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1 OFFICERS FOR President LaVila Churruca Vice President Programs Susan Clark Vice President Workshops Carol Eggers Treasurer Anita Bellinger Newsletter of the Arizona Desert Weavers and Spinners Guild, Inc. Volume 38, 37 Issue Issue 4 4 December December From the president s desk... Hello to everyone. We had a really great meeting last month. If you were not there you missed a great on. We had a wonderful presentation by Jeane de Coster. We also had a spinning class called Spinning Fast & Fluffy. Those that attended had a lot of fun. The yarns created were absolutely wonderful and gorgeous. We learned a new way to spin using a long draw method. Do not forget that this month is our auction of baskets for Christmas, Hanukah or whatever holiday you celebrate. Each year we seem to have more & more baskets. Save your money so you can bid, bid and bid some more. I am looking forward to the auction even though I may not be able to spend as I have done before. Jan Lundstrum, Diane Wilson and myself attended the Prescott Guild s Fashion Show, Tea & Gallery. The show was excellent. It included both woven & knitted items.they also had many really nice things to sell. We had a good time and enjoyed the day in Prescott. I almost forgot our own Shelley was there also but she was representing the Prescott Guild, as she also belongs to that guild. You missed a really good time by not attending. All the Critter gang says to say Hello. They have all been up to the same antics. They are determined to drive their Gypsy mamma (the dog) crazy. Gypsy hates it when the boys are playing on the roof and she can not get to them. Secretary Diane Wilson weavebskts@aol.com Editor Helene Charles hcdesertlady2@gmail.com MOA DEADLINE 15th August - May Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season. LaVila Next Meeting: December 5th at 10 AM Northtown Community Center 2202 E. Waltann Lane Phoenix, AZ Annual Gift Basket, Bag and Box Auction! Bring something to donate and your purse/wallet to bid & help raise funds for our guild. Refreshment: Everyone brings a dish for this annual potluck 1

2 The Refreshment Corner It s Cookies and Baskets for All to bring - Yes Baskets to make and Cookies to bake - And if some are left over - We share -Yeah! Here s the fun dyeable edible challenge - use garnets...ok that s Pome garnets. Just love the idea of creating surface designs on cookies and cotton tees. Paisley or twill weave on cookies or cloth. Tie-dye the fabric and sprinkle with myrrh. Pomegranate, with its deep red rind and ruby-colored flesh, is known as Anar in India and Grenada in Spain. It grows wild in India, Italy, North Africa and China. The rind of the fruit is used for the deepest yellow color, although the bark contains more tannin. The rinds are a waste product of the pulverized seeds which are used as a spice in India. Pomegranate is an aromatic dye that yields an especially nice green yellow color. The age of the fruit affects the color of the dye: the less ripe the fruit, the greener the yellow. Pomegranate has a high tannin content which when combined with iron gives a deep moss green. Be sure to use a stainless steal pot. Delicious Delightful Depaisley ~ Eve The Jeane de Coster workshop in November was a smashing success! All 14 participants learned to spin a 2-ply fat, fluffy yarn and then wash it and full the skein. A good time was had by all. Thanks to Susan Clark for scheduling an interesting program with a fun workshop. The Daryl Lancaster workshop, Jumpstart Vest, is scheduled February 21 & 22-Sunday and Monday at our Northtown Community center meeting place. As of this writing I have 7 participants and she has a maximum of 15 participants. After our December meeting, this workshop will be open to members of other guilds. A deposit of $75.00 holds your space. More information at her website: com. Our major workshop presenter of this year is Judith MacKenzie McCuin. She will present the program at our meeting on Saturday with workshops on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday-March 8, 9, & 10. Each day will be a different aspect of ADWSG Workshop Update More Exciting Workshops Planned! Thanks for your guild s support of our show! DISCOUNT COUPON $1 Off Admission Y our ticket is good all day Thursday, Friday & Saturday! Admission without coupon $10. Photocopies accepted. One coupon per person. 2 fiber work-spinning, dyeing, and weaving. Monday will be blending fibers-spinning. Tuesday, painted warp-dyeing, and Wednesday-weaving, correctly winding on your painted warp and beginning to weave it. We have the option of taking one or more of her workshops. A deposit of only $25.00 per day will hold your spot. We are sharing her with the Telarana guild and I have deposits from about 10 total participants. There is a maximum of approx. 20 for each workshop. If you are interested, please give me your deposit by the December meeting. The anticipated cost is $50.00/day plus materials. This workshop will open to other guilds in mid-december if not full. She is a highly acclaimed spinner and fiber BIGGER, BETTER & MORE! DON T MISS THIS T HUGE SHOW! Phoenix Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival at the Arizona State Fairgrounds (19th Ave. & McDowell, Enter at 17th Ave and McDowell) JAN 28, 29 & 30, 2010 Thursday, F riday & S atur day 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Come Thursday f or Early Buying P rivileges) SEWING QUIL TING NEEDLE-A RTS CRAFT S See and buy the latest supplies, fabrics, notions, patterns and tools all under one roof! See Classes from Quilting and Sewing Superstars: Shar Jorgenson, Barb Callahan, Linda MacPhee, Laura Murray & Charlie Bement! For additional show information visit our website at: quiltcraftsew.com FREE CLASSES, WORKSHOPS & DEMOS! (your ticket is good for all 3 days) artist with severals books and many articles. This is a special opportunity for our guild members education in fiber arts since we are the only guild she is presenting workshops to in AZ this year. Questions? Call or me. Carol Eggers Workshop Chairperson

