September finds many weavers thinking about how and where to sell some of their handwovens. Our group is no exception and the longer a person has been weaving, the more eager they seem to be to find a market for their textiles. This year the group has reserved two booths at the Lake Wildwood Craft Faire. This is the first time for many of us to participate in this fair, so we aren't sure what to expect.
Dee brought scarves that she will be selling - 12 of them that she wove in just one month! She used the same diamond pattern and wove two scarves per warp. They were all so different in different colors, that you would never have realized they were the same weaving draft.
Ingrid is using up stash and weaving baby blankets for sale. Stripes of all sorts - and again, each one is different.
But, not everyone was weaving items for sale. Marcy brought a baby blanket in which she used a wool warp and a Henry's Attic Queen Annes' Lace cotton as weft. Notice the nice treatment she gave the fringe with a double knot.
Sue R. brought a scarf with a story. At a conference Sue attended, there was a weaving demonstration using a variety of knitting yarns in the weft. By the end of the conference, there was still a lot of unwoven warp on the loom. Sue unwound it and, heaven knows how she preserved the warp order, brought it home and painstakingly wound it back on the back beam of her four shaft loom. Then she wove the rest of the warp as a sampler piece - using bits and pieces from her mother's stash of knitting yarns. The result is a very beautiful scarf - maybe table runner piece. This reminds me of the
saori technique of free style weaving and Sue's piece is beautifully done. It gave many of us the inspiration to rummage around in our stash to pull out bits and pieces of yarns too short for most purposes and weave them into something useful and beautiful.
That's just about all for this month. There should be pictures to share from our sales events in the coming months. Wish us well.
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