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November 2009 NewsletterNext Meeting November 21, 200910 AM - 4 PM (more or less) Email goes to: spinner@serendipityspinners.org | |
October Nutshellby Kimberly and Frank |
It was a beautiful day at the park. The ground was dry under the old oak tree and nobody was falling out of it, so we created the spinning circle there. The squirrels did throw a few things though.
We have a newsletter exchange with Black Sheep Guild. Theirs is on their home page at http://www.blacksheepguild.org/.
No treasurer's report this month because Lotus was not able to make it to the meeting.
Old Business
Stitches West 2010
Stitches 2010 is February 25-28 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Registration is already open for classes. Contact Jocelyn to volunteer for the booth. Volunteers get a pass for the marketplace.CNCH2010
CNCH is April 9-11 also at the Santa Clara Convention Center. There will be a "Spinning Corral" with vendor-supplied wheels. Volunteers for the corral will get in free for the event.New Business
One class/group event recommendation is a space dying/machine knitting class. Nancy Roberts in Berkeley has a website called "Machine Knitting to Dye For." Kimberly will look into whether she would come south to teach a class. Carol has volunteered space at her house to host.Carol passed around a brochure for a fiber-related tour she once went on. It's called "Threads, Ruins, & Tunes", organized by Madeline Sanders, and there will be a new tour in Scotland in 2010.
November Elections
The November meeting is election time. Be there, or we may elect you :)Show 'n Tell
Jennifer : silk and cotton-candy colored alpaca (?) today. She is storing the guild drum carder.
Jennifer spinning.
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Aviva : brought a lot of projects with her this time. She's spinning brown wool to make into a cardigan. She's also making a bolero "butterfly jacket" from moss green wool from the estate sale. She's also finishing up a green lace shawl she's had on the needles for quite a while.
Aviva spinning brown wool
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Knitted sample from brown wool
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Butterfly vest
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Lace shawl
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Sharolene : went to Lambtown. Said there was a good vendor turnout. She's been spending her time away from us with family. She went to England in April and May to see her daughter. She took a side trip to visit a weavers' guild in Normandy, and picked up a Scottish Blackface fleece she shared with them.
Sharolene spinning wool
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Ellen : working with some newly carded wool on her Schacht Ladybug wheel. Her neighbors have a small number of sheep, and she received 3 fleeces from them.
Ellen's 1st spinning
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Ellen spinning and picking wool
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Carol : is spinning some wool she had processed by Morro Fleece Works.
Carol spindling wool.
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Jocelyn : is spinning wool for the "Return to Sender" contest for CNCH.
Jocelyn spindling Return to Sender wool.
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Frank : is spinning his cat's hair, and trying to decide what to do with his estate sale wool, now that it's all spun.< br>
Frank was drop spindling wool.
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Kimberly : spinning silk (surprise!) on her wheel and drop spindles. Frank let her test drive 2 of his Golding drop spindles.
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Kimberly taking notes and spinning silk
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A test drive of a Golding spindle
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And that's October in a nutshell.
If you have news or pictures of interest to the group please send it to spinner@serendipityspinners.org