February 1, 2016
January 31, 2016
Weaving with Handspun Workshop with Melissa Johnson
Weaving Workshop with Melissa Johnson
Weaving with Handspun
March 12,13, 19, and 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m
2 day or 4 day option (same affordable price)
at The Putney School
Sponsor: River Spinners - riverspinners@gmail.com
Instructors:
Melissa Johnson
Melissa moved to southern Vermont from Istanbul in 1973 and graduated from The Putney School in 1977. She learned to weave at the Putney School from Libby Mills, one of the Green Mountain Spinney founders, and now teaches Textile and Fiber Arts as a member of the Putney School faculty. She attended the University of Vermont, Goddard College and apprenticed to Trudy Walker, a production weaver, before beginning her career as a weaver and knitwear designer. Melissa has been working with the Green Mountain Spinnery since the beginning in 1981.
She teaches workshops on weaving, knitting, and natural and synthetic dyeing to all skill levels and multiple topics simultaneously all the while being supportive, helpful, gracious, and as lovely as possible. Melissa is a designer, dyer, and color consultant, and creates custom textiles on commission. During the summer of 2013, she and a group from Putney School brought looms and yarn to Kigali, Rwanda. They set up a weaving studio and taught 12 disadvantaged Rwandans to weave. The Rwandan weavers have now formed a co-operative and are producing scarves for sale to support themselves and their families. Melissa continues to visit the Rwandan weavers and is surely saving up yarns and planning her next visit.
Melissa is a lifelong member of the River Spinners.
For more information on Melissa check out these links.
FYI most of the information above was shamelessly stolen from these sources.
http://www.spinnery.com/index.php/2012/05/meet-the-dyer-melissa-johnson
http://summer.putneyschool.org/adultstudio/fiber-arts
http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_25435794/weaving-sustainable-future
Minimum requirements:
Desire to weave.
What to bring:
Your own handspun yarns are not a requirement but suggested due to the topic.
Rigid heddles are fine, but we encourage the use of floor looms at The Putney School.
Lunch and snacks.
Pricing:
$60 (members only event due to the 10 participant limit)
Cost to become a member $20 (just $10 youth through 21) New members will only have option of taking class if there are any openings.
Nominal material fee should you desire to use yarn from the weaving studio. Paid by weight at the event. Very affordable.
The studio is open from start of class to end of last day – we will need to be off looms by the last day.
Business meeting will be held during one of the days - date will be determined after we have a better idea of what day will have the most attendance. All are welcome join business meeting voting is a member privilege.
Scholarships:
A limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please only request if the cost is preventative for you to attend. Scholarship recipients will have all but $5 of class fee waived.
Registration:
Registration in advance is required as space is limited to 10 people. If you are planning to attend please register by March 1, so that we can have a better idea what day do hold the business meeting and if any outside advertising will be required in the end. Please send checks to our treasurer, River Spinners, c/o Leslie Markey, PO Box 91, East Dover VT 05341-0091, PayPal option is also available. Space is only reserved when payment is received. Detailed directions will follow with confirmation upon receipt of payment.
Refund Policy:
100% refund prior to February 29; 50% March 1-5; 0% March 6 and after unless your seat is filled.
Weaving with Handspun
March 12,13, 19, and 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m
2 day or 4 day option (same affordable price)
at The Putney School
Sponsor: River Spinners - riverspinners@gmail.com
Instructors:
Melissa Johnson
Melissa moved to southern Vermont from Istanbul in 1973 and graduated from The Putney School in 1977. She learned to weave at the Putney School from Libby Mills, one of the Green Mountain Spinney founders, and now teaches Textile and Fiber Arts as a member of the Putney School faculty. She attended the University of Vermont, Goddard College and apprenticed to Trudy Walker, a production weaver, before beginning her career as a weaver and knitwear designer. Melissa has been working with the Green Mountain Spinnery since the beginning in 1981.
She teaches workshops on weaving, knitting, and natural and synthetic dyeing to all skill levels and multiple topics simultaneously all the while being supportive, helpful, gracious, and as lovely as possible. Melissa is a designer, dyer, and color consultant, and creates custom textiles on commission. During the summer of 2013, she and a group from Putney School brought looms and yarn to Kigali, Rwanda. They set up a weaving studio and taught 12 disadvantaged Rwandans to weave. The Rwandan weavers have now formed a co-operative and are producing scarves for sale to support themselves and their families. Melissa continues to visit the Rwandan weavers and is surely saving up yarns and planning her next visit.
Melissa is a lifelong member of the River Spinners.
For more information on Melissa check out these links.
FYI most of the information above was shamelessly stolen from these sources.
http://www.spinnery.com/index.php/2012/05/meet-the-dyer-melissa-johnson
http://summer.putneyschool.org/adultstudio/fiber-arts
http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_25435794/weaving-sustainable-future
Minimum requirements:
Desire to weave.
What to bring:
Your own handspun yarns are not a requirement but suggested due to the topic.
Rigid heddles are fine, but we encourage the use of floor looms at The Putney School.
Lunch and snacks.
Pricing:
$60 (members only event due to the 10 participant limit)
Cost to become a member $20 (just $10 youth through 21) New members will only have option of taking class if there are any openings.
Nominal material fee should you desire to use yarn from the weaving studio. Paid by weight at the event. Very affordable.
The studio is open from start of class to end of last day – we will need to be off looms by the last day.
Business meeting will be held during one of the days - date will be determined after we have a better idea of what day will have the most attendance. All are welcome join business meeting voting is a member privilege.
Scholarships:
A limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please only request if the cost is preventative for you to attend. Scholarship recipients will have all but $5 of class fee waived.
