Table Toppers, Dye Day Prep, Weavers and Looms

Karin and I both brought in our contribution of Table Toppers for the Fall Fund raiser. I had 8 and Karin had 8, when we added in the Table Toppers that were already in the studio we have 24. We only need 1 more to make the 25 that were ordered! (we will double check that number of course). I have an extra one at home that I can hem and wash to bring in next week. Several other weavers are working on the Table Toppers as well and we can add in their toppers to broaden the variety for the fundraiser and we can have some for sale in the shop upstairs or save a batch for our Fall show.

Jenny and Dana spent the day winding skeins of "Popcorn" for a "Dye Day" which is coming week after next.

Let's stroll about the room and check in with some of the weavers and see their current projects. Cathy told me she was making a 6 inch scarf. She laughed when I looked at her funny and then said that she did the math wrong once again!

Shirley is ready to get weaving on her latest towel warp.

Liz has a hand dyed shawl project that is hard to photograph, there is so much going on in the warp that it took several pictures to capture it. Liz will be using gray as her weft.

Nikki is one of the weavers that is going to be weaving Table Toppers. She is threading heddles this week.

Laura is weaving the penultima "Lawn Chair" Towel on the baby Macomber 8 harness. There is still some warp on the back beam, so she plans to put in the lease sticks and rethread for something different.

Just like that it is time for "Show and Tell"! Linda brought in 6 placemats and a runner that she hemmed, washed and ironed this week.

Samantha joined us for lunch and to show off an inkle band and a lovely bit of bobbin lace she finished this week.

Shannon dropped by this afternoon to bring back some supplies she had used at home and she also had a bowl cozie to show us that she had woven at the Heritage Center in Townsend TN.

Well friends that is all I have for you today. Join us next week and see what we get into, until then this is Tina, for all!

Pretty Warps, Table Toppers and "Show and Tell" Times Two

There were several warps going on the looms this week. Liz #1 is threading her hand dyed warp while Dana, Nikki and Patty were getting Nikki's warp ready to thread. I think this will be for some Table Toppers for the Center's fundraiser this Fall.

Linda is putting on a warp for some more Table Toppers! We do need 25 of them! and Cathy is putting on a mixed warp.

After our lunch time business meeting it is time for "Show and Tell"! They sent me some pictures from last weeks "Show and Tell" so I will go thru them first. Patty brought in some napkins that she brought home from a recent overseas trip.

Shannon finished her Table Toppers and had some fabric left over, so she made a pumpkin and some mug rugs!

Mark had some unfinished business that he finished! These towels were a forgotten warp from 2024!

Now for Today's "Show and Tell"! Cathy did the finish work on her mixed warp with linen. She washed in and treated the linen with conditioner to get the fabric she wanted. Love the crinkle look!

Alice has some finished bookmarks and a finished fabric for a shawl for the "Unfinished Business" Challenge! Irene finished another bag and she likes it so much she is going to keep it!

I brought in 4 of the Table Toppers that I had finished and Linda brought us a blanket that had come to us from Sharon's estate 2 years ago. Linda took on the job of doing the finishing work, and we can count this towards the current Challenge!

Mark brought in a couple of projects that didn't go the way he wanted. In the bowl cozy project pictured the serger just went haywire! It happens to the best of us!

That is all for today friends! Tune in next week for more fun, until then this is Tina, for all

"Show and Tell" is a lot of Unfinished Business!

We can start with what is on the looms. Betsy is weaving a Hopsack Table mat and Liz is in the middle of threading a hand dyed project.

Marilyn is threading her new project. She is going to be weaving an Indian Pebble Weave sash, it took some figuring to settle on a way to thread the warp that made sense. Sally and Patty are deep in conversation about her new project.

"Show and Tell" is next and there are several finished projects that fall under the catagory of the "Unfinished Business Challenge. First we have Jenny that bought a loom that already had a warp on it. There were no notes about the warp but Jenny chose a pattern and finished weaving a scarf this week. She also has decided to take apart a sweater that she had almost completed. There was a lot that she didn't like about the pattern and she felt like the fabric was too open for the yarn. So that is 2 projects that were unfinished business, now finished (or undone) for the Challenge.

Betsy finished some bowl cozies this week and Linda wove some lovely towels with yarn that had been in her stash for years! (qualifying for the Challenge as well!)

Dana finished some towels in Huck lace using lots of colors and I finished re-knitting a sweater that I had first knit in 2022 with yarn that had been donated to the Center at least a decade ago! I had to go down a needle size and a pattern size to get the perfect fit. (Qualifying for the Challenge!)

Way back when Mark got his first loom he decided to put a bookmark warp on it. He wove one and decided that it was too thick for a bookmark. Recently, he finally wove the rest of the bookmarks and brought them in today. We told him that they would make great rugs for doll houses! Anyway, that project too qualifies for the "Unfinished Business Challenge"

I am so proud of our weavers, getting some stagnant projects out of the "work in progress" pile and making them ready to bless the world! That is all I have for you today, come back next week and see what we get into! Until then this is Tina, for all!