May 2025 Newsletter

Gosh, it seems hard to believe that it is May already. I just got back from a week in upstate NY, visiting family and they are WAY behind us in seasons. While it didn’t snow everyday as my mom threatened in our regular phone calls, I missed seeing all the flowers, trees and birds that we enjoy out here in the spring. Their trees are just beginning to bud, and daffodils are blooming but not much else. It was exciting to come home and see my lilacs, rhodies and azaleas all blooming, and the tiny little sunflower seeds sticking through the ground in my garden. It’s going to be hard to concentrate on weaving with so much fun garden stuff happening!! I look around and my entire yard is full of colors, purples, reds, whites, yellows, pinks, greens and stripes. The birds race from feeder to birdbath to tree, to into the little wooded sanctuary we named Narnia, filling the yard with their songs. I’ve been thinking about my guild challenge piece since I picked up the instructions last fall. I think initially I was lost in the idea and didn’t know what to do. After searching magazines, books and the web it almost became overwhelming the number of possibilities ....... So, then it became a matter of narrowing it down. I must really congratulate our committee for choosing such as interesting challenge with extra optional twists. I definitely like the idea of “trying a new to me technique” and maybe complete half and then have someone else do the other half? I have finally picked my inspiration and wound a warp – now to have the time to get it on the loom and done....... Or can I just bring it half finished?? Are there any points for that? I’m also trying to finish ANWG towels, so maybe I need another
vacation or extended sick leave to stay home and weave?
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With all the beauty, and peaceful songs of the birds, it is hard to stay inside and work on
weaving. But then again, I don’t want cold wet weather again....... Sigh. I hope your weaving is
going well, and I look forward to seeing it soon.​


Meg Spaulding
WWG President 2024-2025


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