BASD Calendar

May 28 Meeting

dteaj — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:35:00 GMT

Wednesday May 28, 7:00 pm at Wolbach Farm, Sudbury, MA
Annual End-of-Year Potluck

Let's get together for our final meeting before the summer hiatus. Along with the always delicious potluck, we will have a chance to see the wide range of transformations that our members have wrought on the fibers we all began with in the fiber exchange, and everyone who participated will go home with a finished object. It's a treat to see the creative ideas that our members come up with.

For the potluck, please bring:

•    An appetizer, main dish (veggie or non), or dessert, enough to feed several people. (There are kitchen facilities if you will need to heat up your dish.)
•    Any serving utensils necessary for your dish
•    If you can, please bring some drinks, too!
•    Also, don't forget to bring your own dishes/utensils.

Everyone who participated in the fiber exchange, make sure to bring your finished object.

At this final meeting of the year, we will be finalizing the new board for next year. If you would like to participate in the board, please let us know, whether before the meeting or at it. We need someone (or two people) to take over programs, so please consider serving the guild in this very important role.

March 26 Meeting

dteaj — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:56:00 GMT

Wednesday, March 26, 2007, 7:30 at Wolbach Farm, Sudbury

Spinning with Beads

We've all seen the books on knitting with beads and crocheting with beads, now try spinning with beads! Beaded yarns add shine and interest to your knitting, weaving, crocheting, etc. Jessica will lead us all in experimenting with varied beads and more than one technique.

Please bring Your wheel and/or drop spindle

A Lazy Kate

At least one extra bobbin if you are using a wheel

Beads you are interested in trying to spin with (seed beads are great, but bring anything you'd like to experiment with)

Wool, silk, or other fiber that you would like to use as the base of a beaded yarn

Thread in a similar color to your fiber

We will also provide some beads, sequins, and thread to play with.

December 5 Meeting

dteaj — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:41:00 GMT

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007, 7:00, Wolbach Farm, Sudbury

POTLUCK AND GIFT EXCHANGE

Let’s get together and share some winter cheer.

For the potluck, please bring:
· An appetizer, main dish (veggie or non), or dessert, enough to feed several people. (There are kitchen facilities if you will need to heat up your dish.)

· Any serving utensils necessary for your dish

· If you can, please bring some drinks, too!

· Also, don't forget to bring your own dishes/utensils.

If you would like to participate in the very popular gift exchange, please bring a small wrapped, unlabelled present (not more than c.$10 in value) that will be of interest to one of your fellow spinners. It’s always great to see the range of presents that people come up with.

October 17 Meeting

dteaj — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:36:00 GMT

7:30, Wolbach Farm, Sudbury

FLAX PREPARATION and SPINNING WORKSHOP

Sue Bunker from the American Textile History Museum will bring flax, a flax brake for us to break and a scutching knife to scutch to obtain the fine inner fibers of the previously rotted or retted flax.

Barbara Provest will bring extra flax stricks (available from Webs) and then demonstrate the combing and arrangement of flax fibers and attachment to your distaff and then with the addition of water will attempt to spin it into gold for you; Rumple Stilskin was previously booked for the evening.

BRING if you wish: a distaff, lap towel, strick of flax fibers (if you have one), 3 yds of a colorful soft ribbon, like grosgrain.

To make a waist distaff to use with a drop spindle, bring a 34"-36" piece of 1/2 to 3/4" dowel or very straight branch. A child's tube sock can be pulled over the dowel, stuffed and tied at the bottom. Or, you can bring an old pillow case cut in half lengthwise and stiff it with tissue paper and we can wind it on to the distaff in a cone shape and pin it on. We will arrange the combed flax over this at the meeting. You will need the 3 yds of a soft 3/4" grosgrain ribbon to criss-cross and hold flax to the distaff.

To make a distaff for use with your spinning wheel: Check to see if you have a hole in your wheel bed. Mine was the size of a wooden curtain rod, so I used that as it fit. If you have very long flax you will need a longer distaff. Some early American wheels have short distaffs as their flax was shorter (not enough irrigation during the growing season). You can always make a free-standing distaff if you have no hole in your wheel bed.

FIBER EXCHANGE

Come join the fun! The challenge this year will be to start with 4 oz of gray wool and end up with a project consisting mainly of that wool. You can overdye the gray if desired. You can add up to an ounce or so of other fibers to enhance the original wool, if you want. At the October 17^th meeting, each participant will receive 4 oz. of gray wool to spin. At a future meeting we will pass on the spun yarn to another participant. The second participant will create a finished object from the yarn supplied, using any medium desired. The created object will be given to the original spinner at a show and tell at our May potluck. There will be a fee of $4 to cover the cost of the fiber.

September Meeting (in October)

dteaj — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:52:00 GMT

Spin-in and Show-and-tell
Wednesday October 3, 2007, 7:30 pm, Wolbach Farm, Sudbury, MA
Bring your wheel or spindle and greet old friends and make new ones. Bring projects, finished
or in progress, for a show-and-tell of our summers efforts. There will be Kool Aid dyeing in the
kitchen with multiple colors offered, so bring some fleece with waterproof labeling for the
dyepots, one ounce or less per dyepot please.