Registration:
Registration in advance is required as space is limited to 10 people. If you are planning to attend please register by March 1, so that we can have a better idea what day do hold the business meeting and if any outside advertising will be required in the end. Please send checks to our treasurer, River Spinners, c/o Leslie Markey, PO Box 91, East Dover VT 05341-0091, PayPal option is also available. Space is only reserved when payment is received. Detailed directions will follow with confirmation upon receipt of payment.
Refund Policy:
100% refund prior to February 29; 50% March 1-5; 0% March 6 and after unless your seat is filled.
January 28, 2016
Green Mt. weavers and Spinners 3rd annual spin in
Spin in will be held Saturday, February 20, from 9:30 - 3:00. It will be at the Parish Hall, All Saints Church, Summer Street (next to the Post Office), North Adams.
Please join in for a day of spinning, learning, sharing, camaraderie, relaxing, knitting, or just socializing.
Spinners, weavers, knitters, crocheters, shepherds, and everyone welcome.
No schedule, so come for the day, an hour, or whatever fits your schedule.
If you have a special skill you would like to share, there will be an opportunity to do that, as well.
Fiber related Swap table..only one rule..if no one else wants that ugly yarn you brought it goes back home with you.
Plenty of parking, kitchen facilities, chairs, it will be bright and warm, coffee and tea provided. Munchies welcomed.
Hope to see you all there, Martha Seymour
Email riverspinners@gmail.com for Martha's contact info. Happy to share just don't want to put it out there for all of cyberspace. . .
August 5, 2015
Fall 2015 Workshops!
Happy August,
Recap: Guild members had a lovely time at the June meeting at the Brattleboro Food Coop and a blending day in July.
August 29: Members only dye day in Newfane from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m being lead by Sumac. We are close enough to the new year that if you were not already a member and joined now we would honor that as your 2015-16 dues. See information below the signature on what it means to join. If you plan to attend please be in contact so I can share the details, such as brown bag lunches, directions, what to bring (fiber, yarn, heat sources).
August 29: Members only dye day in Newfane from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m being lead by Sumac. We are close enough to the new year that if you were not already a member and joined now we would honor that as your 2015-16 dues. See information below the signature on what it means to join. If you plan to attend please be in contact so I can share the details, such as brown bag lunches, directions, what to bring (fiber, yarn, heat sources).
Fall 2015: we plan to meet again at the Brattleboro Food Coop for the November quarterly meeting
March 2016: Weaving with handspun with Melissa Johnson in The Putney School Weaving studio
Summer 2016: Members dye day with member Betty Murphy
September
17/18 2016: Leslie Markey has secured the dates with Robin Russo for a
two day workshop - be sure to keep the weekend 9/17/2016 and 9/18/2016 open!!!!
Thank you, Leslie.
We have some other fun things planned for the fall and are always open to new ideas and members.
We have some other fun things planned for the fall and are always open to new ideas and members.
A
special congrats to those of you that participated in this year's Tour
de Fleece! I'd love to see us have a team again next year!
Classifieds
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Golding Prototype Loom for sale $500 and purchaser must plan to use it and love it and will have to pick it up in Bondville.
The loom is the Standard 36" 4 Harness jack loom. It was unfinished and wiped down with
some beeswax/orange oil but it has not had polyurethane applied. It needs a 36" reed. When I got it years ago I emailed Tom and he said the
Harrisville Design 36" reeds fit perfectly but the Schacht reeds are
too long, and that it was perfectly okay to leave the wood unfinished,
but if anyone wanted to finish it he recommended a wipe on polyurethane
in two coats. It has never been used and is in need of a loving
weaver!
Best, Emily
Feel free to contact the owner directly, Emily Veitch, emilybrownveitch@gmail.com
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Hope you are having a great summer!
Respectfully yours,
Elizabeth Johnson
Fearless Leader
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Ravelry
You
may want to consider formally joining the River Spinners if you have not already done so,
and there are many advantages if you do so. Fiscal Year runs September
1, through August 31. Dues for River Spinners is $20 a year. Youth dues
rate is $10 (high school - 21 years old) a year. No fee for first
meeting to come try us on. $5 fee per meeting for non members who come
to multiple meetings but don't join. $5 for nonmembers on Dye Days
unless otherwise specified.
Membership includes . . .
•Quarterly business meeting and social gathering
•Supporting fiber arts in Southeastern VT and Southwestern NH
•Ewesful News email updates (monthly)
•Priority placement and discounts on workshops
•Membership lists and handouts
•Discounts with certain Fiber Vendors (i.e. Golding Spindles)
•Priority placement of links and events on website
•Discount on Interweave Publications and other various offers - current discounted rate is $18 a yearly subscription for any or all of their 14 different publications.
•Mini topics at several guild meetings - take turn in sharing areas of expertise
•Guild Dye Days (weather permitting, of course)
•Use of guild equipment (there's lots of great equipment such as a drum carder, combs, etc.)
Please send your payment to our Treasurer:•Supporting fiber arts in Southeastern VT and Southwestern NH
•Ewesful News email updates (monthly)
•Priority placement and discounts on workshops
•Membership lists and handouts
•Discounts with certain Fiber Vendors (i.e. Golding Spindles)
•Priority placement of links and events on website
•Discount on Interweave Publications and other various offers - current discounted rate is $18 a yearly subscription for any or all of their 14 different publications.
•Mini topics at several guild meetings - take turn in sharing areas of expertise
•Guild Dye Days (weather permitting, of course)
•Use of guild equipment (there's lots of great equipment such as a drum carder, combs, etc.)
River Spinners
c/o Leslie Markey
PO Box 91
East Dover VT 05341-0091
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