tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49183383719292052122024-03-12T22:19:46.770-05:00Pleasant & DelightfulTraditional hand weaving, tartans and fine linens;
traditional and ethnic knitting and a little spinning on the side.
Lots of music, too - old songs from Ireland, Scotland & England.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-33736242425638621962023-08-12T13:55:00.000-05:002023-08-12T13:55:23.910-05:00Spring 2023 Travel Adventures<p style="text-align: center;"> I do not post very often to my blog, but I do try to keep my teaching calendar up to date here. </p><p style="text-align: center;">If you are interested in a remote program/slide lecture for your fiber guild meeting, that information is in the post for <a href="https://melissaweaves.blogspot.com/2020/06/online-teaching.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;">June 19, 2020.</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1eh9RLH4o9HUa_0aA29cNWC-9mxA5J6yA1d0L2usCvD7J4o3jE3xx0pRmwrWD2sb38Jy5u2Hgdgp-7Dn_S6m6J_x9WyJUGf24fJ3R_2bBEGAXKmLcQhq2esmCT1_KjhQGxwtbDLufDXRahQZMMtvURttBab1nQwBN5hmWooJulc0Xf8cu-AmtSIOxKirC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1eh9RLH4o9HUa_0aA29cNWC-9mxA5J6yA1d0L2usCvD7J4o3jE3xx0pRmwrWD2sb38Jy5u2Hgdgp-7Dn_S6m6J_x9WyJUGf24fJ3R_2bBEGAXKmLcQhq2esmCT1_KjhQGxwtbDLufDXRahQZMMtvURttBab1nQwBN5hmWooJulc0Xf8cu-AmtSIOxKirC=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I have had a lot of travel so far this year, and some delightful fiber events, so let's get caught up!</p><p>Interestingly, I have had quite a number of workshops and conferences cancelled this year, largely to lack of registration. I'm curious to know if this is a trend - if the economy is causing some weavers to hold back from signing up for classes, or if some folks are still avoiding in person events. But I have to say that the two weaving conferences I attended in June had very enthusiastic attendees who were delighted to finally be getting together to share their love of fiber!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCUuV51xnUYsrlCONdoJ795WHpWVeSwDo_Anoe10aGuHw4Kodgj_95jnKon9-sXpa4EIJBxQWe2uSJOUiH6XhJoQfam08nhNIqylbePVefr3Srrg2AH6cSrQ8uTYQhutU7bhqvU_cUykXbixKch47CAfPITsAP1ywmu6CqG8SwNvu9KnMmX54Cg9Nh-HMb/s4032/IMG_5910.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCUuV51xnUYsrlCONdoJ795WHpWVeSwDo_Anoe10aGuHw4Kodgj_95jnKon9-sXpa4EIJBxQWe2uSJOUiH6XhJoQfam08nhNIqylbePVefr3Srrg2AH6cSrQ8uTYQhutU7bhqvU_cUykXbixKch47CAfPITsAP1ywmu6CqG8SwNvu9KnMmX54Cg9Nh-HMb/w300-h400/IMG_5910.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p>In March, I joined my dear friend, Martha Owen at the John C Campbell Folk School to co-teach our Sing 'Til the Work's All Done class. We designed this class to highlight our best individual skills and share the fun with other fiber enthusiasts. It is a 5 day class that teaches worsted wool preparation and spinning for warp yarn, woolen prep and spinning for weft yarn, natural dyeing and various techniques of blending colored fiber, and basic weaving on a prepared floor loom (linsey woolsey cloth) as well as the option to plan and weave a rigid heddle project, all using handspun yarns.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUVkIP17KuxUpgJ4pzoexssP0pvTav3kWDeezZGYuPBK-jUqGNV6YdLtKLmjwsrUtBGqoEr1PusSKYK9MEt3AgFfQVxyLq_388xnbzxyILl7LD9h561n9jPyrLKSflqXvtLMAsOh4Pp-uiHTaD2qiT_dzekfYzHHcYKvSbVF6gMKVHFHqNWVAZ1ozPBS7e/s4032/IMG_5985.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUVkIP17KuxUpgJ4pzoexssP0pvTav3kWDeezZGYuPBK-jUqGNV6YdLtKLmjwsrUtBGqoEr1PusSKYK9MEt3AgFfQVxyLq_388xnbzxyILl7LD9h561n9jPyrLKSflqXvtLMAsOh4Pp-uiHTaD2qiT_dzekfYzHHcYKvSbVF6gMKVHFHqNWVAZ1ozPBS7e/w300-h400/IMG_5985.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p>In our March class, one of our students chose to work with the Swedish Band loom and wove a lovely band with her handspun!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJokUhdpWLE8YYDcZHm3WxEdrwmonl4NWVy-9Qkd37LGpPb8FN_srEMf-AtVvyHRjUxyg9S9BgFlkz5CSkyz97qICPtzj7R7xwUSDVJT8INxUGJjpgpYSwPNNm5WLH_Epe6epsT7TLvn8ByyxayjbxnS20Oy_xaPWDVSYvAQemu_FoHZc-0_TOUCa4_ai/s4032/IMG_5988.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJokUhdpWLE8YYDcZHm3WxEdrwmonl4NWVy-9Qkd37LGpPb8FN_srEMf-AtVvyHRjUxyg9S9BgFlkz5CSkyz97qICPtzj7R7xwUSDVJT8INxUGJjpgpYSwPNNm5WLH_Epe6epsT7TLvn8ByyxayjbxnS20Oy_xaPWDVSYvAQemu_FoHZc-0_TOUCa4_ai/w400-h300/IMG_5988.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />We also had 3 scarves, a loom shaped bag, and lots of samples of linsey woolsey with handspun weft.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5SqsAd5s1x-hdgXveeMSkMaKH71EJNLd1vC-DdD0ywhmjcQzw1F2PScRfG9ILz0ALNWau9VexhUq4pXJo1xO-_55tJ5h5ZYKlon39awxHQuF6VS6oQoTgvWq4VOlA9-t-yN6B1zj5v0SdWJkV5nv-rJ-6yil9AY81OQE0XbI7ji0ioS1oK-M_mqbygUX/s4032/IMG_5980.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5SqsAd5s1x-hdgXveeMSkMaKH71EJNLd1vC-DdD0ywhmjcQzw1F2PScRfG9ILz0ALNWau9VexhUq4pXJo1xO-_55tJ5h5ZYKlon39awxHQuF6VS6oQoTgvWq4VOlA9-t-yN6B1zj5v0SdWJkV5nv-rJ-6yil9AY81OQE0XbI7ji0ioS1oK-M_mqbygUX/w300-h400/IMG_5980.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br />And a field trip to see Martha's Shetland sheep getting sheared.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfw-6vqu3-ZoaOsYMnAcqI3hpq1AlHrcc_aA_nJ5WFDJCtj5cwhuVrmkJLi4z3pz3AFaUKaNYEC7Qvz07PDe22nJWBA_I4l3Kni54Z6_p_WqncIAC5-g6DIsmm03X9usNjBwLXzvL4UiK3RzPr2IAXdbpllZJJDghFN3QBap3mc6QzK9QFRiOLmLCk0V4S/s4032/IMG_6006.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfw-6vqu3-ZoaOsYMnAcqI3hpq1AlHrcc_aA_nJ5WFDJCtj5cwhuVrmkJLi4z3pz3AFaUKaNYEC7Qvz07PDe22nJWBA_I4l3Kni54Z6_p_WqncIAC5-g6DIsmm03X9usNjBwLXzvL4UiK3RzPr2IAXdbpllZJJDghFN3QBap3mc6QzK9QFRiOLmLCk0V4S/w300-h400/IMG_6006.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br />We will continue to offer this class as long as there is enough interest; we have offered it once a year at the Folk School and it is on the schedule for August 2024. We also taught a 2.5 day version at MAFA called Worsted, Woolen, Woven.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7soWxQ5u6bEEvNjR2PKTjy7mjoy0QvXeBu4lvo-P1ELvYUVkiAFfDAbSe-wmVYUHDOLc6EBT6B-3sqWXIdgMpaRa0TlMtT4fY7c4LhxlWu7EUzFIvwDrMFn3P2JrSG1W7E2ky2HIpSV4bmApa7RjosHa215cx45u0GBp1_-G9ujEptefCGLLPIFTEjuaH/s4032/IMG_5923.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7soWxQ5u6bEEvNjR2PKTjy7mjoy0QvXeBu4lvo-P1ELvYUVkiAFfDAbSe-wmVYUHDOLc6EBT6B-3sqWXIdgMpaRa0TlMtT4fY7c4LhxlWu7EUzFIvwDrMFn3P2JrSG1W7E2ky2HIpSV4bmApa7RjosHa215cx45u0GBp1_-G9ujEptefCGLLPIFTEjuaH/w400-h300/IMG_5923.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLgw8Jr4RYSE27UMJkb73ZRXMAO0j6eF9wIn1pT21WTQ_rOR2oA9KlBATL29JJo10PYkNgbi8aqf2K-iRVopyNdgw56zM7BvSE1ac5zndH1TOIJUN6P4sfbibK5Kk5YSSQTDhgPR8yVah13n0yOdyadT84pvtdODbDdq-HGNRr0QSuWIqF-wTKOj6HfhY/s4032/IMG_5932.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLgw8Jr4RYSE27UMJkb73ZRXMAO0j6eF9wIn1pT21WTQ_rOR2oA9KlBATL29JJo10PYkNgbi8aqf2K-iRVopyNdgw56zM7BvSE1ac5zndH1TOIJUN6P4sfbibK5Kk5YSSQTDhgPR8yVah13n0yOdyadT84pvtdODbDdq-HGNRr0QSuWIqF-wTKOj6HfhY/w300-h400/IMG_5932.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQhR6ekvDHHDmpGVuVlq3cWBhQb2Y1aIiWJnVEtvtpj14UpZ-QJI9geqxu2XC5f5UtnaSSEkzEEWbaHkVdg3wiSxEzvVUYRyQFW2F3t2tRMm_D1F3aO8huFKZo3RGeJ5aL06xhAAZNaqq8-w8XUKCTHQkZEZFwVJbMhIxxKqA6DzXQwNSResXttyHZIQ-/s4032/IMG_5934.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQhR6ekvDHHDmpGVuVlq3cWBhQb2Y1aIiWJnVEtvtpj14UpZ-QJI9geqxu2XC5f5UtnaSSEkzEEWbaHkVdg3wiSxEzvVUYRyQFW2F3t2tRMm_D1F3aO8huFKZo3RGeJ5aL06xhAAZNaqq8-w8XUKCTHQkZEZFwVJbMhIxxKqA6DzXQwNSResXttyHZIQ-/w400-h300/IMG_5934.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jrO1JgW8paQGOh2jm3GZAHOKdE4i4RbFY4rIitrMZk1-FtHgrWsgney7OjVH1QlhDQThFWKoyxHr2dmEsHgsjdEjE2d5ew7FAcBnFASF4VDEQupVn-E9u43-qMz4yabjK2idFwQjno5TIBk8IjmUYvaPQVB3bS0wgeP-3Ig77XvyUbJgVUgAxRIYEcV7/s4032/IMG_5939.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jrO1JgW8paQGOh2jm3GZAHOKdE4i4RbFY4rIitrMZk1-FtHgrWsgney7OjVH1QlhDQThFWKoyxHr2dmEsHgsjdEjE2d5ew7FAcBnFASF4VDEQupVn-E9u43-qMz4yabjK2idFwQjno5TIBk8IjmUYvaPQVB3bS0wgeP-3Ig77XvyUbJgVUgAxRIYEcV7/w400-h300/IMG_5939.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>In May, I got to attend a two terrific classes at the MD Sheep & Wool Festival and then volunteer once again for the Fleece Sale. I had not been to MD Sheep & Wool since 2019, and it was such a treat to see so many old friends and to assist one of the fleece judging teams this year. I took a Gotlands class with Deb Robson and a Marling class with Cecelia Campochiaro - both were excellent and inspiring!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOYbaUC6PWjcJCklyi4pp0BqHbAvIpgmaFnJ5TpKrXYbOfdwt9zpiF15bGvn3aoPXYb4DJoUTT5kQOMFjuCZmoP9RbKVvNEn2ernR_Idws9Cgspd6ntmzM66nKV5PdhTWUjxgLlvwqPAoouTdAevj7HXpIpnPkPRCfTWavsTl6EFDVL3qFSywmWSYJUqo/s4032/IMG_6347.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOYbaUC6PWjcJCklyi4pp0BqHbAvIpgmaFnJ5TpKrXYbOfdwt9zpiF15bGvn3aoPXYb4DJoUTT5kQOMFjuCZmoP9RbKVvNEn2ernR_Idws9Cgspd6ntmzM66nKV5PdhTWUjxgLlvwqPAoouTdAevj7HXpIpnPkPRCfTWavsTl6EFDVL3qFSywmWSYJUqo/w400-h300/IMG_6347.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMnvwxmVjUmACYs-Yu5tZJfijkwa8xbcJX9CG020othHydr2bjKHadgunUovRSczjAPw4knW_YCtlxGdNe7e-Di59RO7QirlEhSeCsEw3iFXQ6rQM9cm8fSY7hTCTV_84n80wgJRsfLuNfwuPVXFSAVPbQj6OWQaZ7fGqKQcMfMqz0_F4PEq919AUBjrQW/s4032/IMG_6360.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwssVjLxxtJTlKWYPX6NG6erVOLE8NOMpdpSwYE51O_aYTunfFoUYZGaER_eHJMNgKBkXPuXKiiKd2UX8opCxuYJNbbPopr_tt6ozYHYePRPzorT55AoGB1ElYS0xiEL4KwPDbUs4d5BGPsVynoNhO8JwKwE92M_XS4Te4q6299-UPBUCRnbF-gB62Wwc/s1024/e3700d43-.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="648" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwssVjLxxtJTlKWYPX6NG6erVOLE8NOMpdpSwYE51O_aYTunfFoUYZGaER_eHJMNgKBkXPuXKiiKd2UX8opCxuYJNbbPopr_tt6ozYHYePRPzorT55AoGB1ElYS0xiEL4KwPDbUs4d5BGPsVynoNhO8JwKwE92M_XS4Te4q6299-UPBUCRnbF-gB62Wwc/w406-h640/e3700d43-.jpeg" width="406" /></a></div>Later in May, my husband and I took a 2 week trip to Scotland along with our son Robbie, daughter-in-law Leigh, and Leigh's parents, Rip & Roxann. <div><br /></div><div>We stayed in Edinburgh at the beginning and end of our trip, spent 4 days holed up in the smallest hotel room in Europe while suffering from Covid-19 (probably caught on the airplane, in spite of our vigilant mask wearing), visited Aviemore in the Highlands and enjoyed a day at the Highland Life Museum before returning to Edinburgh for a few more days.<p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIzXWhH2qfgYAnOl9mpWHbd_iC15LzlOQWvtX6GqbUGysATuELiWyi-HXhHjYFXr_n2jmJssqAZF0Y3l0Qzzv_gbldrHxMMkBwObNJMnBQU9pGb_8dd089DbPNnuSz2U3tndVFaLci7C4LRKDLbyhUEnICS1zImDufUGV0_Ec2JbeTqwNSTuwltP9LPTML/s4032/IMG_6494.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwwcz3buKHI8ktPut-yRpKD7RgwMSRg06wx1nlFrE5ympJbQtM_gs8KflTfQs4ZKRSV4qyOA9Is8rR-z37-VwcG444UQb22fXODvzNwiY1fpTwgq_9goHhYRD4mNhINHOCVguOeKtwgWqQ4D8b5XFK6mHBTvEROtS19Bu8oJMuSypZzOVNtK606aUTSQJr/w400-h300/IMG_6759.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome message in our hotel room in Glasgow</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTv7vYjRl8U911N00DWXiW2sxBwTVVtNis6r6MxOB-USayxFJDtA7EJiyTuas_0AUl5V9Nt0qHndYmONKOISIl0D1zgdcWD9dwRJweI5-E3bEpmIdt0Y8tOOe9KEdBCeyGdMgKF_cA-8CTrdBk0DGYF2spF2O_sBVHbcin7sCtPPVXRA6nNU3QCOptExd8/s4032/IMG_6762.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTv7vYjRl8U911N00DWXiW2sxBwTVVtNis6r6MxOB-USayxFJDtA7EJiyTuas_0AUl5V9Nt0qHndYmONKOISIl0D1zgdcWD9dwRJweI5-E3bEpmIdt0Y8tOOe9KEdBCeyGdMgKF_cA-8CTrdBk0DGYF2spF2O_sBVHbcin7sCtPPVXRA6nNU3QCOptExd8/w300-h400/IMG_6762.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We didn't get out much in Glasgow, <br />but the 4th day we felt well enough to take a short walk along the Clyde</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4-XooAiWc7AGw_Br_q3bMj1JOpQlswbR3K-575xEgHlH3IWhIAEUjlPSIw-Zovso63yKZjlEoni2aWlap7uzIcCyXQ6TEeDz8p4uHE27uiNTcx6gRK6jY0H-n-agJsLL3h5DhS6zXMZnz9rxywUBOXuAxZ7pkue_XiH03d6wSdThktDhL-BWqfeJ1sMSA/s4032/IMG_6812.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; 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I chose some Corriedale/Corriedale blend yarn from Solitude Wool that I bought specifically for an aran sweater, and Carol Feller's lovely design Curdach. I cast on on February 28th, worked steadily for 12 weeks and I finished knitting the second sleeve after driving to western MA, to our son and DIL’s house. (We flew together out of Boston) I knit the button band in the car on the way to the airport, wore the cardigan on the plane to Scotland and worked the buttonhole band in our first AirB&B in Edinburgh. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaJno4GRYEo2Un0kXNJVC3uecneaYUNTuaam8Gqk1ILrLbtbmMCDkmuiFZSzdL2HYPtfKLTTkPyKmS6DjZPizaNgbrdGZ_lX4yzsSFd9JhcYV9JEKjQQFf3x_Wc2y1x1IhQN6ovr-_7M1iehX2z3WJUVnECajngz16d3LF8Lk7HEn36UJT4Ot9p_q72H3/s4032/IMG_6487.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEaJno4GRYEo2Un0kXNJVC3uecneaYUNTuaam8Gqk1ILrLbtbmMCDkmuiFZSzdL2HYPtfKLTTkPyKmS6DjZPizaNgbrdGZ_lX4yzsSFd9JhcYV9JEKjQQFf3x_Wc2y1x1IhQN6ovr-_7M1iehX2z3WJUVnECajngz16d3LF8Lk7HEn36UJT4Ot9p_q72H3/w300-h400/IMG_6487.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC40JMsnwrmTgxrvmHewlwdWXmE1YtcWHRg3Tuu4Ke3KhNv7_JvAoYKudinRUk8Z6J9zUifBGN7sLgiw7aN0tnm7foVJbz52z_M8JiEoI8o_l8Z2Ga4n1zMV2X2FbXOWbK4MQbacSdlSufmUI2fuDGvWyxcbjsypIH_JMRCPbGPq38qrkiX46TZMCCOj5X/s4032/IMG_6709.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC40JMsnwrmTgxrvmHewlwdWXmE1YtcWHRg3Tuu4Ke3KhNv7_JvAoYKudinRUk8Z6J9zUifBGN7sLgiw7aN0tnm7foVJbz52z_M8JiEoI8o_l8Z2Ga4n1zMV2X2FbXOWbK4MQbacSdlSufmUI2fuDGvWyxcbjsypIH_JMRCPbGPq38qrkiX46TZMCCOj5X/w400-h300/IMG_6709.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With some new friends in the St Andrew Square Garden</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe8pkE6YhNxOYqDizRgKPgZsV4YHbWD1gmqPYeiIiMEkpNmHFPuC1hNu_jBr1kL-Ad2DVU5z974Mamm-DBc7yF5J1DpW4H1111pEhbjnbbjKqrt-IBumVc94arwlR3hTUGXRGEhVP1eRNEc2c1Hfzyca38AbpCq5bde5VycqNPBF6UUtkVhejOoEDWuIi/s4032/IMG_6988.