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Show and Tell April 2025

Donna D – Baby Blankets in Swedish Lace

In our weave structures group our most recent structure was Swedish lace.                                   I did a set of 4 baby blankets with the same threading, but each a slightly different lace pattern.                                                                                                                                                                   They are 10/2 cotton white warp with 10/2 cotton either pale blue or pale pink weft.       SETT is 24.

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Lizzie T – Summer and Winter Towels

Here’s some photos of my latest finished project!                                                                                   It’s a set of summer and winter towels (and, in a very bad photo, potholders!) inspired by a class I took with Sarah Jackson at last year’s CNCH.                                                                        When you use the same size thread for both pattern and tabby weft, the colors blend together much more thoroughly, giving a really neat spectrum effect.                                                I’ve included one in-progress photo with Cordelia (my cat) so you can see the colors of the warp—the weft dramatically changes how it looks.

                                        

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Gail B – Purse and Pouch

Gail B. created a lovely purse and a small pouch from her weavings. 

                      

                                           

Show and Tell March 2025

Aviva G – Handknit Sweater

Here is a photo of a sweater that I just finished knitting. (The knitting is done, but I still need to block, sew on the buttons, and finish the steek.) The yarns are hand-spun top, 3-ply, size 3mm needles. The blue is from New Zealand ca. 1988, from Anna Gratton in Feilding, NZ, and I think it’s Corriedale mixed with some mohair and something with the reddish sparkle. The white is BFL/silk (80/20) top from a store in the US, because I needed white top. I did the spinning from about 2000 to 2024, and I did the knitting from about May 2024 until February 2025. The pattern is from Norwegian Knitting Designs 90 Years Later, which I followed as written except that I made the steek wider. 

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Johanna G. – Linen Runner

Here is my linen leno table runner I made at Ange’s Weave In weekend at her house. It was a lot of fun and hope there are more of them.

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Gail B. – Beautiful pick-up work

Attached are five pictures in approximately the order made. I’ve been playing with more pick-up work, this time drawing inspiration from the book, Crazyshot! Creative Overshot Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom, by Myra Wood. Two projects were done on 4 shaft loom, 2 on a rigid heddle. All patterning done with a pick-up stick.

  1. Wall Hanging front and back

2. Coasters and 3. Neckwarmer

4. Future purse, on the cricket loom

 

Natalie Drummond Thursday, March 20th at 7 pm on Zoom

Natalie Drummond – Thursday, March 20th at 7 pm on Zoom

Natalie Drummond is an instructor, weaver, dyer and fiber artisan living in Fremont, Indiana. Born and raised in Virginia, she developed a love of science, teaching, and fiber.

Her earlier work focused on sewing (Singer Sewing Machine Manager 1992) and needle-felting.                                                                                                                                                                 Natalie has pursued weaving and color with a passion. She has been studying Deflected Double weave intensively, including how to use in Woven Shibori. Her work can be found
in Handwoven Magazine Nov/Dec 2021 and Winter 2024.                  

Program – Natalie’s journey focuses on her love of color and simple design with dyed warps and Deflected Double weave – both 4 and 8 shaft. She has three self-published workshop monographs have evolved from her explorations and teaching.

Her website is https://www.nataliewoven.com/gallery

Show and Tell February 2025

Gudrun P – A T-shirt to remember

Cut into 1 cm wide strips a T-shirt turns into a lot of colorful cotton yarn.

                                               

The left and right sleeves turned into a mug rug each. Woven with Sugar’n Cream cotton in Rosepath bound weave, on opposites.

                         

The six miniature T-shirts were woven together with a white T-shirt in pick-up Taqueté.  Pick-up Taqueté can be woven on two shafts that are threaded as plain weave with a floating warps between threaded warp threads.

                                                                     

                

Kris Bruland speaks about Handweaving.net, Feb 20, 2025, 7 PM – Zoom Meeting

Kris Bruland speaks about Handweaving.net, Feb 20, 2025 7 PM 

We are excited to hear from Kris Bruland on the creation of the internet siteHandweaving.net, which is now the home of 75,000 weaving drafts for weavers to choose from! He created the site 18 years ago when there were fewer than 200 weaving drafts then and has grown the site to what it is today.

He will explain the site, its tools, the use of the draft editor along with showing us how to
search and browse the collection. Join us at 7pm for this lively show and tell.
Weaving Draft Archive: (76,269 drafts available!)

Show and Tell January 2025

Show and Tell January 2025

Cheryl H – Crocheted Silk Threads

Ulla De L – Woven Linen Towels

Lizzy T-H – Seasonal Baskets

Gudrun P – Plant a Tree

The little known technique of “chained weft loops” is used to create small pictures of trees. Each one of the trees has meaning to me because it reminds me of times, places, and people. 

