Program: March and April Are Paper Months
Next General Meeting: Wednesday March 9, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning
Program: March and April are paper months.
This month travel with Bridget to the Elephant Conservation Centre inNorthern Thailand and experience paper making with a difference. You will experience the process from start to finish.
On April 2 join the workshop and learn to spin paper with Beth Showalter (contact Norma Rosier or Jackie Sylvester to register and confirm your space). The April13th meeting program will continue the paper theme. Check the newsletter at the end of March for further details.
If time allows we will look at some of the Internet based fibre sites.
May meeting is our AGM and the 2015 - 2016 KHWS Guild Challenge
The topic for the 2015 - 2016 challenge is Inspiration from Within (the Guild). The idea is to find inspiration from one or more of this year’s programs to make a woven, felted or spun item, a basket, paper or a silk fusion piece.
The topics include: eco dyeing, silk fusion, discharge dyeing, felting, paper making, marbling.
Submit a written explanation of how you were inspired by a program, along with the item for judging.
Barbara Wigle Estate Sale
Thanks to all those who helped at the sale on January 30th. Also thank you to all those who shopped well. We were able to raise almost $5000.00 for the guild. We hope to support the educational activities of the guild with these funds.
The Great Wheel is still available. If you are you interested – make an offer.
Tea Towel Project
Thank you to Jocelyne for warping and threading the loom at the guild with tea towels. The yarns came from Barb’s stash of lovely cottons. We have enough warp for 14 towels. The cost is $10.00 for each towel, which gives you a yard of warp and enough weft to complete the project. If you are interested in weaving a tea towel please let Bridget know. We hope to have several woven a week, then we will put on another warp of different colours. All funds go towards guild activities.
SALES….SHARING OUR PASSIONS…
KHWS has now officially signed up to participate in Artfest Kingston, taking place on the July 1, 2, 3 long weekend. We are planning to have demonstrations of weaving and spinning and perhaps more. There will also be opportunities for visitors to try their hand at these.
We will also have things to sell. 40,000 visitors are expected to pass through and it would be awesome if everyone could buy at least one item made by our group.
So please start creating – skeins for knitting, tea towels, placemats, lightweight shawls and scarves, blankets, summer weight clothing, table runners, rag rugs, tapestries, shoelaces, purses, bookmarks, bags, greeting cards, tablet cases, cell phone holders, etc., etc. - whatever you can think of.
The sale will be run in a similar fashion to that of our Fall Sale with consignment sheets, sale tags, quality control etc.
We will need volunteers on the sales' desk, to demonstrate and to man the floor. I'll be contacting you with details as we get closer to the event.
Contact Lena if you can help, have any questions or have good ideas and suggestions.
FALL SALE …. For those who like to plan ahead… is set for November 7-13, 2016
Spinning Dates:
A group of spinners meets on the first Wednesday of each month from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (or there-about):
We spin, knit, chat; share our knowledge of spinning, fibres, etc.; solve the problems of the world; and enjoy a pot-luck lunch.
All are welcome to join us for part or all of the day. Bring your wheel, spindle, knitting, or whatever related work. Don’t forget a little something for the pot luck lunch.
March 2, 2016: at Kate Michalska’s
April 6, 2016: at Sylvia Currie’s
May 4, 2016 at Elaine Horemans
Open Studio – Wednesday evenings 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. and Thursdays 10:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Come join the fun…you will learn something new every time – guaranteed!
