NEXT MEETING:  MARCH 2, 2022

Business Items & Overall Agenda

• Ready to Release: the group's blog website (Vilija D.)
• Saturday meet-up for Newer members / Those wanting a Topic Refresher
  • (last meeting focused on hand carding, flicking, some wheel spinning for those who attended)
  • at my house - Diana H.
  • to focus specifically on "beginning" topics:  wool washing, flicking, carding, blending, beginning spinning, beginning plying, beginning knitting (sorry, I don't crochet ...) in order to make a small item from start to finish throughout the year?  
    
  • Date? Topics: wool washing, flicking, carding
• Show & Tell -- anyone have yarn or finished project they would like to share -- an item that you are proud of, or learned from, or was a "first", or ...  to share with others about your spinning journey.
• Choose April Topic

Hands-on Agenda

• Assessment of two more Wheels and additional "stuff"
  • Decisions on two more donated wheels -- hands on tomorrow & "up for grabs", if suitable
  • Decisions on other "stuff" that came with the donated wheels
  • Clarification on what group wants to do with flax wheel and walking wheel from Alan B. -- to auction?
    
    
• Blending & Sampling: Hands-on Experiments
  • To participate, bring:
    • Flicker with lap protection
    • Handcards
    • Wheel with at least one bobbin
    • You can use the fiber I provide, or you can bring ~0.5 oz of any very dark colored wool & ~0.5 oz of white wool
  • Experiments
    • Homogenous blend: dark wool + light wool --> medium-colored wool
    • Blend for texture:  dark wool + silk neps (2-ply)
    • Blend for color / texture: Medium-colored wool OR dark wool + sari silk (2-ply)
    • Blending for a striated effect in a swatch (medium-colored wool + dark wool) (2-ply)
    • Blending long & short fibers  
      

 NEXT MEETING:  FEBRUARY 2, 2022, 6:30 PM This meeting has been cancelled mostly due to the snow storm! Wait for a text or more info on this blog for either a reschedule or simply for the March meeting [ March 2 ]

Possible topics for the year as discussed at the last meeting in January: See what you may be interested in, or suggest any other topics.

Fiber studies: Pygora, Angora, Chiengora (dog hair), Gotland

Needle felting

Dyeing fiber, yarn with chemical and/or natural dyes

Art Yarns:  core spun, lock spun, spiral

Making dryer balls

Make a Niddy Noddy

Weaving on a branch with handspun (of course)

Calculating the yarn needed for a project:  sweaters, etc.

Knitting & Crochet with handspun: Fair isle, Brioche, afghan 

Working with dyed braids:  Fractal spinning, spinning across the top, marled yarns

Spinning for Socks

Blending & sampling:  for texture, for color, for softness or structure

Working with beads:  spinning them into the yarn, knitting or crocheting with beads

Field trips: Three Points Mill in Sunman, IN,  Wabash Woolen Works in Wabash IN (could include a natural dye workshop

Knitting:  toe-up socks, knitting two socks at a time

Spindles

Spinning/fninishing Lopi style

Laceweight spinning (a "frog hair" competition?

The Great Wheel that was donated to the Guild. 
Looks nice, but not easily spinnable.