Guild News
July 15th Meeting
MEETING DATE CHANGE!!!
We will be meeting the THIRD THURSDAY (July 15th) at Loose Park due to a scheduling conflict. - Loose Park, Rose Room. 5200 Wornall Rd. KC, MO. (816) 888-8476
Rose Room, Loose Park 5200 Wornall Rd., KC MO
10:00 AM – Regular Meeting
10:30 AM – Show & Tell / Treats
11:30 AM – Program
Program News
July - The July program will feature Guild member, Becky Stevens. Becky will be telling us all about the Navaho weaving class she recently took at Hillcrest Studio. Her program will give us the highlights of her experiences as a student at Hillcreek Fiber Studio.
August - Pricing and Selling Handmade Goods. For the weavers' who create their art to sell, pricing our goods is a real dilemma. Get your questions ready for Susan Hoisington.
September - Weaving in Beauty the Navajo Way by Carol Leigh. Her program will include many examples of Navajo weavings from the reservations, a demonstration of the new loom Hillcreek Fiber Studio has designed, a preview of her new book, and lots more. Carol Leigh will be bringing many items from the studio for your shopping pleasure.
October - Guild Officers Election “Dimensional Manipulation of Felted Surfaces”
November - Shave Cream Dying and other Crazy Little Tips
December Holiday Party, location TBD
If you have an idea or a contact for a future program, see Vonda Sager. She will keep your ideas on file for future planning.
Check It Out - photos from last month's meeting!
Check here for photos from last month's meeting.
Treats
Jean Hartley and Jan Gallagher will bring refreshments.
Cell Phone Request
Please show respect for your fellow guild members and those presenting programs by turning off or setting your cell phones to vibrate during meetings. Thank you.
Hospitality Donations Welcome
Lenore Hammer (Hospitality chair) suggests that if you have spare cocktail napkins, paper plates, hot drink cups, plastic spoons or forks, she would gladly receive them to use at guild meetings to save future budget expenses. Coffee drinkers should observe that Sandy Martin has started bringing ‘real’ coffee in a server to meetings so you don’t have to drink instant—unless you prefer it.
Holiday Gift Exchange
This year’s gift is to be ‘anything that is a bag’, any size, plain or sparkly, your choice. Our Community Service Project will be for Operation Breakthrough. Items are due in November, for early winter use.
Creative Hand Update
At the Fiber Guild meeting on Wednesday, June 9, we had a lively and healthy discussion about the 4 booths in the Creative Hand show. The discussion centered on the booths and the footprint they occupy compared to the floor space occupied by the various fiber departments. The majority present voted to keep the same format as last year: 4 Booth Artists pay a $50 app. fee, set up their own display and man their booth during show hours. All other Artists’ products are displayed in departments and work shifts during the show. The set-up committee chaired by Susan Hoisington and Judy Santner will work with the board to provide a set-up plan with some major revisions. The discussion at the meeting revealed many ideas about how to use the existing floor space to maximize product display. The Fashion Show and Demo areas will be reduced significantly to allow more fiber department product display. Thanks to all artists who came to the meeting and participated in the discussion. Our show will grow in a positive direction because of your input. Application forms for the Creative Hand show are available on the Fiber Guild website www.kansascityfiberguild.org (deadline is July 31). Please contact me if you have any questions. Sandy Cahill,
cahill5505@sbcglobal.net.
816.505.5507 home studio, 913.709.1923 cell.
Ruby Leslie Workshop
March 17, 18, & 19 2011
We have a maximum class size of 20 participants. If you missed signing up for the workshop at the last meeting and want to be on the list give me a call or sign-up at next meeting. There have been requests from Guild members to make early payment or installment payments for the March 2011 Workshop. Download the form or members can just pick-up a form at the next meeting. Betty Haeberle (6/10)
Click here for a downloadable form. Betty H. (05/10)
Guild Demonstrators Wanted
I am a member of a committee working on the Johnson County Fair located in Gardner Kansas. Our Fair theme this year is "Wild 'N Wooly". We are currently planning events and demonstrations for our fair that runs Aug.2 through Aug, 7th. I am looking for demonstrators (spinning) or anything else related to wool. The fair has the most traffic in the evenings and on Saturday. Denise King, 913-593-1009
Buy Sell or Trade
Looking for weaving equipment items for sale or trade?
Go to the Classified Ads.
Newsletter Submissions
Newsletter items are due by the 20th of each month. Send an email to the Newsletter Editor. Copies of current newsletters are available at the meeting. If you do not receive your newsletter by Friday the week before, please contact the Editor and she will get a copy to you ASAP.
If you are the contact person for a fiber group and want to keep current with KCWG events, please e-mail the Newsletter Editor.
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July Calendar
July 14th |
7 PM - Fiber Guild Meeting
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Old Mission United Methodist Church
5519 State Park Road in Fairway, KS
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July 15th |
10 am - Weavers Guild Meeting
Rose Room, Loose Park 5200 Wornall Rd., KC MO |
Other News
Sales Opportunity
The Leavenworth County Artists' Association is tentatively planning a Fiber Festival to be held on Saturday, August 21, at the Heritage Center, 109 Delaware Street, in downtown Leavenworth. It will run from 8-4 pm (set up -- from 7 am Sat. or from 2-4 pm Fri. afternoon). We are looking for vendors. The Heritage Center is roomy and is air-conditioned and they have a credit card machine to assist vendors with sales. I think that the booth fee will be $70 to cover the facility rental and the advertising costs. We need at least 20 vendors to make it break even. We already have about seven vendors who have expressed an interest. Thanks. Matt Nowak, w: 913-684-8979, h: 913-727-3871, matthewhelen@aol.com (06/10)
Kansas City Felting Guild
Our next meeting will be August 28th at the home of Donna Putman, no July meeting.
August's technique - Use words or symbols on felt conveying a message. This can be done by any means necessary - with wet felt, needle felting, or embellishing.
Donations for Gulf Oil Spill
Matter of Trust, a non-profit group, is collecting natural fibers to help make booms and mats in response to the Gulf oil spill. They take human hair, wool, etc, and make large booms that trap the oil, as well as mats to use in cleaning oil-soaked wildlife. People can get further information at:
http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html
Wellsville
Celebrating its 140th anniversary this year on Sat. Sept 25th. We will be creating an 1800's frontier town. We are looking for demonstrators/sellers who do blacksmithing, woodcarving, wool spinners, rug makers, bobbin lace, tatting, wheat weaving, basket weaving, caning, broom making, fiddle & banjo makers, apple butter, butter, & cheese making, quilters, flower & herb drying, doll making, antique dolls, frontier men, etc. they may contact me by email (fsjubilee@hotmail.com)or by phone 785-883-4113, Lil Sanders. (05/10)
Meeting 2nd Thursday Each Month
Meetings are held at the *Rose Room, Loose Park 5200 Wornall Rd., KC MO
Go to the Map and directions
9:30 AM |
Coffee Time/Set Up |
10:00 AM |
Business Meeting |
10:30 AM |
Show & Tell |
11:00 AM |
Treat Break/Social Time |
11:30 AM |
Program (1 hour) |
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