Ingrid Crickmore will give us a Fingerloop Braiding workshop Cost:$50 for the weekend, still have spaces. Guild members should contact Yonat to register. If you are not a Guild member please email Yonat for information.
The braid in the image was made of 5/2 pearl cotton using fingerloop braiding. Four different braiding patterns were used in the sample.
Have sticks, will travel here, there and everywhere! Laverne Waddington is passionate about backstop weaving. Born in India, raised in Australia she now live in South America. In 1998, she moved to land locked Santa Cruz in Bolivia- a large city with a small town feel. Life in Santa Cruz, Bolivia is simple and laid back despite the crazy traffic and the blaring tropical rhythms. It is a perfect base from which Waddington travels and continues learning to weave, braid and spin as it shares borders with Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru. Since moving here, she has continued to travel and learn to weave beyond the neighboring countries in Ecuador and even further afield in Guatemala.
Waddington keeps journals in which she has meticulously documented all the techniques she has learned here over the years with diagrams and step-by-step photos and it is only recently that she have found a forum in which to share all this with other weavers around the world. Visit her blog and let her tell you about her life in Santa Cruz and her weaving and learning experiences.
The Guild will be offering a multiday workshop with Laverne Waddington in conduction with her program on April 13, 2011. Details of dates and cost for this workshop will be available later.
Many interesting hands on workshops will offered at the upcoming Conference of Northern California Handweavers May 13- May 15, 2011 during the annual Conference to be held in Sutter Creek, California. Registration materials will be available online by November, 2010.