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CNCH 2010 – “A World of Creativity” – Update

Happy New Year, fellow fiber enthusiasts! We hope you had a great time with family and friends over the holidays and are looking forward to an exciting year! As you are starting to look forward into the new year and planning out your activities, here’s a little reminder. You can SAVE MONEY for the 58th […]

Convergence Scholarship Application Due February 15

Convergence Scholarship applications are available for download under Forms/Publications on the left side of the home page of this site. Convergence is held every other year and this year is from July18-25, 2010 in Albuquerque. Registration began in December and there are a variety of classes and workshops offered. Registration information may be found at […]

Treadles to Threads Spinners Guild

Monthly Meetings: Aug. – Nov ,and Jan. – May, Generally on the last Wednesday of the month at 7:30 PM. Check our blog: www.treadles2threads.blogspot.com Location: Thurman Casey Library [Contra Costa Library, Ygnacio Valley Branch], 2661 Oak Grove Rd. Walnut Creek. To the left as you enter the parking lot, around the side and to the […]

CNCH 2010 Scholarships Awarded

The Advisory Council is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 scholarships. Scholarships were offered to one person from each of our five areas. The scholarship is a non-need based award. They are judged anonymously by at least three members of the Advisory Council. This year the amount paid was either a workshop or […]

Spindles & Flyers Workshops for 2010

Twining Rag Rugs with Bobbie Irwin – Feb 20 Weaver, spinner, dyer, knitter, author of several books and indexer of Spin Off magazine, Bobbie brings a wealth of expertise and research to teaching. Spend the day constructing a rug sample using cloth. Time: App.6 hours, exact times to be announced Location: Quaker Meeting House, San […]

January Guild Meeting in Marin – Can you really make a basket out of that?

Please be our guest on Monday, January 18, 2010, at 7 pm. Emily Dvorin definitely stretches your ideas on what you can use to create baskets. She creates vessels using ordinary materials such as pencils, straws, cloths pins and zip ties and then applies traditional techniques. She has shown her work all over the country […]

Treadles to Threads Honors Will and Kate Taylor

Will and Kate Taylor have been in the “driver’s seat” of Treadles to Threads Spinners Guild for so many years, no one can remember the exact date they began! Under their guidance, the already active guild has explored quite a few new avenues of growth. Will and Kate helped establish a “yearly focus” in which […]

2010 Conference Spotlight: Dyeing Without a Dyepot

Dyeing Without a Dyepot This workshop is already drawing lots of attention. Everyone, it seems, is curious about producing colored fabrics without a dyepot. You will explore transfer printing, disperse dyes, and transfer crayons, along with printing, painting, stenciling, stamping, stitching, resist and collage techniques to produce a myriad of colored fabrics and designs. If […]

2010 Conference Spotlight: 8/2 Cotton

8/2 Cotton: Versatile, Beautiful and Inexpensive 8/2 cotton is a fabulous thread — not too fine, not too thick and readily available in so many colors and shades of color. Mary Berent will take you through a huge variety of fabrics that can be woven using just this one specific thread. This “round robin” style […]

2010 Conference Spotlight: Woven Dévoré

Woven Dévoré Anne Field brings her scholarship and attention to detail to the subject of dévoré in this workshop. You will learn the principals of the technique and the properties of the plant and animal and synthetic fibers that are used as you weave and analyze samples and then plan a scarf to finish at […]