3 INTEREST GROUPS SERENDIPITOUS SATURDAY SPINNERS This group s meeting takes place after the Guild meeting on the first Saturday of the month until 2 or 3 p.m. Bring your wheel, spindle and current project and lunch or be prepared to go out to eat or fetch lunch back to the meeting. Susan Clark is the contact person. DAYTIME SPINNERS First Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. Each month a different member hosts the meeting at their home. To attend please RSVP to chairperson Georgian Ferrante. georgianf@cox.net or Directions to meeting place will be ed to all members. INKLE GROUP Bring your inkle loom and yarn to the monthly meeting. The new Inkle Loom Interest Group will meet right after the meeting to brush up on inkle weaving or watch and learn! As with Serendipitous Saturday Spinners, bring lunch or be prepared to go out to eat or fetch lunch back to the meeting. WONDER!!!FUL STUDY GROUP WEAVERS Meetings begins at 10:30. Chairperson for more information is Sybil Yastrow sybil@yastrow.com or Come Visit Cultural Museum in Window Rock, AZ An exhibition entitled Generations of Two Grey Hills Weavers is now on display at the Cultural Museum in Window Rock. They are grouped by families. It will be on display for nearly a year so please come by and see the beautiful display! For Sale 45 Leclerc Nilus Jack Loom ~ Made in 1982 and has been in climate-controlled storage for at least 20 years. Has 6 treadles, 10 1/2 heddles, and comes with 2 reeds. Completed except for 3 parts, all of which are readily available from Leclerc: the crank handle, a 1 wood spacer, and a small metal bar (part #4789-NU). The spacer & metal rod are priced at approx. $15 from Leclerc, and the crank handle lists at $65. I also have a Leclerc warping board w/ wooden pegs that I will give to whoever buys the loom. I am asking $500 for the loom & warping board. The loom is currently disassembled & boxed for shipping. Located in Scottsdale.Call Jane at for more information. Used PASSAP Duomatic 80 Double-bed Knitting Machine with Electra 3000 ~ Lots of punched design cards, accessories and Knitting yarns. Can use 4 colors. Lots of pattern booklets and several Knitting Machine books. Includes Form Computer and Stop Row Counter. Includes instructions. North east Mesa. Call Peggy (480) If no quick answer, let ring about 8 times and leave a message. Pendleton 40 floor loom ~ 4 heddles, 2 reeds, and some extras mint condition $ Fiber-related Blogs Drop Spindle Tutorial - htm- for anyone who wants to try their hand at drop spindling. Needle Felted Projects for Christmas - com/article.cfm/how_to_needle_felt_cookie_cutter_shapes - if you love to needle felt, this is a great place to start learning simply by using cookie cutters for templates. 3

