Joan Taylor showed a multi-directional scarf knit out of 2 skeins of the same multi-coloured yarns. It is called a Math Geek scarf and is all garter stitch.
Marie Slessor showed two baskets that she made at a basket school in York, England. One basket was made of knotted waxed linen in greens, blues and yellows representing earth, water and air. The second basket was made from recycled materials: hemp and telephone wire.
Elizabeth Bell wove a green scarf on parallel advancing twill which she designed on her computer for her 16 shaft loom. The warp was handpainted silk and the weft was silk and wool.
Terry Villeneuve showed her double weave baby blanket. The double weave created pockets which she stuffed with poly- fill as she wove. The finished blanket was mauve and lavender 8/2 cotton but originally one of the colours was gold. After weaving a few inches, she decided that she didn’t like the colours and she removed all the gold threads (half the warp) and replaced them with lavender. She wove the blanket for Irene Weisner’s grand daughter.
Anne Marie Buchanan brought three willow baskets she made at the basket school in York, England including a gather- ing basket and a carrier for a bicycle.
Janice Griffiths showed the loom bench cushions she made out of hand woven and handspun wool curtains that had faded. She dyed the fabric and felted it. She also had a handspun mobius scarf knit with lace technique on a knitting ma- chine – the scarf went from black, to blue, purple and red. The scarf was first machine knit in stocking stitch, painted, heat set and then ripped up and knit into a lace scarf. The edge was crocheted with handspun silk.
Beryl Hickenbottom wove two collapse weave scarves. One was woven of blue and black Shetland wool and tencel and the other was green and pink wool and bamboo. She put these in the washing machine to produce differential shrinkage and thus puckering.
Donna Campbell showed her dyed wool from the spinning retreat at Fenn Lodge. The wool was dyed by knitting it on a knitting machine, painting the knit fabric and then ripping it up to be used for whatever knitting or weaving project you want. She also showed the fine silk she dyed at the Coquitlam Weavers using vat dyes that work like indigo.
Ruth Griffiths brought a tea towel woven on the draw loom in 16/2 cotton with gardening motifs in pastel colours. She also brought a purse made out of knitted hand spun yarn which was put together by needle felting. Needle felting, sprinkle dying and beading were also used to embellish the purse. She made a cushion this way as well: knitting and felting the handspun yarn and then using needle felting to join the sides. She used her own hand made Fimo buttons to embellish the purse and cushion.
Janice and Ruth Griffiths brought cushions that they made. The fronts were woven in the Krokbragd technique at Unni Lorenz’s Trollheimen Weaving Studio. The backs were knitted with the left over yarns from the weaving. They also brought socks knit out of yarn that they dyed in a Linda Shellhammer workshop at ANWG last year – a workshop to learn how to produce self patterning yarn.
Jay Rudolph showed 3 ikat 100% silk scarves that she wove. She did the ikat dying with acid dyes. Some of the yarn was silk boucle.
Shan Melzak wove a yellow, pink and blue medallion out of fine coloured wire.
