February 19, 2025 | "Fiberworks verses Reality" with Susan Gilday

Evening Guild Monthly Meeting 

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

Weaving software is a useful tool when designing a project, but what you see on screen isn’t always what you get. This presentation will point out both the advantages of using a program like Fiberworks to design and the limitations of relying on a computer drawdown. It will also demonstrate the happy accidents that result from taking the time to sample.

March 12, 2025 | "Just the Ticket" Auction

Guild Monthly Meeting 

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

One weaver's unwanted stash is another fiber artist's treasure. Donated yarns, materials, books, equipment, gadgets, and so many more fiber surprises results in the guild's most successful fundraisers of the year, and a great bargain for those who support the guild by buying tickets to get that surprise treasure.

March 19, 2025 | "Waulking: Fabric Finishing the Scottish Way" with Miranda Howard

Evening Guild Monthly Meeting 

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

Finish wool cloth fresh off the loom using traditional Scottish method of rhythmically thumping and squeezing the fabric. A group activity, the waulking technique softens, tightens, and evens out the weave making the cloth ready for use. Wear old clothes, apron, or smock for this hands-on activity using soap and water. Ability to sing is optional.

Before and After 

April 9, 2025 | "From Then to Now" with Mary McMahon

Guild Monthly Meeting 

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

“Then” is 1969. It’s an important year in the world, and also in the life of Mary McMahon, an art  teacher in the Churchville-Chili School District. She is 25 years of age, and that year will be pretty important for her too, the start of two big life adventures that continue to this day. Let’s look at the pictorial record and see what transpired in those more than 50 years…a look at a life as a fiber artist.

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. Details TBA.

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.

Coming Up: 2024-2025 Programs