June

And now it is JUNE!  Two weeks to ANWG 2025 Conference in Yakima!

We look forward to our end-of-the-guild-year Potluck Picnic, again generously hosted by Janet S, at her lovely home.  We will do the “installation” of our Officers who were elected last month, and will be appointing a member who volunteered to fill the Secretary position.  Thank you Kay!

We will have a Dog Daze Sale, but hold off on the Shawl Raffle because the Shawl will go to our guild booth at ANWG.  Our booth will reflect our tagline “Friends Making Fabulous Fabrics”, showing how we work together each year at the Sheep To Shawl activity at the Fair.

I am so excited about our Ice Dyeing activity at the picnic.  The colorful projects will be dyed, but must go home with the dyers to batch, so we won’t see what you did until later.  We will have a big show and tell in September, and if you send images, we can post them on the FB page.  Send those to Donna, or post them yourself.

Many of us from TWG are going to the ANWG Conference, and will have lots to share when we begin our year again in September.

We plan to participate in the Tacoma Arts Studio Days in October, by having an open house of weaving demos and activities at our meeting location at Saint Andrews.  We also plan to again have a sales booth at Arts At The Armory this fall.  Remember to weave items to sell there!

I have only one weaving project in process; my Family Reunion towels to give out in July.  My family has a historical connection to bar codes; my dad’s company pioneered some of the reading devices for them, so I was determined to create a readable code with our family name, using white and black cotton.  Another weaver had done this a few years ago, so I knew it was possible, but it was challenging to design the color order.  After making the code, I had to determine the smallest line to equal one thread wide, so that the rest of the code was in proportion.  I didn’t want to thread the loom and have the towels not be read-able. With a geeky engineering family like mine, most everyone will have a tiny scanner app on their phone!  I’m still in that “fingers crossed” mode, but will soon know if it works!  

Happy Summer Weaving!

Mimi

Mimi Anderson, TWG President 2024-2026