What I learned on my Summer Vacation

Guild Members

7pm hospitality, 7:30pm program, 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 MAFA. Or from those who attended other workshops or who learned something new on their own.

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 both newer and more experienced weavers!

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Beginning Tapestry

Nancy Crampton

9:30am-4:30pm, HCAC

In this 3-day workshop students will learn the basic tapestry techniques using copper-pipe frame looms supplied by the teacher, or your own adjustable-tension frame loom.  You’ll cover different warping styles, design and color choices, making a cartoon (your tapestry plan), transferring the design to the warp threads, finishing, and mounting.  This workshop is being offered at a reduced price in honor of Jane Daniels.

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Tapestry: From Inspiration to Finished Weaving

Nancy Crampton

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

Using both projected images and woven pieces, Nancy will share her path as a weaver and her love of the technique of tapestry. Included will be sources of her inspiration and how she moves from an idea to a finished weaving. Participants in the weekend workshop will share their samples and cartoon studies.

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Hangout: Discussion of Upcoming Guild Exhibit

7pm, Zoom

Do you have questions about the upcoming WGGB exhibit? Want to talk with other guild members about ideas for a project? Join us for a Zoom Hangout to hear what others are doing and to get inspired! Zoom link sent out Sunday morning.

Make a Work Basket on Legs

Bev Larson

9am-4pm, HCAC

In this one-day workshop, create a Work Basket on Legs in your choice of colors. The frame has divided compartments for holding your favorite projects. Course fee includes reed and wooden legs, handle, and compartment dividers.

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Make a Work Basket on Legs

Bev Larson

9am-4pm, HCAC

Bye popular demand!  A second day was added so more people could make their own baskets!
In this one-day workshop, create a Work Basket on Legs in your choice of colors. The frame has divided compartments for holding your favorite projects. Course fee includes reed and wooden legs, handle, and compartment dividers.

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Woven Words

Kelly Ennis

7pm Hospitality, 7:30pm Program, HCAC and Zoom

Kelly will introduce us to her woven words art. She hand cuts her weavings using handmade paper from a women’s co-op in Nepal. She typically uses people as the subject matter which are expressed in the warp. The weft consists of images, words, phrases, songs, or speeches relevant to the subject. Kelly will be demonstrating her processes and showing the wide range of subjects she has captured.  In-person participants will be able to weave along with materials provided.  Zoom participants will learn by watching.

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Demonstration at Maryland Alpaca and Fleece Festival

Guild Members

Maryland Alpaca and Fleece Festival

Guild members will be demonstrating spinning, weaving, and other fiber arts to visitors at the Festival.  9am-4pm. Admission and parking are free.

Reverse Drafting — An Exercise in Well-Intentioned Destruction

Emily Winter

1-3pm Zoom only

Reverse drafting is the process of unraveling woven cloth and diagramming its construction on graph paper using draft notation. It’s a great way to get to know weave structure. Puzzle lovers of all stripes (weaver or not) get a kick out of the process. It’s kind of like a material sudoku. In this program, Emily Winter from The Weaving Mill in Chicago will lead participants through the process of reverse drafting using provided swatches, and introduce the process of deducing threading, tie-up and treadling from drawdowns.

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Hangout: KNOTS!

7pm, Zoom

Explore knots with Mary Pfleuger.  Learn the most common knots that weavers find useful.  Tie knots with confidence! Zoom link sent out Sunday morning.

The Nettle Dress

A film by Dylan Howitt

View anytime between 12 noon to 12 midnight, online only (Vimeo link will be sent out the morning of Dec 2)

Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand just from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is “hedgerow couture,” the greenest of slow fashion and also his medicine.  It’s how he survives the death of his wife and finds a beautiful way to honour her. A modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.

A feature documentary by Dylan Howett. 68 minutes | UK | 2023

Following the film will be a 30 minute pre-recorded Q&A with Allan Brown and Dylan Howitt.

