Author: Alison Roddham
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The creative flame
Busying away with my spinning and weaving I wonder at differences of everyone’s creative processes. One friend said to me today that she and her grand-daughter have been sorting out all her bits and pieces of hand-dyed fleece and ended up with 5 baskets full of the different colour ranges! Goodness, I thought, I’d better…
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January News Updated
Thanks to Jane we now have the January newsletter keeping us up to date. Alison is giving us some more detail on her inkle loom workshop for this month so you can get a better idea of what to expect, and it sounds like there is plenty for all levels of experience. The events item…
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Alpaca and Merino
I enjoy seeing what everyone has been up to and I think that you must too so, under a little pressure from Aileen (who wishes not to be the only one seeming to share anymore) I’m adding my scarf to our Members Projects. If anyone else would like to contribute (and I know there are…
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Corners !
When I first joined the guild workshops titled “Corners” had me totally confused. How to make corners? In what medium? But soon I found this quirky title to be a gathering of four different mini workshops which you can move between as you like, doing all or just one if you prefer. This last workshop,…
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St Boniface Fair
Here we have a lovely picture of Aileen and Mary (Paren) demonstrating at the St Boniface Fair. I’m hoping either will add a comment here and tell us more about the event.
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AGM thoughts from Serena
So it is the AGM tomorrow and I can’t go as I am stuck in bed. I should be writing the Chair’s report but thought I would just raise a couple of points here (facebook) and on the website ( help please Helen) so you might think about them in advance. We have a great…
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Long Draw Successes
Serena sent in these pics of the Long Draw Spinning workshop. She writes “Great workshop today with Odet Beauvoisin showing us how to do long draw for woollen and worsted yarn. I think most of us got it some of the time. Interesting that Odet is such a proficient spinner that she had to add…
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Knit Fest
What a wonderful day meeting some lovely people from all over ! Scotland, England, Sweden and of course a great number of Danish Ladies, who have flown over enforce to support the event having just had their own show two weeks ago. So many gorgeous jumpers, coats and shawls passed by or stopped to chat (with…
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Stay a while !
Aileen writes: “A pic of my Stay A While shawl pattern by Louise Zass-Bangham. It’s about a 4 ply. Dark purple is Merino and silk. Light colour is a 100gm bag of mixed fluff with a wrap of a thin boulle from a cone. As usual I enjoyed spinning it, and this time I didn’t…
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Colour from a different angle – weaving with Cally Booker
Saturday September 10th 2016 Ten eager weavers gathered at Strathpeffer for the HGWSD workshop with Dundee based weaver Cally Booker. Cally works from her studio in a converted jute mill and is passionate about hand weaving, colour and the exploration of multi layered weaves. She specialises in weaving beautiful home textiles, scarves and fabrics. Several…
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Cally Booker’s Colour workshop
A big thank you to Cally Booker for her weaving with colour workshop. It looks to have been a really interesting day… I wish I could have been there. Cally writes about the day on the blog part of her website… http://callybooker.co.uk/ “The weavers of Highland Guild worked hard yesterday! I had driven up north with a…
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summer alpaca
I hope your summer is going well. The last few days of warm weather has staved off the approaching autumn quite nicely. Since the Black Isle Show, which Serena wrote a good report of in the newsletter, I haven’t been out and about much but I thought I’d show you the results of my alpaca…