Dec 2017 Show and Tell

This month's meeting and Show and Tell also was our Christmas Potluck Luncheon. It was more than a little chaotic for me with camera issues on top of all the activity. Camera batteries don't like cold weather and they get tempermental so not everything was photographed. As well, many items were already mailed off to the lucky recipients. My thanks to Doreen for her photos of Betty and the use of her camera. The food was fabulous as always!
We have several special big projects that were brought to Show and Tell this month.

When you are over 90 (won't say exactly, lol), you become an honourary member.
Here is Betty and the cushion she made for her daughter.
 
Barb P demonstrated the wide variety in Fibre Arts with these projects.

Yarn with Sparkles are in
her rigid heedle table runner.

Barb P used avocado pits for the colour in her
eco-dyed silk scarf and horse harness parts
for the circles

Barb used yarn left by her
Mother for this baby hat,
booties and dble knitted mitts. 

More by Barb P

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Marie used Merino wool for this shawlette 

She used an oz of Cashmere
in her felted scarf

Diane H knit a shawlette (lower left) from her own
 handspun yarn and wove these classic tea towels. 

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Pat knit this magnificent blanket; I must get more details 

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Gail's rugs are loved by her family:
The blue is from cut up garments
with a wool and nylon warp and
the other from Pendleton Mills
blanket ends with an acrylic warp.

This view gives a better idea of the size of Gail's rugs

Jen had fun spinning, playing with different
techniques, hand dyed mohair, silk and merino.

Kid mohair, 3 ply mohair (blue), hand dyed
Merino & silk (mixed blues and mixed greens) 

Socks Marianne H knit
 for her husband

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Lynn reported using the Crammed Yarn technique but I don't have photos of it. Here are a couple of links I found: Creating texture and
Crammed and Spaced Threads. 

Lynn's Moscow Nights tea towels (R)

This 5 colour plain weave tea towel in cotton
boucle by Wendy was woven on her floor
loom. (Similar to a Colour Gamp )

Wendy wove this Bamboo
scarf on a table loom

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She also wove these tea towels on her floor loom.

Raelyn knit the fingerless gloves and 3 sizes of children's sweaters.

PJ put on  a 8 yard warp (she says never again) producing
many variations by changing the weft colours.
She use a left over warp piece for sampling treadles (R)

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Oct 2017 Show and Tell

There was a lot at this month's Show and Tell. I took 49 photos for this blog entry! More Studio and summer projects were brought for presentation. Summer break can result in some wonderful, large knitted blankets. 

Carol Ann's very impressive Zip Zag Lace patterned knitted blanket:

Only half of Carol Ann's blanket is showing. It is so large
that the other half is hidden behind the table.

Zig-zag Lace detail

Hand dyed all wool yarns were used in her blanket

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Patricia decided she needed some colour in her LR so she dug into her stash to create this beautiful Afghan (blanket), knitted sideways, casting 160 stitches onto 48 inch - 8mm circular needles. Each row's yarn creates the fringe. 

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No, it's not your eyes or my photography. Maggie knit these wavy shawls for her friends, each with it's own meaningful memories for the recipients, one representing the sea and the other, sunsets. 
They will be treasured keepsakes from a caring friend.

A narrow cowl; 2 shawls in prayer shawl stitch knit from Maggie's stash.

Two more knitted shawls, then the woven ones follow:

Barb P knit this lovely shawl in a gradient yarn
from this Ravelry Fruit Cocktail pattern

Helene knit this interesting shawl that
uses a yarn with silver in it (antimicrobial
and therapeutic properties).

Weavings:

Marianne's bamboo shawls. Another case of problems with
the beige bamboo warp breaking. Due to the flourescent
lighting, the colour is off  in these closeups of the weave.
 

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Cynthia's woven scarves in tencel and
acrylic (L) and acrylic and silk (R).

Karen B's 7 gauge bamboo shawl in advancing point twill. She thought she had ordered 12 gauge as in another item but when it arrived, it was 7 gauge. The mix-up
resulted in a shawl that felt and draped like Chenille. As well, she discovered the solution to broken threads was to run a glue stick up and down the thread. It washes out.

