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 rooms were full of Christmas spirit with Deanna’s beautiful garlands, wreaths and lights and a Christmas tree covered with handmade gifts and decorations.

Visitors were interested in our demonstrations of weaving,

spinning,

and twisting ends.

Visitors enjoyed shopping while listening to the fiddle music of our two youngest members.

Our Fibreshed had a wonderful display of local fibre and beautiful items made with local fibres and local dyes.

We also had a colourful display of fibre and fabric dyed with our own Sunshine Coast plants and mushrooms.

Ann Harmer’s beautiful camisoles, scarves and hat are all dyed with local mushrooms.

Yvonne Stowell, local Fibreshed Artisan Producer, Vendor and owner of FibreWorks Studio & Gallery, was there with her beautiful handspun wools and woven and knitted blankets.

It was exciting to see all the beautiful sale items with Fibreshed tags on them.

Happy shoppers modelled their newly bought Fibreshed items.

Yvonne was the proud winner of the silent auction bid for the 4oz skein of the Icelandic ewe Roxy’s tog which was hand combed and exquisitely spun and chain (3) plied by Joan F.

The Guild sale marked an important milestone for our Fibreshed as it was the first year that tagged Fibreshed items were part of the sale.  The number of beautiful high quality items is a sign of our developing Fibreshed.

Heather Apple
Photos Heather Apple, Lynda Daniells, Merrily Corder