75th anniversary, Meetings

June 2024: 75th Anniversary Celebration

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Our June 2024 meeting celebrated… us! We shared our interpretations of the 75th Anniversary Name Draft, showed the creations we made on our Illinois Prairie Weavers Guild little looms, took a walk down memory lane thanks to Paula B, Bev A, and Virginia R, shared our fiber tools and treasures with each other in a silent auction, and enjoyed a wonderful luncheon together.

History Program & Silent Auction Photos

  • A typed page with a picture of 13 people surrounding a patterned blanket.
    Bev A – A page from a history of the Joliet Weavers Guild (our predecessor guild), with a picture of the group responsible for weaving and assembling the overshot coverlet in the next picture, in 1981.
  • Large coverlet featuring patterned woven blocks, woven in shades of dark green and cream.
    Bev A – A beautiful overshot and plain weave coverlet woven by the Coverlet study group of the Joliet Weavers Guild in 1981. Each member wove an overshot block, and all the overshot blocks were assembled with coordinating plain weave fabric.
  • An overshot pillow in shades of blue and cream, pictures of people around a Christmas tree and a picnic table, and a handwoven fringed fingertip towel, all on a table.
    Some objects from the Joliet Weavers Guild 1992-93 program year.
  • Raincoat laid on a table, woven with strips of patterned fabric and lined in light blue.
    Virginia R – A strip-woven raincoat woven using strips of printed fabric, woven during the 1990s.
  • Woman holding large umbrella with alternating sections of pale purple and gray.
    Virginia R – A strip-woven umbrella woven using strips from 243 pale purple and gray newspaper bags cut into strips, to coordinate with her strip-woven raincoat during the 1990s.
  • Closed umbrella showing two sections, one each of light purple and gray, and patterned fabric along the umbrella's edge.
    Virginia R – A strip-woven umbrella woven using strips from 243 pale purple and gray newspaper bags cut into strips, to coordinate with her strip-woven raincoat during the 1990s. In this photo of the closed umbrella, you can see that the edging matches her strip-woven raincoat.
  • Woman holding a vibrant kimono-style coat woven in shades of yellow, green, black, red, aqua, and orange.
    Bev A – “It’s a Jungle Out There” strip-woven kimono she wove that was shown in a 1990s Handweavers Guild of America Convergence fashion show.
  • a vibrant kimono-style coat woven in shades of yellow, green, black, red, aqua, and orange, laying on a table. One corner is folded back to reveal an interior label featuring a fabric-printed toucan and the text "It's a Jungle Out There."
    Bev A – “It’s a Jungle Out There” strip-woven kimono she wove that was shown in a 1990s Handweavers Guild of America Convergence fashion show. This picture shows the interior label.
  • Four tables containing fiber tools and fiber products, with auction bidding sheets.
    Some of the silent auction offerings.

Name Draft Photos

  • Patterned table runner woven in shades of teal and tan.
    Tam M – Overshot name draft runner woven with 10/2 cotton warp and wool blend pattern weft.
  • Patterned fabric woven in shades of dark red and tan.
    Tam M – Fabric woven using name draft in overshot using 10/2 cotton warp and wool weft.
  • Three folded towels woven with a patterned design across one end. One towel is woven in shades of purple and cream, one is woven in shades of light green and cream, and one is woven in shades of powder blue and cream.
    Tam M – Plain weave towels incorporating the name draft as a pattern band, woven in 8/2 cotton.
  • Fringed fabric with the left half being patterned ub shades if aqua, cream, purple, and orange, and the right half woven in shades of aqua, cream, yellow, orange, light blue, black, brown, and cream.
    Sheri B – Two-part weaving using the name draft on one half and a simple plain weave pattern on the other half.
  • Fringed scarf with vertical stripes woven in shades of aqua, blue, and dark purple-red.
    Sharon W – Name draft woven in 2-2 twill.
  • Two fingertip towels - Three woven objects - one is woven in shades of blue and cream, and the other towel woven in shades of dark red and cream.
    Linda A – Fingertip towels woven on an 8-shaft loom using 8/2 cotton warp and pattern weft and 20/2 tabby weft.
  • Three woven objects - one is a fringed scarf in shades of rust and cream, a towel in shades of blue and cream, and another towel woven in shades of dark red and cream.
    Linda A – Three interpretations of the dame draft. Rust and ivory version is a short neck scarf woven on a Structo 4-shaft table loom in overshot using 20/2 cotton warp and weft. Fingertip towels were woven on an 8-shaft loom using 8/2 cotton warp and pattern weft and 20/2 tabby weft.
  • Fringed scarf woven in dark dray and white.
    Jodi W’s name draft interpretation
  • Small tapestry-like weaving in shades of blue, purple, and cream with a modern diamond-like shape. the Blue and purple colors are dominant.
    Chris M – Name draft based on our guild’s former name, the Joliet Weavers Guild, in 8-shaft summer and winter using 10/2 cotton warp and tabby weft, and cotton, silk, and rayon pattern weft.
  • Abstract tapestry-like weaving in shades of cream, dark blue, and dark red. Cream is the dominant color.
    Chris M – Name draft based on our guild’s former name, the Joliet Weavers Guild, woven in 8-shaft summer and winter using 10/2 cotton warp and 10/2 and 5/2 cotton weft.
  • Modernistic small weaving of a tree in shades to cream and dark green.
    Chris M – Name draft based around our guild’s former name, the Joliet Weavers Guild. This tree interpretation was woven in 8-shaft summer and winter with 10/2 cotton warp and assorted cotton and rayon yarns for pattern weft.

Anniversary Mini-Loom Project Photos

  • Small woven tapestry in dark teal with embroidered black wavy line and alternating white solid circles on both sides of the wavy black line.
    Jodi W – Woven image of the guild’s logo in 8/4 cotton with embroidered accents, created with the anniversary mini-loom.
  • Small tapestry of a person wearing a purple top and blue pants on a background of greens and aqua sky with clouds.
    Sheri B – Fun tapestry woven on the anniversary mini-loom.
  • Three small abstract tapestries on a table.
    Tam M – Three small tapestries woven on the anniversary mini-loom.
  • Eleven small woven pieces of fabric woven in various pastel shades of color.
    Fiona C – Samples woven on the anniversary mini-loom using 8/2 cotton to test out a concept for a larger project.
  • Woven fabric on loom incorporating squares of various shades of yellow, orange and peach.
    Fiona C – The results of her mini-loom sampling applied to a double weave project.
  • Eight cones of cotton on shades of pink, yellow, and peach.
    Fiona C – The colors she settled on for her bigger project based on her mini-loom samples.
  • Small fringed woven piece with horizontal strips in in shades of browns and oranges. Fringe is dyed in colors of green and purple-red.
    Suzanne W – Simple striped sample woven with wool weft and dyed mystery warp on the anniversary mini-loom.