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Why We Dye
A presentation by the Redwood Guild of Fiber Arts on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Ave., Santa Rosa. The program begins at 10:00 AM. As a natural dye study group, a loosely organized bunch of us have met for almost 3 years. In the beginning, we just […]
Continue readingNatural Dye Presentation at Spindles & Flyers
Sunday, April 22 – Guild Meeting at 11:00 Presentation to follow a lunch break Rebecca Burgess will discuss her natural dyeing, concepts of fibershed and how she pulled together a wardrobe made within 150 miles of her West Marin home. A small group will have spent Saturday with Rebecca practicing her natural dye processes with […]
Continue readingColor,Color Everywhere, But Which One to Pick?
There are so many decisions before starting a new project. Since we may be way beyond cook book weaving, and not slavishly copying instructions from a kit or magazine, it is possible to get stuck and feel overwhelmed with so many choices. I can get into the rut, if this is going to take xxx hours, it […]
Continue reading“Be Sweet” Yarns at Redwood Guild
Our Guild’s presenter for April will be Nadine Curtis, founder of “Be Sweet” yarns based in Sausalito, CA. She created the Be Sweet Company in 2003 while living in Cape Town, South Africa where she started by wholesaling handmade items to boutiques in Northern California and upstate New York. She now works with several job […]
Continue readingComputer’s Don’t Weave
But they sure help a lot. Sheila O’Hara created fabulous works of art on her 16 harness loom. She stretched the inventiveness and complexity of that tool to an unbelievable degree. Then she had the opportunity to jump to a real jacquard loom and careened off the charts. Imagine no drafting rules, infinite possibilities, every warp end independently controlled. I […]
Continue readingBrave enough to Cher? I mean share?
This meeting will really separate the brave from the weak, the outlandish from the reserved, the people who read minutes from ones that don’t. But we all want EVERYONE to bring hand made items. They should include one of their earliest, one of their most precious, and one that embodies deep profound learnings. As in, […]
Continue readingCameron 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 readingSacramento Weavers & Spinners Guild Open House
The Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild’s Annual Open House, “Fantasy Fibers”, will be held on February 11 and 12, 2012 from 10 am to 4 pm each day at the Shepard Garden and Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento, CA.The show is free to the public.Highlights of this year’s show: Saturday Group demonstrations of a variety of “do-it-yourself” […]
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 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 […]
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