WW&S Newsletter, March, 2015 —

March 2015 Newsletter Season 2014-2015, No. 7

Next Meeting

Monday, March 2

7:00 PM

Weaving in Central

America Jamie Trierweiler

Treaters & Greeters

Paula DeYoung

Kelly Brandt

Bob Meyering

Roxanne Pett

Judy Pulver

Meetings are held at

Trinity Congregational Church,

2725 4 Mile Rd NW

Off the Walker Exit of I-96

www.wwas.

Spring Sale Only

Two Months Away! It is cold and snowy as I write this, but in

two months the grass will be green, the cro-

cuses blooming, and the trees budding. And it

will be time for our Spring Sale on Saturday,

April 25, at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox

Church. Now it's time to create items for the

sale!

Again this year we will be guests of the

Potters' Guild. Many of the products we offer

for sale fit well with their work. As you plan,

consider the items we traditionally purchase in

the spring: cottage decor, wedding or shower

gifts, spring and summer accessories, gradua-

tion or Mother's Day gifts. After the winter we

are currently experiencing, we anticipate few

people wanting to add wool mittens to their

collection in April!

Sales tags, inventory sheets, and contracts

will be available at the March meeting. We've

had to print additional sales tags. Because that

is fussy printing, the cost is greater--figure

about ten cents each. Advertising bookmarks

and posters will also be available. Take a few

to distribute to those who might be interested

in coming. At this point, we do not know ex-

actly when set-up will happen on the Friday

afternoon or evening before the sale, but sign-

up sheets for work at the sale will be ready for

you to add your name.

All members of the Woodland Weavers and

Spinners are welcome to sell their work

through this sale. It doesn't matter if you pro-

duce many items or just a few. What makes

our sales tables look inviting is the wide varie-

ty of items available for purchase. We have

two months left to produce items!

Library News It has been a long time since we've had a

guild meeting. Before coming to the March

meeting, will you check to see if you have

DVD's or library books checked out which can

be returned. Several other members would like

to check them out, particularly the DVD's.

We are currently looking at purchasing new

materials for the library. If you've seen items,

either advertised or in person, that you think

would be good additions to our guild collec-

tion please let Margaret Jager know.

Overshot Study Group The overshot group is still active I will

send out an email soon to get feedback on

where everyone is with their sample or study,

and to schedule our next dinner meeting.

Please don’t get overwhelmed in attempting

to complete a sample. Feel free to contact me

anytime with questions.

—Jeanne Hoin

Inkle/Card Study Group Inkle/Card Weaving Study group with meet

on Thursday, March 13, 7 pm at Judi Pulver's

House.

We will learn Baltic Style pickup, Inkle

Pattern Directory, page 61.

I will send out instructions on how to warp

your loom.

Jeanne will also take a few minutes to dis-

cuss card weaving. She will be at the March

28 retreat to show us how to warp our loom

for card weaving.

Let me know if you have any questions

—Judi Pulver

MLH Guild Exhibit

Needs Contributions At our December meeting we decided to

create an entry for the guild exhibits at the

MLH Conference next June. We decided to

work along the same lines as two years ago.

This theme: Expanding our Textile Horizons,

works well with this type of display.

I have lots of raw wool, bags of unpro-

cessed silk cocoons, pounds of cotton both in

the boll and still seeded, and flax ready to be

pounded free of the stems to make linen. If we

group some of these raw items in the center

and then add many examples of textile art--

samples or finished pieces, we could have

something really nice.

Here's my question: Are there a couple

guild members who would be willing to gath-

er textile art samples, take them to Hope Col-

lege, and set them up for our display on Fri-

day, June 5? Give it some thought.

Meanwhile, let's all start collecting some of

our finished samples and smaller items in a

wide variety of textile techniques. We'll talk

more about our display at the March meeting.

—Margaret Jager

March Forward We often think that things do not change

much; yet change is all around us. Who would

have thought we would enter 2015 without our

friend, Linda Blue? Who could have imag-

ined weather would have forced us to cancel

two winter meetings? After twenty years of

weaving classes at the Franciscan Life Process

Center, there will be no more. Hundreds of

West Michigan weavers have been taught

skills, received inspiration and found a safe

haven for learning, thanks to 20 years of vol-

unteer teaching by master weaver Jochen Dit-

terich. Who knew are young fiber artists

would burst on the scene with so much crea-

tivity and talent?

This month's speaker, Jamie Trierweiler,

will share with us her remarkable story of

bringing weaving back to a rural Costa Rican

community. Here I thought weaving and fiber

arts was part of the tradition of South and

Central American native communities. Not

everything is as it seems. Learn how one de-

termined person can make a difference.

The March retreat will have a new location

at the Salvation Army camp on Pine Island

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Woodland Weavers and Spinners Guild

President: Paula Stark

Vice-President: Heidi Bukoski

Secretary: Cynthia Root

Treasurer: Jane Yelvington

Newsletter Editor: Bob Meyering

Web-master: Jane Fabiano-Turner

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The Guild encourages creativity, originality

and excellence in handweaving and fiber arts

through fellowship and education, and

stimulates broader appreciation of the

fiber arts by the public.

