Tzouhalem Spinners and Weavers Guild Newsletter

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1 March April 2016 Tzouhalem Spinners and Weavers Guild Newsletter Shearing season is upon us! Are we ready?! 1

2 March Show and Tell Jill s cotton plaid shawl in spring colours, and her handspun cotton with striped woven tunic dress. Sandi D s felted BFL sheep, And Diane s mauve hand carded beaded scarf made from her alpaca. 2

3 Michele s block twill cottolin towels and gradation dyed teal lace shaw. And Pat s felted tea cosies. Donna s travel find: wonderful ironworks frog rocker. 3

4 Barbara B s prolific knittings ready for the September sale. 4

5 Lori s table runner in cottolin warp with linen weft. Annelise s amazing tapestry that she has been working on for twenty years. 5

6 Alison s pebble-weave inkle loom bands. Linda s lightly woven merino and alpaca shawl. 6

7 Sandi R celebrated her 70th birthday by going on a Maiwa tour in India. She shared many of the wonderful textiles and tales of her trip. 7

8 Carol J s lovely handspuns, and Marion has dismantled her Mom s old braided rug and is planning on making them into new chair mats. 8

9 Cynara s linen runner and placemats, knitted bag from Elsebeth Lavold s Viking knits book, Linen fabric planned for making a shirt, And Terry s sheep tapestry. 9

10 March Textile Evening Terry and Linda guided a Tapestry workshop. Guild members came with all manner of tapestry looms or frames and we had a wonderful evening warping and working on our samplers. 10

11 April Show and Tell Tapestry Stories Following our March textile evening of a tapestry workshop with Terry and Linda, Guild members brought some of their samplers in progress as well as some- woven in years gone by. Barbara B s tapestries from many years ago, and below left, her daughter s tapestry work done as a child, and Michele s tapestry worked from a painting that her grand-daughter made. 11

12 The tapestry weaving process is so unique to each artist. Sandi L s colour blocks, Terry s colour blending, And Annelise s freestyle work, with her explanation of her weaving poetry path with pauses for Sudoko. 12

13 Barb H s amazing run of wool krokbragd rug/runners. 13

14 Cynara and Terry shared a cotton warp and wove kimono jackets. Cynara s is handspun carbonized bamboo and merino/ silk, and Terry s is wool stranded with a shiny rust boucle. 14

15 Gudrun s hand towels woven from variegated yarn, Jill s soft green waffle towels and Carol J s colour and weave gamp towels. 15

16 Type to enter text Carol J s Providence spinnings, Peggy s alpaca wool spinning and Michele has been knitting and weaving with her variegated dyed wool/ silk yarn. 16

17 Alison shared the Doubleweave pickup inkle bands that she has been preparing in readiness for teaching a class in the Braids Conference coming up in July in Washington. 17

18 Cynara s bag made from inkle weaving sampler that she made following Alison s pebbleweave pickup class a few years ago. And Cynara s three samplers of double weave pickup on the inkle loom. Alison asked Cynara, Terry and Cynthia to be lab rats for her upcoming double weave class. 18

19 Muriel s teeny tiny spinning wheel with a Swedish rhyme inscribed, and a skein of Falkland wool and mohair blend. 19

20 Evid s Quincy Hat and yarn, Bobbin lace bibs found in a free pile on the side of the road. Treasures from another time. Books to be found in VIRL, and colourful rovings ready to spin. 20

21 Michele shared the Doubleweave round robin sampler, complete and off the Guild loom. Very successful! 21

22 6th Annual 100 MILE FLEECE & FIBRE FAIR Sponsored by the Bradley Centre Thursday Spinners When: Sunday, May 29th, 2016 Where : Bradley Centre, 975 Shearme Road, Coombs, BC Time: 9:30am - 3:30 pm Free admission Food vendor on site Bringing together local fibre producers and fibre products with spinners, weavers and the fibrecrafting public. Featuring approx. 40 vendors, spinning demos and display, door prizes, and 4-H fibre group. This is a great opportunity to stock up on local fleece, buy hand crafted yarns and related fibre tools and accessories. For further information please contact Linda Rehlinger... nicknlinda@telus.net 22

23 Local Fibre Sources Dunedin Farm Romney Marsh sheep growers Jan and Dave Loop 1677 Baldy Mountain Road. Shawnigan Lake, BC, V0R 2W2 Home.html FOR SALE: Raw Black Welsh Mountain Sheep wool fairly clean and in good condition $10.00 per fleece Contact: Rosalie Power Gill-Power Hobby Farm Purebred Angora Goats Mohair fleeces Devon Stringer 2109 Ida Avenue, Shawnigan Lake, BC Home Farm Shetlands Fleeces, rovings & batts in beautiful natural colours from my small farm to your spinning wheel. Kathy Millar 2881 Mountain Road, Duncan, BC V9L 6N

