2012

January 19 night   7:30 pm

Presenter: Maria Wojtowicz
Description: Maria Wojtowicz is a textile designer based in Vancouver who
creates clothing for women and items for the home using Polish linen
fabric and silks imported from India. Maria will tell us about her design
process and the use of hand-dyeing and hand-painting that makes each piece
an original.
http://chrzaszcz.com/about.html

February  16 day 12:30 pm

Presenter: Doreen MacLachlan
Title: Textile Travels in Scotland
Description:Doreen has travelled three times to Scotland, always seeking
textiles. Her most recent trips in 2008 and 2010 were with Nadine Sanders,
The Singing Weaver (www.singingweaver.com). She will have stories,
textiles, photos and Nadine’s music to share. Join us on a mini “Threads,
Tunes and Ruins” tour.

Two new pages have been added to the members only area. Under LWSG Important Forms in the upper menu bar you will find links for:

• Standard Proportions for Handwoven Articles
• Pricing Guide

Made in BC Christmas events will be offered across the region to reduce distances shoppers must travel.

Admission fees will benefit the Farmland Defence League of BC and its campaigns to protect farmland and food security for future generations of BC Children.

Made in BC Christmas events will be thoroughly promoted, including:

Ø     Community service announcements in local newspapers

Ø     Paid advertising in local newspapers

Ø     Large street-facing venue banners

Ø     Sandwich board street signs

Ø     A region-wide media relations campaign

Ø     Exhaustive exposure through social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Linkd and MySpace and a web site will be unveiled at the start of the season.

Ø     Posters & flyers in venue communities in week before event

Made in BC Christmas Christmas events will provide holiday shoppers with on-site entertainment, event give-aways and festive refreshments. Our aim is to have a great cross-section of vendors from local artists to emerging commercial businesses to local farmers – all offering 100% made in BC products.

And whenever possible, Made in BC Christmas events will piggy back on significant local events, to provide residents with opportunities to minimize holiday making miles without diminishing the fun of the season. A Crescent Beach Christmas has been scheduled to coincide with the City of Surrey’s annual Stewart Farm Christmas, which regularly draws between 500 and 1,000 attendants for its heritage holiday celebration.

Attached are vendor registration forms for a Crescent Beach Christmas and 2 events in Fort Langley: one in November, one in December.   Registrations for venues in  South Delta, Surrey, Steveston and Vancouver will be revealed soon. It’s first come first served, so get your registrations in as soon as possible.

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Pat Spark at the Whatcom Museum

The Whatcom Museum is bringing Pat Spark, one of the founding members of the Whatcom Weavers Guild, to Bellingham in November.  While she is here, Pat will give a workshop and a talk about her fiber adventures over the past 40 years.

Pat is well known for her work in felting, and has published several books and articles on the topic. She started her textile career at WWU, went on to earn an MFA at the University of Washington, and was a professor of art for 16 years. She is a partner in the publishing firm Fine Fiber Press and Studio, which holds workshops, publishes books on fiber arts, and sells equipment for felt-makers and tapestry weavers. She has taught around the world, including a recent trip to Kyrghizstan where she taught contemporary felt-making.

Her talk and slide presentation will be on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Whatcom Museum Old City Hall Building, located at 121 Prospect St., Bellingham.  Admission is free to museum and guild members, and there is a $3 suggested donation for non-members.

Pat’s workshop will be on Sunday, Nov. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Optical Color Blending for Feltmakers and Spinners, and it will be held at the Lightcatcher Studio of the Whatcom Museum, 250 Flora St., Bellingham.

Here’s a description of the museum workshop:

Why do those beautiful, brightly colored fleeces look so great alone but turn to mud when they are blended together?  Because most of us use the same color mixing theories when mixing fiber as we do when mixing paint. Highly respected felt-maker, teacher, and author, Pat Spark will teach and demonstrate optical blending theories needed for mixing fibers in felt-making and spinning. Pat has been studying color theory, as it pertains to fiber, for 36 years. This workshop is geared for people with a little textile experience, such as spinning or felting. Participants should bring hand cards if they have them.

Cost: $80 for museum and guild members or $90 for non-members, plus a $25 lab fee for a merino variety pack of colors, felting needles, foam pad, and handouts. Maximum number of students, 12; minimum number of students, 5 to 6.  To register, contact the Bellingham Parks and Recreation Office, 360-778-7000, by Oct. 28.

The 2013 ANWG Conference will be held on the campus of Western
Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, June 17 – 23, 2013.
There will be three-day workshops, three-hour seminars, exhibitions,
shopping and a fashion show.

We plan to offer a diverse and interesting schedule of classes in
fiber-related areas – weaving, spinning, design, dyeing and surface
design, embellishment, basketry, braiding, clothing construction, color
theory, computer applications, felting, knitting, ethnic investigation
and other fiber techniques. The deadline for applications is February
1, 2012. Decisions will be made by March 1, 2012.

