KLAMATH
SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS
January 2015
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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.
The December meeting with Christmas Cookie
and Ornament Exchange was a nice meeting with lots of sharing.
Here
is the Guild’s agenda for the 2014-2015 year.
January – Beginning Backstrap
weaving hosted by Margery Brick
February – Card weaving hosted by Kathy Nelson
March – A bring your current project work day.
April – Art yarn- bring a yarn you have worked on and also bring
your wheel to learn a new one at the meeting.
May – Wet felting hosted by Susan Schuette.
June - Carding and Blending; bring fibers and carders and it is
also the guild annual potluck.
The
back room at the Klamath County Museum has been reserved for our meetings once
a month until June.
The
Guild sometimes meets informally in the summer for dyeing or fiber working.
This
Month’s Meeting
This month our
meeting will Tuesday, January 13th at 10am in the back room of the
Klamath County Museum, 1451 Main St., at the corner of Main and Spring
Streets. This month we will be learning
and doing backstrap weaving with MargieBrick leading us. This weaving, as many
of you may know is a very portable and basic type of loom setup that uses your
back for tensioning the warp. You are
actually part of the loom! Please
bring:
Cotton (can be
bought at JoAnne’s, {Sugar & Cream})
scissors, 2 C-clamps, 4 or 5 sticks to hold the warp, a little longer
than the width of your weaving width plan,
warping board if you have one, shuttle, or something you can use as a
shuttle, like a tongue depressor, a dish towel or pillowcase that will go
around your back to support your weaving,
heavy duty sewing thread, some
heavy cordage and a measuring tape could be handy.
For
those of you in the Spinning Challenge
This is the last month the Spinning
Challenge! Examples that are due are: 1
oz of Susan’s dark llama fiber, altered and 1 oz of Susan’s dark llama, spun
plain.
It is inspiring and interesting to see how
each spinner interprets the fibers into yarns.
There have been many lovely yarns created through this challenge.
From
the Guild Library by Karen Williams for:
January 2015
[Our guild is 47 years old in July 2015!]
Atwater, Mary Meigs. Byways
in Handweaving, original printing 1954, reprint 1988. Shuttle-Craft
Books, 128 pages. There is a copy of this book in our guild library!
Mary Meigs Atwater (1878-1956) was one
enterprising weaver whose biography and books are well worth checking out. She
produced the Shuttle-Craft Guild as a business for the women in Basin, Montana
in 1914 and explored, resurrected, and taught many “lost” weaving skills and
methods over a span of more than 30 years. She also taught weaving as
Occupational Therapy through WWI and II, and travelled to remote mining camps
in Colorado, Oregon, Montana, Arizona, Bolivia and Mexico with her engineer
husband (who died in 1919).
Byways in Handweaving has
chapters on card weaving, Inkle loom weaving, twined weaving, braiding and
knotting, plaiting, and includes explorations of belt-weaves and other ethnic
warp-faced weavings. There also is a short dissertation on the uses of
handicraft in occupational therapy. Black and white photos, drafts and graphs,
sketches and diagrams abound throughout to accompany informative text
explanations.
Note: Here are a few more potential
references for card weaving:
Crockett, Candace. Card Weaving.
1991, Interweave, 144 pages.
Collingwood, Peter. The Techniques of
Tablet Weaving. 2002, Robin & Russ Handweavers, 320 pages.
Mullarkey, John and Marilyn Emerson Holtzer. A
Tablet Weaver’s Pattern Book, 2007, Mularkey Crafts, 87 pages.
Snow, Marjorie and William Snow. Step-by-Step
Tablet Weaving, 1973, Golden Press, 80 pages.
And others…
Weaving Guilds of Oregon (WeGO) and
Association of Northwest Weavers (ANWG) news.
Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ Guild has won a scholarship from
Weaving Guilds of Oregon for $200.
The winners of the $50 WeGO, (Weaving Guilds of Oregon)
scholarships drawn from a hat at the December meeting are:
Marissa Spehar, Jennifer Lehman, Margie Brick and Sharon
Allen. These members may choose a
workshop in 2015 to attend using the scholarship to help pay for it. Each member will bring back what they have
learned and share it with the guild.
