KLAMATH
SPINNERS’ & WEAVERS’ GUILD NEWS
April 2015
By
Sharon
541-891-0817 ballen004@yahoo.com
PO Box 556, Fort Klamath, Or 97626 Website: www.KlamathSWguild.blogspot.com
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Guild email starting July 1st, 2015
-------------------------klamathfiberarts@gmail.com
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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.
Here
is the Guild’s agenda for the 2014-2015 year.
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 hosted by Sharon; bring fibers and carders
and it is also the guild annual potluck.
Summer
– Summer dye workshop July 14th, a Nametag meeting for the Bend Retreat, TBA
and possibly a Saturday summer meeting?
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.
I have
heard from a couple of people who cannot make it to Tuesday meetings, that they
wish we would have a Saturday meeting.
Would anyone like to have a Saturday meeting/get together in August?
News about a New Meeting Place
We are all looking forward
to meeting in our new meeting place at the Brown’s Church Building at the
corner of Plum and 9th Streets in September!
This
Month’s Meeting
This month our
meeting will Tuesday, April 14th at 10am in the back room of the Klamath County
Museum, 1451 Main St., at the corner of Main and Spring Streets. We will be showing any “Artyarn” we may have
spun or accumulated. If you have done a
technique that you would like to share, please come and share it!
From
the Guild Library by Karen Williams for April 2015
A unit of time…The most frequent question I hear from visitors at a demonstration of some spinning or weaving technique is “How long does that take you?” And for quite a while this question perplexed me. When I “work” on handmade textiles there is no time clock, no demanding supervisor wanting output, no corporate expectations of productivity; the few rare deadlines are self-imposed.
Are the visitors interested in how long
it took to master spinning an even thread or an art yarn,
or weaving at the right sett and producing a strong, uniform selvedge? Or how
long it has taken to accumulate enough equipment and raw materials with which
to “work”? No, usually it is only the item of the moment on display that
captures their attention. Finally, after several years of thought (not wishing
to rush the process), I adopted a response that I do the activity until it is
done, sometimes quicker if I treadle or weave faster. But a unit of time is not
assigned. In turn, this answer perplexes some viewers who sputter and demand a
guestimate of time spent to be quantified for them. Apparently the element of
time spent and productivity has been so deeply ingrained in some folks’ view of
the world that they need that assignment of a unit of time for everything. It
bothers them immensely that I have gleefully all but abandoned this time
assignment in my fiber-related labors.
Recently I came across Elaine Lipson’s Slow
Cloth Manifesto on-line which she presented to participants of the Textile
Society of America meeting, September 19-22, 2012 in Washington, D.C. It
contains a similar perspective regarding the element of time to mine in
relation to completing handmade textiles. The slow cloth movement and Ms.
Lipson’s Manifesto provide an interesting philosophical foundation for any hand
spinner or weaver not working by units of time. So if you do have a moment [
;-), yes, irony], the Manifesto does make for good reading and
perhaps provoke some thought on the matter.
Weaving Guilds of Oregon (WeGO) and
Association of Northwest Weavers (ANWG) news.
Summer Workshop
We have 8 people signed up for the Spinja Dye Day. We need 10
minimum. If we don't get at least two more sign
ups by April 14th the workshop
will be canceled! So if you are thinking you want to go, contact Liz NOW
and let her know!!!! 541-545-6357 or email: hubbardranch@centurytel.net
1) What services do they provide, specifically (advertising - how, how much, when)?
2) free listing on the Chamber's website directory with direct links to your website.
3) referrals in response to thousands of inquiries each year.
4) inclusion in hundreds of relocation information packets sent each year.
5) published news of interest and deeply discounted advertising rates in Basin Business, a monthly insert in the Herald and News.
6) sponsorship opportunities at special events such as the Snowflake Parade and Independence Day Jamboree.
7) assistance with ribbon cutting, ground breaking, and grand opening ceremonies.
8) brochure and business card display.
9) promotion of your event on events calendar and in weekly e-newsletter.
2) Exactly how much is one year's membership?
The membership is $129 with a one time sign up fee of
$30.
3) Do they suggest any events where our
Guild should have a presence?As for events, I would suggest coming to a few of our Greeters meetings once in a while to share what the guild does, events, etc. When you join, you’ll be added to our e-newsletter for members and will receive notice of dates, etc.
4) How much advance notice do they need to get our events on the calendar?
We can get your events on our calendar within a few days. Obviously, as soon as you know them, it’s a good idea to get them to us. We have many groups who look at our calendar when planning events so that they don’t compete with other events.
Shops with Classes around the Area
Laize Dayz Yarn and Tea Shop, 2617 Pershing Way, Klamath Falls, OR 541-892-6856. www.laizedayz.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 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 April 21st at 5:30pm.
Heritage Days- Living history encampment at the Fort Klamath Museum. Thursday
and Friday, 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
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.
Demonstration opportunities – Volunteers
always needed and appreciated!
May 23rd and 24th,
Heritage Days – mentioned above
May 30th – Link River
Day – 11am to 3pm, on the Link River Trail.
Come and spin, weave, felt or ?
Shade will be provided, golf cart type shuttle to help haul volunteers
and supplies. Please let Kathy Nelson know if you can help for an hour or two,
or for the day. 541-882-3141 or
email: neks1@earthlink.net.
We need a passport question for the organizers. One suggestion: What is a weaving warp?
Saturday Farmer’s Market
demonstrations - the Guild has been
asked to demonstrate a couple of times this summer. Maybe a July Saturday? A September or October Saturday?
The Guild has been invited to
participate in the Klamath County Library’s Summer Reading Program Street
Fair. The theme is: “ Every hero has a story.” Would the Guild like to participate? It is Wednesday July 1st, 10:30am
to 11:30am. We could demonstrate a spinning and weaving children’s story?
Classified
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.
Creelman
Money Maker Sock Knitting Machine For Sale: 58 and 72
stitch drums with a ribber attachment and extra needles. Free wheeling last time used. $300.
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.
A need 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
As of now, we have had nobody interested in taking it over.
If
you would like to continue to keep getting the newsletter, and haven’t paid the
annual Guild dues by June, I will assume that you would like to be taken off
our mailing list. I will be
transitioning this newsletter to the new person along with the June 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!
Please
change on your contact list:
Judy Olson’s email on your Contact List to: olsonju1@gmail.com
Shirley Keefer’s email: laizedayzyarn@gmail.com
Bonnie Chases’
email: warnermtnweavers@citlink.net
