2007 - 2008
Programs and Workshops
* information about programs & workshops can change; contact chair of the day
September 6, 2006
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
September 7, 8, 9, 2007
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
October 4, 2007
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
October 5 & 6, 2007
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
November 1, 2007
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
December 1, 2007
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
January 5, 2008
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
February 7, 2008
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
March 6, 2008
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
March 8, 2008
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
April 3, 2008
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
May 1, 2008
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
June 5, 2008
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
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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

July 2008
TBA
Mid-Summer Fiber Arts Sampler: open to the public

 
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