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe8pkE6YhNxOYqDizRgKPgZsV4YHbWD1gmqPYeiIiMEkpNmHFPuC1hNu_jBr1kL-Ad2DVU5z974Mamm-DBc7yF5J1DpW4H1111pEhbjnbbjKqrt-IBumVc94arwlR3hTUGXRGEhVP1eRNEc2c1Hfzyca38AbpCq5bde5VycqNPBF6UUtkVhejOoEDWuIi/w400-h300/IMG_6988.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Riding the Hop On Hop Off Bus around Edinburgh</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I chose the buttons from a booth at the MD Sheep & Wool Festival without a sample of the yarn to guide me, but they were a perfect color choice. I sewed the buttons onto the button band on Tuesday morning and then proudly wore it in the streets of Edinburgh and throughout our two week trip. We had no rain at all during our visit, and only one day that was too hot to wear my new cardigan.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK - that's enough for this post! More travel adventures in the next one.</p></div></div>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-56014523196427582022023-02-23T17:24:00.000-05:002023-02-23T17:24:07.319-05:00It's About Time for a new post!<p> I do not post very often to my blog, but I do try to keep my teaching calendar up to date here. And if you are interested in a remote program/slide lecture for your fiber guild meeting, that information is in the post for <a href="https://melissaweaves.blogspot.com/2020/06/online-teaching.html">June 19, 2020.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Farewell to The Burrow, our beloved 1900 farmhouse</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9q_OewQFfe_bDjLXmH4KdCjid8zuJnQMRFhk1SeyBvP-U263vbJ7M_oXZDXWW4JAjvlMFBE5oQ_9iXpPsJljSpRnqqQJ9LLql7KGJsF5XvaW_UwklcaQYnvicWxLzFP7uRozr0RKALzrTVRRsVK97y7iinrLJVQlwvgjodZS1A3mdSkgkjMLKdjf7vQ/s4032/05E424D2-E052-4E56-ABE2-097326DB0D3E.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9q_OewQFfe_bDjLXmH4KdCjid8zuJnQMRFhk1SeyBvP-U263vbJ7M_oXZDXWW4JAjvlMFBE5oQ_9iXpPsJljSpRnqqQJ9LLql7KGJsF5XvaW_UwklcaQYnvicWxLzFP7uRozr0RKALzrTVRRsVK97y7iinrLJVQlwvgjodZS1A3mdSkgkjMLKdjf7vQ/w640-h480/05E424D2-E052-4E56-ABE2-097326DB0D3E.heic" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Hello, Shepherdstown!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VlWM_gZ1fcNryKA05aCE4ARSHMheVRM7GuVY8CO-4jCd8YJamkVzI48RiriK0x5dHelNhYM6HtH-PS8jOQYk72hY4OnP_NjeKTq9aaPnAJsE8o08YR0jJ_QPSOM-MSQyYNcrGDCI0-PhGdXPjUkTmKv6wfE3IYCW1DQe_WNo9MpN2RS81RoAd6xzfg/s4032/0E3840B5-84AC-4901-9026-7AC12A9D2DEC.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VlWM_gZ1fcNryKA05aCE4ARSHMheVRM7GuVY8CO-4jCd8YJamkVzI48RiriK0x5dHelNhYM6HtH-PS8jOQYk72hY4OnP_NjeKTq9aaPnAJsE8o08YR0jJ_QPSOM-MSQyYNcrGDCI0-PhGdXPjUkTmKv6wfE3IYCW1DQe_WNo9MpN2RS81RoAd6xzfg/w640-h480/0E3840B5-84AC-4901-9026-7AC12A9D2DEC.heic" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">So much has happened since my last post in June 2020 - we finally found a house we could both love, and we moved to Shepherdstown, West Virginia. We bought our new home - a 2018 Craftsman style house - in August 2021, sold our old house in March 2022, and finally completed our move July 1, 2022. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL32gW5ZvlmXcjVV-iIG0_MZXggNL8AKYLd2uOMdeafb0Xl5H6Ujrh_002UHYV12p1xRIrfE7BewdUB9hpitjGySL04vDyKj3qG1wlR4HhpsIiO4pP2-kWG_-1Ud-azBXqYkjOt_ZdYUMIcztjT5T5GAgJgZDz-7qP8-wyeuw_fmiVQP-JfLGqnL3SfA/s4032/4F5FFE88-CF87-477D-84CB-0ED6725F9B92.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL32gW5ZvlmXcjVV-iIG0_MZXggNL8AKYLd2uOMdeafb0Xl5H6Ujrh_002UHYV12p1xRIrfE7BewdUB9hpitjGySL04vDyKj3qG1wlR4HhpsIiO4pP2-kWG_-1Ud-azBXqYkjOt_ZdYUMIcztjT5T5GAgJgZDz-7qP8-wyeuw_fmiVQP-JfLGqnL3SfA/w400-h300/4F5FFE88-CF87-477D-84CB-0ED6725F9B92.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I helped them prepare their looms for the L'Amour de Maman - Acadian Weaving class that I taught for the Fiber Guild of the Blue Ridge in late January.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjry5kaiEc3tgJ27Rq60yYhnmCjxuh-g8Vlx1ARX_Lm2GkAMuDmWPL0vt0LGzennuXLbH1UWSKyn9lJ2HVfegh5-zuhBQpQzsbB4ei0SpMH9taz-Njp1htUUt3Q3PchdYYA3HTS_v25oW052niW4bX8uHXIu7XvsawYnlOg49IU4xevfydj2ViVQtsfjw/s4032/8BD5CCC7-3E87-43F1-881C-B3A209515E25.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjry5kaiEc3tgJ27Rq60yYhnmCjxuh-g8Vlx1ARX_Lm2GkAMuDmWPL0vt0LGzennuXLbH1UWSKyn9lJ2HVfegh5-zuhBQpQzsbB4ei0SpMH9taz-Njp1htUUt3Q3PchdYYA3HTS_v25oW052niW4bX8uHXIu7XvsawYnlOg49IU4xevfydj2ViVQtsfjw/s320/8BD5CCC7-3E87-43F1-881C-B3A209515E25.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4k4_unEHsNsH6zcKHb4nsBP7YxrT0nhgFAmci25gVeDgyQZzN-cjz42nisPYNAnOdnW2587mVcAnfzNybvCwjCvUVGhof_hnzrW418nIzT7ySOcmBlMcedq-HLMsTG4wfnNpi4ZM6XcxRGUkNVr9CmXAPNnj00f6wpO_48b1cfxgtEd0341WjC1W16g/s4032/4661AC5F-3A1A-4265-BFDE-359A973AC6F4.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4k4_unEHsNsH6zcKHb4nsBP7YxrT0nhgFAmci25gVeDgyQZzN-cjz42nisPYNAnOdnW2587mVcAnfzNybvCwjCvUVGhof_hnzrW418nIzT7ySOcmBlMcedq-HLMsTG4wfnNpi4ZM6XcxRGUkNVr9CmXAPNnj00f6wpO_48b1cfxgtEd0341WjC1W16g/s320/4661AC5F-3A1A-4265-BFDE-359A973AC6F4.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p>One of these students has returned for more private study: she wound and beamed her second warp this past weekend.<p></p><p>I am still giving a few online slide lectures for guild programs, but planning more and more in-person classes, which is wonderful to return to. Check out my teaching schedule in the sidebar! If you are interested in seeing my class list, leave a comment on the blog or send me a pm through Messenger - Melissa Weaver Dunning.</p><p>My new studio has room for more looms - currently there is a reproduction barn frame loom waiting for a warp, an AVL floor loom with grey and black Shepherd's check yardage, a Schacht Baby Wolf with a Double Rainbow warp, a Schacht Wolf Pup with a cordonne warp that will be used for two Acadian classes and also a for Sing 'Til The Work's All Done class at the John C Campbell Folk School, and a Schacht Flip loom with two Solitude Wool check scarves in progress.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhansO-fUhlJT3xVISsDFku3a5rkNHtGZsbxY4mTWqy2NeQr1cJlkX3S4piSp6MMI1PuYH9a9biYH7RMWAJ4TdcuDUEi_oDLXM3i0g4A35mlB4IEttQHi-rRo_4u-3Srnwx5LF1PQvaS5heVL70HhtiOoJKFmEKz_0yUTyn9muNdXPa1bOuTgyE-kVr2A/s4032/F1ED4CD6-1D46-4471-BA82-F2E8F6643328.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhansO-fUhlJT3xVISsDFku3a5rkNHtGZsbxY4mTWqy2NeQr1cJlkX3S4piSp6MMI1PuYH9a9biYH7RMWAJ4TdcuDUEi_oDLXM3i0g4A35mlB4IEttQHi-rRo_4u-3Srnwx5LF1PQvaS5heVL70HhtiOoJKFmEKz_0yUTyn9muNdXPa1bOuTgyE-kVr2A/s320/F1ED4CD6-1D46-4471-BA82-F2E8F6643328.heic" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn0JqlS4fF651E9CRQhzEExQGCYTZvoThvDuMYt3h1E_h2zHqUZXvIbxFWO8EaTiAAgizs072vL_yYOViLXpRLUT4QSKe3AzP_ffJgOr70HCnOtn561XasLibXn7o5hgjgEbEC3bY3peR1SpiUXpuk3rHegVladS4MHWcUbOBr4TroRB_15z4wUb25sg/s4032/A344CDB3-B0C4-4BF9-967A-F2D44BE3C7CC.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn0JqlS4fF651E9CRQhzEExQGCYTZvoThvDuMYt3h1E_h2zHqUZXvIbxFWO8EaTiAAgizs072vL_yYOViLXpRLUT4QSKe3AzP_ffJgOr70HCnOtn561XasLibXn7o5hgjgEbEC3bY3peR1SpiUXpuk3rHegVladS4MHWcUbOBr4TroRB_15z4wUb25sg/s320/A344CDB3-B0C4-4BF9-967A-F2D44BE3C7CC.heic" width="320" /></a></div>I was scheduled to teach at Convergence in Knoxville in July 2022, but both my husband and I came down with Covid-19 so I had to cancel and spend 2 weeks in bed instead. I had signed up for a few lectures and Jennifer Moore's Double Rainbow class, so the warp for that class has been waiting 7 months for me to have enough mental bandwidth to start that project on my own. Jennifer provided me with all the handouts and a few video links, and I finally dove in last weekend - it's weaving up beautifully!<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWgZff8uNL36ObUfnoiktKqBz9mQ3NC9ddnAJVP2EtEkOZjYbIS2cvg1nRAZ2Dg5_xle5UI86CvvtWaeGTnHEVNvQFJ5SJ86RvkeTLleXC9U8y_uHJOEs3fcmvCslhWXuFespIjjrmr3ibx0DmFC53UGHB0tvM7LJZWh-q4KJbbIJpFO6VIm413YGZQ/s4032/18F5C5DB-88CD-4F13-9214-C71032582CD4_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWgZff8uNL36ObUfnoiktKqBz9mQ3NC9ddnAJVP2EtEkOZjYbIS2cvg1nRAZ2Dg5_xle5UI86CvvtWaeGTnHEVNvQFJ5SJ86RvkeTLleXC9U8y_uHJOEs3fcmvCslhWXuFespIjjrmr3ibx0DmFC53UGHB0tvM7LJZWh-q4KJbbIJpFO6VIm413YGZQ/s320/18F5C5DB-88CD-4F13-9214-C71032582CD4_1_201_a.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I am trying to get my sewing space in the house better organized, in hopes that this will inspire me to do more finishing of my woven cloth, and maybe even sew a Noh coat before the AWG conference in June! But I have a number of classes to organize and prepare for between now and then.</p><br /><br />Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-48626845739315700092020-06-19T11:12:00.004-05:002023-02-23T10:33:36.078-05:00Online TeachingWe are living in a brave new world now, and along with a lot of other fiber teachers, I am re-configuring my computer and other technology to help me adapt to more online teaching.<br />
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All of my slide lectures are now available for zoom meetings. These were all designed to enhance my hands-on weaving, spinning and knitting classes but they also work very well as stand alone programs for guild meetings and other settings. My fee is $200 for a 90 minute program followed by live Q&A. Email program inquiries to melissaweaverdunning@gmail.com.<div>UPDATED - Lecture fees are now $250.<br />
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European settlers arrived in Maritime Canada beginning in 1632 and were
known as Acadians. Caught in the political conflict between France
and England, the Acadians were forcibly removed from their homeland in 1755 and
many spent ten long years imprisoned or homeless before eventually settling in
Louisiana where they became known as Cajuns. 250 years later, Cajun
weavers were following the same weaving traditions as their Acadian
foremothers. Come and hear about this remarkable story and see the
beautiful fabrics they created on their two harness looms!</span>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Donegal Tweed</span></b> - </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The history of this unique
Irish tweed from northwest Ireland dates back to the earliest textile factories
in Ireland that gathered hand spinners and hand loom weavers together to
provide income in an area of poor soils and subsistence farming.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Donegal tweed is still a thriving industry
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Norman Kennedy's Ethnic Spinning Scrapbook - </span></b></span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-align: left;">Master Weaver and Spinner Norman Kennedy was born in 1933
and he kept an old-fashioned scrapbook from the time he was a teenager,
collecting images of spinners and weavers from around the world.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-align: left;">Melissa Weaver Dunning began her study of
weaving and spinning in 1980 at The Marshfield School of Weaving in Vermont
with Norman as her teacher.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; text-align: left;">This slide
show presents a fascinating selection of spinners from around the world with
enlightening commentary.</span></div><p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and worn by Scottish Highlanders, tartan was outlawed by the British government
after the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">The
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coats are made from this iconic twill cloth, using patterns that were developed
from the age old Shepherd’s Check and from the colors of the surrounding
landscape.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">These color & weave
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starting with a quick look back at tartans and moving on to the period after
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">18<sup>th</sup> c. Household Textiles - </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Domestic
hand weavers produced a wide variety of fabric from their rustic looms for
clothing, bed coverings, toweling and table linens. Modern weavers will be
inspired as we explore two private antique textile collections to see samples
of garments, cotton toweling, linen napery, linsey-woolsey, overshot, Venetian
carpeting and wool blanketing.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Shaker Weaving and Textiles - </span></b></span></b><span style="text-align: left;">Many are familiar with Shaker chairs or buildings,
but the Shakers also applied their fundamental principles of utility,
simplicity and proportion to textiles.</span><span style="text-align: left;">
</span><span style="text-align: left;">They are known for weaving poplar strips into cloth for baskets, bonnets
and fans, utilitarian cloth for their own use, heavy fulled wool fabric for the
Dorothy cloaks they wore and sold, and simple but unique rag rugs that still
delight hand weavers today. We will examine hand woven textiles from the archives of three Shaker museums: Pleasant Hill in Kentucky, Hancock in Massachusetts and Canterbury in New Hampshire.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Shaker Rugs - </span></b>As above, but with a special focus on the unique
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Traditional Knitting from England, Ireland and Scotland - </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Many of the foundations of
traditional knitting come to us from England, Ireland, and Scotland: Fisherman’s
ganseys, Aran cable knitting, Fair Isle multi-colored patterned knitting and
delicate Shetland lace.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">We will explore
