2011 - 2012 EVENTS & PROGRAMS

Meetings and Programs

• Sept 9, 2011 - All About Your Guild and Study Groups
• Sept 16-18 2011 - Fall Spinning Workshop - Peggy Doney
• Oct 14, 2011 - Shape, Form and Finish:  From Textile Tool to Sculptural Art - :  Jennifer Falck Linssen
• Mini Workshop:

  Preparing for Your Art Career:  Competitions, Galleries, Museums, & Beyond;  1-4 pm, optional extra hour for participants’packet review

• Nov 11, 2011 - Creative Cloth:  Play, Planning & Perfecting Ideas to Make Cloth You Love presented by Jane Patrick      
• Dec 9, 2011 - Acadian Weaving, Scholarship Presentation - Kathleen Cook
  -- Guild Stash Sale & Holiday Potluck
• Jan, 10-12, 2012- It's in the Warp:  Color and Design in Rep - Rosalie Neilson
• Jan 13, 2012 - The Power of Block Design  - Rosalie Neilson        
• Feb 10, 2012 - Yarn Characteristics  - Maggie Casey  
•    Mini Workshop:

  Plying hints and tips 1pm-4pm

      
• Mar 9, 2012 - Photographing your work - Gregory Case
• Apr 13, 2012 - Handwoven Cloth Simple to Complex in Central India with Sari Fashion Show - Judi Arndt
• May 11, 2012 - The Structure of Hopewell Textiles - Yamuna Weiner
  Installation of Officers & End of Year Luncheon

PPWG Fall WORKSHOP - Peggy Doney

SPINNING A GOOD YARN

Spinning is telling a story with the texture, crimp, luster, and colors of fiber. This workshop goes
beyond an introduction to a variety of artisan spinning techniques to exploring the ways a yarn’s
characteristics interact.

We will
· Mix colors and textures while learning how to create art batts using drum and hand carders.
· Blend and spin various percentages of fibers.
· Learn to leverage the unique character of less-than-perfect fibers to spin “straw into gold.”
· Discover how to make a yarn that is tailored to the fiber’s crimp.
· Explore how color is used in creating a yarn, as we paint with fiber.
· Use beads, Angelina, silk, metallic thread & other goodies to give our batts and yarns sparkle.

We are now taking sign-ups for this workshop. We will be opening the registration for this workshop
outside of the PPWG after the May meeting. So, if you want to sign up for this wonderful
learning experience, please do so before the end of the May meeting. The workshop will be held at
Table Rock Llamas on September 16, 17, 18 (Friday-Sunday), 9:00 am to 4:00 pm each day.

Tthe cost of the workshop is estimated at $125-$150 dollars. If you would like to sign up via email please contact Heidi Bates or Cheryl Riniker. We will still need to receive a signed copy of the PPWG participant agreement with your $60.00 deposit. Workshop limited to 22 participants.

Contact: Heidi Bates @ babyweave@msn.com , 719‐392‐4522

PPWG SPRING WORKSHOP - Rosalie Neilson

It's in the Warp:  Color and Design in Rep - January 10, 11, 12

Two different colored warps (a pattern colorway and a background colorway) combine with thick and thin weft to form the elements for exploring block design in warp-faced rep.  Prior to the workshop, weavers will select a draft and pre-thread a loom. Learn how "blocks" of rep, threaded on four and eight shafts, can be combined to expand design possibilities. Discussions will focus on profile drafting, use of color, movement of blocks in independent and linked fashion, skeleton tie-ups, different threading systems, and design considerations for four shaft and multiple harness looms. Weavers will work exclusively on their own loom to understand the weave structure of rep, sampling with different weight wefts to create textiles suitable for the table, wall, and floor.  

Rosalie Neilson has been weaving for forty years.  Her interests revolve around two areas of interlacement -- warp-faced rep weaving and kumihimo braiding.  Her rep wall hangings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including three exhibitions in Kyoto, Japan. Her rep work was featured in the Chicago 2005 SOFA exhibit. Her weavings hang in corporate offices and private residences. She has written articles for Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot, Handwoven, and Weavers' magazines, and the Braid Society’s journal Strands.. She helped create Braid Runner, the first software program to predict braid designs, and has published a limited edition book The Thirty-Seven Interlacements of Hira Kara Gumi. A second limited edition book, The Twenty-Four Interlacements of Edo Yatsu Gumi, will be released September 2011. She lectures and teaches workshops (close to 100) throughout the United States, Canada, and England, and is on the Adjunct Faculty of Oregon College of Art and Craft. She is currently writing a book about design called An Exaltation of Blocks.

Expertise:  Advanced beginner to advanced level
Workshop limited to 15 participants

Contact:
Emily Jones (mikegone98@aol.com) or Linda Shaffer (lindalshaffer@msn.com)