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Thursday ALL DAY |
9:30 am - Hospitality & Library 10:00 am - Business Meeting Program: Deb Menz: "Color Works for Everyone" - Learn how to make color work in all of your art. this lecture goes with Deb's book Color Works. 12:30 pm - Lunch: Bring a brown bag lunch 1:00 pm - Study Group presentations and sign ups - Check out what the study groups are doing and sign up for several! Chairs: morning - Pat Maley; afternoon - Joan Payne |
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9 am - 4 pm |
* WORKSHOP: Deb Menz: "A Survey of Synthetic Dyes" - Spend
three days learning about different dyes in easy to understand terms. You
will end up with a notebook of samples and repeatable dye formulas. Chair: Pat Maley Workshop fee: $150 Materials fee: $60 Class Limit: 18 people Hostess: Barbara Eden |
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Thursday evening |
6:00 pm - Hospitality & Library 6:30 pm - Business Meeting Program: Marcy Petrini: "The Fiber's Right" - Marcy will shed light on various fibers, their potential and uses in the craft world. Chair: Judy Dominic |
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Friday & Saturday 9 am - 4 pm |
* WORKSHOP: Marcy Petrini: "Twirling the Twills" - Chair: Judy Dominic Workshop fee: $100 Materials fee: none Class Limit: 18 people Hostess: Frances McClure |
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Thursday evening |
6:00 pm - Hospitality & Library 6:30 pm - Business Meeting Program: Carole Kuhn: "A Brief History of Modular Knitting" - Carole will present a slide program on modular knitting featuring the work of several artists. Chair: Julee Uhrig |
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Saturday Afternoon |
2:30 pm - Hospitality & Library 3:00 PM - Business Meeting Program: Holiday Party - PLEASE BRING AN APPETIZER - sweet or savory! - As part of the festivities, we will showcase the work of member Lyn Day. Chair: Barbara Moss |
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Saturday - All Day |
9:30 am - Hospitality & Library Program: 'Roc Day' Workshops (10 am - 12 noon; 1 pm - 3 pm) - Start the New Year by learning something new. Watch the newsletter and bulletin board for the l ist of workshops. Lunch: noon - 1 pm (will include short business meeting) Chair for Mini Classes: Pat Maley & Joan Payne |
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Thursday morning |
9:30 am - Hospitality & Library 10:00 am - Business Meeting Program: "Share Your Tips and Tricks" - We want you to share those little tricks that you use to make things easier when you weave, spin, dye, knit, knot, make cords, and tapes or to do anything else in the fiber arts. Bring a sample or just tell us how you do it. Bring your notebooks to record all off the cool ideas we will share. Chair: Diana Green |
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Thursday morning |
9:30 am - Hospitality & Library 10:00 am - Business Meeting Program: Margaret Rhein: "Dimensional Considerations in Handmade Paper" -The lecture slide show presentation will focus on the paper process and finished sculptural pieces by a variety of contemporary artists. Examples of embossed, embedded papers, paper castings, and shifu will be on display for examination. Chair: Grace Sferra |
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9 am - 4 pm |
* WORKSHOP: Margaret Rhein: "Dimensional Considerations
in Handmade Paper" - This workshop will explore the amazing versatility
of handmade paper. Using cotton and linen colored pulps, basics in sheet
forming will lead to explorations in manipulating the surface through using
textured plates and fabrics to emboss the surface, formalized pattern crinkling,
cutting, piercing, layering and folding into dimensional shapes. Shifu,
weaving cloth from threads of handmade paper will also be explored. Chair: Grace Sferra Workshop fee: $50 Materials fee: Class Limit: ? Hostess: Grace Sferra |
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Thursday morning |
9:30 am - Hospitality & Library 10:00 am - Business Meeting Program: Rain Klepper: "I Only Wear Earth Tones" - Rain will present a slide show of her work. Chair: Nance Widdowson |
| April 3, 2008 Thursday afternoon 1:30 - 4:30 pm |
* WORKSHOP: Rain Klepper:
"An Adventure in Closure-Buttons, Clasps, Cords, and Leaping Frogs" - Learn to make a variety of closures for your garments
and accessories. Chair: Nance Widdowson Workshop fee: $50 Materials fee: $15 Class Limit: 15 |
| April 4 & 5, 2008 Friday & Saturday 9 am - 4 pm |
* WORKSHOP: Rain Klepper:
"Creating a Collaged Fabric in Silk" -
Use silk and other fibers with inclusions of yarns, ribbons, and fabric bits
to create a fabric on the sewing machine that is a wearable collage. Embellish
with surface designs for a vest, jacket or scarf. Chair: Nance Widdowson Workshop fee: $100 Materials fee: $65 Class Limit: 15 Hostess: Barbara Sferra |
| April 25, 26, 27, 2008 Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9 am - 4 pm |
* WORKSHOP: Judith Mackenzie
McCuin: "Comprehensive Spinning Using Exotic Fiber" - Judith will give this workshop using exotic fibers (alpaca,
buffalo, yak, cashmere and more while covering comprehensive techniques
in spinning. This is a great workshop with lots of information for all levels
of spinners. Chair: Pat Maley Workshop fee: $150 Materials fee: $30 Class Limit: 20 Hostess: Janet Yinger |
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Thursday morning |
9:30 am - Hospitality & Library 10:00 am - Business Meeting Program: : Robbie Porter " Robbie's Creative Process" - Robbie will talk about the creative process she used on bead embellished quilts, cloth art dools, clothing and accessories. Chair: Bonita Davis |
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Thursday ALL DAY |
All Day Program: Summer Rockin' Day, Weftover
Sale, Annual Picnic and General Membership Meeting ***** Summer Rockin' Day - Try your hand at a couple of new techniques. Morning workshops: 10:00 am - noon Bring a Bag Lunch Afternoon workshops: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Chair: Sandra Matlow ***** 5:00 pm - Annual Sale: Clean your closets and sell what you won't use to someone who will. Only materials and equipment, no finished items please. Chair: Meg Frede ***** 6:00 pm - Picnic: Last name starts with "A to M" - bring entree; "N to Z" - bring dessert 7:00 pm - Annual General Membership Meeting Chair: Teresa Nieberding |
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TBA |
Mid-Summer Fiber Arts Sampler: open to the public |
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& Membership |
& Committees |
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Equipment Rental |
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