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Meeting Notes - April 08by Mary Schwartz
The April meeting was the start of a two day workshop
with Laurie Autio on lace weaves. A lot of wonderful weaving
was squeezed into a short amount of time but I think most of
us made it around to most of the looms with enough material
and ideas to keep both beginners and advanced well satisfied
for a long time.
The May meeting will have Mary Ann Sanborn doing a workshop
on card weaving.
There may still be an opening so if you are still thinking
about it, check with Heidi Beckwith. I was wondering myself
where one would get cards. But the internet is an amazing
place. It turns out you can make cards out of Cheerios
boxes. And you can believe everything you read on the
internet. Really.
The program committee has done a phenomenal job. We have a
fantastic list of coming attractions for the next couple of
years.
September 2008 – Beth Guertin – Cleaning out Your Closet:
what to do with your leftover yarns.
October – Sarah Fortin’s 3 day workshop – Weaving in 3
Dimensions
November – Ruby Leslie – Lost in Translation. This is a
color workshop. How to incorporate those seductive yarns we
just can’t resist.
February 2009 – potluck and show-and-tell.
March 2009 – Jennifer Hoag – felting
April 2009 – Time to turn in your entries for the Guild Show
May 2009 – Guild Show Opening
September 2009 – Habu Textiles – what to do with all those
luscious and exotic yarns you’ve seen at NEWS and
Convergence.
October 2009 – Robin Spady – 3 day workshop, which will be
either Extreme Warp Makeover or Fab Four (exploring the
potential of 4 shaft looms)
November 2009 – Charlotte Hamlen – Japanese tapestries and
kasuri (Japanese ikat)
February 2010 – potluck and show-and-tell.
March and April 2010 are open but have several possibilities
November of 2010 – Ruby Leslie – the 3 Ds of 3D: Deflection,
Differential Shrinkage, and Doubleweave.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
A lot of painting is happening at Kimball House and the
kitchen is being worked on. The guild will now share rental
of the library room with a weaver.
The library’s list of holdings will be posted on the website
in the members-only section.
The Next Guild newsletter should come out midsummer.
Frank Tegethoff volunteered to be chair of the Guild Show
and Mary Alice Favro agreed to be co-chair.
The Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival is looking for someone
to demo (first weekend of September) plus a weaver is needed
for sheep to shawl. Susan Rockwell has contact information.
The Sheep and Wool Festival will be moving to Tunbridge in
2009. It was suggested that the Guild might want to have a
booth at the Sheep and Wool Festival.
Midwest Fiber and Folk Art Festival is happening mid-July in
Crystal Lake, Ill.
Fletcher Farm catalog is out - visit fletcherfarm.org
Trudy Otis had all the newsletters from 1980 to the present.
Only Jan/Feb 1998 was missing. A file has been started for
the archives.
Hope to see you all in May.
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