Buellwood Weavers and Fiber Artists Guild - April 2022 Indigo 'Dyeing with Dawn'

 We have officially decided to change our guild Meetings from Monday noon to the third Saturday of each month, at 1:00pm starting in July. We want to see how this works for future meetings. Our May meeting will still be at noon on Monday the 16th. it will be our 'Buellwood Best' share. So find a picture and create a fiber piece with the colors on the picture or come and enjoy what others have done. 

Our indigo dye day was well attended and a number of members took home a pot of left over Indigo dye.

Dawn did another superb prep, as she always does, which it is so Generous of her. Dawn made up a number of buckets of Indigo/Lime/Zinc dye powder with other items to create the Dye pot. Thank you dawn!

Note, that the 'Art Start' in Rhinelander is having a exhibition 'Livingblues' of indigo dyed art from local and international artists. Starting May 19 open Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 2 or 3 pm. until August.6 th. 

Everyone was busy folding, wrapping, dipping, dyeing, and even using stencils and rice paste resist on their cloth.   

Some of our final products from a day of fun Indigo Dyeing. 

Nathen and Robin came well prepared and made some beautiful designs.

 Rice resist and a stencil, then when dry, dipped into vat

Show and Tell  4 /30 /2022

Sean has done some inkle loom weaving with cotton. He also did card weaving, I believe, he said on his Rigid heddle loom. He created his own patterns for his weaving. 

more of Seans bands.

Sean shows his Inkle loom bands. 

Phyllis received a gift of fabric from a friend.

It is silk/velvet done in Ikat woven fabric from Uzbekistan. Cultural Cloth is a lovely store in western WI where you can find these lovely fabrics. 

Phyllis with Ikat fabric

   

Phyllis also wove this inkle Band to make true Finnish suspenders for her husband. 

Phyllis's Finnish band 

   

Karen with baskets

Karen had a lot of new baskets to share

with the guild. 

Also some birch bark woven frogs and leather/birch glass holders for the Groomsmen at her daughters upcoming wedding.  

These baskets for bottles are from a recent workshop she taught in Orkacoke NC .

Lois wove a tote bag out of Plastic grocery bags, which is a nice way to recycle all those bags we get from shopping.

Lynn took the workshop 'Off the Hook' with Liv Aanrud at the Finnish American Art Center last month and brought in her Art. She also has been eco dyeing on silk cloth and embellishing it with decorative stitches. Nice Stitching Lynn!

After years of saying he did not know how to sew! John took a class and learned how to sew this bag and he even put in a zipper! Way to go John! Just the right size for all his small weaving tools. 

We will have our last Monday Noon meeting Mary 16th until further notice. We will NOW meet at 1pm on the third Saturday of each month. This is to make it easier for members of our guild who work can make our meetings. 

SAVE THE DATES

Our Annual Retreat has returned and is set for September 17th and 18th 2022. at the Marsin Retreat House on Canal Road. 9 am to 5:00 pm. The house has had many repairs and they have 5 or 6 beds available for our members who want to stay overnight Friday and Saturday, even a small cottage with a bed!

If you would like to present a project for one of the days let John know and **please bring ideas or topics for 2022-2023 guild meetings for our Guild meeting on 

Saturday September 17 th from noon to 1:30 or 2 pm.