Dryer Balls

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Static cling is common in the dry, winter days, but it can be reduced by creating and using wool balls for the clothes dryer. The balls take a bit of effort to wind and to felt, but they can be used for years in the dryer.

Directions for winding and felting the balls can be found here.

Back in Time - Fiber Fest 2014

Fremont Fiber Arts Guild Fiber Fest
2014
Riverton, WY

Fiber Fest 2014 was a day, filled with wonderful fiber goodness, conversation, and fellowship. Fremont Fiber Arts Guild members gathered Friday afternoon to set up tables and assist vendors with their displays for the biannual Fiber Fest to be held the next day.

Five vendors displayed yarn, notions, roving, and other fiber goodies, and on Saturday six guild members demonstrated their crafts: wheel spinning, drop spindle, twining, crocheting, knitting, cinch making. Guild members donated items for several Silent Auction tables.

Bea R. and Sheri H. help assist two new knitters

In addition to giving demonstrations, guild members worked with those who had some prior knowledge or a particular craft but were struggling with a concept or a project.

Laura B. leads a demonstration in drop spindle

Several men attended the event and seemed to enjoy trying the drop
spindle and rug twining as well as observing the wheel spinning demos.

Even though a specific date has not been determined, Fiber Fest will be held again in 2016.

Warm Up America!

Warm Up America! is a charity that has warmed peoples' lives since 1991. It started in a small Wisconsin town with neighbors knitting and crocheting afghans for neighbors in need. Warm Up America! founder Evie Rosen came up with the idea of having volunteers knit or crochet small sections and then others join them together to create blankets and afghans.

Today, knitted or crocheted rectangles are sent to the Warm Up America! headquarters by people across the nation. Then volunteers sew the colorful rectangles into blankets and afghans that are given those in homeless shelters, teen pregnancy homes, battered women’s shelters, nursing homes, hospitals, hospices, and clinics, and to national nonprofit agencies such as the American Red Cross. 

Why not take a couple of hours and make a 7 x 9 inch rectangle and send it to:

Warm Up America!, 740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 102, Carrollton, TX 75007

If you or someone you know is learning to knit or crochet, why not turn that beginning project into something that will warm another person. 

In addition to the rectangles, the Warm Up America! always accepts these knit and crochet items: 

Finished adult, child, and baby size afghans
Adult hats
Scarves
Baby clothing
7" x 9" knit and crochet sections

Available on the Warm Up America! website are:

Crochet and knit rectangle patterns 

Knit & Crochet Hat patterns

Learn to Knit Lesson plans

Guidelines for yarn and other Frequently Asked Questions

Dyeing Yarn with Kool-Aid

Yes, it's possible to dye natural fibers with Kool-Aid, the popular children's drink powder, and the best part is that Dye Your Yarn has taken all the guess work out of the colors that it creates.

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Dye Your Yarn gives complete instructions for using Kool-Aid to dye fiber here. However, another page gives Formulas and Photos of 135 different colors.

Note that in the lefthand column on the Dye Your Yarn website that information is listed for other dyes and fibers. Dyers might want to bookmark the site.

Merry Christmas

Madonna and Child
counted cross-stitch
stitched by Sheri H.
2015

Merry Christmas

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Fremont Fiber Arts Guild

Yarn Tags

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StitchDragon.com offers a free PDF of five yarn tags that can be printed on card stock. To keep all the tags together, punch a hole in the top and place on a large ring. The tags are a good way to add some organization to your leftover yarn or to have a handy reference of the yarn in your stash.

Crocheted Socks

Why should knitters have all the fun of making socks?

Fifty Shades of Ply has broken the process down on her Rock Those Socks - Make Along

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Rock Those Socks

    Introduction

    part one

    part two

    part three

    Lacy Version (shown below)

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