Category Archives: Guild Meeting

April 6th Guild Meeting – Stitchery

April 6, 2024

9:30 meet and greet social time

10 AM meeting at our new location: Goleta Valley Community Center, Classroom 7, 5679 Hollister Avenue, Goleta. Big parking lot behind the center, small parking lots in front. Driveway on the left side of the building goes to rear lot.

We’ll have our usual Show and Tell time plus an Un-Raffle, so bring anything you’d like to show off or give away, plus a little business and announcements, and then the Program!

Program: Please plan to join us at for an exciting hands-on collaborative project. This will be our kick-off to a new year of programing. We will supply a sheet of paper to each member who is present. Each person should bring an embroidery needle and small scissors. In addition, bring a personal kit or bring enough to share/trade with others – your kit can include but is not limited to the following: Embroidery thread or fine yarn, beads, buttons, sequins or any small items from your studio’s treasure trove, drawing or mark making implements. Come prepared to create, to play and to collaborate and through this opportunity, let’s make new friends, deepen existing friendships and get to know members of the guild you may not yet know.

March Guild Meeting – It’s a Fiber Frenzy -March 9th

March 9, 2024 FIBER FRENZY

Time: 9 am to 10 am EARLY BIRD ENTRY

10 am to 2 pm OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, no early entry fee

Location: St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
4575 Auhay Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93110

This bi-annual sale is a fundraiser to benefit our Guild’s Scholarship Fund.
What’s for sale…
Yarn, fiber, fabric, books, tools and equipment for fiber related arts such as spinning, weaving, knitting, crochet, quilting, needlework, and basketry. In addition, we have embroidery and needlepoint kits, sewing trims and accessories.

Frenzy Schedule
MARCH 8th Friday intake & setup at St. Andrews 9 am – 6 pm (Members)
MARCH 9th Saturday Guild members & early bird pre-sale 9 am – 10 am
Open to the Public 10 am – 2 pm

NEW this time: Early bird entry for non-members (Public) is $10 paid at the door. Members are free entry as is all entry after 10am.

February Guild Meeting – Saturday the 3rd, 2024

Weaving Data (and Transforming Rigid Heddle Looms into a Multi-Shaft Looms in the Process) 

Lisa Jevbratt will talk about her data driven fiber arts projects. She will demonstrate and discuss the innovative heddle system for rigid heddle looms she has been working on for several years, and the weaving software she is writing to accompany the special heddles. With this easy to use system the rigid heddle loom is transformed into to a multi-shaft loom, capable of weaving twills, overshot, crackle weave and most other four-shaft weaving patterns. The modifications came to her as she was developing simple ways to visualize mitochondrial DNA using weaving, and the software will allow the user to turn data into weaving patterns. 

(Audience members are encouraged to bring laptops to try the weaving software.) 

Please note that this meeting will be held at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church, 820 North Fairview, Goleta, Ca 93117. The meeting will start with a social time at 9:30, short business meeting to follow and the presentation starts at 10am! See you there!

January 6th 2024 Guild Meeting

Lift the SKY with Julie Weaverling

Julie will present the history and development of the global art project, Lift the Sky. She will also share an artistic range of completed pieces as well as how members can contribute to the project. 

Julie is a Southern California artist working in painting, book arts, fiber art and conceptual art. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
With a unique artistic voice and evocative exploration of our shared human
workings, Julie strives to uplift by creating artworks to illicit feeling and thought. Her desire is to create beauty in her work without it having to be pretty.

This will be an in person meeting at the Multipurpose Room, Church of Christ, 677 N. Turnpike Road. 9:30 meet and greet 10:00 call to order 10:15 presentation.

June 3rd Guild Meeting – in person!

Myco-color: Mushrooms for Dye and Pigment

Anna Bower and Hallie Silva

Members Anna and Hallie report back from Julie Beeler’s workshop: Mushroom Color Atlas. Their presentation will include South Coast area mushroom identification for dye, methods for successful mushroom dye baths, and using exhaust dye baths for pigment making.  

