Wednesday, April 24 - guest speaker and/or guild mini-skein project (or bring your own project or wheel). Bring your yarn from dye day! Wendy will be distributing guild t-shirts to those who bought one.
Saturday, May 18 - Spinning At The Winery, Retzlaff Vineyards. Work on your raffle donation and make sure to sign up for volunteer set up, take down, selling raffle tickets or other responsibilities that make this event so successful. All guild members attending the event should plan to sign up for at least one volunteer activity. Contact Joan for the signup sheet and schedule.
Fiber-Related Podcasts
There have been many knitting podcasts available over the past years, but I've noticed some more general fiber-related podcasts lately. Give these a try:
A Verb For Keeping Warm - Reverberate
Fibershed - Soil to Soil (first episode is interview with Stephany Wilkes)
Yarn Stories
Gist Yarn and Fiber - Weave
Interweave - Fiber Nation
Garden Wool and Dye Company - Local Wool
Abundant Earth Fiber - Modern Wool
Maiwa School of Textiles - Voices in Cloth
Lisa W.
Dye Day
Celebrating the most colorful places in the world!
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| Looks like a scientific experiment! Very organized. |
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| Doris untangles, with help from Amy. |
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| A finished cowl. |
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| Busy dyers. |
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| Samples |
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| More samples |
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| A beautiful day! |
Lisa W.
Meeting Minutes (Linda B.)
TREADLES TO THREADS GUILD
THURMAN
CASEY LIBRARY WALNUT CREEK, CA
President Wendy L. started the
meeting at 7:00 p.m. We had 26 attending including 3 visitors. It was great to
see a long-time member from our past, Mindy.
Wendy announced a day has been
set for Dye Day at Carol C.’s home. She showed the seal-a-meal bag system that
will be used to dye the fiber using heat. All interested bought a skein of
Happy Feet sock yarn of about 480 yards. The homework is to separate this skein
into 20-yard segments to use in the seal-a-meal bags. This should yield about
24 segments. Please bring a light snack to Carol’s. All else will be provided.
This workshop is for members only. We
will show our efforts at the April evening meeting on Wednesday, April 24.
Will and Kate reviewed the
Spinning at the Winery plans for Saturday, May 18th. Please work on
your donation for the raffle. Joan A. passed the signup sheet for all the jobs
it takes to make the day a success for all. Please take a job or two.
Wendy showed several items that
could be sold at the winery. The most interesting to the majority was a cotton,
zippered pouch 8 ½" by 5 ½" that could be printed with the logo
designed by Vilija. Custom Ink can set up the design for $75. T-shirts could
also be purchased from Custom Ink for about $10 with a very similar design.
CNCH update by Joan A. The
classes are filling nicely. Work on a 6"by 9" bag if you want or need
to take one into the cafeteria at the campus. There will be in an informal
design contest for the bags. Silent auction items are needed as they raise
money to put in the fund for the CNCH Conference scholarships. Vilija showed
her steampunk reticule made expressly for conference.
Wendy reviewed the upcoming
fiber related events that Lisa will add to the blog.
Wendy introduced Carol Ziogas, proprietor
of Kimonomomo in Alameda. Carol brought reams of antique Japanese fabrics
demonstrating the stitching technique known as sashiko and the use and reuse of
fabrics known as boro. Carol travels to Japan often to find and buy these items.
She brought samples from a rag woven obi to a very rustic blanket and bolts of
silk and cotton. Carol covered the blend of economics of fabric usage in Japanese
class society. Silk was used by the upper class. Cotton was introduced after
European intrusion. It is not able to be cultivated in all areas of the Japanese
islands. Cotton was allowed to be worn by the non-upper class. Using natural
indigo dyes, the cotton fabric was decorated and embellished by stitching.
Layers were used for insulating purposes. No scraps were wasted. The artistry running
through the decades was amazing.
Carol has produced a DVD of
stitching techniques available on iquilt.com and sells sashiko kits and threads
through her etsy store. She is a self-taught
artist who has family ties here through the Cotton Patch quilt shop in Lafayette.
It was wonderful to have Carol
share her items, knowledge and passion with us.
Linda B.
Some Upcoming Fiber Events
Weaving & Woodwork: A Scandinavian Design Partnership, UC Davis Design Museum, January 21-April 21, 2019
A Tradition of Making: California Native Basketry, curated in partnership with Julia Parker. Randall Museum of Science, Nature & the Arts, San Francisco, through September 2019
Kimono Refashioned and associated events, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, through May 5, 2019
Forest Home Farm Sheep Shearing, San Ramon, April 27, 2019 - Doris is coordinating. BBQ afterwards for spinner volunteers!
Woad Trip: 2 days of wild and collecting and dyeing with the ancient blue. Warner Mountain Weavers, Cedarville, CA, May 31-June 1.
Woad Trip: 2 days of wild and collecting and dyeing with the ancient blue. Warner Mountain Weavers, Cedarville, CA, May 31-June 1.
CNCH Conference 2019, Sonoma, June 20-23, 2019
Wool Gathering 2019, Warner Mountain Weavers, Cedarville, CA, September 5-8.
Yosemite Miwok-Paiute Basketry Workshop with Julia Parker and family, Yosemite National Park, September 27-29, 2019
FiberEvents - a calendar of wool festivals, fiber festivals, knitting, crocheting & craft gatherings/events in the U.S. and the world!
Crockett Fiber Arts Studio (Crockett)
Fibershed (various locations)
Fiber Circle Studio (Cotati)
Meridian Jacobs (Vacaville)
West County Fiber Arts (Sebastopol)
Windrush Farm (Petaluma)