November 2011 Newsletter Next Meeting November 19, 2010 10 AM - 4 PM (more or less) Email goes to: spinner@serendipityspinners.org

October Nutshell by Ginger and Sue

November is our month for elections.  I, Sue, respectfully suggest you elect a president who can be at meetings.  If you can't find anyone else and don't mind that I'm not at many of the meetings, I'll continue.  But, please, try and find someone else.  With that said, I won't be at the November meeting.  Instead, I'll be exhibitting at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto's craft boutique on both Saturday and Sunday.  If you're in the area, stop on by.

Carry on without me.

Old Business

  Crickets  (Nothing)

New Business

Stitches signup!  February 23-26 next year.  Ginger is running the signups this year. If you miss meetings, you can email gingeredighoffer@yahoo.com

Are there any volunteers for the Dec. 3 event we got email about a while ago.  It would be really nice if we did have some bodies there.  The museum promised us the *FREE* usage of the firehouse if we can send people.  Tina might be able to make it.

Lotus brought return to sender fiber: 2 oz. Blue-faced Leicester and Silk mix. Spin it however you like.  Send 50 yds to CNCH Conference.  The dyes are  Indigo, Weld overdyed indigo, cochineal and madder, and maybe, fustic. 

Treasurer's Report

   We have 968.16 after paying for the Stitches booth.  That still leaves us with some funds for workshops.  What do we want to have?

Show 'n Tell

Tina: sewed a quilt, intended to machine guilt but just didn't get around to it.  Her new plan is to hand quilt with it with blue handspun.  She got the fiber from the old Straw into Gold.

Sharolene: used drop spindle at the meeting. She took class on jacket making.  The first workshop on spinning and weaving. Six months later was the second workshop in the series. Since she didn't get her own fabric woven, she bought some. Jacket has Hong Kong seams (enclosed with contrasting fabric). The class was in Redwood City in a convent sort of place. Her girlfriend gave her some Dublin tweed fabric that a friend of friend inherited.  Now she has the fabric for another jacket.

Jennifer: has been busy at the barn with her new horse. She has no projects finished. She's trying out a smaller whorl on her wheel.

Jennifer

Lotus: wore her original spinning dress.  It's now her skinny dress!  She has more "potato chip" socks in progress. She's also doing socks on a knitting loom.  Her husband will hook the yarn.

knitting loom with a sock

sock off the looj

more sock on the loom

"Potato chip socks

Margaret: just got back from Scotland. She visited Orkney island. She came home with fleece from sheep that live off seaweed.  The islands don't have much grass. The mutton is stronger tasting than grass fed mutton.  She went with a tour group.  She found some wool novelty yarn, of the sort you knit into the edge and the rest of the lace forms a ruffle. She will go next week to Deer Hollow to demo weaving & spinning. She will teach a bit of drop spindle. The next tour she goes on will see Men of  Work  (or is it Worth?). It's not a touristy tour. There is a concert of some sort every might.

Ginger: neglected to fill in what she had been doing.

And that's September in a Nutshell.


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