January 2019 Newsletter

​I spent today twisting fringe and wet-finishing a throw, my first. The process included another first, as my 10 year old cell phone slipped out of my sweater pocket and plopped into the bathtub with the newly soaking weave! Woven throw and flip-phone are both drying now. The throw is a herringbone twill in brown and cream, and it looks good so far. As for my old blue flip phone, we’ll see if  learning how to use a new smart phone becomes one of my projects for early 2019. The new year holds some exciting projects: Weaving for the Salish Canoe Journey hosted by the Lummi Nation in July; two group projects on the Glimakra looms at the Jansen Center; weaving with wool from local farms; expanding my skills and knowledge of deflected double weave, and learning more about plant based dyes for wool, silk and cotton. I’ve collected seed from plants in my garden that will dye the primary colors. Weld and Dyers Chamomile for yellow, Japanese Indigo for blue, Madder for red. I’ll have seeds to plant this spring, and enough to share, if you would like to grow some too. The WWG website will be adding a page especially featuring service and community projects for your reference. Please bring fiber-related service projects to the attention of the guild by making an announcement in a meeting, and sending a note to the WWG board through the website contact page http://www.whatcomweaversguild.org/contact.html.
Weaving in the Lummi Cultural Center is picking up in pace as well, see the photos of another warp going on the loom. We can be proud of all the ways we weave (and knit and felt and stitch) together as a community.  My goal for 2019 is to explore my fiber work at a pace that makes me feel happy, and encourage others to do the same. I look forward to seeing you in the new year!

All the best,​

Carol Berry,
2018-2019 WWG President

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