Free loom and weaving equipment

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Our friends at the Boston Area Spinners and Dyers have rescued an old barn frame loom, some smaller looms and other weaving equipment from a house who’s new owners didn’t want it.  They have asked NVWG to help them re-home the pieces.  Everything is free to anyone who can use it.  First come first served.  You can see pictures of the items by following the link below.  We are trying to make arrangements to have the smaller pieces available to take home at our 06Dec meeting.  If you have interest in any of the pieces, please contact laura@northbrookalpacas.com.

https://nvwg.org/rescued-loom-and-weaving-equipment/

Yarn: The Movie – coming soon!

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Your board is making plans to host a screening of Yarn: the Movie. The hope is to have it on the night of our regular April 2017 guild meeting at a public venue in Harvard. Details will be forthcoming. In the mean time, here’s a link to the trailer, to get you excited about the screening. Although the movie is knitting-oriented, it addresses fiber arts and women’s expression. Enjoy!

Yarn: the Movie on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5333518/

October 25 Meeting Program 7pm

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ORIGAMI BAGS with Judith Shangold

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Start with a rectangle of fabric, fold it this way and that, sew 2 seams – voila, you have a bag. Or a pillow. We will play with the concept using graph paper models and color pencils to explore design possibilities.

Please bring color pencils and paper scissors.

Judith is a weaver and designer who mostly weaves on a rigid-heddle loom. Her book Weave • Knit • Wear explores clothing ideas that require little cutting and sewing. Always looking for new ideas of what to weave, she discovered a knitted origami bag – also called a bento bag – online and proceeded to try weaving one. She will bring her samples to the workshop.

 

September meeting

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Meeting tonight at the Fiber Loft

This is a duplicate of the email that went out to all.

Our first meeting will be held at 7pm on 27Sept, at The Fiber Loft.  Please bring in your summer weaving successes and failures for show and tell (or your stories of what’s on your loom if you can’t bring it in yet)!  Please also bring your smart phones, tablets and laptops.  We will have a tutorial for posting to our website/blog and will be helping everyone to sign up to receive Guild emails via the website.
Please also bring your dues, if you haven’t already paid them.  They are due by the Oct meeting.  Dues are $25.  Checks should be made payable to NVWG.  Cash is also fine.

My lovely Dorothy loom for sale.

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I’m selling my LeClerc 4-harness table loom (Dorothy). Lovely loom. Great for taking to workshops. I think the reed with it is a 10 dpi. I’m selling to guild members for $250. Non Guild members: $275 which includes a $25 donation to the guild. Spread this around. Great price. Great loom.

Potluck Supper

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The Nashoba Valley Weavers’ Guild Potluck Supper and Annual Meeting is coming up. It will be held on Tuesday, June 28th at 6:30 pm. (Please note the change in time from our regular meetings.)  The location will be sent by email.

Please bring:

· Dish to share (beverages will be provided by the guild)

· Place setting

· Your guild challenge project

· Dues of $25 for 2016-2017 (checks can be made out to Nashoba Valley Weavers’ Guild)

· Grab bag item (something (nice) from your stash OR a fiber related purchase not more than $10

This will be our last meeting before our summer break.