each of these traditions through images of garments and knitters, old and new.</span></div></div></div>Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-51371261500573390692020-02-25T22:57:00.000-05:002020-02-25T22:57:09.301-05:00Spin Off Autumn Retreat!!!<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4c47a" data-offset-key="cv79c-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-37800205716700666212018-03-10T17:18:00.000-05:002018-03-10T17:18:58.164-05:00I'm teaching at Convergence in July!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I began my life as a weaver in a 6 week class with Norman Kennedy at the <a href="http://www.marshfieldschoolofweaving.com/" target="_blank">Marshfield School of Weaving</a> in 1980, and I have been teaching weaving classes for over 20 years. But my <a href="http://www.bluemont.org/" target="_blank">Bluemont Concert Series day job</a> has kept me from participating in most of the many exciting summer conferences and seminars - until recently. I decided I could squeeze one conference into our very busy summer concert schedule a few years ago, and this worked well enough that I taught at two conferences last year - Midwest and MAFA.<br />
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On the strength of these successes, I went ahead and applied to teach at <a href="http://www.weavespindye.org/convergence-2018" target="_blank">Convergence</a> in 2018 - and got accepted! I am really, really excited about going to Convergence for a number of reasons: <br />
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- It's THE national weaving conference in the U.S - I'll meet lots of weavers and fellow teachers.<br />
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- Convergence is taking place in Reno, Nevada this year - this will be my first visit to Nevada.<br />
I love visiting new places and I look forward to connecting with guilds and schools in the western states for future classes.<br />
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- I'm going to room with my weaving road trip buddy Liz, who just moved from Virginia to New Mexico. We are going to pretend she hasn't moved away and carry on having weaving adventures together!<br />
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There are so many interesting and exciting classes!<br />
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I will be leading 3 different seminars and teaching 2 workshops<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.weavespindye.org/session-friday-july-6-2018#hand_spindles" title="hand_spindles">Introduction to Hand Spindles</a></strong> - Friday, July 6th - 3 Hour Seminar</div>
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Won't you join me? It will be a terrific adventure! Convince a friend to come along - there is still room in both of my workshop classes.<br />
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<br />Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-14504312074401323192018-02-18T10:08:00.001-05:002018-02-18T10:08:28.199-05:002017 was One Amazing Year, part the second<br />
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Picking up from my previous post - my friend, Martha Owen came to visit in July - Martha is the resident Spinner/Knitter/Dyer at the Campbell Folk School. We spent a day hiking on the Appalachian Trail near my home and at Harpers Ferry WV and then drove up to Millersville PA together where we were both teaching at the <a href="http://www.mafafiber.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">MAFA</a> conference. MAFA =
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After all that hiking, my dog Idgy really wanted to come with us to MAFA! She leapt over all the luggage into the van to prove that there really was room for her. Sorry, Idgy! No dogs allowed.<br />
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This is my home regional conference but only the second MAFA conference I've been able to attend. It was a great gathering in spite of scorching temperatures which resulted in brown outs
by the local power company. Then the A/C broke in building where I was teaching Acadian Weaving on our second afternoon, but the building where Martha was teaching beginning spinning had the heat stuck on! Creative use of fans saved the
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We also fit in a little antiquing on the way back, although this sweet old blanket came from a vendor at the MAFA market. I hope to weave a reproduction of this before too long.<br />
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September found me heading back to Vermont with my road trip buddy, Liz, for a week long Tweeds and Estate Checks
class at the <a href="http://www.marshfieldschoolofweaving.com/" target="_blank">Marshfield School of Weaving</a>. The students had a great time working on the old looms, weaving a sample on each warp and then choosing a loom to weave off a few yards of tweed cloth. Here is the Hebridean tweed web - we sampled with many different weft colors. One of the exciting aspects of traditional tweed is how much of an impact the color of the weft thread has on the fabric - these color and weave effects are endlessly fascinating!<br />
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To finish off the week, Norman Kennedy led a wool waulking for us on Friday afternoon - a real highlight!<br />
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The last weekend of September brings a great local
fiber festival - the <a href="https://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/" target="_blank">Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival</a>. On Friday, I volunteered once again to jury for the
fleece sale check in and in the afternoon taught my How To Choose a Fleece class - I really appreciate being able to bring the students right into the fleece sale and have them unrolling and learning hands on about fleece. On Saturday and Sunday I taught four spinning classes - Hand
Spindles (twice), Handpaint Magic Spinning and Traditional Wool Preparation. I really was too busy to take photos!<br />
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In early October I made my third trip of the year to the <a href="http://www.marshfieldschoolofweaving.com/" target="_blank">Marshfield School of Weaving</a> in Vermont for a 3 day October spinning class co-taught
with Norman Kennedy. My husband came along on this trip and we had a nice
visit with our son in Northampton, MA - I visited WEBS twice! - and then my husband
hiked and drove around Vermont all weekend enjoying the colorful splendor that
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This class was treated to a tour of some of the wonderful antique wheels and fiber tools that the Marshfield School of Weaving has recently acquired from the now dismantled American Textile Heritage Museum.<br />
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We had several antique wheels in class for students to try.<br />
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And I brought home a stunning Quebec wheel that I bought from Norman - an early wedding anniversary present. Did you know that the 35th anniversary is for spinning wheels, too? <br />
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These Canadian Production Wheels - CPW to the aficionado - have large wheels and are FAST! Great for high twist and/or speedy spinning. They were designed to spin mill prepared pencil roving at a time when there were many wool mills and home spinners were trying to compete with factory production. If you want to learn more, there is great group on Ravelry called <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/groups/cpw-lovers" target="_blank">CPW Lovers</a>.<br />
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We were away 10 days for this New England trip, then I was home for 10 days,
catching up with my day job and home before I drove down to North Carolina for
a week long Aran & Gansey Design knitting class at the <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/" target="_blank">John C Campbell Folk School</a>. It was a real treat to catch autumn in New England and then again in the Smoky Mountains! <br />
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I had a great group of students who produced quite an array of samples in our week together.<br />
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The grand finale of my 2017 teaching year was a weekend Tartan Throws class at <a href="http://redstoneglen.com/" target="_blank">Red Stone Glen Fiber Arts Center</a> in Pennsylvania. This was my first time teaching at Red Stone
Glen and we have already scheduled another class for November 2018. I had
always enjoyed working with Tom Knisely and Sara Bixler at The Mannings, and
they have brought all their expertise and sparkling creative energy to make Red
Stone Glen a very special place for learning and camaraderie.<br />
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celebrated my 60th birthday that weekend! Is this the best birthday card ever? What a wonderful way to enter my
next decade!<br />
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I'm looking forward to teaching in some new venues in 2018, including Convergence in Reno, Nevada! More on this soon.<br />
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In 2017 I taught more classes and traveled more places than ever before! It was a bit of a whirlwind, and I'm happy to have 3 months at home now to reorganize my house and give more focus to my day job and family, but it was a lot of fun. This year the majority of my classes were either L'Amour de Maman - Acadian Weaving or Tartan Weaving.<br />
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January saw me back in Vermont, teaching L'Amour de Maman at the <a href="http://www.marshfieldschoolofweaving.com/" target="_blank">Marshfield School of Weaving</a>.<br />
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In February I taught L'Amour de Maman for the <a href="http://williamsburgspinweave.org/" target="_blank">Williamsburg Spinners and Weavers Guild</a> <span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and did a wool waulking for the guild
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March brought the first tartan class of the year for the <a href="http://www.wggb.org/" target="_blank">Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore</a> <br />
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And then I went to the <a href="http://www.ftwg.org/" target="_blank">Florida Tropical Weavers Guild</a> Conference.<br />
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This was only the second weaving conference I have attended and I gotta say that weaving conferences are terrific fun! It's delightful to see so many weavers and to meet up with other teachers. Michele Benson wove the longest blanket warp for the wool waulking, just a gorgeous length of wool. This was probably the first and last time a wool waulking has been interrupted to rush outside to watch a missile launch!<br />
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Also, Florida has Sand Hill Cranes, Manatees and Alligators - all very exciting to see! <br />
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In April, I had the pleasure of hosting <a href="https://blazingshuttles.com/" target="_blank">Kathrin Weber of Blazing Shuttles,</a> who
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I was very happy to finally have the opportunity to take one of her weaving classes and also her dye class.<br />
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May always begins with the excitement of the <a href="http://sheepandwool.org/" target="_blank">Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival</a>, and this was my second year volunteering for the Fleece
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Some great sweater spotting in the fleece sale amongst customers and fellow volunteers - <br />
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I learn so much by handling and examining so many different fleeces and I
love helping shoppers find the best fleece for their needs.<br />
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I came home with a Texel and a Romanov fleece to add to my teaching
inventory and also one of Lee Langstaff's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShepherdsHeyFarm/" target="_blank">Shepherds Hey Farm</a> fleeces,
the lovely Tallulah. And just a little yarn...<br />
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Then,<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I flew down to Arkansas to teach an Acadian
Weaving class for <a href="https://www.redscottiefibers.com/" target="_blank">Red Scottie Fibers</a> in Eureka Springs. Debbie Davis has
a beautiful shop and teaching studio and Eureka Springs is a fascinating and delightful
little town</span>.<br />
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It <span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is built on the side of a mountain and I spent
my free time walking up and down and enjoying the architecture and some of the
many springs and grottos. I'm very excited to be returning to Red Scottie
for two classes in September </span>
2018.<br />
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At the end of May<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, I presented another Waulking of the Wool and a
hand spindle class at the first <a href="http://highfiberfestival.com/" target="_blank">High Fiber Festival</a> at the historic Hickory
Neck Episcopal Church in Toano, Virginia.</span><br />
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In June I drove to Indianapolis to spend a week teaching
for the <a href="http://www.midwestweavers.org/" target="_blank">Midwest Weavers Association </a>Conference. This is my sister Carolyn's
regional conference and we got to room together, plus she took my 3 day
pre-conference Scottish Sampler class.<br />
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This round robin class combines
tartan samples with tweeds and estate checks for a full dose of
traditional weaving from Scotland, and we finish up with a mini
waulking! I also taught Traditional Wool Preparation and a lecture demo
version of 18th c. Household Textiles.<br />
