Tuesday, December 4, 2012

December newsletter

`Klamath Spinners’ & Weavers’ Guild News  December 2012
by Sharon                                                                         ballen004@yahoo.com  541-891-0817
If you have ads you would like to be put in the newsletter, please send them to me via email or snail mail by the end of the previous month before the issue you would like it in.  It will be in the newsletter for 2 months unless I hear from you otherwise. Thanks.
Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ Guild has annual dues of $10/year.  Dues are due in November and can be given or sent to our treasurer, Karen Williams, 1700 Fairmont St., Klamath Falls, OR 97601.*Thank you to everyone who has paid.
Thank you to Liz for hosting and leading the November needle weaving meeting!
This Months Meeting
This month’s meeting will be Tuesday, December 11th at 10am in the back room of the Klamath County Museum, on the corner of Main and Spring St. in Klamath Falls, OR. We will be having our annual cookie and ornament exchange.  Please come and share your favorite holiday cookie and bring an ornament to exchange.  Come even if you don’t have cookies or an ornament!
January 8thpossible retreat?
February 12 --TBA
March 12Beads in Spinning and Weaving by Sharon
April 9 – open
May14 –open
June 11thAnnual Potluck

From the Library

December 2012 Book Review by Karen Williams, guild librarian. Thanks Liz, for the inspiration to finally read this fascinating book!  This text in not part of the guild library.
Working with Wool, a Coast Salish Legacy & the Cowichan Sweater Sylvia Olsen, Friesens Printing, 2010, 328 pages.
The Coast Salish women had a centuries-long tradition of blanket weaving intertwined with the practical need for physical shelter from the cold and damp coastal climate as well as the complex social interchange of trade and potlatch give-aways.  This way of life was permanently disrupted with the European immigration into what is now British Columbia, Canada.  The ensuing European culture and harsh governmental restrictions on tribal customs lead to generations plagued with grinding poverty and a loss of their weaving tradition.
In the early 1900s their strong wool working desire and exposure to European knitting practices transformed the Coast Salish work efforts into the development of the Cowichan sweater.  This unique and appealing garment was roughly handspun and knitted from lanolin-rich contrasting natural sheep wool colors with close ties to the British fishermans’ Gansey or Guernsey, the Fair Isle jersey, Icelandic sweaters and other European knitting influences.
The cottage industry of Cowichan knitting has since endured many obstacles including unreasonable governmental economic constrictions and control, competition from imitation sweaters, the upswing of synthetic fiber/fabric use, and fickle whims of fashion.  Possibly the largest obstacle has been the all-too-familiar challenge of pitting human limitations of handwork production against overwhelming demands of self-preservation and “instant gratification”  minded middle-men and consumers.  In present day a segment of Coast Salish people continue to be creative and resilient wool workers with skills and determination to manage their craft, product, and market.
Shops with Classes around the area
Please visit these shops, call and/or check out their websites to learn more about available classes.
Laize Dayz Yarn and Tea Shop 2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, Or. 541-892-6856 www.laizedayz.com 
Warner Mountain Weavers  459 South Main St., Cedarville, CA   279-2164. . www.warnermtnweavers.com   
The Websters  11  N. Main St., Ashland, OR  541-482-9801 www.yarnatwebsters.com 
Middleford Yarn & Stitchery Shoppe  1112 Court St.,#101,  Medford, OR 541-734-8800. www.miyarn.com
Events
Monday, June 17 through Sunday, 23, 2013, ANWG 2013 Conference (Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds), Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA  http://www.anwg-conference-2013.com
Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23, Black Sheep Gathering, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon    www.blacksheepgathering.org
July 2012 Weaving Guilds of Oregon Traveling Exhibit in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Classified
The guild has a red Ashford spinning wheel available to loan out to guild members.  If you would like to use it, please contact Sharon, Ballen004@yahoo.com or 541-891-0817
45 inch Leclerc 4 shaft loom for sale.  6 treadles.  Beautiful and in excellent shap.  $1,000. It was donated to the guild.  Various accessories included.  Can be seen at the Klamath County Musium, 1541 Main St., Klamath Falls, OR  For more information contact Carol Wylie at 541-882-4031 or email rcwylie@charter.net
     Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
My son has told me that Bacon Weaving is really, really popular now, so I thought you weavers’ and fiber folks would like to see this!  I'm sorry I can't copy and paste a picture from the internet to here.  Please go and look at the amazing bacon weavings!
People are wrapping bacon around lots of things. There are turtle shaped bacon cheeseburgers.  There are bacon  baskets which are very  interesting.  The weaving looks very cool.  Some have very nice selvedges too!  J
 For examples type in “Bacon Weaving” and you will be amazed.
Bacon Weave Recipe from www.grouprecipes.com
25 minutes to make  Serves 6
Preheat oven to 400.
Weave 1 lb bacon and place into a large cast iron skillet.
Cook bacon until it’s done, 20-30 min.  You want it cooked, but even if you LOVE cripy bacon, you don’t want this crispy as heck, you want to be able to roll it without breaking.
Once done, carefully take it out of the pan and transfer to a cooling rack.   Sprinkle cheese onto bacon, and then roll it up, almost like sushi.
Let it rest for about 2-3 minutes on the seam, so it stays sealed.
Slice, and have a heart attack.  Could try turkey bacon?  Tomatoes?  Avocado? 
Next month…… high fiber salad…….   J

