Catching up on Activities

We've been busy, but haven't been recording all we've done here on the blog.

In March, we worked on Tri-axial weaving with ribbons. 

Some of us loved it, others were happy that they had tried it, but ..........

Lis completed hers and it looked great !

April was a busy month. Some of us took a rod trip to the Peterborough Guild's Fibre Day, then we  had  The Gathering in Port Hope.

May's meeting was a FAD (Fibre Arts Day), where we each did our "thing" and divided up some weaving yarn that was kindly donated to us by a former guild member.

At the end of the month, some of us again took a Road Trip and went to the first ever Prince Edward County Fibre Fest in Picton. What a successful event - so many great vendors.

After tiring ourselves out wandering around the booths, we had a good lunch at a local cafe in Picton.

The came our June meeting . End of the official season pot-luck and all.

First we discussed future plans, like the Port Hope Fair and our ideas for a Canada 150 display.

Then came show & tell. We showed our "Green things". It was a guild project. Astrid had given each of is a skein of very bright green Noro yarn and challenged us to create something that included this yarn.

Astrid herself had embellished a woven purse with the yarn needlefelted onto it.

Anita had woven a bright placemat.

Lis had adorned a sweater with wonderful bobbles and meandering lines.

Mara had incorporated the yarn into Mother / Daughter hats.

Wonderful things !

Then we got to Dyeing. Using old Kool-Aid packets, we mixed up flavours, and stirred some up just as they were. Some of us painted rovings and yarn and some of us dipped in an immersion bath.

We had so much fun and got such good results that we are all eager to do more dyeing.

Since unsweetened Kool-Aid is no longer available in Canada, our next dye adventures will be with food colouring and nature dyes.

All that made us hungry and we then proceeded to devour the wonderful pot-luck lunch.

No pictures as we stuffed ourselves.