Buellwood September Blog Punch Needle and Rug Punching introduction

Punch Needle and Rug Punching samples:

 

Our Show and Tell got started with Phyllis’s intro to inkle band weaving samples, that she will be teaching right after our meeting today.

Samples of her Inkle Band weaving.

Phyllis will be teaching a workshop in Inkle band weaving at the newly formed Finnish American Folk School in the Fiber room at the Jutila Center in Hancock MI. This is the first of many classes scheduled for 2021 -22 . 

Below are cards Dawn created with Eco Printing on paper. These are smaller and she plans on incorporating these into note cards. She proposed a eco workshop for one of our meetings this year. 

Dawn's Eco printed cards

David once had a herd of Alpacas in New Mexico and brought in some Alpaca roving to share with our Guild members. 

Nathen's book of Rug samples

Nathen, a new member to our Guild, is an accomplished Rug weaver and he created a book with his many hand woven rugs. He has sold many rugs at various markets in the U.P. WE welcome Nathen and his wife Robin to our guild.

Another willow basket by Karen

Willow basket by Karen

Karen has made many birch bark baskets (below) but today she brought in a couple of Willow baskets she made with Poppy on a weekend of basket making. Poppy had a lot of willow to use up from her huge willow garden .

Karen also Eco dyed this scarf using Leaves onion skins and madder powder then steamed the rolled up scarf. 

Melissa gifted herself an Ashford Wave Shuttle to use up some Icelandic wool that was too coarse to make into scarves. She created a couple of pillows with her wool. She found weaving with the wave shuttle interesting and was happy with the results. There is always something new to try when weaving on a loom and this shuttle is very inexpensive. 

wave shuttle woven pillow

Kathie did some Tie Dyed T's with her grand daughter and the results were pretty cute. 

Jimalee, found football on Sunday afternoon too boring so she went outside to weave this Hedge Row basket into a tension tray. 

Mary finished her handwoven 8-shaft towels that have been on the loom since April . The pattern in Handwoven M/J 2020 pg 26.  She needed to reduce the number of warp threads to fit her loom and to be able to beat the weaving to 21 PPI not the 35 PPI suggested.                                     

Laura shared a 'Country Living' article on Welsh wool blankets. She announced that she entered and was accepted as a finalist in the 'Quilting Arts' magazine Scroll exhibit , it will appear in the January 2022  issue of Quilting Arts. 

See Laura's 'scroll' piece that she entered in our August blog. 

 

Our program for this Monday was Punch Needle and Rug Punch techniques introduction presented by Laura and Melissa. 

Melissa introduced us to Needle Punching which she has done a lot of over the years. She gave us tips on needles, hoops and fibers to use. Spend a little more for a good needle and then use what ever yarn you have available. She copies her pattern on Muslin on a window to make the tracing easier. She has used embroidery floss, 3 strands,70's Acrylic spools from resale shops and now is using her 8/2 or 10/2 weaving cotton. Hoops by Morgan - Garret brand are good. She even let us try our hand at Needle punch on a sampler

check out a local Needle Punch website for a U.P Artist 

Marion Schmidlin

Laura is our Rug Hooking and Rug Punching expert. Rug Hooking is worked on the back with the design on the top or front side. So a lot of flipping back and front are necessary. It is tricking to keep the loops even and it is easy to rip out rows of work whether intended or not. 

Rug Punching is worked from the design on the front.  She uses a linen Monk cloth with an open weave, and many types of wool yarn or fabric. Loops can clipped flush when needed.

Here Laura is showing her Rug Punching design on the front of the Monks cloth. 

Below is a fiber bird that she created with punching techniques. Lastly the back of the colorful Rug Punched design she created. Be sure to check out the January 2022 issue of Quilting Life to see Laura's entry into the Scroll exhibit. 

Thank you Melissa and Laura for sharing your Hooking techniques with us. 

Our next meeting will be Monday October 18th at the Finish American Heritage Art Gallery at noon. 

we will explore the exhibit and Phyliss will do a color exercise for our program.