Scarf Expo Wraps Up

The scarf expo finished today after a very successful week. Sales were good and those who still had scarves at home kept popping in with a few more to fill the spaces.  Here are more of the exhibits.

Creative Scarf Expo

It's World Wide Knitting Week and it is also the week our Guild has a Creative Scarf Expo set up in an empty office building in town.  Over 200 scarves are on display and many are for sale.  The weavers are well represented but almost overwhelmed by an explosion of colour and texture from the knitters and felters.  Here are a few of the exhibits.

First view inside the entrance

Chris sets up the weavers' display area with a demonstration loom and some of our work

Scarves in this group are all woven. Elsewhere the techniques are mixed together

The show could have been called 'All Things Bright and Beautiful'

Chris and Joan worked their display magic with bamboo rods and sky hooks

More photos in a few days.

More Show & Tell

 The first two items in this post came with our Richmond friends.

Note the fascinating braided twill. . .

and an interesting example of repp weave.

This is the detail of a wrap similar to the one Win had in the National Exhibition.  The side panels are alpaca.

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Among the 'tried and trusted' towels was this one from Joan. It would be such a pleasure to use.

Rose produced this lightweight wrap with bamboo warp separated by slub cotton panels of Bronson lace.  The weft is the same cotton.

Show and Tell at May Meeting

This is the first instalment. The items in this post are all from the Richmond members, beginning with 2 lovely bags.. Note the bead closures and the kumihimo braid trim.

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Ooops! I got that wrong.  The bags were made by Sue Baskett. I originally attributed them to the wrong person.  Sorry Sue.

 This silk wrap is Julia's. It can be worn as a fabulous fashion garment and then folded up into a neat flat package.

 And now for something different!  Esmae wove this bag out of plastic grocery bags. It is lined and has strong kumihimo handles. It will last for ages.

 Back to Julia again, this time with exquisite work in linen. What an inspiration!

This is one of several table runners made by Esmae (I'm pretty sure I have the names right. If not I hope someone will let me know.

A few more photos to come in a few days.

May Meeting: Visit from Richmond

Four of our friends from the Richmond Group came to visit on Monday for our May meeting and post-festival catch-up, and previous member Lesley happened to be visiting as well.  It was a glorious sunny day for our first daytime meeting this year and it was great to have a good turnout of our members who brought along soup and finger food as well as their show and tell.

 Noelene and Judy have a chat and Joan catches up with Lesley

 Jan, Julia, Anne and Win . . . and the remains of a well-catered lunch.

 Visitors Pam and Sue enjoying their day out.

Esmae and Chris surveying some of the work on show.

Teatowels had been woven in cotton at various time by both Marlborough and Richmond groups so we were asked to bring along our examples . . . old and new.

 Many of these had been made for a group project in 2006

 Following which Barbara was inspired to weave some more, this time in different colours.

 Julia brought this elegant twill one in muted blues and greens.

 Two of our members had participated in another group project/exchange, this time in linen with a huck pattern.  Beautiful articles from some excellent weavers, these ones are still unused but much appreciated.

Show and Tell photos still to come so keep watching.

From Mountains to the Sea

 Mountains to the Sea was the theme of the Australian & New Zealand Exchange tapestries which were on display at Festival.

 They are quite small (most approx 15 cm square) but many of them are amazingly detailed.

 These are just a few close ups that appealed to me and I thought our tapestry weavers at home might like to see.

 There were about 60 tapestries in total.

 This one is by our Jan Hannay.  Well done Jan for getting it finished on time.

I'm sorry I didn't note the names of the weavers or the individual titles.

More from Festival

There were busy bodies everywhere. This was a 'hands-on' station where people could thread a necklace.  Someone must have been hoarding beads for years!  It was so popular it was hard to get in for a photo.

Festival is a great place to meet friends - of the colourful sort!

And 'Holy Moly' . . . the decorations were colourful too.  They were everywhere . . . strips of felt with perfect holes punched in them, dyed every colour of the spectrum.  Who would know they were industrial waste; a by-product of the manufacture of washers!  The pile of golden 'coins' in the photo below are perfect felt circles. Now what could they be used for ? There was a free-for-all rush to souvenir the decorations at closing time. Yes, I'm sure some came to Marlborough so watch this space.

And of course there was the Trade Hall. . . Oh so tempting. 

 That's Agnes in red in the centre foreground.

There are loads more pics to show, so call again soon.

Fashion at Festival

Yay!  Thanks to Chris we now can show you a very happy Jan with her entry in the Runway Show at Porirua. Good work Jan, and well done to top off the outfit with a hat. 

Exhibition entries from Marlborough are just below.