Fiber Enthusiasts in the High Country of North Carolina
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Our March meeting will be a field trip to the OMWG Spring Fiber Festival at Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton. We will meet this Saturday (March 16th) at the Western Watauga Community Center at 9 am to carpool over. Should be fun! Looking forward to seeing you there.
1651 W. Elk Avenue
Elizabethton, TN 37643
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Our next guild meeting is this Saturday at 10:30 at the Western
Watauga Community Center starting at 10:30. This is a show and tell
meeting so bring all the wonderful projects you have been working on
hopefully to show at the Jones House and the Blue Ridge Fiber Fest in
June.
Our Agenda is as follows:
Discuss and vote on going to the Spring Fiber Fare at Sycamore Shoals
in lieu of our March meeting like we did last year since they are held
at the same time: This event is hosted by the Overmountain Weavers and
is held March 16th from 10 – 4. Here is their website:
http://www.omwg.net
Discuss show at Jones House and the Blue Ridge Fiber Fest
Discuss and vote on having all our guild meetings on the 3rd Sat. of
each month rather than moving to Thursday evenings in the summer months
Susan Sharpe may do a demo on a simple way to remove rust from weaving
harnesses using vinegar
Show and tell
Bring snacks to share if you would like. We do enjoy them.
See you Sat.
WET FELTED VESSELS “FROM VALENTINES to VASES”
Indulge your creativity through fibers! In the workshop, you will create one or more 3-dimensional wool vessels. Embellishments can be added such as silk hankies, silk roving, wool fibers and yarns ….to decorate your one of a kind vessel.
Wool fibers will be layered around a foam resist, wet with slightly soapy water, then rubbed and rolled to tangle and bind the fibers together to form a non-woven fabric, which is felt. To shrink and full your forms, you will squeeze and possibly throw them, making them more dense and thick.
Felt making is a very physical activity. Most of the work will be done while standing. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing that you don’t mind getting wet. Each person should bring 2 or 3 old bath towels.
For beginners & all levels.
Instructor: Jane Campbell
Enrollment: 16
Date: Saturday, February 2 (1 day)
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Cost: $80 (Materials included in course fee.)
Location: Edwin Duncan Hall, TBA
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19th, from 10:30-1:00. 
Susan Payne has sent info about showing in Caldwell County for 2020. The deadline for that is also the end of this month. Here is the link to this info for you to take a look at:We have scheduled this Sat.’s meeting at the Watauga Library downtown to see how it appeals to members having a more centralized location especially during the winter months. It would be great if this would increase our attendance and membership. Please let your fellow fiber enthusiasts know about this and ask them to join us as a guest if they would like to. We would love to have new people join our Fiber Swap in Dec.!
Also note that this is a Football Game Day but shouldn’t be too much of an issue for us since we are meeting in the morning. We will probably need to get parking passes from the library because of this though. There is a kitchen so we can have refreshments so bring whatever you would like to share.
Also, if you live in the Cove Creek area and would like to carpool to the library, contact Susan Sharpe!
Guild meeting:
Sat. Nov. 17th
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Watauga County Library
140 Queen St, Boone, NC
Agenda:
Show and Tell
Discuss changing our meetings to Sat. year-round
Plan show at the Jones house for June 2019
Discuss future meetings at the library. For example we could meet at the library during the winter months or we could alternate show and tell meetings at the library with having program meetings at the Community Center.
View some photos we took of the weaving class visiting the Watauga County Arts Council Fiber Exhibit last Friday. I will post other pictures of the exhibit as well as I receive them. 
This is just a reminder of our guild meeting tomorrow night. Susan and Rhonda will do a demo on clasped weft weaving plus we will be discussing membership renewals, elections and the yART sale. Also we will be discussing program planning for 2019.