Statewide Meeting—April 11–12, 2008

Daryl Lancaster will be our visiting artist for the Statewide meeting on the weekend of April 12, 2008. Daryl specializes in sewing with handwoven cloth, and she shares tips on fitting, seam and edge finishing, bound buttonholes, embellishment with inkle bands, and what to do with leftover scraps and swatches. (And you thought those “sample” swatches had no purpose!)

 Our tentative plan is for our Statewide Meeting to begin on Friday evening, April 11, with a dinner and a keynote address by Daryl Lancaster.

Saturday will be filled with seminars such as nuno felting, bobbin lace, spindle spinning, button-making, knitting, weaving, closures, and photographing your work. On Saturday evening we are going to have a fashion show sans the runway. We are challenging you to weave, knit, surface design or somehow, artistically fashion something wearable. It can be yardage you’d like to model as a sarong or shawl, an actual scarf or shawl, a tailored outfit, or accessories for the fashion show. We will have numbered helium balloons on a string, attached to each model and a corresponding numbered and detailed description of each item in a brochure. This way, we can all get close to the item and discuss it with the maker (with touching as permitted by the artist!) while mingling and enjoying a reception. We are inviting other guilds to participate, and so hope to see lots of handspun, handknit, or embellished garments, too.

Because of size limitations for Daryl’s workshops (16 and 20), we are considering offering two workshops— a two-day workshop on Thursday and Friday, April 10–11, called Garment Construction and Techniques for Handweavers and Other Fiber Artists. We would also offer a three-day workshop on Sunday, Monday,and Tuesday, April 13–15, called Handwoven Clothing 101—the Daryl Jacket. We will begin taking reservations and a $25.00 deposit for each workshop that you want to take, immediately. If both workshops are not filled by December 31, we will have to cut back to one workshop. Reservations and deposits can be sent to Teri Mauch or Patti Pitts. ❖   

Statewide Meeting Fashion Show

 Are you planning and working on a Fashion Show piece? This will be a fun event, So weave, spin, dye, and knit away the winter and show off in April!