PPWG Study Groups

Study groups are an excellent way to develop skills and friendships within the Pikes Peak Weavers Guild. We currently have three groups. If you are interested in them please contact the primary person listed for each group.

More Than Four

More Than Four is a study group for intermediate to advanced weavers with emphasis on weaving on more than four shafts. Members have varied interests and share their enthusiasm and expertise in weaving. The group meets on the first Thursday of each month at 10 AM at Library 21C at 1175 Chapel Hills Drive in Colorado Springs. Contact: Heather Hubbard, calhjh@gmail.com or phone 718-495-1873.

Next Step Group

Next Step has been created to meet the need of PPWG weavers. This will be a place where new to intermediate weavers can meet for mentoring, finding solutions to problems, build relationships and friends with other weavers and grow our skills. The group meets on the third Thursday of each month at 2PM.

This weaving study group is open to all weavers who are guild members. We meet monthly to discuss current weaving projects, challenges with design, and technical requirements to improve the quality of our work and explore new techniques. Our focus is to support each other as we continue to grow toward the next step of expertise desired and to gain new knowledge to integrate into our work through this process. We bring in others from the guild to talk and share their knowledge on specific areas. We share our work and have discussions on our projects and share ideas on our next project. Each member agrees to complete a minimum of one project annually that will focus on their goals and objectives with the group.

It will require you to participate and to support one everyone
You will celebrate your big and little steps
You will weave and grow

Contact Betsy Anderson. nextstep@pikespeakweavers.org or phone 719-339-9022.

Certificate of Excellence

For anyone interested in the Handweavers Guild of America's Certificate of Excellence program. Meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Contact: Sandra Hutton sandrahutton@comcast.net.

Community STUDY GROUPS

There are many weaving and spinning groups and classes offered in the Pikes Peak region. Several meet at local yarn shops, libraries, and private businesses. Be sure to check out the links below to our Local Fiber Retailers for more information.

GREAT RESOURCES & Fiber Related Links

Links to the Wonderful Local Fiber Retailers

Shuttles, Spindles, and Skeins in Boulder, CO not only has a large selection of equipment and supplies but the owners and staff there are always helpful and knowledgeable.
Entwine Fiber Arts Studio in downtown Colorado Springs, CO has equipment, supplies, and fiber for weaving, spinning, knitting, crochet, and needle felting. They offer classes, and have a friendly staff, and an inviting atmosphere. Entwine is the local dealer for Schacht looms and products.
White Rabbit Beads Colorado Springs' premier bead shop.
Ladybug Hill Quilts Check out their fabulous block of the month series.

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Links to Colorado Guilds & National Weaving/Textile Associations

Links to Textile Museums and Associations

Links to Weaving Tools, Lists, and Information

Visit Pantone, the world's leading authority on color systems and provider of technology for communication about color among designers, manufacturers, retailers and customers. If you want specific color forecasting for fashion and home trends by season, zero in on Trends.
Create a color palette from a photograph with the Photocopa tool or browse palettes created by other users at Colourlovers.com
A very useful weaving yarn calculator is available at the Loomy Bin which provides a number of tools for loom and card weaving. .
If the design you want to weave requires more treadles than you have on your loom, use Tim's Rudimentary Treadle Reducer developed by Tim McLaren, mathematics professor at Earlham College.
Also very useful is the free online calculator for monetary exchange rates among countries, The XE.com Universal Currency Converter.
Lindsay Landis of Lindsay Designs shares her techniques for photographing textiles titled Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional.
Before his untimely death, Ralph Griswold scanned historic weaving texts, images, etc., which are no longer under copyright protection and makes them available to everyone on the internet. His On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving & Related Topics provides a wealth of historic information on weaving and textiles in general.
Ruthe Stowe's Collection of Weaving Resources provides links to a variety of sites useful for weaving, dyeing, and other fiber activities.
The Handweaving Draft Archives maintained by Kris Bruland stores over 41,000 weaving drafts with more added each day. The goal of the site is to enable weavers to find and exchange weaving drafts.

Links to Regional Fiber Activities

Interweave Yarn Fest - March 30-April 2, 2017 (Loveland, Colorado)
Fiber Arts Fiesta - Growing Future Artists - May 19-21, 2017 (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Estes Park Wool Market - June 10-11, 2017 (Estes Park, Colorado)
Intermountain Weavers Conference - July 27-30, 2017 (Durango, Colorado)

Sneffels Fiber Festival - September 23-24, 2017 (Ridgway, Colorado).

Taos Wool Festival - October 7-8, 2017 (Taos, New Mexico)
Convergence 2018 - July 6-12, 2018 (Reno, Nevada)