What do we do in class ??

Very nearly a full house last night, finally the weather has improved and there are less bugs knocking us out!.

Dorethy was warping and winding for a new project just out of shot.

Chris is setting a loom up for the first time, I think she's planning a waffle bathmat.

Norma works her way round the class, stopping us now and agian when something of interest comes up and keeping us going. In the pic she seems to be sorting heddles with Chris.

Nell can be spotted at the back, cranking out another bat, on the drum carder. Nell is a prolific spinner and that wool will probably be a gorgeous knitted shawl very soon.

Carol has brought her wheel along and is spinning fine singles, from a beauty of a bat that came from Winghams, towards knitting herself a cardigan.

Dell is here too, this is some of her own funky yarn, in the style of "pluckystuff", from some blended roving from Ann (used to be Merlins Mill), some multidirectional directional knitting going on down there!

Meg is experimenting in hand-carding, fractional colour blending of Jacob wool. If you peer closely you may see pretty rolags from natural white through shades of grey marl to darkest brown grey and a few regular stripey ones for good measure.

Vilma has spun the warp and weft for this loom of twill fabric, its an on going project but the end is nigh. There must be metres and metres I can't wait to see it unfurlled.

Oh and Liz popped in too, more Guild paperwork.

And what was I doing apart from being camera shy,

well I worked out the threading for my Christmas placemates and runner, and browsed with guilty pleasure through a whole lot of catalogues Nell brought in, from a recent foray to a trade craft event.

That's us for the evening crew. Maybe Isabel will do some photos to show what it is the morning group get up to. There was a lot of evidence of indigo dyeing experiments for example, oh and what is going on the big loom!