member news

After 18 months of writing and dozens of samples woven, Deborah Silver is pleased to announce the official book launch of “The Technique of Split-shed Weaving”. You are invited to join her for a book launch celebration at Praxis Fiber Workshop on Wednesday, September 25, 6 – 8 pm. $5 from the sale of every book through September 25 will be donated to Praxis Fiber Workshop. Deborah will be there with copies to sell and sign. She is thankful for the support and encouragement of CWG members while she navigated her way through the self-publishing process.

Praxis Fiber Workshop
15301 Waterloo Rd.
Cleveland, OH
44110

Our member Deb Silver has won First Place and Complex Weavers Award in the Complexity 2018 juried exhibition for Complex Weavers.This exhibition is in conjunction with their conference in Reno, Nevada.

The piece is called “Planning the Revolution”. Deb says, “It’s a total shocker because most of the work there is done on computer looms with MANY shafts.”

Surely that is no small feat.  So a big tip of the hat goes to Deb from all her CWG friends.

Click here to see “Planning the Revolution”.

https://cuyahogaweaversguild.com/deb-silver-award-winning-tapestrysmall/

To all the wonderful contributors to the show at the Lee Road Library, please meet Patty at the library on Wednesday, April 10th, at 10:00 am to pick up your items that were in the show. If that is inconvenient, Patty will take the balance of items not claimed to the regular meeting on April 18th during the mud painting workshop. You can also contact Patty for special arrangements.

Thank you everyone for participating.

If you haven’t yet gotten your contributions to this year’s library show to Patty, please do so by Friday, February 15th. Entries can be given to Patty or Victoria, so contact them to make arrangements for drop off.

Please also complete the online submission form so we have all the information we need to create the tags that will accompany each item in the case. You will need to complete the form one time for each item you contribute to the show, so if you submit two items, you’ll need to complete the form twice.

Thanks to your participation and Patty’s display skills, we’re looking forward to a beautiful show. Items will be on display at the main branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights library, 2345 Lee Road, beginning February 25th.

September and October minutes have been posted. Members can log in to see them here. The home study group schedule has also been posted for members.

Not a member and want to get the inside scoop? Information about joining is here.

This year’s theme for the home study group is inspired by nature. The first meeting is Thursday, October 4th at 9:30 am at the home of Parlin M. Sign up sheets for hosting meetings and presenting projects for the rest of the year will be passed around, and Debbie S. will present her already completed home study project.

We were a smaller group than usual this month, but we had a great time. If you couldn’t be there, read on to find out what you missed.

Our hostess Patty presented:

• a beautiful tencel scarf that she wove, magenta and green warp with a taupe weft in undulating point draft 2/2 twill pattern taken from Handweaver’s Pattern Book, with some bonus tips about how to protect delicate fabric with long floats as it winds onto the cloth beam

• ceinture fléchée bracelets based on the voyageur bracelets she saw on her trip to Canada (post forthcoming)

• and a color gamp that is also a twill pattern gamp that she made for the 2007 home study group

Parlin shared

• a report on her recent trip to Massachusetts, which included visits to WEBS and also Vavstuga, where Susan Conover gave her a tour
• two twill samplers she made in classes with Susan Conover in 2000 and 2001 (60 different twills!)

• a luscisous V-neck origami blouse she wove from silk as an experiment last winter (verdict: the experiment was a success as she already has a commission to make another one just like it for a friend)

• photos of a twill baby blanket she wove in acrylic from Yarn Barn kit

Debbie asked about dyeing with black walnuts (I didn’t hear all of that conversation, but Victoria’s tips included instructions to drive over them with your car to get the husks off) and doup threads. Debbie, is this what you were talking about?

Nora got some spinning done.

Victoria passed around her beautiful peyote stitch beaded medallion based on her own pattern of repeating triangles and brought a selection of twill reference books and design collections from the library for inspiration.

Lynne shared a collection of scarves she’s been knitting for relatives while traveling over the summer.

And I flashed everyone the bra I sewed at Boob Camp in Canada this summer (no photo of that for obvious reasons!). You can read more about that class and even see my (non-flashing) picture in the article written about the school in the Globe and Mail (I’m the fuzzy one in the foreground).

The sign up sheet for hosting this year’s home study meetings went around, and the meeting locations for the year have been settled. See you next month!