It's March already!

March meeting was quite informal with plans being made for the upcoming Wool 101 display and travel plans for several members going to Festival in Palmerston North. It's going to be an early start that day!
Here is the show and tell.

Joan's crackle throw from last month appeared again, this time with the selvedge edges expertly reinforced with crochet

How's this for a first piece of weaving? Betty took a loom home to practise on and brought it back with this sampler completed.

Jen's cotton runner and place mats turned out well - but just not the way she expected. We need to do a bit more work on weaving drafts.

Chris has again made use of a fabulous ball of yarn, this time interspersing the glorious colour with plain navy

With the Wool 101 promotion looming Rose realised she has been neglecting wool lately in favour of other fibres so here is her offering of textured fabric in two very different weights of wool in both warp and weft. Unfortunately it is another piece woven but not made into a garment - yet. Anyone know a good seamstress?

Not new but still two things were learned from this piece. 1: It is woven in double width twill on 8 shafts. The fold is in the middle of the picture. 2: warp and weft are both "unspun" high twist carpet wool. It was "unplied" on a spinning wheel to take take out the overtwist and soften the yarn.