Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild · to teach our workshop! She will teach Saori basics, work with students in warp and weft manipulation, and garment construction. For a $15 fee,

Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild

Volume 40, Issue 7 April 2017

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Next Meeting is April 15 at 9 a.m. at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church

In this issue President’s Message General Meeting Minutes Upcoming Guild Events Board Members Special Interest Groups Contact Information Upcoming Workshops Submitted by Members Member Profile Birthdays Support Your Local Businesses

Equipment for Sale

President’s Message President's Message

When I left the house this morning, March 18th

, I felt like I was about to climb Mount Everest in search of guild volunteers. I recited my speech over and over again as I drove down the road. I felt like the load on my shoulders was so heavy that I was going to have problems looking out the window to see the traffic. I kept telling myself we have such wonderful people in the guild and they will not disappoint me. Well, I want to thank everyone who volunteered at today’s guild meeting. Your golden hearts lifted that heavy pack off my back and I; the guild members; made it to the top of Mount Everest. Standing at the top one can look out and see a successful year in the making. So thank you all very much for stepping up and volunteering. Please everyone else in the guild help these people any way you can to make their job easier!

Also, thanks to Katie and Kathy for arranging the Jill Holbrook: Spinning to Knit and Knitting with Handspun workshop. I’m sure everyone at Jill’s workshop learned so much and Jill’s guild presentation was very informative. I hope everyone else thought so too. If you purchased anything from Jill at the guild meeting I hope in the near future that we get to see what you created!

To Sigute Walker, who lost her husband, I’m so glad you came to the guild meeting. If you need anything please let us help you! I’m sure you too feel like you are climbing Mount Everest so let us help easy your load! Just let us know how.

So in closing I want to quote another old saying “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” Thank you again to everyone who volunteered!!

Nancy Dunlap

General Meeting Minutes March 18, 2017

Not available as of publish date.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, November 11, 2017 Holiday Show and Sale

Design Create Sell Co-chairs for the sale are Michelle Veatch and Sara Dedmore. Thank you so much for volunteering!!! This is our 7th year for selling and exhibiting the works of magic that comes from the pursuit of our craft. The participation of our members as volunteers and as producers of our art is vital to make this event successful. Remember as you plan your projects that items will be needed for raffle baskets so make something that could be donated for prizes. The ticket sales from these baskets pay for our venue costs. For raffle basket items, please include your name, fiber content, care instructions, and retail price. This way, the lucky winners can contact you if they want more items and they will also have the proper care information. Sign-up sheets will be available at the meetings. Contact Nancy Wilson ([email protected]) if you have any questions. Here are the themes for this year’s baskets:

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2017 RAFFLE BASKET THEMES

Spinning (fibers, books, tools) Warm things: cool colors

Men’s items Warm things: warm colors

Weaving (yarns, books, tools) Baby

Yarn-2 baskets (needles, hooks, patterns, books) Bling

Kitchen Dining set: placemats, napkins, runner

Bath Christmas

2016-2017 Board Members and Support Staff President Nancy Dunlap First VP Nancy Dunlap

Second VP Diane Braun Jennifer Stocker

Secretary Debra Dorrell

Treasurer Gail Burton Lisa Wilke

Workshops Katie Staudt and Kathy Grace

Other Support Members

Historian Kathy Robbins Hospitality Kaye Sullivan Kathy Grace

Library Carma Koester FaceBook Kathy Robbins

Membership Nancy Ricketts Newsletter Nancy Wilson

Parliamentarian Debbie Allen Publicity Susie Opdahl

Sunshine Carma Koester Katie Staudt

Ways & Means Sharon Taub

Web Mistress Verla Davis

Special Interest Groups Contact Information

Sewing Handwovens Wilda Postel’s home Contact Wilda at 928-776-4481 or [email protected] Next meeting is April 1 at Wilda Postel’s from 1-3 pm.

Spinning

Both spindle and wheel spinners are welcome. Group members talk about their current projects and show recent handspun yarn and projects. All levels of spinners (including future spinners) are welcome. The group is always willing to share information and offer suggestions on all spinning-related topics. As spinner Luida Gottlieb told Nancy Wilson once, “It’s cheaper than therapy.” Mondays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Sharlot Hall Museum map room.

Structure The Structure group will discuss overshot for the next several meetings and after that switch to a discussion of turned overshot. Structure meets at 10:00 am at Fiber Creek on the first Wednesday of each month.

Simple Looms The Simple Looms Group is meeting the second Tuesday of the month at Studio Three at 10 a.m. Please let Ann Lindstrom ([email protected]) know if you are interested planning to attend.





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Beading This group works on beaded jewelry and other bejeweled items. Wednesdays 1-4 p.m. Wilda Postel’s home Contact Wilda at 928-776-4481 or [email protected]

Color This group will be meeting at Shelly Leichter’s home. Please contact Shelly for day and time.

