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Please note the date change for this month only because of Thanksgiving. Nov. 18 is the Thursday before Thanksgiving. PROGRAM FOR THIS MONTH: Wendy has graciously volunteered to do an "in-house" program for this month. Here is what she says to get ready: We will be creating Embroidered Felt Heart Sachets at our next guild meeting. Things to bring to the meeting: embroidery needle(s), scissors , felt if you have some ready, embroidery thread if you have a specific color preference Things provided at the meeting: c o l o r f u l felted batts , heart shaped template pattern, embroidery thread, lavender or cloves and cinnamon potpourri to fill the hearts If you are interested in creating your own felt , Wendy will be holding Monday Spinners at her house on November 15 . She has plenty of Corriedale fleece in various colors to donate for felting . Felting and carding can be completed there or you can make a batt and felt it at home. T...

ONE MORE REMINDER: We are at the new location at Thurman Casey Library. See the August 26th post below for all the info. If you haven't been to the meeting room at this library before: as you drive into the parking lot, turn to your left and drive towards the back. There is a separate door to the meeting room towards the back of the building. Also note that the meeting time has been upped to 7:pm rather than the 7:30 that it used to be. DUES - DUES - DUES Just a reminder that dues for the year for Treadles are now due. Our Guild is a member of the Conference of Northern California Handweavers, and our yearly member update is due in October. Part of the advantage of being involved with CNCH is that our meetings are covered by their umbrella insurance plan, as well as getting a break on the registration fee if you participate in the yearly conferences. For this, we give them $5 per year, per member which contributes to the operating expenses of CNCH. If you have not checked out the...

REMEMBER We are at the new location at Thurman Casey Library. See the August 26th post below for all the info. If you haven't been to the meeting room at this library before: as you drive into the parking lot, turn to your left and drive towards the back. There is a separate door to the meeting room towards the back of the building. STASH HAPPY! At the August meeting, all these spinners exchanged a 4 oz stash for someone else's. In a blind pick, we all hopefully came away with ideas of what to do and what to make from our bag of lovely stash. There are no rules: spin it, blend it, felt it. Just have it ready for the big Show & Tell at the January meeting. Some of the lovely fibers that were in the exchange. ONIONS AND INDIGO AND BUGS—OH MY!! [Also, at the August meeting, Nancy brought in this beautiful pillow, and i asked her to write up a little information about it for our blog] This needlepoint pillow was stitched with hand-spun, hand-dyed wool—except for the black sil...

THURMAN CASEY LIBRARY 2661 Oak Grove Rd. Walnut Creek CA 7:30 pm, generally the last Wednesday of the month After many years of meeting at the Winslow Center in Pleasant Hill, we will be changing to the Thurman Casey Library as of the next meeting: September 29, 2010. Pleasant Hill is beginning a construction project which will run for the next 4 to 5 years and eliminates our meeting space for that amount of time. We are fortunate to get the library room, especially because its free. But we are not guaranteed to have it on the last Wednesday of every month. You will need to check this blog to make sure of the correct meeting date.

AUGUST 25TH MEETING Still at the Winslow Center: 7:30 PM Our first formal meeting for the "year" will feature "Dump Your Stash Day" and a "Fiber Exchange". Dump Your Stash You still have a week left to go through your collections of yarn, fiber, equipment, etc., and decide on what you no longer need. Bring it all to this meeting for a sale/swap - which ever you want to do. Fiber Exchange Pick out 4 oz. of a fiber that is already in your stash that you haven't gotten to and will never get to. Conceal it in a paper bag and at the meeting you will exchange that fiber for someone else's which just might spark your creativity. You'll then have a few months to spin [or felt] it up, blend it with another fiber or two, or whatever you come up with. There are no rules except to finish by the January 2011 meeting where we will have a big show & tell. This is a blind exchange - you don't know what you get till you open the bag. Olympia the lamb...

Wednesday's planning meeting was pretty fruitful in ideas for the coming year and getting a few more items ironed out for the Winery event June 5th. First, the Winery: Most of the jobs have been allotted, and you will get a reminder call from Linnie as to which job and what times you are down for. Those who signed up for the morning shift of parking and set-up should be there by 9 AM. Last year people showed up early and parked in spaces that were for the vendors which resulted in problems, etc. Raffle Items. Bring something nice to put in the raffle as a fund raiser for Treadles. Fiber, yarn, something handmade. Its a fun event. T-shirts are in for this year. Mens sizes and colors: L & XL, in black & dusty brown Ladies sizes and colors: M, L, XL & 2X, in black, pacific blue & lime green We are selling them to our guild members for $15 apiece and $20 for the general public. Please don't come up to the cashiers at the winery and announce you only have to pay ...

This coming Wednesday at 7:30 pm. It may not sound exciting, but our next meeting is probably the most important meeting of the whole year to attend! May is usually the month that we decide what is going to happen for the coming year. Our Treadles calendar runs from June through May, so we use this "last" meeting to discuss what we all want and what we can accomplish for the next year. Some times we decide on a theme for the year, sometimes we bounce around program ideas, and often, we have a full agenda by the end of the meeting. If you have anything that you would like to have a program on, or know of an interesting speaker, please come and let it be known. CNCH CONFERENCE 2012 Treadles is part of Area 3 and it is our turn again to put on the conference in 2012. A small planning committee has already been formed with members from Guilds in our area. Much more help and volunteers are needed. One suggestion for our Guild is to do "On-Site Registration" as we did bac...