Wisconsin Spindle and Dyepot Guild

April meeting 2022

Speed Dating program . We had 4 tables, Carding , Combs, Blending board, and Drop spinning. members split into 4 groups and had 15 minutes to learn and try out each activity. Then they moved to the next table. Once done with all the tables they could go back to the one they want to spend more time at.

Nancy and Diana working on the Blending board

Kathy showing members how to use the combs and Hackle

Sherrie, Kortnie, and Judy working on the drop spindle

Nancy's beautiful at show and tell

Sherrie , Judy and Kortnie enjoying the guilds snack to pass before our program begins.

Show and Tell Feb 2022

Kathy and Donna demonstrating samples of art yarn 2022

August 2019 Project meeting . Working with a Weave -It and making felted pins

October 2019 Needle felted critter head meeting project. Our instructor was Kathy Pecor

Paper Bag Challenge 2019

Robin Crocheted Donna T's hand spun sheep wool yarn into Betty (on the right) Knitted a shawl out of Kathy's hand spun

a useful bag Yarn

Darlene ( on the right ) knitted a hat and scarf out of Nancy's Joan ( on the left) crocheted and useful bag that will hold

Robins hand spun yarn

Julia ( on the left knitted a top for Donna W with Donna's Kathy ( on the left ) knitted Darleen an afgan

hand spun yarn

Donna T ( on the Right ) Machine knitted Julia two hats and a scarf out Donna W ( on the right ) knitted Betty a shawl out of

of Julia's commercial yarn Betty's Hand spun yarn

Joan Gaska Always willing to do a demonstration and a fountain of knowledge

She is one of the Guilds treasures.

One of Many Show and Tells

Kelli went dye crazy, she is showing and telling us about all her locks she dyed. They were beautiful.

Needle felting is truly one of Kathy's gifts. Awesome faces on all her critters and people.

2017

Wool pot luck. Members bring to the meeting fiber that they would like to share. We combine our fibers and send it to the mill for processing into roving . Can you believe the color we got.

All our fiber was picked and mixed together. This is what it looked like before it was carded. One pound of black llama and one pound of red alpaca was added to this pile and not pictured.

Our guild held a Batt to yarn to finished project contest. We started with a pot luck roving where everyone brought in different fiber to share. From there we could pick out colors, types of fiber and card them into a batt. We then spun them into yarn. Judging took place on each section of the contest., all scores were added together and winners were declared.

Here are some of the socks made from the 2016 summer sock blank dye session

Sock blank dying September 2016

The guild is trying a wool pot luck. Members brought in any type and amount of fiber they wanted. We are having it blended together at the mill and our one of a kind blend made into roving. Each member will get back close to the same amount they brought in.

We have a blend of 33% Shetland, 35% Mystery breed sheep fiber, 8% East Fresian sheep, 12% Suri Alpaca, 12% Angora rabbit. Colors ranged from white , dark brown, light brown, gray tan, red, purple.

We will post the finished roving once it comes back.

To the right

Field trip to Spry Whimsy Fiber studio . Her we are learning to make felted flowers

OUR FIBER IS BACK

It turned out wonderful. The texture is VERY nice ,soft and could be warn against the skin, The color is unique, it seems to change depending on the light you are in. It will change from a heather mauve to a gray mauve to a brown mauve. Very interesting color.

It supn up really easy with no nubs and noils

Here are some of the beautiful picture batts we created. We found a picture and carded a fiber batt on the drum carder to match the color and proportions of color to the picture