Community, Donations, Dye Day Results and Show and Tell!

One of our new students Alanna brought in some donations from a friend of hers who is getting ready to move and couldn't take her weaving equipment. She asked that the looms be given to weavers who would in turn would pass them on free of charge to other weavers. Looms of all sizes and a warping board.(not pictured) Another donation came our way this time it is a Fricke electric skein winder that just needs a new drive band!

I was struck this morning by the community that we have here at the Appalachian Arts Craft Center of Norris, TN! We meet from 10-2pm every Tuesday, and if you were to drop by to see us you would see something like these pictures in action. Winding, warping, weaving, laughing and talking, oh the talking!

I have some weaving examples as well. Rhonda's towel warp is stunning in color choice as well as texture, and Susan #3's fabric warp is living up to everyting I could have dreamed.

Linda finished her placemat warp today, love the texture, I sure hope it comes through in the picture! Jenny is photo bombing and Susan #3 is enjoying it!

Well what do you know, it is already time for Show and Tell! Dana has a non weaving project to share with us today. This is a duck plastic bag holder.!

Jenny and Collen have some fabric that they dyed on our Dye Days last week, they plan to use them in rugs. I also got a some pictures of the skeins and warps that were dyed as well.

Betsy brought in some family treasures to show us today! Baby shoes, cross stitched and embroidered napkins and table cloths, a delicate example of cut work and an embroidered gauze fabric. All of these items came from Betsy's great Grandmother who spent vacation time in China and who as Betsy says "Loved to shop!"

Mark was visiting his sister sometime last year and saw that she had bought some yarn and knitting needles to make a scarf but had never made it. He asked if she would like for him to weave a scarf for her instead and she said yes!

Well friends here we are, another Tuesday in the bag! Check in next week and see what we get into! Until then this is Tina, for all!

5th Tuesday Potluck!

Several Years ago LouAnn came up with the idea that we should have our potlucks on the 5th Tuesday of the month. Before LouAnn thought of it, potluck lunches had to be scheduled and honestly they were few and far between. Now that we have LouAnn's plan in place we don't have to figure out a date, we just look at the calendar! This year we will have 4 planned potluck lunches at least, we also go across the street to the Museum of Appalachia for lunch on the first Tuesday of the year. We may schedule an extra one here and there, but it eases our minds a little to have the structure in place.

It is a Beautifully warm day today an while it may not be the first day that we opened the back door to the sunshine it is definitely one of the first days.

Liz was at the warping board this morning winding the second half of her project. Before we left this afternoon She and I had the warp wound on the back beam of her Macomber 12 harness jack loom and she is ready thread the warp through the heddles next time she is here.

Kris is threading her warp and is making good progress!

Susan #3 is threading the reed on her project.

Shirley is back from her travels and back at the loom!

Angie's colorful project is already through the heddles and is now going through the reed!

Betsy is ready to tie on her poncho fabric warp and may be weaving next week.

Sally called me over to trouble shoot her floating selvedge problem. She had found that the floating selvedge was staying level with the lower level of the shed so that she had to hand manipulate it everytime she threw the shuttle. We managed to raise the level of the floating selvedges so that they were placed right in the middle of her shed each and every time.

Dye day is coming up rapidly! Rhonda, Karin, Collen, and Patty have been winding warps and skeins for it!

Then all of a sudden it was time for lunch, and a brief business meeting.

Before we go back to the looms, it is time for Show and Tell! Susan #3 brought in some beautiful towels that I suppose could be classified as a mistake, but a beautiful mistake! The pattern didn't come out like she expected it to so she made this pattern up instead!

Alice has finished the first of a pair of shoestrings in almost classic Lady volunteer colors.

Jenny had some tension problems last week, so she cut off what she had and made a table runner, the pattern is called "Dogwood".

Patty spent last week sewing some small items with some fabric she had on hand. She also had some napkins using 8/2 cotton and a technique from Jane Stafford where you can change the color of stripes in your warp at will, cutting out the color you don't want and adding in a new color.

Dana wove a beautiful towel project at home, but she doesn't remember where she found the pattern!

What a beautiful breezy busy day we had today! We will be back next week with more warping and weaving to show you, come back and join us! Until then this is Tina, for all!