February meeting

Hi everyone,
lovely to see you all again after the summer break and hear your news
A quiet day for show and tell, it's been such a beautiful summer that the spinning has obviously gone by the by

Fay dyed these wools with beetroot, simply mordanted with vinegar as that's what she had to hand. The lighter one was a white wool and the darker one was grey.

Vida spun and dyed this alpaca from Marco's fibre. She started it as a swatch but it turned out so nicely that continued it for a scarf - it's very soft

Emile is busy crocheting a blanket in alternating shades of red

Thanks to my time at Homebush over the summer I have done some spinning - this is some gotland, spun from combed top

 Merino - the skein is a fine 2ply spun from gilled top and the cake is a fine single spun from a hand flicked fleece

Both of these are English Leicester from raw fleeces, washed and flicked with a dog comb

February meeting

It was good to get back to spinners and weavers today after the summer break. There was lots of chat and catching up as well as some sorting out ready for our exciting year.

Vida recently bought Anne Fields book 'Learn to Weave' and is aiming to work her way through some of the projects in the book. She started with these beautiful dish towels having to buy the cotton from the US to follow the book accurately

 

Valerie and Fay made this sweet cot blanket in the up-cycled wool blanket challenge, the detail is wonderful

Jessie very, very nearly finished her socks and just in time, she will need them when she gets back to Scotland in a couple of weeks time

Catherine has been spinning alpaca for the festival challenge in April

She also finished a couple of scarves on the sample it loom

and also dyed a couple of skeins using a glut of blackcurrants mordanted with alum

Pamela would have shown us dozens of stunning master pieces, however, she had rather more help than she could cope with! Double trouble!