Elizabeth Evans – Up For A Challenge

Hand woven and hand spun. My response to a guild challenge issued in 2020. I received a bag of red, yellow and white wool fibre which I spun into yarn The weave structure comes from the 1947 edition of Home Weaving by Oscar Bériau and uses small amounts of commercial cotton.

Vanessa Crandall – Crackle Scarf (Cranberry)

Tencel

Diane Martin – Orenburg Shawl

Wool/mohair blend, hand spun and hand knit.

Nancy Summers – Colour Play in Mats

100% wool, 5 mats woven using a weft-faced design. Part of the Colours of NPCC Challenge.

Karen Fowler – Colour Play

100% Cotton. This is a tea towel and a gamp all in one. Shadow weave is one of my most favourite weave structures.

Joan McKenziee – Colours of NPCC Rug 1 and Rug 2

Wool yarn dyed with Madder, Goldenrod and Walnut. Guild Challenge using yarn dyed with plants from NPCC park.

Karen Fowler – Rhapsody in Blue

100% Handspun Wool. Deflected Double Weave.

Diane Martin – Kerry Shawl

Wool, hand spun and hand knit.

Helen Benninger – Mauve and Teal Mat

Wool and various commercial yarns.

Elizabeth Evans – Komebukuro-inspired Bag

Cotton. Handwoven cloth and tablet weaving.

Diane Martin – Colours of Neilson Park Cushion

Wool. Hand spun, woven on hand loom.

Joan McKenzie – Tea Towels

Cottolin – 60% cotton, 40% linen, Cotton Slub. 2/2 Broken Point Twill. “I like using Cottolin as it combines the softness of Cotton with the crispness of Linen. This pattern is similar to what the Vikings wove in the 10th Century – as documented by Agnes Geijer in “A History of Textile Art. “

Helen Skelton – Wonder Woman

Mixed material. 8 shaft bound point rosepath. Graphic boundweave superheros and video game graphics.

Helen Benninger – Zippered Pouch

Various commercial yarns, zipper, glass beads. Tapestry weave.

Karen Fowler – Lacey Poncho

100% Handspun wool. I loved knitting this poncho so much that I made a second one in ivory.

Lori Bond – Summer of 2019 – Working with 3 Skeins

Wool and cotton. Knitting, crocheting, braiding, weaving and needle felting

Carolyn Ramos – Silver Shimmer Scarf

Cotton and silk, using the denting and cramming technique

Jennifer James – Oxidization

Tencel – Handpainted Warp. Handwoven 8 Harness Undulating Twill.

Joan McKenzie – Norwegian Band Sampler

Cotton and wool. Band weaving with Pickup. Bands were woven on a backstrap loom in traditional Norwegian patterns.

Joan McKenzie – Shades of Bright

Baby Alpaca boucle for warp, wool fingering for weft. This scarf was woven on a Rigid Heddle loom – a quick and easy way to weave a scarf!

Susan Lapell – Take the Cotton and Spin Me in the Morning

Handspun from medicine bottle “cotton” (most likely rayon or polyester fibre)

Patti Wibe – Colours of NPCC Scarf

Maura Leahy – New Beginnings

Merino wool, wet felted. This was made using a resist and then felting and forming into a vessel and embellishing with fins, gills and balls

Vanessa Crandall – Crackle Scarf (Copper)

Tencel

Maura Leahy – My Party Dress

Black and hand dyed Merino wool and hand dyed silk. Nuno felted which entails laying wool in the pattern seen on silk and then felting both together. The garment is reversible.

Elizabeth Evans – Kimono Vest and My Cup of Tea Scarf

Kimono Vest: Cotton, silk, tencel. Handwoven, patchwork. Dana Marie Kimono Vest pattern My Cup of Tea: Wool. Dyed with tea. Stripes are a result of high twist yarns.

Vanessa Crandall – Navy Check Towel and Sea Glass Towel

Navy Check Towel: Cotton and Linen, pattern from Gist Yarn Sea Glass Towel: Cotton, pattern from Sarah Jackson

Karen Fowler – Wedding Blanket

100% Harrisville wool. Braided twill design. This blanket is a gift for my niece who got married in September 2019.

Elizabeth Evans – Mixed Bag

100% cotton. Weaving, tablet weaving. Pattern is “Buckthorn Tote” by Noodlehead.

Cindy O’Malley – Funky Felted Fedora

Uses Wool roving for the hat and Colours of NPCC for embellishments. Knitted and felted.

Jane MacFarlane – Colours of NPCC Pencil Case

100% wool. Knitted then Felted with Zipper inserted. My entry for Colours of NPCC. Pencil case was knit, then felted, and a pom pom put on an inserted zipper. It is lined with a vintage silk scarf.

Karen Fowler – Crazy Tea Towels

100% Cotton. These tea towels are Christmas presents for my sons-just a little late.

Jennifer James – Colours of NPCC Rug

Nature dyed wool and natural wool roving.

Marlyn Rollauer – Handpainted Handwoven Scarf

Handpainted tencel.

Helen Benninger – Colours of NPCC Bowl

Wool, linen, cotton cord, glass beads. Coiling.

Marlyn Rollauer – Love Silk

100% silk.

Cindy O’Malley – Cotton Comfort Blanket

Cotton

Helen Skelton – Snap Crackle Pop

Zephyr Merino Silk yarn. Jamtland Dral (Crackle). Scarf made for colour interaction study.

Elizabeth Evans – Perfume Bottle

Wool. Handwoven. Two very good friends designed the stripes in the warp 30 years ago. They were inspired by a beautiful perfume bottle. The scarf was woven in 2021 by a newer friend.

Etobicoke Handweavers and Spinners – Royal Winter Fair Competition Shawl 2019

100% wool. 8 harness twill from the Carol Strickler Book.

Diane Martin – Baby Blanket

Wool and wool/polyamide blends. Hand knit, mosaic technique.

Lori Bond – If He Was A Shepherd

Wool fleece and naturally dyed yarn. Crocheting, needle felting and embroidery.

Etobicoke Handweavers and Spinners – Royal Winter Fair Competition Shawl 2022

100% wool.

Karen Fowler – Beautiful Blues

100% Tencel. Pattern from Bateman Innovations. This pattern is my favourite pattern from his book. It is a great scarf pattern as both sides are equally interesting

Joan McKenzie – A Study in Colour

Mercerized and Perle Cotton. Plain weave with a supplementary warp. From a workshop, this piece shows how your perception of colour shifts with different blends of colour. Warp is all red or green – samples of weft colours are attached.

Elizabeth Evans – Colours of NPCC

Wool. Tablet weaving. For the Colours of NPCC Challenge.