Last month’s first TWG on-line meeting featured member projects completed mostly thanks to the extra time we all have at home. Many of the 13 participants in the Show-and-Tell produced multiple projects to share, and the variety of items and creativity was astounding and inspiring.
Especially interesting and, in a sense, comforting, was hearing each weaver’s story–struggles, successes, and lessons learned. This is one of the ways we can encourage each other in our chosen art form, learning from one another and commiserating on the difficulties we encounter. One weaver in particular this month warned us of something she will “…never do again…. I don’t recommend it. Just don’t do that.” * So helpful!
So here are more projects from this time of “sheltering-in-place.” To see the recorded Zoom meeting , including advice “Just don’t do that,” check out the TWG YouTube channel.
Jean Johnson produced two Rya knot projects. The first is a wall hanging knotted on a 16″ square of pre-woven backing using Rauma wool Ryegarn.
Jean’s second project is a set of two pillows similar to the Gosling Pillows on the Gist Yarn website. These were woven with a cotton slub (Noho Cotton Flake) at 15 epi for warp and 15 ppi for weft. The rya knots were worked at the loom with six strands of Euroflax linen and eight picks of plain weave cotton slub between each row of knots.
Joan Beebe created a Rose Circles Bed Runner from a design in Handwoven March/April 2019 by Rosalie Neilson.
Joan’s table runner is from the September/October 2019 Handwoven: My Father’s Daughter: Rug to Runners by Sara Bixler. She hemmed one end to each side because the pattern is totally reversible.
These are from Pool Inspired Towels from Handwoven March/April 2018 by Connie Westbrook.
Joan wove these Autumn Placemats from WEBS on 6 shafts; After sampling, she decided they were not stiff enough to be placemats–so they became towels!
Noelani Jones wove this piece called There’s No Place Like Home as her submission for Terrain Exhibitions Art-in-place initiative. It is plain weave with inlay at 12 sett.
Noelani’s re-useable notebook “paper” towels are woven with cotton and synthetic scrubby sparkle yarn in plain weave stripes at 12 sett.
“Woody’s Eggs” is plain weave on a 4″ x 6″ cardboard loom at 8 sett, woven with hemp, straw, naturally dyed wool and blown egg shell.
Sharon Grubb has been studying block weaves while staying home these past months, including double weave, summer and winter, and warp rep. Her last project was this warp rep table runner of 10/2 perle cotton, sett at 40 working ends per inch in a 10-dent reed.
These two tencel scarves by Sandra Lyles are Finnish Bird’s Eye from a draft in Sixty Scarves for Sixty Years from the Baltimore Weavers Guild.
Janet Colm’s two scarves are both Strickler pattern 728, using Blazing Shuttles Iris warp (5/2 tercel).
Sarah Warren’s unfinished yardage was from yarn dyed in June, 2019, at a “warp painting/dye day” led by Mary Kircher.
For more details on some of these projects, be sure to go to the recorded meeting on TWG’s YouTube channel.