Friday, November 2, 2012


Klamath Spinners’ & weavers’ guild news  November 2012

37291 Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin, OR  97624                                      541-891-0817

 by Sharon                                                                                      email: Ballen004@yahoo.com

                                                                              website:  www.KlamathSWguild.blogspot.com

If you have ads you would like to be put in the newsletter, please send them to me via email or snail mail by the end of the previous month before the issue you would like it in.  It will be in the newsletter for 2 months unless I hear from you otherwise. Thanks.

This Month’s Meeting

This month’s meeting will be Tuesday, November 13th, in the back room of the Klamath County Museum at 10am. It will be about small weaving.  Here is the description from Liz:

Weaving Small

For the November meeting we will do needle weaving.  This can become a necklace or a tiny wall hanging.  This weaving will use the same basics as tapestry weaving or Navaho weaving.  Liz will have some samples to show, and some books to look at. 

There will be extra supplies available at the meeting, so if you are unable to gather the materials don’t let that keep you from attending the meeting.

What you will need to bring;

1.       Tapestry Needle

2.       Fork

3.       Pen or Pencil

4.       Scissors

5.       Waxed Linen   You can buy this at Oregon Trail Outfitters. Ask -  it’s behind the counter.  I will have a few bobbins for sale at the meeting.  They are $2.

6.       Foam Board (available for sale at meeting for $1)

7.       Yarns in a variety of colors ….you can use anything, but an even spun single ply wool is easy to start with. Perle cotton embroidery floss is very pretty woven like this.  There will lots of yarn available for you at the meeting if you need.  It doesn’t take much yarn so don’t buy a bunch of skeins, this is a good way to use up some of those odd bits and end-of-ball yarns.

8.       Optional..Beads with largish holes

 

It is not necessary to RSVP, but if you could let Liz know if you are probably planning on coming it would help her prepare the materials.  Once again, please come even if you haven’t said you were, there will be extra stuff.  hubbardranch@centurytel.net

 

Agenda for the year                                                                                                                         

November – Liz Hubbard  leading Small Weaving

December – Annual Cookie and Ornament Exchange

January -  A possible retreat for guild members – more information to come….

February – TBA

March – Beads in Weaving and Spinning by Sharon

April – open

May – open

June – Annual Potluck

 

Shops with classes around the area

Please visit these shops, call and/or check out their websites to learn more about available classes.

