Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild February Meeting

Due to storm damage to the Aptos Village Park building, the meeting of the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild, scheduled for February 10, 2010, will be held at The Simpkins Family Swim Center (Room A), 979 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. The time of the meeting is unchanged (9:30 AM to 12:00 PM). You can […]

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Black Sheep Handweavers Guild February Meeting

Bobbie Irwin will be here from Colorado to speak on Twined Rag Rugs.  Bobbie is a popular teacher and author who presented at the CNCH retreat in Sonoma last year on “The Magic of Iridescence”.  Bobbie will have some copies of her book on Twined Rag Rugs for sale. Date:  February 18, 2010 Time: 7:30 […]

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Black Sheep Handweavers Guild Workshops

Anne Field, a popular teacher and author, will be presenting two workshops in April, sponsored by Black Sheep Handweavers Guild.  She will be coming to California from New Zealand to teach at the CNCH Conference earlier in the month. Anne Field Workshops      April 2010 FOR WEAVERS COLLAPSE WEAVE — THE MAGIC OF WOOL (2 […]

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Rainy Day Activity

The Tamalpais Weavers Guild invites you to join us Monday, Feb 15, 2010, 7 pm, at the Marin Art and Garden Center, Francis Young Gallery, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross.  Our guest speaker is Carolyn Batchelor.  She transforms painted paper into beads.  These are then sewn, braided and knotted to create pieces inspired from travel, […]

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Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild February Meeting

If you’ve wanted to know more about Navajo weaving, be certain to attend the next Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild meeting.  Guild member, Bambi Jones, will present a program about Navajo weaving.  Based on her studies with Marilyn Brandon at Cabrillo College and her work with native weaver Sarah Natani at Table Mesa, New Mexico, Bambi […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting Jan 2010

On January 16, 2010, the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild and The Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz will co-sponsor a presentation by Frances Dorsey, entitled “Saigon: Fusion of Memories with History.” In the 1950s, Frances Dorsey lived in Saigon, Vietnam, where her father was attached to the United States Embassy.  Her childhood memories of […]

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