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One of the most exciting parts of this conference was seeing the original and reproduction Linsey Coverlet. This is a pieced and quilted bedcover made almost entirely of handspun, hand dyed, handwoven linsey woolsey fabrics. It is simply extraordinary.<br />
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There are very few of these coverlets in existence and very little to be found about them on the internet. A group of spinners & weavers who volunteer at the <a href="http://www.connerprairie.org/" target="_blank">Conner Prairie</a> museum near Indianapolis has been working for many years on a reproduction of this piece and in this presentation we were able to see both the original and the reproduction. Countless hours went into this project and the results are wonderful to see!<br />
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Coming soon - One Amazing Year, part the second! <br />
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I had a quiet winter, starting the year with a wonderful week long visit to
Vermont in January to spend time with my teacher, friend and mentor Norman
Kennedy. As an added bonus, I finally got to spend time getting to know
Minnesota weaver <a href="http://midwestfiberartstrails.org/event/mondays-bruce-engebretson/2015-08-03/"><span style="color: blue;">Bruce Engebretson</span></a> who was also visiting Norman
that week. Bruce wove a Rio Grande style blanket on Norman's loom and I
wove off a set of samples of a German Two Block blanket for a study
group. I also went through much of Norman's textile collection,
photographing and taking notes of blankets and coverlets and linens that Norman
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Some of these textiles will appear in my future classes and slide shows, and I
brought home a few pieces of tweed and a beautiful old linen Ms&Os towel
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One of my long time singing partners, Linda teaches art at a school in
Middleburg, Virginia. The school has a culture study each year, choosing
a different country and exploring many aspects of the people, place and
culture. in 2016 they studied Peru and my friend asked if I could help
with spinning and weaving, so I took a <a href="https://www.patternfish.com/patterns/8348-laverne-waddington-andean-pebble-weave"><span style="color: blue;">crash course in Peruvian pebble weave</span></a> and did 5
workshops with her students. My husband was my trusty assistant and
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In my day job life, I am the business manager and
Artist-in-Education program manager for the <a href="http://www.bluemont.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Bluemont Concert Series</span></a>. In a small
non-profit, you wear many different hats! I set up cultural and
educational programs for schools through our AIE program, so I also arranged
for some old friends who are part of the Bolivian musical ensemble <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=528ab0si2EQ"><span style="color: blue;">Rumisonko</span></a>
to play for the students, - so it was my favorite kind of day, filled with weaving,
wonderful traditional altiplano music and a Peruvian lunch prepared by the
parents.</span></div>
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In April, I returned to the <a href="http://www.powhatansfestivaloffiber.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Powhatan
Festival of Fiber</span></a> for my second year. I did two wool waulkings
and taught a spindle spinning class. I will be sorry to miss the festival
in 2017, but it is scheduled for the same day as my daughter Lily's wedding -
April 29th!</span></div>
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I had a booth with my Peace Weavers yarn business at the <a href="http://www.sheepandwool.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Maryland Sheep
& Wool Festival</span></a> for 25 years and enjoyed sharing the work and
fun with each of my three sisters and my Mom as well as a few stalwart fiber
friends. I decided that 25 was a gracious plenty, so in 2016 instead of
setting up and running a sales booth, I volunteered with the fleece sale
at MS&W. It was wet and cold on the check-in day but the team of
volunteers were undaunted! We processed over 1,100 fleeces - they were
literally piled up to the ceiling on both sides of the building while those
fleeces entered for judging were examined. Then we pulled the sale only
fleeces into the middle of the building and sorted them by class and wool type.</span></div>
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I was busy with my family on Saturday but I returned on Sunday to help for a
few hours on the sales floor and with the check out after the festival closed
Sunday evening. It was a lot of work but all the volunteers were in good
spirits and it was a pleasure to be a part of that team. I love seeing
and handling fleece - just for the wooly pleasure, but also for the opportunity
to expand my knowledge about fleece and breeds. I hope to volunteer again
this year, and hopefully manage a little more restraint in the fleece buying
department. I bought four fleeces: Black Welsh Mountain, Cheviot, Clun
Forest and Columbia.</span></div>
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A week after MS&W, I drove to the <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/"><span style="color: blue;">John C Campbell Folk School</span></a> in North Carolina's
Smokey Mountains to teach a week long spinning & dyeing class called
Handpaint Magic Spinning. While most of the classes I teach are based on
historical and/or traditional techniques and textiles, this class was inspired
by my deep love of color. </span></div>
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rovings but some delay spinning these beauties for fear of "messing
up". Other spinners have turned bright multicolored rovings into
muddy yarn. So this class offers a variety of ways to use handpainted
rovings to their best advantage. With the 5 or 6 day Folk School format
there is also time to dive in and paint some roving, too.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Then I stayed on to be a student for a change in a weekend natural dyeing class
taught by my friends Martha Owen and <a href="http://shetlandhandspun.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Elizabeth
Johnston</span></a>. It was a terrific weekend spent with old friends and
new, with more than a dozen dye pots and lots of learning!<br />
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I have been a member of the international <a href="https://www.complex-weavers.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Complex
Weavers Guild </span></a>for many years and attended the Complex Weavers
Seminars in 2012 when they were held in Washington DC. I applied to lead
seminars for the June 2016 Seminars near Chicago, Illinois and was delighted to
be selected to lead two - The History of Tartan and Acadian Weaving. I
have slide lectures for these two classes and it was great fun to share my
enthusiasm on these subjects. This is a wonderful organization and I hope
to be able to participate in the CW Seminars again in future years.</span></div>
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One of the highlights of my summer season was the opportunity to meet Louise
Hunt, who has a podcast called <a href="http://caithnesscraftcollective.podbean.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Caithness
Craft Collective</span></a> that I have enjoyed listening to for many
years. Louise and her family came to Washington DC for vacation and spent
a weekend in Pennsylvania for the <a href="http://twinset.us/?page_id=5129"><span style="color: blue;">Twinset Knitting Retreat.</span></a> I offered to meet
them up near Lancaster PA at Twinset Jan's farm and drive them back to DC,
which gave us lots of car time for blathering away like old friends! We
made a slight detour through Leesburg, Virginia where we all enjoyed Vietnamese
food and a <a href="http://www.bluemont.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Bluemont
Summer </span></a>concert with the incomparable <a href="http://www.dupontbrass.com/"><span style="color: blue;">DuPont Brass</span></a>
band, and I got to introduce Louise and her family to my husband Peter and my
daughter Lily who were working the concert as well as to my daughter Hannah and
her husband and young son, Benjamin.</span></div>
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At the end of a busy Bluemont Summer concert season, I returned to the <a href="http://www.folkschool.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Campbell Folk School</span></a>
to teach Tartan Weaving for their Scottish theme week - this year the students
wove tartan throws with 2/8 wool and to wet finish these properly, we had a
waulking at the end of the week. I also held a waulking of the wool at
the <a href="http://www.waterfordfoundation.org/event/waterford-fair/"><span style="color: blue;">Waterford Homes & Craft Tour</span></a> in early
October. It was a very soggy weekend and we managed one song in front of
the Waterford Weavers Guild tent and then one more song inside the tent to
escape the downpour.</span></div>
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There was more wallowing happily in fleeces as I helped the team of jurors at
my local fiber festival, the <a href="https://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Shenandoah
Valley Fiber Festival</span></a> in late September. I juried fleece for
several hours and then taught a class on How To Buy a Fleece, talking to the
students for a while and then returning to the fleece jurying with them for
some hands on experience. This is one of my favorite classes to
teach! I think every fiber festival that has a fleece sale should have
something like this to help educate spinners on the joys and many choices
involved in working from fleece to yarn.<br />
I also taught a few classes over the festival weekend - a 3 hour version of
HandPaint Magic Spinning, Traditional Wool Preparation and Point Spinning on
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To wrap up my teaching year, I had the pleasure of presenting two classes for
one of my local guilds, the <a href="http://www.waterfordweaversguild.org/index.html"><span style="color: blue;">Waterford
Weavers</span></a>. The guild chose my 18th c. Household Textiles class
and I offered a special warping class for a half dozen students a few weeks
before the November class. We had students come from Virginia, Maryland,
West Virginia, North Carolina and Michigan!</span></div>
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I finally got to meet <a href="http://www.chessspy.com/BOBBIN-BOY/BB-resources.htm"><span style="color: blue;">Milissa Ellison Dewey</span></a>, weaver, spinner &
woodturner of Asheville, North Carolina after many FaceBook conversations about
old looms and spinning wheels and historic weaving. She brought a
beautiful Lervad loom to the class, a true parlor loom worthy of a fine
woodworker.</span></div>
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One of the other landmark events of 2016 was finally moving my 89 year old
mother to a retirement community closer to our home. She had been living
at a retirement community in Springfield, Virginia for 14 years, which was a 3
hour round trip drive for me and I was lucky to get over to see her once a
month. She now lives 40 minutes away and I see her at least once a week -
a great improvement. The preparation for her move took much longer than I
expected as we sorted, packed & discarded but it was worth all the effort
to have her close by. My daughter Hannah moved with her family at the end
of the summer and now lives 10 minutes from my Mom, so she & her toddler
Ben also visit often. <br />
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What I didn't anticipate is how busy I am now - juggling 25 hours a week at my
Bluemont job with spending time with my Mom as well as my grandson is a
challenge. Not to mention all this teaching - but this is an
embarrassment of riches. What better way to spend my time?<br />
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I will try to write shorter posts on a regular basis this year. In
between all the other things!</span></div>
Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-70296605707599529452018-02-17T10:31:00.004-05:002018-02-17T10:31:55.371-05:00Classes for 2017
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year of classes I am looking forward to the eight week lull until my 2017
classes begin. It will be a very busy year, starting out with a very
exciting teaching opportunity - I will be co-teaching Acadian Weaving - L'Amour
de Maman with Norman Kennedy at the Marshfield School of Weaving in Vermont in
late January - I'll add a date on the sidebar here when we pin down the
weekend.<br />
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My primary class topics for 2017 turned out to be Acadian Weaving, Tartans and
Tweeds - some of my favorite classes to teach! Here is my calendar for
the coming year and there is also a list in the sidebar of my blog with links
to the sponsoring organizations (full version only, I don't think you can see
the sidebar on a smart phone):<br />
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January 20-22 (tent) Acadian Weaving for the Marshfield School of Weaving in
Vermont<br />
February 14-16 Acadian Weaving for the Williamsburg Spinners &
Weavers Guild in Virginia<br />
March 4-6 Tartan Weaving for The Weavers Guild of Baltimore in Maryland<br />
March 17-19 Tartan Weaving for the Florida Tropical Weavers Guild
conference<br />
May 12-13 Acadian Weaving for Red Scottie Fibers in Arkansas<br />
May 20 Waulking the Wool and tba classes for the new High Fiber Festival
in Toano, Virginia<br />
June 11-18 Scottish Weaving Sampler, Traditional Wool Prep and 18th c.
