September Meeting: Show and Tell

Show and tell has been a bit sparse lately. Could it be that everyone is busy working for the Festival?

Rose's Perendale, merino and mohair throw rug which should be in the Area Exhibition but she didn't look at the calendar soon enough!

This fabric is a fine boucle weft on an 8 shaft combination twill merino warp in two shades of green. If all goes well you will see Rose walking around at Festival wearing it. (What are YOU going to wear?)

Anne's gorgeous textured scarf from last month, now finished and looking great. Amazing what you can do with cocolastic.

This is what we call the 'weaver's handshake.' We think there will be a lot of it going on at Festival, and not just for weaving but knitting, felting, crochet and who knows what other techniques.

Get busy, everybody.

Rose

Fibre Fantasia: Nelson-Marlborough-Buller Area Exhibition - Part 1

Fibre Fantasia is the name of the Nelson-Marlborough-Buller Area exhibition which opened in Takaka on Monday 29 March. Marlborough was well represented both by exhibits (13 from 8 members) and members in attendance at the opening (11 plus one husband). The venue is a small but lovely gallery at Motupipi, aptly named the Bell Tower. Win and Denise received special mention as "Selector's Choice" for their entries. (While Denise is not officially a member of our group we still think of her as ours, especially when she is winning accolades!)

"Jeanetically-Modified, by Chris Beech

by Chris Beech

by Anne Udy

by Anne-Marie Chapman

by Win Currie

by Win Currie

By Rose Pelvin

(Blog Mum has been away with the fairies, and apologizes the vary late posting this month. )

March Meeting

"What inspires you when you weave to create a garment?" was the theme of this month's meeting last Monday. We discussed how we are inspired to weave for a garment.

Some weavers look at the yarns and design fabric. Some of us look at what is in fashion in clothing stores and catalogs and go home and create their own. Others start with colors.

We got to see and feel some garments, as well as samples of garment fabrics.

One of Jenny's lovely coats.

Rose's eye lash sample of Joan's blouse? (I miss out on a lot by not going to every meeting!)

And we also had our usual show and tell.

Judy's merino sample - unwashed

Judy's merino sample - fulled

Betsy's bag with sari yarns - summer side

Betsy's bag - winter side

Betsy's mohair wrap - the middle part of the wrap was brushed, but in the two ends boucle loops were kept.

Anne Udy scarf

Nancy's hat from a kit set (?)

Nancy's hat on Joan

Last but not the least, Nancy's husband Robin Taylor's debut piece; the weft is hand-spun (by Nancy) alpaca, the warp is 80% wool, 20% alpaca.

I'm sorry for the sorry photos and report; I am both thrilled and overwhelmed by the idea of sewing and I was very preoccupied.

by Meg Nakagawa

Bag, by Anne Udy

Not difficult to spot Anne Udy colours all the way from this end of the table! Lovely.

by Meg Nakagawa

International Year of Natural Fibre Part 1

The International Year of Natural Fibre was celebrated in Blenheim at an event hosted by the Rural Women's organisation. Our Guild was well represented with weaving, spinning and felting and alpaca products on show; in fact we provided about half the display. Unfortunately the public stayed away in droves, nevertheless we enjoyed a social time of admiring our own work and that of the other stall holders.

Weaving on display included tea towels and place mats from past projects and scarves with amazing textures.

Jan's Inkle Loom attracted some attention and questions.

Chris and Jan watch a demonstration.

Anne demonstrates weaving.

Joan and Katie watch Cherrie and Christine at work

This wine-theme tapestry was woven by Jan, Christine and Sue Broad, (a long time member who now resides in Dunedin). It was intended to be one third of a triptych but looks great on its own.

by Rose Pelvin

What Weavers Wear

And during our July meeting, some of the weavers wore their own creations. Here's Anne's scarf:


Jenny's scarf and knitted alpaca jacket.


And Win's hand-painted scarf.


by Rose Pelvin

Funky Fibre, Part 6

Joan McLauchlan, handwoven jacket.

Anne Udy, scarf, hanwoven, hand-felted, and hand-dyed in silk and merino.

June McKenzie, "autumn tones and Textures", handwoven ribbon cushions.

Chris Beech, handwoven fabric for cushion covers.

by Rose Pelvin

Throw Rug, by Anne Udy

The warp for this throw rug is a mixture of bands of brushed boucle, rayon chenille, boucle, and a fine rayon. The weft is a handspun wool. The pattern is called Forrest Crook's Blanket Weave. All the fibres in it are hand dyed before weaving and I am really pleased with the result.

by Anne Udy

Green Woven Scarf with Blue Felting, by Anne Udy

This scarf is woven in green cotton in tabby loosely set. After weaving I carefully washed it and then felted in in places with blue merino tops and a ribbon type man made fibre.

by Anne Udy

Olive Green and Pink Net-Effect Scarf, by Anne Udy

This scarf is woven in merino that still has the scales on. The warp and weft has 1" of weaving alternating with 1" gaps. After weaving I felted the scarf in the washing machine and then hand dyed it.

by Anne Udy

Olive Green and Mid-Blue Scarf, by Anne Udy

This scarf is woven in merino in a 2/2 twill. The gathered effect is achieved by bands of cotton Lycra in the weft. The scarf was hand-dyed after weaving and is soft to wear. I have had a lot of favourable comments about this item.

By Anne Udy