Is your Christmas shopping done?

Ingrid Drees, left, Doreen Hills, and Joan Harris, right, make their complex craft look miraculously effortless

It might be a little early for that question, but you can get your gift-buying going this weekend as the The Pottawatomi Spinners and Weavers Guild brings an almost endless variety of their unique craftwork to the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library for their first annual sale in three years.

Running Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the library's lower level, the sale features hand-crafted items created by spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting and felting.

There will be vendors offering tools and supplies, as well as mounds of hand spun-yarns for weaving and needle work ... perfect as presents for crafty friends, certainly essential for pre-Christmas self-gifting.

Joan Harris, centre, top photo, with Tina Mountenay, left, Jean Coward, Linda Collet,
Allyson Potter, Ingrid Drees and Doreen Hills, right, gather Tuesday
at the New Life Centre preparing for this weekend's sale and show,
featuring pieces like Tina Mountenay's intriguing sleeved shawl,
skeins of all sorts of spun fibres, and a menagerie of cuteness.
There's been no time for idle hands, clockwise from top left below,
Allyson Potter, Susan Reeve, Jean Coward, Linda Collet and
Tina Mountenay use imagination, skill and experience
in their designs and creations.

The Pottawatomi Spinners and Weavers Guild was founded in 1975 by Elinor Bartlett. Current membership includes spinners, weavers, felters, and fibre producers from Tobermory to Hanover, and Lake Huron to Georgian Bay.

– by Staff
David Galway