Laize Dayz Yarn and Tea Shop 2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, Ore. 541-892-6856 www.laizedayz.com   .

Warner Mountain Weavers  459 South Main St., Cedarville, CA 530-279-2164. www.warnermtnweavers.com 

The Websters  11  N. Main St., Ashland, OR  541-482-9801 www.yarnatwebsters.com 

Middleford Yarn & Stitchery Shoppe  1112 Court St.,#101,  Medford, OR 541-734-8800. www.myyarn.com

Eugene Textile Center 1510 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR. 541-688-1565, www.eugenetextilecenter.com

Events

Monday, June 17 through Sunday, June 23,  2013, ANWG 2013 Conference (Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds)  Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA  www.anwg-conference-2013.com

Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23, Black Sheep Gathering, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon  www.blacksheepgathering.org

July 2013 Weaving Guilds of Oregon Traveling Exhibit, in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Classified

The guild has a red Ashford spinning wheel available to loan out to guild members.  If you would like to use it, please contact Sharon, Ballen004@yahoo.com or 541-891-0817.

45 inch Leclerc 4 shaft loom for sale.  6 treadles.  Beautiful and in excellent shape. $1,000. It was donated to the guild. Various accessories included. Can be seen at the Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St, Klamath Falls, OR. For more information contact Carol Wylie at 541-882-4031 or email rcwylie@charter.net

 

Colored Merino Ram and 3 ewes for sale. $50 for the ram and $125 or BO for the ewes. I want them to go to good homes. The ewes range in age from 2 to 6 years, base is Montedale/Columbia, with Columbia or Merino. All are proven, current on shots and worming.  ksevy@charter.net

Library book review

Book review for November 2012 by Karen Williams, guild librarian. (this is not part of the guild collection)

Medieval Garments Reconstructed, Norse Clothing Patterns, L. Fransen, A. Norgaard & Else Ostergard; Aarhus University Press, 2011, 143 pages.

This “sequel” to Woven into the Earth, Textiles from Norse Greenland, explores the medieval Herjolfnes garments from the perspectives of three textile experts; Lili Fransen, MSc Clothing Product Development was pattern constructor; Anna Norgaard was the weaver, and Else Ostergaard, the conservator.  In Chapter 1 Ms. Ostergaard reviews the historical textile finds and consequent conservation efforts to preserve the garments.  Technical information and garment types; garments, hoods, caps and stockings are discussed.

In Chapter 2, Ms Norgaard relates the efforts and steps in producing a hand-made reconstruction.  While the original garments seem to be in a range of brown tones from being in the ground, there is evidence that most of the garments were woven in two colors, a natural grey, brown or black warp and light or white weft.  The Nordic Short-tailed sheep which sometimes shed its fleece annually, had dark hair with a white underwool.  Some overdyeing with tannin helped even and prolong the color of the fabric.  Dyes of indigo (blue), madder (red) and lichens (red-violet) were also used, though the madder was likely imported.

The warp yarns were almost always Z-spun (right twisted) at 40-50 degrees; weft yarns were always S-spun at 30-40 degrees.  Consistent yarn thickness and the same number of twists/centimeters are crucial to the quality of the completed woven fabric.  She does mention use of a spinning wheel or some commercial yarns that could be substituted for recreation of yarns.  One tip she gives when using handspun yarns, is to weave with two shuttles to even out some of the yarn differences.  The weft threads from each shuttle are crossed over each other at the selvedge.  The original fabrics show this technique was used frequently.  Weaving on an upright warp-weighted  loom (oppstdvev) is generally used for reconstruction of fabric.  A brief explanation of techniques is included with photos.  Sewing methods are illustrated as are table woven piped edging, foot weave or “slynging”, braided cords (also known as Faroese cords), and button and buttonholes. 

