Have you been to Althea's new location?

161 Hudson Ave. N.E. in Salmon Arm.

They've moved and are all set up!

Sharon's Spin In

Darlene, Sherry and Lis

Thank you Sharon for hosting an afternoon Spin In at your place on June 21st. 

We sure are busy enjoying spinning with friends.

The Shuswap Spinners and Weavers were spinning 

at Haney Heritage Village & Museum

  Come out and Treat Dad to Majorie's Pancake Breakfast. Enjoy numerous games, scavenger hunt, BBQ lunch, wagon rides, old fashioned carnival with games of chance and skill, 

face painting, children's crafts, demonstrations and live music.

Elvi, Darlene, Ann and Marianne
Thank you ladies for coming out and participating on such a beautiful day!

Spin In at Elvi's

Judith, Lis, Darlene, Nikki, Elvi and Sherry.  
(Thank you Marianne for this  photo)

Wow, it was so nice to see so many ladies out to Elvi's today! 

Thank you Elvi for hosting a spin in  - in your home.  

Everyone enjoyed your home made soup with fresh bread and buns 

along with a loaf cake too!  You were one busy lady.  

Again our group thanks you for your hospitality!

Sherry and Marianne

Darlene and Nikki

Elvi our host!

Sherry, Marianne and Judith

 Thank you Lis for taking these photos.

HomeSpun Haven is hosting an event! 

Baaad Anna's is coming to Armstrong!! A travelling pop-up shop of yarn and fibre from Baaad Anna's will be held at the Homespun Haven Store and Studio near Armstrong, B.C. on Thursday, June 21st from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Bring your needles and wheel to join us for an afternoon of knitting, spinning, shopping and socialzing! Baaad Anna (Paula) is bringing Woomeise, Yarn, Enabler, Lichen and Lace, Americo, and Hedgehog to name a few! Come early and stay as long as you wish as we'd love to meet you!  
For more information contact Sharon Wickstrom at HomeSpun Haven.

Some of the Shuswap Spinners and Weavers 

joined in on the World Wide Knit in Public Day 

held in Salmon Arm on Saturday, June 9th.  We would like to thank Intwined Fibre Arts for hosting this years Knit in at their new location. (161 Hudson Ave. N.E., right next to the Candy Vault)  It was such a pleasure to meet other ladies from other knit groups in town.  Thank you too Althea....  for the sweets, tea and refreshing lemon drink.  

The Salmon Arm Art Gallery 

hosted a World Wide Knit in Public Day, 

held on Saturday, June 9th. Thank you to our Shuswap Spinners and Weavers who  attended this event.  The people attending this event were working on the "Little Lake Project" that will be featured in 2019.

Aprons for Haney Heritage Village and Museum

Some of us are making aprons to wear at Haney Heritage Museum on the days that we go spinning.  So..... on Thursday, June 7th we met at the Shuswap Middle School in the sewing/craft room to cut out our aprons.  This was for those who wanted to work on this project together.  

Lis had already made her apron.

Marianne and Lis laying out the pattern.

Marianne

Carol

Measure twice, cut once!

They cut their patterns out at the school, then
took them home to sew.

Come and see the aprons they sewed
on Father's Day at Haney Heritage Museum.

June Show and Tell

Nikki's latest knitted shawl.

Spun yarn by Nikki.

This is the yarn Ann used in her scarf.

Ann's woven a scarf.

Wool spun for Ann's woolen blanket.

Woven from mohair yarns in warp and weft.

Of course Ann has brushed and brushed this
and it is really soft!

Another blanket by Ann 100% wool
2 ply warp and singles weft

Sherry modeling a shawl made by Ann!
Sherry gave Ann the mohair for the blanket
and Ann used the rest of the mohair for this beautiful Shawl!

Did I mention Ann made this Mohair Shawl for Sherry?

Carol has been busy spinning....

and sewing....

Such a beautiful design! 
Love the colours of this quilt!

Quilt up close.

Hiromi weaving a Rep weave/log cabin placemat.
From Nov/Dec 1982 Handwoven magazine.
Picture on page 46, pattern on page 94. 

A number of ladies wove these beautiful placemats
some made them into table runners.

Sharon has been putting together a workshop on
sewing what you weave.

She has worked really hard putting a manual together
for her up coming workshop in Kelowna.

Sharon modeling something she sewed from
her woven material.

Lynn has woven a blanket. Tonight she was finishing her
blanket by winding the fringes. She is doing a demo
on how to use the fringe winder.

This is woven in a very loose weave.

Some of the new weavers had never seen a fringe winder.

Louise with her woven shawl, from her painted yarn.

Louise has knitted a Wedding Ring Shawl!
Amazing.... and it does go through her wedding ring!

This lady can knit! Another one of her shawls!

Cotton tea towels woven by Louise.

All Louise's tea towels! One warp.... so many colour combinations.

A table runner made by Elvi.

Louise gave a linen workshop a while ago, there were 10 squares to be made.
Each person made one square in the class and exchanged them with each other.
As a result Elvi made her squares into a table runner.

This is a crocheted  57" x 79" Family Heirloom Afghan
Darlene finished recently.  Beautiful detail!

Darlene is getting those  UFO's out of her closet!

Wendy has been busy knitting 
now that skiing is over for the year!

Anne C. has been felting socks she has made from 100 % 
home grown wool. Knit into CSM sock blank and dyed. 

The yarn was dyed in a cake with an elastic around it to keep it
from unwinding. Anne put dye in a shallow tray and pressed 1/3
of the ball into the dye. Did that 2 more times with red, blue
and yellow, then pressed a syringe of aqua colour into each
end. Cooked in the microwave to set the dye.  Then knit!

Spinning by Anne C.