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Thursday, September 3, 2015



Klamath Spinners & Weavers Guild    September  Newsletter
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September’s events:

9/5-6: Natural Fiber Fair  
Location: Arcata, CA

9/10-13th  The 15th Annual Woolgathering
Location Cedarville, CA  
Classes: spinning, felt, dyeing, stranded knitting, and rigid heddle weaving
Cost: $35-$100 variable

9/11-13   Bend Weaving and Spinning Workshops thru WeGO &/or ANWG
Location: Mt. Bachelor Village
Teachers: Sarah Lamb & Robyn Spady
Subjects: Spin to Weave, Extreme Warp Makeover, Tips & tricks
Registration opens March 1st.  limited to 35  people per class/workshop. 
Cost:  $250-$265 including meals, lodging and workshops.

***9/15 Meeting @ New Location: Brown’s Church Building- 9th & Plum in KFalls
Please also bring any woven inkle bands for the nametags for the upcoming Bend retreat


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                        Upcoming Events
(if you know of any to add or have more details, please pass along by email to klamathfiberarts@gmail.com)

October:    10/2-4 Lambtown  Dixon, CA        
10/10-11 Fiber Fusion   Mt Lassen Fiber Guild
November:

11/1  DUES have changed from $10 / year to $15/year.  Please give or send to our treasurer, Karen Williams

11/15 The Wool Symposium Fibershed  Point Reyes Station, CA

Monday, August 3, 2015


Klamath Spinners & Weavers Guild      August Newsletter

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   August’s events:                

 Tuesdays: Laize dayz Yarn shoppe 5-7pm

Wednesdays: Laize dayz Yarn shoppe charity in stitiches  1-3 pm

 8/15- Farmer’s Market Demo- 8:45 am- 1:30pm stay as long as you like. bring a project to work on.

8/? Brown’s Building: come help us invigorate the outside of our new building.                                      Date to be announced

 Saturday Laize dayz Yarn shoppe  come knit/crochet/Tat 12:30-4pm

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                        Upcoming Events

(if you know of any to add or have more details, please pass along by email to klamathfiberarts@gmail.com)

September: Another Farmer’s Market demonstration possible.

9/8 Meeting @ New Location: Brown’s Church Building- 9th & plum in KFalls, OR

                                       Decide on agenda for the upcoming year.

Please also bring any woven inkle bands for the nametags for the upcoming Bend retreat

 9/10-13th  The 15th Annual Woolgathering

Location Cedarville, CA  
Classes: spinning, felt, dyeing, stranded knitting, and rigid heddle weaving
Cost: $35-$100 variable

9/11-13   Bend Weaving and Spinning Workshops thru WeGO &/or ANWG

Location: Mt. Bachelor Village
Teachers: Sarah Lamb & Robyn Spady
Subjects: Spin to Weave, Extreme Warp Makeover, Tips & tricks
Registration opens March 1st.  limited to 35  people per class/workshop. 
Cost:  $250-$265 including meals, lodging and workshops.

October:    10/2-4 Lambtown  Dixon, CA        

                        10/10-11 Fiber Fusion   Mt Lassen Fiber Guild

November:

11/1  DUES have changed from $10 / year to $15/year.  Please give or send to our treasurer, Karen Williams.

11/15 The Wool Symposium Fibershed  Point Reyes Station, CA

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Local Yarn Shops

Laize Dayz Yarn Shop, 2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, OR  541-887-8560

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

Warner Mountain Weavers  S. Main St., Cedarville, CA 530-279-2164


Open by Appointment only or if Bonnie’s car is parked in front of the store. 

Eugene Textile Center,  1510 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR  97402


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Classifieds:

If you have an ad you would like to be put in the newsletter, please send it via email.   Your ad will appear in the next newsletter for 2 months.  

Monday, June 1, 2015


KLAMATH SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS              June     2015

By Sharon                                                                             541-891-0817          ballen004@yahoo.com PO Box 556, Fort Klamath, Or  97626                       

New Guild email starting July 1st, 2015 ---------------------------------klamathfiberarts@gmail.com

The Guild has a Facebook Page!  Liz Hubbard has set it up.  It is simply :  Klamath Spinners and Weavers .  Just “like” it and you will be able to view it.  There are photos of members on it. Liz and Kathy have posted the photos. If you would rather not have your picture posted on Facebook, please let Liz know.

If you have an ad you would like to be put in the newsletter, please send it via email or snail mail by the end of the previous month before the issue you would like it in.  Your ad will be in the newsletter for 2 months.  Thanks.

Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ News Guild annual dues are $10/year. Starting in September of 2015, dues will be going up to $15/year. Dues are due in November and can be given or sent to our treasurer, Karen Williams, 1700 Fairmont St., Klamath Falls, Or  97601.

Here is the Guild’s agenda for the 2014-2015 year.

June - Carding and Blending hosted by Sharon; bring fibers and carders and it is also the guild annual potluck.  The meeting will be a mohair free meeting.

Summer –  Summer dye workshop July 14th,  a Nametag meeting for the Bend Retreat, TBA and possibly a Saturday summer meeting?

News about the Brown’s Church Building

We are all looking forward to meeting in the Big Room at the Brown’s Church Building in September!

This Month’s Meeting

This month our meeting will Tuesday June 9th at 10am in the back room of the Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St., at the corner of Main and Spring Streets.  We will carding away!  Please bring any carding or combing devices you may have and sheep wool, llama wool, alpaca wool, dog hair, silk or plant fibers to card for your projects and/ or share !  The June meeting is also our annual potluck.  So please bring a dish to share and your dinnerware.

Please also bring any woven inkle bands for the nametags for the upcoming Bend retreat in September.

From the Guild Library by Karen Williams for June 2015

Founding Anniversary for Klamath Spinners & Weavers Guild

I transcribed some handwritten notes from a very small notebook found in the guild papers which establishes the date of our guild’s beginning. The following entry documents the founding date of Klamath Spinners & Weavers Guild as July 18, 1968.
 “Weavers Guild 1968 Planning meeting held July 18, 1968 at Art Gallery to organize guild.

Those attending were:

Myrtle Pence, Rosemarie Lindgren, Ruth Simpson, Betty Boyle, Jim Boyle, Rory Boyle, Marlene Lu Boyle, Agnes Oliver, and Rachel McConnell.
Group decided to meet the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30 (PM).

Art Association agreed the Weavers Guild might be a subsidiary group- pay membership in Art Association and Guild to get % for operating fund.
The first meeting was September 9th, 1968. Roll: Agnes Oliver, Ruth Simpson, Dale Custer, Dorothy Anderson, Helen Reeves, Betty Boyle, Jim Boyle, Rory Boyle, Maxine Wirth, Blomey, Rachel McConnell.

Committees:
Program: Betty Boyle, Agnes Oliver, Dorothy Anderson

Communication: Ruth Simpson
Program (was) on native materials available for weaving and display of Indian Baskets by Agnes Oliver. (Additionally a) lesson (was given) on how to weave pine needle baskets. Very interesting. Aggie had gathered and brought a wealth of native materials to the meeting.”

Respectfully documented for the guild,
Karen G. Williams
July 7, 2013 and again for June 2015

Weaving Guilds of Oregon (WeGO) and Association of Northwest Weavers (ANWG) news.
Hello Klamath Spinner and Weaver Guild members. Our guild has an opportunity to apply for an additional $600 ANWG grant towards presenting a workshop , and Rogue Valley Handweavers Guild (whose members also have a wide variety of interests) is interested in also applying  for the same amount for a joint workshop (would be for 2016).

     I am trying to determine if our guild has enough interest and participants to make this feasible. Would you please fill out this form and return it to me, Kathy Nelson (ANWG rep) either by email or snail mail by June 15th, or bring it to the June meeting. (There will also be forms there)  I hope to meet with the Medford Guild this summer to plan.

Questions:

1)        Would you be interested in attending a workshop presented by our joint guilds in 2016?   Y/N

PLEASE INDICATE INTEREST AREAS YOU MIGHT ATTEND BELOW

2)       Some possible ideas I have are: (circle any you might be interested in)

3)       Dyeing topics:

a)       Ikat dyeing, b) resist dyeing,   c) warp and /or yarn hand painting  (and garment planning), d)natural dyeing,   e) other (please list)

 

Spinning topics (please list any ideas you have below)

a)

b)

c)

 

Weaving topics:

More on inkle,  card weaving,  bow weaving,  shibori , other (please list)

a)

b)

c)

 

Felting topics:

a)

b)

 

Other topics:

a)

b)

c)

 

Favorite presenters you might like (West coast is probably less expensive)J. MacKenzie, J. Boggs, etc.

a)

b)

Please list any comments you have that I haven’t covered here

 

Contact info for me:  email:  neks1@earthlink.net  

Snail mail:  1402 Elderberry Lane, Klamath Falls, Or. 97601  THANK YOU!!

