Lots Going On in the Studio

Lots of stuff happening today at the Weaving studio of the Appalachian Arts Craft Center of Norris TN. We are in the Studio every Tuesday from 10am until 2pm, we are located north of Knoxville TN, just off of I-75, exit 122. If you are travelling this summer and get a chance to come by, we sure hope you do!!!! We start off this morning with several process pictures. First, last week we heard that purple 8/4 cotton was once again in stock, so we ordered it along with a few more colors. Today, we got our yarn order and put it on the shelf. Betsy is hard at work doing math for her next project. She is going down to 8/2 cotton instead of 8/4 for a special towel project. I also caught Dana winding her next warp.

Phyllis is needle weaving to fix some errors in her scarf, Erin cut off her towel project and I got Judith's colorful warp in some lease sticks and set her up to thread the heddles. Here is some of the fabric that will be used on the first rug.

Now for some weavers and their projects. Linda has a new scarf project on her loom, and Liz is having fun with her colorful towel warp.

Towards the back of the room, Joycelyn is working hard on her towel warp, Bonnie is weaving towels and Laura is weaving what we call lawn chair towels.

Now for Show and Tell! Shannon brought us some key fobs she had recently woven, a scarf she had finished and a bag she had made to hold shuttles at the Center where she demonstrates weaving. Jenny showed us some felted slippers she had recently made. Jenny said that the yarn was from 1988!

Another thing that happened in 1988 is that the Leclerc Dorothy that I found this week in a local Thrift shop was built in 1988! Betsy has been working on a towel warp that you can wrap aroung a gift bottle of wine, 8/4 is too heavy so she is switching to 8/2. Here is the towel she saw that gave her the idea.

That is all I have for you today, until next week this is Tina, for all!