On August 3, 2014 Peace Country Spinners and Weavers demonstrated spinning and weaving at Dunvegan Provincial Park, close to Fairview, Alberta at the Open Air Market.
September 20, 2014 Peace Country Spinners and Weavers will hold a one day workshop at Lake Saskatoon Community Hall. The instructor is Donna Rudd, and the workshop is: Weaving Lock Structured Wall Hanging or Rug. This workshop will demonstrate various techniques used to tie in locks in your weaving. It will show how to remove locks correctly from fleeces, how to clean & prepare the locks, how to store the locks, and assorted types of locks that can be used for this weaving structure. We will build a portable frame using PVC pipe. Costs will be $75 for members and $100 for non members. Materials fee will be $15 per person. maximum class size: 12.
Leola's Studio at Whippletree Junction, close to Duncan, BC. The first cover up is a woven adaption of a knitting pattern woven by one of Leola's students. www.Leolasstudio.com
Leola's woven items for sale.
Weaving on Leola's Community Tapestry.
Yvonne Stowell, FibreWorks Studio & Gallery 12887 Sunshine Coast Hwy, close to Sechelt, B.C. www.fibreworksgallery.com One of the yurts is a working studio (with heated floors). Weaving lessons are held there on a weekly basis. Another yurt is a gallery of Yvonne's and other local spinners' and weavers' work. There is also a gallery for travelling exhibits.
drawer of sale items
Yvonne spinning a luscious fibre for her knitted lace creations.
Joanne Waters' wire sculptures of West Vancouver BC as seen in FibreWorks Studio & Gallery
Check out these tapestries of Vancouver by clicking on the link or going to the reception.
Fibre Artist Sola Fiedler is pleased to present
the Vancouver
Tapestry (11.6' x 5.3') at grunt gallery's 30th Anniversary
Party on Thursday, August 28, 2014, 6:30-8:30pm. Inspired by Vancouver
during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the tapestry took the 78-year-old more
than 5,000 hours to
weave, beginning in May 2009. View the full release and photos
here: http://bit.ly/1n5G9MK
Location: MainSpace Community Gallery, 116-350 E. 2nd Avenue,
Vancouver
The Tapestry will be on display from Friday to Saturday August 29 & 30,
12:00-5:00pm. Sola Fiedler will give an artist's talk on Saturday August
30 at 1:00pm.
You are invited to attend the private reception on Thursday, August 28, 2014, 4:30-6:30pm, which will precede grunt gallery's 30th Anniversary Party from 6:30-8:30pm.
Your invitation: http://bit.ly/1ld75VS
For questions, interview requests, and to
RSVP, please reply Sandra Garcia, President, Conscious PR Inc.www.consciouspr.com | Blog: www.consciouspr.com/blog 1.604.721.0030
Lake Saskatoon Weavers
Lake Saskatoon Weavers
The Lake Saskatoon Weavers participated in this event this month. They were using a blending board and spinning different colors of fibre for a fundraising event. Each participant in a golf 4some picked a color that they liked and the colours were blended. From there it was spun and then woven into a scarf. The scarf was auctioned off, in advance of making it, for $200 and proceeds donated to ANSO. ANSO Collectives and Educational Support Society is dedicated to the advancement of education, the relief of poverty, and the improvement of the status quo in disadvantaged communities in Africa, North America and Cambodia. http://www.ansoinfo.com/index.html
Mae, Lorraine, Marion and Shannon all participated and had a good time. Here are some of the pictures.
Happy Summer, Everyone. Happy Harvesting. Happy Spinning & Weaving!
