Our guild has the opportunity to have Anne Field of New Zealand come to teach us on what may be her last teaching trip to North America. For those of you who don’t recognize the name right away, Anne has written 7 books amongst which are the Ashford Book of Spinning and the Ashford Book of Weaving. She has been teaching both weaving and spinning for 30 years and several of our members recommend her highly.

The Greater Vancouver Guild is bringing Anne in to teach them on the April 29/30 and May 1, 2011 weekend. Anne is available to come and teach our guild immediately after that. The most likely timeframe would be Tuesday May 3 and Wednesday May 4, although if we have enough people for two workshops Anne could stay and also teach on the Saturday/Sunday May 7&8.

Could you please reply ASAP as to whether you will be signing up for one or more workshops (details below). I’ll need to know whether you can attend in the weekdays or whether you are restricted to weekends only. The cost will be approximately $175 plus materials for a 2-day workshop if we have 8 people signed up. If we get more students, the costs will be less. We’ll need a deposit of $100 sent to me ahead of time for the guild to be able to make a firm commitment to bring Anne in to teach.

We’ve chosen two spinning workshops and two weaving workshops for you to pick from. I’ve included a brief description below and more detail may be found on Anne’s website www.annefield.co.nz .

Please let me know by Sunday November 14th if you will be able to attend, as Anne needs to let her next stop, the Oregon guild, know when she will be arriving to teach them. My e-mail is workshops@lwsg.org . Please let me know which workshop(s) are ones you would like to attend. If you like all of them, please rank them in order of preference. Also let me know whether you’d be able to attend in the weekdays (we’ll only be able to offer a workshop on the weekend if we keep Anne here teaching throughout the week). As soon as I’ve gotten the replies tabulated I’ll be in contact with you to confirm which workshops have been chosen, so that you can then send in your $100 deposit. I will need to receive your cheque by December 7.
If you have suggestions for a workshop you would like to take – or teach – please contactMaureen  or Debbie.