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| Children's day at QB museum |
The past month we've been out and about showing off our craft and meeting with our community. We always have a great time at these public events, greeting old friends and making new ones.
Children's Day at the Qualicum Beach Museum is one of our favourite events. Children love to make things they can take home so in addition to our spinning wheels and looms this year we made simple devices for making kumihimo braids that can become friendship bracelets. From the photo is seems our group was just as fascinated with them as the children.
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| display of natural dyes |
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| Rita and her rugs |
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| Vera's basket |
While we didn't win anything in the rude vegetable or largest zucchini category our members did dominate the needlework section.
Linda took first prize with a top in handwoven yardage that mixes two different patterns in the same colours and threads. The panels are reversed on the back. It is often difficult to match patterns exactly with handwoven yardage and this design eliminates that problem.
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| Linda's blue ribbon vest |
The Qualicum Weavers and Spinners sponsors a special prize for a hand woven shawl. Below are the first and second place winners in this years contest. The blue shawl is highly textured with glittering threads and random bead-like nubs. The blue ribbon shawl was woven with a painted warp and textured threads so colours shift and move throughout the piece.
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| Special Contest |
Our monthly meetings will resume on Monday September 25th. The meeting is from 10 to noon at our studio. Visitors are always welcome so come along if you would like to check us out.
We are busy with classes in September and October. Check out the sidebar under workshops to see what is happening. We will report on our beginner weaving classes in the next post.
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