Heritage Day at the Park

Waitangi Day is Heritage Day at Brayshaw Park and, along with other Park users our Guild fronts up and flies the CF flag providing information and demonstrations.  It is just as well the Park authorities splashed out on a new flag because this is what the previous one looked like in the nor'west season a month ago.

Joan did a great job warping up the loom with a narrow 'Blooming Leaf' overshot design and brought along a sample of 'Cathedral Windows' quilting using woven blocks of the same design.

Joan's plan is for everyone (not just weavers) to weave a square for themselves . . . so take along a small amount of weft yarn of a colour of your choice and get weaving. Help is at hand if you have not woven before - and it really is easy.

Jan demonstrated inkle loom weaving, incorporating beads to fit in with the Guild theme for the month.

Rose sat in the sun and worked on her tatting and (inadvertently) her suntan.

Spinners gathered at the Girling Building and at times were hard to see for the crowd around them.

Well done!  A good start to the year.

January Meeting Part 2

Jan's Tapestry Cushion (above) and Jen and her scarves below).

Judy wove these scarves in lovely mercerised cotton. Jenny models one for her.

 Thank you to Joan for these photos and also many thanks for her hospitality to start off the year.


 Keep watching. There will be photos from Heritage Day soon.

Happy New Year

2013 began for the Weaving Group with a gathering at Burnside, Joan's home up the Wairau Valley. What a great way to start the year. And people have been busy as there was a lot to show and tell.

Win had persevered with the alpaca 'dog' she had on the loom in the previous post, and look at it now!  Who would think it had caused so much anguish.

Win had also ventured into weaving with linen. Note the hand manipulated lace at top and bottom as well as the loom controlled lace in the centre.

Yet another fibre. This time it is Judy with silk scarves. They're gorgeous Judy. If only we could touch them!

That's enough to ponder on for now. More photos from this meeting in a few days.

OOOoops!

Sooner or later it happens to all of us.

This time it's Win's turn. After several successful alpaca warps,all of a sudden this one fought back. Yes, it was a different batch of yarn.

Win may not be able to hang out washing for a while; most of her pegs seem to be otherwise occupied.

And Rose is not immune to the odd overfilled bobbin.

Oh well, "keep calm and carry on."

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Message from Rose January 2013

Hear Ye . . . Hear Ye . . .

Happy New Year everyone and best wishes for lots of weaving.

Sorry I cannot be at the gathering at Joan’s on 26th Jan, so here is my tuppence worth.

I suggest you all meet at Bobbin Cottage about 11 am and car pool. Take your lunch.  If anyone has anything to add about the day, hit “reply all” and send a message out. Don’t forget to let June and Dawn know if there is anything further. I will see that they get this message.

Joan and I have agreed to share the leadership of the Weaving Group this year.  Joan will run the meetings and I will do the emails and whatever.  We will both expect help from all and sundry when we ask for it.  And we look forward to your suggestions.

Many thanks to Tricia holding the fort for us for so long and for coping on her own after Sue left.

I have booked Bobbin Cottage for our meetings on the third Monday of each month from February to November. June, July and August I have booked for daytime and the rest for evenings.  I am aware that we may want to change venues at times and in the winter may possibly want to have the daytime meetings at a weekend, but we will face those changes as and when they happen and presumably make adjustments with the park office.

Will somebody please take some photos at Joan’s – and also at other times. I am planning on keeping the blog going.  I’m also thinking I should put these notices on the blog. What do you think?

You will get a newsletter before the February Guild meeting (13th) but to give you advance notice the theme will be beads.  Bring bead show and tell as well as any hand made beads . . . fabric/fimo/paper/bread (yes, bread, for those of us old enough to remember). Also be prepared to show/talk about how you can use beads in your work.  Also, those who are participating in the “Transformation” project with the Museum, please take along your work in progress.

I will be back on the afternoon ferry on 1 Feb and will be in the Picton Shop on 2nd.  I will also be handling the January payments at that time for Nancy who is being whisked off on a romantic cruise to celebrate her “coming of age.”  Have a great time Nancy . . . and right now Barbara will be having a great time in Antarctica!  There should be some fascinating holiday stories to share.  Speaking of the shop, I will share with you my one purchase to date.  I have been in the habit of buying one little angel each Christmas and just fell in love with these button jobs. I just had to have the middle one. (In fact I bought two this Christmas; don't you love "Hark-the-Herald" above?)

Last Item: what are you going to enter in the 2013 Festival Exhibition?  Now, come on . . . we expected everyone to support our festival and exhibition so we now need to make an effort for the Wellington team and support them. You need to start now!

Lecture over. Happy weaving and a creative and productive 2013.

Rose

Let's check up on Peg to finish the year

It is good to know that at age 95 Peg is fit and well and still weaving.

In case you haven't seen her damask loom, here are some photos of its interior.

Do you think it's time Peg had a new tape measure?  She would dearly love to find a cloth one that can be easily pinned to her work. They all seem to be fibreglass these days.

One of Peg's latest works shows more of the damask influence in her weaving that we have seen lately.

 Keep up the good work Peg; we salute you. Happy New Year everyone.

 And the last word goes to the tui.

Show and Tell November

Last pictures for 2012. Here are the show and tell photos from our meeting at Dot's place. Thank you Dot for your hospitality, and best wishes for Christmas festivities to everyone.

 Judy's beautiful knitted cashmere shawl

 Chris not only finished her 3 shaft pick up but did it in ime for Christmas

 Win extended her 3-shaft pick to letters - very impressive!

 Jan brought along a felted pendant made at a very exciting workshop

 Win had finished another large throw - the second in a very short time

And Chris's favourite colours look great in this block design

 Rose had made tablemats, wondering if they would sell in the Marlborough Creative Artisan's shop

 But was better pleased with a couple of attempts at tatting

Look for more photos early in the New Year, and members, please send me photos of what you are weaving during the holidays.
Merry Christmas

Gift Exchange

A hand-made gift exchange is a great way to finish off the year.