Saturday Guild Jun 18 2011

At the Saturday meeting of the Sacramento Weaving and Spinning Guild on June 18. From left: Ken and Betsy, Loren, Linda, other Linda, Kathy,


From left: Connie, Rita, Stephanie, Janet, Monica


Here is Franco demonstrating a backstrap loom.


The piece is being woven with cotton yarn. This will be a small cotton towel. The loom can be rolled up for easy transport.


This is Linda talking about knots and some of the small weaving pieces she brought to show. Although she looks very serious in the picture, she smiles a lot when she talks about weaving.



Linda brought a mini-inkle, some weavette looms, some nail looms, a card loom and a FastSam.



This is a FastSam. It's a small frame loom for testing patterns. You warp it to the sett you want (like 12 ends per inch). Use an elastic band that fits in the grooves around the FastSam to hold the warp in place. Then use a tapestry needle to weave the weft.


Here Susan is showing us how she spins newspaper. She is making a gift for a friend from the library, hence the paper theme.

That's it for this month. Next meeting is July 23, 10 am to 12 pm

For more info visit
http://www.sacweavespin.org/saturday

It was a good day!

More Crios

On Facebook, Niamh Trua, Crios Weaver has a great gallery of woven bands
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Niamh-Trua-Crios-Weaver/174736452554905

She also has a website
http://niamhtrua.com/

Have a good day!

Irish Crios

I was surfing the web this morning and found Annie MacHale's blog: A SpinnerWeaver

There is an article about Irish sashes called Crios.
http://aspinnerweaver.blogspot.com/2011/03/irish-sash-weaving-traditions.html

The colors are awesome and the simple pattern shows how you make dazzling bands with simple warp faced weaving technique!

Bravo Annie!

Have a joyful day!

Threads In Action

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One Saturday as I was driving down Folsom Blvd I saw some youths holding up some hand made signs in front of a church. At first i thought they were hawking for a car wash but as I got closer I could read the words "Book Sale" so I pulled into the parking lot.

There was about ten tables with books roughly sorted by fiction, non-fiction, cooking, biographies, and crafts. In the crafts section I found a hard cover copy of "Learning to Weave, Revised Edition" 1995, Deborah Chandler in good condition for $2. I have seen a library copy but now I have my own copy.
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I also found a folder with some kind of macrame instructions and some yarn and thread samples taped to the pages so I bought that for 75 cents.

These sat on a shelf for a couple of weeks before I tucked them into my commuter bag. On the bus I dug into the folder. The title page said "Threads In Action" Volume 2 Number 1, Fall 1970. Editor, Virginia Harvey. As I flipped through the pages I could see it is a quarterly newsletter. This journal was carefully typed, pictures arranged and photocopied onto thick paper.
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Here is some of the "Hobnail" pattern done in macrame, that is done with knots instead of weaving. This craft is often used to dress up the edges of woven pieces so I hope to use some of these patterns in future projects.
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Here are some of the samples taped to the page that drew my attention if the first place.
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Then I saw this little article describing SPRANG! Yeah, SPRANG!
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Then there is this 9 page article by Peter Collingwood, the man who wrote the big book about Sprang!
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There is this article about combining tapestry and macrame techniques on the same piece.
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A feature about artist who uses sprang in her work.
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And some more articles about macrame.
This will definitely become part of the fiber adventure.

Have a good day!

8 potholders

Here are some of the potholders done on the square loom.
(click picture for larger image)

All done with cotton yarn. The corner loop is just a four strand braid.

Have a good day!

Other Yarn

Here is how the other yarn looks as a potholder.





Today's highlight was getting pea-sized hail this afternoon.

Have a good day!

Square loom finishes

Weaving is finished. I left long tails on the yarn so I could weave them to the same corner.



Then I used a four strand braid to make a hanger loop on the piece. I tied it to the corner.


I hooked the loops together one after the other all around the edge as shown by Noreen Crone-Findlay on her video.


Here is the piece with finished edges and a braided loop!

More to come!

Have a good day!