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Spinners! Another new book on the way from Interweave. Looks great!
Get Spun: The Step-by-Step Guide to Spinning Art Yarns (Pre-Order) - Interweave
Monday, February 22, 2010
Mark Your Calendar!
Prepare to meet these two fellows and more cloven hoofed fiber beasts at the 2010 Sheep to Shawl, Llama to Pajama Family Fiber Event slated for Saturday, October 23rd, 12 noon to 4PM at the Green Hill Farm in Green Hill Park, Worcester MA. The event was first held in 2004, then again in 2005. It is being revived under the awesome organizational leadership of a planning committee headed up by Nat and Mihoko of Saori Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio. Fun fiber-related games, contests, songs and other activities along with plenty of demos by area fiber farmers, spinners, knitters and dyers all to education young and old about how we end up with the clothing on our backs! Should be a fun fall fiber day!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Maile Shows Her Rugs
Guild member Maile Jones displayed her hooked rugs at an exhibit in Northboro MA yesterday. The hall of the Unitarian Church was a great location to show off the dozens of pieces created by Maile, her teacher, and fellow guild members. Lovely work, Maile!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Upcoming dates . . .
Spinners are off to Green Mountain Spinnery this Saturday. Take pictures!
The next Guild meeting is Sunday, February 21 at Elaine's house. The day before Maile is exhibiting her hooked rugs with other artists at the Northboro U. U. from 10AM to 2PM.
And, a visit to Greenhill Farm in Hubbardston to see the Merino lambs is on for Wednesday, February 24th.
Then, March 7th's meeting is at Lori's home.
Other dates of note this spring are:
A possible dyeing weekend workshop in March. Date and details TBD.
March 21st -- Guild meeting at location TBD.
March 27th -- Drumlin Farm Woolapalooza in Lincoln MA.
April 3rd -- Sheep Shearing Day at Wachusett Meadows in Princeton. Guild members invited to give demos!
April 24th -- Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham MA
April 24th -- 101st Annual Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival, Tolland Fairgrounds
May 8th & 9th -- New Hamphshire Sheep & Wool Fest, Contoocook NH
May 15th -- Rhode Island Wool & Fiber Festival
May 29th & 30th -- MA Sheep and Wool Festival, Cummington Fairgrounds
June 5th & 6th Maine Fiber Frolic, Windsor ME
The next Guild meeting is Sunday, February 21 at Elaine's house. The day before Maile is exhibiting her hooked rugs with other artists at the Northboro U. U. from 10AM to 2PM.
And, a visit to Greenhill Farm in Hubbardston to see the Merino lambs is on for Wednesday, February 24th.
Then, March 7th's meeting is at Lori's home.
Other dates of note this spring are:
A possible dyeing weekend workshop in March. Date and details TBD.
March 21st -- Guild meeting at location TBD.
March 27th -- Drumlin Farm Woolapalooza in Lincoln MA.
April 3rd -- Sheep Shearing Day at Wachusett Meadows in Princeton. Guild members invited to give demos!
April 24th -- Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham MA
April 24th -- 101st Annual Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival, Tolland Fairgrounds
May 8th & 9th -- New Hamphshire Sheep & Wool Fest, Contoocook NH
May 15th -- Rhode Island Wool & Fiber Festival
May 29th & 30th -- MA Sheep and Wool Festival, Cummington Fairgrounds
June 5th & 6th Maine Fiber Frolic, Windsor ME
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Snowy Day -- Perfect for Spinning!
Time to get working on knitting up recently spun "art yarn" made while experimenting with Maile last month. An assortment of locks, roving, and just plain fluff plyed with shiny black Tencel produced this hank, enough for something small and sweet.
Sign of progress . . . almost done with all the dyeing samples we worked on last September with Ellen Stone. Will start the last bit of fern-dyed roving (a lovely heathery green), then time to set it all and think about a project!
What are other spinners up to? Chase away those snowflakes with some spinning stories!
Sign of progress . . . almost done with all the dyeing samples we worked on last September with Ellen Stone. Will start the last bit of fern-dyed roving (a lovely heathery green), then time to set it all and think about a project!
What are other spinners up to? Chase away those snowflakes with some spinning stories!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Fiber Map Survey Response from Saori Weaving Studio
As an example of why we wanted to put a Fiber Map together in the first place, here is an excerpt of the robustly-written response to our initial Map Quesionnaire submitted by Nat Needle of Saori Weaving Studio.
Why would you like to be listed?
First, there are advantages to people working with different aspects of the fiber process, or the same aspect, being readily able to exchange information and knowledge. Second, this is also a great chance to make new friends with shared interests. Third, many of us may become each other’s preferred customers and vendors. Fourth, there are things we can do together that are tough or pointless to do separately, such as organizing promotional, sales, or charitable (friend-raising as well as fund-raising) events, or going in on an ad for our Fiber Network together that lists all our members.
