Familiar Faces!

Joycelyn was back with us today, and she brought with her a warp that she had wound just before she cracked a couple of ribs! We are so glad to have her back and feeling better!

JP came by to visit for a spell, he and Carol caught up and I saw JP do the rounds and speak to most everybody!

Carol had some towels tagged and inventoried this morning, for us to take upstairs to the shop.

How about some Weavers and their Warps! Linda is putting on a new towel warp on the Leclerc today.

Cathy is a champ at combining two different wefts for a scarf!

Alyce is finishing a band for Patty to use on one of her period costume pieces for the fall. This band is 2 yards and 21 inches long.

Liz was having some tension issues with her scarf project so she decided to finish a few inches early and is knotting the fringe as she cuts the scarf off of the loom.

Rhonda too has finished her project and is ready to cut it off of the loom.

Angie, Colleen and Alanna were busy getting a new warp onto one of the wolf pups!

After lunch and a short business meeting, it is time for show and tell! Cathy brought in her Dye day projects, tye dyed shirts and skeins. Cathy also had a batch of Christmas towels to put up in the shop!

Colleen brought in her tye dyed projects as well, this time it is napkins.

Patty brought in her latest project. It is a pocket made for the book reader in your life. This model has and ink pen, sticky tabs and a highlighter! She told us that if anybody was interested in learning how to make them she had 75 more to make!

Mark has been doing some landscaping at he and Judiths new place. He passed around a picture of a new bridge he built to go over a little waterway.

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!