An update regarding the Del Oro library -- Wendy, Janice and I emptied out the last of the goods in our storage cabinet at the Senior Center this week. Mostly all that was left were magazines, knitting and crochet patterns, and the John Marshall dye workshop supplies. We talked about what to do with the magazines, etc and are suggesting that I bring a stock of mags to each of the next few meetings and we disperse them. I created a free account for us on librarything.com and started inputting the titles from the books we received from Mary Parker plus one book I have checked out. You can look at the list here: http://my.librarything.com/catalog/DelOroGuild Janice will be getting together with Rose to pick up the rest of the books and videos. We will get them all inputted to this list and store them in my guest room for now. You can call me or email me to bring books to the meeting as soon as we get them organized.
At the planning meeting, we also talked about the disposition of the videos, in light of the fact that most folks have DVD players now. We voted that if we cannot secure a DVD copy, we will have the video converted to a DVD, so that we can still make use of the material.
Tentative schedule for 2008-2009 - at the August planning meeting, we thought it would be fun to share some of the skills we learned at the conference, so those offerings are scattered throughout the year. I recorded all the topics, but am lacking some of the teachers .... ooops ... if you recognize what you volunteered to do, pls let me know.
September 17, Old General Store, Drytown: Until we determine a location for the early bird dinner, we will meet at 5 p.m. at the Old Well in Drytown for dinner on 9/17. We hear they have fabulous pies. Some other options are the bar in Drytown (do they serve food?), or La Colina in Plymouth. We ate there after the fair set up and had an excellent meal at a good price. The program for September will be offered by Stephenie and it will be back-to-front warping. I gotta see it to get it .....
October 4 - Farmers Market in Sutter Creek - 8 to 11 a.m. -- In celebration of National Spinning and Weaving Week, we will have an informal spin-in and weave-in. The planned sheep-t0-shawl with Hangtown will not happen as they are committed elsewhere that day. Bring your wheel or loom, a chair and have a good time!
October 18 - Historic Jackson Heritage Days - 10 - 5 On Main Street - same as last year -- we can sell stuff, and we will demonstrate spinning and weaving. We found some cardboard looms in the storage cabinet that we can prewarp and show the kiddies, young and old, how to weave. Bring your wheel or loom, handcards, a chair. We had lots of fun last year, even when the horsewagon almost collided with us.
October 22 - meeting at Drytown - Needlefelted gremlins (who volunteered to lead this? Laura? I forgot to write it down)
November 19 - meeting at Drytown - Acorn Fairies (Rose?)
December 13, Saturday, 11 a.m. -- Holiday Potluck and gift exchange at Wendy's
January 21 - meeting at Drytown - knitting and weaving yarns - Stephenie
February 18 - meeting at Drytown - linen spinning - Rose and Wnedy
March 18 - meeting at Drytown - Copper weaving (Karn and Kathy Mc) (Do we need supplies? from where?)
April 15 - meeting at Drytown - gossamer felt - Rose and Pat
May 20 - meeting at Drytown - Sara Lamb's knotted pile bags & new book on the rigid heddle, Slot & Eye (who? ) ; or Fab 4 (Cathy)
June 17 - meeting at Drytown - planning for the fair.
NEW LOCATION FOR MEETINGS: I hope that by now all of you have heard that Roseann at the Old General Store in Drytown has generously offered her classroom area for our monthly meetings. The various times will still be the same: early bird dinner at 5 p.m. (at the Old Well for September), 6:00 early birds at the store to work on projects or problem solve; meeting at 7 with short business and then the program.
Winter Workshop/retreat ideas for this year:
We have some money in the bank and the discussion at the planning meeting was how to use it. Suggestion was also offered that we give a discount to members who volunteer at a certain number of events during the year (nothing determined on that).
We haven't had a formal workshop in a couple years, so we came up with the following ideas: Celia Quinn for spinning; Judith MacKenzie McCuin; Darlene Hayes, Sara Lamb for rigid heddle; Nancy Bush for knitting; a dye workshop.
We also thought it would be super duper fun if we actually made it a retreat and went somewhere for the weekend to have this workshop. Ideas floated for location: The St George Hotel or Volcano Union Inn in Volcano; the Hanford House; Asilomar at Monterey; Lodestar in Wilseyville (http://www.uccr.org/lodestar.htm ), Days Inn Sutter Creek (has meeting rooms)
This week, I also looked thru the CNCH conference book for some ideas with teachers not too far away:
Molly Freeman (Sacramento) - weaving surface design; warp painting; garments from woven goods
Mary Hettmansperger (Indiana) - woven, wire, and looped jewely and miniature metal books (a couple of guild members took her classes and really seemed to enjoy them -- she may jump at the chance to come to CA in the winter)
Roberta Lowes (Tacoma, WA) - collaged garments, working with new fibers (bamboo, tencel etc), using up your stash of special yarns in weaving
Robyn Spady - (Bremerton, WA) - versatility in 4 harness looms; jewelry making for fiber artists
Margaret Tyler (Costa Mesa, CA) - spinning techniques (a number of folks around the table at Wendy's were looking for more spinning help)
Patsy Zawistoski (Illinois) - specialty spinning - flax, cotton, silk, fine wool yarns, high tech fibers
hire Stephenie to teach wherever we decide to stay, and support our local resources
Some other ideas for a place to stay: rent a place at Kirkwood or Sorenson's in Hope Valley, rent the Polar Bear cottage at Silver Lake (only accommodates 6, tho) http://www.kitcarsonlodge.com/ ; that house you rent at Dillon Beach? ; Point Montara Lighthouse between Half Moon Bay and SF http://www.norcalhostels.org/montara/ -- it is a hostel & lighthouse with a large meeting room, right on the cliff -- very cool -- I have stayed there a number of times and it is inexpensive.
I have stayed at Lodestar -- lots of accommodation options and they do meals; Not sure on the cost -- it was quite a few years ago.
I have stayed at Pt Montara with both adults and 4H kids -- the accommodations are dormitory-style and we would do our own meals. There are also a number of restaurants and a grocery nearby and it is an easy hop-skip-jump up to the city. They have a large meeting room in the building that housed the fog horn, two large kitchens, dining areas, and a large living room with a wood stove. It is quite nearby the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve (tidepools). It takes about 3 hours door to door from my house. We would need to make reservations pretty far ahead for winter -- like within the next month.
Lots of things to think about! Let's discuss the workshop ideas at the September meeting so we can get rollling with reservations.
CNCH Alternative Conference - Sonoma - Late April -- Karn, Kathy MC and I will be attending the next conference meeting in Sonoma in late September and should have lots of good info for you for the October meeting.
Have a great weekend,
Cathy
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