How would you like to be listed according to the following outline:
Name: Saori Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio
Contact name: Mihoko Wakabayashi and Nathaniel Needle
Address: 18 Winslow Street, Worcester, MA 01609
Phone: 508-757-4646
Email: mihoko@saoriworcester.com
Web site: www.saoriworcester.com
Do you have products or services to sell?
Yes. We sell Saori looms, books and accessories (books can be bought through our website using Paypal). In 2010, we will be selling Mihoko’s original hand-woven items online. We also contract with various organizations to start Saori programs for their students, employees, clients, patients, etc. through our Saori Worcester Partnership Site program. We offer a wide range of educational consulting and curriculum development services that relate weaving and fiber arts generally to academic disciplines. Finally, we contract with various organizations to create programs that integrate people with disabilities or other marginalizing/isolating situations/conditions into the larger community through friendships and shared creative & social experience. All these products and services are detailed on our website.
Do you give classes or teach?
Yes. We offer ongoing weaving courses that one can begin at any time. We arrange special group sessions for parties, camps, team-building, education, etc.
Do you accept visitors?
Yes, by appointment, at any mutually feasible time.
Thanks, Nat and Mihoko, for participating in this project. We look forward to the Map's further development (hard copies for distribution at events, updates annually, etc.)and thank EVERYONE who participated.
Why would you like to be listed?
First, there are advantages to people working with different aspects of the fiber process, or the same aspect, being readily able to exchange information and knowledge. Second, this is also a great chance to make new friends with shared interests. Third, many of us may become each other’s preferred customers and vendors. Fourth, there are things we can do together that are tough or pointless to do separately, such as organizing promotional, sales, or charitable (friend-raising as well as fund-raising) events, or going in on an ad for our Fiber Network together that lists all our members.
How would you like to be listed according to the following outline:
Name: Saori Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio
Contact name: Mihoko Wakabayashi and Nathaniel Needle
Address: 18 Winslow Street, Worcester, MA 01609
Phone: 508-757-4646
Email: mihoko@saoriworcester.com
Web site: www.saoriworcester.com
Do you have products or services to sell?
Yes. We sell Saori looms, books and accessories (books can be bought through our website using Paypal). In 2010, we will be selling Mihoko’s original hand-woven items online. We also contract with various organizations to start Saori programs for their students, employees, clients, patients, etc. through our Saori Worcester Partnership Site program. We offer a wide range of educational consulting and curriculum development services that relate weaving and fiber arts generally to academic disciplines. Finally, we contract with various organizations to create programs that integrate people with disabilities or other marginalizing/isolating situations/conditions into the larger community through friendships and shared creative & social experience. All these products and services are detailed on our website.
Do you give classes or teach?
Yes. We offer ongoing weaving courses that one can begin at any time. We arrange special group sessions for parties, camps, team-building, education, etc.
Do you accept visitors?
Yes, by appointment, at any mutually feasible time.
Thanks, Nat and Mihoko, for participating in this project. We look forward to the Map's further development (hard copies for distribution at events, updates annually, etc.)and thank EVERYONE who participated.
Small but sweet meeting on February 7th
Thanks to Maile for hosting Betsy and Lori for a small but satisfying Guild meeting. Tasty treats and great conversation interspersed with spinning and Guild planning for the coming months.
The next meeting is at Elaine's house on February 21st. This coming weekend Guild members are touring up to Green Mountain Spinnery in Putney VT, a much awaited field trip to one of the nation's foremost natural spinning mills. There's likely a visit to a sheep farm to be tacked on as well!
The long list of upcoming New England/New York fiber festivals was reviewed, and calendars were marked. Inquiries into another dyeing workshop with Maile's hooking mentor, a trip to a Central MA Merino farm, and our Guild appearance at the Wachusett Meadows Sheep Shearing Day on April 3rd were all discussed.
Betsy shared a library book that got plenty of oohs and aahs: Fiber Gathering, by Joanne Seiff (Wiley publishers). The must-have list of publications just keeps growing.
Guild members heard from Jenny who is all excited about dyeing with mushrooms. Hopefully we can tackle that too at some point this year.
The next meeting is at Elaine's house on February 21st. This coming weekend Guild members are touring up to Green Mountain Spinnery in Putney VT, a much awaited field trip to one of the nation's foremost natural spinning mills. There's likely a visit to a sheep farm to be tacked on as well!
The long list of upcoming New England/New York fiber festivals was reviewed, and calendars were marked. Inquiries into another dyeing workshop with Maile's hooking mentor, a trip to a Central MA Merino farm, and our Guild appearance at the Wachusett Meadows Sheep Shearing Day on April 3rd were all discussed.
Betsy shared a library book that got plenty of oohs and aahs: Fiber Gathering, by Joanne Seiff (Wiley publishers). The must-have list of publications just keeps growing.
Guild members heard from Jenny who is all excited about dyeing with mushrooms. Hopefully we can tackle that too at some point this year.
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