| We will be using blogs to have online workshops. The workshops will be hosted by a MAWS member or their guild. Below are some ideas. If you, or your guild is interested in sharing a technique through the hosting of a work along, please email Internet Coordinator Blogs to considered: Weaving Knitting Basket weaving Crochet Beadwork and so on |
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| Montana Association of Weavers and Spinners |
A Weave Along…
You may have seen Knit Alongs posted on the Internet. Commonly referred to as KAL’s. Here in
MAWS we will be starting a WAL, or Weave Along.
A WAL is a group of people who will work on the same project idea or same pattern, but in their own
homes, using their own tools and supplies. This is your individual project, you keep the end
results.
It is the same idea as a workshop. In a workshop, you pack-up your supplies and drive to a
predetermined location. With a WAL, participation is through e-mail and photo sharing in our
*MAWS Yahoo Group. All the work is in the privacy of your own home. You can attend in your
pajamas if you like!
A WAL also gives you an opportunity to venture into areas you may not have gone. The fun of a
WAL is that you get to share your love of weaving with other MAWS members, while getting to know
them all better. Please sign-up today to get stated with our WAL We are fortunate enough to have
Daryl Ries to guide us in our first WAL project that she has prepared in advance. I will let her
describe what she has planned for us all:
MAWS WEAVE ALONG
TOPIC: COLOR AND WEAVE EFFECT
MENTOR: DARYL RIES, GREAT FALLS
INCLUSIVE DATES: FEBRUARY 11 THROUGH JUNE 22, 2008
This study group will be accomplished online through the Yahoo Web site and supported by MAWS.
By the start date instructions, a posted sample, and a reference sheet will be posted. The experience
is open to current MAWS members with a sign up deadline of February 18. Other MAWS members
may "lurk" as the study commences and samples are posted. Members who sign on will be expected
to study "color and weave" readings, to plan a project using the principles, and to produce a sample
for posting online. Additionally, the group will develop a display table at the MAWS conference in
Helena which will include your actual woven sample, your weaving instructions, and a brief
discussion of how and why your sample meets criteria as "color and weave." Participants at MAWS
conference will be afforded the opportunity to evaluate all of our samples and provide brief written
evaluation which we will then post on the Yahoo site for all to read. The benefit of such a study
group is the ease of communication and the stress-free learning environment of your own home and
your own schedule. Join us for this fun event!
The mentor for this study group will be Daryl Ries who will post instructions, pose questions, and
participate with each of the members in discussions about our work. Daryl completed the "Color and
Weave Module" for the Master’s Certificate from the Handweavers, Spinners, and Dyers of Alberta in
2007.
*To join the MAWS Yahoo group, simple go to our website: http://www.mawsonline.org/ and click
on the MAWS logo located on the left-hand side of the webpage. It will take you to our Yahoo Group
site. Once there, simple follow the instructions for joining Yahoo Groups. You can also click on the
Blog link on our webpage to find out more. If at anytime you need more clarification, please email
me privately.
Thank you
Diana L. Gilek
Internet Coordinator
InternetCoordinator@mawsonline.org
You may have seen Knit Alongs posted on the Internet. Commonly referred to as KAL’s. Here in
MAWS we will be starting a WAL, or Weave Along.
A WAL is a group of people who will work on the same project idea or same pattern, but in their own
homes, using their own tools and supplies. This is your individual project, you keep the end
results.
It is the same idea as a workshop. In a workshop, you pack-up your supplies and drive to a
predetermined location. With a WAL, participation is through e-mail and photo sharing in our
*MAWS Yahoo Group. All the work is in the privacy of your own home. You can attend in your
pajamas if you like!
A WAL also gives you an opportunity to venture into areas you may not have gone. The fun of a
WAL is that you get to share your love of weaving with other MAWS members, while getting to know
them all better. Please sign-up today to get stated with our WAL We are fortunate enough to have
Daryl Ries to guide us in our first WAL project that she has prepared in advance. I will let her
describe what she has planned for us all:
MAWS WEAVE ALONG
TOPIC: COLOR AND WEAVE EFFECT
MENTOR: DARYL RIES, GREAT FALLS
INCLUSIVE DATES: FEBRUARY 11 THROUGH JUNE 22, 2008
This study group will be accomplished online through the Yahoo Web site and supported by MAWS.
By the start date instructions, a posted sample, and a reference sheet will be posted. The experience
is open to current MAWS members with a sign up deadline of February 18. Other MAWS members
may "lurk" as the study commences and samples are posted. Members who sign on will be expected
to study "color and weave" readings, to plan a project using the principles, and to produce a sample
for posting online. Additionally, the group will develop a display table at the MAWS conference in
Helena which will include your actual woven sample, your weaving instructions, and a brief
discussion of how and why your sample meets criteria as "color and weave." Participants at MAWS
conference will be afforded the opportunity to evaluate all of our samples and provide brief written
evaluation which we will then post on the Yahoo site for all to read. The benefit of such a study
group is the ease of communication and the stress-free learning environment of your own home and
your own schedule. Join us for this fun event!
The mentor for this study group will be Daryl Ries who will post instructions, pose questions, and
participate with each of the members in discussions about our work. Daryl completed the "Color and
Weave Module" for the Master’s Certificate from the Handweavers, Spinners, and Dyers of Alberta in
2007.
*To join the MAWS Yahoo group, simple go to our website: http://www.mawsonline.org/ and click
on the MAWS logo located on the left-hand side of the webpage. It will take you to our Yahoo Group
site. Once there, simple follow the instructions for joining Yahoo Groups. You can also click on the
Blog link on our webpage to find out more. If at anytime you need more clarification, please email
me privately.
Thank you
Diana L. Gilek
Internet Coordinator
InternetCoordinator@mawsonline.org