Spinners – Prepare for CNCH 2012:

Calling all Spinners:  plan to participate in:   RETURN TO SENDER A spinning challenge!  “Return to Sender” is an event where spinners create unique and wonderful yarn with fiber especially hand dyed just for the 2012 Conference.  The finished yarn is returned to CNCH to be judged (optional) and displayed at the conference.  This year […]

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Summer Issue of CNCHnet is now online

The Summer issue of CNCHnet has been posted and is waiting your perusal.  This issue features several articles on different types of looms and those who use them, as well as reports on happenings within your guilds and in nearby Art Museums.  And be sure to check out the Fishbone basketry article.  The baskets are […]

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Hear From One of Our Very Own

Dotti Day is not shy and will share her creative journey with us at the upcoming Tamaplais Weavers’ Guild meeting, Monday, May 16, 7 pm, Marin Art and Garden Center, Francis Young Gallery, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross.  From Dotti, My Creative Journey and the Heroes I Met Along the Way In this program […]

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Mistakes That Work

Pleating, ruching, knitting, printing and dyeing, okay.  Then shredding, rotting, bleaching, and burning, Marty Jones uses all these techniques to create her art.  Our next speaker studied embroidery at the City and Guilds of London Institute in England from 1993 to 2000 and has graduated with a degree in Stitch Design and Textiles.  She also […]

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Black Sheep Handweavers Guild Oct 21st Meeting

Using a Knitting Machine for Multicolor Dyeing Our guest speaker, Nancy Roberts uses a knitting machine as a tool for multicolor dyeing. By dyeing knitted fabric, rather than dyeing skeins, she produces yarns with controlled repeats of color in subtle gradations. She uses her specially dyed yarns in knitting, weaving, crocheting and felting. An article […]

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Studio 49 5th Annual Retreat

Registration is now open for the Studio 49 Annual Retreat. We will be dyeing and spinning. There will be a weaving demonstration. Friday October 22 to Sunday October 24. There is also Saturday only registration. For more information and the registration form go to the Retreat page of our MotherLode Weavers and Spinners website. www.mlwsguild.org

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FIBER AND DYE EXHIBIT AT U.C. BOTANICAL GARDEN

Golden Gate Weavers’ Guild is doing a weaving demonstration in connection with the above exhibit. There will be two classes Saturday April 3 from 1- 2 and from 2:30 – 3:30.

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