Dogwood Traditional Rug Hookers Demonstration and Presentation

The Dogwood Traditional Rug Hookers will be giving a presentation at the Mid Island Weavers and Spinners Guild meeting on Wednesday, November 6th in the HarbourFront Library in Nanaimo starting at 6pm. The meeting runs until 8pm.

To see some of their amazing work follow the The link:

Facebook page

to their Facebook page.

Qualicum Weavers and Spinners Sale

2 Looms for sale

From: Janette Lorimer <janettelorimer@gmail.com>
Date: October 15, 2019 at 3:30:36 PM PDT
Subject: Fwd: 2 looms for sale

Hi,
Wondered if anyone in your guilds are interested.

Subject: 2 looms for sale

Ane-Marie is selling her 2 looms.  A Woolhouse 8 shaft and a Leclerc Fanny 4 shaft, photos attached. $300 each.

Please contact Ane-Marie if you are interested or have any questions.

250-748-6056

 45" Leclerc 4 Shaft

45" 8 Shaft Woolhouse Loom

Noh Coat Challenge and Bonnie Cashin Presentation at GVWSG

From: Isabelle Fusey <ifusey@telus.net>
Date: October 8, 2019 at 10:39:03 AM PDT

Subject: Noh Coat Challenge and Bonnie Cashin Presentation at GVWSG meeting Saturday Oct 26 Vancouver

Reply-To: Isabelle Fusey <ifusey@telus.net>

Dear weaving friends of nearby ANWG guilds

Would you let your members know about this exciting weaving challenge and the upcoming presentation at the next meeting of the Greater Vancouver Weavers and Spinners Guild October 26?

We invite weavers to join us in weaving cloth for, and making, American designer Bonnie Cashin’s Noh coat as it appears in Threads Magazine Oct/Nov 1990 No. 31. The coat is very simple and is especially suitable for handweavers who do not sew often. The coat is unlined, does not have set-in sleeves, and has binding for the edge. This means that the coat is all about the quality of the cloth. We have seen this design on all sizes and shapes of women. Our idea is that anyone interested will weave the coat in time for the ANWG conference in Salem in 2021. The more the merrier. It would be a spectacular expression of handwoven cloth. This is not a juried event, but we will have some event, perhaps a Happy Hour, to show off our coats at the conference. Let’s fill a room with Noh coats!

The Greater Vancouver Weaver’s and Spinners Guild is excited to begin our journey to the Noh Coat Challenge in Salem by bringing Dr. Susan Torntore, retired professor of textiles, museum curator and author, to give an illustrated talk on the work of Bonnie Cashin, her clothing and colourful handwoven and hand-knitted textiles in the 1960s and 1970s. The talk will take place at Saturday October 26 at 
11 am, room 308, Artscape Building 268 Keefer St Vancouver V6A 1X5.

We are very grateful to Threads magazine for giving us permission to use the photo of the Noh coat on the front cover of the above issue, and for permission to use the pattern they developed for the coat. They have very generously supplied us with a PDF for sharing with all interested weavers.

For more information, contact Toby Smith at tobymsmith@hotmail.com or Isabelle Fusey at ifusey@telus.net.  We plan to communicate through a Groups.io email group. To join the group, email ifusey@telus.net.

See attached for more information. This information will also be available in the next ANWG newsletter.

Kind regards

Isabelle

Qualicum Sale: Friday, Sept 20th and Saturday, Sept 21st.

From: "sylviad@telus.net" <sylviad@telus.net>
Date: August 13, 2019 at 12:59:14 PM PDT
Subject: Gigantic Yarn Sale at Blow Out Prices

Could you please pass the following information onto your Guild members.

Qualicum Weavers and Spinners are holding a sale of yarns, knitting and weaving, plus weaving equipment, books and magazines.  We have so much inventory that we do not have any room in our Guild room, even with most of it in storage.  Yarns consist of cottons, wool, mohair, mixed blends and acrylics at really low prices.

The equipment that we have left is:

Electric Bobbin Winder
Rag and Ski Shuttles
Homemade Bench
Piano Bench                                      
Cottage Table LoomDrop Spindles,
Kniddy Knoddies.
Swifts.

The sale will be on September 20th and 21st from 10 am to 3 pm
The Commons (formerly Qualicum Elementary School)
744 Primrose St
Qualicum

Thank you

Sylvia Dwyer
QW&SG

ANWG 2019 Prince George

 http://www.anwgconference2019.com/

Weaving Workshop: Qualicum W&S Guild October

QUALICUM WEAVERS AND SPINNERS GUILD PRESENTS:

FASHION FABRICS – take your weaving Beyond the Tea Towel

OR – Weave Yourself a Wardrobe

OCTOBER 19 AND 20, 2019

10:00 – 3:00 P.M.

733 PRIMROSE ST. AKA “THE COMMONS”

Instructor Sharon Wickstrom of Homestead Haven – Sharon's focus throughout her long career as a weaver has been the creation of fabric for “CLOTHING”

This will be a round robin style workshop that will guide you through weaving a number of unique fabrics from deceptively easy to very impressive, in both 4 and 8 harness weave structures.

Participants will gain a thorough understanding of how basic 4-harness weave structures can be

compounded to create unique 8-harness weaves, how to add 4-sided borders to your project etc. You will also cover basic finishing of your fabrics, pitfalls to avoid, how to make up simple woven shapes into comfortable, wearable garments. Tips and techniques for cutting and sewing garments with your handwoven fabrics will also be discussed along with an assortment of finishing techniques to add style

to your handwoven creations.

$170.00 for the workshop plus a $55 material fee to be paid directly to the instructor

The $55 workshop lab fee will include your warp kit (mailed prior to the workshop, all weft yarns and the Workshop Reference Binder with samples.

For more information or to register

please contact Linda Raven lraven49@shaw.ca