Challenges & Exchanges

During the year guild members participate in a variety of Challenges & Exchanges which are optional fun learning experiences for members.

Examples of challenges and exchanges that the guild members have participated in recently include:

The Four Card Draw Challenge in which a member randomly draws 4 cards that represent a weave structure, a color way, a fiber content, and a finishing technique which they then must apply to a finished project. This challenge encourages members to work outside their normal weaving choices.
The Beast in a Bag Challenge in which members place unwanted yarn in a brown paper bag. The bags are then exchanged and the the recipient of the bag must weave something with the contents of the bag to return to the owner of the yarn by the end of the challenge time period. This challenge promotes some very interesting and creative weaving!
A Napkin Exchange in which every participant weaves 4 napkins and to exchange for 4 napkins woven by 4 different weavers. Each year the item chosen to exchange is different. For example, it could be towels, mug mats, placemats.

Upcoming Challenges & Exchanges in 2020-2021

Fiber Challenge 2020-2021 begins December 2020

Get ready! For this year's Challenge we have a Covid-worthy system for finding out what your challenge will be. Choose a special date (month and day) - and then check out what your challenge will be. Each challenge will have an inspiration - based on the month you selected and a constraint based on the day you picked.

You can create your challenge using weaving or any other fiber-related techniques.

To view the Inspirations and Constraints for the date you chose:

If you have Powerpoint, to download the slide show, click here
To open the PDF version (a much larger file) click here

The Fiber Challenge is due at the December 2021 meeting.

2021 Towel Exchange

.This is a rather exciting announcement looking forward with hope and anticipation to the time we can meet in person again. Our guild member, Katherine Rickett, has proposed we have a towel exchange as a celebration of the time we can meet again. For now, the deadline is non-specific. We will have to wait and see when enough people have been vaccinated so that we feel safe to gather. But following the guidelines below to get started on your towel need not wait.

To see more details and the guidelines for creating your towel, click here

We will exchange our towels at the December 2021 meeting