Thousand Island Arts Center, home of the Handweaving Museum, will be hosting this event again this year in Clayton, NY. If anyone is interested, the registration deadline is 12April. Details can be found at http://tiartscenter.org/whc.php, including registration forms.
Circle Weaving Techniques
Circle Weaving with Jacquie Chalmers
Please Note – the program will begin at 7 pm
The March meeting of the Nashoba Valley Weavers’ Guild will be presented by Jacquie Chalmers on Circle Weaving Techniques and an example application – covered buttons. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 22nd, 7 pm at the Fiber Loft in Harvard, MA. Please note that the actual meeting will start at 7 pm. Join us for socializing, refreshments and to peruse library selections at 6:30 pm. Class will include how to warp the circular loom, weave a design and how to finish the project. We will then take it off the loom and use it to cover a button. After making a button using the basic weave we will learn one or two additional weaving techniques to achieve different visual effects in the finished work.
*** Kit/materials : $5 for members, $10 for non-members. The guild is subsidizing this workshop by paying half of the materials fee for members. Includes circle loom, threads, buttons; material to make 4 buttons.
*** Students should bring a size 18 tapestry needle and scissors.
Instructor Bio: Jacquie Chalmers – Jacquie splits her time between the calm of her studio in upstate New York and the frenzy of busy Boston Massachusetts. She has taught many classes at Fiber College, shows and guilds. A long time knitter, spinner, dyer, felter and needle tatter, she has recently focused on circle weaving. She loves nothing more than mastering a new skill, applying it in a new way and sharing it with others.
Mary Merrill: Fields of Interest (March 19 – April 17, 2016) – Fuller Craft Museum
Mary Merrill Fiber Weekend with 1:00 pm John Colony Lecture
Sunday, March 20, 2016, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Fuller Craft is delighted to present Mary Merrill: Fields of Interest (March 19 – April 17, 2016). This legacy exhibition will celebrate the life and creative practie of Merrill, a renowned weaver whose creative practice gained its greatest momentum in her later years. Retrospective in scope, the exhibition will offer a holistic view into the life of this masterful weaver, spotlighting the myriad influences that inspired her work: lush color pallettes, international travel, domestic life, and a fervent love of weaving. On Sunday, March 20, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm members of the Weaver’s Guild of Boston will hold demos and drop-in workshops (at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm and 2:00 – 3:00 pm) for tapestry weaving and drop spinning in our studios for children and adults. At 1:00 pm, don’t miss featured guest speaker John Colony, owner of Harrisville Designs, Harrisville, New Hampshire. This exhibit is sponsored by the Weaver’s Guild of Boston. Reception included with admission. Lecture $7 ($15 Nonmembers)
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This year’s three day fiber arts program will be held June 24 – 26 at the Denmark Municipal Building, Denmark, Maine.
The website is now updated with this year’s schedule of exciting fiber workshops. There are 37 workshops to choose from. Many of our favorite instructors are returning with some interesting workshop offerings, as well as, several new instructors.
Full details about the workshops and registration information can be found on our website www.pleasantmtfiber.
Hope to see you in June!
Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts Workshops Committee:
Sue Connolly and Linda Whiting
Feb 23 meeting cancelled
The weather is still kind of indeterminate – typical New England – but it sounds like the most probable scenario is that the heavy stuff is going to be underway right when we would be leaving the meeting to go home. To be on the side of caution and keep everyone safe, we have decided to cancel the meeting tonight.
Debbie Kaplan will be rescheduled – not to worry!
Spring is coming soon!
Questionable weather
The weather forecast is iffy for tonight. We are going to make a decision before 5:00, so please check back here before going to the Fiber Loft.
Notices are also being sent to our membership email list and the yahoo group. Please pass the word to others who may not get the notices directly.
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Unusual Materials: from the almost familiar to the odd
The next meeting of the guild will be held on February 23rd at the Fiber Loft. The program will be presented by Deb Kaplan and will be on Unusual Materials. Here is her description:
Unusual materials are both ancient and modern. Some will seem similar to yarns you have used before, others will be quite different. Horsehair, paper, straw, stems, unusual silks, plant and animal fiber yarns, and over-twisted yarns have been used for centuries. Elastics, plastics and stainless steel, copper, brass and synthetic metallic yarns are all newer. We’ll look at them all. Why use some of the more unusual materials available? How do you go about evaluating them? We will look at the properties of some more common and not so common materials and compare and contrast.
Come for refreshments, socializing and a selection of library materials at 7 pm. The program will begin at 7:30 pm.
Free Heddles
Free Heddles – I think they’re just the standard wire heddles from Leclerc. They are 10.5″ long tip to tip and were given to me but I can’t use them on either of my looms. My best guess without counting, is there are about 100 or so wrapped in the paper bundle and the way they are wrapped leads me to believe they’ve never been used.
If anyone in the guild can use them, email me (weavingonmain@gmail.com) and I’ll bring them to the meeting next week.
Thanks much,
Diane
Twisted Again: The New Kumihiomo
NVWG members are invited to a private tour of Twisted Again, led by the curator, Lyn Christiansen, at 11 am on Tuesday Feb. 9th. We will meet at Fiber Loft at 10am to carpool. The exhibit is at Lasell College in Auburndale (part of Newton). The address of the gallery is 47 Myrtle St., Auburndale. There is more information at www.braidart.net. Parking space is limited so car-pooling is recommended. I need a car count so Lyn can secure our places. Please let me know if you will be coming. sostberg@charter.net. There is a facebook page and Lyn can friend you to join it if you wish. This should be a fun outing. There will be modern kumihimo pieces as well as a few traditional Japanese ones. Susan Ostberg