The Peace Country Spinners' and Weavers' Poppy Challenge display is now located in the foyer of the Royal Canadian Legion in Fort St. John. Members of the PCSW made poppies –felted, knit, hand drawn, woven, crocheted, to commemorate Canadian soldiers fallen in the war in Afghanistan and generally to commemorate all victims of war. The display was shown in Grand Prairie in November 2012 and displayed as part of the Art Walk in June 2013 at Peace Gallery North in Fort St. John. It is a very impressive display.
The calendar also indicates that it is time to prepare articles for the December edition of Threads Along the Peace, the Peace Country Spinners' and Weavers' newsletter. The newsletter is now delivered by Canada Post to members in the spring and late summer, about a month before the spring and fall conference and in early December. The last date for submission for the December edition is November 23. Area Reps are encouraged to do a report to keep us updated on activities of your Guilds. Members are encouraged to submit articles and pictures. Is it too much of a challenge for each member to write one article per year for the newsletter? Probably the biggest stress for the newsletter editor is not having enough articles. We all have lots to talk about at our gatherings and never quite tell all of our stories about our current projects so let's carry on the communication through the newsletter.
Winter weaving projects are always at the back of our minds as we harvest our gardens and process the garden produce for winter consumption. Well, all of that outside work is done! Now we can have some fun doing what we love. Maybe the best part of spinning and weaving is the planning of the project! Planning the preparation and spinning of the yarn, planning the colour combinations and the appropriate pattern, the width and length and sett. And what to do with the bag of yarn that was purchased about 15 years ago, or was it 20 years ago? It is time to bring it to light and weave it into something fabulous.
It is always fun to make hand spun or woven items for Christmas presents. There is still time to begin. Doing a little every day produces great results, prevents blocks that can create great gaps of time as one fusses and worries over the difficulty. If one works on a project every day, the block is taken care of quickly and no time is lost. And it is always time to start that sweet project at the back of your mind, the project just for you.
The pictures are the Poppy Challenge display and some of projects made by our members and brought to the Fall Conference for Show and Tell. The tapestry was started at the tapestry workshop at Bear Lake with Madeleine Darling-Tung, by Britney, reported to be her first and last tapestry. We hope not, it is so well done! The felted window pane, wool and silk scarf, was made by Lorena at a workshop at Olds College. Beautifully made. Both items are lovely work that is an inspiration to us all.
The plan is to update the blog at the beginning of each
month. Until next time, happy spinning
and winter weaving.