Workshops:
Here is our list of upcoming workshops. To sign up please email Norma, and send payment asap. Please make your cheque payable to “KHWS” and date one month before the workshop. Write a separate cheque for each workshop. Watch the KHWS website – for workshop updates
Your place in the workshop is secured by your payment. Members are given priority up to 2 months before the workshop. Please send us feedback regarding workshops you would like to see in the future at
Twining: Wait list only
Tunisian Crochet
Tunisian crochet/ knitting done with a long handled hook. A basic introduction will be presented with just a few of the many possible stitches. You should have enough time to make a protective cover for your tablet or phone. Participants need to know how to crochet. Materials: TBA (approx $20)
Date: Saturday Mar. 5th Time: 1:30 am – 4:30 pm
Instructor: Betsy Walters
Cost: $30.00 members, $40.00 non-members Limit:10
Designing Yarns for Projects
After learning to spin, what next! Learn to design a yarn with guidance for your project. Your yarn can be for weaving, knitting or crochet.
Date: Saturday, March 12 - Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Instructor: Beth Abbott
Cost: $60.00 members, $75.00 non-members Materials: $20 - $25
Beyond Beginning Weaving
The workshop is designed for the weaver who has completed the ‘beginners’ course and wants to start another project with guidance. By weaving a project, different ‘threadings’ and ‘treadlings’ will be explored. There will be a number of weave structures to choose from. Materials will be chosen and may be purchased and ordered ahead of time.
Date: Friday – Sunday, Mar 18 - 20
Time: Fri.6 pm. - 9 pm, Sat, Sun 9:15 am. – 4 pm.
Instructor: Roberta McKinney
Cost: $150.00 members, $180.00 non-members
Spinning Paper: Needs more participants to run Visiting Instructor: Beth Showalter
Come and explore how paper can be used as a fibre for spinning! You will learn to spin several different types of paper from around the world; from newspaper to luxurious washi papers. These papers will be spun on your regular spinning wheel. If you have an interesting paper that you would like to spin, bring it along and we will experiment with it. This workshop will focus on the following topics:
o The History of Spun Paper
o Selecting Appropriate Papers to Spin
o Fibre Preparation
o Spinning your Paper Fibre
o Dyeing Paper
o Using Your Spun Paper
Your spun paper can be successfully used in weaving, knitting, crocheting, basketry and other paper and fibre arts. Participants should have a good comfort level spinning with their wheel.
Date: Saturday, Apr 02 Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Cost: $100 members, $120.00 non-members Materials: $25.00
Weaving with Chenille: Needs more participants to run
A round robin workshop: working with chenille.
Each participant will prepare and thread a loom in a different weave structure. Participants will rotate around to all looms and end up with their own reference of samples.
Date: Saturday, Apr. 9th Time: 9:30 am. – 4:30 pm
Instructor: Roberta McKinney
Cost: $60.00 members, $75.00 non-member
Origami Garment: Wait list only
Nantucket Basket: Needs more participants to run
Make your own sturdy, traditional Nantucket Basket out of reed with a wooden handle.
Date: Saturday, May 07 - Time: 9 am – late afternoon
Instructor: Alex McKinney
Cost: $80.00 members, $95.00 non-members Materials: TBA Limit: 10
Out and around
March 5, 2016 – Knit Traders – Yarn Tasting with indie yarn dyer Rhichard Devrieze
Toronto Knitters Frolic – April 30/May 1 - Purlin Js is offering a coach from Kingston and Belleville
Looking ahead…and down the road…
Ontario Handspinning Seminar comes to Kingston
Join us June 3-5, 2016 in Kingston Ontario (Ambassador Hotel) for the 2016 Ontario Handspinning Seminar. The theme is 'Come Play With Us' so plan to come for a bit of fun.
The spring newsletter will be shared shortly – and registration opens on April 1, 2016.
The Kingston Sheep Dog Trials take place on Aug 5, 6 and 7 at Grass Creek Park, Hwy 2 west of Kingston.
ROAD TRIP!!!
Twist is a well known and popular fibre festival near Montebello Quebec. More details will be shared soon but we are looking at providing a comfortable coach bus for Saturday August 22, 2016.
All submissions are gratefully received.
Deadline for newsletter submissions – March 24, 2016
Send submissions to: Nancy Bowman –
KHWS Newsletter – www.khws.ca February 2016 Page 4 of 4