There is space available in a workshop on Lace weaves to be given by Susan
Wilson Feb. 18-19, 2012. This workshop is sponsored by the Olympia Weavers
Guild and will be held at the North Olympia Fire Station on Boston Harbor
Rd., Olympia.

Participants will supply and work on their own looms. On the first day
weaver-controlled techniques, e.g. Brook’s bouquet and leno, which allow the
weaver to place the lacey areas wherever desired in the cloth will be
covered. Pictorial images and geometric shapes can be created at will. On
the second day lace will be created “automatically” using the
loom-controlled lace structures, e.g. huck, Swedish lace, and Bronson lace.
Students will create a sampler of a variety of weaver-controlled techniques
and one 4-shaft or 8-shaft loom-controlled structure. Drafting principles
for several loom-controlled structures, as well as techniques for creating
lace on other threadings, will be covered.

Level: advanced beginner or intermediate and up. Must be able to warp a loom
with even tension, weave balanced plain weave, and read a draft. 4-shaft or
8-shaft loom required. Drafts will be sent at the time of registration and
the loom must be warped and ready to go at workshop time. Cost will be
between $60-$70 depending on the number of participants. No materials fee.
To register, please contact Karen Anderson at mkanderson@fairpoint.net.

Susan Wilson, a weaver for 40 years, has lectured and taught workshops
throughout the U.S. and at several Convergences and regional conferences.
You can read more about her at http://www.susanwilsonhandweaving.com/

Karen Anderson Olympia Weavers Guild Workshop Chair

Hello
I am wanting to start the weaving group as a regular monthly meeting
I am proposing the 4th monday in the month and can be daytime or evening.

I am hoping to involve   new weavers , using this group as a way to spark interest and support and your experience and expertise would be a great help.
Does monday still work for you if you are still interested to mentor or participate in anyway should be get some new weavers, let me know.

If you know of anyone who would be interested please let them know.  I will be sending out a message in the Jan newsletter (Great we have a newsletter again) to the membership just thought I would like to let you know first.

Krista

Ron Snyder will demonstrate traditional broom making at the December meeting of the Whatcom Weavers Guild.  He has been making historically accurate primitive American brooms for over 25 years.  He learned his styles from old master broom squires throughout the South, and he formerly owned a Shaker broom factory in Michigan for many years.  Ron will demonstrate broom making (which involves quite a bit of weaving) while telling the history of brooms in America, and how the craft has evolved over the past two centuries.  With the use of a resisting wheel, he will make both a basic sweeping broom for the hearth and porch, as well as a cobweb broom that is guaranteed to remove your webs with just a spin of the broom.  Handmade brooms are not only functional, they make wonderful gifts for the holiday season. There will be a variety of brooms for sale after the presentation, and what better way to start the new year than with a “clean sweep”.

The meeting will be on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at St. James Presbyterian Church’s lower level meeting room at 910 14th St. in Bellingham.  Admission is free.

For further information about the Whatcom Weavers Guild, visit www.whatcomweaversguild.org or contact Sheri Ward, info@whatcomweaversguild.org or 360-961-4956.

2012

January 19 night   7:30 pm

Presenter: Maria Wojtowicz
Description: Maria Wojtowicz is a textile designer based in Vancouver who
creates clothing for women and items for the home using Polish linen
fabric and silks imported from India. Maria will tell us about her design
process and the use of hand-dyeing and hand-painting that makes each piece
an original.
http://chrzaszcz.com/about.html

February  16 day 12:30 pm

Presenter: Doreen MacLachlan
Title: Textile Travels in Scotland
Description:Doreen has travelled three times to Scotland, always seeking
textiles. Her most recent trips in 2008 and 2010 were with Nadine Sanders,
The Singing Weaver (www.singingweaver.com). She will have stories,
textiles, photos and Nadine’s music to share. Join us on a mini “Threads,
Tunes and Ruins” tour.

Two new pages have been added to the members only area. Under LWSG Important Forms in the upper menu bar you will find links for:

• Standard Proportions for Handwoven Articles
• Pricing Guide

Made in BC Christmas events will be offered across the region to reduce distances shoppers must travel.

Admission fees will benefit the Farmland Defence League of BC and its campaigns to protect farmland and food security for future generations of BC Children.

Made in BC Christmas events will be thoroughly promoted, including:

Ø     Community service announcements in local newspapers

Ø     Paid advertising in local newspapers

Ø     Large street-facing venue banners

Ø     Sandwich board street signs

Ø     A region-wide media relations campaign

Ø     Exhaustive exposure through social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Linkd and MySpace and a web site will be unveiled at the start of the season.

Ø     Posters & flyers in venue communities in week before event

Made in BC Christmas Christmas events will provide holiday shoppers with on-site entertainment, event give-aways and festive refreshments. Our aim is to have a great cross-section of vendors from local artists to emerging commercial businesses to local farmers – all offering 100% made in BC products.

And whenever possible, Made in BC Christmas events will piggy back on significant local events, to provide residents with opportunities to minimize holiday making miles without diminishing the fun of the season. A Crescent Beach Christmas has been scheduled to coincide with the City of Surrey’s annual Stewart Farm Christmas, which regularly draws between 500 and 1,000 attendants for its heritage holiday celebration.

Attached are vendor registration forms for a Crescent Beach Christmas and 2 events in Fort Langley: one in November, one in December.   Registrations for venues in  South Delta, Surrey, Steveston and Vancouver will be revealed soon. It’s first come first served, so get your registrations in as soon as possible.

Donna

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Pat Spark at the Whatcom Museum

The Whatcom Museum is bringing Pat Spark, one of the founding members of the Whatcom Weavers Guild, to Bellingham in November.  While she is here, Pat will give a workshop and a talk about her fiber adventures over the past 40 years.

Pat is well known for her work in felting, and has published several books and articles on the topic. She started her textile career at WWU, went on to earn an MFA at the University of Washington, and was a professor of art for 16 years. She is a partner in the publishing firm Fine Fiber Press and Studio, which holds workshops, publishes books on fiber arts, and sells equipment for felt-makers and tapestry weavers. She has taught around the world, including a recent trip to Kyrghizstan where she taught contemporary felt-making.

Her talk and slide presentation will be on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Whatcom Museum Old City Hall Building, located at 121 Prospect St., Bellingham.  Admission is free to museum and guild members, and there is a $3 suggested donation for non-members.

Pat’s workshop will be on Sunday, Nov. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Optical Color Blending for Feltmakers and Spinners, and it will be held at the Lightcatcher Studio of the Whatcom Museum, 250 Flora St., Bellingham.

Here’s a description of the museum workshop:

Why do those beautiful, brightly colored fleeces look so great alone but turn to mud when they are blended together?  Because most of us use the same color mixing theories when mixing fiber as we do when mixing paint. Highly respected felt-maker, teacher, and author, Pat Spark will teach and demonstrate optical blending theories needed for mixing fibers in felt-making and spinning. Pat has been studying color theory, as it pertains to fiber, for 36 years. This workshop is geared for people with a little textile experience, such as spinning or felting. Participants should bring hand cards if they have them.

Cost: $80 for museum and guild members or $90 for non-members, plus a $25 lab fee for a merino variety pack of colors, felting needles, foam pad, and handouts. Maximum number of students, 12; minimum number of students, 5 to 6.  To register, contact the Bellingham Parks and Recreation Office, 360-778-7000, by Oct. 28.