Peace Country Spinners and Weavers, August 2014

Peace Country Spinners and Weavers can be found on Facebook.  Please come and be friends.

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.

 

This lovely old spinning wheel found in the lobby of the Lakeside Country Inn at Savona, BC, inspired a new feature: Spinning and Weaving found on our travels.  Please send pictures and explanations and website links and they can be post throughout the year. 1358@telus.net

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

 

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.​

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Happy Summer, Everyone.  Happy Harvesting.  Happy Spinning & Weaving!

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Mug & Woven Mug bag exchange

In the interests of promoting spinning and weaving, Marjo and I went to Artspost, our guild studio, to meet Adam Beach, the star of CBC's Arctic Air. (Everyone in the guild was invited; only the two of us showed up. Such dedication!)  He was in Fort St. John to mc a wellness workshop and he had some time in the morning and he chose to come to Artspost to talk to the spinners and weavers and the potters.  Marjo brought her cotton spinning and I worked on the fringes of a wool blanket. We had a lovely conversation with him.   He was interested in our work.  He talked about the possibilities of  a project to teach weaving, for the purposes of making blankets for sale, for special gifts.  He talked of the significance of giving blankets in his own culture.  He told us of his project of bringing movies to remote aboriginal communities, to inspire the young.  He said little about being an actor or about Arctic Air but he did say that the hats they want him to wear never fit and hurt his head.  So...

Spinning, weaving and other fibre arts that you may have seen while on your travels this summer is the theme of the August Threads Along the Peace blog.  Please submit pictures to 1358@telus.net with explanations and acknowledgment of the source. 

The idea was born upon seeing this spinning wheel in the lobby of the Lakeside Country Inn, owned by Donn and Margaret Sherman, at Savona, BC, on the way to Kamloops. The wheel belonged to Donn's Grandmother. It came from Finland and was used to spin linen and dates back to the 1800's.  (A wonderful place to stay, right on the lake.) www.lakesidecountryinn.com

Remember the mug bag and mug exchange celebrating our 30th Anniversary of Peace Country Spinners and Weavers? 

 

 

Falling from Grace: the Tapestries of Barbara Heller

 

A catalogue for the exhibit of the same name is now available – 30 pages, full colour, essays by Barbara Duncan, curator and Robin Lawrence, art critic.

Catalogues can be mail-ordered from Barbara Heller (bheller@telus.net), 5787 Newton Wynd, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1H6.  Cost, including postage and handling, is Cdn$26 within Canada.

The catalogue may also be purchased at the Granville Island studio or from the Maple Ridge Art Gallery for Cdn$21 including tax.

  



Remember the Annual Fresh Air Market – Sunday, August 3^th, 11am-5pm at Dunvegan Provincial Park, Alberta.  Costumed interpreters will be offering tours of Historic Dunvegan's four fully restored historic buildings. Regular fees apply.

Please note that vendors at the market accept cash only. There is no ATM machine onsite. If you are interested in becoming a vendor at the market, email historic.dunvegan@gov.ab.ca or call 780-835-7150 after May 1^st.  Peace Country Spinners and Weavers are participating in this event with a spinning and weaving display.  Hope to see you there.

More Theo Moorman workshop pictures-June 2014

More pictures from the Theo Moorman workshop held in Fort St. John BC sponsored by the Peace Country Spinners and Weavers, instructed by Cheryl Peebles.

Happy 89th Birthday, Mae. Mae is an inspiration for all of us to keep on spinning and weaving.

Thank you to Sue for submitting more pictures of the workshop to add to the collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Spring, happy gardening! Remember to work on the Theo Moorman sample challenge, due either this Fall or next Spring, depending upon your preference.