KLAMATH SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS February 2014
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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.
Thank
you to Liz for a very fun and informative needle weaving meeting!
This
Month’s Meeting
This
month our meeting will be Tuesday, February
11th at 10am in the back room of the Klamath County Museum, 1451
Main St., Klamath Falls, Oregon. The February meeting is an open meeting. Please
bring a project you are working on. Karla needed to postpone her meeting to April
because she had back surgery on January 20th. We wish you a swift
and complete recovery Karla.
Here is the guild’s schedule for the 2013-2014
year:
February – open
March
– open
April – Tenerife
Embroidery by Karla Lockwood
May
– Inkle Weaving Demonstration by KarenWilliams
June – Annual Potluck
From the Library
Guild Book Review by Karen Williams, guild
librarian for February 2014
Knisely, Tom, The Loom Owner’s Companion,
a 2-disk DVD, Interweave Press, 2011. Disk 1: 1 hour and 18 minutes; disk 2: 1
hour and 26 minutes. Not currently a part of the guild
library.
In these two DVD disks Tom Knisley provides a
knowledgeable guide to different looms and their maintenance for trouble-free
weaving. This set is a valuable reference with lots of extra information for
any weaver to access and use.
A fun idea to think about
that was suggested by one of our members
The National Needle Arts
Association has a program called the Needle Arts Mentoring Program.
The mission of the Needle
Arts Mentoring Program, a project of the
Helping Hands foundation, Inc., is to create community partnerships that
promote and encourage relationships between adults and youth, fostering
curiosity, creativity and a feeling of achievement through the teaching of
needle arts.
Would our guild like to
try and implement this program?
Suggestions have been made to possibly try this at the Saturday Market?
The Klamath County Museum? Or the Children’s Museum? Other ideas?
The guild could share its
knowledge of wool working, spinning and/or weaving with children and most
probably their adults. It looks like some materials can be provided by the
Mentoring Program.
You can read more about
this program at www.tnna.org/page/NAMPAbout
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
Tuesday,
February 11th, Guild
Meeting, the back room of the Klamath County Museum,
10am. Open meeting. Bring a project you are working on.
Friday,
February 14th Valentine’s Day, Happy Valentine’s Day!
Saturday,
February 15th, 2014 Todd
Kepple from the Klamath County Museum has invited the Guild to demonstrate at a
living history day at the Museum from 10am until 2pm. Period dress is not required for this
demonstration.
Saturday,
February 22nd, 2014 Susan
Schuette has invited anyone who would like to come and spin at her, Patty
Bodner’s and Margie Brick’s booth at the Keepers Corner, #509 from 11am to 3pm. Susan mentioned at the
last meeting that there have been folks
looking for handspun yarn to buy. If you
are bringing something to sell that day, please give Susan a call first,
541-850-3318, as there is a small commission for the Keepers Corner. Susan also
mentioned that many people come through the Keepers Corner and that it is very
fun.
Saturday, March 29th, 2014, Fiber Market Day, Prineville, Oregon. For more information: www.highdesertwoolgrowers.org
Friday,
April 11th, 2014 , Knitting
Workshop with Sivia Harding, Gossamer Yarn Shop in Bend, Or. “Moonrise
Necklace.” For more information call
541-383-2204 or email: lindag@bendbroadband.com
Saturday,
April 12th, 2014, Knitting
Workshop with Sivia Harding, Gossamer
Yarn Shop in Bend, Or, “Sideways Lace.”For more information call 541-383-2204
or email: lindag@bendbroadband.com
Sunday,
April 13th, 2014, Knitting
Workshop with Sivia Harding, Gossamer Yarn Shop in Bend, Or, “Moebius and
More.” For more information call 541-383-2204 or email: lindag@bendbroadband.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
Friday,
June 20th-Sunday, June 22nd, 2014, Black Sheep Gathering,
Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or .
For more info: www.blacksheepgathering.org
WeGO Update
At the January guild
meeting, the majority of guild members voted to apply for a grant from WeGo for
an upcoming gathering at Mt. Bachelor Village in the fall of 2015. If the guild gets the grant, we will be
working with the Bend Guild and pooling our monies to put on educational
spinning and weaving workshops. Kathy has graciously offered to apply for the
grant for the guild. Thank you Kathy.
Classified
Handmade Knitting Needles for
Sale. Knitting needles, crochet hooks,
stainless steel weaving needles. Great
tools and gifts. Contact: George
Lockwood at 541-545-6263.
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This is a name draft for “Klamath
Guild” using one system. There are many
different systems. For this one, the
numbers 1, 2, 3 & 4 were assigned to every 4th letter in the
alphabet. So, A is 1, B is 2, C is 3 D is 4 and then E is 1 and so on. The next
step after assigning, is to make sure that there are not two numbers (which are
shafts, next to each other). Initially K and L are both 2’s, so in weaving that
would make a float, or two warp threads doing the same thing next to each
other. So I added a warp thread on a different shaft to separate those threads.
So I added a 3. Between T and H , those warps, even though they are not the
same number, if threaded in plain weave they would end up being in the same set
of threads, doing the same thing, so I needed to add another warp to separate
them. It can’t be a 2 or 4, so again, I
added a warp thread on harness 3 because harness 1 was used just before the T
or in other words, a warp thread on harness 4.
Carol Wylie led us in this name
drafting for weaving in a meeting this past fall. It was an exercise in drafting, and also
custom drafting for whatever you might use it for. For example; a newly married couple with
their new last name, or a baby gift with the baby’s name…….
This draft is only one repeat for
the threading, and you could repeat this draft across the warp as many times as
you wish.
You could treadle it as you wish.
If I were to weave it I probably would put a plain weave, or tabby thread in
between each row.
I have not tried this yet. If you try it, please let me know how it
turns out. I would love to see it.
