Every March the One Straw Society and the Sunshine Coast Seed Collective hold Seedy Saturday at the Roberts Creek Hall. Once again the Sunshine Coast Fibreshed was invited to participate and this year we were busy in the weeks ahead making small items to sell as fund raisers. Lynda, Merrily and Dorothy felted local fibres […]
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Coast Life Article on our Fibreshed
In October of last year, talented Sunshine Coast writer and photographer Christina Symons interviewed and photographed the Fibreshed team and shepherdess Wendy Gilbertson. This resulted in an article in the Winter 2015/16 issue of Coast Life and a front page photo of Merrily Corder with Wendy’s Romney sheep Rodney. The article has brought our Fibreshed […]
Read MoreThe Lower Mainland Sheep Producers Association’s Wool’n Ewe A-Fair (LMSPA)
I returned home from our amazing road trip to California with one last fibre mission to accomplish – to attend the annual Lower Mainland Sheep Producers Association’s Wool ‘n Ewe A-Fair held at the Cloverdale Fair Grounds on October 10, 2015. Merrily and Lynda had returned home two days before and I stayed back to […]
Read MoreGrow Your Jeans – California Road Trip, October 3
After two long days of I5 driving we were welcomed by the Zen Monks and volunteers of the Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center at Muir Beach, CA. We had the most amazing vegetarian meals three times a day all grown and prepared at Green Gulch. We enjoyed quiet meditation sessions in the Zazen (Zen […]
Read MoreSunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild’s Annual Fibres Plus Sale, November 2015
Every November members of our Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild invite the community to join us for our annual sale. It’s always an inspiration to see the many beautiful items made by our talented members. This year our sale was held in our new location at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre. The large well-lit […]
Read MoreThe One Straw Society’s Fall Faire
On October 3rd the Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild had a display at the One Straw Society’s Fall Faire. The Faire was a celebration of community, local ecologically sound sustainability and the harvest of local food producers. There were booths with delicious baked goodies, herbal remedies, seeds and plants and a diversity of locally grown […]
Read MoreMarigold Shooting Star Balls
The celebration of festivals is an important part of education at the Waldorf schools. Michaelmas is celebrated as the “festival of courage”. It falls at the time of the year when the earth travels through the tail end of the late summer meteor showers and the northern hemisphere starts to tilt away from the sun. […]
Read MoreHarvest Festival 2015
On September 6th the Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild once again participated in the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden’s Harvest Festival. Lynda D. and Merrily arrived at 8:30 and undertook the challenging task of setting up the two tents. Despite the cool, overcast day a number of visitors stopped to look at our Sunshine Coast […]
Read MoreNuno Felting: a Creative Fibre Weekend
First Workshop: Introduction to Nuno Felting On June 12th Marie Claire and I attended the workshop Introduction to Nuno Felting as facilitated by Jill Denton from Devon, England. Jill’s exciting body of work titled Maids and Meadows was showcased at FibreWorks Studio & Gallery and enticed us to register for the first of two workshops […]
Read MoreDyeing with Japanese Indigo
This is the third summer that some members of our Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild have grown and dyed with Japanese indigo. In mid-July five of us gathered together to dye using the vinegar method. The indigo was growing in garbage pails with three plants per pail. We cut the stems just above a […]
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