Holiday Luncheon and Dirty Santa Exchange

Karen's birch stars and bell ornaments

 

Our Holiday Luncheon was well attended at the Kangas Cafe on December 17th we had a nice attendance and fun show and tell. 

Everyone has been busy with their fiber art creations and as busy as the season can be there were a lot of finished projects.

Kathie showed her completed woven placemats in a rosepath twill pattern with lovely colors.

another woven rug by Phyllis

Phyllis with wool and cotton mat

 Phyllis has been busy weaving this fall and her show and tell matched her outfit for the day. I was not surprised!  She had a mat woven fat wool from Mexico and Finnish cotton tape. Her rugs were woven with various fibers including Organic cotton Bamboo and wool.

large woven rug by Phyllis

Maddie has finished her needle case she started at our fall retreat and she was really enjoying the hand embellishing of her case. So cute with a woolly caterpillar, a spider and web. A very creative case for sure. She also made a scissor holder and needle sharpener sewing aid for her daughter with her daughters hair in the sharpening heart. She read hair was used to sharpen needles in history.

Do you see the woolly Caterpillar and the spider?

Sewing aid

itzy bitzy spider and web

Karen has been creating her birch bark ornaments and jewelry and now is Eco printing on Birch Bark she has used Iron oxide dipped leaves and pressed them into the sheet of Birch Bark. She also shared with us the cards her daughter created with block printed images that the blocks were made with a 3-D printer a collaboration with a friend. The name tags were tea dyed and hand lettered.

Abby's block printed cards

Eco print on birch bark

birch bark ornaments

tea dyed tags

Anita in her regular shopping trips to the resale stores found a Kumihimo Disc and now is heading for a new adventure into the art of Kumihimo braiding

She has many samples and the two red ones show the difference of using two blacks and two reds versus one red and one black in the outcome of the braids.

And of course weaving sticks???? who knew these existed! The things you can find for a dollar or two at the resale shop. These even came with directions.

weaving sticks

Dawn brought in a number of her knit and felted hats that needed homes. They all found homes and smiles in a matter of minutes.  For show and tell she shared a hand spun and knit hat she just finished.

Dawn's funky hats and the lucky recipients

Dawn's handspun hat

Gini Brewer a guest at our meeting has been designing knit socks to wear with flip flops... Wow these are a challenge....better than knitting all the toes I think.

 

John has another transparency woven piece that he shared. A lovely piece to hang in a window. Along with the woven silk scarves he finished on his 8 shaft loom. Someone is lucky to get one of these beautiful scarves. Unfortunately they were not in the dirty Santa exchange! I am still unsure why they look so different.  I believe they are the same warp and weft. John found the pattern in a book and did a good job of setting up the warp to create it. Could this be a Danish Medallion pattern?

8 shaft woven scarf A

8 shaft woven scarf B

 Debra showed up with daughter Rena, what a treat to see these two lovely ladies. Rena was busy knitting. 

The Dirty Santa Exchange was a fun we all got something wonderful to bring home. Except the recipient of the chickens laying eggs, half way out. Some stealing of opened gifts occurred but we are all still friends. I think?

 

Our next meeting is January 21st at Gloria Dei Church in Hancock at noon.you are welcome to join us and bring your lunch and how and tell. We will have a short presentation on Rigid heddle looms and a brief meeting.  Check out our 2019 presentation schedule above on this blog.

MLH and Midwest Weavers Conferences are open to registration this month for the June Conferences  MLH is in Holland MI May 30-June 2, 2019 and Midwest Weavers is in Grinnell IA June 20-22. Both are great Conferences for 3 days or the whole week.