Membership:
* Open to all who are interested in the fiber arts: weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, etc.
* No skill level is necessary— beginners are encouraged to attend and learn.
Meetings:
* Day: 1st Saturday (September through June - see this year's schedule at left)
* Time: 10:15am to 1pm (the front gate WILL NOT open until 10am when Oatland opens)
* Place: Oatland Island Wildlife Center, Welcome Center - 2nd floor Studio - please sign in first at front desk (directions on their website - see link above)
* A program or demonstration is held at each meeting and a fiber-related workshop is held once a year.
• Newsletter distributed monthly.
• Dues: $25 per year
For more information:
2011-2012
Meeting/Event Schedule
ALL MONTHLY MEETINGS WILL BE AT OATLAND ISLAND WILDLIFE CENTER in our new STUDIO in the WELCOME CENTER at 10:15am unless announced. The gate at Oatland does not open until 10am.
May 5
Coil Basketry by SCAD professor Sally Kroehnke
Bring scissors, tapestry needle with a dull point and some yarn or half inch fabric strips. Sally will have extra tapestry needles, 5/2 cotton yarn and the core material.
June 2
Picnic and Natural Dyeing at Oatland
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PAST PROGRAMS 2011-2012
Sept 10, 2011
Oct 8, 2011
Field trip to SPACE quilt show and SCAD program with MFA Fibers graduate Abigail Kokai
Nov 5, 2011 - 12:30pm* special time
Wool Quilt Project by JoAnn Moss - contact her for kit
Sat - Nov 12, 2011 - 10am to 4pm Cane Grinding Festival - Homestead area Oatland
Dec 3, 2011
Holiday luncheon & ornaments and felt projects, etc. by Mary Mistak at Oatland - bring felted mats from JoAnn Moss' Nov. workshop, a dish to share and a gift to exchange, if you'd like to participate in the exchange.
Jan 7, 2012
Roc day and spinning and weaving/knitting demos
Nel Adams will have a beginning knitting project. Please bring 100-120 yards of wool, size #11 needles, and a tapestry needle.
January & February 2012
Taste of... the Fiber Arts workshops at Oatland
Feb 4, 2012
Mary Kelly will presenting her newest book, Goddess Women Cloth a Worldwide Tradition of Making and Using Ritual Textiles
March 3, 2012
Dorset Buttons by Mary Bass and plans for Sheep to Shawl and Fiber Show at Oatland
March 24 - 10am-4pm
Sheep to Shawl Festival at Oatland
April 7
Presentation - NFlorida Rug Hooking Guild 10:30-12:15
Followed by...Taste of Rug Hooking Workshop - 1- 4pm
2011-2012
GUILD OFFICERS
President- Suzy Hokanson
Vice President - Harris Lentini
Secretary - Mary Mistak
Treasurer - Gerry Klock
Members-at-Large - Nel Adams & Bonnie Carter
Newsletter Editor - Anastasia Macdonald