Show & Tell

Show & Tell

September, 2023 Meeting

LeAnn Bjelle – Shadow weave cloth from Handwoven magazine 2012

Materials: black, red, rust wool/rayon yarn

Joan Near – CNCH 2023 class “tablet band incorporated into fabric.”

Will be pouch or box
10/2 cotton
Comment: fun! Will do more
Dog weaving done prior to the class.

Ellen Nielsen – Turtle embroidery

Orange sashiko boro hanging
Fabric boro and embroidery
Sashiko thread, fabric
Comment: loved making them

Susan Penny – Blue and white towels, loom basket, Japanese flower knot basket

Her teachers: Joan Cierra, Jane Milner, Barbara Shapiro
Cotton, dyed reed, recycled paper from Japan.
Comment: fun, fun fun

Gudrun Polack – Samples of “Enhanced Twined Form” from CNCH

Knotless netting, random weave ball
Materials: waxed linen, stone, cane

Mary Quilling – Silk scarves with shibori designs wabi sabi style

Silk scarf + silk wool
Shibori & avashi shibori
Comment: basic indigo & overdyes

Diane Berry-Wahrer – Mixed media picture

Weaving, stitching, metal work
Materials: yarn, copper, beads

May, 2023 Meeting

Sharolene Brunston – Dyeing

Hand dyed indigo, cochineal, oxalis and mixed vats dyed at Castro Adobe

Jan Dyer – Weaving & Spinning

Multi colored twill blankets with handspun yarn materials: worsted weight wool, wool/silk roving

Janette Gross – Two wedge weave tapestries

Natural churro wool and dyed spælsau

Rachelle Weiss – Weaving

“Kichana” shawl/wrap; handwoven (based on https://www.millecollinesafrica.com/products/kichana-black-ecru)
Warp= 20/2 cotton, tabby weft = 20/2 cotton, pattern weft=Bambu 7 gauge
Weave structure: Park Weave and 7-shaft single 3 tie ( William Bateman weave structures)
Sources: Park Weaves; Shuttle Craft Guild Monograph 37, Virginia I. Harvey, Editor; Weaving Innovations from the Bateman Collection, Robyn Spady, Nancy A. Tracy, Marjorie Fidler

Marilou Moschetti – Felting

Blanket made from a variety of samples – “Nuno” and wet felt pieces stitched together by machine – 48” x 85″

February, 2023 Meeting

Many more photos and videos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/seUHvZ1nRBbHweTz8

October, 2022 Meeting

Mary Quillin
Natural dye experiments on silk, wod-silk blends and cotton, shibori style resist dyes. “Color therapy in fabric!”
Karen Golding
Skeleton scarf, 5/2 black cotton
Patrice Keet
Saori weaving, wool and mystery yarn, red, black and silver panel/shawl

September, 2022 Meeting [just a small representation]

LeAnn Bejelle
baskets from Basketry interest group, darker one dyed with red rooibos tea
Janette Gross
Tiny But Mighty entry, wedge weave, 8”x8”
Peg McCollough
paper weave tapestry, 4 edge selvedge
Joan Vierra
Wedge weave Fair entry – Best in Show, Santa Cruz County Fair
Joan Vierra
rya rug
Susan Penney
Schmeer tea towels from Embroidery Interest group just off the loom
Kris Nardello
knitted dickey dyed with mushroom dyes and indigo
Merilee Carter
shaped piece for upholstering a chair
Merilee Carter
tapestry on left over upholstery piece
Bruce Fihe
knitted cap, using self spun yarn, 1st place Santa Cruz County Fair
Bruce Fihe
single needle – nalbinding technique – using self spun yarn, viking style cap
Rachelle Weiss
hand woven fabric, sewn top

June, 2022 Meeting

Karen Golding
Handwoven blue wool with handspun weft.
Karen Golding
Turned taquete using cottolin.
Marilee Carter
Tapestry loom weaving using a cartoon as part of Twisted Tapestry Interest Group
Wool
Gudrun
Pattern source: my own design
Structure: deflected double weave with fringe on one or both sides
Yarn: mostly zephyr(wool/silk) with smaller amounts of rayon and tencel.
Gudrun
Twill samples woven on 4 harnesses
Inspiration: The Technique of Split-shed Weaving 
by Deborah Silver
Structure: 3/1 twill squares with 1/3 twill background
Yarn:  white 10/2 cotton warp, Sally Fox 10/2 colored weft.
Joan Vierra
Chenille jacket woven from ‘shoddy’ chenille yarn
Mary Quillin
Silk Petal Dyeing / cotton indigo
natural dye, silk and cotton
Mary Quillin
Silk Petal Dyeing / cotton indigo
natural dye, silk and cotton
Mary Quillin
Silk Petal Dyeing / cotton indigo
natural dye, silk and cotton

May, 2022 Meeting

Band woven with new attachment for warp spreading. “leks and band” style from 1800’s Sweden”
Carolyn Newt
Garlic basket, process: twined. material: reed
Janette Gross
Tapestry, process: wedge weave, Material: natural dyed wool

