Mid Island Weavers and Spinners (and other fibre enthusiasts) Guild

This is the Mid Island Weavers and Spinners (and other fibre enthusiasts) blog page. The group meets 6:30 pm the first Wednesday of the month during the fall/winter/spring (September through to June). Meetings are now being held downtown at St Andrews Church on Wesley Street at the corner of Fitzwilliam St Commercial St in their meeting room. Guests are welcome to come...bring your knitting, spinning wheel or other fibre addictions. Meetings usually consist of 5 minutes of business, show and tell (bring something), tea and cookies, and some sort of workshop, seminar or talk where you will learn something fibry and interesting.
We now have an email address: MIWSGuild at gmail.com

Monday, October 20, 2014

Spinning/Weaving Retreat 2015 in Powell River

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The URL for this retreat has changed. The new URL is:
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

spinning Wednesday night

October 15th Wednesday Spinning from 7-9
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Minutes of October 1st meeting

We had no programme as no one had volunteered to do one so had a great show and tell.
Fifteen people present and nice to see some that hadn’t been in a long time.

Knit Scene in Vancouver this weekend had 3 members going.


Old business
Our every second year Fibre Stash sale is March 21st next year. Since the hall will not be available. as it is being re built .the sale will be at the Cedar Hall.

Fiona is going to look into the Coastal Community Credit Union portable ATM machine to have on site at the sale.

Vancouver Guild has a free lecture on October 16th- one could get details from their site.

ANWG (Association of North West Weavers) is looking fore help for the Conference to be held in Victoria in June 2017

New Business
Eleventh annual Dream Spin is going to be held at Cowichan Lake again this February 13,14,15th More information to come or email Jeanette Roberts.

We need to get more tea etc. Treasurer wasn’t there to give the tea money to. We used to get money from the raffle. I have bought something for next months raffle.

Lots of great show and tell but I did not take notes this time. Anne Fiddick is involved with a Country Christmas Sale November 22 at 2745 Munroe Road near the millstone River Bridge from 10 am to 3pm in the barn.

Hostesses for the rest of the year.
November- Autumn and Lynne
December- pot luck
January-Crystal and Joyce
February-Sharon Fiona and Debbie
March-Kathy and Isabel
April-Julie
May- Betty and Jeannette B.

Programmes
November- Julie doing Shawl pins
December- pot luck
January-need volunteer
February-need volunteer
March-Liz- Salish Spinning
April-need someone
May-need someone

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Guild meeting tomorrow

Guild meeting at 7 pm Wednesday October 1st.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

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Minutes for the meeting September 2014

September 3rd 2014 Minutes of the Mid Island Guild

15 people in attendance. We had a Guest Debbie, a basket weaver from Spokane Washington who has recently moved to Nanaimo.

Library has a new book called Knitting Without Tears and we also have Maiwa's catalogue for next years up coming courses.

Treasure's report from Chrystal accepted

We are now with the Coastal Community Credit Union and Lynne, Kathy and Crystal are the signers.

The Hall we rent is being re built and so we have to have everything finished for use by the end of February 2015. Our Stash reduction Sale which we will be having March 21st of 2015-needing a different location in the area if possible.

Hostesses for the following meeting have been signed up as follows:
October-Darlene and Heather
November-Autumn
January- no one signed up
February- Sharon M.
March Kathy M.
April-Julie G.
May-Betty T. And Jeannette B.
June-Pot Luck Anne F.

Programmes (we need some more help here)

October
November-Julie G. Polymer pins for shawls
December-pot luck
January
February
March=Liz HK-Salish spinning
April-
May-
June-pot luck


Show and Tell

Sharon-towels and pillow of hand woven and wedding pictures
Kathy-Cornsilk and Alpaca combination dyed a beautiful lavender
Debbie -socks
Pat- Sweater and Hat
Darlene carriage cover using leftover yarns
Autumn-kumihimo bracelets
Liz -thigh spinning
Heather -Shibori and wine glass holder
Anne F.- Quiviet
Jeannette B.-warm grey shawl and button scarf(something unreadable in my notes!) and bag made by Fiona with sheep on it
Chrystal-cat ass coasters!

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Monday, September 1, 2014

Lots of things for sale

As I am unable to spin or weave any longer I have a wide variety of things for sale: weaving yarns, yarns that I used for making art yarn. I also have some spinning fibres and a whole lot of dyes. I have a warping mill by LeClerc, odds and ends of shuttles including 2 wooden Schacht boat shuttles and bobbins. I also have a bunch of handwoven etc magazines and books on spinning, weaving and knitting. And I’m sure I’ve forgotten something I haven’t yet found. I am open to any reasonable offer, if interested in any or all please give me a call at 250-248-0678 or email me at sueze@shaw.ca
Thanks for reading this Sandra Massey
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