The Whonnock Weavers & Spinners of Maple Ridge, BC is holding a workshop in Mission, BC on September 9 & 10, 2017 and there are a few spaces available if anyone is interested. The description is: ‘Weaving Bootcamp’ with Barbara Mitchell   This is for new weavers, occasional weavers and experienced weavers who would like a refresher.  This workshop takes the new weaver from an empty loom through to weaving confidently by the end of the workshop.  It includes measuring the warp, sleying, threading, winding on and tying-on, and weaving both plain weave and twill, and also reading and understanding a draft.  Each participant would work on their own table…

The Whonnock Weavers and Spinners Guild did a sheep to scarf project as a group to celebrate Canada’s 150th at Country Fest 2017.  We purchased a fleece earlier this year and we skirted it, we washed it, we combed it, and we spun it in to yarn. From that yarn we knitted , we crocheted  and we wove with it. At Country Fest we demonstrated all of this and used up the last of what we had.