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Historic Johnson Farm 3346 Haywood Road Hendersonville, NC 28791-9721
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February Meeting and Pot Luck
Winter Project Show & Tell
After the business meeting and our regular Show and Tell, we will feature Winter Projects. We'll have time to socialize and enjoy a potluck luncheon.
Join us and catch up with fiber friends after the winter break.
Everything you always wanted to know about flax*
(*But were afraid to ask)
Pam Rumney
Pam Rumney takes us the through the process of how to grow, process, spin, and dye flax/linen.
Pam spent her early life in Milwaukee, WI. Her career includes public school teaching arts. She also spent 6 years at the Dept. of the Interior as a teacher for the Cherokee Nation Jr./Sr. including fiber arts/weaving, metal arts/jewelry making and ceramics. She has also taught for the Dept of Defense for the Army and Air Force including a couple of years in South Korea. After retirement, Pam continued teaching. and served as a House Docent and 18th C. interpreter of processing flax, spinning to linen thread and making 18th C. garments at Londontown Historic Site and Gardens in Edgewater, MD. She currently mentors a small group of students of weaving at Sund City Carolina Lakes, SC, a 55+ community.
Coverlets
Susan Leveille
Weaving Transparencies and Theo Moorman
Cheryl White
Adding images to weaving has always been a fascination for many weavers. Through examples and a Power Point presentation, we will explore transparent weavings, with a shorter survey of Theo Moorman. technique. Both provide a way to place images on cloth.
Cheryl has been weaving for almost 50 years with a strong emphasis on "useful" cloth. Research has provided a link to her weaving ancestors in Norwich, England, and historical drafts are her current area of focus. She markets her woven garments and home accessories through her label "Shepherds Delight" and is a co-owner of Georgia Yarn Company. Cheryl teaches and shares with her guild, and through workshops and classes at her studio.
The Gentle Art of Tatting Lace
Sally Biggers
This program will introduce tatting, giving a brief history, examining the materials used and how they have changed over time. Additionally participants will learn to create the basic stitches as rings and chains. Supplies will be provided and visual media shared.
Sally Biggers began tatting in the mid-1970's learning from books and publications. Charles Kuralt's "On The Road Segment" in the late '70's inspired her and more crafters to take up and preserve this fiber art. The advent of the Internet helped her and others to make both connections and find patterns. She has created many tatted items, been part of tatting groups including coordinating one in Black Mountain for more than 10 years, taught tatting in its various forms, designed original patterns, interpreted patterns both old and new and participated in conferences around North America. She works with an on-line international community of tatters to creatively put tatting into a global perspective.
Eco-printing Botanical Art
Denise Arcuri
The presentation will explain the eco-printing process, a trunk show of fabric samples showing results of different combinations of technique and mordants as well as finished products using eco-printed fabric.
Denise is a life long garment sewer that has expanded into naturally dyeing and printing the fabric she uses.
Annual Retreat "Sit & Share"
& Potluck
Following our regular meeting and "Show & Tell," we will spend time doing fun fiber things and then enjoy our potluck luncheon. Watch this space for more details.
WNCFHG is a 501(c)4 non-profit organization.
PO Box 492 Mountain Home, NC 28758
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