Cynthia wove 2 doz tea towels in 2/8 cotton at 18 epi. using
warps of white and natural mixed in a plain weave so she
could play with the design. She says plain weave is a great
teacher for watching your pic and evenness of beat.

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Two more tea towels by Cynthia from another warp.

Karen B's M&O's
 tea towels

Karen B's shadow weave towels in 8 harness twill variation

Stephanie's 8 shaft pinwheel runners. She
discovered that the pinwheels showed better
with a beige weft after running out of the blue.
 

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Marg H's M&O's tea towels for a Stainless Steel kitchen,
felted slippers, and some spinning just for variety.
The red slippers were knitted by Margie before Marg's felting.

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Eco Dyeing: .

More inspirations from Marianne's Eco Dye Workshop during Summer Studio Week using plants, flowers, nuts, bolts, nails and other wire objects. After wrapping and steaming, these beautiful silk scarves are the result:

Bonnie's Eco scarves using bolts, nails, rust, leaves
and on the right, with mulberries.

Marianne M's Eco scarves- shibori weave and folding with
clothespins popsicle sticks and elastics. Dyed with Coreopsis
flowers or Golden rod with ends dipped in the Coreopsis dye.
Others with Cochineal with one subsequently overdyed and
Golden rod overdyed with Rosemary.

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Repurposing with dyeing:

Terri dyed her Grandmother's crocheted doilies giving
them new life for use as is or in other creative projects.
The dyeing really highlights the fine craftsmanship.

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Terri revitalized wardrobe
items by dyeing this tank top,
a sweater & others not shown.

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Lilo learned to knit without patterns as a child, now 79 years
ago. Still knitting without a pattern, she knit the sleeveless top
using a bamboo, cotton & linen yarn and
the scarf and ear warmers are all wool.

Lilo used 2mm needles when knitting this
sleeveless top in silk (w/o a pattern of course).

Bonnie used slip stitch
crochet for this hat.

And back to Knitting to finish up:

Karen G knitted  the blue socks for a friend
and the child's pair for her nephew's friend

Nel's 3rd sock! Just because the
ball of cotton yarn made 3 socks.
Don't be fooled by the socks!
She wove SEVEN blankets which
were sent to her grandchildren.

First meeting of our 2017-18 Season

Our members were very busy over the summer. They had lots to present at Show and Tell:  

Klaudia knit this self designed and custom fit bolero
style sweater using a cashmere, silk and baby alpaca yarn

And this top down in the round
raglan sleeved sweater using sock yarn

She knit the same sweater for her niece

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Inspirations from Marianne's Eco Dye Workshop during Summer Studio Week using plants, flowers, nuts, bolts, nails or whatever, then steam to make these beautiful silk scarves:

Linda's Eco dyed silk scarves;

Donna's Eco dyed silk scarf and
the blue acid dyed scarf

Rust colour created by over-dying with Tumeric

Barb L re-purposed treasured linens dying them with Indigo
(some wrapped using rocks and elastic bands) and acid dyes.
The pretty patterns of the linens did not show when they were white. 

Inspired by his wife's weaving, Michael 'borrowed' her
rigid heddle loom to create a multitude of colourful scarves

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Jan's Year of the Rooster Challenge entry. Read how to make one here:
Fibre Scarf using Solvy

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Stephanie used a 4" zoom (pin) loom to create the turtle, sheep
and elephant; She wove a rep weave on 4 shafts to create
coasters, book cover, towels and then made 4 bags from the scraps.

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Doreen needle felted this cute little dog
and wove these cheerful  tea towels

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Marg discovered her new washing machine felts the same slipper to 2 different sizes as shown in the photo. She produced so many lovely tea towels and still found time to spin and knit socks. 

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Ilse's SIL will appreciate his new striped socks. The yarn she spun and hand dyed was from Romney wool and the fur of a Samoid dog. The white hank was spun from Rambouillet wool.

Marianne H knit these soft cotton socks

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Knitted socks by Diane L

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Michelle enjoys weaving these scarves

Karen G knit many toques from the Stage stash (and some mitts) for donation to the Okanagan Gleaners.

Maureen W knit these newborn Shaken Baby hats
for donation to the hospitals

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