Diana spent a large part of her summer in Maine this year. Her daughter and her family live there and her daughter's inlaws have a summer lake cabin. Diana noticed that everyone was reaching for paper napkins and paper towels while staying at the cabin and decided that what was needed were cloth napkins - each different so that people knew which one was theirs and could use it for several days. When Diana finally arrived home, she set up her loom to weave 12 napkins. Her four shaft draft came from the Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon and is Overshot: Small Honeysuckle on pages 104-106.
Some of the napkins have an alternating tabby and some do not. The dozen serviettes are destined to be Christmas gifts; what a great way to introduce using resuable over throw away.
Betsy brought a shawl she wove using bamboo in a shadow weave design from Marian Powell's 1000+ Patterns in 4, 6 and 8 Harness Shadow Weave. Betsy's shawl is an 8 shaft design with a lovely feel and drape . Isn't shadow weave just the best!
Gus wove a shawl as well. The warp is ramie and silk (mostly silk) and the weft was cotton. It is now for sale at the Shawlsunlimited website where it is called Silver Lake Blues. The 8 shaft draft for this shawl came from A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns edited by Carol Strickler, page 52 #206.
Ingrid was weaving towels in preparation for selling at the Winterfaire craft show. Since the show is now at the end of October, she decided that maybe pumpkins were better than Christmas trees (although she made both). Here are two styles of pumpkins and they were a big hit at the sale (but so were the Christmas trees).
There are six of us in the Not 2 Square Weavers group that will be selling at a double booth at the Lake Wildwood Craft Faire in November. Lake Wildwood is a gated community and the sale is primarily for residents. We have high hopes that even bad weather won't keep folks away! Several of us that sold at Winterfaire experienced what it is like to try to sell handwovens when there is a record rain falling outside and the parking lot is flooded. Umbrellas might have been popular!
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