KUMIHIMO BRAIDING WITH SUSAN KROLL

Susan Kroll, a guild member of long standing keeps her hands busy weaving, spinning, natural dyeing, crocheting, knitting, gardening plus she raises Shetland sheep and dairy goats. She introduced the guild to the Japanese art of braiding cord. Her program included a bit of history, samples of different braids and ways to use the braids, plus a demonstration on a Maru dai, At the end of this program members had the opportunity to purchase materials and instructions for a small project with Susan's guidance.

RUG HOOKING WITH SUSAN CLEAVES & LOLLY GOLDEN

What a wonderful time we had listening to Susan Cleaves and Lolly Golden's rug hooking England  trip and seeing all the beautiful rugs, purses and slippers they have made. Lolly did a short demo to help us understand how they hook and Susan talked about the different ways to hook. Who knows, maybe a few of our spinners and weavers might be motivated to do some hooking of their own!

ARTFUL TEXTURES WITH LESLIE HOEX

This is Leslie's scholarship program. She took an online class with Suzy Brown, the Wool Wench. It was learning techniques for spinning textured art art. This course helped Leslie polish up on her skills and help her become a certified Textured Art Yarn Spinner. She will move onto the second portion of the certification by learning to design textured art yarns.

SPINNING WHEEL EXTRAVAGANZA 

Many members stayed on after the meeting to introduce their favorite wheel, new wheel or unusual wheel. We enjoyed spinning on the different wheels and hearing their stories. There were single and double treadle, small travel wheels and big beasts. Some with scotch tension and multiple ratios. No matter what type they all spun beautiful yarn. This was definitely a 'keeper' of an informal program which will be repeated.