First in person meetings since March 2020

 It's been a very long time since Reno Fiber Guild members could get together in person.  This is our first in person meeting since March 2020 and we held it in the Yarn Refuge store in Reno.  Masks were required, but it was great to reconnect with friends after such a long time.

 Diane S. shared this lovely piece of double weave that she wove during an online class with Jennifer Moore.  Many colors from about  6 different yarns.  

Igor shared this "jin" scarf he wove on 12 shafts.  The scarf is half blue tones and half purple and orange tones.

Shelley brought a sample she wove during the Denise Kovnat "Echo and Jin" zoom class from last year.

The weekend before our meeting, Great Basin Fibershed (of which RFG is an affiliate member) held a hemp processing workshop at Western States Hemp Farm outside of Fallon.  The farm had a few fiber plants that we used to experiment stripping off the bast fibers for spinning.  Stephenie Gaustad and her son Jan were our instructors.  The workshop was arranged by Darla GS through a grant from Fibershed.

Toward the end of the first day, those attendees who had spinning wheels with them, tried their hands at spinning prepared hemp sliver.  The second day of the workshop was for the basket makers who used the inner stalk of the plants called the hurd.  Rope making was also part of the fun.