July Newsletter

Fundraiser Update 🙂

Hi Kids,  Have I told you how wonderful you are lately?…….well you are. We have some of the most generous and amazing folks on this email list. So now you have to sit down…..those 2 “pay what you want” tea towel patterns and the auction have raised $19,641.00 and we are happy to round that to $20,000.00 for the Maiwa Foundation. Charllotte Kwon was speechless when I gave her the news on Saturday. 

So thank you, thank you, thank you…..you have no idea what this means to artisans who work with Maiwa. It lets them know that there are weavers and artisans in other parts of the world who are thinking of them and sending them love. We all work with our hands, and no matter where we live, we all feel strength from creating textiles.  That’s what ties our community together and we have such an awesome community!

Thank you…just one last time.
Sending tons of love,
Jane

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Organic Spring & Easter Tea Towel Kit

Some things take a little longer than others to get up and running …..
how about these two beauties ….
we tried to get these kits ready for Easter ….
but July seems like a nice month …. too funny …
and best intentions!   😉

This tea towel kit is made entirely of organic cotton. Weaving with organic cotton is a great way to begin supporting yarns that are respectful of the earth and the farmers that grow them. We know it is more expensive, but even if you use regular cotton for your warp and organic cotton for the weft you will still be making an important contribution. Our organic cotton is GOTS certified (Global Organic Textile Standard)

Level of Difficulty: Beginner
Weave structure: Plain Weave
Material: 8/2 Organic Cotton
Each kit makes: 4 Towels

Loom requirements: 4 shafts, 12 dent reed and weaving width of 23 inches

The kit comes in 2 colour ways

Easter Stripes

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Easter Stripes kit includes:

• Weaving instructions (including draft)
• 3 100g cones of 8/2 organic cotton- cream
• 1 100g cones of 8/2 organic cotton- light lilac
• 1 100g cone of 8/2 organic cotton- anemoon
• 1 100g cone of 8/2 organic cotton- fern green
• 1 100g cone of 8/2 organic cotton- steel blue

Spring Stripes

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Spring Stripes kit includes:

• Weaving instructions (including draft)
• 3 100g cones of 8/2 organic cotton- cream
• 1 100g cones of 8/2 organic cotton- deep yellow
• 1 100g cone of 8/2 organic cotton- egyptian blue
• 1 100g cone of 8/2 organic cotton- fern green
• 1 100g cone of 8/2 organic cotton- apple

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A Few More Organic Tea Towel Kits

We have a few more kits in stock with certified organic cotton!
If you’d like to learn more about GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) check out their website.

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It’s the Little Things!

JST Online Reed Substitution Calculator

Check out our new Online Reed Substitution Calculator on our Knowledge Base. And don’t worry, we still have the PDF Chart available right here and our video on How to Read a Reed Substitution Chart.

Here to help

You can always find us on the Jane Stafford Online Guild Forum or on Weave with Jane Stafford at Ravelry.