The Bend Retreat is Friday, September 11th,
Saturday, September 12th and Sunday, September 13th, at
Mt. Bachelor Village. The workshop
teachers will be: Sarah Lamb, who will
be teaching a workshop on “Spin to Weave” and Robyn Spady who will be leading a
workshop called, “Extreme Warp Makeover.”
Sunday is a half day workshop by
Robyn Spady and is called, “Tips and Tricks.” It is an additional $30. The registration for these classes opens March
1st, 2015, and the workshop/classes are limited to 35 participants
per class. The cost estimate is between
$250/$265 per person and includes meals lodging and workshop.
The Guild also needs to decide how we are going to help with the
Bend workshops next fall
Klamath Spinners’ and Weavers’ Guild has agreed to do
nametags for the Bend workshop retreat.
They will be probably woven.
Samples of the nametags are due at the February or March meeting. The members on the nametag planning committee
are: Kathy Nelson, Carol Wylie, and
Karen Williams.
Summer Workshop
The
summer workshop is still in the planning stages, but it will probably be a dye
day this summer in Langell Valley, either at Liz Hubbard’s home or the Lorella
Grange Building. The workshop may be led by Spinjas from the Rogue Valley. The
tentative date is Tuesday, July 14th
We
will be voting on whether the guild will subsidize the workshop. Some of the choices are: washing and dyeing raw wool, kettle dyeing,
fractured dyes, ombre colors on yarn, and yarn painting. We will find out the cost of the workshop
soon.
Guild Postcard
The
proposal of a guild postcard and possibly joining the Klamath County Chamber of
Commerce has opened up a lot of discussion about the future of our guild.
Marissa has been working on the postcard along with Kathy. We saw a very basic draft at the December
meeting and another draft is being worked on.
The
questions and comments that members discussed were:
Does
the guild want to promote itself?
Does
the guild want to let other people know the guild exists?
Many
people don’t realize there are spinners, weavers and fiber artists in the area.
Does
the guild want to expand? In membership?
Visibility?
Do
the members want to keep the guild small and personal, or expand and have
subcommittees, study groups and possibly other opportunities?
Does
the guild want to outreach by working with children?
Possibly
raise the guild dues to $15/year if we expand.
The
guild needs to have evening meetings for those that have day jobs.
It
would be nice to have a home base to weave and/or work on projects.
The
cost of joining the Chamber of Commerce is $135/year.
The
Chamber of Commerce could help promote the guild.
The
guild could decide to join for one year and see how much the Chamber helps the
guild during that year.
Liz
will be bringing ballots to vote on whether the guild wants to have a
representative postcard and also whether the guild would like to join the
Chamber of Commerce.
Marissa
has agreed to be our Chamber of Commerce contact should we decide to join.
Liz
has offered to create a voting ballot for these questions and comments and
bring it to the January meeting.
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Shops with Classes around the Area
Warner Mountain Weavers, 459 S. Main St., Cedarville, CA,530-279-2164.
Email: warnertmtnweavers@citlink.com Open Thursday- Saturday, 10am to 5pm.
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
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 Janurary 20th, 5:30pm.
1860s Days- A living history day at the Klamath County Museum will feature
presentations by the Cascade Civil War Society and The Spinners and Weavers
Guild. See a replica of a Civil War-era cannon. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, February 21st, 2015. Free
Admission. (Generally participants are encouraged to wear period clothing, but
anyone is welcome to attend and spin or weave!)
Heritage Days- Living history encampment at the Fort Klamath Museum. May
23-24. Free admission. (Thursday and Friday are field trip days for school
children, mainly in the fourth grades throughout the county. Saturday and
Sunday are open to the public. The spinners and weavers usually have use of the
museum’s three-sided canvas tent for demonstration and talks during school
tours on both days, and the rest of the weekend. It can be blustery and cold,
so all that wool spun, knit or woven can be worn for warmth!)
Friday,
June 19 , Saturday, June 20th and Sunday, June 21st , Black Sheep Gathering, Lane
County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon, www.blacksheepgathering.org
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.
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Looking
for someone to take over the newsletter.
My last issue will be June 2015.
I will be happy to help the new newsletter person get started. Contact:
Sharon – ballen004@yahoo.com
Thank
you to all the volunteers who have demonstrated, worked on guild projects, led
meetings and contributed to the guild.
You help us all. Happy New
Year!
