When Wednesday Weavers Meet on Thursday

The description of Wednesday Weavers on my website includes: Do you need help...Figuring out how much yarn is needed for a project? Deciphering a threading draft? Deciding on warp & weft yarns and sett? Troubleshooting? This class is an opportunity for you to have your questions answered and to learn from others' weaving questions and experiences. I have been offering this opportunity for years, meeting from 1-3 most Wednesdays. Now that we’re meeting on Zoom it is accessible to many more people. When participants send me photos ahead of time then I create a slide show so we can all see the draft, yarn, weaving, etc clearly and I have time to research questions.

In August and September in addition to our regular Wednesday get togethers we met IN PERSON (gasp!) on a Thursday for a dye day!

Dan and I are now sharing the space known as G-1 (Garage #1) so that there is a great workspace for a project like this.

I do most of my dying with natural dyes, but I don’t teach a class in that. And I must admit that dying with all this color is fun.

When we met last month I was still preparing for the virtual V-Shawl class at the virtual Lambtown and focused on dying warps to be woven into v-shawls. One of the shawls is for sale here. Another is at the Artery in Davis and others will be posted when I get time.

The rest of these photos are examples of what the participants dyed. Won’t it be fun to see the end results after these are woven?

This is a machine knitted piece that will be unraveled to provide yarn for a woven project.

These are what I ended up with, most done after everyone went home so I had time to think and there was room in a pot. I actually have a plan for each of these—most are experiments to see if they end up like I hope. I’ll report back at some point.