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Programs for 2009-2010

April 10: We host Iowa Weavers Federation Meeting at Plymouth Congregational Church
Carol Rhoads is our speaker.

April 13: Meeting Change:
Slides from WARP
"Weave a Real Peace"

May 11: Tartan Plaids
Sue Crawford

June 8: Pot Luck Picnic at Mary Paul Even's
Noon: Bring a dish to share
5706 Walnut Hill
Des Moines

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Previous Programs

2010

March 9: Felted Slippers

  • Jane Adams: Woven cloth that has been felted.
  • Plan committees for Federation meeting

Feb Mtg Change: Meeting postponed to Feb 16: Bring what you made from the Shoe Box Challenge.
Could bring treadelings.

Jan 12: Garage Sale [note change from book!]
Clean your basement. Bring with a price in mind.

2009

Dec 8: Knitting or weaving unspun roving

  • Taught by Sue Lustig and Mary Early
  • Bring Hats & Mittens for Service Project

Nov 10-14 Weaving Workshop
Threaded looms will be brought and we all take turns weaving samples.

  • 9:30 -- 4:00 on the 10th (Tuesday) Bring a bag lunch.
  • 9:00 -- noon on Saturday

Oct 13: How color behaves!

  • Susan Warner -- speaking
    (will be handing out threadings for Nov.)

Sept 8 : Midwest Federation Conference report--

  • What classes did you take? Samples/Pictures/Stories
  • Bring Shoe Box with things from your house for someone else to weave into something wonderful for the Feb meeting - a challenge

June 9:  Picnic at Noon
NOTE THE TIME CHANGE!
    at MaryPaul Even’s home at
    5706 WalnutHill in DM.
   Bring a dish to share

May 12:  How to make “green”
   environmentally-friendly bags

   Described by Jane Adams

April 14:  TOPIC CHANGE! Children's Books
   Bring spinning/weaving/fiber related books for children, fiction or not

March 10:  how corn yarn is made and its  properties.
  Diane Fleshin will present.  Lots of fiber to feel
   and even to buy!

Feb 10:  Share your Guild project &
Member’s Garage sale
    a great opportunity to clean out
    your closets.   Price items you
   wish to sale.
Share Project for Phase II.

Jan 13:  Hands On – make a plaited
    twill necklace
for name tag for
   Midwest Weavers Conference
   where DM Weavers will host
    hospitality room. NOTE: Bring a clipboard if you can.

for more see ...

Prior Years Meetings & Programs

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2008

Jan 8 – Lacy  scarf
With Vicky Konrady from the Quilt Block. Bring your novelty yarn & scissors. Use your left overs in your favorite colors. You will bring it home & finish it on your sewing machine.

Feb 12-Share your Guild Project.
What ideas & inspiration did you get from the picture you received in Sept?
PLUS Twine rug [Cancelled again. Snow]
by Karen Seuferer.

March 11- woven Shiboi.
Lecture & Discussion, Mary Early presenting.
Do Not Bring Dressed Loom.. We will be weaving 10 x 12 10/2 cotton at home for the April Meeting.

April 8 – Finalize the Shibori.
We will be pulling our weaving off and dyeing.
PLUS Twine rug [3rd Try]
by Karen Seuferer.

May 13 – 8 harness  Plaited Twill
Presented by Jane Swanson

June 10-Picnic 6:00pm
at Mary Paul’s home

July 12-Dye Event 9:30 am - 3:00pm
at Mary Paul’s home
5706 Walnut Hill.
Bring yarn or fiber to dye
Please bring a dish to share for lunch.

Sept. 9:  Show & Tell – bring your
summer projects, state fair entries.
We will discuss guild project
(Phase II) for Midwest Weavers
Conference Guild Booth

Oct. 11:  IA State Federation Meeting

Oct. 14:  Discussion on direction of
   our guild:
direction, projects, charity
    events, shows. Etc.

Oct. 18:  Road trip to C&M Acres
    in Maxwell to learn & observe
   alpaca farm. CANCELLED
Call Cindy: 223-5408

Nov. 11:  Rep Weave by Karen
    by Karen Seuferer & Vikki Morain     

Dec. 9:  Meeting Cancelled. Member’s Garage sale-Postponed,
    a great opportunity to clean out
    your closets.   Price items you
   wish to sale. Remember your hats/etc. for give-away!