4 This Month s Program: Annual Gift Basket, Bag and Box Auction Live auction to benefit our Guild. This is the annual fundraiser that pays for the building rental and programs. Please bring a basket to donate if you can and be sure to bid like crazy on the fabulous baskets donated. Cash or checks please as we are unable to accept credit cards. Beaded Fascinator Hat Taught by Anne Fletcher at the Fibers Through Time 2010 in Phoenix, AZ Beaded Fascinator Hat Instructor: Anne Fletcher Sign up today before all spaces are filled. This should be a fun class. Anne Fletcher writes: Wouldn t you love to put a beaded jewel in your hair and go out to catch the sun and the eye of everyone you pass? Fascinator hats became popular in the 18th century, and are worn to this day. Today we think of them as cocktail hats. They are small discs with a comb attached to secure them to your hair. Bead on ultra suede and then attach it to the fascinator and add a lacy beaded edge to complete the look - several patterns to choose from or design your own. Learn how to do appliqué beading and learn which beads are appropriate for this technique. Take Home: Handouts describing beading techniques and information on supply sources and bead types. A completed 3½ Fascinator hat. Skill level: Intermediate. Students do not need to know the technique, but need to have experience with seed bead Materials fee: $5.00 Supply List: Nothing to bring. The beads based on patterns will be sent to participants in advance of workshop. Instructor Bio: Anne has knitted and crocheted since early childhood. She also enjoys weaving, and started beading some 20 years ago. She loves the way color and light work with beads and enjoys the challenge of building something with beads and letting them take her where they want to go. Her work has been featured in several books, beading magazines and bead shows both international and local. She loves to teach technique classes and allow the students and beads to interact. From Rowena s blog: 4

5 To fellow weavers and spinners, and to our late Guild members - beloved ancients who shared so much with us. Digital, My Way Give me back friends who said to the caller, I can t talk right now, I just started to dye - and returned to the cauldron bubbly with dried cochineal bugs scraped off a neighbor s prickly pear, red appearing already in the handspun yarn. Give me back all morning, fingers curled around a tablet of squared paper, an idea churning in that other mind - perhaps a haberdasher twill, or amorphous shawls held together by static cling and faith in sheep. Let me talk in my second language: sley, sett, gamp, a speak in which spin, shaft, beating, dent cause no harm. Give me back my looms and spinning wheels. all standing in quiet anticipation in the second bedroom of the three-bed rancher, its rainbow walls of yarn, its bed unmade. Keep me in awe of the ancients, who figured it all out in the first place and reached from the stars to nudge me on my way with the thought I also could weave cloth, spin yarn, and pencil in a fitting time to dye. ~ Mary S. Crume is working very hard to standardize the judging of handspun yarn and articles made from handspun. The workshop is hosted by the Southwest Regional Spinners. It will be held in Tucson at the U of A Ag Bldg at Prince and Campbell from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Cost $150 (includes a notebook). To register, please send a check made out to Southwest Regional Spinners to Ric Rao, 3902 Lilac Drive, Las Cruces, NM Contact Jill Holbrook at or mailto:jillholbrook@earthlink.net for more information. ADSWG Spinner s Demonstration a Great Hit! meeting everyone there. Thanks to all who had participated in the demonstration at the State Fair this year. It was an exciting time to show our talents and Be sure to contact Sue for future events coming up for the demonstration group. Happy Birthday Judging Handspun Yarn Workshop Friday-Sunday, December 4-6, 2009 This is a great workshop for anyone interested in improving their spinning or learning to critique any fiber work. Karen Goodson, the instructor, comes from the Northwest Regional Spinners Association. This group to Helen George on her 101 birthday on November 21, 2009! 5

