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Cuyahoga Weavers Guild

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Honeycomb workshop with Barb Wainwright, April 23rd – 25th

March 18, 2015 By Darcy Leave a Comment

Barb’s lecture for the Guild, “Let’s Not Call It Honeycomb” will be on Thursday, April 23rd, at the usual time (11:30 am for lunch with short business meeting at noon then lecture afterwards done by 2 pm).

The workshop schedule is a little different. We are trying to make the time more user-friendly to everyone who is working full-time and needs time to run errands or just relax on Saturday.

Thursday, April 23rd: from end of Guild meeting to 4 pm.
Friday, April 24th: 9 am – 4 pm
Saturday, April 25: 9 am – 1 pm

We are also going to try something new with a limited round-robin where each weaver creates samples for herself on only four looms with representative threadings of the entire workshop.

Workshop description:

Did a coarse 1970’s wall hanging turn you away from honeycomb? Or was it a stringy sample woven at the end of a tiresome overshot warp? Forget them. Given the right sett and materials honeycomb can produce tailored, deeply textured fabrics suited to many purposes, even clothing. Fabrics of surprising complexity are possible on only four shafts.

Using woven examples we will examine the effects of threading, yarn, sett, and beat in developing texture. We will also consider use of color with this structure. Like all deflected-weft weaves, honeycomb needs wet-finishing to blossom but results can be hard to predict. The samples you create will help you plan future projects with confidence.

For more information on Barb’s work it can be seen in Handwoven, September-October 2007, page 52, and Interweave Press Honeycomb e-book which includes her Honeycomb laptop case project.

Cost will be $50 per person ($60 for non-CWG members).   Please send check and registration form to:  Jean Jackson, 2980 Washington Blvd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118.

This is a stash friendly workshop, so materials will be inexpensive and easy to find and/or swap amongst ourselves.

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Note a new date: April 10th is our next program and meeting

March 27, 2014 By Nancy Leave a Comment

Please come to our April 10th meeting to hear Su Butler‘s lecture on surface design. Su will be here from the greater Chicago area conducting our Easy Pick Up workshop. This meeting is the second week of April rather than our usual third week due to scheduling and holidays. We will meet in our usual space and welcome everyone who is not taking the workshop to come see what we are doing. Brown bag lunch is at 11:30 am with the meeting and lecture at 12:30 pm. See you there.

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April spinning workshop with Western Reserve Guild

March 10, 2014 By Nancy Leave a Comment

Member Nancy Curtiss writes:

Hey spinners, do you love color… or are you color-challenged?  What about textured yarns? Do snarl yarns, cabled yarns or knot yarns call to you from the pages of your magazines?  The mysteries of color blending and plying for texture will be explored with noted spinner and color enthusiast Amy Tyler on April 26th and 27th.  Check out her work and then join the Western Reserve Spinners and Weavers for two amazing days of color and texture.  There are still a few spaces left, and we hope that you can join us. See our web site for more information!

 

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Sign up for Beading workshop by Thursday, February 13th

February 10, 2014 By Darcy Leave a Comment

Victoria will need a count for putting together the kits for the Beading workshop by this Thursday, February 13th, so that she has time to get the materials and assemble the kits. If you wanted to take the workshop but haven’t signed up yet, please contact Patty by end of business on February 13th. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Beading workshop with Victoria, February 20th

January 21, 2014 By Darcy Leave a Comment

Our February 2014 program is a one-day workshop in beading. We will be under the guidance of our own Victoria, an accomplished beader as we all know. We will gather by 9:30 am, February 20th, at the Church of the Saviour, 2537 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Please be prepared to begin at 9:30 am. The instructions will begin promptly. If you feel you would like an extra light or magnifying glasses, please bring them. It will be very useful if we listen carefully to the instructions with no interruptions as Victoria gives them.

The cost for each participant will be $50, which will cover the kit Victoria will make. Non-guild members are welcome to participate at $75. We will finish a pin in a labyrinth design by days end. There will be a lunch break at the normal 11:30 am time and a short meeting. We welcome all guild members to come to the meeting and see what we are doing.

Please sign up by contacting Patty. We will collect the fees on the workshop date. Cutoff date for signing up is February 13th.

Thank you in advance to Victoria for her willingness to help us learn another aspect of weaving.

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