Household Textiles for the Midwest Weavers Conference in Indiana<br />
July 20 - 23 Acadian Weaving for the MidAtlantic Fiber Association
conference in Pennsylvania<br />
August 27 - Sept. 2 Tweeds & Estate Checks for the John C Campbell
Folk School in North Carolina<br />
September 23-24 tba classes for the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival here
in Berryville, Virginia<br />
October 22-27 Aran & Gansey Knitting for the John C Campbell Folk
School in North Carolina<br />
October/November, dates tba a spinning class co-taught with Norman
Kennedy at the Marshfield School of Weaving in Vermont <br />
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I hope to see many of you at one of these classes and to meet many new weaving
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As many of you eastern fiber lovers probably already know, <a href="http://www.the-mannings.com/mannings_catalog.cgi" target="_blank">The Mannings Handweaving School and Supply Center </a>has
announced that they will be closing their doors after December 30th of
this year. So, it was with excitement and some sadness that I drove up
to East Berlin, Pennsylvania last weekend to teach my last class for
Carol & Ron. I had twelve adventurous students for a tartan class
that I developed especially for The Mannings some years ago - a Tartan
Sampler that offers 15 very different traditional, historic tartans that
explore the design features of this unique cloth from a simple Rob Roy
red and black check right up to the very complex Clan Chattan and Prince
Charles Edward Stewart tartans.<br />
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This is a challenging class for weavers of all skill levels - there is a
lot of color changing and learning to look ahead and make choices about
when to end a color and when to carry it along. I also have all the
looms tied up to a walking twill treadling - the treadling sequence is
1, 3, 2, 4 for a more natural motion, but this takes some concentration
to learn. Add to that the 15 different looms and 15 different patterns
to decipher and the first day feels like a lot of uphill for some
students, but after a good sleep the new knowledge is better settled in
the brain and muscles and on the second day there are more smiling faces
in the classroom!<br />
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I have a number of tartan class options, some are round robin and in
others a student weaves on their own loom on a single pattern. The
round robin classes have distinct challenges but the reward is a
beautiful array of samples at the end of the weekend! These are my
samples from the weekend - clockwise from the top left: Farquharson,
Grant, Munro, Barclay Hunting, Cameron, Clan Chattan and Colquhoun.<br />
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It was a great weekend! I dusted off my History of Tartan slide lecture
and now I'm all fired up to edit and improve it and - hopefully - start
working on my book this winter, once my schedule settles down.<br />
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Which would be late November - because - the fall fiber festivals are coming! I am participating in two: the <a href="http://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/" target="_blank">Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival</a> on Sept. 25-27th right here in Berryville, Virginia and the aptly named <a href="http://fallfiberfestival.org/" target="_blank">Fall Fiber Festival & Sheepdog Trials</a> on Oct. 3 & 4th in Montpelier, Virginia.<br />
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For Shenandoah, I am slated to teach three classes:<br />
How To Choose a Fleece - Friday afternoon<br />
Weaving: Warping Your 4 Harness Loom - Saturday afternoon<br />
and Spinning With Handpainted Rovings - Sunday afternoon.<br />
Class information is <a href="http://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/classes/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/classes/" target="_blank">class registration</a>
closes on Thursday, September 24th - the day before the festival opens -
so if you are interested in any of these classes, please sign up now!<br />
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At Fall Fiber, I will be teaching three classes, details <a href="http://fallfiberfestival.org/adult-workshops/" target="_blank">here</a>:<br />
Handpaint Magic - Knitting with handpainted yarns - Saturday afternoon <br />
How To Choose a Fleece - Sunday morning<br />
Point Spinning on Spindle and Great Wheel - Sunday afternoon<br />
The class registration for Fall Fiber closes on September 26th - one
week before the festival takes place - contact Bitty Yancey at <a href="mailto:adultclasses@fallfiberfestival.org">adultclasses@fallfiberfestival.org</a> to sign up.<br />
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After Fall Fiber, I get a weekend at home and then I hop an airplane to
fly down south to teach a week long class October 18 - 24 on <a href="https://classes.folkschool.org/class_details.aspx?pk=18032" target="_blank">Knitting Design: Aran & Gansey Style</a> at the <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/" target="_blank">John C Campbell Folk School</a>.
There is still room in this class, and an October week at the Folk
School is a little piece of heaven, so consider joining us. If you know
how to knit and you are interested in Irish/Scottish/Arans/Gansey
knitting, you will have a great week. Don't let that D word (Design)
scare you off, because this class is aimed at a wide range of knitters.
You can design something as simple as a mug cozy or scarf right on up
to a whole sweater!<br />
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(Someday I hope to have a photograph of beautiful handwoven linen
samples here, but I have been fighting with Blogger and iPhoto for the
last two hours and I give up. For now.)<br />
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Then, after two whole weekends at home, it's a road trip with my sister
Carolyn, right back to Brasstown, North Carolina for a week of teaching
weaving: <a href="https://classes.folkschool.org/class_details.aspx?pk=18099" target="_blank">18th-century Linens</a>
for Shaker Week at the Folk School. This class is nearly full and I am
very excited to be bringing my sister Carolyn along. She has been
helping me sell yarn at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival for about
two decades and this is my big chance to pay her back a little for all
that help. We are planning to make a few stops along the way, including
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And then things will quiet down a bit. I don't have any classes
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I find it hard to believe, but this past weekend was my 25th year as a vendor at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. I started this side business with my mother and many friends and family have helped over the years. My sister Carolyn flew out from Kansas to help all weekend, my husband Peter pitched in with the set up and take down. Sharon helped to hang yarn, sister Sally and nephew Chris came Saturday to demonstrate puppets and sell. On Sunday, Nancy & Kim helped by playing with puppets and Diane helped us pack up.<br />
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I owe special thanks to all my helpers and of course great appreciation to all our customers over the years. I have so enjoyed helping the knitters to choose yarn for their projects, answering knitting questions, and watching families and folks of all ages play with the puppets. It's been a lot of work and a tremendous amount of fun.<br />
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Sweater spotting is one of the best parts of any fiber festival! These two ladies worked together to design their shawls. One designed the crocheted flowers and one planned the knitted sections. <br />
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So here is a parting shot of the 25th and final Peace Weavers booth. I have decided that I am done with selling yarn and I am planning to do more making, teaching, singing (and wool waulking) and also playing with my first grandchild, who is expected in July!<br />
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The May meeting of the Waterford Weavers Guild is traditionally our annual Dye Day. This year featured an indigo pot!<br />
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Here you see all the skeins I dyed sitting in a blue plastic bucket. I dyed a variety of yarns from Henry's Attic - Texas (wool/mohair), Silky Locks (wool/mohair), Licorice Twist (all wool) and a cotton & linen blend sleeveless shirt. I learned the hard way that mohair does not like this particular indigo bath - the mohair blend yarns are a beautiful color but they feel very rough. I think the mohair got chemically fried and will never be soft again. <br />
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We bought a used car from a very nice fellow this January and learned that he and his brothers do carpentry on the side. They refitted the old heavy garage door on my husband's wood shop, and they did such a nice job that we decided to go forward with another project. <br />
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I will leave you with the Flower of the Week. This stunning display is in several trees that grow beside the parking lot at my office, so I get to see it almost every day. <br />
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We have had a lovely, cool and long lasting spring this year. Some people have been complaining about the cooler temperatures but I love it when the weather is cool enough for spring to take its time and move more slowly from one bloom to the next. The daffodils have finally faded and the redbud is just finishing up while the lilac comes on, the dogwood continues to bloom and this latest delight - wysteria.<br />
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I have been really busy these last two weeks, the usual collision of budget season & annual mailing at work, personal and home business tax prep and preparing to leave home and work for a week of teaching at the <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/" target="_blank">John C Campbell Folk School</a>. <br />
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But there were a few things I wanted to share with you before I go.<br />
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One was the beautiful misty sunrise above. I am truly delighted by all the signs of spring: the green coming up in the new grass, three new foals in our neighbor's field, and six tiny wren eggs in the nest in the weaving studio.<br />
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Yes, I did say IN my studio. This little outbuilding was originally a chicken house. When we moved here in 1985, my husband cleaned it up and we converted it to a play house for the children. There have been sleepovers there and a number of people have lived there temporarily - teenage boys who came to work for the summer and a wonderful Polish man who worked on a series on renovation projects for us in the spring of 1993. Eventually I traded the old parlor in our house for the playhouse - two of our kids got to have their own rooms and I moved my looms out to the old chicken house.<br />
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So, it's a somewhat porous space as regards the natural world - I share my studio with a variety of insects and spiders, an occasional mouse and last spring a young Carolina wren built her nest in the basket where I keep long and short lengths of rug yarn and shoelaces for tying up warps. I don't go in the studio much in winter because it is impossible to heat to a comfortable temperature, and before I started working in there last spring, this tiny bird found what seemed to her to be an ideal location - private, quiet, cozy. I didn't have the heart to disturb the nest, so I let her raise her brood and then cleaned out the nest when they had fledged and flown.<br />
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It simply did not occur to me that she would return, but she has built a new nest and when I checked yesterday, she had laid six wee eggs. Oh, well. I will be away all next week and then busy catching up at work during the week and busy with the <a href="http://www.powhatansfestivaloffiber.com/default.htm" target="_blank">Powhatan Festival of Fiber</a> on April 25th and very busy with the <a href="http://sheepandwool.org/" target="_blank">Maryland Sheep & Wool </a>Festival on May 2 &3. And I have my Wolf Pup in the house, so I will leave my wren in peace as long as she needs the nest.<br />
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My sister Sally prepared a wonderful spread for Easter dinner - leg of lamb with avgolemono sauce, ham, asparagus, a massaged kale salad and a complicated pilaf that my Father used to make called Armenian Rice. It includes chicken livers, almonds, sauteed apples and onions, tomatoes, eggplant, bacon and it tastes like my childhood.<br />
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The sheep cake was a big hit, and was particularly enjoyed by a visiting neighbor who initially declined dessert because he has celiac and can't have wheat flour. He was surprised and pleased to find that I am a gluten-free baker.<br />
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The last thing to share is a photo of Idgy with her boyfriend, Beaucephus. They spent quite a bit of time together over the last two weeks and we are hoping that they finally figured out how to make puppies. We will know in a few weeks!<br />
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OK, I have to finish my work reports and solve the problem with the balance sheet and pack all my materials and handouts and some clothes before I head off to Brasstown, North Carolina to teach a week of <a href="https://classes.folkschool.org/class_details.aspx?pk=17534" target="_blank">Acadian Weaving</a>. More on that in the next post.<br />
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Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-32965272357404262322015-03-26T16:20:00.001-05:002015-03-26T16:20:11.863-05:00NoHo TripThere are clear signs of spring in our part of the world - warmer temperatures on some days, the maple buds are growing visibly every warm day and today the mailman wore shorts! At the bird feeders, while the juncos are still with us for now, we saw the first towhee on March 21st and today there was a mockingbird singing in the still dormant lilac.<br />
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But last week, Peter & I drove up to western Massachusetts to visit our son, Robbie. We drove from the beginnings of spring in our Northern Shenandoah Valley right back into winter.<br />
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Northampton, Massachusetts has many local treasures. For the knitter-weaver-spinner type person, there is <a href="http://www.yarn.com/" target="_blank">WEBS</a>, the east coast mecca of yarn and fiber - and my sister Annie drove down from Vermont for the day just so we could visit WEBS together! Annie had never been before, and I <strike>enabled </strike>helped her choose yarn for two sweaters and bought yarn for two baby cardigans. I had to return to WEBS two days later when I remembered that one of my guild mates had asked me to get her a temple for her current weaving project and didn't I find a skein of Madeline Tosh Twist Light in Jasper that just had to come home with me. It will become a shawl one day.<br />
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There is wonderful local produce (more than just carrots!) and some truly great thrift stores. The Bridge Street Goodwill had a sale on babies and children's clothes, so I brought home a big bag of clothes for Baby Won Kenobe (our first grandchild, due to arrive in July!)<br />
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There is also a fabulous array of restaurants to sample, and many of these have interesting art and decor. <br />
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This transparency weaving is on display at <a href="http://www.paulandelizabeths.com/" target="_blank">Paul & Elizabeth's</a> along with other beautiful textiles.<br />
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Spring will surely come to Northampton soon, and for those who need to be reminded of why it's worth waiting for, there is the Smith College Bulb Show.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.smith.edu/garden/Home/events.html" target="_blank">Botanic Garden at Smith College</a> has an amazing group of greenhouses, and on this sunny but blustery cold day we joined a happy throng of folks to view the riot of color.<br />
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This first of the two rooms of bulbs was mostly tulips, daffodils and hyacinths.<br />
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And one of my favorites - Frittilaria. Proof once again that Nature has infinite variety and a sense of humor!<br />
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The second greenhouse was an homage to the painter Claude Monet and featured enlargements of some of his Giverny paintings and a corresponding color theme.<br />
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The great man himself was present, brush in hand.<br />
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These black hyacinths received a lot of comment, and the tulips below look slightly carnivorous!<br />
