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Learn to Weave

I have openings in my upcoming beginning weaving lessons. Make something from your own hands for Holiday Gift Giving.

Here’s the skinny:

Have you ever wanted to learn the art of weaving fabric, towels, rugs, scarves? I teach in my home studio. All you need to bring is yourself. You will learn to warp a project, beam it on the loom, thread and weave on a 4 shaft floor loom. I have all the necessary tools and yarn. Everyone will have their own loom, and the class is limited to 4 people so you’ll receive lots of personal attention.  Class is 6 sessions, 3 hours each. All fiber will be provided. The project for this session will be cotton dishtowels. Cost is $240 payable upon the first lesson. Great class for absolute beginners or those wanting to refresh their skills. 

Thursday - November 13 1 pm - 4 pm 
Wednesday - November 19 1 pm - 4 pm 
Thursday - December 4 10 am - 1 pm 
Thursday - December 11 1 pm - 4pm 
Monday - December 15 1pm - 4 pm 
Thursday - December 18 1 pm - 4 pm 

Metamora is located apprx. 20 miles north of the Palace of Auburn HIlls.

Art in the Village Holiday Show and Sale

 

 

Art in the Village Holiday Show

Local Lapeer, Genesse and Oakland County artsists come together for our 2nd annual Art in the Village Holiday Show and Sale. This year the location is at the beautiful Lapeer Country Club. 

For more info - please click here 

Toad in the Hole Productions - November 22, 2008

The Toads are doing it again - producing a lovely holiday show at Devil’s Ridge Country Club in Oxford. This is a lovely show with top quality art - Meet some of the Artists:

WHERE

Devil’s Ridge Golf Club

3700 Metamora Road

Oxford, MI 48371

WHEN

November 22, 2008

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

MIA?

Have been MIA on this blog really since the beginning of July. Longest hiatus of weaving, in my 8-1/2 years of weaving. I finally wove today. My dear friend Stella (age 95) recently fell and long story short, is living in a nursing home. I try to visit often and am helping with her personal stuff. There aren’t enough hours in the day or weeks or recent months.! Things are settling, and I’m back on the loom. Finishing some bamboo shawls in white, will be lovely for a bride. Probably take me till next June to fringe them, will be a good project for winter in Michigan. Need to get going on chenille for my upcoming shows. Have 4 nice warps waiting, They are colorful. Will be a good break from the solid black, solid white and solid natural!!

Is it in the blood?

I ask this because, when I was 18, i said to my friend, “I’m going to weave”. At this stage in my life I hadn’t seen a loom, or frankly knew what came off a loom. Life travelled, and at 39, I said to my husband, 
“I’m going to get a loom.” Well, this hit him out of left field and he kindly suggested that I find a class in weaving. I had never mentioned this subject to him or for anyone else since the statement at age 18. At this point, I still had never seen a loom, didn’t know what came off a loom and had no fiber habits such as knitting or crocheting. Nobody in my immediate family did. So it’s nothing I would have seen and then want to dabble, explore or learn. The compulsion to “weave” (whatever it was) was strong, so i took the class.  The first time i threw a shuttle, i burst into tears of joy. I know this is corny, but I knew at that moment I was a weaver. This is how i refer myself when somebody asks me about myself. I have been in graphic design since 1976 constantly, and a weaver since 2000. Just this past weekend I learned a little tidbit that made me wonder…maybe now, i can somewhat understand the instinct was so strong?…. I’ve had a minor bit of contact with my father’s brother through email, and he expressed this in an recent email to me. 

“By the way, Grandma’s mother and grandmother were old-country weavers in Croatia, back in the day when ALL of their clothes were made from string (yarn) that they spun. Grandma told me about her grandpa planting flax and from it making linen strings — wet the flax in the river for several days, pound with sticks to remove outer “shell” which left the stringy inside. Comb it (is that called carding?) the spin into thread. A lot of stuff was made from linen. Grandma told me that they traded for cotton thread, sometimes mixed cotton and linen into a single thread, and then wove cloth from that.”

how cool is that?!

Castle Farms Fiber Arts Show

This weekend, I’ll be sharing my wares with fiber afficionodos at the Fiber Arts Festival at Castle Farms in Charlevoix, Michigan. Click here for more info!  Lots of shopping… Think Christmas!

Port Huron - Sun & Water - Almost like being on vacation!

This past weekend I had a show spent on the Port Huron Blue Water River. I watched pleasure boats and barges all weekend. Nice way to spend the time.

Plaid Brushed Mohair on the loom

Mohair is not the easiest fiber to weave. But because i love the end results, i’m determined to work out the nuances so that it isn’t a battle. Although I’ve woven many shawl and scarf sizes, the throws are proving to be more difficult. The fiber sticks together in the heedle area creating floats. Once i figured that out, things went a little more smoothly. Beaming the back beam with the warp was still problematic, even with bathing the warp chain in starch. I’m willing to try anything, so if anyone has some ideas, let me know and i’ll blog about the process and progress!

More bamboo on the loom

I am doing the bamboo shawl in the same pattern as the natural bamboo shawl i finished a couple weeks ago. Once i threaded the natural 1000 threads, i wanted to save time rethreading and resleying the loom. So i simply tied on to the old warp. It’s faster for me to sit in the loom and tie knots than follow the pattern. This is such a pretty pattern and works well with this fiber -  

Weaving the mohair throw

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The mohair is on, and the weaving isn’t as terrible as i anticipated. not nearly as bad as beaming it! It’s not without a learning curve. My number one salvation was a bottle of no more tangles! Will try again - in the not so distant future…