November-December 2016 Saturday, November 5th Meeting: Designing Needlepoint with Peter Crawford LOCATION: Valle Verde 900 Calle de los Amigos, Santa Barbara, 93105 @ Ray Schneider Social Room (AKA RSSR/Social Room) Inside the Administration building — (805) 883-4000 See next page for map & directions. Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild CONNECTING THREADS www.sbfiberarts.org ☼ P.O. Box 30944, Santa Barbara, CA 93103-0944 9:30 am Social time and refreshments 10:00 am Business meeting followed by Program Remember to bring items for the monthly raffle! Please have raffle items ready to display before 9:30 am. Peter Crawford is the owner of Red Thread Designs here in Santa Barbara, and will be giving a presentation on designing needlepoint canvases and the process of creating needlepoint today. www.redthreaddesigns.com Saturday, December 3rd: Holiday Potluck & Silent Auction Location: Club Hous at San Antonio Village 39 N. San Marcos Rd, Santa Barbara See inside for Map & Directions Join us for our annual potluck holiday celebration and silent auction. Bring a dish to share and items for the auction. See Inside for more upcoming events!
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November-December 2016
Saturday, November 5th Meeting:
Designing Needlepoint with Peter Crawford
LOCATION: Valle Verde
900 Calle de los Amigos, Santa Barbara, 93105 @ Ray Schneider Social Room (AKA RSSR/Social Room)
Inside the Administration building — (805) 883-4000 See next page for map & directions.
Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild
CONNECTING THREADS
www.sbfiberarts.org ☼ P.O. Box 30944, Santa Barbara, CA 93103-0944
9:30 am Social time and refreshments 10:00 am Business meeting followed by Program
Remember to bring items for the monthly raffle! Please have raffle items ready to display before 9:30 am.
Peter Crawford is the owner of Red Thread Designs here in Santa Barbara, and will be giving a presentation on designing needlepoint canvases and the process of creating needlepoint today. www.redthreaddesigns.com
Saturday, December 3rd: Holiday Potluck & Silent Auction Location: Club Hous at San Antonio Village 39 N. San Marcos Rd, Santa Barbara See inside for Map & Directions Join us for our annual potluck holiday celebration and silent auction. Bring a dish to share and items for the auction. See Inside for more upcoming events!
Location & Parking Valle Verde Ray Schneider Social Room, inside the Administration Building. 900 Calle de los Amigos Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805) 883-4000 Parking is available near the Administration Building entrance and on Calle de los Amigos. The Ray Schneider Social Room (RSSR) is inside the entrance lobby. Directions From the North: Take US-101 South to the Las Positas Rd exit. Turn right on Las Positas Rd, crossing over the freeway. Take a right at the first light, which is Modoc Rd. In about a half mile, turn left on Calle de los Amigos. The Administration Building is about 3/4 of a mile down to the road on the right. From the South: Take US-101 North to the Las Positas Rd exit. Turn left onto Las Positas Rd, crossing over the freeway. Take a right at the first light, which is Modoc Rd. In about a half mile, turn left onto Calle de los Amigos. The Administration Building is about 3/4 of a mile down the right to the right.
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Saturday, November 5th Meeting Map & Directions
Letter from the Editor Dear Fiber Friends, I hope everyone is having a happy & productive fall. In this issue we have lots of colorful photos of all the activities you folks have been up to the last few months. Also, be sure to check out the WoW sale coming Novemer 3-5th. — Matt Eardley Newsletter Editor Something which might interest guild members:
Hospitality D’Ann Lawson Correspondence Secretary V. Kline Facilities Reservations Caren Paulson Silent Auction Claire Chytilo Library A. Sandburg & M. Lindberg Guild Raffle Linda Estrada Laura Nanna UCSB Fiber Program Matt Eardley Asset Managers Kim Cooke Eileen Ray Community Projects Louise Lopez WoW Norma Halim & Lena Scharfeld Historian Matt Eardley
Membership dues are $35 for the year, $20 for first time members after October.
Please mail your check to: SB Fiber Arts Guild
PO Box 30944 Santa Barbara, CA 93130-0944
Submissions This is your newsletter: please send me items that you feel would be of interest to our Guild members. I will include as much as possible within the pages of each issue. Deadline for the January/February 2016 issue is December 15th, but it is great for me to receive as much as possible before then. Submissions may be emailed to me, [email protected] or just call me at (631) 804-4166. Thanks! Matt Eardley Newsletter Editor
MEMBERSHIP
Meeting Refreshments Contact D’Ann Lawson to sign up to bring refreshments to future meetings: [email protected] 805-698-8723. Please bring your own mugs for coffee or hot tea.
The Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild meets on the first Saturday of each month.
For more information, please visit our website: www.sbfiberarts.org. Or find us
on Facebook by searching “Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild” for photos,
upcoming events, and items of general interest.