24 Pacific Sun Alpacas Jennifer & Alex Apostoli 3791 Cavin Road Duncan BC V9L 6T2 Tel: (250) < Michele Wipplinger 5129 Ballard Ave NW Seattle WA Herb Wise Farms Purebred Cotswold fleece Scott & Karla Henderson 3060 Mount Sicker Road Chemainus, BC, V0R 1K Westholme, BC Alpaca Farms Koksilah/Graycott Arden Jenkins 3450 Kingburne Drive Cobble Hill BC V0R 1L0 Tel: (250) New! Woosterville Miniature Llama Fleece Roving Pat & Leslie Morgan 4135 Hillbank Road Duncan, BC V9L 6M

25 Textile Sources Jane Stafford Textiles 142 Richard Flack Rd. Salt Spring Is., B.C. V8K1N Open Monday to Thursday 10-4 and weekends by appointment. A great mail order source for a wide variety of yarns in a beautiful colour selection. Books, Yarn, Weaving and Spinning Equipment and lots of information. Weaving Retreats throughout the year: check out our retreat page on the website. The Loom Whippletree Junction 3705 Trans Canada Highway Duncan V9L 6E theloom@shawbiz.ca Ingrid s Yarn & Needlework 133 Craig Street, Duncan, BC V9L 1M ingrid@ingridsyarn.com Buttonladys Gallery 3733 Frigate Road RR # 2 North Pender Island British Columbia, Canada V0N 2 M < info@buttonladysgallery.com maiwa@maiwa.com> < Maiwa Handprints Ltd Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2 Leola s Studio The studio is located behind the Loom at Whippletree Junction Trans Canada Highway, Duncan, BC. V9L 6E witnie@shaw.ca Classes will be offered in Textile arts, Weaving, 4&8 Harness, Woven Tapestry, Spinning, Dyeing and Felting. Treenway Silks 2060 Miller Court Lakewood, CO, 80215, USA Toll free: info@treenwaysilks.com Toll free T: SILK (7455) F: Our office hours are Monday to Thursday, 9am to 4pm (Mountain time). 25

26 Equipment available for Guild members use Ball winder Ashford spinning wheel Drum carder- Fine cloth Drum carder- Coarse Cloth Easel Floor Inkle loom with foot treadles /warping board Large Stainless steel Dye Pot Louet 40 8-shaft table loom McMorran yarn balance Picker Louet wool combs Table cloths First priority for the use of the Louet table loom will be for study groups and workshops. Next in line, Guild members for personal use, with a damage deposit for a period of one month. Damage deposit of $25 for the louet table loom and $10 deposit for all other equipment. Deposits will be repaid upon return of equipment in clean and good order. For more information or pickup of equipment please contact Valerie Rennie-Bell <valeriejbell@live.com> Michele Pace <mpace13@shaw.ca> Note: From January 10, 2012, The TSWG Equipment will be stored in St. Peterʼs Church Hall. All items will be catalogued. Equipment needs to be signed out, and deposits need to be made before any piece can be removed from the Hall. Member s Websites Jennifer Apostoli: Alpaca fleeces etc.: < Anne Fulton: Hand knit Lace, Felted clothing and Felting supplies, Classes. <awfulton@shaw.ca> Cynara de Goutiere: < Alison Irwin: Teaching textiles techniques: <alison@cow-net.com> Bonnie Murray: Natural dyes, mordants, embroidery floss, linen thread: <caileans@gmail.com.> Rosalie Power: Black Welsh Mountain Sheep: < 26

27 TSWG ADMINISTRATIVE WORKING GROUP Administrator:Alison Irwin Treasurer: Diane Lee. Recorder: Carol Avon Library: Kathy Wilkinson with Jan McKinnon Loop Card Sender: Sandi Doerksen. Guild Mail: Diane Lee and Jan McKinnon Membership list: Marion Wilkinson Weavers Show and Sale 2015 Linda Porte Cobble Hill Fair Demonstration coordinator: Cathy Johnson Cowichan Fleece and Fibre Festival contact: Joanne Robilliard Cowichan Exhibition chairpersons: Diane Lee and Lois Cosh Newsletter: Cynara de Goutiere Guild Equipment:Cherry Nettleton Distaff Day for 2014 coordinator Marion Wilkinson Kathy Wilkinson has Keys to the hall. TSWG meetings are held in St. Peterʼs Church Hall on the second Tuesday of each month, except during the months of July, August. Meetings are held from 10:00 to 2:00. Note: June and December are Potluck Textile evenings are held on the fourth Tuesday from 7-9 pm at the hall. TSWG business year runs from June 1st to May 31st. After a short business session, the rest of the time is spent sharing show and tell textiles, and at times we run textile demonstrations or bring in a speaker. TSWG mailing address is: P.O. Box 676, Duncan, BC V9L 3Y1 For additional information contact: Alison Irwin <alison@cow-net.com> Scent-Free Environment Just a gentle reminder that our meetings are scent-free, due to sensitivities and allergies of several members. Hope you understand. Library news up date Kathy and Jan would like to remind you all that library materials need to be returned in time. Please check your bookshelves for overdue TSWG-library books, magazines, videos and DVDs, and return them at the next meeting. 27