KLAMATH
SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS
February 2015
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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.
A very big THANK YOU to Margery Brick
for a great meeting on backstrap weaving last month. It was a good time and it looked like folks
were enjoying learning how to set up a backstrap loom and weaving!
We also had a very
important vote at the last meeting. Liz made a ballot of issues that we discussed
and needed to decide on. It seems our
guild is at a turning point. A good one
at that. The guild voted and decided to:
1. Join the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce for one year. 2.
Have a guild postcard to be available at some venues, so people will
know we exist and how to contact us.
3. To help subsidize a one day
Summer Dye Day on July 14th.
(application attached to this newsletter) and 4. To
raise guild dues to $15/year.
Here
is the Guild’s agenda for the 2014-2015 year.
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 by Sharon; 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.
News About A New Meeting Place
At the last meeting, Danita Brown offered the
guild a new place to meet. She and her
husband, Brian has offered their building that was previously a church and a
living space. They have offered it free
of charge. The guild would need to pay
for electricity of heaters when we use them.
The building is located at the corner of 9th and Plum Streets
in downtown Klamath Falls. The building was built in the 1930’s or 1940’s. Danita has offered a generous portion of the
main room that has many windows and much light. There is a sunroom that adjoins
the big room and we may share the use of that also. There will be a bathroom for us to use in the
building. Right now, the Browns are working on clearing the space as the
previous owner had lived there for about 40 years. He passed away and the Browns are
distributing his things.
A committee looked at the building and it
looks like it would be a nice place to work and meet. We could keep looms and our library there. Our rent for the use of the room at the
Klamath County Museum is paid through June.
The possiblility of moving to the building would be after that.
This
Month’s Meeting
This month our
meeting will Tuesday, February 10th 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 card
weaving with Kathy Nelson leading us.
Here is the
materials list from Kathy:
Attention all card weavers
! I’m excited – hope you are too! (Call Kathy Nelson if you need
more info.)
For the February 10th card weaving activity you will need:
• Four hole cards (can be home made from playing cards or store bought) – at least 12 cards or more depending on your pattern
• Band weaving shuttle with knife edge –OR if you don’t have this, bring your tongue depressor from January or a ruler, and I’ll show you how to make a weft butterfly
• A pattern you have chosen (see some possibilities on handout Sharon sent as an attachment Jan 14th or in this month’s newsletter - there are also many online). If you choose before the meeting you will better know how much yarn and what colors you will need. Choose one that is not too complicated if is your first time
I will also have some patterns at the meeting, and check the
attachment.
• Yarn -
something like #3 crochet yarn or 8/4 carpet warp is a nice first weight – at
least two colors, or however many you need for your pattern. At this size yarn,
you get an inch wide band with 16 cards. Plan 1 ½ -2 yards of warp length (ex.
bookmarks, or a hat band), so you will need 6-8 yards per card (4 holes) times
# of cards in your pattern
• “loom” - A 12” or so piece of dowel and your backstrap from January’s class, and some heavier string or twine to tie it on. If you have access to an inkle loom, this works well, too.
• C-clamps or a warping board would be helpful, but not totally necessary – for winding the warp
(See also attached handouts. Call Kathy Nelson if you need more info.)
For those of you in the Spinning ChallengeFor the February 10th card weaving activity you will need:
• Four hole cards (can be home made from playing cards or store bought) – at least 12 cards or more depending on your pattern
• Band weaving shuttle with knife edge –OR if you don’t have this, bring your tongue depressor from January or a ruler, and I’ll show you how to make a weft butterfly
• A pattern you have chosen (see some possibilities on handout Sharon sent as an attachment Jan 14th or in this month’s newsletter - there are also many online). If you choose before the meeting you will better know how much yarn and what colors you will need. Choose one that is not too complicated if is your first time
• “loom” - A 12” or so piece of dowel and your backstrap from January’s class, and some heavier string or twine to tie it on. If you have access to an inkle loom, this works well, too.
• C-clamps or a warping board would be helpful, but not totally necessary – for winding the warp
(See also attached handouts. Call Kathy Nelson if you need more info.)
Last
month was actually the end of the Spinning Challenge, but we didn’t get to
share our yarns and tell about them.
Please bring your Susan dark llama yarn, spun plain and altered to the
meeting this month!
From
the Guild Library by Karen Williams for:
February 2015
[Our guild is 47 years old in July 2015!]
Greer, Gertrude. Adventures in Weaving,
1st printing 1951, Chas. A. Bennett Co., Inc. Publishers, 425 pages.
Part of the guild library, graciously donated by Liz Hubbard!
This is a rather diverse text for beginners and
more advanced weavers. An internet search yielded nothing regarding Ms. Greer,
however her book, Adventures in Weaving, has many flat black and
white and color photos of weaving samples completed by Washington and Oregon
weavers (members of Northwest Weavers’ Guilds, primarily) as well as a few
samples from Swedish weavers. There is a strong influence of Swedish weaving
throughout the text. Featured are original drafts and designs by the author,
and some discussion of a Jack Lenor Larsen’s work, and special weaving
techniques of a Margaret Bergman. Also of mention are Ukrainian (in Canada) and
Canadian weaving, use of weaving in schools, church-themed laces and use of
Braille drafts for blind weavers. There is a Weaver’s Library list included
which has early weaving references.Truly this is an intriguing glimpse of weavers’ craft in the mid-twentieth century; a treasury of the past.
( I also left
in the card weaving references Karen contributed from the last
newsletter…. Sharon)
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.
• We might want to add a discussion of goodie bag and name tag help for the Retreat at our March Guild meeting. Also, Name Tag Committee has met, planned and started making (mostly Karen) fall color inkle bands for the name tags. This could be a great use for you card woven band if you don’t know what else you plan to do with it!
Guild Postcard
Shops with Classes around the Area
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 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, May 15, Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17 Fiber in the Forest, Camp Myrtlewood, 40 miles west of I-5. www.campmyrtlewood.org and www.eugenetextilecenter.com
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.
Classified
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
Please
note: There will be 4 attachments to
this newsletter. 1. Dye Day Application 2.
Card weaving materials list. 3.
Patterns for Card weaving. 4. Heather Winslow workshop information. If you
cannot see these attachments, please contact me and I will send them snail mail
to you! 541-891-0817, ballen004@yahoo.com
Thanks to Karen for noting this!
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