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PROGRAM A very fun evening workshop with Wendy. Wool Applique Tag Workshop Join us on Wednesday, March 28 to create a fun luggage tag for your spinning wheel. These tags double as business card holders so you will never again be without your Treadles to Threads Guild business cards to hand out.  Wool fabric, thread, needles, backing material, templates and Treadles to Threads business cards will be supplied by the guild. Wendy will demonstrate the techniques needed and guide the tag making process. We will have enough time for each person to put together a tag and start the embroidery process. Creating these tags is fun and addictive! Please bring a pair of small sharp scissors as well as a thimble (if you have one). We will be making small cuts in little pieces of colorful wool that has been pre-bonded to fusible interfacing. We will then iron the pieces onto a precut tag to set it in place prior to stitching. The guild will provide ironing stations. The design choices ar...

PROGRAM As mentioned in last month's blog, Treadles has no Program Chair this year. Hence, no one has come up with a program for this month. We will still meet and have Show & Tell, bring your wheel to sample a surprise fiber and watch a video yet to be determined! You could also bring your swap fibers and get in a good hour of spinning on your shawl project. If something better pops up, you'll see it at the meeting! ADDENDUM: Program Info We’ll watch a presentation about the Imperial Stock Ranch and the clothing that Ralph Lauren designed for this years Olympic athletes.The “Lauren” brand emblazoned on his clothing may be something for us who care about American grown wool and the people who produce it, a proud thing to wear after all. A quote from the website: “Ralph Lauren is an iconic American brand,” observed Jeanne Carver, who along with her husband, Dan, owns the  s prawling Imperial   Stock Ranch  in Oregon’s high desert. “They are a global leader and inf...

PROGRAM 8 oz. Combo Shawl Swap We need a fun guild project to get the New Year started, and this is a good one! Thanks Donna, for the idea. Pick out 2-4oz braids of fiber OR 8 oz total fiber. The fiber will be broken into 1oz bits, so it won’t really matter if you have whole braids to pull apart, or partial braids. (should be at least 50% wool and of good quality, please) Pull the fiber apart into 8-1oz bits. Set aside 2-1oz bits for yourself. Make little “nests” of each of the 6 1 oz bits bring them to the January Guild meeting. At the meeting we will put all the “nests” on a big table and take turns picking them one at a time until all are gone.  We should each have 6 oz of fiber to take home. Spin the bits anyway you want to – add to it if you like. Finished yarn and/or knitted (or woven) objects to be shared at a future guild meeting. If you don't have a scale, there will be some available at the next two Monday Spins, and if all else fails, we will have some at the meeting for...

PROGRAM Stephany Wilkes (info about Stephany at  http://westbymidwest.me/?page_id=2) Sheep Shearing Stories This topic focuses on sheep themselves, the shearing (wool removal) process, and what happens immediately after a shearing (how the wool is handled and where it goes next). Major points include differences in sheep breeds, appropriate climate, and the fibers they produce; sheep health, basic sheep care and well being; a walk through of a humane shearing process and why it’s designed the way it is; basic sheep handling and anatomy; presentation of shearing tools and proper attire; and funny stories from the farm (including sheep escapes and more). Raw wool samples from a variety of breeds are included. DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR 2017 Nov. 29. Treadles meeting   "Stephany Wilkes, Sheep Shearing Stories" Various Fibershed events and classes this fall  http://www.fibershed.com/events/list/ Dec. 9 Treadles' Annual Holiday Luncheon.  11 am. Vilija's house. Hand made lam...