New officers/board members: President, Marilou Moschetti, Vice-president, Bruce Fihe, Secretary, Kris Nardello, Treasurer, Susan PenneyĪppointed leaders: CNCH liaison, Shar Brunston, Librarian, Marsha Hein, Historian, Laura Rider, Programs, LeAnn Bjelle & Jen Dyer, Hospitality, Mibs Sommerville & Karen Golding, Greeter, Diane Wardell-Tuel Enchantment Committee: Maggie Clark, Peg McCullough, Michelle Simon, LeAnn Bjelle, Kris Nardello New Member Liaison: Maggie Clark & Sandy Geise Web Master: Marsha Hein (retiring) Bruce Fihe & Jennifer Palm (beginning) Name tags, Karen Golding A visitor from the Central Coast Weavers and 3 new members, Loren, Patrice and Maggie introduced themselves to the 30 members present for our first meeting of the new guild year. Both also need some work, but I'll post more about that in the future if I decide to wave goodbye.SCTAG Meeting Minutes, September 21, 2022Īs our President, Marilou Moschetti, was ill, Vice-president, Bruce Fihe, welcomed the group of members and guests. With all that said, I have two looms in the mix that will probably need new homes, the Peacock and the Kessenich. (And if I want to use silken threads, well, I just fire up the little Louet W30!!) It's not fine weaving with silken threads, but it suits me. It's called continuous weave, where the warp and weft are woven at the same time. If you've ever seen a triloom, you'll know the weaver walks the yarn from side to side, hooking it onto opposing nails and weaving over and under the horizontal threads that are created in the process. (Do I sound a little defiant?) And yet, I think I really started weaving because I wanted to follow the fibers visually and figure out how structure was created. So, my little saying on the top of my blog, "weaving and knitting on small looms," still holds water. My looms, every one, are still portable and small enough to fold up and store on a shelf or under the desk. It was about five months later that I bought the Emilia loom. But first, with my inquisitive nature and with some helpful words from a Ravelry weaver, along with Laverne's fantastic series on backstrap weaving at Weavezine, I put together a backstrap loom (and chiseled my hand in the process!), and figured out lifting patterns for plain weave, weft-faced projects. From there, I let things slide, weaving-wise, until the next fall, about a year later, when I suddenly had an urge to buy a "real" loom. Little did I know that those simple looms would teach me the basics of weaving. The first looms I had an interest in were the 4" square looms and the little Wonder Weave rigid heddle loom. Okay, we've gone way past the medium plastic bin storage idea!įor some reason–and not just because I'm running out of room in my tiny 8'x9' office–with the recent purchase of the 7' triloom, I feel I've actually come full circle. A backstrap loom, made by me (For the record, this is the only loom I actually made that works, and yes, it's essentially four sticks and some yarn.).A 1940's blue plastic EZEE Knitter fine gauge loom.Another Wonder Weave ($5! I bet you couldn't resist, either.).Two Authentic Knitting Boards (10" and 28") plus the extenders for weaving.(Why stop? They jump into my hands at antique stores.) A teeny tiny wooden rigid heddle loom called a Samuel Gabriel loom.Glimakra Emilia rigid heddle loom 18" (with stand, extra heddles, etc.).Now… (I've kept every one of those, plus added a few.) One extra fine gauge DecorAccents oval sock loom.One 24" Homestead Hideaway triangle loom.Five 4" Square Looms: Two 4" Weave-its, One 4" Simplex loom, One 4" Hazel Rose Multiloom, One 4" Wonder Weave. The purple Knifty Knitter rectangle loom.
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