April, 2022 Meeting

Mibs Sommerville – Lion [to look like Scar] from the Weave a Zoo booklet. Shadow weave, cotton and chenille with leatherette feet.
Kris Nardello – gold, taupe, brown printed twill wool rug inspired by Navajo saddle blankets with cardwoven edges. 4 harness twill. wool warp [Halcyon warp 2 AVL] and weft [Mattgarn singles].
Kris Nardello – close up of 4 harness twill
Cam Henneman – felted painting/dog portrait, wool fleece, mostly merino, sourced from farmers markets, processed myself [pick, card, dye]
Cam Henneman – needle felted cat head, unfinished
Cam Henneman – felt paintings, favorite cat
Cam Henneman – felt painting, sunbathers

March, 2022 Meeting


Rachelle Weiss – This draft is from handweaving.net:  Advancing Plaits on 16, U.S.A., 2019, #72356 (donated by AVL and designed by Jannie Taylor). The sewing “pattern” is from a Saori collection (boat-shaped top) that requires a single length of woven cloth with minimal (if any) cutting. The goal is to have the textiles used for the front and back share common elements/complement each other since the sleeves wrap as to contrast the front and back textiles. Both warp and weft are 10/2 perle cotton sett at 24epi and woven at 24ppi.

February, 2022 Meeting

Sharolene Brunston
The pattern is Sarah Swett’s Magic Medium sweater, which is on Ravelry. The pattern has several modifications that can be made by the knitter, according to their body shape.  The yarn is handspun by me, 2 ply, 1 strand of alpaca and 1 strand a very soft wool. The fiber was dyed by my friend Brenda of Pan’s Garden. The colors were inspired by  a picture of a sunset I sent her. The yarn is about lace to dk weight.  It was a fun knit.
Peg McCollough
•15 x 22 wedge weave tapestry. 4 ply wool warp and wool weft

November, 2021 Meeting

Karen Golding
quilted vest, cotton, made with Seminole pieces from Rachel Clark’s class
woven by blind weaver, Kathy Hardin. shown by Mibs Somerville who did the prep and finishing
sock yarn scarf, twill on 4 shafts, using sock yarn [mixed cotton, silk & nylon] and worsted wool
artist – Melissa Arnold, model Marilou Moschetti
indigo kimono, clamp resist. long, open, natural indigo. materials – organza and antique Japanese silk trim
Marilou Moschetti
brown grey Nuno felted wrap, hand dyed silk, fine wool
Bonnie Britton – small tapestry woven on student loom, easy and inexpensive to build
Bonnie Britton – small tapestry woven on student loom, easy and inexpensive to build

Our Shelter in place fiber arts projects

 FROM LEANN BEJELLE Huck lace napkins using 10/2 pearl cotton. I enjoyed having two different patterns available from the same weaving, one pattern on top and one on the bottom of the cloth. Next project I will work on keeping the pattern square!

I started them as a birthday gift for my mother for her 98th birthday. Unfortunately she passed away, but now I plan to send them to her two surviving sisters, ages 94 and 101.

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FROM RACHELLE WEISS Knitted scarves — entrelac combining lace weight merino wool/silk 50:50 with elements from stash (silk, mohair, cotton). Knitting while listening to books…

Draft for these scarves is from handweaving.net and it is a Bateman Boulevard weave on 16 shafts. Warp is 20/2 cotton; tabby weft is 20/2 cotton and pattern weft is 10/2 perle cotton.
Draft is from handweaving.net and uses 3 different twills in separate areas of the liftplan with parallel, 2-color threading on 12 shafts. An additional 4 shafts weave a tubular selvedge — so 16 shafts total. Warp is 10/2 perle cotton and weft is 11 gauge bamboo. I wanted to learn to weave the tubular selvedge as it really gives a nice edge.

from Joan Near

Initially I decided to learn a bunch of band weaving structures. From there, I started experimenting on my floor looms. And of course, I never stop sewing. –Joan Near

Here are bands made on my new band loom from Vavstuga, plus on the inkle loom, rigid heddle, and tablets. On the far left is an interesting monk’s belt structure, and in the middle is a complex Latvian band.
I made a shirt from my handwoven cloth. Both warp and weft were a cool (but delicate) 40/1 cotton & 40/1 wool unplied but together on the cone. Plaid is kind of a pain to weave, and a HUGE pain to make into a shirt! No one gets to look too closely at this one!
I’ve made a million swatches. This isn’t even all of them. Tried to take good notes. In fact, I wrote a 4 harness huck study guide to present to the guild study group, that swatch is on the bottom. I admit, one of the overshot samplers you see is me just weaving off the rest of the Bateman study warp, when I got sick of Bateman!
I have a fan reed. No more need be said I don’t think. This is getting cut off tomorrow so I can try a new thing from a magazine called “shadow boxes”.
Here is an overshot “frame” which I might put embroidery into the center of later. The idea is from Robyn Spady’s Heddlecraft Magazine. A little slow at first but I’m picking up speed. Besides, I have nothing BUT time these days!!
There’s much more to share but I think I’ve really gone on long enough. Next time I’ll take you down to my garage with the drawloom and the 63″ Glimakra……

From “anonymous”

To brighten your day with a Big Laugh. Stitch-resist shibori and indigo dyed cloth made eons ago at a workshop finally found a purpose. Disregard the wrinkles, please!.