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!

 

 

 

 

Welcome

Welcome to 2015, it looks like it's going to be a great year
We got off to a good start by representing the group at the Two Rivers Community Trust Darfield Summer of Fun event held on Waitangi Day, Friday 6th of February

We arrived at the crack of 9.30 and set up a display of work produced by the group, fibre, spun wool and some of the tools of the trade for people to see

We then settled in for the day doing what we love

Valerie displayed the art of kiwi craft 'spinning'

It was warm work all that rolling, Jayne seems pretty relaxed spinning in the conventional way!

Valerie was soon knitting away though while Jayne and I were still spinning!

We also demonstrated with the sample it loom which proved popular with adults and children. Many of the more mature visitors reminiscing about doing something similar at school.

It was a great day with lots of interest in the group and what we do.