www.seattleweaversguild.com March 2013 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE What a great feeling that spring is in the air. The cold damp weather has left us and now it’s a little warmer and damp. We all know that nicer weather is coming soon. Spring is a great time to go through your stash of yarn and find a new project to work on. It’s not too late to weave mug rugs for the ANWG Conference coming up. Rae Deane Leatham has collected mug rugs for the ANWG conference all year and would love getting more. It’s time to renew your SWG membership. Cyndi will be collecting the dues at the meetings or you may mail them to her. It’s also a good time to begin projects for the Annual Sale in October. We didn’t quite make our goal of 100 members submitting woven items to the sale last year so now is a good time to begin planning and weaving for the sale. With nicer weather on the horizon it’s a good time to spend more time outside. Go for a walk and take in the beautiful colors and textures of nature. You may see just the color you’ve been thinking about for the kitchen towels you want to weave for the sale this year. Enjoy spring and remember our next meeting is Thursday March 28, 2013 Bruce MARCH PROGRAM Speaker: Lana Schneider AM Program : Yarn Make Overs: Design- Dues are Due ing Treasures from your Stash The focus of this program is to bring new life Time to Renew into those treasured yarns that have been sitting on your shelves for too long. Lana will go through the steps and techniques that explore creative options to add color and texture to design a new perception for their place in your artistic palate. A number March 21st of projects using these constructed yarns 10 – 12pm Board Meeting will be introduced, with the expectation that there will always be more to explore. Chal- March 28th General Meeting lenge yourself to see what treasures you 9 – 10am Library can create. 10 – noon Business/HotL/Program 12 – 1pm Library/Lunch PM Program : Hands On Remaking 1 – 2pm PM Program Yarns Here’s your chance to begin the process for March 29th yourself. There will be a lot of yarn for you Deadline for March Bulletin Laurie Williams, editor to remake, but you are encouraged to bring [email protected] what you have on your own shelves to add to the stash. Also, bring what you can - ball 1 SWG BULLETIN 2012-2013 March 2013 President’s Message con’t winders, medium to large size knitting needles and crochet hooks, large tapestry needles, scissors. We will bring what extra equipment we can, but the more we have, the easier it will be to explore. There will be 5 or 6 simple projects to put your hands to. If you like what you have started, feel free to take enough ‘ingredients’ to continue on your own (bring a bag!) Don’t like the results? What you leave behind at the end of the guild meeting will contribute to ‘tex- ture’ for the Yarn Bombing group to add to their creative endeavors. So every one wins. Speaker Biography:Lana Schneider Lana began weaving in Southern California in 1986, studying for 6 1/2 years with Tri-Community Adult Education. Upon moving to the NW in 1992, she joined both the Olympia and the Seattle Weavers Guild and considers both of them her family guilds. Lana has taught classes throughout the NW, SoCal and a few interesting other locations, sharing her study of ‘Algebraic Expressions in Handwoven Textiles’ by Ada K. Dietz, a study supported by a grant received through the Seattle Guild. She received the COE-Spinning from HGA in 1993. She has had articles published in Handwoven Magazine, ShuttleSpindle&Dyepot, Belle Armoire and WeaveZine. It is a pleasure to reexamine old studies, such as this program, ‘Yarn Makeovers’ and introduce it perhaps to a new generation of weavers and spinners. MARCH 2013 DUES REMINDER It is time to pay dues for 2013-2014 I will be collecting dues at the upcoming meetings or, send check for Member $40 Student $25 Guild Friend $65 Angel $100 or above New members pay $35 the first year regardless of when they join. payable to: SWG mail to: Cyndi White SWG Treasurer 828 NE 89th Street Seattle, WA 98115 (if you don’t pay by July your name won’t be in the Directory) ANWG UPDATE We still need mug rugs for Seattle’s contribution to the 2013 conference goodie bag. 400 plus of them! 500 ideally. We have 280 of what we need to contribute. So put some warp on the loom, use up your stash or thrums. Knit them. Felt them. Just make them.The March meeting will be the last meet- ing before we need to send them off. So bring your mug rugs on March 28th and give your gems to your ANWG Rep, Rae Deane Leatham. Don’t forget....Kris Leet needs weavings that are woven in the spirit of another weaver you admire. And provide a word or two to say why so she can create OUR wonderful guild booth for the 2013 conference. 