“Effective Use of Materials and Color” presented by Kathrin Weber

September’s Program — Zoom and in-person
Thursday, September 12 @ 10:00 a.m.
Brandywine Town Center
4050 Brandywine Parkway — Wilmington, DE 19803
“Effective Use of Materials and Color” presented by Kathrin Weber

Kathrin Weber has been a full-time studio fiber artist since 1980. Her work revolves around dyeing, weaving and teaching. She has a fearless enjoyment in using hand-dyed color in her teaching, shop sales, and weaving. She enthusiastically encourages students to dive into color. No matter what her classes are officially entitled, they are ultimately about color, technique and weaving good fabric.

Do you have yarn in various colors, textures, weights, yarn types that you are not sure what to do with? Perhaps you have a lovely yarn that may not be strong enough for that warp you want to wind. Or your yarn is too fine or too big or the colors are too bright and they don’t go together. Or, to be honest, the yarn you have been hoarding is just too dang expensive to use! How do you make a little go a long way?

This Zoom lecture with images will help you think of creative ways to plan and execute woven projects of mixed yarn types and colors that you might have thought would never go together technically or visually. Spend a little time with Kathrin thinking, “What if…?” And then dig through your yarn closet for hidden treasures waiting to be woven. To learn more about Kathrin, visit her website https://www.blazingshuttles.com/.

The Zoom link will be sent to you through an i.o. group email

Yea! It’s the June Picnic

June 13 @ 10:00 a.m.
Nancy Bentley’s Farm
Elkton, MD 21921

Telegraph Road, out of Newark is West Main Street/Rte. 273 North towards Fair Hill.

NANCY BENTLEY HAS INVITED GUILD MEMBERS TO TOUR HER FARM AND LEARN ABOUT GOTWALD SHEEP.

10 am for a tour of Nancy’s Gotwald sheep farm (back pasture behind house)
11:00 a.m. Picnic, end-of-Guild-year Business Meeting, Auction

In light of easing up on resources and the reality of the cost of gas, why not consider car-pooling?


Don’t forget to bring:

  1. A dish to share with a serving spoon!
  2. Show and Tell items
  3. Items for our auction — you may bring fiber related items for the
    auction & all proceeds go to the guild.
  4. Don’t forget your checkbook and a bag for all the unexpected
    treasures you buy!
  5. A comfy chair to sit in as you enjoy the festivities.

    The Corris Effect Part 1

    May Program presented by Margaret Coe
    May 9 @ 10:00 a.m. Red Clay Presbyterian Church

    Zoom and in-person

    This month, Margaret Coe will be presenting her program – The Corris Effect Part 1 (4 and 8 shafts). Margaret’s focus has been designing weaves with the computer as her main tool since the 1980’s. She is the author of four books; and, a presenter of courses both in person, online, and virtually (Zoom); but always at heart a weaver and designer.

    Her website has an online course by a similar name – The Corris Effect a.k.a. Parallel Paradox. My guess is that we will get an overview of her comprehensive online course (30 lessons in all) in her one hour presentation. But to whet your appetite – here are some nuggets she set us about her presentation …

    What is the Corris Effect? How did it evolve? Where did the name come from? All will be revealed . . .

    It takes a village, or at least two weavers brainstorming, to halt, take a right turn, and look at weave structures in a whole new light. In two separate, but related incidents, and over 5 years of exploring, we discovered that it isn’t always the threading, tie up, and treadling (or liftplan) that determine structures.

    From double weave to Jin to twills and basket weave; from Jin to summer & winter; add taqueté as well as rep to the mix. Come see what it is all about!

    You can poke through her website as it has links to her courses, presentations and books; she also has a gallery of beautiful peeks at her work. Here is a link – https://coeweaves.com/