Time to start again ?????

August 12, 2020

Oh, what an interesting time we live in !!!

We ARE still around, but with all of the Covid restrictions, we have not been meeting - until today.

Astrid, Lies and Mara met on Lies' back deck for a chat and Shoe & Tell. It was SO nice to finally get together!!

Our next get-together will be on Wednesday, September the 9th - weather permitting - on Mara's deck. 

BTW- our  new email address is    gprfibreartsguild@gmail.com

January 2020

We are in our new meeting place. 

We have been meeting at Yarn-It! in Cobourg since November.

Cathy has generously allowed us to use the space for our meetings.

Every 2nd Tuesday of the month. from 10 until 12, we get together to do wonderful fibery things.

In January, Astrid led us through the interesting process of Kumihimo braiding.

Oh Dear - 2019 at last

Although there hasn't been a blog for a long time - we have been meeting and doing things.

In February, we met to do some  needle felting of landscapes in preparation for wet felting them later. Astrid led this workshop, since she had done some marvelous work like this at a retreat in New Brunswick.

Mara's picture

March 2019

Astrid and Lies participated in the Peterborough Fibre Fest on behalf of the Lang Pioneer Village.

April 2019

We had a FAD day where wonderful finished object were shared for all to see.

Anita's first woven towels

Astrid's Felted landscape

Astrid's woven scarves

Lies looks proud of her woven scarf

In May a few of  us participated in a road trip to the Prince Edward County Fibre Festival.

Fun Day!

June 2019

This was our annual pot luck meeting and end of the "official season".

We did some painting with food colouring. Lies and Astrid painted sock yarn skeins, Carol painted some yarn with Magic markers and Mara painted a sock blank.

Socks started.

In July

Kim and Mara demonstrated spinning at the Sifton-Cook Heritage Centre in Cobourg.

Kim was able to nudge the Centre's Grande Old Dame , the Great Wheel into life by some tweaking and stabilizing.

We won't be at the Port Hope Fair as a group this year. Too many other obligations that the members have taken on.

More in 2018

September at the Port hope Fair

The theme was Country Roots and Cowboy Boots.

Our yarn dyed with "roots" - onion, turmeric, jewelweed

October meeting was for making Stitch Counters

Our Felting Retreat in Combermere at the end of October

 Chickadees

Felting Landscapes

 

November meeting - a new member - Roxanne

 

Our booths at "Make it Indie" in November

Many activities in 2018

January was for " Warping a loom 101"

Anita's very first warp

Liesbeth modelled Astrid's Double Weave shawl

February was for making Raffia boxes

In May we stiffened vintage doilies purchased from a thrift store

These will be Tree ornaments

Baskets

August brought us 2 dye days

Saxon Blue

Madder 

November 18th

As a guild, we participated in the " Make it Indie" annual show and sale.

It was held, as usual, at the Lions' Community Centre in Cobourg.

While we didn't make as many sales as we had hoped, those of us "womanning" our 2 tables had a fun time.

Our new banners were an attractive addition to our displays.

The guild was a presence at this show and we attracted a number of prospective new members.

Autumn 2017

AUTUMN 2017

We met a number of times during the autumn.

September found us with a booth at the Port Hope Fair. We were inside the Recreation Centre this year - in the gymnasium - instead of in the big Fair building. 

It was certainly warmer and brighter in the gym, but we missed the Fair ambiance that was part of being in the big building.

Our display was titled " Double, Double - eh!" 

in keeping with the Fair theme of "Canada - eh!"

Then in October, we met for a FAD (Fibre Arts Day) at the beginning of the month and decided to meet again on the 24th for a Nature Dye Day.

We had a wonderful time playing with dyebaths of madder, jewelweed, carrot tops, purple cabbage and day lily blooms.

Not all dyebaths were a great success, but we learned a lot from that.

All the skeins and fibre drying

Madder 1st bath

Madder 1st bath and 2 exhausts

Yarn in day lily bath - looked good until it was lifted out of the pot and then no colour remained.

Red cabbage bath

Carrot top bath

Now in November, we are looking forward to participating in "Make it Indie" on the 18th, at the Cobourg Lions' Community Centre.