NOW possible to run this DAY course
NEW DATE Weaving. Monksbelt and Rosepath-
AND we are warped up and ready to go,
Course has been moved to
TOMORROW Sat 2nd Feb at 10am!!!!!
Monksbelt and Rosepath weaving Saturday 10.00 – 16.00 What you need to bring: notebook, pencil, scissors and shared lunch Warping days: Thursday 17th and Thursday 24th 10.00 – 16.00 – all helpers very welcome
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Look Opportunities for Spring Clean for UPDATES
Fleece samples have arrived from BWMB, Thank you BILLY and the Crew at Brecon Depot!!!!
Still need some items on list please look now I have updated it.
Still need some items on list please look now I have updated it.
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
This Came in to Nell and so we have posted it for you all to read
Dear Guild Secretary / GPC MemberPlease ask your Guild Members to look at the linked website and add theirnames to the petition to save the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre.In view of the deadline for signatures of 10th February, there is nopossibility of including this in the Newsletter or the Journal before thatdate, although there may be a link from the Association website.Dot Seddon has asked me to forward this to those Guild Secretaries for whomwe have e-mail addresses.RegardsTrudi>> URGENT>>>> To all friends of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre:>>>> I am writing to you as I know you will be>> concerned to learn that the survival of the Art>> Centre in Harrania, for whose adobe workshops>> and galleries Ramses Wissa Wassef won the Aga>> Khan Award for Architecture in 1983, is>> seriously threatened by rising water.>>>> To view dramatic photographs and to read a>> report about the damage please>> visit www.wissa-wassef-arts.com/petition.html>>>> The trustees of the Ramses Wissa Wassef>> Exhibition Trust, a charity registered in the>> United Kingdom which in 1985/86 and 2006>> organised a series of highly successfully>> exhibitions of the tapestries in the UK, plan to>> present a petition to the Governor of Giza and>> other authorities in Egypt.>>>> Please lend your support to this call for urgent>> action to ensure the survival of the Art Centre>> and of the tapestry weaving experiment which>> continues to delight and inspire thousands of>> people thoughout the world. Any further help you>> can give by urging friends and colleagues to>> sign the petition would be greatly>> appreciated. All signatures will be added to>> the 300 collected at the recent exhibition of>> new tapestries for sale held in London at the>> end of 2007.>>>> Barbara Heller, Trustee & Secretary of the>> Ramses Wissa Wassef Exhibition Trust>>>>Please sign the on-line petition by 10th February 2008 at>>>>http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/on-behalf-of-the-ramses-wissa-> wassef-art-centre-egypt.html>>>>
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Check your Diary. Date Changes!!!!!
Please check you have the new dates for
your diary for 2008.
Some dates have been changed.
your diary for 2008.
Some dates have been changed.
Friday, 4 January 2008
An opprotunity for an EARLY SPRING CLEAN!
Following the last "Wool Box" meeting, we realised that to sell our idea to the council, schools and lottery we need to run a pilot in local schools. STUFF IN PINK HAS BEEN PROMISED OR HANDED IN
To put together a box we need quite a lot of stuff, as we have no budget as yet, we HOPE that our members can donate the contents of our first couple of boxes. However, before we get buried under your goodwill gifts I'd like to make a plea for specific items:
1. Two sheep's skulls - I'm working on this one CAROL
2. Rams horns - does anyone have the contact details for the man that sells sticks at the Penderyn Farmers market?
3. Three cones of pure wool - Not worried by what colour but it must be pure wool Clare
4. Some 50g skeins of hand spun wool- I'd like to have samples of fine lustre wools and coloured wool (natural and dyed) as well as some hairy kempy yarn. BWMB samples have arrived please pick some up fromthe Cross- we need some cleaned and spun as samples
5. Washed fleece - looking for variety again Carol offers Jacob Fleece, BWMB samples
6. Machine knit 100% wool jumper -preferably new don't mind what size, colour etc.
7. Machine knit hat, scarf and gloves- all wool new if possible don't have to match.
8. Hand knit hat, scarf and gloves - all wool new if possible don't have to match. Nell has an odd glove and hat
9. Hand knit wool sweater - someone must have a spare one! -Liz
10.Some balls of real wool- ie from a commercial source- preferably welsh but we will consider anything Liz
11. Commercial skeins of wool- colinette or pre war sock wool perhaps. DEBB
12. A handwoven wool scarf commercial and handspun from Nell
13.Posters of sheep breeds -British Wool Marketing Board
14. hand made felt and felted 3d items #
15. A sample of different woven items-preferably small, mats. coasters, tweed suiting etc
16.Children's books with wool as a theme-eg Tom's sweater,Pete the Sheep, avoiding Shaun the sheep if at all possible, all suggestions considered
17. lanolin hand cream new and unopened Isabel
18. wool tags from clothing with the wool mark.