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We returned home in time for what everyone hopes was the Last Snowstorm in Virginia on Friday, March 20th, the first day of spring. We got 6-8" of snow but it warmed up so much the next day that we went hiking on the mountain on Sunday. Next week - Hiking around Bear's Den.Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-18377510797675564682015-03-20T12:55:00.000-05:002015-03-20T12:55:54.113-05:00My Fibery Year, Part the Third, in Which We Weave More Tartan!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did promise some more tartan, didn't I? Here are some photos from the Tartan Weaving class I taught in September 2014 at the <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/" target="_blank">John C. Campbell Folk School</a> in Brasstown, NC. Here we see the intrepid students, pausing en route to lunch.</div>
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Before the class began, we communicated by email and each student chose a tartan pattern for their project. The sequence of different colored threads for a tartan warp is called a sett. We used <a href="http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/" target="_blank">The Scottish Register of Tartans </a>website to locate and identify the specific tartans. This is a very useful tool for finding and sharing tartan designs and setts. Anyone can search the registry website or you can join to have access to thread counts, notification of new tartans as they are registered or to register your own tartan design. When I first started teaching tartan weaving I would mail color copies of tartans from a particular book, but now students have thousands of tartans to choose from.</div>
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For the class, each student planned a scarf using a fine yarn set at 30 ends per inch - three students used Jaggerspun Superfine Merino 2/18 and one student opted to go with the Jaggerspun Zephyr 2/18 which is 50% wool and 50% silk.</div>
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Here are the warps in the process of being wound on warping boards. I teach my students to wind their warps with 4 or more threads at a time, using a spool rack to hold the spools of yarn. I love to see the clear colors of the warp threads, side by side on the board.</div>
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Here they are on the loom - clockwise from the top left these tartans are MacPherson, Burns, Royal Stewart and WRNS (Womens Royal Naval Services Association).</div>
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And here we all are on Friday afternoon with three of the scarves off the loom - Royal Stewart was still in process. I am sporting my most toothsome grin - this reminds me of the line in John McCutcheon's song, Kindergarten Wall - one of the things you are supposed to learn in Kindergarten is "how to smile for a picture without looking like a dope". I guess I was absent for that lesson!</div>
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This class took place during Scottish Week at the Folk School and we were very fortunate to have Norman Kennedy in residence that week as a cultural commentator. Norman is originally from Aberdeen, Scotland and was my first weaving teacher in 1980. One of the phrases we coined during this week of class was What Would Norman Do - thus the acronym on the white board in our class photo - WWND? One of the students also started a list of Oh My God (OMG) moments. We had a lot of fun together!<br />
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Once I got my students busily working, I wound a warp for a pair of small tartan blankets in a variation on one of the tartans that appears in the Outlander mini-series. I wove this on one of the big Swedish countermarche looms and by spending several evenings weaving I had my blankets woven and off the loom by Friday morning. I basted this long warp together at the ends into a big loop and finished the cloth with a waulking at the Waterford Fair in October 2014.<br />
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Here is a collage of the tartans woven during our week of class. If you are interested in having a tartan sett prepared and/or purchasing a yarn kit for a small blanket, a scarf or a dance stole, leave me a message in the comment section. (To protect your privacy, I will not publish your comment if it contains an email address.)</div>
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The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia finally got a proper snow storm last week and while it kept me from my regular Friday morning lap swimming, I can't complain because I got to go cross country skiing! <br />
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I love cross country skiing. It is one of the things I missed most when I moved back to Virginia after 7 years in Vermont. For me, a good winter is one in which I get to ski out my back door at least once. We have lived in our old farmhouse for over 30 years now and there have been some good winters and some that only had a little decorative snow, and there were times when we had snow but I was not well enough to ski. This year my immune system issues are well in check and I have been very excited to be able to exercise regularly again after a few tough years.<br />
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Our dog Idgy is just the right size for 8-10" of snow - she is like a little snow plow!<br />
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I got up extra early on Saturday morning so that I could ski one more time before the temperatures rose above freezing and still get to my class on time. I took a weekend class through the <a href="http://www.brswg.org/" target="_blank">Blue Ridge Spinners & Weavers Guild</a> on Needle Punch Rug Hooking. Kathy Donovan of <a href="http://www.checkmatefarm.com/" target="_blank">Checkmate Farm</a> was the instructor.<br />
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Kathy started raising Karakul sheep ten years ago and has been learning the shepherding business and looking for just the right outlet and product for her wool. She took a <a href="https://classes.folkschool.org/class_details.aspx?pk=18010" target="_blank">Dyeing to Hook a Rug</a> class at the <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/" target="_blank">John C. Campbell Folk School</a> last spring and then went on to study with <a href="http://amyoxford.com/" target="_blank">Amy Oxford</a> and now Kathy is all about turning her beautiful fleeces into colorful rug wool for needle punch rugs.<br />
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Kathy does all her own dyeing, and she has a wonderful eye for color. This is a perfect application for the Karakul fleece; there are lovely natural colors and the wool takes dye beautifully.</div>
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Each student chose a pattern and traced the design onto tissue paper with an iron-on transfer pen.<br />
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We transferred the pattern to the monks cloth backing with a dry iron. <br />
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I selected a Dresden plate pattern and picked out a color wheel palette of twelve colors to fill the segments. <br />
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I decided to use neutral greys, browns and off white for the border and a natural true black for the edging.<br />
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We punched all Saturday afternoon and I worked for an hour or so that evening. This is an <a href="http://amyoxford.com/punch_needles.html" target="_blank">Oxford Punch Needle </a>- it's a terrific tool, very well designed and comfortable to use.<br />
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On Sunday we returned to class and punched, talked and learned more about finishing our rugs and the many possibilities this technique has to offer.<br />
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Here are all the projects! <br />
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With needle punch, you work from the back, and the front will look messy until you trim the beginning and ending yarn and tidy up the design. The top two hearts are shown from the front - the top left is ready for finishing. The lower two hearts are shown from the back.<br />
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I did the finishing at home on Monday night - I trimmed and tidied up the loops and outlining, steamed my rug with a damp press cloth & a dry iron and then trimmed the backing, ran a gathering thread around and drew it up and pinned & then stitched the backing in place.<br />
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Here is the back of one of Kathy's round samples. See how the backing is gathered?<br />
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This design features both yarn and wool fabric strips.<br />
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Nice squirrel! <br />
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My finished rug fits a bar stool very nicely, but it also looks good on my chair at work. I am already planning my next rug project!Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-12876915170103231322015-03-05T23:05:00.000-05:002015-03-05T23:05:08.398-05:00Snow Days are for...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Baking, quilting, reading, maybe even catching up on finances... tax day is coming!<br />
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You will have to wait another week for more tartan talk - today we have a snow day. <br />
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I am baking a variation on a traditional Italian Almond cake. I am starting with a recipe that I tasted at a house concert that my early music vocal trio, Sine Nomine performed for a local Italian conversation club last month. The recipe was transcribed by one of our hosts from her Italian mother-in-law as she prepared the cake - Parrozzo alla Maria Alboini Pascali. <br />
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Parrozzo or Pane Rozzo means a rough or coarse bread and this cake imitates the dark bread Italian peasants used to eat, but it is a rich, flavorful cake with a bittersweet chocolate icing.<br />
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I am creating a gluten-free version today and also using coconut sugar rather than a more refined sugar. The original baker used some Italian ingredients - a powdered vanilla called Vanillini, a leavening agent called Lievi di Angelli and bitter almond extract. I found all of these available online and ordered them but only the Lievi has arrived so far. I decided to go ahead and try it out today with what I have on hand and then later I will make a more authentic version. I think the bitter almond extract will make the most difference in flavor.<br />
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Apparently bitter almond has a small amount of cyanide naturally occurring in the nut and for that reason it is not widely available in the US. My recipe also says that if you can find bitter almonds, only 2 or 3 will flavor a whole cake. These can be parboiled, skinned and then grated to replace the small vial of extract.<br />
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This cake is supposed to taste better a few days after baking, but here at The Burrow we are going to make the ultimate sacrifice and taste it today!<br />
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I have made some progress with my first quilt - I finally decided how I wanted to piece the back, cut & stitched it up and then made my fabric/batting/fabric sandwich on the floor of the upstairs bedroom and safety pin basted it all together. <br />
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I wasn't sure if I had enough of the special curved safety pins for basting - guess how many were left when I finished? <br />
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This afternoon I am going to start the quilting!<br />
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<br />Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-10828546504628060712015-02-28T15:54:00.003-05:002015-02-28T15:54:29.650-05:00My Fibery Year, Part 2I am clearly still working on fitting a weekly blog post into my schedule! I had all the photos loaded on Thursday morning but then work was a steady blur, so the lunch hour I had planned to spend writing the post did not take place. As with most things in life, I will continue to do the best I can!<br />
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Today, I am revisiting a few more of my fiber adventures from 2014, starting with a Tartan Blanket class at <a href="http://www.the-mannings.com/mannings_catalog.cgi" target="_blank">The Mannings Handweaving School and Supply Center</a> in East Berlin, PA. If you are a weaver living within a few hours of The Mannings you have probably heard of the school and shop and possibly been there to browse and purchase and/or take a class. Weavers and knitters come from farther afield once they have been there - it's a great shop with a wonderful array of yarn and tools, patterns and books but also one of the best weaving schools in the country. <br />
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Tom Knisely has been working at the school since 1977; he began working at The Mannings as a teenager and served his apprenticeship under Mr. Manning. I like to tell my weaving students about the mentors and teachers who have contributed to my journey as a weaver and a weaving teacher. The illustrious list of names and stories always begins with Norman Kennedy but it also includes Tom Knicely. I recommend that any weaver who can should take a class from Tom - he is extremely knowledgeable, kind and patient but also explains techniques in the clearest possible language. It is little wonder that he was Handwoven Magazine's Weaving Teacher of the Year in 2011.<br />
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I have had the pleasure of taking a number of classes from Tom, mostly as weekend guild retreats. I have taught a number of classes for The Mannings, too - most of my different Tartan classes and my Tweeds & District Checks class, too. In May 2014 we offered my Tartan Blanket class for the first time here and the class went forward with a full compliment of 12 students.<br />
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Each of the students chose the tartan pattern for their blanket; some were family tartans and some were chosen for color or simplicity. At least three were recolored to suit the weaver. The warps were all J<a href="http://www.jaggeryarn.com/wholesale-yarn-lines/the-maine-line.php" target="_blank">aggerspun Maine Line</a> 2/8 set at 12 epi - it is a challenge to weave a balanced cloth at this open set but after wet finishing the wool really blooms! We basted three or four blankets together in a long loop, wetted them thoroughly and held a wool waulking at the end of class. I'm really sorry that I don't have any photos of the waulking - it was a rollicking good time and the end results were lovely.<br />
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Shameless Commerce - I sell Jaggerspun yarns at an attractive price! I provide yarn for many of my classes so I have a lot of colors in stock in the Maine Line 2/8 and the Superfine Merino 2/18, but I can order any yarns that are not in stock. I also provide wind offs for tartan weaving kits as well as prepared tartan drafts. If you are interested, leave your email and "Jaggerspun Prices" in a comment for this post and I will send you my price list. To protect your privacy and your in-box, I will not publish comments that contain an email address.<br />
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Any long time readers of my blog have probably read some posts about my Breed Study in previous years. I have devoted the three weeks of the Tour de Fleece spinning event to this study since 2012. It began with a kit from <a href="http://fleecestudy.site11.com/" target="_blank">Jackie Bland</a>, who gave a presentation at a Waterford Weavers Guild meeting many years ago. At that meeting I bought a kit which contained about an ounce of raw fleece from more than 40 different sheep breeds. It also included a binder with a worksheet for each sample including the source of that fleece and one or more pages of general information about the breed.<br />
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This was long before the wonderful <a href="http://fleeceandfiber.com/" target="_blank">Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook</a> by <a href="http://www.drobson.info/index.html" target="_blank">Deborah Robson</a> and <a href="http://carolekarius.com/" target="_blank">Carol Ekarius</a> was published, not to mention Beth Smith's <a href="http://bethsmithspinning.com/my-book/" target="_blank">The Spinner's Book of Fleece</a>. There were a few resources for spinners interested in breed study, including <a href="http://www.interweavestore.com/in-sheeps-clothing" target="_blank">In Sheep's Clothing</a> by Nola and Jane Fournier (now happily back in print) but the fleece study notebook and all those little packets of fleece were a real treasure trove! But life intervened, I was raising three children and working part time and many years slipped by. <br />
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And then came the Tour de Fleece! I think this event began in 2006 and moved to Ravelry in 2008. It is an opportunity for spinners to challenge themselves in their handspinning during the annual Tour de France bicycle race. Participants can join a team or teams and compete for prizes or just share their daily progress. I fielded a team beginning in 2011 through my yarn business, Peace Weavers in cooperation with Solitude Wool; one of the team members christened our team Team Peace & Solitude.<br />
