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Calling All Artisans

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Dear 2011 Township 7 Vineyard Artisan Participants,

Spring is upon us J We are starting to plan our Artisan Fairs, being held on Saturday, June 26th and Aug. 28th of this year. Many of you have dates to fill in  for other events/ markets so please include us on your schedule if you plan to join us.

The events will run from 11:00 am – 5 p.m.

We are offering a “Build Your Own Picnic” program through the winery., as well as the charity BBQ and of course live music in two locations. We  have a new patio this year with a fire pit and tables and chairs so there will be no booth spots along the winery wall.

We also ask you to email and send or print this off and pass it on to other vendors that you happen to run in to at Farmers Markets etc. We are looking for a variety of food/produce/baking vendors this year if you know any, please have them contact meJ

If you are not familiar with our Vineyard, please check us out at www.township7.com

To register, please contact me asap at gail@township7.com Please include your registration form, advise me if you are requesting one or both events. The booth area will be on a first come first serve basis. You pick, if you have a preference or I pick for you, there will be no changing spots on the day of. As you know we have a limited space and do not want to double up on our like minded vendors/artists.

Set up starts on Sat. June 25th from non till 5 and In Aug. Sat the 27th from noon till 5,  you are responsible for securing your tent re wind or rain.We do have security on the property but nothing is guaranteed.

Below is a list of responsibilities for our visiting artists/vendors and our expectations for the day.

There is no fee to participate in this event, we want to help you promote your craft or business.

We only ask that you would donate a raffle prize that is worth no less than $25.00 to the event… We would like a full description of the prize, the value and your business name before June 20th for the June event and before Aug. 20th for the Aug. event.

Please drop this off before the event or day of at the raffle table.

You will need your own tent (shelter), table, chairs, and your business info. We ask you to be on time!;) And to be set up 30 minutes prior to the event starting. Parking will be off site again and you will be shuttled to and from. You can not drive to your booth so please make sure you have help or a way to get your product to your booth area.

If you are planning on serving or sampling food, please provide us with a copy of your business license/ health permit as well as your Food Safe Certification.

We are very excited about our upcoming events. We will be getting advertising out to the communities well before the event. We would ask that you also distribute our e mail flyer to your circle of influence. This flyer will be sent out to you after we correspond with you that you will be attending.

If you have any questions or concerns please email me.

Gail Simpson Manager
Township 7 Vineyards & Winery
21152 16th Ave.
Langley, B.C.
V2Z1T3
604 532 1766
www.township7.com
gail@township7.com

Views From ANWG 2011

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This years ANWG convention is being held in Salem Oregon, so far the weather has been reasonable we have had rain, fog, clouds, sun and heat. Even a little wind thrown in for good measure.

To get a started on what will be a long series of posts about the adventures at 2011 ANWG will be some shots of entries made into the fashion show by our very own Carol. Unfortunately we where not allowed to take photos during the fashion show but here are the garments afterwards.

Hopefully tonight I will have some time to add comments on the images so recheck this post for changes.

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llama show on June 4-5 2011

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Dear Spinner’s and weaver’s,

… Just thought I would let your group know that their is an upcoming llama show on June 4-5 2011, in Abbotsford, BC. We the show committee are inviting anyone who would like all to come and spin, needle felt ect in a social environment. We are thinking of having the spin in from 11am – 4pm on both days, there is no admission fee to attend. There will also be llama and alpaca fleeces available for purchase. Please let us know if you plan on attending the 1st annual Lower Mainland Llama Extravaganza Spin-in on one or both days. Further information will be sent to those who are interestedthellamachild@hotmail.com

Sarah Nicholls
LMLE Committee Chair
604 534 7124

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The Langley Weavers and Spinners Guild is celebrating it’s 40th Anniversary. We have organized a series of celebratory events.

The first is a lecture with Anne Field to be held in the Martha Schmidt room at the Langley Community Music School on Thursday, May 5th.  Doors open at 6:30 pm and the lecture begins at 7pm.  We will serve refreshments following the lecture.

ANNE FIELD has been weaving and spinning since 1962, and for the past 25 years has been teaching regularly in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Her work has been entered in many exhibitions, both in New Zealand and overseas. As an international teacher, weaver, spinner and writer, her work has done much to promote New Zealand fibre craft abroad.

Anne’s published books include Weaving with the Rigid Heddle Loom (1980); The Four-shaft Table Loom (1986), and The Ashford Book of Spinning, also in (1986). This has been a particularly popular book, with many international editions, including Japanese and German translations. The Ashford Book of Weaving was published in 1991 (now out of print) and Spinning Wool: Beyond the Basics, was published in 1995. The Ashford Book of Four-Shaft Weaving, published in 2007, is an up-date of the Four-shaft Table loom book. Collapse Weave: Creating three-dimensional cloth, (2008). Devore for Weavers and Knitters(2010). An up-dated of Spinning Wool Beyond the Basics is due out in October, 2010, and Anne is currently working on Learn to Spin with Anne Field.

For this event, Anne has selected to talk about early weaving in NZ with some Maori weaving included, then move into more contemporary stuff and include some background on her creative development, her weaving and books.

There are a limited number of tickets available.  If you would like to reserve your ticket please contact Diana Twiss at v-president@lwsg.org.  The tickets are $5 for Langley Weavers and Spinners Guild members and $10 each for others.
Hope to see you there!
Diana

 

fibre dying day

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I would like to extend another invitation to participate in our fibre dying day

The Dates are Sunday May 15 and Monday May 16,
Location Krista
Time: Dyeing can begin at 9 am

Judy  and I are putting the final touches for our guild dying day. We have the color ,the chemicals . The supply/equipment list that participants will be going out on Tuesday . So far 27 people are participating over the 2 days. We are mixing the dye stock so we need to know if any other members want to join in.

It is not too late to join the fun. Just call me or email me and I will add you to the list and send out all the information you need.
If you have not dyed fibre before this is a very good opportunity to learn from others. You will be provided with the dye stock (in Ruby color) and all the chemicals to dye 150 gms of fibre or yarn.

So if you just needed another reminder contact Krista
Krista’s email graham_5@telus.net