Mercer County Spinners and Weavers Guild Meeting July 6, 2016. at Munnell Run Farm

I meant to include that the Mercer County Guild July 9th, Saturday  meeting will still be held at Munnell Run Farm. 

 There is no planned program.  

Bring your current project and/or wheel.  And you nuno scarf makers, please bring your scarf to show and tell. 

 Remember your lunch and a cup for the beverage of your choice.  Bonnie

Mercer County Spinners and Weavers Guild May 9 ,2015

Hi All, Our next meeting will be at Munnell Run Farm on Saturday May 9 th at 10:00.  Remember your lunch and a cup for beverage.

Judy Hanninen will be teaching us how to make hats using those round plastic “looms” which you can get at Walmart or Joann’s.

 

If you buy one get it at Joann’s and use a 40 or 50% off coupon that you can sometimes find on their website.  However as Judy says in her note (included) she has several extra ones and I do also and several other people in Guild said they got the looms and will have extra ones extra ones as well.

This is Judy’s Message:

I think that any size round loom will do.  If you make a smaller top then you just adjust the number of knit/crochet stitches that you pick up/ decrease to finish the hat.  I have made several using the largest size (pink) and I will make another hat using the small size before the meeting just to see how it works.  I have 5 of those looms in various sizes and am willing to loan them out so that the "casual" user doesn't have to buy one of their own.  As for yarn, bring some of various sizes.  I start out with thin and strong to warp the loom.  Then thin works best as the weaving starts in the center.  Thicker as you proceed.  I like to vary thick and thin as I go.  Then you have the sides to knit / crochet down.  Again, I like to use both thick and thin yarn as I go.  All that changes is the number of stitches that you pick up or decrease.  I am looking forward to seeing what other people do with the project.  This will be a kind of a Hat Challenge!

See you then.  Bonnie

Mercer Spinners and Weavers Guild March Meeting

Hi Everybody, at the Saturday, March 14 meeting, Marje, a friend of Judy’s from the Meadville guild will be teaching us how to do bead weaving.  Bring scissors or thread nippers, but she will be bringing everything else you need.

Remember to bring your lunch and a cup for your beverage.

The meeting will begin at 10:00 and will be at Munnell Run Farm North of Mercer on Rt 58 behind the Avalon Springs Personal Care Home.  The drive way for Munnell Run is just beyond Avalon Springs and has a big sign on the left side of the road (coming north from Mercer).  Follow the driveway beyond the big barn to the smaller red “Pig Barn”.

Call me if you need more direction.   724 253 2932 home or cell 724 456 6806.  Don’t leave a message on my cell phone, only my home phone.  Bonnie

Mercer County Spinners and Weavers Guild will meet this week in spite of the snow and cold winter weather. Bonnie sent out the following info about the meeting.  I am not sure if I will attend.  Since Tom developed Parkinson's I don't like to leave him alone for too long.  He falls frequently and when he falls he cannot always get up again without assistance. So my going out depends on what is going on at my house Thursday morning, if I feel like risking going out for awhile.  Nancy

Hi All,  

The Thursday, February 12th 10:00 meeting is at Munnell Run Farm north of Mercer on Rt 19 behind the Avalon Springs Personal Care Faciliity.  There is a sign just north of the facility for the driveway for Munnell Run Farm.  We meet in the “Pig Barn” way in the back.

We are calling this meeting “card weaving revisited”.  I for one need to be “refreshed” and finally found some yarn to do it with.  If you weren’t at the first demonstration and want cards, let me know and we’ll contact Roz to get more.

Remember your lunch and a cup for your beverage.

Bonnie

 

 

Still knitting Winter 2015

Its been quite awhile sing my last post.

I knitted a lot of hats and mittens for gifts but did not photograph most of them. 

I just finished 4 hats, a black trellis hat for JH, and a white alpaca

cabled slouch hat I sent to Steph along with 2 pair of socks and a Pgh yellow/ black scarf and fingerless gloves. 

I knitted a couple noro yarn Silk Garden striped hats onu inspired by a pattern from Ravelry; Graham hat using twisted ribb pattern and Jarad Flood's Square Cap.

Square decrease cap with 1 inch twisted ribb border.