UFO’s (Unfinished Objects) This group is a very social group working to complete projects. Tuesdays at different members’ houses Contact Annemarie Bellem (928) 445-5564 [email protected] or Sharon Richards (928) 775-6766 [email protected]

Upcoming Workshops

Announcing Spring 2017 Workshop Opportunities April 22, 2017 Drum Carding with Nancy Wilson: Join Nancy and other spinners and felters as they learn to how use a drum carder to make that special roving by combining different fibers and colors! If you are contemplating purchasing a drum carder, you are welcome to come and learn about the different carders available. Nancy will provide a variety of different fiber types and colors for use in the class as well as fun stuff to add (like silk noil, sari silk, Angelina). Bring 1 oz. of fiber to share with other students. We will be distributing the

fibers to all participants so each can make a class batt. Students are welcome to bring their own fibers to use in addition to the fibers that will be included in the materials fee.

Time: All day. Specific time based on students’ preference Location: Kathy Grace’s home: 1735 Oregon Ave. in Prescott Cost: $50 plus $20 for materials. Supply List: In addition to your drum carder, bring good quality fibers to mix and share to create the ideal yarn

projects.

May 17-19

Laura Lundy, certified Saori instructor, has agreed to come up from Tucson to teach our workshop! She will teach Saori basics, work with students in warp and weft manipulation, and garment construction. For a $15 fee, she will provide different weft materials for us to try! If you have something you would like to use in the weft, bring it along! Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Location: TBA Cost: $175 to $200 – this may change as costs are more

accurately determined. Supply List: Available upon registration or request

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Other upcoming possibilities include the following:

Robyn Spady: November 7th

, if we can get her! “Weaver-Manipulated Lace Weaves,” a one day class on 2 harness lace weaving!

Mary Walker: “Introduction to Navajo Weaving,” 3 day course. Katie will be speaking to Mary in September when she has finished her summer teaching schedule! Stay tuned. We may schedule this workshop in the fall of 2017?

Luanna Clifton: Knitting Two Socks on Two Needles, date to be announced!

Submitted by Members Knit Lace for Nature Contest Rules Submitted by Nancy Dunlap

1. Item must be lace knitted or crochet. No lace hats allowed unless it is in a set of hat and scarf.

2. Must have something to do with nature such as

a. Lace leave pattern

b. Lace flower pattern

c. Fern patterns

d. Cats’ paw pattern

e. Or if you want to knit a sunset item with the sunset colors

f. Ocean colors

The above are just examples be creative there is so much in nature I could never name them all.

3. Lace item must be given to Nancy Dunlap no later than April 30th

.

4. Lace item must have a tag on it with the following items on it and nothing else.

a. Name of project (be creative)

b. Fiber type used, such as merino, BFL, silk, etc.

5. One index card that list the following must be giving to Nancy with project

a. Your name

b. e-mail address and phone number

c. Name of project

d. Fiber type used.

6. There will be a 1st

, 2nd

, and 3rd

place winner with prizes

7. Items will be kept for the June Guild meeting program where all participants will talk about their project and

winners announced.

8. MOST IMPORTANT RULE IS TO HAVE FUN!!

NOTE: It would be real nice if everyone in the guild turned something in (I’m living in a dream world I know it); but since I know that probably will not happen I need at least 10 entries for the contest tent to look nice for the public. Cotton Factoids (First part of an ongoing series) Submitted by Mary Kelly If you missed Jill Holbrook’s presentation on cotton, here is some information from Mary Kelly’s research: Cotton belongs to the mallow family; it’s related to hibiscus, hollyhocks, and okra. Cotton is easy to grow in subtropical and temperate zones. If you can grow good tomatoes, you can grow cotton. Natural, or wild cotton, occurs in the Americas, Africa, India and Australia. All natural cotton varieties grow in a range of colors. The most common are rose, buff, brown, red, chocolate, and green, but lilac, blue, and black are reported.



