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GARBAGE WARPS AKA Cleaning Out Your Yarn
Closet with Beth Guertin
September 13, 2008
Beth Cederberg Guertin has been a weaver for over thirty
years, and has a
strong local and regional reputation for her knowledge and
support of
weaving and the fiber arts. The rapport she quickly develops
with
students, especially those just beginning to learn about
weaving, has
earned her the respect and friendship of many weavers in New
England. She
has been involved with teaching weaving for more than twenty
years, first
through her store in Arlington, MA (The Batik and Weaving
Supplier), and
now through her studio (A Yarn Express).
GARBAGE WARPS AKA Cleaning Out Your Yarn Closet
2 - 4 hours
We all have partial cones of yarn, left over from previous
projects,
taking up valuable space in our yarn closets. Bring those
yarns and let’s
plan a project to use up the yarns (goal is that you use
them up without
buying any more yarn to weave the project). We’ll weigh the
yarn,
determine how many yards there are available, and then
discuss options
through stripes, plaids, 4 and 8 shaft drafts, combining
textures, colors,
and yarns. Samples will be shown. Students will leave with a
project
designed ready to go home to wind the warp.Participants
will need to bring:
- colored pencils
- paper for designing (plain or graph)
- calculator
- an inventory of yarns (on index cards or paper) you own
that are not
specified for a project - attach a sample of the yarn; list
color(s);
amount (ounces/pound); number of yards per pound (if known);
fiber content
(if known)
- partial cones/skeins, yarn leftover on bobbins, yarns you
want to use up
If you bring in a detailed inventory then you don't need to
bring the
actual yarns. We need to know how many yards per pound and
how much of
that yarn you have.
If you own a McMorran Yarn Balance please bring it to the
workshop.
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