Newsletter copy due on the

15th of the month

MEMBER

2014-2015 Schedule Programs

September 8—Show and Tell from Summer

Projects

October 6—Finnish Weaving

November 3—The History of Underwear,

Dr. Susan Eberle

December 1—Holiday Celebration

January 5—Japanese Kimonos, Cathy

McCarthy

February 2—Dyeing for Warps, Rita Petteys

March 2—Weaving in Central America,

Jamie Trierweiler

April 6—Weaving Rugs, Nancy Crampton

May 4—To Be Determined

June 1—End of the Year Celebration

Textile Arts Market December 12, 13—Prince Conference Cen-

ter.

April 25—St. Nicholas Antiochian Ortho-

dox Church with Potters Guild.

Workshops September 22-23 (Monday & Tuesday)—

Diane Totten Crimp Weaving. Cost $90.

Franciscan Life Process Center .

February 7 (Saturday)—Rita Petteys Dye-

ing Warps. Yarn Hollow Studio .

April 18-19 (Saturday & Sunday)—Nancy

Crampton Rug Weaving. Julie Daniels’ Stu-

dio.

Retreats November 15 (Saturday)—CRC Confer-

ence Grounds.

March 28 (Saturday)—Franciscan Life

Process Center, Lowell

Welcome

New Members (Update Your Membership Books)

Reid Johnson

13820 Thompson Dr.

Lowell MI 49331

574-309-6086

Reid1007@yahoo.com

Esther M. Carlson

2391 Carrington Rd. NE

Grand Rapids MI 49525

810-240-8303

esthermcarlson@gmail.com

Wendy VanWoerkom

6490 Boulder Drive

Muskegon, MI 49444-8783

703-517-8510

wvwoerkom@gmail.com

MLH Conference &

Workshop Registration

Is Open If you haven't checked the MLH website

(mlhguild.org) lately, this would be a good

time to do so. The entire conference and work-

shop program is online. It looks really good,

There are a larger number of choices this year,

and they cover a wide variety of the textile

arts. Many of them are appropriate for anyone

interested in learning a new technique or skill.

New this year: some in-depth spinning

classes, Saori weaving, lots of opportunities to

explore surface design, as well as more tradi-

tional offerings. Check it out!

Perhaps the best part of the MLH Summer

Conference and Workshops is the opportunity

to spend time with other textile enthusiasts.

Sharing ideas and information with others is a

wonderful way to encourage your own work.

Because Holland is so close to us, attending

this conference is a good value. Even if attend-

ing a workshop or seminar is impossible for

you this year, it is worth your time to peruse

the vendors' booths and check out the exhibits.

And you won't want to miss the fashion show

and dessert buffet on Friday evening, June 5,

either!

drive—a room with a great view and space for

all your projects, trails to take a walk and a

lake just outside the widows. Join us. Fun

guaranteed.

How many of us face personal challenges

which can change our perspective? Think of

what has changed in your life the last month,

year, two years or five years. I find weaving

like a giant thread that can continue winding

through your life in many ways. As a child I

might have been weaving potholders or weav-

ing dandelions into simple creations. In school

years perhaps you had a weaving class, or

made placemats from weaving strips of paper.

Did you weave early in adulthood only to have

to set it aside as your family or career grow?

Maybe retirement has brought you a new

surge of fiber interest, time and energy. Or for

some, aging issues make us alter our fiber and

creative choices. Always the thread of fiber

weaves through our lives from simple to so-

phisticated.

This month I had reverse shoulder replace-

ment on my right arm and shoulder. I cannot

spin, weave, felt, knit or do much of anything

functional with my right side. But I gaze at

my many skeins of hand spun Karakul waiting

to be woven into blankets. I sit on my loom

benches and dream of future projects. I check

my stash looking at beautiful yarns waiting for

the magic of weaving. I lightly brush my

hands along my handcrafted spinning wheels.

Yes, I have pain. I also still have my dreams. I

am surrounded by “fibery” things. I have gone

back to thinking how to weave the simplest

things together. And I found a class at MLH to

fit into my more limited skills for the time

being. FIBER IS FOREVER.

—Paula Stark

Workshops &

Retreats The final workshop of the program year

(Nancy Crampton, Rug Workshop) is full. If

you want to be placed on a waiting list, please

let me know.

We have one more retreat coming up

March 28. It will be held at Little Pine Island

Camp and Retreat center right off of US 131.

Should be easy access whether you are coming

from the north, south, east or west. If you are

new to the guild this is a great time to get to

know other guild members, work on unfin-

ished projects or learn a new skill. Since we

have had a couple of meetings cancelled this

year it will also be a great time to catch up

with each other. As I will not be at the March

guild meeting please give your $20 & com-

pleted registration form to Jane Yelvington.

