Transformation!

Last week Marie put in an order for 8/4 cotton. This week it had arrived and was ready to be checked in, marked and put away. However, one of the friends of the Tuesday Weavers had brought in some yarn for us to look through and buy first. Once the yarn had been admired and some of it had been sold, Karin and Marie had space to open the big box and take inventory and then Susan and Barbara helped them put it away.

We have had a cold blast the last couple of days and there was even a dusting of snow! That is early for us here in East TN and I have still not made myself mittens to wear to the barn! ( I ended up wearing wool socks!) So, I pulled out some of my very early handspun yarn and began to look for a mitten pattern!

You may remember the warp that Liz had wound last week for placemats and how amazed she was that it was so much faster with thicker yarn. This morning she wound the warp onto the loom and before you know it she had it threaded through the heddles. Liz then went out to the Annex to look for fabric to make into strips for weft.

Just like that it is time for Show and Tell! Let's start with Jenny today! Jenny brought in her hemmed and washed table runner, she also finished a handspun homeknit hat that is perfect for this kind of weather!

Thats not all! Jenny also brought in 2 skeins of handspun wool, and some of the samples she worked on at her class on mending at John C. Campbell!

Susan finished her napkins with a slip thread technique last week, so today we got to see them hemmed, so lovely!

Rhonda took a class of spinning on an electric spinning wheel and she brought in a skein of said yarn to prove it! She also brought in a warp weight that her husband had made for her.

Mark brought in another placemat for Show and Tell! He said "Surprise"!

Now for the transformation, it is kind of a story really. I went looking back in the blog to find the beginning of this story and I finally found it in January of 2018. You may all be aware that we hand dye a lot of our bamboo warps, sometimes the measurements are not quite what the tag says and sometimes the colors are differnt that the usual. This is the story of one such warp, it was marked as 2 shawls when if fact it was 4, and the color was, well, very very pink.... I would have to dig further into the blog to find when it was dyed but I do know when it finally got onto a loom. Carol made us put it on the loom because we had all been avoiding it! Marie ended up weaving the shawl warp because she has the perfect beat naturally to make a beautiful and even fabric. Carol chose a chocolate brown as the weft, I may have doubted the choice, but shouldn't have, it was beautiful. Over the next month or so Marie wove the 4 shawls and they were lovely, but they didn't sell very well. I know that we donated one to a fundraiser and I guess 2 did eventually sell, but we were left with the final shawl that was in the shop and went to every show since it was finished in early 2018. That is a long time! As we were packing up the booth last weekend we were talking about it and we wondered if we could make a top out of it. Last Tuesday we took the plunge and Patty cut it in half, Nikki serged the edges and Patty took it home to make a top in the new styles they have been making. She brought it back today and I have to tell you that it has already sold! Marie and Patty with the new top!

Judith the proud new owner with her early Birthday present!

That is it for today, Until next Tuesday this is Tina, for all!