Our February 2011 meeting

Gloria shares an heirloom blanket made by her mom.

This sampler blanket was knitted in squares and sewn together.  One of the squares is a really cute cat, but I couldn't seem to get a picture of it.

 Everyone had a great visit

Pretty colors - for Easter maybe?










This basket of loveliness was the raffle prize of the day.  Remember to bring those dollars guys and gals.

Lovely little things for show and tell

THE CUTEST BABY SOCKS EVER! 

Vikki's newest creation -

Christmas ornament project

Tina S. showed off a sweater that she had made a few years ago - a timeless creation. 

December 2010

Anne Marie Fjeld won the raffle for the 2010 Sheep to Shawl shawl.  Looks pretty nice on her doesn't it? 

Some show and tell

Essie the wonder dog!

A pair of twinned mittens

There are more pictures to come - check back again soon!

September meeting - what 's on your bobbin?

 Things were in full swing when I arrived Saturday morning to our guild meeting - Lots of happy voices, laughter and filtered sunshine streaming through into the big airy room at the church where we were meeting. 

It's been a while since I took some "bobbin shots"  

Keisha has been practicing her Navajo plying for this sock yarn. 

 The thing I like about taking bobbin shots is that there are all colors of the rainbow

 This was from a bump of Kathy Green's Potluck Roving.  It is so easy to spin and she has such nice colors. 

Blue & green - ocean colors seemed to be the colors of the day - 

But this brave soul was actually spinning some autumn colors

This is the roving that she was using.












  You may remember this "pile" of yarn from our December 2009 meeting.

It was to be woven into cloth to make a coat.

And here is the beautiful finished product!

I'm sorry the color in this picture is so funky but I wanted you to see the style of the coat -   It turned out so nicely.

And this yarn (called "Bubblegum") was destined for a fundraiser auction for a school. 

Hmmm - Do you remember the old bumper sticker - something about having to have a bake sale to fund a war...

And that's all there is - two dead batteries do not a camera run - but this gives you an idea of what everyone is working on.

Our next meeting is Saturday October 9 at Nancy's Farm, 2030 E Smith Rd.  Make sure you stop by! 

NW Washington Fair Wool Show Review

The Wool Show had another successful exhibit this year with a whopping 157 entries along with 30 volunteer spinners and weavers providing a nearly continuous demonstration of the fiber processes we love to share.

Ferndale resident Kitty Drew provided fair goers with five sessions of spinning stories and demonstration, each day sporting a different ethnic or period costume. I hope you saw her picture on the front page of the B"ham Herald Saturday morning.

Janice Hartwell gave a Thursday evening rug hooking demo. to fair attendees, and Nora Weisenhorn fascinated many with her 1920's sock making machine Saturday morning.
Blue ribbon winners among the WWG and Spindrifter members (to the best of my knowledge) include: Louise Bayma, Oksana Brown (3), Chris Conrad (2), Debra Carpenter, Richard Harvey, Meg Jobe, Melissa Johnson, Yvonne Madsen (3), Cecilia Morales, April Muegge, Chris Paul, Heather Seevers (3), Sheri Ward, and Nora Weisenhorn (2).












Chris Conrad won Best of Class honors for both a mohair fleece and a handspun skein. Best of Show went to Chris Paul for her fine handspun saddle blanket. Heather Seevers was awarded both Judges Choice and Best of Division for her two fanciful boas.





Debra Carpenter won Best of Class for a handspun, handknitted shrug. Best Design and Best of Class were awarded to Pat Walker, a resident of The Willows assisted living apartments, for her beautiful pictorial hooked rug. Thanks to Chris Conrad, several residents there entered their work this year.

 

Many thanks to our volunteer spinners: Kathy Green Donna Starr, John Munroe, Gabette Andres, Tina Swanson, Joan Dudley, Jenni Jimmerson, Ann Marie Fjeld, Tamerron Underwood, Tina Thomsen-Park, Yvonne Madsen,

 Louise Bayma, Lynda Bylsma, Maryann Kelly, and Anna & Ella Robbins (teen spinners).....
and to our "administrative assistants" Margaret Magic, Oksana Brown, Chris Conrad, Gabette Andres, Sheri Ward. Joan Cunningham, and Kathy Hutchinson.

Many thanks to our volunteer weavers: Pat Fisher, Kathy Sano, Gina Saettone, Barbara Snow, Rosalie Nast (2 sessions), Maggie Weyers (2 sessions), and Sondra Rose......









Submitted by Marcia Ford, Wool Show Superintendent  (Thank you Marcia - you provided the perfect narration to my pictures!)

Dye Day

Thank you to Nancy Hanson for hosting Dye Day this year - more info will be posted when I receive it. 

Here we are at the Bellingham Highland games. the first weekend in June. The first half of our "Sheep to Shawl"

Our intrepid leader Yvonne spent most of the day at the drum carder - organizing the lovely CVM fleece that she donated for spinning, and telling people what we were doing, and keeping us all in line.

Our little band of spinners was spinning singles that would later be randomly plied to come up with the warp for our latest Sheep to Shawl project.








It was great to see Oksana. She knitted the beautiful sweater that she is wearing!















This is the clan tartan from Yvonne's family. She wove it on her loom (from commercial yarn). Isn't it beautiful?














This is Lea's mom - she was having a great time watching the games and listening to the music.













We had a new spinner, Keisha, joining us that day. She was a lot of fun be with. I hope that she will be able to join us at a meeting sometime.













This little fellow just had to know how I was making string. He climbed right up into my lap to watch.












It was a great day, to sit in the early summer sun and spin to our hearts content.
















Here is the fruit of our labors. Yvonne, Meg & I plied it up the next Thursday at the county spinner evening. Meg has wound the warp and the loom will be warped and the weft will be spun at the Skagit Highland Games On the 10 & 11th of July. Hope you can join us there!