Klamath Spinners’ & weavers’ guild news October 2012
37291
Agency Lake Loop Rd., Chiloquin, OR
97624
541-891-0817
website:
www.KlamathSWguild.blogspot.com
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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
.
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
