Show and tell

Was a great day at the club today. The exchange table worked well, our show and tell table had plenty on it to talk about and we were all happy to be spinning and creating. Marina brought along a spinning wheel she had got going. It had been made from a standard lamp and turned into an electric wheel. Someone had been inspired and very creative. Alexis brought along some lovely colours for us to choose from so that cheered us up and Jeanette had shared a big bag of alpaca fleece so that got us all talking about how we prepare, spin and dye alpaca fleece. Colour blending was featured very strongly today.

Show and tell

Sarina : has made a beautiful quilt and has brought it along to be raffled. Tickets are $5 and there are only 100. The money raised is going to the Hallet Cove Scout group.
Marina : was using a very unusual electric wheel today made from a standard lamp. Very attractive.
Sheila O : Three beanies : one multi stripe, one colourful spiral and one Fair Isle pattern.
Alexis: two Fair Isle beanies: one red and one turquoise.
John : a lovely warm woven scarf in pastel shades.
Cathy : a ball spun wool of tan plied with a multi colour strand. Bright beanie in multicolours and bright pompom.
Karin: a skein of green mix of wool and alpaca.
Jan E: two skeins of Kathy’s fibre plaits: one blue mix and one green mix.
Maxine: a long multi coloured jacket made from spinning her leftover tops.
Peter: a small frame loom of multi coloured stripes

Show and tell

It is always nice to hear that when members go out into the wild and meet other yarn people they know our group from our social media accounts. It helps friendly conversations . Today was warm and pleasant and inside the club there were lovely colours, some great weaving, a visitor learning how to spin and some really good spinning ,weaving and crocheting in progress. There were felting projects too and they are always good to see as they progress. We have a public holiday next Monday and so will not be meeting and we reconvene on the 18th.

Show and tell

Karin: a skein of speckled dyed Finn wool of many colours, with a label attached describing her process for preparing and spinning the fleece for her project. Karin shared labels so we can label our challenge project in a similar fashion.
Cathy: a small cowl in wool deep red/pink, two small gnomes one green, one pink and a ball of spun wool in orange tones.
Anita : One child’s beanie in various reds with a grey strip and an adult’s size beanie in a cable design in dark blue.
Dagmar: a wool/silk scarf in autumn tones.
Alexis : a large skein of hand-dyed multi coloured wool.
John: a lovely woven scarf in autumn tones in acrylic and wool.
Janette: a large knitted wool square blanket in multi pastel shades and white.

Show and tell

Our AGM is set for 29th April and that is when we bring along our entries for the annual challenge. That is always interesting to see what others have created for our challenge. We then have another one to look forward to! Today was a lot of fibre fun because people are bringing in all the different fibres they have dyed which were done either at our workshop or separately. The colours have been so inspiring to look at and it is always interesting to see how others use colour. We had a lot of good conversations about how we can mix and match colours, improve or enhance colours and how we can spin or use the colours. The dyeing workshop keeps our eyes on colour and how it works.

Show and tell

Lynn: a multi coloured plait dyed on the dyeing day.
Alexis: a large skein and ball of wool/silk dyed with silver dollar (Tasmanian Blue Gum ) gum leaves.
Janette: two bags of solar dyed fleece pastel shades of green and pinks/blues.
Anita :three balls of spun wool blues/pinks, aqua plait dyed on dyeing day and a lovely green knitted triangular, lace scarf. Plait of blue/pink dyed wool
Dagmar: blue plait dyed on dyeing day.
Cathy :a ribbed beanie in brown tones and a pair of mitts knitted in acrylic autumn colours.
Jan E : two skeins of spun wool in pink and navy blue.
Hilary : three beanies of various sizes, two skeins of dyed wool one skein of dyed alpaca.

Show and tell

Show and tell

Sarina: two green balls of yarn made from Alexis’ dyed tops and Bendigo cone wool . Blue and purple dyed fleece which is camel hair, merino and silk
Sheila Mc :several brightly dyed fleeces each 2 colours dyed in a wok in a wok , spun skeins of natural dark fleece

Christine : Stunning monochrome crochet cat blanket
Jan H: purple crochet jacket with buttons made from avocado stones
Cathy: solar dyed beanie pink and blue, 1 ball mohair, 1 ball wool, bunny fluff ,alpaca. Scarf in Bendigo Woollen Mills “Aurora”.
Kay :pink alpaca skein, green ball, white alpaca skein, green/blue solar dyed skein, woven poncho green/red.
Lynn: Cowl, fingerless mitts, beanie cream sparkle commercial wool, woven fabric runner in fawn.
Maxine: crotchet bag from daughter’s chevron crochet bright in colours.
Marina: a long woven piece of fabric in different patterns cotton/wool.
John: two scarf pieces in rainbow colours one with a white warp, one with a black warp.
Sue: dyed white cotton lace piece with blue. Her tip is to use soybean milk to help colour absorption.
Marjorie: cold water dyed carded alpaca in blue.
Fay: Two Fair Isle beanies – blue/red/grey beanie, green/red/blue/purple beanie.
Sheila O: hand spun Fair Isle hat grey/red & blue.