Visit our conference website at http://www.anwg-conference-2013.com/
and click on the “Information for Instructors
<http://www.anwg-conference-2013.com/teacher-proposals.html> ” link to
download application files. You can also sign up for our newsletter on
our website.

Please share this information with your guild members. We look forward
to hearing from you.

The Langley Weavers’ and Spinners’ Guild meets every third Tuesday of the month except for July, August and December.

Library Opens at 7:00 pm
General Meeting starts at 7:30 pm
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Meeting Place

Sharon United Church Hall
21562 Yale Road
(48th and 216th Street)
Langley, British Columbia

Thursday, October 20, day meeting at noon

Presenter: Susan Lagrove
Title: Wrapped in Tradition
Description: For well over two centuries, the Hudson’s Bay point blanket
has been a Canadian icon associated with legends of exploration and the
development of the nation. The story is a long and fascinating one that
offers an unique window into the history of Canada and North America.

Susan Lagraove’s website: www.sulaproductions.com

Greater Vancouver Weavers and Spinners Guild

Nadine Sanders, known as the Singing Weaver, will discuss the design and creation of hand-woven wearables at the November meeting of the Whatcom Weavers Guild.

Wearables from hand-woven fabric that fit, feel wonderful to wear, and look great are a challenge to many weavers. In this program you’ll touch actual garments and see images of clothing for all kinds of bodies and clothing construction abilities. From loom shaped garments, to sewing patterns that require only a few straight seams, to tailored garments, discover a pattern that will work for you. Make the garment sing with the right weave structure and yarns. Discover how textured plain weave gives marvelous drape and allows for combining many different yarns in the warp and weft. Complete the garment with embellishment and finishing touches that tastefully accompany your look. Leave with not only ideas, but a plan of action to create a wearable that gets worn!

The meeting will be on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at St. James Presbyterian Church’s lower level meeting room at 910 14^th St. in Bellingham.  Admission is free.

For further information about the Whatcom Weavers Guild, visit www.whatcomweaversguild.org or contact Sheri Ward, info@whatcomweaversguild.org or 360-961-4956.

The Whatcom Museum is bringing Pat Spark, one of the founding members of the Whatcom Weavers Guild, to Bellingham in November.  While she is here, Pat will give a workshop and a talk about her fiber adventures over the past 40 years.

Pat is well known for her work in felting, and has published several books and articles on the topic. She started her textile career at WWU, went on to earn an MFA at the University of Washington, and was a professor of art for 16 years. She is a partner in the publishing firm Fine Fiber Press and Studio, which holds workshops, publishes books on fiber arts, and sells equipment for felt-makers and tapestry weavers. She has taught around the world, including a recent trip to Kyrghizstan where she taught contemporary felt-making.

Her talk and slide presentation will be on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Whatcom Museum Old City Hall Building, located at 121 Prospect St., Bellingham.  Admission is free to museum and guild members, and there is a $3 suggested donation for non-members.

Pat’s workshop will be on Sunday, Nov. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Optical Color Blending for Feltmakers and Spinners, and it will be held at the Lightcatcher Studio of the Whatcom Museum, 250 Flora St., Bellingham.

Here’s a description of the museum workshop:

Why do those beautiful, brightly colored fleeces look so great alone but turn to mud when they are blended together?  Because most of us use the same color mixing theories when mixing fiber as we do when mixing paint. Highly respected felt-maker, teacher, and author, Pat Spark will teach and demonstrate optical blending theories needed for mixing fibers in felt-making and spinning. Pat has been studying color theory, as it pertains to fiber, for 36 years. This workshop is geared for people with a little textile experience, such as spinning or felting. Participants should bring hand cards if they have them.

Cost: $80 for museum and guild members or $90 for non-members, plus a $25 lab fee for a merino variety pack of colors, felting needles, foam pad, and handouts. Maximum number of students, 12; minimum number of students, 5 to 6.  To register, contact the Bellingham Parks and Recreation Office, 360-778-7000, by Oct. 28.

Fiber Arts at the Lightcatcher

The Whatcom Museum will host a show and sale by the Whatcom Weavers Guild, entitled Fiber Arts at the Lightcatcher, on Saturday, Nov. 19 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St., Bellingham.

The guild will demonstrate and provide hands-on opportunities for weaving and spinning for the public; hand-crafted fiber work of the guild’s membership will be available for show and sale.

There is an admission fee of $3 for those who are not museum or guild members.

For further information about the Whatcom Weavers Guild, visit www.whatcomweaversguild.org or contact Sheri Ward, info@whatcomweaversguild.org or 360-961-4956.