Category Archives: Fiber Arts
Cameron Taylor-Brown at Diablo Weavers
Diablo Weavers Guild is hosting Cameron Taylor-Brown at their monthly meeting on February 17th. Cameron’s talk will be: Color in Cloth: The Weaves You Want and Why.” We are excited to have Cameron come and spend some time with us and would like to invite our fellow fiber enthusiasts to join us. From Cameron’s website […]
Continue readingPreview of The Market Place at CNCH 2012:
The Market Place committee for CNCH 2012 has been busy and the contracts are coming back from the vendors! The CNCH conference website (click on: The Market Place) has a full listing of the vendors to date and more will appear on the list as the contracts are finalized. So check back often. Day registrants […]
Continue readingSpring is in the Air
Happy Groundhog Day!! Spring is coming– and to prove it- go to the Spring issue of CNCHnet. The focus is felting. Members contributed articles that ranged from felting toys to –well— felting worlds! Click on the CNCHnet button to see what else is new!
Continue readingRag Rugs featured at February Meeting
Judy Fisher, one of our very gifted guild members, will be the speaker for the February meeting. Her presentation will be on weaving rag rugs, just one of her many talents. She will also give a brief overview on the history of rag rugs, which have been very popular in this country since our ancestors […]
Continue readingUpdate: Return to Sender & Return of Return to Sender
Return to Sender Update Attention CNCH 2012 spinners, it’s time to start thinking about your gorgeous Return to Sender fiber and the yarn it will make! Entries are already being submitted for the competition, so dust off that spinning wheel, let your imagination run wild and watch the fiber fly onto the bobbin. The deadline […]
Continue readingSilk Spinning Workshop at Humboldt
Humboldt Handweavers & Spinners Guild is hosting a spinning workshop with Patsy Z, the Spinnin’ Guru. March 2 – 4 she will teach a class on silk that includes degumming cocoons and several types of silk spinning. The next two days will cover controlling the spin to get the yarn desired. Registration deadline is February […]
Continue readingPolly Jacobs-Giacchina at Loom and Shuttle
On Saturday, Feb 4, Polly Jacobs-Giacchina will speak at Loom and Shuttle Guild in San Francisco. Polly is a fiber artist from Southern California whose passion is textiles in sculptural form using hand weaving techniques. She continually uses shape and structure to through her twined sculptures and wall hangings. Her work is shown in galleries […]
Continue readingLia Cook at the deYoung
The Textile Arts Council program on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 10 a.m. will be a talk by fiber artist Lia Cook entitled “Faces, Mazes, and Fiber Tracts”. Koret Auditorium at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Free to TAC members, $5 for museum members and students, $10 for nonmembers.
Continue readingRemember to Make your Hotel Reservation for CNCH 2012!
Now that the holidays are past, and things are getting back to normal – it is time to finalize your plans for attending CNCH 2012. Call up your fiber friends and get your best roommates lined up. Call or email the Marriott Oakland City Center and make your room reservations*. The special conference rate is […]
Continue readingHonor Thy Teacher
We have a new name: the Tamalpais Weavers’ Guild has changed its name to the Tamalpais Fiber Arts Guild. And just in to time to welcome our January speaker, preeminent fiber artist and teacher Carole Beadle. So calling on all students who have every been inspired by her, please join us. PROGRAM – January 16, […]
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