The Basket Group
The Basket Group started in 1970 and meets at 12 Noon on the first Thursday of the month
at member’s homes. Members showed their projects:
- Anne Marie Buchanan showed her breadbaskets and two original bowls she learned how
to do at a workshop in York. - Noelle Lamb – cedar and sedge basket.
- Marie Seabrook – twisted willow basket and another made out of dyed, waxed linen.
- Irene Weisner – random ball decoration, a large Appalachian egg basket made of different
materials. - Marie Slessor – Cherokee picnic basket, carrying and travel baskets, a seaweed basket, a
basket made of cedar bark and other plants, a cracker basket, an egg basket and a basket
made of cedar and sea shells.
Design Group
Joanne Ryeburn leads the design group where they discuss design issues. They used paper craft to do mock ups of designs. Kate Barber brought her mock up of a wall hanging: a four layer weaver with crossing layers.
Into Weave Group
The Into Weave Group meets on Saturdays 4 or 5 times a year at 10:30 at
member’s homes.
- Terry Villeneuve brought her overshot squares from the friendship coverlet project
that the group worked on last year. She is embroidering the name of the overshot pattern on each square. - Janice Griffiths showed one scarf she wove for the Into Weave scarf exchange. It was woven out of 20/2 mercerized cotton in an 8 shaft huck pattern. She also
showed the scarf that she received- a woven shibori cotton scarf woven and dyed
by Susan Milliken. Janice also showed the draw loom weaving she made for
another Intoweave project – all the members had the same calendar picture and
used colours from the picture for any weaving project. - Ruth Griffiths also showed a scarf woven in red 20/2 mercerized cotton with
beaded embellishment. The red weft on the blue warp produced an iridescent effect. - Barb Mitchell wove green scarves in wool and bamboo.
- Solveig Gagnon showed her pink scarf that she wove and the red scarf she received from Linda Kunster in the scarf exchange.
- Many of the IntoWeave group attended the Fenn Lodge Spinning Retreat where they knit fabric on a knitting machine and painted the fabric with dyes. The fabric was to be unraveled to produce self patterning yarn for knitting or weaving.
- Ruth Griffiths knit socks out of her green, red and orange handspun yarn.
- Janice Griffiths knit a lace mobius scarf out of handspun wine and black yarn.
- Anita Jamieson knit socks out of her multicoloured yarn.
Spectrum
Spectrum meets at member’s houses on the first Thursday of the month. They did a lot of felted projects this year.
- Joanne Ryeburn, Louisa Chadwick, Masami Yesaki, onna Campbell and Kirsten Friz showed necklaces that they made out of felted
balls and beads. - Kirsten Friz made a mosaic felted purse which was woven loosely out of pink and black wool.
- Sandra Crompton constructed a felted sewing kit using folded paper to hold the thread and needles.
The Spinning Group
The Spinning Group meets every 4th Wednesday night at Jo Anne Ryburn’s house. Jo Anne Ryeburn showed some of her handspun.
Tapestry Weaving Group
This is a group that formed after Convergence. Although it is not a group of the Vancouver Guild, many members belong
to both. It is also affiliated with a tapestry group on Vancouver Island. The group has had three exhibitions in its short
history: at Place des Arts, the Ferry Building and Fibre Essence. They are now weaving small tapestries based on recipes.
They hope to do this for a cook book and exhibit the pieces at the Seymour gallery entilted “ Edible Art”.
Warp Painting Study Group
Joanne Ryeburn led a study group on warp painting. Five students met 3 times and painted the warps at Joanne’s house.
- Kay Hansen wove a reversing twill 2/20 silk scarf with painted warp in yellow, peach and orange.
- Anita Jamieson knit with her painted yarn which she wound all over her house. The yarn is yellow, blue, orange andgreen.
- Jo Skinner painted a silk warp in 5 separate groups and dyed different coloured skeins for the weft of her scarves. One
scarf was orange, brown and raspberry. The other scarf was purple/red and yellow/orange. - Joanne Ryeburn painted a warp and then used it to weave blocks of twill for a vest.
Shadow Weave Study Group
Beryl Hickenbottom led the shadow weave study group. They are still working on their projects.
Collapse Weave Workshop – Instructor Jane Stafford
Diana Herbst and Donna Campbell showed their samples from the workshop. Some samples involved a mix of yarns
that shrink and yarns that do not shrink when washed.
Tapestry Workshop – Instructor James Koehler
- Rob Kolen’s tapestry is still on his loom.
- Jay Rudolph brought the samples that she wove: a purple pear on an orange background and another one that
demonstrates luminosity with triangles in different colours.
submitted by Janice Griffiths