19. samples of roving in any colours.-BWMB
20. Willing bods to write simple explanations and descriptions and activity sheets.
21.Plastic crates with lids. Still looking for new A4 files
22. Laminating pouches for A4 or info for a cheap source - we have a laminator Got These but had to pay!! Budget now in Deficit!
23. children's plastic knitting needles-Debb
24. some samples of knitting on knitting needles- like little flags of garter stitch, moss stitch, ss etc
25.spindles, - debb
26.card looms or tiny frame tapestry looms
27. Simple dyeing ideas. -food dyes. Debb has plastic pots for dyeing in Carol has food dye
To put together a box we need quite a lot of stuff, as we have no budget as yet, we HOPE that our members can donate the contents of our first couple of boxes. However, before we get buried under your goodwill gifts I'd like to make a plea for specific items:
1. Two sheep's skulls - I'm working on this one CAROL
2. Rams horns - does anyone have the contact details for the man that sells sticks at the Penderyn Farmers market?
3. Three cones of pure wool - Not worried by what colour but it must be pure wool Clare
4. Some 50g skeins of hand spun wool- I'd like to have samples of fine lustre wools and coloured wool (natural and dyed) as well as some hairy kempy yarn. BWMB samples have arrived please pick some up fromthe Cross- we need some cleaned and spun as samples
5. Washed fleece - looking for variety again Carol offers Jacob Fleece, BWMB samples
WE HAVE LOTS OF LOVELY AND IF YOU COULD WASH SOME i WILL BE DELIGHTED
6. Machine knit 100% wool jumper -preferably new don't mind what size, colour etc.
7. Machine knit hat, scarf and gloves- all wool new if possible don't have to match.
8. Hand knit hat, scarf and gloves - all wool new if possible don't have to match. Nell has an odd glove and hat
9. Hand knit wool sweater - someone must have a spare one! -Liz
10.Some balls of real wool- ie from a commercial source- preferably welsh but we will consider anything Liz
11. Commercial skeins of wool- colinette or pre war sock wool perhaps. DEBB
12. A handwoven wool scarf commercial and handspun from Nell
13.Posters of sheep breeds -British Wool Marketing Board
14. hand made felt and felted 3d items #
15. A sample of different woven items-preferably small, mats. coasters, tweed suiting etc
16.Children's books with wool as a theme-eg Tom's sweater,Pete the Sheep, avoiding Shaun the sheep if at all possible, all suggestions considered
17. lanolin hand cream new and unopened Isabel
18. wool tags from clothing with the wool mark.
19. samples of roving in any colours.-BWMB
20. Willing bods to write simple explanations and descriptions and activity sheets.
21.Plastic crates with lids. Still looking for new A4 files
22. Laminating pouches for A4 or info for a cheap source - we have a laminator Got These but had to pay!! Budget now in Deficit!
23. children's plastic knitting needles-Debb
24. some samples of knitting on knitting needles- like little flags of garter stitch, moss stitch, ss etc
25.spindles, - debb
26.card looms or tiny frame tapestry looms
27. Simple dyeing ideas. -food dyes. Debb has plastic pots for dyeing in Carol has food dye
Eirian has offered to do Keystage co-ordination and welsh translation.
Please . Anymore ideas- don't hold back we may not have it covered.
Please be aware that we will deeply appreciate your items but they are setting off on a journey of discovery and may return travel stained, damaged or worse, don't give us anything that you couldn't say goodbye to for good, I know its a big ask, but we can do it.
DEADLINE SHUFFLING GOING ON PLEASE WORK ON ASAP FOR NOW!
Thanks in anticipation DEBB.
Welcome visitors at our January 3rd taster day
The best of New Year Wishes to you all.
A busy start to the New Year when a steady flow, mostly couples with one interested in crafting and the other as moral support, arrived at our basement yesterday, keen to find out about our guild. They came in response to posters, our tesco spinning day, and the carer's event. I will pass the details of those wanting to join courses to Nell, as I ran out of leaflets. So hopefully we can fill any space in the classes to keep the guild going, perhaps a few more bods will turn up on Tuesday too.
See you in class, Debb.
A busy start to the New Year when a steady flow, mostly couples with one interested in crafting and the other as moral support, arrived at our basement yesterday, keen to find out about our guild. They came in response to posters, our tesco spinning day, and the carer's event. I will pass the details of those wanting to join courses to Nell, as I ran out of leaflets. So hopefully we can fill any space in the classes to keep the guild going, perhaps a few more bods will turn up on Tuesday too.
See you in class, Debb.
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