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| Ready and waiting... |
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| Although the evening sky was very black to the west, it didn't rain. |
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| Hard at work |
AC
Friday, 13 April 2012
Wednesday evening, 11th. April.
AC
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Programme change: Mandy's rush weaving session
Mandy will be giving her rush weaving workshop on Wednesday 18 April, 2.0 - 4.0 pm.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Spinning Art Yarns with Ann Campbell
A full house on Sunday for Ann Campbell's wonderful session on spinning art yarns!
There was a good attendance by our own Guild members, and we were pleased to welcome lots of visitors who were drawn by Ann's fully deserved reputation as an excellent teacher and textile artist.
Ann brought a delicious selection of dyed merino and silk fibres for us to choose from, and showed us how to create colourful and textured yarns.
We used drum carders to form batts of wool and silk in our choice of colours; spun them "thin and thick" and then plyed them with spun silk caps. We also created an "insertion" yarn with twists and knots of silk, and plyed this with commercial yarn - a great way to use up all those bits of fibre or yarn, and those cones of yarn which seemed such a bargain when we bought them....
Ann's useful tip to counteract the unwanted twist in an unbalanced yarn: soak the hanks in very hot water with a tiny amount of detergent, spin gently and dry with a little weight at the bottom.
We were so busy that, once again, no-one took any photographs! (I promise to add some once my yarn is dry enough to photograph.)
Many thanks to Ann for her inspirational teaching.
There was a good attendance by our own Guild members, and we were pleased to welcome lots of visitors who were drawn by Ann's fully deserved reputation as an excellent teacher and textile artist.
Ann brought a delicious selection of dyed merino and silk fibres for us to choose from, and showed us how to create colourful and textured yarns.
We used drum carders to form batts of wool and silk in our choice of colours; spun them "thin and thick" and then plyed them with spun silk caps. We also created an "insertion" yarn with twists and knots of silk, and plyed this with commercial yarn - a great way to use up all those bits of fibre or yarn, and those cones of yarn which seemed such a bargain when we bought them....
Ann's useful tip to counteract the unwanted twist in an unbalanced yarn: soak the hanks in very hot water with a tiny amount of detergent, spin gently and dry with a little weight at the bottom.
We were so busy that, once again, no-one took any photographs! (I promise to add some once my yarn is dry enough to photograph.)
Many thanks to Ann for her inspirational teaching.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Sunday meeting, February 12th.
Another good turn out for our last "unstructured" Sunday meeting of the year (we have a Sunday workshop coming up with Anne Campbell). We all got a surprising amount of work done! It was good to see one of our ex-members, Kath, and her daughter Emily as they passed through on their way West.
Thanks to Hilary for the photographs.
Thanks to Hilary for the photographs.
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| Hilary's wonderful "stole" (probably), in commercial bouclé yarn |
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| A selection of spinning wheels... |
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| lunch and carded batts |
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Sunday, January 8th., 2012
Another successful Sunday meeting, with a good attendance (on a drop-in basis!). Jenni had a successful Woolsack event, stuffing cushions for the Olympic athletes (see our Woolsack page link here)
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011
OPEN SUNDAY, December 11th
Another successful Sunday Spinning (and knitting, crocheting and talking). Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so no photographs, (but I was battling with imminent flooding at the back of the house, so I have an excuse). We all got through a good deal of fibre in the course of six hours, and produced some gorgeous coloured yarn. The shared lunch was a great success, with two kinds of delicious soup, pies, cakes, salad, chocolate, mince pies.....
The hall was nice and warm, after a period when the heaters were definitely not working properly, the weather improved during the day and the River Elwy stayed in its' course despite some early indications to the contrary. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 21st., after which we are having a Christmas/New Year break from textile production.
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i bawb!
AC
The hall was nice and warm, after a period when the heaters were definitely not working properly, the weather improved during the day and the River Elwy stayed in its' course despite some early indications to the contrary. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 21st., after which we are having a Christmas/New Year break from textile production.
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i bawb!
AC
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