During the exhibition I (Janet, Chair) tried to capture just one image that reflected the work of each of the 17 of us that had work in the exhibtion. The choice was mine and I apologize for the quality of some of the images! I hope you enjoy these and that you are inspired to weave, spin or dye! if you would like to join our group you would be made most welcome - even if you do not currently weave, spin or dye.

 

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Kath A - Kath is a great weaver and runs weaving workshops for us. She is a past Chair of the guild and many of us weave due to her inspiration. Joe, her husband, is a great asset to us to as he makes, lucets, looms, stick shuttles etc for us.

This shows detail of one of Kath's scarves.

 

Margaret Clark- Margaret tends to work on a portable scale. This is one of her colourful  bags woven in fine Peruvian yarn.

 

 

Sylvia C- Sylvia has been in the Guild for just over a year now. She has taken up weaving and is making great scarves on her Kromski Rigid Heddle Loom.

 

Elizabeth is particularly interested in natural dyeing (from her own plants) and weaving. I have chosen the following as it shows how Elizabeth has taken ideas from our Design workshop and followed them through into a finished product in which she has woven yarns  which capture the effect of the hydrangea so well.

 

 

Joy D -Joy met us at our stall at the Farmer's Market in Alsager, where she treated herself to a drop spindle kit. She joined us in August where she treated herself to a fleece and these cakes are the products of  her first knitting with handspun yarn.

A great start!

 

 

Annette D - Annette is 'into' knitting in a big way, she is also into weaving (plus many other fibre related things too!). She loves making these scarves at the moment, making the intial fabric on the knitting machine and then completing them by hand weaving fancy yarns.

 

 

Cynthia D- Cynthia is 'into' a range of textile crafts ( like many of us!), this is a section fo a scarf where she had dyed the yarn and then woven it - it might even be her first woven item.

 

Margaret G- Margaret enjoyed the bead workshop, but didn't want to make a bead necklace. This is her cabled scarf with integrated beads.

 

Virginia KB- Virginia is exploring weaving at the moment. This is one of her cushions which incorporates some very textured fibres.

 

Margaret L- Margaret has completed more than one 'bag woven round a box' - this requires great stamina! This is one of them. Notice the handles and top of the bag!

 

 

Janet M - Anyone who knows me will tell you I tend to do things in fine yarn! This is a bookmark handspun in Alpaca ( from Cartmel Fell) and knitted on size 16's!

 

Judith M - Judith is a great spinner, usually spinning from a fleece, rather than 'tops'!

This is an example of a finespun yarn which Judith has then knitted into a fine lace scarf.

 

Corrinne P - Corrinne has just moved to the area and joined us at our September meeting, about 10 days before the exhibition. She is an experienced spinner and this shows a single bed blanket knitted in handspun yarn - it has great 'edges'!

 

Lorna P- Lorna was happily weaving on darning needles at the exhibition and this is one of her other woven items, he's about 3 feet high and 1 foot across and called Wol!

 

Sandra P - Having tried spinning , Sandra has decided that she much preferes weaving. This shows how she has taken the colours of an apple from the design workshop and used the colours in her weaving at the 'textures on a rigid heddle loom' workshop.

 

 

Jane W- Jane weaves quite complex designs on her mulitshaft computer operated loom. This scarf shows her love of natural fibres.

 

 

Ilse W - Ilse loves colour! This necklace was made following our workshop on bead making (felt, paper and knitted).