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Deb Kebler organized another wonderful workshop. 

Nadine Sanders, “The Singing Weaver” presented a three-day workshop, “Painting with Yarn-Exploration of the Theo Moorman Weave” November 7-9th 2025.

Nadine began with an introduction to Theo Moorman, the woman accredited for development of this technique.  The Theo Moorman technique allows pictorial/abstract images to be “painted” on the surface of a woven ground cloth using inlayed yarns.  Nadine then gave credit to another important artist Joyce Harter who mentored Nadine and co-authored the book Theme & Variation More Weaving that Sings.   This book was the outline for the workshop and provided as part of our materials fee.  Using 4-shaft looms we wove 4 to 6 samples using multiple techniques but, most importantly, we learned about creating designs and the use of cartoons to aid in the design process.  Nadine asked many thought-provoking questions to help the weavers realize their design potential.  She provided warps and tools for the workshop, gave a PowerPoint presentation, and displayed many samples including garments which members strutted about in an impromptu fashion show. Nadine has an enthusiastic, positive personality that made for an impowering and fun workshop.  Nadine is a musician as well, providing singing and instrumentals throughout the three days.

Following the workshop samples will be shared at our guild meeting to introduce and mentor others and included in the displays we assemble at our local libraries to thank them for providing a meeting space.  Many of us came to the workshop without any clear understanding of what the Theo Moorman technique was, but all vowed to incorporate the technique into their future weaving repertoire.


Meeting

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Our next Guild meeting is Saturday, December 13th, 2025
from 12:00 to 3:30 P.M. at the
Phoenix Public Library, 510 West First st.
Phoenix, Oregon.
This is our potluck, bring a dish to share and your own place setting.
This is also our “Gift the Guild” silent auction – bring items for the auction to support our scholarships.
All are welcome, bring a friend.

Our Color Challenge window display is up at the Jacksonville Library until November 28. Check it out!

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Charlotte and Linda created another beautiful Saturday Handweavers Guild display at the Medford Library for the month of December celebrating SHG’s 50th anniversary. Be sure to check it out.

Sofa Blanket

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This is my sofa blanket made from Harrisville wool. I set the Shetland 2 ply at 8 epi, 46″. The tabby is Shetland and the pattern is Highland yarn. There are some warp threads that are Highland too. I wove one repeat at a time, which means it probably took a month to weave!
(The sofa is a dark blue.)
– Lucy DeFranco

Scarves

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  • 2 different treadlings with red then blue weft
  • tencel dyed yellow ball of fiber then squirted magenta, purple and orange
  • tencel scarf-closeup-variegated warp:blue weft. blue added to fringe to avoid contrast
  • tencel scarf – 8 shaft threading with braided twill tie-up

I shared this dyeing and weaving experiment on Facebook also. Please share your work here or on Facebook or both. I’m sure I’m not the only one missing seeing the beautiful work that our members create.

How to tame a bright warp? Using a technique that Cindy Fowler and Lucy DeFranco taught during a dye workshop a few summers ago, I wound a ball of 8/2 tencel with enough yarn for a 3 yard warp, kept it as a ball and dyed it yellow, then squirted it with leftover Procion MX dyes: orange, magenta and plum. I liked the variegation, but it was too orange for my liking. I thought that red would be a good weft but remembered that complementary colors tone down bright colors so used the red and blue wefts in a sample with two different treadlings and decided on the blue weft for an 8 shaft twill with a braided twill treadling and added blue to the fringe to tone it down also.

Kathy Fennell


Violet Protest

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Handwoven squares for the “Violet Protest” , 5/2 perle cotton with a blue warp and red weft. Draft is a twill pattern from Handweaving.net  #33992. My biggest challenges  on this project were deciding to weave another piece to attach with fusible interfacing to create a more substantial square and then sewing on the seam binding without ruining the whole project. No matter how long you weave, there will always be challenges to overcome by learning something new.  Google “Violet Protest” if you want to learn more about this effort. They need more squares.

Kathy Fennell