August Meeting - Fibres

The meeting was held at Barbara's home and members were asked to bring samples of various yarns used in their work and examples woven with them. Here are some of the woven fabrics using both natural and man-made fibres.

Betsy brought along her lovely soft lightweight throw made with merino, possum and mohair fibres. It is woven in a rosepath twill which shows a completely different pattern on the reverse.

Here is a close-up of the yarns, with the space-dyed warp showing up prominently in the fringe.

Joan's warp repp table runner is made with very closely set rayon.

A natural fibre we don't often see in loom weaving is phormium tenax (New Zealand flax or harakeke). It is seen here in a wall hanging by June in which she has used many hand manipulated lace weaves.

This beautifully knitted shawlette was knitted by Nancy and of course the fibre is alpaca.

July Show and Tell Part 1

Win's alpaca scarf is as light as a feather. She used a combination of loom-woven lace and hand-manipulated leno.

Another scarf from Win - alpaca of course.

And, for a change, Win had knitted a hat in the entrelac technique.

Joan is showing Betsy's runner, woven following the Maryanne Stamford workshop.

And here is a close-up. Very nice Betsy.

More photos to come.