 Spinja July Dye Day

 Here is a reminder of the Dye Day in July. Payment is due at the June meeting for those who have not already paid. Or you can mail payment to Karen Williams 1700 Fairmont St. Klamath Falls, OR 97601  Make checks payable to the Klamath Spinners and Weavers. Cost is $50 for Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ Guild members, $75 for nonmembers.

 The workshop will start at 9:00am at the Lorella Hall, east of Bonanza, Oregon.

 For those that need directions;
You will head out of Klamath Falls as if heading to Lakeview, Hwy 140 East. Go apx 13.5 miles.
Turn right onto Hwy 70 at Dairy. Go 7 miles to Bonanza.
Go straight through Bonanza, leaving Bonanza on East Langell Valley Road (past Big Springs Park.)
Go 8.4 miles.
Lorella Hall is on the left. We will put out a sign.
9787 E Langell Valley Rd
Liz's cell 541-892-3323 or home 541-545-6357

Lunch will be provided. Water will be available, bring your own favorite beverage. If you have a special chair that helps with your comfort you can bring that. Also, you might throw in some spinning or knitting in case there is some down time while we wait for dyes to set.

Please call or write if you have questions. 

 We have 10 people signed up for the Spinja Dye Day, but have room for 15.  If you want to have a fun day and dye some fiber for future projects, contact Liz as soon as possible!    541-545-6357  or email:  hubbardranch@centurytel.net

 

Dye like a Spinja! July 14th, 2015

Amber Beck
Harness the power of the sun, and create beautiful dyed roving! Amber will guide you through the process of dying your own roving. You will learn to mix your dyes, apply for the desired color affect, and set your dye job in an easy and earth friendly way. You will be provided with all the materials needed, and go home with your one of a kind hand dyed roving!

 Amber has been immersed in fiber arts since the age of 9. She learned to spin when she was 12, but didn’t get serious about the art until her second daughter was born. She began dying yarn in 2003 as part of her wool diaper cover business, and selling handspun yarn in 2005. Amber is excited to meet fellow fiber artists and share her knowledge of dying.

Aleatha Isaacs

Let’s Take a Dip into Gradients!  Aleatha will be teaching you about dyeing gradient yarn using a fun technique to achieve an ombre fade effect.  You will learn how to achieve the color you are looking for based on blending and dye saturation.  Materials will be included in the cost of the class. 
Aleatha picked up yarn for the first time at 5 years old when she learned to crochet a chain.  She taught herself to spin in 2013.  Within a year Aleatha started Cold Sheep Fiber Arts, and in January of 2015 she purchased Tanglewood Fiber Creations (a handspun yarn company that specializes in Cashmere and Silks).  She is on the editing and development team for two spinning and dyeing books that are currently in production to be published by Interweave Press in the next year. 

Together we are Spinja!  Amber and Aleatha have known each other for over 25 years.  Together the dynamic duo developed Spinja Fiber Arts for joint ventures in the fiber world.  We hope that you enjoy all that we have to offer. 

Raw Fleece to Dye for!  If time allows Spinja will be teaching how to wash and dye your fiber at the same time!  Hubbard Ranch will provide the Raw wool.

Note:  We will have disposable latex gloves available on site but if you have any special needs or preferences please bring your own.  Wear something you don’t mind getting a little messy in or bring an apron to cover up. 

Come ready for a day full of fun and dye techniques!

Save to my compuSave to DropboxShops with Classes around the Area
Laize Dayz Yarn and Tea Shop, 2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, OR 541-892-6856. www.laizedayz.com  

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

Warner Mountain Weavers,  459 S. Main St., Cedarville, CA,530-279-2164. Email: warnertmtnweavers@citlink.com    http://www.facebook.com/WarnerMountainWeavers  Open by Appointment only or if Bonnie’s car is parked in front of the store.  Warner Mountain Weavers is now Bonnie’s studio where she will continue to weave, spin and dye yarn.  There will still be classes, seasonal Potlucks and the 15th Annual Woolgathering September 10-13, 2015.
Shows that she will be in: 
Black Sheep Gathering, June 10-21, Eugene, OR                                                                               
Lambtown October 2-4, Dixon, CA                                                                                                                     
Fiber Fusion, October 10-11, Mt Lassen Fiber Guild                                                                                 
The Wool Symposium Fibershed, November 15th, Point Reyes Station, CA

Eugene Textile Center,  1510 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR  97402, 541-688-1565, www.eugenetextilecenter.com

Events and Opportunities

Tuesday Gatherings at Leap of Taste for Fiber Working and Tea Sipping, 9:30 am, 907 Main St.

