Check out Jenny Dean’s revision of Wild Colour and website,  a very interesting book on nature dying the different colours that can be achieved by changing the mordants pre and post and after baths.

Christmas Boutique

Are you an artist or artisan looking for a place to display and sell your work at Christmas? Now is the time to start working on your wares! Place des Arts, a multi-disciplinary arts centre in Maillardville Coquitlam, is seeking new artists for its Christmas Boutique, 2010. This annual event has been very successful in the past, and each year, more and more customers are choosing to forego the shopping malls and buy locally crafted artwork from Place des Arts.

Deadline for registration is Sunday, October 17, 2010.
For the 2010 Christmas Boutique, open from November 12 to December 17, Place des Arts is seeking artisans who create fine-art quality felted items (ie, tea cozies), wooden boxes, glass ornaments, silver work, unique pottery, leather products, hand-made soap and other quality handcrafted items—no hand-made cards, photos, prints or assembled (as in beaded) jewelry please. Keep in mind that these items do not necessarily need to be Christmas themed, but can be gifts that hold year-round appeal for the recipient. All works are for sale. Artists set prices for their works, and Place des Arts will retain 30% of the retail price.

To be considered for the Christmas Boutique, artists must submit 5 work samples to be juried. A $5 jury fee applies. The deadline for registration is Sunday, October 17, 2010. The drop off dates for jurying of new artist works are Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24. Artists will be notified of entry status by Friday, October 29. For registration forms and artists identification cards, interested artists may visit www.placedesarts.ca and follow the “Our Programs” dropdown menu to “Christmas Boutique.” For more information, contact gift shop
coordinator, Lidia Kosznik, at 604.664.1636 or email her at lkosznik@placedesarts.ca

First meeting is to be in September.

Please contact Krista if you are interested.

I would like to schedule a time and place so those interested can attend and plan.

For those who need more information before they commit. I have included my thoughts on the purpose and the guidelines for our Study Group.

Purpose

Study Weave Structures possible on a 4 Harness Loom

Provide instruction and support for the art of weaving on 4 Harnesses.

Share knowledge on weave structure

Plan warps and purchases of warp and weft materials to reduce costs.

Explore the use of color including dying.

Share knowledge from other workshops members have attended

Provide opportunities to visit fiber arts and weaving exhibitions and symposiums with individuals with like interests. (Field Trips and outings)

Produce quality woven articles for guild sale.

Guidelines

No fee for membership

Names of members will be added to a distribution List

Information discussed at meetings will be recorded and distributed to 4 Harness Group members.

Distribution list can be used by members to problem solve between meetings.

Meeting number and locations to be determined by membership.

Anyone is welcome to attend meetings and share in the distribution list. All skill levels are encouraged to participate.

Dates of meetings will be posted on the Members Only website  or in the newsletter

I hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks to those who have already responded.

Krista

For new members, Crazy Clackers is the knitting study group of the Guild. We meet in members’ homes the 4th Tuesday of the month. Any member of the Guild is welcome to join us. Our first meeting will be Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 7:30pm at Marilyn’s home. Bring any knitting projects that you would like to work on and thoughts for discussion about what we might like to learn/do this season.

September’s Meeting: September 21, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Program: Standards/Jurying for Guild Sale

Goodies: Lin, H. Moyer and Lois

Coffee/Tea: Krista, H. Moyer

Executive Meeting: October 5, 2010 at Marnie’s  Home (Brookswood), 7 pm.

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This popular annual event will be help on Sunday, November 28, 2010 from 11am to 4 pm at Whonnock Lake Center, in beautiful Whonnock. There will be hand-woven, hand knit and handspun for sale, among other unique original clothing, linens,and baskets, plus an assortment of wonderful pottery, glass jewelry, wrought iron, and woodturning from our guest artists.

Our Guild Sale, Uncommon Threads will be held on November 5th and 6th at Greenbank Farm, we will be open until 7:00pm on Friday the 5th, so come to shop and have dinner at the Farm. Hope to see you there!

Click for a map of Greenbank Farm.

May 30 – June 5, 2011 | Willamette University | Salem, OR

“Exploring Fiber Horizons” Look into the future; see where we are going as fiber artists. Weave the creativity of the past into your fiber explorations; the sky’s the limit. Use our theme to reach for your own horizons. Join us!

***Moderators note please consider making purple hats for the infants and donating directly to your local hospital, this is a very good program being presented to all new parents in British Columbia, new parents are given information about the period of purple crying that all infants do and provided a DVD about coping during this time.******

We invite you to join our mission: make a PURPLE newborn baby cap so we can give select babies born in British Columbia the week of November 15th a gift to coincide with Canada’s National Child Day. Please share your knitting or crocheting skills to help Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC.Unite and lend your hands now to knit or crochet PURPLE newborn baby caps for this great cause.

Create as many as you like – from five to 50, or a…ny number in between, using any newborn baby cap pattern, and any colour of soft baby-friendly PURPLE yarn.

Please help us spread the word by RSVP’ing YES to share this information with your network and encouraging them to also start knitting now!

PURPLE caps must be received no later than by November 5, 2010.

If you have any questions, please contact Melissa Pelto: melissa@limelitepr.com or call 778.786.1495

Please knit and mail your PURPLE caps to
BC Children’s Hospital:
c/o Claire Yambao
Provincial Program Coordinator, Prevent SBS BC
BC Children’s Hospital
4480 Oak Street, K1-209
Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4

By knitting and sending PURPLE newborn baby caps to be given to babies across the province, you will make a difference by:
Raising awareness for this life-saving project – Period of PURPLE Crying – Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC – that promotes crucial parenting skills, infant/parent bonding, and understanding of a typical early infancy stage that every baby goes through which is frequently misunderstood.
Participating in a growing, province-wide grassroots effort to educate new parents about the normalcy of early infant crying and how to cope with the frustration that can accompany it.

Assist in promoting the Period of PURPLE Crying – Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC so that parents (and all others) learn to understand normal increased early infant crying and that crying is a key trigger to shaking.

The Period of PURPLE Crying – Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC is a part of the most comprehensive shaken baby syndrome prevention initiative in North America. To learn more, visit www.PURPLEcrying.info and follow us on Twitter @PurpleCrying