11 - and continuing all month What’s in the dyepot? 

           Come and observe the dyeing process.

  14 -  SSK at Oxford Public Library - 2 to 4. 

           Bring you knitting and knit with us.

  20 - 28  - End of summer/back to school.  

           Enjoy discounts as we make room for fall stock

I have been dyeing yarn in the shop.  Last week coreopsis, Queen Ann’s Lace and Black Eyed Susans  were transformed into color on yarn.  I start the pot in the morning and by noon or 1,  I am checking the color of the yarn.  Join me in August beginning the 11th, Wednesday, to see what goes in and what comes out.   Dyeing in the shop will continue until I run out of dye plants or volunteers from highways and byways.

Pasture with one acre and two stalls available for rent. 

Call Lynn Ford, 610 255 0179

  Second Saturday Knitting will be at the Oxford Public Library beginning November 14th.  The library offers better light, comfy chairs and, yes, we will have refreshments.  Come and see what you think of the change.

My daughter posted some beautiful photographs of her trip to Turkey.  I wanted to share the weaving ones  with you the visitors to the website.

So, about midway through our trip around the coast of Turkey, my students realized that if we saw hand-woven things, I would be the last one on the bus. They have pictures of me in the middle of a Turkish Carpet store–sitting in piles of short pile rugs, flat weave kilim, silks, wools, natural and hand-dyed carpets of every size, color and tribal pattern imaginable. I have a tactile thing with textiles. Its the same when I return to my mother’s store after a year away–I have to touch the yarns, feel all the scarves, felted socks, baby blankets, shaws, and I usually–although its hard to imagine in this 100 degree weather–wrap myself in something: a head-hugging hat, a fluffy dark green sweater, earth-tone cabled mittens. (I think I inherited this tactile textile gene from her, truth be told!) The colors and tones are as touchable as the yarns– but I digress.
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 Keep alive the practice of creating rugs from used fabric.  Rug hooking has become an art form, more decorative than utilitarian.  However, the appeal of using discarded fabric to create, fills a need today as it did in the past.

Anne Donaldson will provide a design on burlap as a project piece.  Strippers to prepare the fabric and hooks will be available as part of the materials fee.

Bring woolens (if you have them), denim (jeans), or knitted cotton (T shirt or sweat shirt fabric) will work as well.  Bring a small quilt frame, embroidery hoop or other means of holding the burlap straight and taut for hooking.  If you have other equipment: strippers, rotary cutters, hooks or frames that may be shared  feel free to bring them.

Call StillWater Fibers (610 998 9808) to reserve a place with your class fee (check or cash please) by January 15th, 2009.  The first two classes, January 24, 31  will be held at the Arts Alliance Gallery on 3rd Street and  a finishing class at StillWater Fibers on February 14th, 2009, 10-12.  Class fee is $60 with a $5 materials fee.

We are trying “Knit-Alongs”.  These are a time when Barb or Sharon are knitting on their latest project.  It is not a class and not meant as an instruction time.  We let you know what we will be working on each month.  You call and find out what specfic day and time we will be working and if the project is something you too wanted to try, JOIN US.  We can share our expertise as we work through the directions.  Two heads are always better than one.  In October Barb is knitting the felted cuff mittens from Interweave’s Felting magazine.  Sharon is choosing socks from Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters, October is “Ocean Toes” and November is  “Robin Hood’s Fireside Boots”.  Barb will be working on a Green Mountain Spinnery pattern “Eric’s Glovelets” (fingerless mitts).  December will probably find us both in the middle of Christmas gifts, but we will share our choices here and our knitting time at the round table.  January until April will be “All Things Baby” for Sharon.

October 4 - 10 is National Spinning and Weaving Week.
We celebrate the crafts of spinning and weaving as part of our common heritage and we delight in the creativity of all fiber artists.