Two New Students and Two Visitors

Carol visited with us today for just over an hour. She has hair, eyelashes and eyebrows, though she is still quite tired. We were thrilled to see her! Below you can see her catching up with a few weavers. Carol with Laura and Rhonda!

Carol with Phyllis

Carol with April our other visitor from far away!

We have two brand new students and I caught them winding their first warps. The first one is Angie winding a grey warp.

The second new student is Colleen, and she has put a couple of stripes in her first warp!

Patty is chatting with April who is travelling in the area with her Husband. She had read about our group in one of the Handwoven magazines in recent years. She showed the article to her Husband and he thought it would be great fun to come pay us a visit!

Jenny was winding a new project today and the project changed mid winding from a warp for two runners to a warp for one runner and as many napkins as possible! This project will be in the Dogwood lace pattern from the Strickler 8 shaft book.

Patty and Laura are discussing the tops they have been making with the hand dyed fabric that we have woven over the last year.

As part of Show and Tell, here is one of the tops with Patty striking a pose!

Continuing on we have Dana and her fantastic towels some of them still need to be hemmed, but it has been a busy week with family.

A closeup of Dana's towels.

Linda finished a project at home!

Closeup of Laura's towels (or is it placemats!)

Patty finished a set of towels, each one different from the same warp.

Here is a closeup of Patty's towels.

Rhonda's husband made her this sweet Inkle loom and he is looking into make a floor model with treadles!!!

Last week I brought in my skeins of handspun Finn for Show and Tell and I said that I wanted to dye them blue.

The packets of tincture dye arrived this week and I brought them in to show everyone and I fully intended to dye the skeins tomorrow.

However.......I couldn't wait! There is some variation of colors in the skeins but I am okay with that!

That is all I have for you today. We are getting ready for our Fall show and next week it will be very busy in the Studio. Come back and see what we get into! Until then this is Tina, for all!

Mostly Show and Tell

We were a quiet bunch today in the Studio. One warp was cut off of a loom, there was some loom adjusting and also some fringe twisting, and of course Show and Tell! Let's start with the project that Jenny cut off of the Leclerc this afternoon.

Next up I was helping Betsy adjust the Barn frame loom to get a better shed, and I thought I would escape a picture by having my phone in my pocket! I didn't count on Jenny snapping a photo of me,at least it wasn't of me getting under there! You can see that the lamms were quite uneven and once I got the knot undone and tightend it up enough to get it even Betsy got a better shed.

Pearl was working on fringes today, and checking for errors.

Alice is getting a new warp on her inkle loom and she has brought in a copy of the book I recently shared as a donation to the weavers library!

Nikki is making good progress on her run of Table Toppers.

Now it is time for Show and Tell! Kris made some ice dyed napkins last Dye day but didn't expect that the thread that was used while serging the napkins would not take up the dye. We assured her that we thought it looked good!

Irene has made a krokbrag bag with violins woven in! She used a new interfacing that made the bag very sturdy.

Betsy brought in her run of Table Toppers all hemmed and pressed. What we don't need for the Fall fund raiser can go to our Fall show in Knoxville.

To end the day, I brought in the 3rd handspun hand knitted vest that I have knitted this year, this time there is 20% Nigora fiber in the yarn from my own goats. I had also brought in a spinning project that I had finished some time ago, and even shared at show and tell before, but I have finally picked the pattern (Sandstone Peak) that I will be knitting with the yarn once it is dyed. I kind of like this blue color.

We will be back next week with more things to share, I hope you join us! Let me know if you have anything you would like to know about our group of weavers! Until next week this is Tina, for all!

New Finished Warps!

We had a couple of warps come off of the looms today. First Betsy has finished the warp that she has been working on, this is fabric for bowl cozies.

Pearl had finished her warp too! Each piece was woven with 2 shuttles and every one of them was a little different.

Laura has finished the Lawn chair towels! Can you see the smile on her face!!! She counted 13 towels that are ready to be hemmed washed and put up in the Shop!

Now that the warp has been cut we all know what happens next!

To tell you the truth the warp on Laura's loom wasn't quite finished but Laura was finished weaving this particular pattern. Here at the Center we put on really long warps on our looms that have sectional warping beams, and I think that this one had 40 yards on it. There have been several weavers on this project and I can't tell you how many of the Lawn Chair towels there have been,(I bet Marie could figure that out for us!) but it has been a lot!!! So with more warp still on the loom we put the lease sticks back in the warp before we cut off so that Laura can rethread the warp with a different pattern!

Jenny is weaving a pattern that requires 2 shuttles.

Before lunch we had a visitor that Karin and I met at the Museum of Appalachia at a recent event. This Mom and son promised that they would come find us and today they did! They toured the studio and before you know it the son was sitting at a loom and Nikki was teaching him how to work the treadles and shuttle. After lunch it was time for show and tell! I brought in my latest Bobbin Lace project. This one is called "Rosebud", it can be found in "A Visual Introduction to Bucks Point Lace" by Geraldine Stott.

Pearl finished the second sock to match last weeks sock, and brought the pair in for us to admire!

Susan brought in her two skeins from Dye Day!

Rhonda has One rag rug and one rug that is woven with several strands of Chenille. So soft!

Alice has more bands off of her Inkle loom some are skinny for lanyards and some are wider for key fobs.

Linda has hemmed the Table Toppers she finished last week, and she has plans for some placemats in a similar pattern.

Dana finished this blackwork embroidery piece for her son last year and her husband built the frame with the same wood that was used to build her weaving studio! Now her son wants his room updated to match!

Mark brought in some yarn that his sister had bought 20 years ago thinking that she would knit a scarf. Mark asked her if she would like for him to weave one for her. Her answer was a decisive Yes! If the scarf had been finished before the end of our "Unfinished Business" Challenge it would have qualified as the oldest entry in the Challenge!

That is all that I have for you today. I am sure we will have more fun for you next week, until then this is Tina, for all! Here is a rare morning double rainbow from outside my back porch.