Bring Your Own Craft evening at the Klamath County Library, the third Tuesday of the month which is June 16th at 5:30pm.
Friday, June 19 , Saturday, June 20th and Sunday, June 21st , Black Sheep Gathering, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon,   www.blacksheepgathering.org

Sunday, June 21, Living History Day at Collier Park. Come and demonstrate at the Sheepherder’s Cabin from 9am and stay as long as you would like.  Karen Williams is planning to be there, so contact Karen if you would like to join her.  kage.williams@charter.net

Wednesday, July 1st, Klamath County Library’s Annual Street Fair, 10:30 to 11:30am.  Come and help demonstrate a story with Liz and Sharon. It will be on 3rd Street in downtown Klamath Falls.

Friday, through Sunday, September 11-13, 2015,   Bend Weaving and Spinning Workshops, Mt. Bachelor Village, Sarah Lamb and Robyn Spady teachers.  Registration opens March 1st.  limited to 35  people per class/workshop.  Estimated cost:  $250-$265 including meals, lodging and workshops.

Please help weave an inkle band about ¾ “ wide by 38” long to help meet the necessary number of lanyards we need for the Bend retreat nametags.

Demonstration opportunities – Volunteers always needed and appreciated!

Saturday Farmer’s Market demonstrations - The Guild has been asked to demonstrate a couple of times this summer.   It was decided to demonstrate at least one Saturday in September. 

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For Sale:  28” Lendrum Saxony Spinning Wheel.  Double treadle, scotch tension, in maple.  I discovered I am a left handed spinner and she is not!  I will miss her beauty, but not the pain.  There is a 2 year wait for this wheel at $1300-$1400.  I will let her go for $1,000.  Contact:  Gail Peterson at 541-417-1434 or email:  spinnerpete@hotmail.com.

If you have any way to take pictures at Guild happenings, please send any that you would want to share to Kathy Nelson neks1@earthlink.net  and she will send them to WeGO and they may post them on their website. Also Liz is accepting pictures for the new Guild Facebook page. hubbardranch@centurytel.net

We have someone who is excited to continue to do the newsletter!  Elyssa Lewis has many great ideas to improve it.  She will be taking it over after the June issue.  Thank you Elyssa.
There will be some changes that I would like to tell you about to make it easier for the newsletter to continue, be less expensive financially and a shared responsibility to get the newsletter out.

1.         The Guild’s email  concerning the newsletter will be:  klamathfiberarts@gmail.com
2.        The paid membership list will become the contact list.
3.        The newsletter will be posted at The Klamath County Library, Leap of Taste, and Laize Days Yarn Shop.  It is also on the web at the address at the top of the newsletter.
4.      People who get the newsletter via paper mail will have a newsletter partner that will print out the newsletter for them and/or they can work out how to share it.
5.       Any items between newsletters that need to be sent out will need to be sent out to the contact list by the person who wants them sent out.

These folks need a newsletter partner:  Partnerships will start in September
Debby Ashdon – Newsletter partner - Sharon                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Marj Hubbard   - Liz                                                                                                                                        
Linda Husain  - Yvette                                                                                                                                       
Karla Lockwood - Sharon                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Santa Santa Fe Ryan                                                                                                                                            
BarbaraStewart                                                                                                                                         Lin Warner                                                                                                                       
Carol Wylie – Newsletter partner – Sharon
It has been suggested that folks who need a newsletter partner reimburse their partner for their newsletters.  It’s up to the partners to decide what their agreement could be.
If you would like to continue to keep getting the newsletter, and haven’t paid the annual Guild dues by the end of September, we will assume that you would like to be taken off our mailing list.  The newsletter will be transitioning to the new person along with the September paid membership list.  Thank you.
The new Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’email will be:  klamathfiberarts@gmail.com and our google profile page is here: https://plus.google.com/u/2/116205193149526127356/about    Check it out!

Thank you to all of you for your patience and understanding with me through the years of doing the newsletter. It did push me to learn a lot, considering the first few were done with a typewriter.  Thank you for all your contributions and for keeping me posted on what is going on. 

I look forward to Elyssa’s work and the progression and growth of the newsletter and guild. I am grateful to Elyssa for her enthusiasm and positive spirit in taking it on and furthering it.   J sharon