What I learned on my Summer Vacation

Guild Members

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm start, HCAC and Zoom

Welcome back to WGGB! What did you learn on your summer vacation? Inquiring minds want to know. Hear from folks who went to Convergence. Or from those who attended other workshops or who learned something new on their own.

Printing Nature on Fabric and Paper

Pat Holobaugh

11am-2pm, HCAC

Back by popular demand! Pat’s workshops on printing plants on fabric got rave reviews last year, so we’re bringing her back for an encore.

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Entering Fairs, Contests, and Competitions!  Oh My!

Patsy Zawitoski

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm start, HCAC and Zoom

Textile artists often wonder how they know if they should enter their craft in a competition.  Patsy will share experiences as both a competitor and a judge to help you improve your skills and get the recognition you deserve. 

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Bonus: Designing My Way

Janet Phillips

10am, Zoom only

Learn from the weaver who wrote Designing Woven Fabrics and Exploring Woven Fabrics.  Janet will discuss criteria to consider when designing woven fabrics – color, yarn, fiber, sett, weave structure, and finishing. 

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A Spinning Celebration of Long Cellulose – Flax, Hemp, Ramie, Tencel, and Bamboo

Patsy Zawistoski

10am-4pm, HCAC

This workshop is a two-day adventure in spinning and dyeing cellulose fibers:  hemp, ramie, and flax for linen, plus the manufactured fibers, tencel and bamboo. 

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Design Tricks

Barbara J. Walker

7:30pm start, Zoom only

This user-friendly discussion of color theories, proportion, and coordination of design elements will encourage you to go beyond the recipe and develop your own personal weaving style.

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Handwoven Textiles in Kenya Today

Janice Knausenberger

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm start, HCAC and Zoom

Handweaving in Kenya ranges from home production to production sites around the country. Photos and samples will accompany this walk through the diversity of sites Janice recently visited as well as touching on the evolution of weaving she has seen in the past 20 years.

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Garden Palettes: Exuberant Design from Glorious Gardens

Cameron Taylor Brown

7:30pm start, Zoom only

Cameron will lead us through an exercise to translate inspirations from the garden to your weaving. See the materials list in the detailed description if you’d like to join in the exercises.

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Shadow Weave and Repp

Janet Phillips

2-4pm, Zoom only  SOLD OUT

Study the design possibilities of 8 shaft shadow weave and learn to create a range of fabrics by changing warp sett. 

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Open Library, Potluck, Guild Sale

Guild Members

10am-4pm, HCAC
11am-3:30pm, Library available
noon, Potluck
1pm-3:30pm, Guild Sale

Come spend some time with fellow guild members; share a meal; buy yarn, fabric, and small equipment to benefit the Guild; and see what the library has to offer. 

Totally Twill

Robyn Spady

7:30pm start, Zoom only

Twills are one of the most versatile weave structures and the possibilities are amazing!  In this class, we will cover the basics from straight draw and point twills and then move on to broken, undulating, M&W,  Dornick, plaited, and turned twills.

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Bonus: Design for Weave with Sound and Rhythm

Cally Booker

10am-11am, Zoom only

In this program, Cally will introduce the principles of sound-inspired weave, sharing her experience of incorporating sound into weave design through the Aural Textiles project and beyond. 

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An Exploration of Double Huck

Cally Booker

Sat Feb 8 11:30am-3:30pm EST, Zoom only
Sat Feb 15 10:00am-1:30pm EST, Zoom only
Sun Feb 16 10:00am-12:00pm EST, Zoom only

Learn double huck, including layer and block exchange, stitched layers, mixed structures and color-and-weave effects.

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Ikat Dyeing

Mary Zicafoose

9am-5pm, HCAC

Learn to design, warp, dye, and weave a blue/white ikat scarf while exploring the basic techniques of the warp ikat process.

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Weaver and Mystic

Mary Zicafoose

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm start, HCAC and Zoom

Learn about the cultural role of the female in articulating age-old messages and planetary themes through the use of intuition, spiritual guidance and the manipulation of fiber. 

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Rigid Heddle Speed Warping and Other Techniques

Stephanie Hill

10am – 4pm, HCAC

Interested in rigid heddle weaving?  Learn how to direct warp your loom and begin weaving single or double heddle projects.  This class is great for newer and more experienced weavers!

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Study Group Presentation

Guild Members

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm start, HCAC and Zoom

Are you interested in studying some aspect of fiber arts in-depth with other guild members? Learn about WGGB study groups.

Get Certified through WGGB

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm start, HCAC and Zoom

Would you like to follow a structured course of study to become a more proficient weaver? Janice Knausenberger, who runs the certification program, will guide us through a show’n’tell from several WGGB members who have received apprentice and journeyman weaver certifications.

Elections, Show-n-Tell, Guild Challenge Presentations

Guild Members

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm start, HCAC and Zoom