KLAMATH SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS November 2013
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Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ News Guild annual dues are
$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. Thanks to everyone who has paid.
This
Month’s Meeting
This
month our meeting will be Tuesday,
November 12th at 10am in the back room of the Klamath County Museum,
1451 Main St., Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Carol will be leading us in an exercise of name drafting for weaving. It
is a very interesting technique for coming up with a design for weaving using a
person’s name, so it becomes a custom design.
Please come and bring a pencil to chart out your own personal design.
Here is the guild’s schedule for the 2013-2014 year:
November
– Name Draft Weaving by Carol Wylie
December
– Annual Cookie and Ornament Exchange, president to be announced
January
– Needle Felting by Liz Hubbard
February
– Tenerife Embroidery by Karla Lockwood
March – open
April
– Carding Meeting, blending fibers & colors by Sharon
May – Inkle Weaving Demonstration by Karen Williams
June – Annual Potluck
From the Library
Book Review for November
2013 by Karen Williams, Guild Librarian
Anderson, Sarah. The Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs,
Techniques for Creating 80 yarns. Storey Publishing, 2012, 155 pages.
This could be an
invaluable “how to” spinner’s reference for making a very wide range of basics
of fiber preparation and drafting manipulation followed by possible choices in
spinning singles – the “building blocks of plied yarns”. Several plying methods are reviewed, various
stand-alone versions of singles yarns are featured, then the author goes on to
spiral yarns, opposing plies, boucles, and cable, crepe, core and novelty
yarns. She includes methods for adding
beads. Each example of yarn is shown in
its singles components including the directional twist and ply method, and the
final yarn. A packet of yarn reference
cards are included in the back of the book to use by your wheel or spindle.
Now to practice making
all these delightful yarns!
Website to Check Out
Ravelry.com is a free
website for knitters, crocheters and handspinners. In order to see the site you must sign up
with a screen name (I am hubbardhandspun) and get a password. It only takes a few seconds and they do not
ask a bunch of personal questions. The
site is a bit tricky to learn to navigate at first, but persist as there are
many interesting things to find. The
best part of ravelry is the pattern library.
You can research a pattern in a matter of minutes using the criteria you
choose such as; handspun, shawl, mittens, woman’s sweater, a certain yarn
weight, etc. Some of the patterns have a
cost, it helps if you have paypal. But
many patterns are absolutely free; you just download them and print them with
your printer.
There are also special
interest groups you can join, some of the groups I have followed are Warner Mountain
Weavers, Klamath Falls Knitters, Black Sheep Gathering, Oregon Knitters, PLY
magazine. Just now while I was perusing
around the site I found a person new to Lakeview that was looking for
weaver/spinners. I told her about our
guild. I also found a conversation about
glow-in-the-dark yarn that has me thinking about spinning some glowy yarn for
winter hats!
Thanks to Liz who has
agreed to recommend a website for us all to check out each month.
Shops with Classes around the Area
Middleford Yarn & Stitchery Shoppe, 30 N. Central Ave. ( new address), Medford,
OR 97501. 541-734-8800. www.miyarn.com
Eugene Textile Center, 1510
Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR 97402,
541-688-1565, www.eugenetextilecenter.com
Events
Saturday,
November 2 & Sunday, November 3, 2013 Fiber Mania in Grants Pass, Oregon at the Josephine
County Fairgrounds. www.sojaa.com
Friday,
May 16-Sunday, May 18, 2014, Fiber
in the Forest Camp Myrtlewood,
Oregon. 3 day workshops. For more information contact the Eugene Textile Center
at 541-688-1565 or www.eugenetextilecenter.com
From our WeGO representative, Kathy Nelson:
WeGO is helping fund and coordinate some Sharon
Alderman Workshops in March 2014. Salem
area weavers will host a workshop called “Snazzy Yarns, how to use them, not
to loose them”, and there will be another one in the Medford area called “Understanding
the Structure”, based on her book.
These workshops will be sometime between March 16th and the
22nd, will be 2 and/or 3 days and will cost no more than $50 a
day. Details are not firmed up yet, but
the maximum enrollment appears to be around 15, and currently the Rogue Valley
Handweaver’s Guild has 9 people committed.
To see details about these workshops, you can go to
her website: http://www.sharonalderman.com/workshops.html
and click on the workshop to see a description.
If interested, please RSVP to Kathy Nelson, neks1@earthlink.net, or call
541-882-3141, and leave a message with phone number and name, before November 5th.
I am sorry that I can't seem to get the beautiful picture of her yarn on the website.
Classified
Clemes and Clemes Spinning
Traditional Spinning Wheel, $550. It
comes with 5 bobbins. The lazy kate is
built into the wheel itself. This was my first spinning wheel and it spins very
well. Contact Marta: martasullivan@citlink.net
Ashford Traditional Spinning
Wheel with 4 bobbins and lazy kate. It
is a single drive and in nearly new condition and works well. $450.00 Contact:
martasullivan@citlink.net
Rug Loom for Sale – 36”, 2
Harness, metal heddles, Jack type.
Prewarped. $100. Contact: Karla
Lockwood at 541-545-6263
Handmade Knitting Needles for
Sale. Knitting needles, crochet hooks,
stainless steel weaving needles. Great
tools and gifts. Contact: George
Lockwood at 541-545-6263.
Looking for Mini Combs, double or
single. Call or email Teresa Young at 541-281-0700
or Teresa.youngst4p@statefarm.com
The Department of Apparel,
Merchandising, Design & Textiles at Washington State University is selling
nine Gilmore looms previously used in teaching studios.
5--- 32” weaving width, 4 shaft,
bench included (One has a sectional warp beam) $700.00
2--- 32” weaving width, 4 shaft, x frame folding
loom, no bench included. $600.00
1--- 40 “ weaving width, 4 shaft,
no bench included. $800.00
1--- 40” weaving width, 8 shaft,
12 treadles, bench included. $1,000.00
One Leclerc bench. $200.00
Front or back beams straps need
to be replaced on most looms. Some looms
are missing tie bars. Replacement parts
are available through Gilmore Loom Company.
The looms are being sold through
WSU Surplus Stores. They have public
sales Fridays 10:00am to 3:00pm. If you
are unable to attend a sale, you can call after noon on Fridays to discuss
purchasing without attending the sale.
WSU Surplus Stores, 250 Dairy
Road, Pullman, WA 99164-1101,
509-335-3089, http://facops.wsu.edu/Surplus/sur_default.asp
This is from an email Carol
received and may be of interest to some of our members.
“I have a new company here in the
Pacific Northwest (Isla Handwoven) and I’m hoping to support local weavers by
commissioning projects locally. Do you
happen to know of any weavers that may be interested in taking on
projects? Or do you have a newsletter
that you could include my info in?
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