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Win-Win-Win at KAWS

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Everyone came away a winner from the recent KAWS (Kansas Alliance of Weavers and Spinners) 2017 conference in Lawrence!  There was plenty of good camaraderie, great vendor booths and a wide variety of classes and activities.

Our guild brought home a couple of extra bragging rights… we won the prize for the guild table display, and our representative Gail Kliewer won the spinning-with-a-spindle-wearing-rubber-gloves contest!

Several members went to the Landers farm for the Statewide Dye Day as well, and obviously didn’t spend all their time dyeing.

Enjoy the eye candy!

Gail Kliewer wins the spindle spinning competition!
You think spinning is tricky? Try it wearing rubber gloves!
From the tapestry weaving session
Wichita guild’s table display
Paula Smith’s rug
Paula Smith’s felt hat
Nancy Squire’s weaving
Mary Sue Foster’s dyed yarn and dip-dyed purse
Lavonna Morgan and Paula Smith’s dyed ‘cupcakes’ and Susan de Wit’s bracelet
Mary Sue Foster’s polychrome crackle weave
Janet Hamous’ felt hat
Fiber Fusion project
Cindy Finnessy’s waffle weave towels
Barb Griffith’s Happy Towels
Prize basket for the guild table display
Karen Bridgewater & Gail Kliewer
Dye pots at Dye Day
Ready to hand paint!
April Nilsen loves on a baby goat

On the agenda – Feb. 2011

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

10:00 am – noon

*WSU Campus, McKnight Hall, room 118

Following the business meeting, the program will be a hands-on lesson in felting wool to silk.

This project is the “Personal Icon” for the guild table at the annual KAWS meeting in Manhattan on April 16 – 17.  (We won first prize at KAWS in 2010, let’s win again!)

BRING:

  • One bath towel
  • A source to heat water (electric tea kettle or a crock pot and ladle, or a pot and stove that uses gas canisters)

  • Optional: small pieces of lightweight fabric – for example,  scraps from formal wear

Wool, silk and other supplies will be provided.

People can personalize their piece by adding beads, sequins, very lightweight things to their felted piece after they get it started and take it home.

*Directions: From Hillside, turn into WSU at the entrance where the Football Memorial stands. Parking lots are on the left, McKnight Hall on right.  Look for a Guild sign on the brown double door!