April 16, 2025 | "Yarn Properties Panel: Silk, Cotton, Tencil and Other Sustainable Fibers

Evening Guild Monthly Meeting 

6:30pm, Weaving and Fiber Arts Center, in person 

Talk with experienced fiber artists about silk, cotton, tencel and other sustainable fibers. Panelists, Denise Kovnat, Mary Ann Proia, and Karen Berk, will share their knowledge of you favorite fibers in person.

May 12-14, 2025 | "Transparency Weaving" with Rebecca Smith

Guild 2 1/2 Day Workshop

Mon & Tues 9am-4pm, Wed 1-4pm, First Baptist Church in person 

Transparency weaving combines a sheer ground cloth with inlay. This workshop will appeal to tapestry weavers who want to use their skills in a new way, and to multi-shaft weavers interested in decorative wall hangings and window coverings. The workshop focuses on inlay techniques for creating simple and intricate shapes, as well as techniques for overlapping patterns to create depth. The workshop will conclude with mounting and display suggestions. 

Members workshop registration. Full.

May 14, 2025 | "Seeing the Light: Transparent Effects in Weaving" with Rebecca Smith

Guild Monthly Meeting 

9:30am, First Baptist Church in person and via zoom

The talk will look at the origins of transparency weaving, describing the weave structure and how to distinguish it from similar inlay techniques such as Theo Moorman. Rebecca will talk about simple versus complex transparent imagery and how to create the illusion of depth with overlapping inlay patterns. She will show examples from her own work and that of others, and explain how various effects are attained. Finally, she will talk about other weave structures that give transparent effects.

About Rebecca Smith:
Rebecca’s weaving career began in Massachusetts, but she has lived and worked in her home studio in San Diego since 1996. Following a series of workshops with Archie Brennan in 1999, she primarily wove tapestries for the next twenty years. In 2018 her interest shifted to transparency weaving. Throughout the pandemic, when everything in the world felt so heavy and dark, Rebecca's transparencies gave her an emotional lift because they are light, airy and somehow refreshing. Rebecca’s work has been included in juried exhibitions throughout the U.S. and she also teaches techniques throughout the country. She is a member of California Fibers, a juried group of professional fiber artists, and is also a Board member and active leader of the San Diego Creative Weavers’ Guild.

May 21, 2025 | "Circular Weaving Make and Take" with Sherrie Hertweck and Barb Mauger

Evening Guild Monthly Meeting 

6:30pm, Weaving and Fiber Arts Center, in person

 Curious about circular weaving? In May’s evening guild meeting we will look at circular weaves people are creating. Join us in weaving spiral coasters to get started with circular weaving.

June 11, 2025 | Annual Meeting and Picnic

Guild Monthly Meeting 

10:00am, First Baptist Church in person and via zoom

For an amazingly full picture of the guild, the committee chairs will give their annual reports and members will display their massive talent in the show and tell. Members may also sell items to other members with no fees or commissions. This will be followed by a catered lunch and a chance to visit.

• A show-and-tell item
• Your renewal check
• Your committee report, if you chair a committee