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Cotton was independently domesticated in both old and new worlds. Cultivation began in India where it has been spun for thousands of years. Arab traders brought cotton fiber and fabrics to the Mediterranean countries and to China. Because white cotton fabric is easily dyed, painted, and printed, white cotton became the preferred variety. The cotton plant grows in the form of a “tree”, a bush or a plant. With its similarities to wool, people in Europe imagined that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep. This explains the German name, Baum-Wolle (tree wool), and Swedish equivalent, bomull. John Mandeville, writing in 1350, claimed: "There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie [sic]." Cotton has three times the strength of typical wool fiber. Light weight cotton is cool to the touch, drawing heat away from the body. Woven with air pockets, cotton fabric makes warm for flannels or thermal blankets. Cotton is absorbent. It is stronger when wet. It washes and dries well; it is easy to keep clean. Its tubular cell structure allows cotton to transfer heat and electrical charges. Clothing moths and carpet beetles are not attracted to it but, all acids attack cotton including fruit juice, carbonated soda, sugar, and perspiration. Cotton is very flammable burning at 451° like paper. It does not self-extinguish. The Intermountain Weavers’ Conference, And Why I Love Attending Submitted by Pamela Bliss The Intermountain Weavers’ Conference, held every other year in Durango, Colorado, is a nationally known fiber arts conference that attracts attendees from across the country. Held on the beautiful Fort Lewis Campus in southern Colorado, the four-day gathering celebrates all the fiber arts, including knitting, spinning, weaving, felting, embellishing, dyeing and more. I look forward to every conference. The next one will be July 27-30, 2017. It is a four-day event and many of the workshops are three days in duration. I have always liked the depth of study that a three-day experience provides. One-day workshops are also offered. This format allows a flexible mix-and-match approach as attendees can chose to attend one, two, or three different workshops. Visit www.intermountainweavers.org for a full list. I always stay in a dorm on campus. The rate is very reasonable and some units have kitchens so I can make my own breakfast or organize a mini potluck dinner with friends. And while the cafeteria does not provide fine dining, the chef always supplies fresh salads and a variety of reasonably good entrees for us. You can, of course, stay in a local hotel and eat off-campus. Inside or outside the classroom, inspiration for the fiber artist is everywhere. Besides the workshops, there is an opening convocation with a featured speaker, this time silk expert Karen Selk. There is a fashion show of members’ creations and a raffle of gift baskets. The vendor hall is a great way to see (and purchase!) a variety of fiber art specialty items that are conveniently all in one place. For creative inspiration I visit the non-juried exhibit featuring members’ work, another featuring teachers’ submissions, and a tapestry exhibit. There is also time built into the schedule for visiting other workshops – a feature I very much appreciate, as I am perpetually curious about other fiber arts. Personally, I love being with other fiber artists for four days – people who understand my passion and support it! I love the deer that live on campus and the occasional refreshing rains that visit the mesa. I appreciate the size of the conference – not overwhelmingly huge, but big enough to attract major teaching talent. And the IWC is a home-grown product - a non-profit organization made up of representatives from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. I urge you to give it a try and hope you love it too! Registration begins February 1, 2017. Many classes fill early, so be sure to register as soon as possible. See you in Durango!

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Member Profile Sara Dedmore

I first learned how to sew from my big sister as a pre teen. Then how to knit and crochet in high school. I took some early fiber and art courses at Yavapai College and received a rigid heddle loom as a gift in the mid seventies, from my mother-in-law. Got acquainted in the mid 80’s and learned to weave through my friendship with Paula Carson and others at Studio Three. She encouraged me to take additional weaving classes at the college and join the Guild which I thoroughly enjoyed. My biggest mistake was stopping all that for a full time career and life happened. Now I'm back to learning the basics.

I did recently complete a color gamp for the weaving class at Fiber Creek, it turned out well, but I am still attempting to complete the scarf from the same warp. (A color gamp is a cloth that contains a set of color stripes in the warp that are crossed by a set of color stripes in the weft. Weaving a color gamp with the colors you're considering for your project will let you see immediately which warp/weft combinations work, and

which don't.) Last year I took a spinning class and bought a wheel as I picked up quite a bit of roving at the Trift Store (not a misspelling) a couple of years ago.

A day of fiber art for me would have to be spent away from home with my equipment and fiber, as I find there are too many distractions at home calling out to me. I am not sure I want to add more to my repertoire, my ambition is to get more proficient in what I already am doing.

Having access to the broad range of knowledge and sharing that goes on is what I like best about the guild.

A tip that other members have shared that bears repeating (my mantra to self): Do something daily in fiber.

April Birthdays

4/9 Gisela Gminder 4/24 Cheryl Smart

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STILL MISSING

Nancy Dunlap spent an entire Tuesday not in her studio doing the orders that she has but on the phone or computer calling current guild members and past members. No one appears to have the loom. Please if you have the loom or have an idea about where it might be please call or e-mail Nancy. If it presently has work on it there can be a three week grace period before turning it back; we don't want you to rip a work in progress of the loom. Nancy Dunlap Pres & 1st VP 540-270-6790 [email protected]

SCHACHT BABY WOLF LOOM New retail price approximately $1,700




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Equipment For Sale

Pendleton, 40" loom with four harnesses. Comes with three reeds: 12, 8 and 10 dent. The loom is in excellent condition. It folds up to 23" deep when not in use. Asking $850.Contact Gail Davidson at 505-301-1951. Address: 1640 Coyote Road, Prescott.

Schacht Mighty Wolf Loom. All maple, high castle loom with 8 harnesses. Matching bench with side storage bags. Reeds ( 6, 8, 10, 12 ), 3 maple shuttles and temples included. Mint condition. Phoenix area pickup. $2400.00. Contact Christine at 215-692-3725.

Remember, when you buy from Amazon, use the link from the Guild’s website and the Guild gets a portion of your purchase (regardless of whether it’s fiber-related or not). Please send comments, articles or book reviews to Nancy Wilson at [email protected] for inclusion in the next issue. Remember: I love to have pictures! Pictures are fun!

April raffle donation

The April raffle prize is a large hand-felted wall hanging. The names of the people involved in making it are on the back.

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Support Your Local Businesses

Your ad could be here! Reach your friends and fellow fiber enthusiasts by showcasing your business. Contact Nancy Wilson at [email protected] for more information. Each guild member gets one free ad as a benefit of being a member. Got something you want to publicize that’s fiber related? Contact Nancy.


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Mountain Spinners and Weavers Guild · to teach our workshop! She will teach Saori basics, work with students in warp and weft manipulation, and garment construction. For a $15 fee,