The creations below came out of the store's Second Annual
Fiber Challenge which concluded Feb 11th.
This is how it worked:
I gave each participant 8 skeins of yarn which were predetermined
by me (and no 2 skeins were alike, tho' each participant got the
exact same group of 8 yarns). Because I love contrasts and most people
find them hard to work with, I chose orange and blue yarns for the
group to work with.
Each participant was then allowed (before they saw the yarns I was
giving them) to pick 2 different novelty yarns from a table of about
50 odd skeins to choose from.
They were then told to stand in a circle and, holding their chosen
skeins each in a hand, to pass the skein in their left hand to their
neighbor to the left and to do the same with the skein in the right
hand. This made the challenge even harder since the yarns they "inherited"
from their neighbors were not what they wanted to work with nor did
they necessarily (unless you were lucky) coordinate with each other!
Lastly, I gave them the predetermined yarns so they could see what
they had to work with and each participant was then allowed to pick
one last novelty yarn from the
table
that they
believed they could use to pull together the "inherited" and "predetermined"
yarns! Oh, at the end, I gave them each a silk hankie to work into
their creation as well.
Everyone had 5 weeks to create something with their stash. The only
rule was that they had to use each yarn and that they could add 1
"thing" of their own (it didn't have to be yarn).
Here's what came out of it...in alphabetical order..all the photos
can be blown up for a better look
overshot
pillow woven by Allison
tapestry
woven by Allison
vest knit
a la Katherine Alexander "create as you go" by Betsy
the
vest's front
medusa
hat in cowboy boots with snake egg nest by Dorion
a
crochet bowl of yarn being attacked by a silk moth by Jan
a
cowgirl hand puppet by a 1st-time grandmother-to-be Joan
a
reversible tea cozy (with a surprise inside I wish I had photo'd)
by Karen
a
knitted rug a la Indian motif by Liz (she also did a great shawl
I didn't photo)
a
southwest inspired shawl by Lou-Ann
a
crochet draw-string bag (at one point it was a skirt-and maybe will
be again?!) by Sara