2007

Jan 9-Rope Basket
- Ginny Stewart
Please bring 2 balls of Sugar & Cream, tapestry needle (blunt end). Ginny will bring rope for us to purchase to make our bowls.

Feb 13-Project=Napkins 12”x12”
Any color one warp, as many patterns as you want . cotton  Multiple  projects one warp.

March 13-color, shading and depth in her tapestry.
- Dana Schaffer

April 10- Read a pattern
by Mary Foulkes

May 8- Rug hooking, designing, color.
-Sharon Townsend

June 12-Picnic 6:00pm
at Mary Paul’s home

Dye Day
August 4 from 9:30 am to 3 pm

at Mary Paul’s home

Sept 11-Major Show & Tell-
Bring what you have entered in the fair or what you have been working on.

Oct 9-  Watkins Mill Road Trip
Leave the church at 8:00 a.m. to car pool. We will see a wool spinning mill just the way it was in 1900.

Nov 12-Rug Hooking
Taught by Karen Guffy. Bring bag lunch and stay till 1:30 p.m. Bring sharp pointed scissors, we will be hooking a sheep & background. Kit will be $40.00.

Dec 11-Twine rug
by Karen Seuferer.
CANCELLED: ICE

Dec 13-Spinning
At Mary Paul's
9:30am - 2 pm


2006

Jan. 10: Satin Weave Structure
Speaker: Mary Earley

Feb. 14: Project due
Bring what you have made from the dyed yarn from Sept. meeting

March 14: Rep Weave
Speaker: Mary Foulkes

April 11: Road Trip to Cedar Falls: See their guild shop and museum in town. Leave at 8:30 am from closed KMart East 14 St, North of I80.

May 9: One warp -- multiple projects
Speaker: Vicky Tardy

June 13: Guild Picnic 6:00 pm
[Bring a dish to share]
Mary Paul's house

Sept 12-Show & Share.
Bring what you have been working on or what you entered in the Fair.

Oct 10- Make flowers
On Weave-it looms or card board. Bring your own yarn.

Oct 27-29,30 Weaving Workshop

Oct 28-State Federation Meeting

Nov 14-Huck Weaving
 by Karen Seuferer

Dec 12-Garage Sale
Check your basement and sell us your leftovers.


2005

Sept. 13: A project to Dye for
Bring gloves, apron. There will be a fee collected for yarn and dyes.

Oct. 11: Off-loom weaving with Beads
Speaker: Carol Wise
Fee will be collected

Oct. 15: Federation meeting
Cedar Rapids

Nov. 8: Austrian Knitting
Speaker: Cindy Griese
Bring 4 double-pointed needles, size 7 or 8, Worsted-weight yarn, light color

Dec. 13: Mini Garage Sale
Clean your closet and bring yarn, books, etc.

/no more history available/

 

 

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Other Events & Demonstrations
2010

 Iowa Federation of Spinners & Weavers
Spring Spin-In April 10

Plymouth Congregational Church
43nd & Ingersoll,
Des Moines, IA
Workshops on April 11
..Registration Form

Iowa Sheep & Wool Festival
June 12 - 13

Iowa State Fair
Demonstrations in the Sheep Barn
August 15

Madison County Covered Bridge Festival
October 9-10

 

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Beginning Weaving

With Vikki Morain
Lamoni, Ia
641 784 4747
vikki@desmoinesweaversguild.org

Online Resources

All Fiber Arts
[info on lots of fiber arts; some nice weaving drafts]

Handweaving.net

Ralph Griswald's
On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics

from the University of Arizona

Ravelry
A community for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers

Tim's Treadle Reducer

Vicky Tardy's Site

WeaveZine

Yarn, Fiber, & Equipment Suppliers

Cotton Clouds 800-322-7888

Halcyon Yarns 800-442-7909

Hollywood Hills Boutique
[lots of alpaca]
Pella, Iowa 50219

Pollywogs Yarn & Fiber
[good source for bulk yarn]

R&M Yarns
[good source of mill ends]

Sarah's Yarn Shop
[good source of Jaggerspun]

Spinners', Weavers', and Knitters'
Housecleanning Pages

[used equipment]

The Prairie Fibers Company
Ames, Iowa 50010

The Rose Tree Fiber Shop 515-292-7076
Ames, IA

The Weavers Friend
[manuals for older looms]

Treenway Silks 888-383-7455

Webs 800-367-09327

Yarn Barn of Kansas 800-458-0035