Exploring Summer and Winter Weave

I spent last Saturday, a lovely, warm Autumn day, having a wonderful, exciting and satisfying time at the Workshop in Furley Hall.  What an exciting range there was to choose from: microwave dyeing, Mexican pick-up, tapestry, or my eventual choice, exploring Summer and Winter Weave.

 

Joey took us through the techniques and explained something that had seemed incomprehensible when I had read and re-read it in my weaving "bible".  Under Joey's instruction and with the help and encouragement of those around me I cracked it!  For me that is the most rewarding aspect of a workshop: the shared experience with fellow enthusiasts, the amazement that, although I am working on the same pattern as someone else, our results are different, and why that should be so.  (It wasn't only because I had turned over two pages, although we did have a good laugh about that!)

 

My thanks to everyone for such an enjoyable day, especially to Rene, Danny, Margaret and Joey for all the organisation and preparation involved.  And "hats off" to Mary, Helen, Primrose and Isabella for braving train journeys with their looms balanced on shopping trolleys just to be there with us.  I'm glad it wasn't wet! 

Joan Tyrell.