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Calendar of EventsSat., May 3 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Meeting at Christ Episcopal Church, 870 Diamond Park Square, Meadville PASat., June 7 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Meeting at Christ Episcopal Church, 870 Diamond Park Square, Meadville PA May 2025 Program
Our program for May will be on Pin Loom
Weaving. If you wish to participate, we are asking
you to bring: a pin loom (extras if you have them), yarn, (sport, sock,
and DK weight work best a good way to use up small bits of
leftovers), yarn needle, crochet hoos, scissors.
Minutes of the April 2025 Meeting Due to an extended program, there was no business meeting this month. Show & Tell: Zara Ostrander sewed a ukulele case and briefly accompanied the reveal with music on the instrument. Marcie Silva went to the Black Swamp fiber festival with Kim Smolinsky, and was amazed at all of the fiber-y creativity. She crocheted a hanging chap-stick holder, complete with a cute mushroom-like hat. Kim Smolinsky went to a mill in an old school house in North Dakota where she spent one day dyeing and another felting a variety of items. She notes that TSA does NOT like E-spinners! She also passed a lace shawl she crocheted, her new yarn cards, and two colorful skeins of her handspun. Tina Hays got a roller for wet felting. Maddie Mumford is still weaving towels – one set with orange and purple plaid highlights, and another in pink and white. She got Shetland wool in five natural colors from Whispering Pines for an upcoming project, and she brought skeins she spun from Meghan’s bunny and from one of Kim’s batts. Pat Retchloff revealed a big texture pattern scarf she knit from a chunky yarn. Chris Cornell shared a pair of socks made from Dorset wool spun on the antique wheel she showed us in February as well as a lace mobius scarf she made with the angora she got at our March meeting. Sarah Peelman brought an entire basket of multicolored baby chickens and eggs she made for Easter. Ellen Cooper made a pillow in green, white and purple stripes from a pattern on Ravelry. Anne Growley presented a heathered green cardigan she knit in the round and steeked. She also showed a skein of angora she spun and her most recent sock-machine socks. Tammy Tenpas passed a skein she spun from wool she got at the Endless Mountain fiber festival. Meghan Beichner started a test run for a lacy pink stole she hopes to make. Meghan Vorisek brought her first two hand-spun singles, done in natural white on her drop spindle. She also modeled a vest she crocheted and showed a sparkly black, purple and silver sweater made from two large granny stitch hexagons. She also showed some earrings and drapey bracelets she made in peyote stitch. Elaine Fertig reminded us that our demo at the Crawford County Fair will be on Tuesday, August 19 this year. Cate Johns made a large peg loom for making rugs, and she brought two rugs, one in rusty colors and one in green and blue stripes. Phyllis Lord, inspired by Meghan’s bunny Leonard, modeled a bunny-ears headdress. She also showed a brightly colored Mexican blanket given to her husband. Karen Fry has been focused on a new slow stitch project but still managed to knit a hat in purple cables. Marje Koehlert brought a sample of her angora yarn knit in an eyelet pattern, a small hand spun bag knit in the same pattern, and an inkle band woven with metallic threads. Respectfully
submitted, Classified
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