Summer sometimes gets in the way of blogging. This blogger is just resurfacing with lots of photos and interesting things to show from our group. One reason for holding back on blog posts was that the annual Nevada County Fair was pending last month. Many of our members were going to enter handwovens and it seemed better to just hold off posting until after the awards had been given and there was no reason for secrecy about who wove what!
Before I get to the grand prize winner this year, I'll post around the edges a bit. There were several prizes for scarves from our group. Carol Phillips has been using up sock yarns for scarves. This beauty was woven from wool/alpaca sock yarns and got a ribbon.
Diana Abrell had showed a scarf at an earlier meeting. Its a braided twill that has two faces, a light and dark and you can
read more about it in a previous post. The judge awarded her the blue ribbon for the handwoven scarf category.
Gus brought a fabulous soft shawl to the July meeting. It was woven with Angora rabbit, wool and cotton yarns. She admitted the Angora rabbit yarn had been in her stash for many years until she had matured as a weaver and could do it justice. Sorry there is no way to reach out and touch this in the blog world.
Lots more to show in the next blog post - so come back again soon!
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