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For the past three years I have worked on my breed study during the Tour de Fleece. I made a spreadsheet of all the breeds to keep track of weights and measures and how each sample was prepared and spun. I washed all the samples in the original Fleece Study kit the first year. I won a prize that first year from <a href="http://www.spirit-trail.net/" target="_blank">Spirit Trail Fiberworks </a>which added to my breed list and let's just say there has been a little online shopping... it's amazing what you can find on the internet! My current count is 39 breeds spun out of 69 breed samples. I need to catch up a little before any new acquisitions.<br />
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In July 2014, I focused on long wool breeds and combing, working my way through ten breed samples. I prepared and spun Hebridean, Icelandic, English Jacob, Karakul, English Leicester Longwool, Lincoln Longwool, Navajo-Churro, and Romanov, as well as two non-longwool breeds: Southdown and Arapawa. Some of these were, of course, more satisfying to work with than others but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the Karakul and the Navajo-Churro in particular. There is something magical about these dual coated fleeces, the yarn is surprisingly springy and somehow greater than the sum of it's parts. <br />
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So, all you spinners out there who are happily addicted to ultra soft wools - give yourself a challenge this year to spin something really different! You may find some new breeds to love!<br />
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This is a photo of my favorite new fiber tool - the <a href="http://www.dharmatrading.com/tools/nina-soft-spin-dryer.html?lnav=tools.html" target="_blank">Nina Soft Spin Dryer</a> - a spin dryer that removes most of the water from fleece and wool items or whatever you place in the drum. It beats all heck out of the roll-it-in-a-towel-and-stomp-on-it method, the washed fleece dries very quickly after a quick spin in the Nina! It is also wonderful for dyeing as it reduces the amount of rinsing needed if you give your yarn or fiber a spin before rinsing. <br />
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At the end of the 2014 Tour de Fleece, I won a prize from Team 4 The Sheep! - a team hosted by Spirit Trail Fiberworks and <a href="http://www.thespinningloft.com/" target="_blank">The Spinning Loft</a> - I won three packets of fleece from The Spinning Loft! And while I was choosing I added a few more samples to my cart and added a few European breeds to my study collection: Gra Trondersau, Norsk Spelssau, Ouessant, and two Americans - Polypay and Santa Cruz. The list keeps growing!<br />
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I got to take a two day class with Deb Robson at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival in May 2014 - her 3 C's and 3 L's class. Deb is a terrific, enthusiastic teacher with a wealth of knowledge about sheep and spinning and I felt very fortunate to be able to participate in the class. I took her Spinning Rare Breed Wools class at MS&W in May 2013 and was delighted to have a second opportunity. If you get a chance to attend one of Deb's class, sign up right away! You will be amply rewarded. Meanwhile, you can read her excellent blog, <a href="http://independentstitch.typepad.com/" target="_blank">The Independent Stitch</a>.<br />
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And in August 2014, I participated in <a href="https://spinquest.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">SpinQuest 2014</a> as a vendor. This is a spinning event that is held in Front Royal, VA in August each year and features teaching demos, creative exercises and juried vendors. It's a small event for up to 45 participants and the vendor fee is to provide 45 small bags of spinning fiber that fit in with the theme for the event. Vendors also receive a fiber goody bag and are invited to join in with the exercises and challenges.<br />
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The theme for 2014 was Au Naturelle - Focus on Natural Fleece, and I got all the processed fleeces out of my attic and set about weighing out small samples for the participants goody bags and then larger packets of roving for sale.<br />
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My relationship with my attic and other hidden stores of treasure is best defined as If I Can't See It, It Doesn't Exist. Which is my excuse for continuing to acquire exciting and inspiring fleece, yarn, fabric, etc. My roving for sale includes Coopworth, Border Leicester, Merino, Ramboiullet and Ramboiullet crosses, Shetland some other really nice spinners flock crosses as well as one or two mystery fleeces. I have bagged these up in 6-8 ounce bags and labeled them as Private Stock - Hand Selected Fleeces for Handspinners and I sell them for $10 each. The weight is marked on the bag and depends on the cost of the original fleece. I will have plenty of these at my Peace Weavers booth at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival this year.<br />
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See you next week with more tartan weaving!<br />
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<br />Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-54692283994122089982015-02-05T23:08:00.002-05:002015-02-05T23:08:56.485-05:00Shaker Textile Adventure<br />
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My friend Liz and I set out a few days early for the <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/" target="_blank">John C. Campbell Folk School</a> last March. </div>
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We made a side trip to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to visit the <a href="http://www.shakervillageky.org/" target="_blank">Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill</a>. </div>
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There are some domestic beasts on the grounds, and it is pleasant to wake to the sounds of lowing cattle.<br />
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I am very interested in the handwoven linens and rugs, of course, but also in clothing and in knitted and novelty rugs. I was delighted to find the knitted rug you see above and I hope to eventually reproduce it in some form.</div>
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We looked at bonnets, chair tape, braided straw tape for making bonnets, cotton, silk and wool kerchiefs of all sizes and patterns, pen wipers, aprons, socks, sewing boxes, mittens, several dresses, a red wool cloak and a very unusual pair of pajamas in mint condition.</div>
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On our second day, we toured a textile exhibit and explored the village grounds and buildings. I was surprised to see signs encouraging visitors to take photographs and share them on Facebook and other social media, as the rules for photography vary widely from one museum to the next.<br />
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The volunteers were weaving blue rag rugs on this old frame loom, using donated hospital scrubs for the rags. The rugs will be sewn into room size carpets to be used in various buildings in the museum.<br />
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Many of the textiles found in Shaker communities were brought into the community by those who joined the movement, and other textiles were woven by Shakers. The Shakers had 2 and 4 harness looms and wove relatively simple plain weave and twill cloth. They wove for their own needs but also made items for sale to what they called The World's People.<br />
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Today, most people know the Shakers for their chairs and possibly other furniture and architecture, but weavers prize the woven tape that was used to weave chair seats, the lovely patterns of cotton and linen towels and clothing fabric and the wonderful ingenuity of their rugs.<br />
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This rug has slightly different colors of wool yarn in the S twist section and the Z twist section, with two different colors of rag strip separating the yarn chevrons - do you see? There is an inch or so of S twist, an inch of Z twist, a black rag strip, an inch of S, an inch of Z and then a yellow gold rag strip. I have many photos of rugs from the Hancock Museum archives as well as samples from my classes.<br />
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I mentioned the chair tape - here is a Shaker chair with the seat woven with tape. It looks like a blue and red check from a distance, but when you get up close -<br />
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You can see that the blue tape is a solid color but the red tape is striped red and yellow. <br />
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Some of the chair tapes are plain, but some are quite fancy. I love the dichotomy of the spare beauty in the lines of the chair and the subtle complexity of the fancy chair tape.<br />
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There is something about that simple plain weave checkerboard that I find endlessly satisfying in so many aspects of weaving - it is the basic binary of woven structure,<br />
over and under, over and under,<br />
light and dark, yes and no.<br />
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I will leave you with just two more images - a classic Shaker flax wheel and distaff,<br />
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and one of the many pairs of staircases that are found in Shaker buildings. Men and women lived entirely separately in Shaker communities, to the point of having separate entrances and staircases. I love the lines in these staircases - more S and Z!
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So today: a quick recap of 2014 with photos & details about a few classes and a promise of more to come!<br />
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<b><i>January</i></b>: 18th c. Floor Coverings, <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/" target="_blank">John C Campbell Folk School</a>, Brasstown NC</div>
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<b><i>February</i></b>: Swedish Towels, <a href="http://www.brswg.org/" target="_blank">Blue Ridge Spinners & Weavers Guild</a>, Purcellville VA</div>
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<b><i>March</i></b>: a visit to the archives at the <a href="http://www.shakervillageky.org/" target="_blank">Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill</a>, Harrodsburg KY</div>
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<b><i>April</i></b>: Handpaint Magic Spinning, JC Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC </div>
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I was a student in <a href="http://www.drobson.info/" target="_blank">Deb Robson</a>'s 3Ls and 3Cs class, <a href="http://www.sheepandwool.org/" target="_blank">MD Sheep & Wool Festival</a>, West Friendship MD</div>
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<b><i>May</i></b>: Peace Weavers booth at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival<a href="http://www.sheepandwool.org/" target="_blank"> </a></div>
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Tartan Throws, <a href="http://www.the-mannings.com/mannings_catalog.cgi" target="_blank">The Mannings</a>, East Berlin PA</div>
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<b><i>July</i></b>: Tour de Fleece, which for me means another 3 weeks of my 50+ sheep breed study</div>
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<b><i>August</i></b>: Peace Weavers booth at <a href="https://spinquest.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/spinquest-2014/" target="_blank">SpinQuest 2014</a>, Front Royal VA </div>
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<b><i>September</i></b>: Tartan Scarves during Scottish week at the JC Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC </div>
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Travels in Colorado & New Mexico, including a visit to <a href="http://www.chimayoweavers.com/" target="_blank">Centinela Fiber Arts</a> in Chimayo, NM</div>
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How to Buy a Fleece and Spindle Spinning classes, <a href="http://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/" target="_blank">Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival</a>, Berryville VA </div>
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<i><b>October</b></i>: a wool waulking demonstration at the <a href="http://www.waterfordfoundation.org/waterford-fair/" target="_blank">Waterford Fair</a>, Waterford VA </div>
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Checkmate Fiber booth at <a href="http://fallfiberfestival.org/" target="_blank">Fall Fiber Festival</a>, Montpelier Station, VA</div>
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<b><i>December</i></b>: a visit to <a href="http://www.winterthur.org/" target="_blank">Winterthur Museum</a> to see the <a href="http://winterthur.org/downtonabbey" target="_blank">Costumes of Downton Abbey</a> exhibit, Winterthur DE</div>
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I started the year with a John C Campbell Folk School class called 18th Century Floor Coverings in early January.<br />
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This is a unique class that works best in a school setting where there are heavier floor looms, so the Folk School studio is perfect. <br />
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The class includes rugs from from a variety of different ethnic traditions in North America - (pictured here, clockwise from the top left) Jerga from the Southwest, Scandinavian Boundweave, Scandinavian Drall and a Wool Overshot rug from Nova Scotia; not pictured are the Shaker Rag Rug and Venetian Carpeting.<br />
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It was a small but enthusiastic class and a great way to start off the year, spending a week working together in the weaving studio at the Folk School.<br />
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To quote a favorite book, <br />
In February it will be - My snowman's anniversary - With cake for him and soup for me!<br />
(Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak) <br />
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In February it was time for my brand new class, Swedish Towels, which I taught for the Blue Ridge Spinners & Weavers Guild over the President's Day weekend. I have been planning this class for many years, inspired by a stack of old Swedish VAV magazines that Norman Kennedy gave to me. I love so many of the patterns and structures that appear in these magazines and I decided to assemble a collection of distinctly Scandinavian weaving patterns for a round robin class. The drafts include some lovely plain and twill weave variations, monks belt, daldrall (overshot), halvdrall, rosepath, crackle and more. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The twelve students warped their looms for towel sized samples, wove samples on each loom in class and then wove full size towels later at home on their own looms. I brought an extra warped loom to class and was able to weave along with the students. After class, I cut each of my samples in half and washed one of each pair; the pairs of samples are now in a notebook for this class. Wet finishing changes some materials and weave structures dramatically, so it's very useful to have these pairs of samples.<br />
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As an added bonus, I brought in some band looms and rigid heddles on the second day of class to demonstrate the weaving of narrow tapes to coordinate with the towels. <br />
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Every class has an overachiever! This is Robin and she wove a sample on each loom and then had time to weave off the remaining warp on her own loom, weave a matching tape and sew up her finished rosepath towel.<br />
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<br />Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-65261299737198347102015-01-22T23:07:00.003-05:002015-01-22T23:07:41.471-05:00Looking Forward, Looking BackIt's always nice to look back at the previous year and get a sense of what was accomplished. Although my husband and I have written and sent out an annual letter for most of our 30 years together, the last ten years somehow slipped by. But this year we got the whole family together for a photo just before the holidays and Peter wrote the letter and I spent a lot of time reconstructing our address list - people move around a lot in a decade! We had it printed, ran address labels and spent a snowy cold day signing our names, writing notes and folding/stuffing/sealing/stamping almost 200 letters. Done!<br />
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Ravelry, that amazing internet haven for knitters, tells me that I completed 10 projects last year with 5 others that were begun but not completed. I knit a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/ptarmigan-2" target="_blank">cowl</a>, 3 shawls, a long cotton <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/bias-before--after-scarf-2" target="_blank">scarf</a>, 2 pairs of socks, a summer <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/cece-2" target="_blank">cardigan</a>, a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/sitka-spruce" target="_blank">hat</a>, and one <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/henrys-rabbit" target="_blank">rabbit</a>. On January 1st, three cardigans, a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/robbies-rainbow-blankie" target="_blank">Rainbow Afghan</a> and a pair of <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/mens-mittens" target="_blank">fingerless gloves</a> were in various states of progress. This does not count Old WIPs, just projects begun in 2014. I have a lot of old works-in-progress, more on some of those later.<br />
