Programs, Presentations, and Meetings:
During part of the year, we hold special meetings focusing on a particular aspect of weaving and/or fiber arts. These meetings are led by invited expert guests or knowledgeable fiber artists from within our own ranks. These programs run September through April with a few exceptions noted in the calendar listing. We also have guild gatherings during the busy holiday months and the summer where we kick back to enjoy good food and company. If you share (or think you might share) an interest in weaving and fiber arts, please feel free to drop in and introduce yourself. We’d love to meet you.  

UCC: Unitarian Universalist Church. 4225 NW 34th Street, Gainesville.

2022-2023  Program

For questions about programs, you can contact Barbara Zory or Carol Turner

 

More of what I have done is on Facebook at Kat Hampson Creates “

 

• • Dec. 9 Wed 7:00 pm or Dec. 12 Sat. 2:00 – Holiday Party TBA.

Cookie Recipe – Exchange / Stash exchange .

Zoom

Below is a link to the wonderful book of exchanged recipes. Try them all and let us know!

Handweavers Guild Cookie Swap recipes

• • Jan 23 Saturday 9:30 am  What have you created from your stash? 

    Zoom :  Please plan to share your most recent Fiber Project and send a photograph to Grayson for Instagram 

• • May 15th   10:00 am to 2:00pm  – Natural Dyeing  with   Brittany Boyer.  Registration required

You can arrive at 9:30 to set-up and visit the sheep. We will meet outside at Rusty Bee Ranch  in Alachua. Masks and Socially Distancing will be needed during parts of the workshop.  

• • VIRTUAL MEETINGS
    Every Thursday and/or Friday 2:00- ~3:30 pm. 

     

    We meet chat show & tell and encourage each other .
    Open to everybody, Contact  Linda Nickel to get the ZOOM link

• • July 11, 2020
    10:00 – 11:00 am
    Join Brittany Boyer, for a 45 minute introduction to natural dyeing with food waste!
    REGISTRATION is required to join ONLINE.

     

    https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvf-ygpj0jHNw1W1MADLj3chH5mdk47tGt

    After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

• • The March meeting has been cancelled  so as not to increase contagion of the virus 

March 25th, Wednesday 7:00PM

TERRIFIC TARTANS with Robert Matthews

• • February 29th, Saturday
    9AM (workshop starts right after the regular meeting)
    Workshop- ICE DYEING & DIY LARGE FELTED BAG with Lorinda Browning
    ($25 for members and $35 for non-members.   Registration required)

• • January 25th, Saturday
    10AM
    Workshop- ALL ABOUT YARN Pam Paul

     

    ($10 for members – $20 for non members. Registration required

Did you ever wonder what those numbers inside a cone of yarn mean? 10/2,2/18,8/4, use it over unmercerized?  What’s the difference between rayon, bamboo,  tencel, and modal buy?  What if you got a great deal on yarn but you have no idea what it is?  Take the anxiety out of buying yarn and planning a project.

• • December 4th, Wednesday
    7pm
    Potluck/ guild sale at Valeria’s home

• • November 16th, Saturday
    10AM
      Japanese Bookbinding – with Peggy DiNegro

     

    Japanese books differ from ours in that the binding holding the pages together is on the outside and becomes an artistic element in itself.
    You begin by designing your stitching pattern.  Fun!  Easy!  I’ll guide you through it.  You will then select a cover to go with your pages, punch appropriate sewing holes and stitch your booklet together using 6 strand floss.  There will be some choice of colors for cover and threads.

    Workshop fee $10.00.

    RSVP would be lovely but you can come regardless.

• • October 30th, Wednesday
    7:30PM
    Meeting-PLARN with Veydra van de Leur

 

Veydra will give a presentation about PLARN and each person will be given the patterns for the bag and apron shown.

• September 25th, Wednesday
  7:30PM
  Meeting- CLASP WEAVING with Malgorzata Deyrup