On Saturday the Guild met to celebrate 60 years of the Kent Guild of Spinners Dyers & Weavers, we enjoyed a bring and share lunch, a cake made especially for us and a fashion show of members work in the after noon.
The Kent Guild had its annual "Vic Edwards Day" on the last Saturday in October, with a workshop where we all try and join in on learning something new, in memory of our founder. This year we had a wonderful day, entitled "Creative Spinning" withAlison Daykin. We were told to bring with us a picture that inspired us, and a selection of spun yarns, and oddments of commercial yarns, beads, fabric etc.
Alison is a very good teacher and took us though a number of the pictures to explain how we could identifyelements of the picture/colour to get the effects we wanted in our spun yarn. She also demonstrated a different method of carding from rovings for colour blending, and various different spinning methods for fancy yarns, a core wrapped yarn, tufted yarn, two methods for attaching beads, two colour roving, two colour slub yarns and more. A great day and I got a lot out of it, I came away with my head buzzing with new ideas for my stash of fibres and rovings.
The fabric is from the Coast range by Makower, I had great fun making it. I love the seaside and making this tote bag was pure pleasure, beads and shells were used for embellishment.
At Summer School 2007 my chosen course was "Dyeing the Blues" learning indigo dyeing with Viviene Prideaux, using a zinc lime vat. We made lots of samples and some larger pieces. I made a soft jacket from one fabric and pieced together a lap quilt from the small samples, it's lightly padded and quilted with piped edges.
These were knitted for my granddaughter, based on some she had seen in a shop, they are lined with some stretchy cotton jersey to make them extra warm, the foot part is based on Aunt Dana's sock pattern.
Our Guild were kindly given some very soft Jacob Sheep fleeces to share and I was inspired to make some cushions from the fibre. It was soft clean fleece and easy to spin. I sorted the fleece to make the patterns. Knitted as two garter stitch squares and then crocheted together round the sides with a zip let into one side.
Helix spiral socks, knitted from oddments of yarn, fun to play with stripes.
This was an attempt to create colours that reminded me of pansy flowers, I think the pinks are okay but the yellowish green is not right yet.
Yarn for a lightweight summer cardigan, all sorts of seaside shades of blue and green, carded ready for spinning.
These were knitted for my granddaughter, based on some she had seen in a shop, they are lined with some stretchy cotton jersey to make them extra warm, the foot part is based on Aunt Dana's sock pattern.
