At the October meeting this month Carol shared with us her techniques in using power tools to assist with felting.

The first step in the process is to lay out the wool that is too be felted in this case a solid colored roving which is spread out evenly.

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Then a light top coating of  decorative fleece was spread over the solid colored fleece to provide variety in the material.

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The wool was then covered with a window screen material and lightly sprayed with water mixed with soap.

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After spraying the fleece with water a electric sander is used to felt the material.  Don’t have the fleece soaking wet just lightly sprayed,  and be sure to plug into a grounded plug and wear rubber soled shoes while doing this technique.  PS –  LWSG holds no responsibility if you electrocute yourself.

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This technique felts the material together quite quickly.  For more information on felting with electric tools and felting in general contact Carol Funnel for a listing of classes that she is teaching.

A variety of item where presented at the October meeting for show and tell.

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General Meeting: Tuesday October 19, 7:30pm
Hospitality: Marilyn O.
Goodies: Elaine, Joyce
Coffee/Tea: Krista , Nancy
Program: TBA
Spin-ins: Evening, October Dian
Crazy Clackers: October 26, 7:30pm Jane P.’s home
Weaving: October 4 @ 1pm at Krista

Exec Meeting: November 2, 7:00pm, Marnie

For those having to plan their holiday for the 2011 year. Here are some important dates.

• SOAR 2011 – It will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire.  The dates are October 2^nd-8^th.
• OLDS Fiber week – June 24 through July 1
• ANWG –  May 30 to June 5th Willamette University, Salem Oregon

The next daytime spin-in is this coming Thursday, October 7th at Velma’s home from 10am to 2pm.  Please bring your lunch, wheel, drop-spindle or any other project that you’d like to work on.

Fibres Plus is having a book sale.  For the month of October, all books are on sale at 10% – 20% off. We’re thinking of maybe not stocking books in the future. We’ll have to give it some serious thought.  Here’s the link to the sale.

http://www.fibresplus.com/booksale/

This is an interesting article on the wool industry and history in Manitoba.

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The Langley Centennial Museum commissioned this research to determine the history of a basketry collection known as the “Pearson Collection.” The results, now available online, include a history of the collection, biographies of persons involved and an analysis of the basketry.

For more information see Fort Langley Museum Website Pearson collection 

Meeting Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 7:30pm at Marilyn’s home. Bring any knitting projects that you would like to work on and thoughts for discussion about what we might like to learn/do this season.

Yarn Harvest 2010 is a yarn crawl of the local yarn shops of the Lower Mainland taking place on Saturday September 25, 2010. This event is being sponsored by the Fraser Valley Knitting Guild.

For a $5 registration fee, you get a Yarn Harvest ID button, a 10% discount on purchases made at participating stores on Yarn Harvest day, any additional activities or promotions offered by the stores, entry in the Grand Prize Draw, and an invitation to the Harvest Dinner (ABC Country Restaurant, Coquitlam) where there will be draws for multiple door prizes. (Note: The cost of dinner is NOT included in the registration fee.)

Registration in person with $5 cash on September 25 at 88 Stitches in Langley, at Black Sheep in Port Moody, or at Gina in Vancouver.

For more information check out: fvkg.wordpress.com