6 Fibers Through Time 2010 Conference Update Below are entry information on Juror s Choice Show and Handspun Yarn Skein Judging. There are 15 vendors and counting, for the event. You can check the website www. azfed.org for more information. Jurors Choice Exhibit Fibers Through Time 2010 workshop attendees are invited to participate in a juried exhibit hosted by the Conference. Entries from all fiber disciplines, including handspun and/or handwoven clothing, accessories for the home, wall art, tapestries, rugs, baskets, gourds, felted items, and handmade paper designs are welcome. The exhibit is open to all attendees who are participating in a workshop. All items entered will be on display for the duration of the conference. Entry and Fee: Items must have been completed since Fibers Through Time 2008 (April 2008). Entries are limited to three items per registrant. The exhibit is open to attendees participating in a workshop. All entries must be of original design and personal execution. Please note that sets (e.g., a matching skirt and jacket, placemats and a table runner) are counted as one item. To enter, complete a Juror s Choice entry form for each item and include an entry fee of $10.00 per item. All entry forms must be received by March 20, Entries are due in the Exhibit Room (Board Room) of Crown Plaza Hotel by 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, No entry will be accepted for the exhibit after workshops have started. If you are unable to deliver your entry on Thursday afternoon, please make advance arrangements with Betty Headrick, : jurorschoice@azfed. org. Entries must be retrieved from the Exhibit Room at the conclusion of the Conference on Sunday April 18, 2010, no later than 1:00 p.m. Awards and Juror: Two independent jurors will determine the awards for the show. The judging will take place Saturday afternoon, April 17, 2010, and the winners announced at the Saturday evening banquet. Instructor Exhibit: We are planning a special exhibit of instructor s work on Saturday evening near the banquet hall and invite all instructors to participate in that exhibit. prior to and after dinner, Saturday morning from 7:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., Saturday evening prior to and following the banquet and Sunday morning. Entry forms and fee information is located at: www. azfed.org. Make a copy of each form to bring with your entries on Thursday April 15, Mail forms (1 form per each entry) and check (payable to: Arizona Federation and $10 for per entry) to: Betty Headrick, Juror s Choice Chairperson E Placita el Algodon Tucson, AZ 8574 Multiple forms may be mailed together with one check. For questions: jurorschoice@azfed.org Handspun Yarn Skein Judging The Southwest Regional Spinners sponsor a Handspun Yarn Judge Certification Program and continually seek opportunities for practice and improvement. During Fibers Through Time 2010, certified yarn judges and judges-in-training will be available to critique your handspun. Ribbons will be awarded. For this event, there is a limit of 3 skeins per participant. The judging is open to conference attendees, committee members, and instructors. To enter, complete the information on the tag, and attach a tag to each skein. Tags will also be available at the Conference. Notes: On the tag, How will you or how could you use this yarn? must be included [10 points will be deducted if information is missing] Skeins must be: handspun by the exhibitor tied with at least 3 figure-eight ties of a similar fiber to show skein to best advantage twisted for ease of handling minimum of 30 yards [5 points shall be deducted for skeins less than 30 yards in length] Recommendation: Use a 2-yard skein winder (kniddy knoddy) for consistent skein size. Exhibit: The show is open to the public and viewing can take place Friday during lunch breaks, Friday evening 6

7 Committees Historian Melissa Davis Librarians Christine Hunt & Gail Baker Membership Elaine Rowles THE FIBER FACTORY The Southwest s Most Complete Yarn Yarn, accessories, equipment& classes for: Knitting, Weaving, Spinning, Crochet,Tatting, Basketry, Bobbin Lace, & Navajoweaving. 216 W. Main St, Mesa, AZ Out of area: yarn@fiberfactory.com Visit our website: Demonstrations/ Publicity Sue Carneal jscarneal@aol.com Hospitality/Web Site Eve Smith erweaving@earthlink.net Federation Representative Anita Bellinger abellinger@cox.net ADWSG WEBSITE: 7

8 Calendar Events Dec Pecan Festival, 1625 E. Sahuarita Rd. Sahuarita, AZ 85629, Sahuarita Art Guild will be showing their works including fiber arts. More info at: Nov. 21-Dec It s Elemental Fine Craft Exhibition at the Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff. April 15-18, Fibers Through Time 2010, Phoenix AZ. Information available: July IWC - A Conference for Fiber Artists - Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO - intermountainweavers.org/ Have a Very Merry Christmas! MOA DEADLINE 15th of every month from August to May Visit our guild s website: c/o H. Charles N. 94th St. #2075 Scottsdale, AZ First Class