Thank you Elvi for hosting our May Spin In, held on Thursday, May 23rd.  It is always so nice to get together with the ladies to visit and exchanges ideas.  
Welcome to Wilma one of our newest members.

Elvi our host setting the table for our lunch.

Linda, Lis and Darlene

Marianne, Jacquie, Sharon, Wilma, Linda, Lis and Darlene

Bea and Marianne

Marianne and Jacquie

Lunch was borscht, butter buns, fruit and fresh muffins.
Thank you Elvi and Bea for lunch.

Happy Anniversary to Us!  1979 - 2019

We celebrated our 40th Anniversary as a Guild.  

We enjoyed a wonderful afternoon with tea and cake 
while visiting past and present members. 

Past and Present Members

Here are a few pictures from our 40th Anniversary Afternoon Tea held on May 11th.  Thank you to all those that were able to attend.  It was such a lovely time meeting up with past guild members and meeting our newer guild members.

We had a lovely assortment of dainties.

 

Table decorations were very nice!

Chocolates for everyone too.

We had our scrap books out,
great memories!

Many scrap books over the years.

Display of guild projects....

ANWG in Victoria 1997

It is always great to have Julia play her harp.
Ann was our MC for the afternoon. 

Our current president Sherry Barker
with Ann and Jennifer.

 

Our delicious black forest cake.

Julia

Ann gave us a nice history of our banner.

Also the history of the top of it too.

A list of the members no longer with us.

May's Show and Tell

Jacquie went on an Ireland knitting tour. 9 nights, 10 days.
For more information to go "KnittingTours.com"

Jacquie talked about her Ireland trip, she toured one cathedral, half a castle
 and took in the Aron Island Knitters workshops.

She also took a Carol Feller workshop on charted knitting. 
It wasn't only knitting, there was baking, dying and
spinning going on.

It was a busy tour she learned different knitting techniques, one was bobblin crossover cable ... she made a cup holder, knitting with wire, an aran bookmark, 
Granny Sherry's chain link cable stitch - headband 

Jacquie even managed to get a bit of shopping in and brought home 
merino super wash skeins, she loved the colours in it!

Carole started to knit a shawl with this yarn, it made her think of a 
sock monkey so she ripped it out and knit this sock, one down one more to go!

Michelle went to a garage sale and found a treasure box of felting stuff.  
She made this from her treasures! 

Anne's Icelandic wool traditional sweater.

Jill was so inspired by Noelle's little sweaters last month,
she knit her own.  Google Wee Wildlife Sweaters pattern
by Kathy Lewinski if your interested.
(she's also on Ravelry)

Jennifer's Gamp bag.

She even put on a cute felted sheep button on it. 

Wendy's Rasta Cowl pattern.

Wendy's skein.

Ann's skein of Lincoln.

Ann's Tapestry Theo Morman scarf
with handspun art yarn.

Beautiful scarf. 

Judith received this book as a gift after she taught a spinning class.  
After reading it she donated it to our library. 
She recommends reading this book.

A guild project, a vest made by Sharon W.

Another guild project, tapestry tree by Sharon.

Bob Jacket - California rags

Sharon's colour gamp bag.

Sharon also wove this ecclesiastical stole for her church.

With the rest of Sharon's colour gamp warp,
she made a bunch of tea towels too.

Love the blues and greens!

Then of course Sharon is quilting too.

I believe she made this for her nephew!

Gudie's going through her stash.  Recycle yarn for the McGuire Lake project for the Art Gallery. 
This yarn is for knitting cobblestones.  If your interested
in knitting some, call Guidie, she had yarn and patterns.

Another guild project, Gudie brought these felted flowers in, does anyone remember this project?  We were colletcting items for our 40th Anniversary Tea display.

Woven rug.

Lis knit this sweater.

Lis is knitting for her grandchildren too, not one .... (a vest)

but two, s sweater too.

Mona's been getting a lot of spinning done!

Elvi's colour gamp bag.

Elvi wove 12 of these beautiful tea towels.