Bay Area Basketmakers • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
The Bay Area Basket Makers is comprised of about 70 basketmakers. Programs and exchange of ideas on a broad variety of topics relating to basket making are featured each month. Visitors are welcome.

2008 Schedule:

• January 5 — Knotting — Chatham Preschool
• February 2 — Heart Shaped Basket — Chatham Preschool
• March 1 — Hats for the CNCH Fashion Show— Chatham Preschool
• April 5 — Felting — Chatham Preschool
• May 2-7 — CNCH Conference — Sacramento
• May 10 - June 7 — Art Show and Sale — Gualala
• June 14 — TBA — Chatham Preschool
• July — Basket Weave-In — at at a member's home
• August 14-18 — Members Retreat — Heidelmann Lodge, Donner Summit
• September 6 — TBA — Chatham Preschool
• October 4 — TBA — Chatham Preschool
• November 1 — TBA — Chatham Preschool
• December 6 — Annual Members Only Gift Exchange — Chris Johnson's home

Meetings are usually 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the 1st Saturday each month. The meetings are now held in Berkeley or Oakland. The Berkeley location is The Caning Shop, 926 Gilman Street. The Oakland location is the Chatham Pre-School, 4359 39th Ave.
Contact: egwathney@aol.com

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Diablo Weavers Guild • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
A guild primarily of weavers, but we welcome spinners, dyers and felters also. Our programs are eclectic and range the full span of fibers arts. Our members include beginning and advanced weavers.

Meetings are in Walnut Creek the 4th Friday of each month at 10 a.m., except December and June which are special meetings held in members’ homes. We do not meet in July and August. The meeting place is Thurman G. Casey Library, 2661 Oak Grove Rd., Walnut Creek.

Anyone interested in weaving or any of the related fiber arts is welcome to attend any meeting. Contact Kris Peerand at kpeerandfgg@comcast.net or Vilija Deutschman at vilijad@sbcglobal.net for information or to confirm meeting dates and times. Occationally, there is a conflict with the 4th Friday and we up the meeting a week.

Calendar for ’06 – ’07:

• November 17 (at a member’s home) — New and Useful Warping Techniques
• December 15 (at a member’s home) — Christmas Party
• January 26 — Fred Bloebaum, Sewing and Clothing Construction geared to handwoven cloth
• February 23 — Guild Members Show & Tell of their Textile Tour of Japan
• March 23 — Maria Inglesby of “Fiber Elements”. New and Unique Yarns, and Designing Knitwear.
• April 27 — Monalisa Bora of “Dreams on Looms” Saving and marketing traditional textiles. Email us for the location of a different meeting place. The Library has a conflict on this date.
• May 25 — "June Picnic" at a member's home. The usual "June Picnic" is being moved up to May this year.

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Golden Gate Weavers • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Golden Gate Weavers is the oldest weaving guild in California and has met continually since 1938. 

Currently, our meetings are held at NorthMinster Church, 545 Ashbury Ave, El Cerrito, in the Choir Room. The church has a parking lot in back and is between Central and Lincoln Avenues across the street from El Cerrito High School. Meetings take place third Mondays, 9:30 AM, in every month except June, July, August & December. 

We also have a Study Group that meets at the home of Emily Brown, 1630 Arch Street, in Berkeley on second Saturdays, 10 AM to Noon. Call (510) 843-8719 for more information. At these meetings we share current projects and often have an ongoing study of a weaving structure or project. Spinning wheels and handwork are welcome.

Contact:
Lilia Rosenheimer, 510/526-2023, liliarosenheimer@sbcglobal.net
Val Thomas, 510/524-9275, valborg_thomas@yahoo.com

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Loom And Shuttle • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Meetings are 10 a.m. the 1st Saturday of even numbered months. The meeting place is St. John's United Church of Christ, 501 Laguna Honda Blvd., San Francisco.
Contact: kate@artcycles.com
http://www.loomandshuttleguild.org

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Spindles and Flyers • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Meetings are 11:00 a.m., usually on the last Sunday of each month, except July and August. The meeting place is Lexington Clubhouse, 715 Lexington Avenue, El Cerrito (3 blocks east of San Pablo, 2 blocks north of Central Avenue).
www.spindlesandflyers.org

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Treadles to Threads • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
A casual spinner's, knitter's and weaver's guild which emphasizes spinning and welcomes all levels of spinners. We specialize in teaching those who have never spun but are interested in learning. Our guild meets monthly for general meetings, usually with some type of program. On Monday afternoons, year round, our "Monday Spinners" meet for the afternoon just to spin. Beginners are especially welcome on those days.

Monthly meetings are the last Wednesday of almost every month at: the Winslow Center, 2590 Pleasant Hill Rd [corner of Pleasant Hill Rd & Taylor Blvd.] Pleasant Hill CA 94523, 7:30 pm to about 9:30 p.m. The December meeting is a holiday party at a members home, June's meetings are two: a "dye-day" at a members home and our annual "Spinners Day at the Winery" Retzlaff Winery, Livermore CA 94550.

A day of Spinning at the Winery will be on June 2, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring a wheel and a dish to share for a pot-luck lunch. $5.00 entry fee. Retzlaff Winery, 1356 S. Livermore Ave, Livermore (just past City Hall and the Police Station). Fleeces, Fiber, Yarn & More from: Hayshed Basin Ranch, Cormo Fleeces, Bebo Rock Ranch, Carolina Homespun, Black Diamond Alpacas, Chuck Violet Kid Mohair, and Morro Fleece Works.

In July, we participate in a "Sheep to Shawl" contest held on the last Sunday of the Alameda County Fair. Monday Spinners meets at various members homes. Contact any of the following to get more information on dates and times. We all travel and are missing at times — feel free to contact all three! Kate & Will: campbelltaylor@earthlink.net — Viilija: vilijad@sbcglobal.net — Pam: pemurdock@comcast.net

For more details read the Guild Newsletter which can be found at http://www.treadlestothreads.blogspot.com/

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