NOBO Handweavers

Hi NOBO’ERS

Our next Circular Sock Knitting Machine Crank-In and Spin-In at the Crank-In will be on this Sunday May 6th! Pleasce come and work on a project~ any fibre arts are welcome. For the past year, I have been rug-hooking, but this Sunday, I’ll be finally be bringing my sock machine!
Hope to see you there!
Diane
and the usual….

“Socks By The Side of the Road” is having another Circular Sock Knitting Machine Crank-In and spinners are also invited!
All the details are below. Feel free to invite anyone to join us that would be interested! And please pass this
email to anyone that I may have forgotten.
When: Sunday May 6th, 2012 from 10-4

Where: The NH State Rest Area on route 93 in Salem, NH. The rest area is located
on the northbound side of route 93 just over the Mass/NH border. It is very nice
place to meet.

What to bring: a table or stand, chair, CSM & related stuff, rug or towel to put on the floor under your machine,
your lunch and a snack to share (if you want).

Hope you can join us! Please let me know if you can come and don’t forget a chair.
Any questions, please email me
Diane
howesfarm@comcast.net

p.s. No selling allowed at out meetings~ The State’s rule, not ours!

Allow me to thank all of you for the lovely flowers I received at NOBO’s fourth anniversary celebration. It has been so heartwarming to watch our guild grow and prosper. I look forward to many more years of weaving adventures with all of you.

Your trusty delegate has just returned from the latest NEWS planning session, and I am over the moon excited about the classes that will be offered. Mark your calendars now, because you’ll definitely be taking time off from work and so on to participate (beginning July 11th, 2013). I’ll share a sneak peek of what’s planned at our May meeting, but I can’t give it all away or there won’t be anything left to surprise you when the brochure lands in your mailbox in January.

Melissa, Kirsten, and I are hoping there just might be a guild member who has one of those great, old-fashioned galvanized washtubs that we could borrow.  We are working on quite the collaboration and need to photo document the washing of some Dorset fleece in early May.  Please let us know if one is out there and available for us to use.  Thank you!

NOBO Handweaver’s 4th anniversary celebration is April 26, 7-9 pm at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, 5 Little’s Lane, Newbury. There is plenty of parking available. We will have a short ceremony to recognize the change of court positions before the presentation of Linda Cortright, editor and publisher of Wild Fibers Magazine. Other than the collection of dues, which are $25 (please pay by check or cash placed in an envelope with your name), all business will be on hold until our May meeting.

This is a potluck meeting, and you must bring home all leftovers, if any.

Also, there will be a donation box. All proceeds will go towards feeding the MSPCA foster animals at the farm. However, payment for the use of this great space is for guild members to help out for a few hours each during the summer weaving program for children. This is the program Kathy James has been involved with for many years. More on this in May.

Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm
5 Little’s Way
Newbury, MA 01951
Take I-95 to Route 113, Newburyport. Route 113 turns into Route 1A (High Road). Follow Route 1A for 3.7 miles. Turn left onto Little’s Lane

The following weaving equipment is being offered for sale by one of my customers:
LeClerc Nilus Loom – Used – in very good condition – 4 shaft – 6 treadles – 43 inches wide (at the widest points).
Included with the loom are the following accessories:
Harrisville warping board
2 sets of lease sticks – 1 small and 1 large
Temple
4 boat shuttles
7 stick shuttles – various sizes
2 threading hooks
1 sley/threading hook
2 dozen bobbins
2 bobbin winders
Umbrella swift
Ball winder
McMorran yarn balance
Scale
12 reeds, various sizes
Asking $1500.

More photos available.

Please contact Betsy at A Loom with a View (978-463-9276) if you are interested.

Hi, folks, I would love to go see this exhibit in Newton, MA. I really enjoy Dora’s work. It’s very different.

Any one want to join me? I know I can’t go the weekend of 4/14-15, but many other times are free for me. If the reception time works for you, we’d likely see other weavers then. And of course, you’d get to meet Dora if you don’t know her.

Gallery: Fiber Constructions
by Dora Hsiung
Reception: Saturday, April 21, 3:00 pm

By: Dora Hisung

The Gallery will house a show titled Fiber Constructions by Dora Hisung who has been working with fiber for more than 30 years and has developed her own original off-loom weaving technique. She expresses her experiences and feelings through color, pattern and design. The artist uses yarn like a palette of multi-colored paint to create illusions of motion and vibrant gradation, producing three-dimensional surfaces with structured and mathematical patterns.

Born in China, Dora Hsiung received a Bachelor of Art degree from the University of Illinois and attended graduate school at Boston University. Hsiung has exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her works range in size from miniature to monumental wall hangings and are included in private and corporate collections; among them, IBM, GTE and Cabot Corporation.

See also:

http://www.newtonfreelibrary.net/programs/calendar/nav/?year=2012&month=4&content=art