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!
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 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.
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.
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