In Chapter 3, Lili Fransen discusses her reconstruction of patterns based on the Norse garment originals recovered by Danish archeologist, Poul Norlund on Herjolfnes, in Greenland, in 1921.  Some necessary adjustments, in openings and symmetry of the garments were made in the patterns, since distortions to the originals were likely created from time spent in the ground with freezing and thawing, plant/tree root invasion, and retrieval and conservation interventions.  Photos of each original garment copied and the reconstructed garment are accompanied by a pattern-cutting layout on woven fabric.  Patterns are given in a 1;5 scale in small, medium, and large sizes. Metric measurement is used throughout.  Many of the new garments were made of heavy 2/2 twill fabric with 10/9 thread counts per centimeter.  All seams were sewn with a lockstitch machine.  Some cotton bias tape was used as needed and handstitching was done to complete the reconstructed garments.

This is truly a treasure trove, if historic textiles or textile reconstruction methods are an interest!

The guild has been asked if we would possibly do a display and possibly an activity at Pelican Point.  If you are interested please contact Joy    joymaxh@aol.com

 

Some guild members are continuing to weave on the loom at the Klamath County Museum. Please come and weave if you have some time!  The folks at the museum are very pleased to have the loom and weavers there.

Something Funny   ?

A scientist crossed a sheep with a porcupine.

                                                            He got an animal that knits its own sweaters……………

 

                        Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Monday, October 1, 2012

October 2012 newsletter


Klamath Spinners’ & weavers’ guild news     October  2012

37291 Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin, OR  97624                                      541-891-0817

 by Sharon                                                                                      email: Ballen004@yahoo.com

                                                                              website:  www.KlamathSWguild.blogspot.com

If you have ads you would like to be put in the newsletter, please send them to me via email or snail mail by the end of the previous month before the issue you would like it in.  It will be in the newsletter for 2 months unless I hear from you otherwise. Thanks.

More Summer updates

I should have mentioned these in the September newsletter. My sincere apologies to Liz and Judy.  Also, if any of you know of a person in our guild that has published a fiber article, won an award in a competition, is having a show or some other good fiber accomplishments, please let me know. It would be fun and inspirational for everyone to see and hear good news about our members.

Liz  Hubbard wrote an article that made it into the Summer 2012 issue of Spin Off magazine. Pages 96-97.  The article is about Liz’s inspiration and techniques creating a woven necklace. Congratulations Liz!

One of Liz’s fleeces also received the Reserve Champion White Fleece at the 2012 Black Sheep Gathering. Congratulations Liz!

Judy Olson’s fleece got the Champion Colored Fleece at the June 2012 Black Sheep Gathering this year.  Congratulations Judy!

This Month’s Meeting

This month’s meeting will be Tuesday, October 9th in the back room of the Klamath County Museum at 10am. We will be getting ready to do Christmas projects, like ornaments and/or cards, inspired by one of Dorothy’s notebooks of  hand woven Christmas cards.  We will also be talking about the rest of the year’s agenda and meetings.  Carol, Janet and Kathy went to the Weaving Guilds of Oregon meeting and have ideas from that meeting. There is also a possibility of another new technique we may learn at another meeting.  We will discuss and decide what we will do.

Shops with classes around the area

Please visit these shops, call and/or check out their websites to learn more about available classes.

Laize Dayz Yarn and Tea Shop 2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, Ore. 541-892-6856 www.laizedayz.com   .

Warner Mountain Weavers  459 South Main St., Cedarville, CA 530-279-2164. www.warnermtnweavers.com 

The Websters  11  N. Main St., Ashland, OR  541-482-9801 www.yarnatwebsters.com 

Middleford Yarn & Stitchery Shoppe  1112 Court St.,#101,  Medford, OR 541-734-8800. www.myyarn.com

Eugene Textile Center 1510 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR. 541-688-1565, www.eugenetextilecenter.com

Events

Thank  you to everyone who demonstrated at the Tulelake Fair and the Sheep Dog Trials!

