Sarah:

Upcycled cotton thrums and blended with wool and spun for a second life.

Kathleen:

Weaving with cotton knit rag coils from Great Northern Weaving

Allison:

The Natural Dye Workshop from Maiwa School of Textiles wraps up this week. I spent the past 2+ months creating nearly 200 unique dye and fiber samples. Such an incredible class!

Double Ikat sampler made with 5/2 Perle cotton and dyed with indigo and madder. For more information, visit my blog. https://www.allykraus.com/blog/

We’ve got a lot of show and tell this month. Make sure to scroll all the way to the bottom so you don’t miss anything!

John: 

Our friend Melanie Fuller passed away earlier this year, quite unexpectedly. On her floor loom she left an unfinished blanket for her new granddaughter. A family friend reached out to the guild to see if the blanket could be finished. I volunteered for the task and recently completed it. The family is very happy with the blanket and with the sense of closure.

Barbie:

This square ribbed basket is based on traditional Appalachian basket designs handed down over generations. The basket has an extra detail along the top of the handle which was a lot of fun to weave and easier than it looks. It took just about all of the 10 hours that the teachers predicted. It was a lot of fun to weave and a basket that I’ll enjoy for years.

Jodi:

My ikat scarf from Mary Zicafoose’s Shifted Warp Ikat at CNCH. Warp is 10/2 tencel that we measured, tied resist wraps & dyed in class before warping the loom & learning shifting techniques; weft & stripes are Bambu 12 from Cotton Clouds.

Johanna:

 

 

Ulla:

Jodi:

These are pins/pendants (the larger pieces have a bail on the back to accommodate a leather or satin cord) made from both woven and sashiko fabric. They range from 1” – 2.5”. The fabric is mounted on a small piece of wood that fits into the hoop frame and then covered with a matching size wood before the pin back is attached.

Johanna:

Huck lace tunic in white made of 8/2 cottolin.  It is a Robin Spady pattern from Heddlecraft Magazine. It was woven on my 8 shaft AVL loom. I made it using a Simplicity pattern.

Gudrun: Twill Blocks

Terry:

Crochet Temperature Blanket for 2022. For each day of 2022 I am crocheting a granny square with the center color representing the high temperature of the day.

Ann M:

Ange:

These are two card woven mask lanyards. I used 20 cards of 10/2 cotton in black, charcoal, natural, and white, then sewed the bands to lobster clips to attach to mask. The patterns are in John Mullarkey’s monograph  Tablet Weaving: Egyptian Diagonals.

Barbie:

My project is an experiment with collapse weave. In this structure, two different fibers in the warp react differently to wet finishing. The black warp threads shrank and the brightly colored cotton threads did not. This gave me wonderful bumps. The degree of agitation and the water temperature affect the degree of shrinkage of the wool parts. The bumpy texture of the cotton areas emphasizes any iridescence that might come into play between the complementary colors of the warp and weft threads.

Diana:

My project is a set of placemats from a kit I purchased from Halcyon Yarns several years ago called Peaceful Harbor Placemats. They are plain weave with a warp set of 10 EPI, and a warp length of 3 1/2 yards to make 4 placemats. There are three different variegated and solid color yarn’s, a heavy weight, medium weight and light weight alternating throughout both the weft and warp. It’s woven on a Schact Flip rigid heddle loom.

Leela:

I made some valentines Kuhimino bracelets for a couple in my apartment complex. One is made of hemp, and the other is made of assorted yarn from my stash.

Teddie:

Huck lace runners.

Archana: 

6th and final towel on the warp on the loom.

Barbara S:

Fantom Boats, inspired by our view of ships in the fog that we see on the SF Bay. I wove the
stiff silk kibisu yarn into a long panel in 2020, and later cut it up to create these sculptures. The fabric is almost stiff enough to stand on its own. Each boat has a speckled Japanese paper-covered cardboard deck. Each one is about 16”L X 14”H x 4 to 6”D. Lots of fun to make these.

Betsy:

Peach-colored, huck placemat made from a draft by Madelyn van der Hoogt. The green/yellow tea towel is made with 3/2 mercerized cotton using a draft from Handwoven. The yarn was dyed at Creative Endeavors.

Gail:

Gloria:

These are towels woven in a modified Huck Lace with a natural 8/2 cotton warp and woven in 8/2 cotton in colors. Towel with natural weft was woven with hemp.

Gudrun:

This is a collection of scarves woven in Deflected Double Weave. The pleasure of this  structure is that the weaving has two very different sides, possibly different colors, or circles on side, squares on the other, horizontal stripes vs vertical stripes. Any kind of  yarn can be combined, wool, silk, tencel, cotton. Check your stash.

Jane:

My latest art installation titled “In Deep Water” is featured now in a new publication Arte Morbida published in Italian and English.  It is a magazine focused on contemporary textile arts, and it has many interesting articles for weavers and other textile artists and should be of interest to Black Sheep Handweavers Guild Members. The news about my exhibition in Sonoma through Feb. 23, is at this link, and from this people can also look at the whole website for Artemorbida. https://www.artemorbida.com/in-deep-water-jane-ingram-allen-and-jami-taback/?lang=en

John:

This is my first chenille project and my first try at a log cabin draft. I didn’t realize that the red yarn was twice as thick as the black yarn until after I had wound the warp. Dottie Calabrese helped me recover from this mistake and I made two decent scarves.

Sharolene:

Knitted sweater. This is a sweater that Brenda of Pans Garden dyed for me from 1 handspun strand of alpaca and one from a soft wool. I spun the yarn for it at about a dk to fingering weight yarn. The pattern is Sarah Swett’s Magic Medium Sweater. The color inspiration was from the color of a sky at sunset. I think she interpreted that very well.  A big shout out to Brenda, a fantastic local master dyer.

Stefanie:

These are dish towels for my daughter, I wanted to make it an American theme.

Ange: Ikat Scarves

I dyed 20/2 natural colored cotton with black procion dye for a random
ikat pattern. I’m not sure what went wrong with the dye process but I
got dark navy instead of black. I wove both scarves in a birds eye
twill; one is woven with yarn dyed with the weft, and the other is
commercially dyed cotton. It’s hard to tell from the photos, but the
one with the black weft shows the blue delightfully leaking into the
white areas.

Ange: Spun Paper

TIssue paper sewing patterns spun then plied with red silk singles; the knitted sample held up to hand washing. I learned how to do this in a 2021 SOAR class with Judith MacKenzie.

Ulla: Margit’s Flower Yarns, 23×30″, Linen, Cotton, 2021

Ann: “Google” Towels

Cottolin in Google colors. 1 “Circle and Diamond Towels” from Handwoven Nov/Dec 2019, p34-35.  Five towels and three napkins made for Google work mates. Matching woven tape for towel hanging loops.

Gail: Deflected Double Weave Scarf

I’ve been playing with deflected doubleweave for the first time, as the Weaving Study Group recently chose this structure for extended study. Found a 4-shaft scarf draft on Gist Yarns. I altered the block proportions a bit and threw in some color blends in both warp and weft. I had wound a short warp just for casual sampling, but I liked the developing color effects enough to keep weaving for 34 inches. So I have a short neck scarf that I can clasp with a pin, or possibly seam into a cowl.

As a bonus, I might be able to apply the same threading to some woven shibori techniques as described by Catharine Ellis. (It’s identical to a basic Monk’s Belt.) I hope eventually to tie on to the bit of warp that is still on the loom with natural pearl cotton in order to explore some dyeing techniques.

Gudrun: Woven Pouch

Jodi: Felted Pumpkin