NEXT MEETING: March 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM at the Winslow Center

GUEST SPEAKER: Mollie Freeman - Trunk Show

Mollie is a very well know weaver of cloth for clothing. Her specialty is color, beautiful color which she creates on painted warps for her weaving. She normally sticks with just one, simple weave and uses color to explore all the infinite possibilities that can be created. Not content with just the fabric as it comes off the loom, she will sometimes cut and piece the fabric for even more design experiments.

This talk by Mollie will feature many of the finished pieces that she has created over the years, plus a discussion of how she does her dyeing. There will be lots of inspiration here even if you are not a weaver! Bring a friend who's really into sewing!


SPINNING AT THE WINERY
May 31, 2008, 10 AM - 4 PM
Retzlaff Winery, 1356 S. Livermore Ave., Livermore, CA

Be sure your calendar is marked with the date. For any new members, this is our Eleventh Annual spinning day at Retzlaff Winery. Bring your spinning wheel and a pot-luck dish to share if you will stay for lunch, which is half the fun. Many spinners come for the whole day, some just to shop! We have nine vendors this year and the wool and fleeces are always of exceptional quality. Coming this year are:

Sandy's Fleeces - Hayshed Basin Ranch
Sue Reuser - Cormo Fleeces
Janet Heppler - Nebo Rock Ranch
Morgaine Wilder - "Carolina Homespun"
Black Diamond Alpacas - Alpaca fleece, fiber & yarn
Bev Fleming - "Ewe & Me Too!"
Christy Estrada - Hand combed top
Barbara Fiorica - Mohair & Cashmere
Morro Fleece Works - to clean, card and prepare fleece

Entry fee is $5. There will be drawings again with lots of great things to win!


CNCH CONFERENCE - MAY 2 -4, 2008
Double Tree Hotel, Arden Way, Sacramento

Daily admission on Saturday and Sunday @ $7 per day.

Free Demonstrations: Basketry & Beadwork, Computer Design, Dyeing & Felting, Fiber Preparation & Spinning, Surface Design & Embellishment, Weaving

Fabulous Marketplace: beads & fiber, books & videos, ethnic fabrics & clothing, looms & spinning wheels, tools & equipment, unique & unusual yarns. Over sixty vendors with lots of great stuff!

Our Guild is preparing a display board for the educational part of the exhibits on "Color Blending" We've talked about this many times since the color blending workshop we had last year. This particular display does not have lots of room to display many finished items like we thought it would. The Conference committee asks that if you have a finished item, it should go into one of the many galleries that they will have. If you created a finished piece out of any color blending that you have done, see if there is a gallery that you would like to put it in. We would like one or two pieces to be with display, however. Bring your piece to this March meeting or the next meeting in April. Any pieces that will go into any of the Galleries, must have an entry form sent into the Conference Committee by April 1. You don't have much time to decide. Get Conference info at: cnch.org