Upcoming Events
If you have a speaker, topic or workshop to suggest for a future program, please contact our program chairs: Lena Scharfeld ([email protected]) or Robin Lewis ([email protected])
Saturday, December 3rd: Holiday Potluck & Silent Auction Location: San Antonio Village, 39 N. San Marcos Rd, Santa Barbara Join us for our annual potluck holiday celebration and silent auction. Bring a dish to share and items for the auction. See next page for map and directions. Tuesday, January 10, 2017: Tour of Raoul Textiles Note Date: Second week in January, Tuesday instead of Saturday This month we have a special private tour of Raoul Textiles here in Santa Barbara. The tour is for guild members only. Please sign up in advance as space may be limited. “Raoul Textiles is a family-owned design firm based in Santa Barbara, California. Founder and designer Sally McQuillan and her husband Tim started Raoul textiles in a Quonset hut by the beach in 1981; the company has since grown into an influential force in the industry, renowned for its vibrant sense of color and innovative, unexpected approach to design. The collection is hand-printed on the finest Belgian linen; every step of the process is still done by hand in our factory, from the earliest sketches to the original ink recipes and hand-built screens. We also design a custom collection of fine woven fabric from Belgium, Scotland and France. Designers and their clients love the line for its bold color and scale, diverse inspiration and old-world craftsmanship.”
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Saturday, February 4th, 2017: Everything You Wanted to Know About Paper But Didn’t Know Who to Ask Location TBA For forty years, Jill Littlewood has been exploring different parts of the book. Beginning with a degree in drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she later studied letterpress printing at the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. Scientific illustration for the Natural Museum of Los Angeles followed, along with Western and Chinese calligraphy, classes in bookbinding, and finally papermaking. Some of her works push the line between book art and installations: they are books you walk through, entirely made of handmade paper, with hundreds of her illustrations and writings imbedded in them. Most recently Jill has been making sculptural pieces out of her handmade paper.
Upcoming Events Continued
Come to the WoW sale this week at the Public Market, to help support the Won-ders of Weaving class at CLL! “Gorgeous hand-made items, including hand-woven, knitted, felted and other unique items for home and family, will be offered at the 4th Annual WoW Sale. The sale will be held from 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm, November 3th, 4th & 5th, 2016 at the Santa Barbara Public Market, 38 W. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara.”
WoW Sale: November 3-5
Presentation by Jannie Taylor
In September, Jannie Taylor gave us a wonderful presentation about Spinning and weaving.
October Exhibit at the Goleta Library
Our Exhibit at the Goleta Library during the month of October was a great success, and it was very well received by visitors to the library. Thanks go to Sherry Cutting and her crew for putting up on a great show. Here’s a panoramic view:
SPECIAL THANKS Sherry Cutting, Coordinator of the Goleta Library Exhibit, thanks everyone who exhibited their unique fiber art artwork in the October 2016 show. She said “It was a stunning display of color, with an impressive variety of different art forms. Then there was the WoW factor! “ She gave very special thanks to the following members who helped with many ex-hibit tasks: Jeanette Warren Bev Ryan Caren Paulson Lynn Lopez Cathy Molholm Matt Eardley Reinhard Auerboeck Amy Rossi Meghan McNeal Lena Scharfeld Hisako Vincent Elizabeth Douglas Susan Owens Robin Hamlin Sherry asks those members to forgive her if she didn’t get their name jotted down on the thank-you list on those busy days. ALL WERE APPRECIATED, because it took a group of talented, hard working artists to create this exceptional exhibit.
Thanks from Sherry Cutting
Karen Luckett’s Yarn Blast in Santa Maria
In September, our own Karen Luckett organized and executed another wonderful Yarn Blast, along with the Buena Vista Beautifiers. They decorated trees at Buena Vista Park in Santa Maria.
Bev Ryan’s Saori Workshop
From Bev: “No Rules, No Restrictions. Weave yourself” SAORI weaving on Salt Spring Island In August I went to a very fun week long SAORI weaving workshop. This isn’t a learn to weave workshop (although you could be a complete beginner), so much as a “free yourself up and change your attitude” workshop. I came away with several samples, a blouse, and shoulder bag and lots of ideas. More information can be found at: http://saoriglobal.com/what-is-saori/ or http://www.saorinomori.com/eng/en_saori.html My trip was organized by Loom Dancer Weaving Odysseys, although this was more workshop than tour, we only spent one day touring. A brief video of the week is at: http://loomdancerodysseys.com/short-videos-of-our-trips/saori-weaving/saori-august-2016 If you are interested there is a SAORI studio much closer than British Columbia, in Sherman Oaks: http://www.saoristudiola.com/
Our Guild Member Vendors
Seams Incredible 805-685-3336, Eileen Ray, quality custom clothing for
women and children, alterations and zipper repairs.
Dr. D’Ann Lawson Chiropractic Care, Massage Therapy & Life Coach, 25 E.
Arrellaga Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 805-963-3439, (fax 805-963-8740).
Spinning Star Alpacas and Morning Star Studio Alpaca yarn, mill & hand spun designer yarns, roving, raw fiber, alpaca sales & products. Fine art & design, oil monotypes, paintings and fiber art. Hedy Price Paley, 805-687-6173, www.SpinningStarAlpacas.com and www.MorningStarFineArt.com Michael Rohde Tapestries & Rugs www.michaelrohde.com Morro Fleece Works Fiber processing, felt rugs & fabrics, specialty fibers, Suri alpaca sales & information. Shari McKelvy, [email protected] www.morrofleeceworks.com Grant House Sewing machines and more. Free individual instruction for every machine sold. 336-B E. Cota Street, Santa Barbara, 93101. 805-962-0929, www.granthousesewingmachines.com Cardigans A Knit Shop. Fine yarns and tools for knitting and crochet. 3030 State Street, Santa Barbara, 93105, 805-569-0531. www.cardigansknitshop.com
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