Walk in and Weave
Learning to weave on a floor loom can be a complicated task. Floor looms are expensive. Floor looms can’t be carried around like other more…
Weavers Just Want to Have Fun
Weavers often feel like they’re dancing when treadling and throwing the shuttle on a fully dressed floor loom. Yarn is threaded through the heddles, sleyed…
The Motherhood of Fiber Artists
For us it begins with a thought, image, feeling or inspiration. To bring something with such potential into the world must now give us pause…
Is The Guild for People Like Me? Am I good enough?
Some folks have told me they don’t weave well enough, knit or crochet well enough, or do something else well enough to belong to the…
Teach me a Trick or Two
Everywhere I go I meet people who join the guild after taking a class here. They not only enjoyed the experience, they said they met…
September in the Dye Garden
by Carlie Muessig This season has resulted in an incredible crop of beautiful dye plants! Marigolds and coreopsis continue to bloom and be harvested, while…
Transitions
by Margie Gale In the beginning, learning to flex, stretch, roll over, crawl, stand, walk, reach out and touch what only your eyes were exploring.…
How Crafters Can Help the Ukranian People
by Margie Gale At a recent Portable Fibers Live! SIG, Myra Wood, a beloved member of our guild, told us how she was able to…
A Guild Adventure at Ormiston Mansion
By Margie Gale As members walked from their cars, they were greeted by Claire. Many of us thought she was a new guild member because…
Learning to Weave is Cathartic
By Carla Carpenter If learning something new and challenging on a regular basis makes you smarter, I should be a genius by now. Or, at…