Open day and Grand opening

To celebrate our move to our new premises, we’ll be holding an Open Afternoon on Saturday, 21st April, from 2pm to 5pm. Members of the public are welcome to come and see a display of our work, and to try some hands on spinning and weaving.

We’ll have an short ‘Opening Ceremony’ at around 3.30pm, with champagne to celebrate, and afternoon tea to follow.

Update: We’re delighted that our local member of State Parliament, Richard Torbay, will be able to attend  our Opening.

Armidale Show

We’ll be demonstrating spinning and weaving in the Main Pavilion at the Armidale Show tomorrow and Saturday. As well as a hands-on demonstration, we’ll also have flyers about this years spinning and weaving workshops – please see the ‘Workshops’ link above.

Our agreement with the Showground means that the Show Society uses our room during the Show, so we’re not doing a display in there. But perhaps we might have an Open Day sometime in the near future – maybe even an official opening! (Any excuse for champagne )

Members have done a great job sorting out and setting up the new space, and I think all are agreed that it’s got a good ‘feel’ to it – welcoming, comfortable, and pleasant to work in.

(Yes, sanding back the big work table and the chairs and repainting/staining them are on the ‘to do’ list! )

Australia Day photos

Judy, Karen and Lynne at our display. Judy is working on the hair for one of our raffle dolls – she made the gorgous blue and mauve jumper and skirt outfit.

Linda and Jenny spinning away.

Given our limited time to set things up, and the vagaries of the space we had, our display was very informal – but that’s okay, given that the nature of Australia Day celebrations is informal and relaxed! The two looms were popular, with many kids and adults having a ‘hands-on’ go at weaving. All in all, it was a successful day, and fortunately not too hot!

Welcome!

Welcome to Armidale Spinners’ and Weavers’ new home on the web!

See the ‘About’ page for information about our group.

We’ll be posting our groups’ news here, plus entries in our ‘Something New’ Challenge, and also photos of interesting things our members have done.