a jewel pattern from the Margaret Davidson book.

Clare is also an accomplished knitter and brought

in a Lace Shawl that she completed. Beautiful

work on this shawl.

lace shawl

Yards and yards of fabric

John has joined the ranks of yardage weaving. He was kind enough to weave 5 2/3 yards of brown

16/2 cotton tabby for a friend who is being ordained soon. it took him 6 weeks to thread the loom 30 ends per inch for 36 inch width. and a week to weave. He said he lost a yard fulling the cloth but there was just enough for the robe.

Maddie loves to weave but until she gets the loom set up she is doing a cross stitch quilt square for her daughter.

Willow basket

Karen is a basket maker and she had a few sample of willow basket work she created at a workshop in Decorah, Iowa with a teacher from Spain. She does see potential for this will mat technique taken after an African thatched roof .

willow mat

Mary's  Taquete towels are warp faced 8/2 un mercerized cotton and the weft was 20/2 pearl cotton. I used 20/2 unmercerized cotton for the first two towels and found that my length was over 40 inches to finish the pattern on the 8-shaft loom. It should have been 28 inches per towel so I used a green 20/2 pearl cotton for the last two towels and ended up with weaving 36 inches.  But they did turn out nice and I am happy that I had enough extra warp to finish 4 towels.

Wire woven bracelet kits for all 

Jean brought us each a kit of copper wire and colored wire and jewelry findings. She showed us how to make a Wire Bracelet or bookmark from this kit. 

Although we were short on time for the demo as we had our meeting and elections before this program. I think we all got a good start on our wire weaving and it will be interesting to see if we can finish them before our Retreat October 7-8 . Maybe Jean can help us finish these at the retreat. So bring yours along to work on if you have some spare time during the weekend. Jean sent pictures to help finish your bracelet. I hope these help - See below.

 

Our election of officers went quickly. We have new co chair as Kathie was elected to fill Carol co chair with John. Karen Tembruell is our new Secretary with Jean backing her up. 

Clare was volunteered to be head of the MLH Guild sample weaving our Guild needs to produce for 2018.

I think all of these new people will be an asset to our growing guild.

See all of you October 7-8 at the retreat for more information contact Carol or John or any guild member if you are interested in taking a class or just coming to observe. It is open to all interested for the Membership fee of $25.