Terry Villeneuve showed socks that she made on her sock knitter out of 75% bamboo, 25% nylon. She felt this yarn made a sock that was too heavy and drapey. She hand knit fingerless gloves, knitting them at the same time so that they would have matching stripes and use the same amount of yarn. She was working on another pair using yarn that she spaced dyed by dyeing sections of the yarn in a bucket.

Ruth Griffiths showed the necklace she beaded in a beadwork class. She brought a number of shawls and scarves that she dyed using osage orange, indigo, and madder grown in
Victoria. She had also dyed a cotton shawl in shibori technique by wrapping a madder dyed
shawl around a pole and dipping it into indigo.

Kirsten Friz wove a handbag out of blue hemp, linen and cotton in modified plain weave.

Marie Seabrook dyed a silk tunic by putting leaves on it and leaving it out in the sun.

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.

Kay Hansen brought an interesting old blanket woven from hand spun wool, the wool coming from sheep raised on her grandmother’s Lindsay, Ontario farm. The green blanket was embroidered with couched and tufted wool in the shapes of colorful leaves and flowers.

Jane Gfeller wove a baby blanket in huck weave of 2/8 cotton as a gamp in pastel colors. She also wove a red scarf in a huck pattern of bamboo yarn from Jane Stafford. In addition, she had woven a scarf using a warp of hand-painted bamboo from Laura Fry. Using a green weft, she wove the scarf in a shadow weave pattern.

Louisa Chadwick knit a delicate triangular shawl using a “Cherry Leaf” pattern with a vivid green cashmerino yarn, which she dyed herself. Pattern (with altered edging, was from the knitted lace book by Jane Sowerby, published by XRX Press.

Noelle Lamb wove baskets at a workshop she attended on the Kitsap Peninsula. A basket woven with cedar, ash and copper wire was woven in a class taught by Polly Adams while a basket woven of paper in a Maori pattern was taught in a a class by Jackie Abrams.

Cindy-Lou Ellis created some silver jewellery -hanging from and double sided braided chian, a pendant consisting of spectrolite mounted in silver with three sapphires mounted below and a Marquis sapphire above. She also wove a necklace of fine silver.

Sandra Crompton bound copies of letters written from 1856-1858 by her great grandfather, who lived in Mauritius. Sandra created eight hand bound copies with white covers decorated with gold designs and red spines. These were given to family members as Christmas gifts.

Barbara Mitchell showed us the jounal she is keeping which details the progress of our moose, Wilfrid.
Courtney Mitchell was delighted to find that a silver and turquoise buckle, which she bought at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody Wyoming, was made by

Lee Yazzi, a well known Navajo jewellery maker. She wove a green and blue belt of wool, silk and ribbon for the buckle.

Jo Anne Ryeburn, determined that the fabric she acquired during a recent trip to India should not remain hidden unused in drawers, made a colorful jacket from a green sari which featured the red and gold stripes which appeared at one end and along one border of the sari.

Submitted by Jo Anne Ryeburn

Kay Hansen brought an interesting old blanket woven from hand spun wool, the wool coming from sheep raised on her grandmother’s Lindsay, Ontario farm. The green blanket was embroidered with couched and tufted wool in the shapes of colorful leaves and flowers.

Cindy Lou Ellis wove a green plaid blanket out of acrylic boucle yarn.

Jo Anne Ryeburn wore a colorful vest and shawl woven using the Silk Studio’s silk-linen blend. The warp for these was painted in bright gold, wine and green and woven with a blue weft. It was threaded to a two block twill and woven “window pane” style. The shawl was sett and beaten at 24/inch while the vest fabric was sett and beat at 36/inch.

submitted by Jo Anne Ryeburn