The 11th annual Knoxville Opera's Rossini Festival was held on April 28th in downtown Knoxville, TN. The festival is well known for its live performances, including fully-staged operas and artisan...
The Redwood Guild of Fiber Artists has been active in the Sonoma County, California, area since 1949. The guild website features an impressive list of monthly speakers and topics. In April, Nadine Curtis...
Rosemary Skinner (pictured on the right) is a longtime member of the Handweavers', Spinners', and Dyers' Guild of Western Australia , and she has filled the post of guild librarian for twenty...
Arizona Federation of Weavers and Spinners Guilds sponsors a biennial conference. The first Fibers Through Time event was held in 1998 and has continued to evolve over the last fourteen years. A new feature...
The Las Arañas Spinners and Weavers Guild (New Mexico) will be viewing Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo at its April meeting. The 2011 documentary will be presented by the producer/director herself...
Elizabeth Wood became interested in handspinning after watching a demonstration in an ancient textiles class at Emory University. The demonstrator, Annie, was a member of the Peachtree Handspinners Guild...
The Illinois Prairie Spinners recently made a donation to a nonprofit called the Adopt-a-Native-Elder Program in honor of guild member Jane Plass. Jane is the guild treasurer and program cochair, in addition...
I am part of a thriving fiber community in Indiana. We are lucky to have so many guilds, great yarn and fiber shops, and workshop opportunities. Indiana also has a networking organization called Swift...
The Lorain County Spinners and Weavers Guild is introducing a new event called Membership Skills Sampler Night, also dubbed Speed Dating for Fiberistas. Members of the guild represent a wide range of fiber...
St. Distaff's Day is a spinner's holiday frequently observed in our modern-day guilds. The Scottish author Robert Chambers's Book of Days , published in 1864, lists January 7th as St. Distaff's...
Members of the Peachtree Handspinners Guild have added a new facet to their gatherings for 2012. Several times throughout the year, they hold a Morning Session before the monthly meeting that aims to build...
Queensland Spinners, Weavers and Fibre Artists Guild (Australia) gathered to share woven treasures from around the world....
Two members of the Lorain County Spinners and Weavers Guild and the Medina Spinning and Weaving Guild have been sharing their love of natural dying with their community in Oberlin, Ohio. Betsy Bruce and...
Northwest Pennsylvania Spinners and Weavers Guild worked with Camp Stone, an Orthodox Jewish summer camp, to introduce 680 campers to an array of fiber arts....
The San Juan County Textile Guild (Washington) created a useful page on its website called Tips & Hints . The list of ideas includes creating your own sock stretcher, fixing dropped stitches, and warping...
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