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The highlights of my knitting year would have to be the two Swallowtail wedding shawls that I knit out of Hand Maiden Sea Silk yarn - one in a natural color for my daughter Hannah and the other in <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/swallowtail-shawl-5" target="_blank">ultraviolet</a> for my nephew Miles' bride, Meghann. A lot of positive intention was worked into the stitches of those shawls!<br />
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Looking forward, I have a number of fiber related goals for the coming year. I have a weaving related book project that I am working on - I will tell you more about that when I have made more progress. <br />
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In the knitting realm, I will be teaching a new class at the <a href="https://folkschool.org/index.php" target="_blank">John C Campbell Folk School</a> in October called <a href="https://classes.folkschool.org/class_details.aspx?pk=18032" target="_blank">Knitting Design: Aran & Gansey Style</a>, and to help me prepare for this I just started an Aran Design study with the knitting study group of the Blue Ridge Spinners & Weavers Guild. I have been leading this group for several years and I really enjoy the opportunities for teaching and sharing at our monthly meetings.<br />
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I have designed and knit a number of Aran and gansey sweaters over the years, and I teach a North Sea Knitting Sampler that includes Arans & Ganseys, Fairisle colorwork and Shetland lace knitting, but these are shorter classes with small projects. One of the wonderful things about teaching at the Campbell Folk School is the luxury of working for 5-6 days on a subject but obviously this also requires more organization, so before I teach a new class there I like to do a focused study. <br />
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For our January meeting, I brought a bag full of sweaters and a bag full of books. We reviewed the basic design elements of traditional Aran sweaters, talked about choosing stitch patterns that will coordinate and balance and discussed swatching. Many knitters don't like to swatch - they feel that it is time and yarn wasted when they really long to cast on for the real thing, but a good swatch will give you the information you need to plan a garment that really works and fits. I talked about practical uses to make swatching more palatable - a swatch can become a scarf, the crown of a hat, a square for an afghan, etc.<br />
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Then I gave out a sample pattern for the knitters to take home and work. I encouraged the knitters to look at sweaters and patterns online and in books and think about what types of cable patterns they like best, and about how they would like to put these together into a panel of stitch patterns for the garment they are designing. I will report back on how the homework assignments went after we meet in February.<br />
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For myself, I would like to design & knit a few baby & child size Aran & gansey sweaters this year as class samples, and hopefully complete a few of the unfinished projects pictured above. Clockwise from the top: the orange is Thea Coleman's design <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/dark-and-stormy-2" target="_blank">Dark & Stormy</a> in Peace Fleece Worsted, color Glasnost Gold; the tan is a natural brown sheep colored genuine Aran sweater that I bought in the west of Ireland in 1980; the blue grey is Kristen Kapur's <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/dr-gs-memory-vest" target="_blank">Dr. G's Memory Vest </a>in Peace Fleece Worsted, color Lakinka Malinka; the red is Juliet Moody's <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/sparrow" target="_blank">Sparrow cardigan</a> in some Vermont farm wool that my friend Norman Kennedy dyed with cochineal and the brown is Alice Starmore's <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/st-brigid" target="_blank">St. Brigid</a> in Black Water Abbey Worsted, color Chestnut.<br />
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What goals are you considering for the coming year? Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-20371101528913954392015-01-15T19:29:00.000-05:002015-01-15T19:29:43.038-05:00I am Unusually Coordinated Today<br />
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The weather has been unusually cold in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia for the last two weeks. We live in a 1905 farmhouse with a woodstove for our primary heat, and while we have done many things to help our house heat more efficiently in the winter months, when it gets down into the single digits we spend much of our time at home in the living room near our beloved Vermont Castings Vigilant. Idgy is demonstrating her preferred nap location.<br />
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Today, the temperature will finally get above freezing and the sun is shining again. I went to my closet and chose an orange corduroy dress to wear, and then I had a look at my vests. I pulled out a vest to go with my dress that I have never worn before - I inherited it from my mother-in-law, Beryl Smith Dunning, after she passed away last year. <br />
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Beryl's friend Marjorie Manilow made this yo-yo appliqued vest for Beryl as a gift many years ago. I got to meet Marjorie at my in-law's 50th wedding anniversary in 1990 and we began an occasional correspondence as we both like to make things with thread and cloth. Marjorie lives in Wales and is a wonderfully creative fiber artist. Over the years she has sent me photos of her Twelve Days of Christmas Hat Series and the quilted pieces she has made using scraps of woven Welsh Wool coats. I haven't heard from her in many years now but we are sending out an Annual Letter this year after a lapse of ten years so I am hoping to hear from some old friends soon, including Marjorie.<br />
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When I got to the coat closet on my way out the door to work, I grabbed my most recent thrift store acquisition - a beautiful, bright Harris Tweed women's coat that is a perfect match for the dress.<br />
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I started finding these Harris Tweed coats about twenty years ago in local thrift stores and I have never been able to pass one up. As a weaver, the cloth is wonderful and precious and as an added bonus, many of the coats fit me. I teach a weaving class on District Checks and Tweeds and my coat collection is a terrific addition to the class. My daughter Hannah took two of these coats with her when she attended college in western Massachusetts, a perfect climate for a good wool tweed! Hannah chose a great orange & purple houndstooth and a bright green tweed. She wore out the linings and the hems came unstitched, but the tweed will last a long, long time.<br />
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This second photo of the cloth will show you weavers a little more detail - my iPhone takes better close ups than my iPad2 - but the color is not as true. The purple color is more dominant in the photo than in real life. Can you see the colors of the individual threads? The warp threads are a burnt orange and a medium brown and they go O O B O O B B B. The weft threads are 4 picks of an orangey red and 4 picks of a magenta purple and the weave structure is a 2/2 twill. You can see the strong diagonal lines in this cloth. Many of the other women's coats have a variation of a broken twill.<br />
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I think a lot about blogging, but as you may have noticed, those thoughts haven't been making it to my blog very often in the last year or two. This year, I would like to do more writing about a number of topics, and my dusty blog seems like a good place to start. So here I go!<br />
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The scene above will be a familiar one to my Facebook friends - this is the view from my bedroom window, looking east at the Blue Ridge mountains, which are a single ridge at this part of the Appalachian range. This view is a daily delight, a sustaining pleasure and a reminder of our great good fortune of living in such a beautiful part of the world.<br />
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The other photos I share with you today are another source of gratitude and delight - my wonderful family. This is the photo we chose for our annual family letter this year. Here you see daughter Hannah, her new husband Joe, son Robbie, Idgy the corgi, future son-in-law Ian, daughter Lily, myself and my husband Peter. Creative content: I knit Lily's <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/ptarmigan-2" target="_blank">cowl </a>(Ptarmigan by Jared Flood in Jaggerspun Zephyr DK), I wove my tartan scarf (traditional tartan Drummond of Perth in Jaggerspun Superfine Merino 2/18) and I knit Peter's <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/peaceweaver/fetching-2" target="_blank">mitts</a> (adapted from Dashing by Cheryl Niamath in Jo Sharp Silk Road Aran).<br />
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And then, to leave you with some merriment, here is what happened after that picture was taken:<br />
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I have been many places since I last posted! In June I participated in <a href="http://www.the-mannings.com/">The Mannings Annual Spinning Seminar </a>by setting up a large display of Tartans & Tweeds, including my entire Harris Tweed coat & jacket collection. I also did two waulkings during the day - the traditional Scottish method of wet finishing cloth with many hands thumping and passing the cloth around a table to the rhythm of old songs.<br />
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If you are interested in learning more about waulking, you can listen to this <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/metaphysical-weaving-dr.-robinson/id214848695">podcast </a>of a waulking I led at the Penland School in North Carolina back in 2007.<br />
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During the first week of July I drove up to Western Massachusetts to meet up with Nanette & Jan Davidson and their son, Sam. Jan is the director of the John C. Campbell Folk School and Nanette is a fellow weaver and one of the first people I met at the Folk School back in 1997. Nanette had arranged a day of study for us at the <a href="http://hancockshakervillage.org/">Hancock Shaker Village</a>; they generously provided us with a staff person for most of the day and with her guidance we examined many of the pieces in their textile collection. <br />
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We looked mostly at Shaker rugs, but I also spent some time with the garments, tapes and linen towels. It was very exciting to see the pieces up close, many of which Nanette and I had only previously seen in books as small black & white photographs. <br />
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We also toured the Sister's Weave Shop - Nanette wove a little on one of the looms!<br />
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And we looked around the 1830 Brick Dwelling and the Round Barn. I have visited Hancock several times before and taken lots of photos... I wonder if I can still find them? We were completely saturated from looking at all the textiles so we gave the gift shop a quick perusal and then refueled on salads at the cafe.<br />
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The next day I went to visit my son, Robbie in Northampton for the day and then drove up into the White Mountains of New Hampshire to spend the night at the <a href="http://www.shalimar-resort.com/">Shalimar Resort</a>, were Nanette & I swam in the lake and we all feasted on lobsters. <br />
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All in preparation for our Sunday visit to the <a href="http://www.shakers.org/">Canterbury Shaker Village</a>. We had been unable to arrange a behind the scenes adventure here as we visited on a weekend, but Nanette & I took two tours and then explored the village on our own. There were lots of textiles to see and a local woman demonstrating weaving in a portable band loom. No photographs were allowed inside the buildings. So we saw many things that I cannot share here, but it is well worth a visit.<br />
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At the end of August I drove up to New England once again to visit family and friends, but the focal point of this trip was Norman Kennedy's 80th birthday party. It was a big bash in the huge barn at Kate Smith's house near Plainfield; where Kate runs <a href="http://www.eatonhilltextiles.com/">Eaton Hill Textile Works</a>. There were about 150 people from all over the US and the world, one of the biggest pot luck suppers I have seen since my wedding, a waulking, contra dancing and music and songs. My sister Annie & I were among about 35 people who had studied weaving with Norman over the years - Annie took her first class at the Marshfield School of Weaving in 1979 and I began there in 1980.<br />
The party was a fitting tribute to a man who has given so much to so many people. Lang may his lum reek! <br />
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There's more! I had a number of music gigs in August and September - I sing with a wonderful group of musicians in a band called the <a href="http://flamingshillelaghs.com/">Flaming Shillelaghs</a>, and we did two concerts for the <a href="http://www.bluemont.org/">Bluemont Concert Series</a> in August and then we played for the Glen Echo Irish Arts, Music & Dance Festival over the Labor Day weekend and once again for the CCE Irish Folk Festival in Fairfax, VA later in September. I will tell you more about my Irish music adventures in another post, because there are many interesting stories and journeys to relate.<br />
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I taught three classes for the <a href="http://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/">Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival</a> right here in Berryville<br />
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and then in October I did a wool waulking at the <a href="http://www.waterfordfoundation.org/waterford-fair">Waterford Fair</a>,<br />
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prepared a new weaving display for <a href="http://www.mountvernon.org/">George Washington's Mount Vernon</a> and went on a vacation and research trip with my husband for two weeks in England and Ireland. More on that later, I promise! Photos, too.<br />
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In November I taught my 18th c. Linens class at the <a href="http://www.folkschool.org/">John C Campbell Folk School</a>. I was ably assisted by my friend Lucy Best and we had eight great students. It is always a delight to teach at the Folk School and this week was particularly enjoyable with such an amiable group of weavers.<br />
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OK, coming soon - more about Irish music, touring Cornwall, researching Donegal Tweed!<br />
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I will be teaching my Scottish Sampler class for the Albemarle Handweavers Guild on April 21 & 22, 2013.<br />
This is a combination of my Tartans and my Tweeds & District Checks class - a nice combination of two traditional Scots textiles. I am posting scans here of the samples for this class so that the students can choose the warp for their loom. The Tweeds will be woven with Jaggerspun Maine Line and Heathers 2/8 set at 12 epi, the Tartans will be woven with Jaggerspun Superfine Merino 2/18 set at 30 epi.<br />
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There may still be room for more students in this class - let me know very soon if you are interested by leaving a comment for this post!<br />
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Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08081696975112970993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918338371929205212.post-9887463019720207182013-01-17T16:56:00.002-05:002013-01-17T16:56:53.181-05:00Knit Traditional at the Folk School!There is still room in my <a href="https://classes.folkschool.org/class_details.aspx?pk=15449">Traditional Island Knitting Sampler</a> at the <a href="http://www.folkschool.org/">John C Campbell Folk School</a><br />
March 3 - 9, 2013. This is a great class, loaded with information, techniques and tips and the Folk School is a wonderful place to spend a week, especially in early spring.<br />
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We will spend a day exploring each of these traditions:<br />
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Fair Isle colorwork</div>
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We will make a small cabled bag, a tiny fair isle sweater and a bookmark or two of lace.<br />
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Adventurous beginners are more than welcome, along with more experienced knitters!<br />
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So treat yourself to a week at the Folk School: great food, congenial company, a beautiful mountain campus and a week of cozy knitting and chatting. What could be better?
For details, click the class title or go to www.folkschool.org.
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