2 SWG BULLETIN 2012-2013 March 2013 WORKSHOP UPDATE Nancy Hoskins’ Beyond Boundweave was very successful. Since it is a very slow technique, I’m not sure we’ll have a lot of samples at the meeting. Nancy was one of the most prepared teachers I have met in my entire life. She had loads of samples to show the workshop participants along with great visual aids for the theoretical parts of her workshop. All remaining workshops for the year are a go. Legend: Blue text indicated information about the workshop. Black text is a quick synopsis of the workshop to help jog your memory. Red text indicates changes. Lana Schneider (An Artist’s Palate: Fiber Soup and Silk Salad, Apr 6+7, venue changed to Fall City). Lana’s workshop will focus on spinning novelty yarns and creative uses of these designer yarns. We begin with the foundation fibers and add ingredients to make an enriched accented yarn. What makes a GOOD novelty yarn? How do you spin with appropriate control? Where does ply- ing get you? And what sort of finished pieces display your work to its best advantage? Once we begin, we will let the conversation decide where we explore. What to bring: whatever of the following you already have: spindle(s), wheel with extra bobbins, hand carders, drum carder, wool combs, ball winder, niddy noddy, for yarn making. Have a special fiber you want to explore? Bring it with you. Knitting needles, crochet hook, weave it loom to sample the yarns. I will provide extras of all the above, a good sampling of many fibers and enrichment ingredients. There will be a fiber fee of $40. Questions? Email Lana Schneider [email protected]< > Kathe Todd-Hooker (Soumack: Something Old - Something New, Apr 27 + 28) - there still are openings for this workshop. Soumack-no matter how you spell it is a technique that can be used to create whole cloth or be mixed with tapestry to create lines that travel in any direction and any angle. Soumack can be used to outline, lock shapes into place, smooth edges or produce a unique surface. Traditionally, it was used throughout the Middle East to produce containers and household items. Mixed with tapestry it becomes an all purpose technique for creating lines, texture and problem solving. Barbara Walker (Warp Patterning) - there still are openings for this workshop. Requirement: 8-shaft loom, 2nd back beam OPTIONAL, intermediate-advanced weaving skills. Why confine yourself to only one warp? The use of two or more warps opens up new and exciting opportu- nities for adding pattern to cloth. After learning to dress a loom with more than one warp we will explore many patterning techniques, most of which require only one shuttle. Sample weaving includes turned drafts, large-scale patterns, small-scale motifs, loom-controlled embellishments, and combining warp and weft patterning. SATURDAY PROGRAM in APRIL Please join us for an inspiring look at an ancient technique! Date: April 13th Presenter: Linda Malan “Simple Tools/Complex Cloth” Let’s look at a technique that requires no more than a set of cards, some thread and the weaver’s hands. Details: Doors are open at 10:40 a.m. The Library opens at 10:30 a.m. (Use the side entrance until the main doors are open.) Bring a sack lunch and something for the treat table at lunch time. Coffee and hot water will be provided.The morning program runs from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm and the afternoon program begins about 1:15 pm. I hope to see you there! Tenny Canning 3 SWG BULLETIN 2012-2013 March 2013 SWG GRANT Don’t forget that the deadline for this year’s SWG Grant is coming up soon - March 31. The Grant this year is for $1500 and details and application form are on the Guild website. Otta Olsen Fund The Otta Olsen fund was set up by member Donna Kaplan in memory of her Mother to assist SWG mem- bers each year with the costs of attending educational opportunities (conferences, seminars, workshops) in order to pursue an area of particular interest to them. The focus is to be primarily, but not exclusively, weaving. Each year up to $1250.00 in awards may be given, with no one award exceeding $625.00.