UPCOMING 2019-2020 MEETING DATES
July - no meeting. Have a great summer!
August 28 - guild meeting. 2019-2020 theme: Old Becomes New Again. Bring your ideas for projects, programs, and speakers.
September 25 - guild meeting.
2019 SUMMER PICNIC
Thank you, Wendy L., for hosting our annual summer picnic. The cotton packages were lovely, we all learned a lot about spinning cotton, and we shared a wonderful potluck lunch. Bring your samples to our August meeting for Show & Tell. Thanks to Dona S. for the photos.
SHEEP SHOW AT THE CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR
The sheep barn is open at the California State Fair from Thursday, July 25 through Sunday, July 28. This part of the livestock show also includes longhorns, alpaca, llamas, and angora goats. For more information and schedule, see the California State Fair web site.
Guild member Robin L. will have an educational booth in the barn, and will be showing sheep from Meridian Jacobs. Here is a Meridian Jacobs blog entry talking about the booth and sheep show at last year's State Fair.
Guild member Robin L. will have an educational booth in the barn, and will be showing sheep from Meridian Jacobs. Here is a Meridian Jacobs blog entry talking about the booth and sheep show at last year's State Fair.
You can also visit the exhibit halls to see winning quilts, knits, hand-spun and other fiber arts.
Lisa W.
WEBSITE
I recently cleaned up all of the text in the blog and started from scratch - too many leftover HTML tags copied from month to month were making formatting more difficult than it should be.
Because of the shortcomings of the free software, even when doing a 'Preview' I can't accurately judge the size of the text before publishing, plus all of us view this on different size screens. The blog is now using the default tags for 'Heading' text and 'Normal' text. If you have trouble with the text font or size or find broken or incorrect links, please let me know.
Lisa W.
MEETING MINUTES
No meeting.
SOME UPCOMING FIBER EVENTS
Loomed, Tapestries by Jan Langdon, Bolinas Museum, June 15 - August 11, 2019
Wool Gathering 2019, Warner Mountain Weavers, Cedarville, CA, September 5 - 8, 2019
California Wool and Fiber Festival, featured breed in 2019 is Targhee, Boonville, CA, September 13 - 15, 2019
Yosemite Miwok-Paiute Basketry Workshop with Julia Parker and family, Yosemite National Park, September 27 - 29, 2019
Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, Canby, OR, September 28 - 29, 2019
Lambtown, Dixon, October 5 - 6. Workshops will be held October 3 - 6. Sheep to Shawl is on Sunday, October 6th.
Fiber Fusion Northwest, Monroe, WA, October 19 - 20, 2019.
Stitches West, Santa Clara, February 20 - 23, 2020
FiberEvents - a calendar of wool festivals, fiber festivals, knitting, crocheting & craft gatherings/events in the U.S. and the world
Clara Parkes' Knitter's Review - knitting and fiber events
ONGOING FIBER-RELATED CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Crockett Fiber Arts Studio (Crockett)
Fibershed (various locations)
Fiber Circle Studio (Cotati)
Meridian Jacobs (Vacaville)
West County Fiber Arts (Sebastopol)
Windrush Farm (Petaluma)