What a fun way to earn $200 for our guild!
Rules vary among competitions, but at Puyallup 5 -6 fiber folks team up. They have 11 hours in a demonstration area to warp their loom with yarn already spun by the team. Meanwhile other members of the team are carding, spinning, plying their natural fiber, usually wool. That plied yarn is wound onto bobbins for the weaver. The completed shawl is cut off the loom, taken home to wind fringes and wet finish. The finished shawl is returned a few days before they are all judged. The teams do this on different days.
The judge is usually a NwRSA certified judge. This year DFA member Cheryl Reed was invited to the event. The colors and weave structures of the five shawls were very different from each other, but out of 200 points, they only varied 9 points from first place to fifth. The weak point for them all was their spinning. I know DFA has members who can adjust their wheels to get a consistent yarn diameter and amount of twist, the skills needed so 3 spinners can spin the same yarn. Plus we have many talented weavers. We could nail this competition! Anyone know of free housing near Puyallup for 6 DFA members in late August/early September 2020?