—Sue Vegter, svegter@ameritech.net

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WW&S Newsletter, March, 2015 — 3

New TAM Sales Tags We have printed new tags, new colors.

Due to increased printing costs:

1 tag 10¢

50 tags $4.25

100 tags $8.50

Remember, if you print your own tags; they

must have all the same information, our logo,

fiber content, washing instructions, and a per-

forated/tear-off section with the same infor-

mation– in the same order, as our tags, to

streamline the treasurer’s work.

Get your tags at this month’s meeting.

Local Resources Thanks to all of you who shared the infor-

mation below to benefit all our guild members.

You can find out more information about each

of them by simply Googling them by name.

GRAND RAPIDS STORES

Threadbender Yarn Shop

2767 44th St. SW

Wyoming, MI 49519

(616) 531-6641

The Clever Ewe

596 Ada Dr. SE

Ada, MI 49301

(616) 682-1545

The Outlet

1534 College SE

Grand Rapids, MI 49507

(616) 452-3611

Learning from Scratch

1454 28th St. SE (in the back of

CompreNew)

Grand Rapids, MI

(616) 901-7486

MICHIGAN STORES

Great Northern Weaving

451 E. D Ave.

Kalamazoo Township, MI

(269) 341-9752 or (800) 466-5877

Davidson's Old Mill

109 E. Elizabeth St.

Eaton Rapids, MI

(517) 663-2711

Baker Allegan Studios

148 Mill District Road

Allegan MI

(269) 903-6883

Woven Art

325 Grove St.

East Lansing, MI

(517) 203-4467

Sticks and Strings

1107 N. Washington Ave.

Lansing, MI

(517) 372-1000

FORMA

111 E. Northfield Church Road

Whitmore Lake, MI

(734) 761-1102

—Mary Ippel

Sunday, March 8

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WOODLAND WEAVERS & SPINNERS INVENTORY SHEET FOR SALE ITEMS

Sale Date: April 25, St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church

Name: __________________________________ Address: _______________________________________ Phone: ____________

Checked in by: _____________________________ Checked Out by: __________________________

Seller’s signature: _________________________________ date: _____________

P. S. Please remember to attach a self addressed stamped envelope for your payment check.

Continue your listing on additional pages as needed

Item

#

Description PRICE Check

In

Sold Chec

k Out

WW&S Newsletter, March, 2015 — 5

Textile Arts Market Contract

Name _________________________________________________________ Tag Initials_______________

Address ______________________________________________________________________________

Phone where I may be reached during sale hours ____________________________________________

I authorize the Textile Arts Market to sell the items I provide on April 25, 2015 under the terms outlined below: Sale

runs 9 am to 4 pm. I understand the following:

1. This sale is for members of the Woodland Weavers & Spinners Guild. There will be a 20% commission withheld from

the sale of each item

2. The guild will collect and pay the sales tax on my items that sell along with all other members as a pass-through. The

guild will be responsible for any and all credit card fees on all sales.

3. I am responsible for reporting the income earned from this sale and paying any income tax incurred. No 1099 will be

issued by the guild to me or any other member for this sale.

4. I understand that a check for 80% of my total sales will be sent to me in a self address envelope I will provide with

this contract. If I am no longer receiving mail at that address, it is my responsibility to make sure the Treasurer is

given my new address.

5. The Textile Arts Market will furnish me with a statement detailing the disbursement of the monies collected on my

items that sell, which will minimally include the total dollar amount of my items that sold, the dollar amount of my

earnings (80%) and dollar amount of the (20%) commission the guild will retain.

6. I am responsible for delivery of my sale items to St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church on Friday, April 24. Each

item must have an approved tag that is accurately and clearly filled out. I will provide an inventory sheet listing each

item I offer for sale. Check in may consist of verifying my items are within the sale guidelines, tags are attached &

complete and my inventory sheet lists each item. There will be no check out after the sale. I am responsible for the

pick-up of my unsold items at the close of the sale on Saturday at 4 pm.

7. Each member that participates in selling their wares is responsible to donate a minimum or 4 hours in some work for

the Sale. I agree to comply or find someone willing to do so for me.

8. The Textile Arts Market committee or Woodland Weavers & Spinners guild is not responsible for items lost, stolen or

damaged during the sale. (Please check your insurance for coverage. ) The guild will not be held responsible for any

errors made in the sales transaction of my items .

9. The Sale Committee reserves the right to refuse or remove items which do not conform to the sales guidelines. I un-

derstand the display of my items will depend on the availability of space, thus the Sales Committee reserves the right

to display or withhold merchandise based on available space.

10. The guild encourages each member to create items for sale. All products for sale need to be Produced or Created by

the guild member who is selling the item. The Sales committee is available to discuss any items that do not fall with-

in the guidelines published in the annual Membership Book

I accept the terms outlined above.

Name ______________________________________________ Date ________________________