Remember, everyone is welcome to attend, no matter what your level of expertise. We all are learning, and we all share the knowledge we have. We may have our preferred way to approach a project, but we all use various techniques to accomplish them. Come see what is happening.
DFA Studio, 101 N. Union St., Suite 208, Kennewick
Monday September 25
The Rigid Heddle Study Group will meet from 1 – 4 at the DFA studio in Kennewick.
Kathy Myers, kb*****@gm***.com or Dorothy Mucha, de*******@ou*****.com
Tuesday September 26
Great Wheels, Richland Library from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Contact Earlene Mokler at em*****@gm***.com
4-6-8 Weaving Study from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm at the DFA Studio
Contact Cheryl Reed at ch*************@gm***.com Scroll down for more information.
Wednesday September 27
Great Wheels Spinners and Handcrafts will meet at Travelers Expresso, 320 N. Kellogg, Kennewick. from 1 – 3 pm. Contact Earlene Mokler at em*****@gm***.com
The Band Weaving Study Group will meet from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the DFA Studio. We are spending the summer on learned techniques for tracking progress, warping our looms, and comparing the different styles of looms. Contact ja*******@gm***.com
Thursday September 28
Felting meets at DFA Studio from 1 – 3 pm
Leslie Wiberg 509) 460-3127 or ld*******@ho*****.com
Handcrafting Zoom from 7 – 8:30 pm.
Contact ja*******@gm***.com for information or a link to the meeting.
Sticks and Hooks will meet from 10am to 12 am at the studio. If you have any questions, contact Sue DeMerchant or Kathy Thorndike at kt********@ms*.com
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Saturday September 30
Great Wheels Spinners and Handcrafts will meet at Richland Library from 1 – 3 pm
Contact: Earlene Mokler at em*****@gm***.com
Sticks and Hooks
Do you like a mystery? The Sticks and Hooks study group is participating in the mystery knit along (MKAL) of Stephen West’s Geogradiant shawl. The pattern is available on Ravelry, requires 4 skeins of a gradient in fingering yarn, and the first of 4 clues will be released on October 5th. The last clue will be released on the 26th with the reveal of the final design. Please join us for the fun of doing an MKAL.
4-6-8 Weaving Study
Discussion Topic: Plain Weave
Everyone is welcome. Invite a new member?
We’ll review some of fun things we can do with Plain Weave.
Bring
your fabrics with a plain weave structure; made by you or someone else.
12” ruler
some colored pencils. (We’ll doodle some graphics.)
a couple pages of grid paper, any size grid, if you have some handy.
Then we’ll share all the other fiber arts you bring.
Use this group to ask questions and to share with all of us what you are learning. Each one teach one!
BELOW is an explanation of the changed meeting dates.
The August Meeting Review.
- CHANGE: We decided to meet once a month. The first vote was for Fridays. But I don’t know of any study group that has met long term on a Friday since the early 1990’s. After the meeting, I called Marion Halupczok about the reasons that the basketry study group switched from Fridays. She said too many members had last minute activities or travel on Fridays. SO I’m proposing we meet on the 4th Tuesdays, 10:30am -12:30pm.
Those dates are
September 26,
October 24
November 28
- We agreed to not meet in December. Too busy. Take photos of the treasures you finish and send out of town as gifts before we get to see them. We’ll share in January.
- We’ll restart in January. Probably January 23.
- We encourage weavers to donate one item to the Fall Market; all of the sale price is for DFA; no money to the weaver.
Those items must be taken to the DFA Studio on October 7, between 10am & noon.
- At the August meeting on towel hems, everyone had suggestions for tools that make your sewing easier and produce a better-looking hem.
a walking foot (Your machine might have the function built in, or the maker of your machine will have a suggestion for which walking foot works with your machine.) the blind hem stitch on your sewing machine.
Don DeMerchant shared a handy clip with a ruler on it to hold your folded hem without pins that can distort the fabric. Source: JoAnn Store.
Carol Kaminsky suggested a slick mat used by quilters to move fabric easily. Source: JoAnn Store.
Steam press the finished hem.
Try a neutral thread of the same color value as the towel rather than an exact match to one of your yarns. It should disappear on the fabric.
