Posted by: Catherynne on: 28/10/2009
It’s time for the Clevedon A&P Show!
Creative Fibre Auckland Area will have a booth, so if you’d like to volunteer, please contact the Area Delegate or email us.
How about entering the Adult Arts & Crafts classes in the Indoor Section? Visit the Clevedon Show website for location information and if you want to submit entries for the Indoor Section, here’s the link to the form you’ll need:
Download Forms.
For more details and entry fees, visit the website. See you there!
Posted by: Catherynne on: 28/10/2009
It’s PARTY TIME!
Oh wait, and AGM time too – better not forget that. This year the Auckland committee changes hands, so please do come along for that. After the business is dealt with (which we’re told will be right smartly!), it’s on to the fun of the day – our Christmas party and Spin In.
Date: Wednesday 25 November
Time: 10.00am to 4.00pm
Where: Silverdale Hall, Silverdale St, Silverdale (See Map)
Lunch: Shared lunch so please bring along a contribution for that
Entry Fee: $2 (Members) $5 (non-Members)
We will have a speaker and vendor stalls too, which will open after the AGM, around 11am:
Posted by: Catherynne on: 13/10/2009
The Red Hill group held a dye day on Saturday 10 October – all done with food colouring.
Roving, top and yarn had been generously provided, along with a collection of food colourings you can purchase from any supermarket. The ones we mostly used were the Queen brand.
Fibre was pre-soaked in warm water with a dash of white vinegar, everything laid out, and then we were into it, experimenting with colours and intensities. Once the fibre was dyed, it was wrapped in plastic wrap (Gladwrap will do nicely), rolled up, put in a plastic grocery bag, and put in a pot to heat through and set the dye.
So easy to do, so much fun, and lots of fibre and yarn to play with at the end of it. Try it out yourself!
Posted by: Catherynne on: 01/10/2009
Monday 12th October
10.00am—3.00pm
Elim Church Centre
Thames
(by the Wharf—same as last year)
(view Google map)
Trade Stalls, Door Prizes, Refreshments available to purchase
Entry $2.00
Guest Speaker: Liz Clarke, National Co-ordinator of Operation Cover Up
Theme: Slippers, Socks & Legwarmers (bring along to model)
Posted by: Catherynne on: 07/09/2009
If you’re interested in the following seminar, please contact Alison Eades as soon as possible to register:
A One Day Colour Seminar with Leading Colour Specialist MICHAEL WILCOX
Michael is visiting from England to present this one day Seminar throughout New Zealand. He is the author of the book Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green, inventor of the Split Primary System and the Colour Bias Wheel, and Head of the School of Colour.
The Seminar will cover:
The Seminar is for artists, craft workers, designers, interior decorators
and all who use colour in their work or leisure.
The Day of Colour Seminar will be held on the following dates:
Tuesday 29th September – AUT Akoranga Campus, Akoranga Drive, North Shore, Auckland
Friday 2nd October – The Learning Connexion, Taita Campus, Hutt City,
Wellington
Sunday 4th October – Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology,
Bridge Street, Nelson
Wednesday 7th October – Philip Carter Family Auditorium, Christchurch
Art Gallery, Worcester Boulevard Christchurch
The seminar runs from 10am to 4pm and costs $80 per person.
Download Registration Form
(TLC students wanting to attend Wellington seminar who cannot afford full
fee please contact Alison)
For more information, or to register please contact Alison Dawn Eades at adeades@hotmail.com or phone 03 539 4925. It is advised to register early as places are limited.
Please pass this information on to anyone who may be interested.
Check out Michael’s web site at www.schoolofcolor.com
Posted by: kim6782 on: 06/09/2009
Looking forward to this month’s Spin In as we have just have the most amazing two months of fun, with the retreat day in August learning the bead knitting and tapestry weaving on a paua shell. The Open Day just gone, we saw some wonderful button making going on there, and wouldn’t it be lovely to see a bunch of crochet peonies and knitted flowers, along with all the other beautiful creations you’ve been busy with since our last gathering.
So come along and show off.
Dr Mac is able to be available for the spin in for anyone who has a wayward wheel or two, so as to make the most of his valuable time would you kindly email Lyn Walsh to let her know so that she can arrange for him to be there.
Lyn Walsh
great.cakes@xtra.co.nz
Devonport Spinners & Weavers
Devonport
Spinners and Weavers
Spin In
Wednesday September 30
St Georges Church Hall
9:30 – 12:30
CF members $2,
non-members $5
Guest Speaker –
Denise Hosty
of Costume Studio
Traders:
Priscilla Lowry, silks
Sue Blanchard, wools
Sharon Dooney, carded wools
And first time trader:
Ashford Agents,
Maggie and Mike
“Wheels and Whorls”
Plus the usual stalls and raffles
and Don’t forget your SHOW
AND TELL
Posted by: kim6782 on: 06/09/2009
We all learned so many new things on the day.
Bouquets of flowers shall be flourishing, tunisian crocheters a new, button makers at large, cast on/off nutters to follow along with a spindle marker or two, then we dyed the odd bit of yarn with food colouring. Not to the mention of delicious soup, buns and muffins.
And most important being able to catch up and spend a day together from across the Auckland Area.
Posted by: kim6782 on: 03/09/2009
find out what you can do with these items at the same time.


Check for the information below 5 th September 9.30am at the Handweavers Guild rooms.
Posted by: kim6782 on: 03/09/2009
Posted by: kim6782 on: 02/09/2009
lovely ladies at the markets. I met one a couple of weeks ago, she had her spinning wheel there and was selling her hand knits, amongst them was an aircell crochet blanket of various colours, we got talking
as us nosey crafters do.
The guts of it was she had dyed the blanket in a black plastic rubbish bag on her deck using acid dyes squirted onto the wool, squeeshing gently to saturate the garment, then leaving it outside – in the winter no less – for a week, so like any curious, nosey crafter I just had to put it to the test and this is the results, only I left the fleece out for a couple of weeks as I forgot it.
But it worked out just the same, no colour co-ordinates as I was just testing out the theory and used up some left over dyes I had in a couple of bottles.
Summer is coming just imagine the results when it heats up out there.
Now it’s your turn, have a go, it takes very little time, no power, no clock watching:)