Oxford Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers

The summer challenge for Fleece day on June 16th will take the form of a scarf using your favourite colour plus one other chosen in a ‘lucky dip’.

At February’s meeting we will have 5 tubs, each marked with a colour, BLUE, RED, YELLOW, GREEN, or PURPLE .We ask you to choose a piece of paper from the tub containing your favourite colour from the 5 on offer.

For example: If your favourite colour is BLUE then you pick a piece of paper from that tub marked BLUE, on that piece of paper will be another colour that we wish you to use with BLUE.

You may also, if you wish to, add any neutral, i.e. white, grey, cream, or beige to your work but we ask you not to put any other colour in.

The idea is that by choosing your favourite colour you already have confidence in using it; the other colour may be one you already like to use or it may be one that challenges you a bit!
 
Each of the main colours comes with one of 4 other colours.....What will yours be?

You may use the colours in any combination or way that appeals to you.

You may choose to dye fibre/handspun/fabric, maybe overdyeing a neutral with a variety of shades of both colours.

You may choose to weave the colours in a pattern, maybe using the main colour for warp and the surprise colour for weft.

Or maybe you will mix the colours in blending or plying a handspun.

We are asking you to make a scarf, using its length to show how you have used the colours. This can be as simple or as complex as you like,

As usual we are asking you to bring a postcard with details of what you have done.

If you can’t make it to Februarys’ meeting and you wish to take part, you may email either Lyn or myself and we can ‘pick’ for you.