Blue Ridge Fiber Guild

Our May meeting program was a mini felting workshop taught by the talented Jane Campbell. We had a blast and here are some examples of our work.

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If you haven’t seen our exhibit at Art Space, 377 Shadowline Drive in Boone, here’s your chance. Our Opening/ Closing reception will be this Friday, April 21 at 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Wine will be provided by the Watauga Arts Council and a wonderful music performance by our Banjo Buddies.

The BRFG will provide pick up finger food. Please mark your calendars, make or bring your favorite reception nibbles and come! ArtSpace will be open at 4:45 pm if you need set up time for your snacks. If the parking lot is full, we have permission to park at the lot next door or across the street.

Looking forward to seeing everyone for our first BRFG Exhibit Opening of the year.

Important *TAKE DOWN: Meet Rhonda at 10:00 am on Tuesday, May 2 at 10:00 am to claim your work. Save your pieces or other fiber works for our Jones House Exhibit the month of June.

We are moving our meeting from the 18th to the 25th as some of our members that were participating in our Marketing Program were unable to attend this week. I will be sending out a Zoom link next week for the meeting.

Our November meeting was a great success and we enjoyed seeing everyone’s Holiday Show and Tell. Pictures are show here. The minutes for the meeting are here.

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We hope that you plan to attend the BRFG meeting, Saturday, November 19th, 10:30, at the Art Space, 377 Shadowline Drive, Boone. We will have a business meeting followed by a time for show and share of your handmade holiday items. This will be our program and you are encouraged to participate. You can share items from any favorite holiday. You’re also invited to bring a snack for all to share.

If you are not able to join us in person, you can join us via Zoom.

Just are reminder for our meeting this Saturday at the Watauga Art Space at 10:30. This will be a big business meeting plus Vicki is doing a program on color work.

Join us next Saturday, the 17th, 10:30 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (downtown Boone) for our September guild meeting. We will be saving plenty of time for sharing your creations and look forward to seeing what you’ve been up to recently. And bring a snack to share!

The program will be sharing the process I used making hand sewn ornaments featuring the 12 Days of Christmas by Larissa Holland. You can find her at mmmcrafts.blogspot.com, Bring your good “fabric” scissors if you’d like to make a pear. All other materials will be furnished.

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to visit Edgewood Cottage last week to view our 11 members who exhibited. It was a stunning show! Thank you to Susan Payne and Susan Sharpe and to everyone else who has worked to make this show a success. We are grateful for your diverse talents.

See you soon,
Beth

PS. There is an ASU football game at 3:30. We
will be finished in plenty of time to get out
of the way!

This is from me (Rhonda)
I was at the Cancer Center yesterday and asked about needs for hats and they said to bring them so you can drop them by the center yourself or get them to me to take. They didn’t have specific requirements but you would need to use a soft washable yarn. I would suspect that hats for men are especially needed.

For Project Linus, I dropped our donations off to the person in Hendersonville when I went to the Anything Fiber Sale so I will take the box for that back to the Art Center when I go for banjo on Thursday so you can start filling it up again.

Thanks,
Rhonda

BRFG members joined Mona Anderson who led an Eco Pounding workshop at WWCC following our August meeting. Process was satisfying and results were pleasing! A great time pounding was had by all!

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