Ending 2017 and starting 2018: Happy New Year (new programme published)
The year is now almost done and this picture (emailed before Christmas by a triumphant Ruth McCartney) has a lovely end of year sense of achievement. Ruth completed these following Ruth Hainsworth's GBA session on sock knitting at our December meeting. Nice to see how things end up and these do look lovely.
During 2017 guild members ha
ve added to their knowledge across all manner of things, especially dyeing - with food colours for fun play, using 'proper' acid dyes (taught by the talented Katie Weston) and also experimenting with natural dyes. We learned to spin cotton and share Sarah Wroot's love of this fibre, we got better at evaluating fleeces and carding wool). We have been out and about demonstrating and also lured visitors to our Open Day. Many members have acquired looms, wheels and dyed fibre as a result of this past year's activities.
ve added to their knowledge across all manner of things, especially dyeing - with food colours for fun play, using 'proper' acid dyes (taught by the talented Katie Weston) and also experimenting with natural dyes. We learned to spin cotton and share Sarah Wroot's love of this fibre, we got better at evaluating fleeces and carding wool). We have been out and about demonstrating and also lured visitors to our Open Day. Many members have acquired looms, wheels and dyed fibre as a result of this past year's activities.
You may have received (or treated yourself or succumbed) to other weaving, spinning and dyeing supplies, tools, books or videos as a result of Christmas or sales.
So let's now look forward to what this guild has planned for 2018. You can find the new programme HERE (link). More information about how to sign up for classes which have limited capacity will be in the newsletter and/or at the AGM in January. Hope to see you then and meanwhile Happy New Year everyone.