Aftermath!

What a whirlind of a weekend Karin and I had Thursday and Friday at the Museum of Appalachia from 8-3 and the others crew had set up for the show on Thursday and then Friday through Sunday for the Foothills Fall Festival. On Sunday Karin and I with Jenny and Marie worked the booth and were on hand for booth take down. Pearl and Mark came to help take down the booth and load up all of the stuff into vans. Carol made it to the Show every day and really enjoyed catching up with her show friends. Mark took some good pictures for me on Thursday after everything was in place.

The show closed at 4 on Sunday and by 5 we were on our way home! We have it down to a science! Today at the Center we were in put everything away mode! Once the booth supplies were put away, Mark's van was unloaded and the Tuesday Weaver's inventory needed to be checked in to make sure everything that didn't sell was there and the individual weavers looked over their tubs to make sure everything that was there that should be as well. Once that was done it was time to put the Tuesday Weaver's items back up in the shop. Whew! We are glad that is done! Here is Marie's car before and after.

Soon after everything was back in place, Susan #3 let me know that her warp was ready to come off of the loom!

Liz #2 wound a warp with much thicker yarn that her usual and as we were doing the math for the warp she was surprised that she only needed far fewer ends that she usually uses!

We had a surprise visitor today! JP came by for a visit! It was so good to see him!!!

Cathy is weaving a towel warp and it is beautiful! I had admired the warp stripes but the pattern is really striking!

Liz #1 is working on a shawl warp and we can begin to see how the warp and weft will interact!

Here is the close-up

We were all so busy getting ready for the show that there isn't any Show and Tell today! I bet we will have something to share with everyone next week. Until then this is Tina, for all!

Show Prep

Today was the day that we got ready for this weekends show. It is the Foothills Craft Guild Fall Show and it is located at the Expo Center north of Knoxville on Clinton Hwy. We as Tuesday Weavers belong as a group to the Foothills Craft Guild, and we will be bringing Tuesday Weavers inventory as well as our own personal inventory. First I will show you the inventory that the individual weavers have brought for the show.

Most of this is part of Carol's inventory.

Here are 2 tubs of inventory upstairs and I think there was another tub that was filled later. Karin and I worked together to make an inventory list as we loaded these tubs and then I took that list and made a spreadsheat for Marie so that she can cross things off as they sell. Once we had everything together, the merchendise was loaded into Mark's Van and all of the booth supplies was loaded into Marie's big car. Thank you Marie, Karin and Mark for all your help!

At some point this morning Liz let me know that her final 2 blankets were ready to be cut off. Isn't it beautiful fabric!

Before we knew it lunch time came and then it was time for Show and Tell! Patty finished a Top this week and she used something that most of us had not heard of. It is called "Chenille-it" Patty applied it to the seam that goes across the front and back of this top.

Laura brought in her new creation to show us her new design.

Susan brought in her finished candy cane towels and pet mats, she worked hard to get them ready for the show!

I brought in the skeins that I had dyed last week.

Mark brought in some placemats that he had finished recently, very festive colors!

That is it for today, if I get some pictures of the booth I will do a post about it before next Tuesday. Until then this is Tina, for all!

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!