Watch the trailer here: Nettle Dress trailer

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Hangout: Group Discussion of The Nettle Dress

Join fellow members to discuss the film shown on Dec 2. 

Watch the trailer here: Nettle Dress trailer

Prestigious Finger-Twined Textiles of the Northwest Coast

Lily Hope

7:30pm program, Zoom only

Experience the 300 year old woolen weaving practices of the Northwest Coast of Alaska and Canada. Renowned artist, Lily Hope, will lead you through the past, present, and future of the highly esteemed finger-twined ceremonial dancing blankets still being woven and worn today.

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Weave a Twill Gamp with Color-and-Weave Effects

Karen Donde

9am-4pm, Zoom only

This workshop combines color-and-weave effects with a twill gamp to explore how one color order impacts the look of five different twill threadings when woven as-drawn-in; with color-order variations in the weft; and with different tie-ups and/or treadling orders. All participants will thread five-twill gamps, either for four or eight shafts.

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Design Handwoven Fabric You Can Wear

Karen Donde

7:30pm program, Zoom only

Making handwoven clothing you are proud to wear starts with designing fabric to suit the particular needs of the planned garment. Drapey shawls, loose-fitting wraps and fitted, tailored jackets or dresses all require cloth that will perform as needed, not only during fitting and construction, but during repeated wearing and cleaning. This lecture offers advice about designing and weaving garment-worthy fabric, as well as finishing, cutting and sewing tips.

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Cell Weaves on Eight Shafts

Martha Town

Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm, Zoom

A simple repeat threading on paired shafts creates four “cells” which can be woven as Lace, Deflected Double Weave, Honeycomb, and Monks Belt! Weave a unique sampler that includes all these structures, play with bold color and weave effects, and gain confidence in fabric design. This on-loom workshop requires an 8 shaft table or floor loom, and an adventuresome spirit.

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A Spinning Retreat – Four Workshops in One

Heavenly Bresser

Sat Feb 28, 2026 Blending Board Fractals, 6 hour workshop
Sun Mar 1, 2026 Think Outside the Braid, 6 hour workshop
Mon Mar 2, 2026 Long Draw (3 hour workshop in the morning)
Mon Mar 2, 2026 Spinning from the Fold (3 hour workshop in the afternoon)

For a limited time, the spinning retreat will be available at a reduced price in honor of Joanna Crosby.  If the 3-day retreat is not sold out, individual workshops will be made available, also at a reduced price.

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Historic Spinning Wheels

Heavenly Bresser

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

Join us as we take a look into the history and innovation behind the spinning wheels in Heavenly’s personal collection. She will provide insight into their different styles, functionality, and also share the types of yarns which can be produced on them.

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Kathrin’s Creations: Dyeing, Weaving, Exploring, Teaching

Kathrin Weber

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

This lecture with powerpoint images focuses on Kathrin’s 46 years as a full time fiber artist/craftsperson, while incorporating into her life and career,  dyeing, weaving, exploration of various surface design techniques on fiber.

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Not Your Grandma’s Dyepot and MORE!

Kathrin Weber

10am – 5pm, HCAC

Workshop participants will be dyeing cellulose (plant based) fiber. The goal is to learn the basics of dyeing: dyeing safely, traditional as well as non-traditional application of dyes, processes needed to set the dyes for color fastness, tips on setting up a dye kitchen of your own. And, beyond that, to learn to dye with personal fearlessness and intention.

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Little Looms: Exploration Stations

Guild Members

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

Have you wondered about little looms? Do you want to try some portable weaving? For this guild meeting, we’ll have multiple work stations focusing on little looms: pin loom, peg loom, inkle loom, card weaving, potholder loom, lucet, nalbinding, rigid heddle, and maybe more depending on who volunteers to staff a station. Come demonstrate and learn.

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Elections, Show-n-Tell, Guild Challenge Presentations

Guild Members

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

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