The Barn Sale at the Allen’s, 37291 Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin.  All guild members are very welcome to sell their items at the Barn Sale.  Everyone collects their own monies.  Even if you don’t have things to sell, come and spin, weave or visit the day away!  The Olson’s will be pressing fresh apple juice. Pumpkin guessing contest for the Klamath-Lake Food Bank, Barney will be grilling lamb for all to taste, and there will be lots of other things to see and taste! 9am-4pm!

Monday, June 17 through Sunday, June 23,  2013, ANWG 2013 Conference (Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds)  Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA  www.anwg-conference-2013.com
Friday, June 21st through Sunday,June 23rd., Black Sheep Gathering, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, OR  www.blacksheepgathering.org
July 2013 Weaving Guilds of Oregon Traveling Show in Klamath Falls, OR

Classified

The guild has a red Ashford spinning wheel available to loan out to guild members.  If you would like to use it, please contact Sharon, Ballen004@yahoo.com or 541-891-0817.

45 inch Leclerc 4 shaft loom for sale.  6 treadles.  Beautiful and in excellent shape. $1,000. It was donated to the guild. Various accessories included. Can be seen at the Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St, Klamath Falls, OR. For more information contact Carol Wylie at 541-882-4031 or email rcwylie@charter.net


Library book review

Book review by Karen Williams, guild librarian for October 2012                                                                                                                                    (This book is not currently part of the guild library)

Woven into the Earth, Textiles from Norse Greenland, Else Ostergard, Aarhus University Press, 2009, 296 pages.

At the end of the 900s, in the age of the Vikings, some beleaguered Icelanders sought a less populated area with tillable land to reestablish themselves; they found such a place in Greenland.  Eastern, Western and Middle settlements were established and their descendants, the Norse Greenlanders, lived there for nearly five hundred years.  In the mid 1200s, a “little ice age” created famine with loss of crops and livestock complicated by conflicts ith nomadic Inuit and Native American peoples.  How the Norse Greenlanders disappeared from Greenland is not known, but they were gone by about 1450.                                                                                                                  Artifacts were reportedly found in the early to mid-1800s with some frequency from a washed out cliff abutting a cemetery.  A number of Danish archeology expeditions to 28 sites in the 19th and 20th centuries have yielded remarkable Norse Greenlander artifacts – many from burial sites – including nearly complete sets of clothing which clothed the dead and some which were used as burial wrappings since wood was too scarce for coffins.  Artifacts including metal scissors and shears for wool, spindles, warp-weighted loom parts, weaving implements, raw wool, textile fragments and accessories (buttons, etc.) and fairly complete garments help document these ancient people’s clothing manufacture practices.  Most of the examples in this text are referred to as Herjolfnes garments recovered by archeologist Poal Norlund in 1921.                                                               Both Z and S twist were used to make single ply yarns by hand spindle.  Much of the wool fabric had Z twist hair warps and S twist softer underwool wefts 2/2 twill, 2/1 twill and tabby weaves were utilized.  Some of the garments were linen. Tablet weaving and foot weaving (slynging) were methods used to finish or reinforce clothing edges. Various sewing methods were employed as well.  Eyelets with lacing or buttons with buttonholes were used for closures on some garments.  There also was evidence of metal hook closures in some.                                                                      Influences from medieval Europe fashion are evident in the clothing styles.  The general design of some dresses is a pullover A-line with side panels and gussets.  Some garments did have ivory, bone or metal buttons, some garments used pleats for fullness rather than panels of fabric.  Examples of stockings, pill box hats and liripipe hoods or hoods with shoulder capes are described along with photos of the garments.                                                                                                            All in all, this text gives a fascinating look at the Norse Greenlanders’ textiles and fashion of their day.z

Also from Karen- The guild library has gained a copy of Creative Spinning by Alison Daykin and Jane Deane, lark Books, 2007 from a generous donation by Liz Hubbard. Thanks Liz!