Anna Bio:

Anna is the Assistant Curator of Living Collections at Ganna Walska Lotusland. She enjoys propagating and harvesting dye plants, knitting, and making plant-based pigments for paint. 

Hallie Bio:

Hallie teaches art at La Colina Junior High. She loves the experimental process of dyeing with natural materials. She forages for mushrooms and lichens in the Santa Barbara foothills and backcountry to create dyes for fabric and yarn. 

This will be our second IN-PERSON meeting at the multipurpose room at the Church of Christ, 677 N. Turnpike Rd, Santa Barbara 93111. Please join us at 9:30 for socializing, short business announcements at 10, followed by the program.

May 6th Guild Meeting w/ John Novak

Our in-person speaker is John Novak, co-proprietor of the Village Spinning and Weaving Shop formerly in Solvang and now an on-line only presence (www.villagespinweave.com).

The title of his talk is “A Conversation with John”.

Please join us as we resume in-person meetings at our new meeting space: the multipurpose room at the Church of Christ at 677 N. Turnpike, Goleta.

We return to our former format, a meet and greet social period from 9:30 to 10:00, call to order at 10:00, and  the speaker program from 10:15 to 11:30. 

April 1st Spring Guild Meeting in person! 10-12 am

This will be a members only meeting, in person! Directions to the site with parking suggestions will be sent to all members via email.

We’ll have  the presentation of the slate of nominees for the next Board from the Nominating Committee and the election, then move on to brief  announcements—mentioning the next programs, new meeting site, sign up for future refreshments, reminders of dye day and exhibit  (assistants needed etc.,)  then the survey. While the survey is being filled out, if time permits, we can have a brief show and tell.  Maybe then, a refreshments break and suggestion of seating by interests.

March 4th Guild Meeting – Vicki Assegued – Fiber Artist

 

Taking Our Fiber Art Beyond Where We’ve Been

 “My presentation will be focused on thinking, going and working beyond what we usually do with our fiber art work, to expand our creative ideas and outcomes. This includes exploring and discovering new ways to work with fibers, which create exciting new processes and outcomes. I’ll share photos of my work to demonstrate how I apply these practices during my creative process.”

Vicki Assegued, M.A. is an innovative fiber artist, continually experimenting with, and discovering new techniques to bring out a wide range of effects and structures for both 2D and 3D art pieces. Vicki greatly enjoys working with the vast variety and possibilities that fabrics and fibers offer. She loves to share her techniques with her students and support them to create their own unique and stunning fiber art. She teaches privately and through various art schools and exhibits/sells her art at various galleries and shows. www.vickiart.com

Note: this will be a ZOOM presentation, 10am to 11:30, and here is the link:

Topic: FiberArtsGuild Monthly Meeting with Presenter Vicki Assegued
Time: Mar 4, 2023 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88388752340

November 5th Guild Mtg – Lydia Tjioe Hall – One a Day – How Life Informs Process

“Sometimes life gives us constraints and it is our job as makers to embrace and find creative solutions to keep our practice going. This talk will address how time and space limitations have changed my practice, working in multiples, and cover a wide range of works I have done over the years using both metal and fiber. I will also share how my small collective, SPOOL, explores and examines our individual creative journeys as we collaborate on our upcoming show at gallery 203.  I am interested in creating meaning and narrative through form and materials with my sculpture. The materials I use are an intrinsic part of my art making process. By exploring resonances between a single line and densely packed wire, my pieces become metaphors evoking themes of time, change, balance, tension, breath, and decay. These sculptural objects are created through repetitive and time intensive processes such as weaving, netting, and looping. The resulting forms are contemplative sounding boards that echo my impressions and experiences.” – www.Lydiatjioe.com

This will be a ZOOM presentation at 10 am, Saturday, November 5th. The link will be sent to members via email and posted here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789322885.