Everyone who finished their project for the fiber exchange brought it to our May meeting, the U-SPIN spinning guild's last regular meeting before our summer break. We always have lots of fun activities in June, July and August like the 4-H Lamb Show, our annual dyeing party, the Blacksheep Gathering in Eugene, a pot luck picnic at the farm and our booth at the Douglas County Fair.
Naomi, who is one of our newest members and has just started learning how to spin, did a beautiful job. She chose to make several different skeins so that she could experiment with spinning a variety of fibers since all of the fiber samples were new to her.
Pat divided all of her one ounce samples into 10 different segments and threw them all into a basket. She then reached down into the basket and retrieved one puff ball at a time, spinning them in a random order. I call that the grab bag method.
Cookie carded all of her fiber on the drum carder to get a more uniform blend.
This is the hat Cookie made from one of her fiber exchange skeins.
Cookie modeled her creation for us.
Maureen couldn't wait to knit this super wonderful purse from her fiber exchange skeins. She used a fun knitting method called Knit One Below. The inside of the purse is lined with pink satin.
This is a view of the back of the purse.
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