Some guild members are continuing to weave on the loom at the Klamath County Museum. Please come and weave if you have some time!  The folks at the museum are very pleased to have the loom and weavers there.

Something funny?

Why did the sheep avoid going to bars?                                         Because she didn’t like being carded…….

I was hoping it might be fun to look up recipes with different textile words in them, so here goes.  I have not tried this yet, but will stir it up and bring it to the meeting, but probably with apples…Sharon

“Woven” Cherry Coffeecake

 

½ c. butter                                                                                                                                                                 ½  c. sour cream                                                                                                                                                     1 c. all-purpose flour                                                                                                                                                  1 c. canned cherry pie filling                                                                                                                                             ½ c. chopped, toasted pecans, divided                                                                                                                 ½ c. sifted confectioners sugar                                                                                                                            1 T. milk

In a large bowl, beat butter on high speed with electric mixer; add sour cream and beat until fluffy.  Add flour and mix well.  Cover and chill dough about 1 hour or until firm enough to handle.

Divide dough in half.  Working with half of the dough at a time, roll to a 10 x 8 inch rectangle on a greased baking sheet.  Spread half of the pie filling lengthwise down the center third of the rectangle.  Sprinkle 2 T. of the pecans over the pie filling.  Make 2 ½ in. deep cuts a 1 in. intervals along both long sides.  Fold strips over filling, pinching into narrow points at center.  Repeat with remaining dough.  Brush the tops of each coffee cake with melted butter.  Bake in a 350 degree oven for 35 minutes or until golden.

Remove to wire rack to cool.  Sprinkle with remaining ¼ c. pecans.

In a small bowl beat together confectioners’ sugar and milk.  Drizzle over baked pastries.  Cut into slices and serve.  Yield 2 coffee cakes.

Sounds good…….  Joke and recipe from the internet

                                                Happy Halloween

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

September 2012 newsletter


Klamath Spinners’ & weavers’ guild news   September 2012

37291 Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin, OR  97624                                      541-891-0817         by Sharon                                                                                      email: Ballen004@yahoo    website:  www.KlamathSWguild.blogspot.com
If you have ads you would like to be put in the newsletter, please send them to me via email or snail mail by the end of the previous month before the issue you would like it in.  It will be in the newsletter for 2 months unless I hear from you otherwise. Thanks.

The guild had a very nice field trip to Cedarville and Warner Mountain Weavers last June for our guild and made room for us to have our meeting. Thank you Bonnie.

Summer updates
The Sheep to Shawl team at the Black Sheep Gathering was headed up by one of our members, Patty Tompkins, weaver, and another member Laurie Angrimson, one of the spinners, along with spinners from Red Bluff and Eugene completed a beautiful shawl and won the event. Congratulations gals!

This Month’s Meeting
This month’s meeting will be Tuesday, September 11th in the back room of the Klamath County Museum at 10am. We will be sharing projects that many of the guild members have worked on and/ or completed during the summer. What did you do this summer?  Please come even if you did other projects other than fiber projects!  

Shops with classes around the area

Please visit these shops, call and/or check out their websites to learn more about available classes.

Laize Dayz Yarn and Tea Shop 2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, Ore. 541-892-6856 www.laizedayz.com   .

Warner Mountain Weavers  459 South Main St., Cedarville, CA 530-279-2164. www.warnermtnweavers.com 

Warner Mountain Weavers Spinning Weekend, September 28-30, 2012. Three glorious days of spinning and weaving classes! Learn about techniques, fibers, working with color and natural dyeing. Classes taught by Melissa Harris and Kay Antunez de Mayolo.  We hope you all can come join us.  To sign up, call 530-279-2164.    Please also see the attachment to this newsletter.                                                              

The Websters  11  N. Main St., Ashland, OR  541-482-9801 www.yarnatwebsters.com 

Middleford Yarn & Stitchery Shoppe  1112 Court St.,#101,  Medford, OR 541-734-8800. www.myyarn.com

