Next Meeting September 26,2009
10 AM - 4 PM (more or less)
Email goes to: spinner@serendipityspinners.org
August Nutshell
by Sue and Ginger
First of all, please accept my apologies. For whatever reason, the
first disc of photos from the meeting is completely blank. The second
disc has two photos of my show 'n tell and one of Carol's Woolie
Winder and that's all. Therefore, this newsletter has no photos.
Second and most important, we're being kicked out of the park on our usual day and moved to the following week. That is September 26th. Repeat - NEXT MEETING SEPTEMBER 26.
Please remember that the Serendipity site is supposed to be a resource. Check out the rest of it. There is a calendar page with dates of fiber events. Some will have links.
We'll get to this further down in the newsletter, but I (Sue) just have to tell the story about our fleece from Monterey. The guild voted that I could spend up
to $50 on a fleece for our CD spindle booth for next year. Lotus
did say, rather emphatically, that she did not want to wash the fleece,
too.
At the auction, there were a couple I had my eye on, but the bidding
went too high. In
desperation, I bid on the fleece that I got. We spent
$36.25 on it. On my way out, I stopped at the Morro Fiber Works
truck to see what it would
cost to get the fleece washed since Lotus was not interested in doing
it. I explained to Shari McKelvy who I was and what we were going
to do with the
fleece and asked if she had a guild price for just washing. She
did. It was only $15. I said aloud that it only put me
$1.25 over budget and I'd
do it. At that point she changed her mind and named a price of
$13.75 for washing. Again, I agreed. Then she changed her
mind, yet again, and
said that, since Serendipity gives her quite a bit of business, she'd
wash our guild fleece for FREE. At that point I just thanked her
profusely. So,
if any of you are wondering where to get your fiber processed, send it
to Morro Fleece Works. There is a link and information on our
Textile Links
page. Tell her you are from Serendipity so she knows we really do send
her business.
On August 26th, the washed *AND* picked fleece arrived on my doorstep.
Treasurer's report
$1851.82 before the check to the Monterey wool show. Sue carried
the check and handed it to them personally. They were very
pleased.
Money ($50) was voted for Sue to buy a fleece at the Monterey wool
auction for next year's Stitches booth.
Old Business
What do we want to do with the pins we were going give to the
Serendipity Sheep to Shawl team? Answer - give them to those that
were going to
participate on the team, the guild officers and others..
What do we want to do for classes? No one sent any
ideas to the list
Lotus wants to know if we can get on Judith Mckenzie's List
sometime? Lotus will
contact her and find out when she'll be in our area and how to get on
her list.
Who is the woman that does weird chunky yarns? Lotus thinks she is in
the Grass Valley area.
Another suggestion was a dye workshop with natural dye.
New Business
Lotus brought mailers from various places including
Lamb Town in Dixon (for a link, see our calendar page)
Marcia mentioned that Glenna Harris is demonstrating on October 10 at
Pumpkins in
the Park at the Discovery Museum. She also mentioned a
Wildlife Days demonstration on Oct 4. Unfortunately, we
didn't catch where this was.
Show 'n Tell
Marcia: spinning green wool. Nothing to show Lotus: is working on the yarn for the conference scarves for
next year. It is really bright. Nancy D.: finished knitting pumpkin hat from commercial yarn for
nephew.
It's really cute. She's been busy Chris S.: crocheted a cute little blue hat. The gauge in pattern
was wrong.
It should have
fit her but was actually toddler sized. She is crocheting purple
alpaca motifs to be joined for scarf
for her niece. Kimberly: showed new, really pretty spindle. Jennifer: (new) spun a bamboo silk blend spun on drop spindles.
Now she's plying
this into
a 3 ply green yarn Carol: sis pinning on her little wheel. Sue: took a textile entrepreneurship class. The class project is
to bring a pretend product to
market. The team's initial project was a yoga carry all
bag made from an old pair of blue jeans. The bag works really
well for all kind of other carrying needs. Ginger: has been knitting socks. she has one pair done of color
that she didn't remember
ordering in red, orange, white green, turquoise & yellow.
She has one sock done
in browns that she did order. The other sock is ready to graft
toe. Since this IS Ginger, she also started what will be a square
lace shawl. So far one side of edging done.
And that's August in a nutshell.
If you have news or pictures of interest to the group please send it
to spinner@serendipityspinners.org