Volunteers needed for 4×4 at State Fair to have fun demonstrating your fiber arts and crafts

When September 4th

Volunteers will be given a free parking pass and one free ticket to the fair. A bonus for our fun time will be the OWG gets income.

Needed are 4 people each for a 4 hour shift, Morning, Midday or Night . You can work on a fiber project of your choice. Bringing items hang for a display are welcome too.
Please let Gail Trotter know which shift you would like to volunteer for and she will get back to you about exact times.

Please note the following Friday will be the guilds turn at Sheep to Shawl and volunteers will be needed for that too.

When: June 10th 10AM – 4 PM             Where: 6028 Butterball LN NE

Come share and learn paper making.
Contact Gail Trotter getrotter@ccmcast.net if you will come. She will send out more details on supplies needed.

When: July 15th 9AM – 4 PM        Where: 6028 Butterball LN NE

This Full Turn Twining Class will cover starting, the rim and color change on a small Salla Bag designed by Ardith Hamilton. See the results from the 1st class. https://olympiaweaversguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/owg-anwg-basket-report.pdf Twining technique http://basketmakers.com/topics/bytechnique/twined/twiningtech.htm can be done with many different fibers and is not limited to typical basket reed.

There will be a minimal cost to cover materials provided, based on number of students. Students will bring additional materials.

Contact Gail Trotter getrotter@comcast.net if you would like to be on the list for this class. She will send out more details on student cost and supplies needed. Also if you were in the 1st class and wish to finish your bag or share your knowledge you may come too,  just let Gail know what you will be working on.

April 21st we celebrate Earth Day and guild members creativity to repurpose items from their household to make materials, tools or for maintenance in their studios or use in art/weaving.  It will be a fun time and I look forward to audience participation.

If you have items you repurposed or up-cycled please bring them to show in an Earth Day Trunk Show to wrap up the program.

owg-anwg basket report

Weaving the Navajo Way will be presented by Lynda, Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Omelas, two sisters who are 5th generation Navajo weavers from the Newcomb and Two Grey Hills area on the Navajo Nation. For more on these two sisters and their weaving see: http://www.navajorugweavers.com

Olympia bead weaver, Teresa Sullivan, is the Olympia Weavers Guild featured speaker February 17th. She will discuss the status of craft within the art world and share her artwork and it’s influences with a Trunk Show.

Teresa Sullivan creates intricate and monumental sculptural jewelry from humble materials using the ancient technique of bead weaving, revealing her love of the surreal and the irreverent.  The stories she tells in her beaded tapestries, jewelry and sculpture are about the power of people discovering their abilities; from super heroines of comics and science fiction to the real mentors of her life. The tiny beads are transformed from something delicate to bold dense, self supporting artworks. — Teresa Sullivan

For more on Teresa Sullivan’s work see: http://www.teresasullivanstudio.com

Have you ever learned something new and then got to travel and continue your education? What fun that would be. Janis Johnson our speaker got that opportunity. Janis’s life-long hobby has been learning how to make things. She started weaving on a rigid heddle loom in 2001, learning from books. Janis didn’t start weaving on a floor loom until 2010 during her second term as president of the Portland Handweavers Guild, when she thought it would be a good idea to understand what people were talking about. Little did she know that it would become an obsession, with learning opportunities for a lifetime.

Because Janis had taken a guild workshop on weaving velvet with Barbara Setsu Pickett, she received email about an opening in Barbara’s program through the University of Oregon to weave on manual Jacquard looms at the Lisio Foundation for Silk Arts in Florence, Italy. Janis had first learned about Jacquard looms in an early computer science class and found them fascinating, so she jumped at the chance.

Please join us in the afternoon November 18th to hear about Janis’s adventure.

Our fall felting will be checking out Jean’s new felting “toys”. Four of us at a time can make (unfinished size 2ft x 2ft) squares of felt fabric in the felting machine in minutes vs all day. You can make as many squares with about 4 layers of fiber as you like. Plus we will see some of her other industrial tools (e.g the 24 inch carding machine and the cord maker). If you would like to do flat wet felting and not need to do the shuffle and jive please join us.

Date & Time: December 7th – 9:30 am
Contact Gail Trotter for location and other details.

Bring lunch and prepared fiber and optional yarn to craft as many felt squares as you like. Contact Gail Trotter if you need more information.

Also let Gail know if you are interested in making the felt rocks for the ANWG guild booth floor. The booth team is interested in using the “stones” and “rocks” and they gave us sizes and amounts. We will “rock around the clock” after the new year.