Yarn and What we do with It!

Marie had ordered some 8/2 cotton last week and true to form it had arrived during the week and Marie had it in her car. Dana brought it in and they set to work making sure that the order was correct and planning to put the yarn on the shelf right away. Only thing is several of the weavers began picking up cones from the island in the kitchen for their next projects, before you know it there was very little 8/2 cotton to put on the shelf after all!

I caught Phyllis on her way back to her loom with a handfull of wound bobbins for her project. I followed her back to her loom to get a picture of how the yarnie goodness in her hands works together with the yarn of the warp to make her fabric.

Jenny is winding on a new project this week and her plan is hand painted warp and weft. She will be making fabric for garments in plainweave so that the mix of the hand dyed colors can do the talking!

Marilyn and Cathy are having a good laugh as Cathy and Patty are putting on Cathy's new mug rug warp.

Susan #3 was very close to finishing her fabric this morning and by the end of the day she had cut it off the loom!

Liz had threaded her handtowel project in a difficult 12 shaft pattern that never actually looked like she wanted it to, so today she tried a different treadling that as it turns out she likes even better than the original!

One of our new weavers, Wendy had come to the end of her project and she will be hem stitching her project at home this week!

Now it is time for show and tell! Rhonda brought in a couple of pieces she has finished at home. One is either a short scarf or a table runner, and the other is a piece of fabric that we think could make a stunning top by turning the cool stripes in a couple of different directions.

Betsy is on a mission! She is weaving baby blankets for all of her children, Nieces and Nephews! This is an onging project and a labor of love!

Laura has made the cutest little hat! The only problem is that it is a little too little!

Alice brought in a book she has recently picked up on bandweaving.

I have some show and tell as well! In 2018 I was at Maryland Sheep and Wool and I bought a very dirty Finnsheep fleece for not very much. I washed it fairly quickly after I got it home, then I combed it and handspun it to keep it soft and bouncy. I last year I got up the nerve to dye the yarn using a wool tincture to make it blue of course! Then I found a pattern I wanted to make and November 4th 2025 I began to knit. I finished the sweater a couple of weeks ago and ordered some lovely buttons to complete it. I sewed the buttons on yesterday so that I could bring it in for show and tell today. 8 years almost to the day of when I bought the fleece, I have a finished sweater and enough yarn still to make a vest as well! Now I call that slow cloth!

That is all of the fun for today, come back next week to see what we get into! Until then this is Tina, for all!