The Technique / Diagram

Chestnut Tree

Burned Redwood Tree

Christmas Tree

Diana H – Bench Cover

This is 23” x 52” Echo Weave, woven with 2 colors of 16/2 Bockens Lingarn linen on an 8 shaft Glimåkra Standard Countermarch loom.

The pattern came from Marian Stubenitsky’s Weaving with Echo and Iris book on page 13. It was woven to reupholster a bench that was built by my Grandpa and sits at the foot of my bed.

Gail B – Dukagang wall hanging

Dukagång wall hanging (6.5″ x 15.5″) in 10/2 cotton with 2/10 Merino Tencel pattern weft. 

My thanks to Suzie Liles for the source inspiration and beginner’s instructions in Handwoven Mar/Apr 2017!

Judith Shangold, “Inspiration and Design Process for the Rigid Heddle Loom” – Thursday, January 16th at 7 pm on Zoom

Judith Shangold, “Inspiration and Design Process for the Rigid Heddle Loom” – 
Thursday, January 16th at 7 pm on Zoom

Judith Shangold was already a weaver when, in 1975, she opened a yarn shop in the Park Slope section in Brooklyn, NY called The Weavers Studio. Though she knew how to knit,
she had to teach herself a lot to stay ahead of the customers who needed help. She has since designed for knitting magazines and yarn companies, was a yarn sales
representative for many years in New England, and was the U.S. importer, distributor and designer for Manos del Uruguay from 1999 – 2007.

She is also the designer behind Designs by Judith and A Bear in Sheep’s Clothing pattern collections.
When she retired in 2007, she started weaving again. Limited in space, she began weaving on a rigid-heddle loom, and became particularly interested in simple, wearable clothing design. Her book, Weave • Knit• Wear, was published by XRX Books in 2014.                               

In September 2017, Judith and her husband, a freelance book designer, became permanent residents of Tucson. Though she is now weaving on an 8-shaft Schacht Baby Wolf, she still uses a rigid heddle loom to teach, demo and travel with. https://www.judithshangold.com/

Show and Tell December 2024

Show and Tell December 2024

Lynn C. –  Woven Flower

      

Woven with cotton warp and DMC pearl cotton weft, 10 epi, 20×20″.                                            The flower is done with soumak stitch.

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Ange M. – Bronson Lace Top

       

Ange’s top was made to wear on a textile tour last summer after she was being chided for not having any handwoven items on her last textile tour.                                                                 20/2 cotton Bronson lace of her own design.

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Carol C. – Handspun Cormo Christening Blanket

     

This handspun and knitted Cormo Christening Blanket was made for Carol’s granddaughter Adelina.                                                                                                                                    The blanket won Best of Show at the 2024 Monterey Wool Show AND 4 awards at the Santa Cruz County Fair. 

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Kathleen D. – Deflected Double-Weave table runner

 

Deflected double-weave table runner woven by Kathleen D. of Duet 5/2 cotton/linen blend, 18 epi, from a pattern by Elisabeth Hill. 

Program for our annual Holiday party with 50th Anniversary Celebration !

Program for our Holiday party with the 50th Anniversary Celebration of our Black Sheep Handweavers Guild on 12/12  at 7 PM !

* This time the holiday party is one week earlier than our regular meeting date. *

Black Sheep Guild will be having our December In-Person guild meeting at
Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave, Redwood City, on
December 12th at 7:00 p.m. Come to meet and greet fellow guild members! We
are hoping for good attendance so, if you need a ride, please let us know so we
can hook you up with someone coming from your area.

Our guild is celebrating its 50th year, and to honor it Sarah Aaron and her daughter
have put together a special presentation to celebrate our half century! We will
view the presentation, and marvel at our long history of creating gorgeous fiber.

Following the presentation, we hope others will also chime in with their own
special memories. We encourage you to bring something for Show & Tell that
reflects some aspect of your history with the guild, as well as any recent work. We
will share a celebratory piece of cake, hot teas and sparkling apple juice for the
occasion.

Please join in our evening of merriment, and bring an edible finger food, sweet or
savory. Please label your contribution with name and ingredients for those with
dietary restrictions.
If you would like to help with set up/decorations, please come early around 6:15
to lend a hand.

There will also be our customary give away table for items you would like others
to have, but please plan to take any items not selected home at the end of the
meeting.

We did decide to not have the gift exchange due to the time needed for the 50 th
anniversary celebration.

Hope to see you there!

The program will be at Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave, Redwood City. The program will start at 7pm, but the room will be open at 6:30 for those who want to visit
beforehand.
COVID note: Masking is optional, but please wear a mask if you have any respiratory symptoms, even if it’s probably just allergies from everything that’s blooming.