Eugene Textile Center 1510 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR. 541-688-1565, www.eugenetextilecenter.com

Events

Thursday, September 6 through Sunday, September 9, 2012  Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair,  The guild has agreed to demonstrate Saturday, September 8th.  It is a very fun time.    www.tvbfair.com

Volunteers needed at the Tulelake Fair. If  anyone can volunteer and would like a parking pass that provides a closer parking space to the demonstration area, please let me know, as I have 7 passes to give out.  Sharon               Ballen004@yahoo.com

 Saturday, September 22nd & Sunday, September 23rd, 2012, Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival,  Clackamas County Fairgrounds, Canby, Or    www.flockandfiberfestival.com

Tuesday, September 25 through Sunday, September 30, 2012 ,National Sheep Dog Finals,  Kerr Ranch on Lower Klamath Lake Road, Klamath Falls, OR.   www.2012nationalsheepdogfinals.workpress.com

Volunteer needed for the Sheep Dog Trials.;

Saturday, October 13th, Barn Sale at the Allen's, 37291 Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin, OR
Come and have a great time and sell your wares at the Barn Sale!  9am until 4pm.
Monday, June 17 through Sunday, June 23,  2013, ANWG 2013 Conference (Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds)  Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA  www.anwg-conference-2013.com

Classified
The guild has a red Ashford spinning wheel available to loan out to guild members.  If you would like to use it, please contact Sharon, Ballen004@yahoo.com or 541-891-0817.

45 inch Leclerc 4 shaft loom for sale.  6 treadles.  Beautiful and in excellent shape. $1,000. It was donated to the guild. Various accessories included. Can be seen at the Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St, Klamath Falls, OR. For more information contact Carol Wylie at 541-882-4031 or email rcwylie@charter.net
Survey

We had one positive response to the guild survey.  Thank you.

Library book review
Book review by Karen Williams                                                                                                       (This book is not currently part of the guild library)

The Basket Book, Over 30 Magnificent Baskets to Make and Enjoy, by Lin Siler, with watercolors and illustrations by Carolyn Kemp, Sterling (Lark) Publishing co., inc. 1988.

A North Carolina native, Lyn Siler has made baskets, sold baskets making materials, and taught basket making full time after leaving a job as a high school English teacher.  She helped found the North Carolina Basketmakers Associaton and has had membership in several craftpersons’ organizations.

The water colorist and illustrator, Carolyn Kemp has co-authored five basketmaking books at the time this book was published and, besides her family responsibilities, paints and teaches watercolor workshops.  Her watercolors of baskets in this book provide a calming and ethereal experience.  Her illustrations clearly denote basketweaving details which support the descriptive text.

The basket examples include 1) service baskets (market, egg collecting, potato, others); 2) useful and decorative baskets (fruit, weed, herb, mail, and others); 3) specific use baskets (pie, hearth, feather, picnic, fishing creel and others); 4) very special baskets (you’ll have to see for yourself!) A side note; While there are probably numerous current sources for basket making materials (just look online). I have seen a good supply continually in stock in a back room at Soft Horizons (yarn store) in Eugene Oregon during my sometimes frequent visits up north.

 Also, Karen has made a guild library list.  It is attached to this newsletter.  If you received the newsletter in paper form or would like a copy of the guild library book and magazine list. Please contact Sharon Allen or Karen Williams.

A joke from the internet:

A piece of yarn walks into a bar and orders a beer, but the bartender snarls, “We don’t serve your kind here! The yarn is forced to leave.

While sitting on the curb feeling sorry for himself, the yarn is suddenly hit with a brilliant idea. Working quickly, he ties himself into a knot and unravels his ends.  Taking a deep breath, the yarn marches back into the bar and orders a beer.

“Hey!” says the bartender. “Ain’t you that piece of yarn I just threw outta here?”

“Nope,” replies the yarn, “I’m a frayed knot.”               J