Archive for January, 2009

Spanish Moss Weaver

Published Date: January 25th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

My neighbor sent me this interesting newspaper article from Florida, and when i went online to read more about it, i found a great little video. thought you might like reading and seeing it as well.
Mary Rios
article: http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article968162.ece

February 19, 2009 Meeting

Published Date: January 25th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

FEBRUARY 2009 MEETING
Farmington Community Library
12 Mile Road between Orchard Lake and Farmington Road
Farmington Hills
Driving Directions

11:00 AM Board Meeting
12:00 PM Social Time
12:30 PM General Meeting
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 2009

Mary Underwood, a frequent traveler to Mongolia, will be our February presenter. Mary has made several trips to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, studying the felt-making of these desert [...]

Share Your Fiberart Skill

Published Date: January 25th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

This summer, June 20 – August 1, 2009, the Royal Oak Public Library (and other Southeastern Michigan libraries) have as their Summer Reading Program Theme, “Be Creative at Your Library.”  I have volunteered to coordinate a program at the Royal Oak Library to help encourage the fiber arts among elementary school children, who are going [...]

Some of the Photos from the BBAC Exhibit

Published Date: January 21st, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

http://gallery.me.com/susanlolli#100044
The above should take you to a gallery of some of the pictures that were taken by the professional photographer of the opening.  
You should be able to download copies.  
Unfortunately – only half of the pictures on the disk sent to me were readable.  I will try to get another copy.
The photographer is Bill [...]

Historical Photos including Weaving Photos

Published Date: January 20th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

Today the New York Times had an article regarding Historical Photos on the web.  I was drawn to the article since it had a picture from the Library of Congress titled “Weavers at Work”. 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/technology/internet/19link.html?scp=1&sq=historical%20photos&st=cse
It spoke about a couple places that have historical and free photos you can download.  
 

Wikipidea Commons has photos that are available [...]

Wedge Weave Workshop

Published Date: January 18th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

The workshop was great fun, and wedge weave did not seem as tedious as most tapestry is.  In fact, it was really enjoyable.  Mollie did a great job instructing us.  There was a great variety of looms used as you will see if Sus Lolli and I manage to post our pictures.  Mollie had a [...]

Guild Meeting Blog Demo

Published Date: January 15th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

Just showing some how to blog

BBAC exhibit

Published Date: January 14th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

The exhibit at the BBAC is wonderful!  I talked to some non-fiber people who take classes at BBAC yesterday and they were raving about the quality of the show.  I loved the wide variety of media and techniques in the show.  Congratulations to those who entered. Joan K

MWG – BBAC Exhibit

Published Date: January 10th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

It was good to see so many of the guild venturing out yesterday, on a snowy night.  Thought I would share some of my pictures from the exhibit.  I was told that I would be given the “professional” set of photos and once I do I will share those.  These are my “still trying to [...]

That worked!

Published Date: January 5th, 2009
Category: MWG Posts

Now I am going to try to show some close-ups of the bracelets.  Joan Koelsch