May 2011 Minutes

May Meeting Minutes 2011

May’s meeting was held at Doris Woloszyn’s home in the foothills of Sierra Valley California. Thank you, Doris, for the hospitality. The studio provided a cozy atmosphere for our meeting. Connie Vann, our VP, headed up our meeting as Virva was not able to attend. Connie did a great job! The meeting was short, and that gave us time to visit with the ewes and their lambs.
Introductions were made, and the minutes from April were approved.
Treasurer Report: We now have 37 paid members, earned $19 from the last raffle drawing leaving the guild with a balance of $2345.50 on account.
Old Business: The donated loom was repaired. It and the shuttles, bobbin winders, etc. will be put up for silent auction at our retreat in September.
There was discussion regarding the cowboy poetry event to be held in August. Those demonstrating for the event were confirmed.
The date for the upcoming Celtic Fair was confirmed. It is October 1st and 2nd at Bartley Ranch in Reno.
New Business: June learning tree will be a demonstration on Entrelac knitting with Barbara Hunt. Thank you Barbara! A catalog was passed around regarding a weaving and basket works event to be held in Idlewild California July 4th through the 8th , 11th through the 15th 2011. Cost is $655 for the workshop.
Once again spinners are needed for the judges choice portion of an upcoming alpaca show being held in October in Grass Valley California. Spinners interested will be provided with samples of alpaca fleece along with information regarding the criteria involved in the judging of the fleece samples. Score cards are also provided. You as the spinner are asked to spin a sample of each fleece and judge it according to the instructions given. Though it can be time consuming, it is a great opportunity to become more familiar with spinning alpaca. Please contact Mim Bullard if you are interested in being a judge. If you want to participate, please plan on devoting a few weeks during August and September to this commitment. As an incentive, the alpaca organization does compensate for each sample judged.
The learning tree portion of our meeting consisted of an impromptu lesson on Navaho plying on a hand spindle by Sharie Jones. She learned an ingenious method of spinning a single then following it with the plying immediately after. This resulted in a sort of instant gratification as once you were finished with spinning your fiber, it could be removed from the spindle already plied! What was really impressive, was the fact that Sharie has only been spinning for a relatively short time, and here she is showing what she has learned. Mim also gave a demonstration of Navaho plying on a wheel. She made it look so smooth and effortless. Thanks to both ladies for sharing their knowledge.
Show And Tell: Sharie - Kool Aid dyed Entrelac hat, ‘helix’ scarf died with food color and cabbage. Mim - Shetland fleece samples, short story regarding photos taken for Edible Reno Tahoe, a local magazine about restaurants and sustainable food sources in our area, done while she was having her annual sheep shearing at her ranch.
Meeting was adjourned at 11:45 pm.
Attendance: Toni Strassburg, Marilynn Clarke, Connie Vann, Janet Schueller, Vicki Johnson, Janet Drozd, Nancy Grundy, Carol Lopez, Eileen Jacobs, Doris Woloszyn, Peggy Horan, Mark Lindsay, Nicole Kelly, Jo Van Winkle, Mim Bullard, Sharie Jones, Linda Lindsay.

Our next meeting is June 11th at Sky Peak Ranch

Sky Peak Ranch: Sky Peaks in Northwest Reno.  A map is available here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1520+SKY+VALLEY+DRIVE+RENO+NV+89523+(775)747-9555  You can access it from 4th street a little west of Truckee River Nursery or from a road you can enter on McCarran going south turning to the right like you wanted to reach Home Depot. At that stop sign, turn right, keep going for awhile through a light and go another few blocks and Sky Peaks is on the left. The community room is on the back or NW side.

April 2011 Minutes

April 2011 Meeting Minutes

The meeting was called to order at 11:00 am at Bartley Ranch. Introductions followed.
Minutes from the last meeting are up. Please check for any errors.
Treasurer Report: Five dues were paid for a total of $125, last month’s raffle netted $37, we paid out $300 as a donation to Nevada State Fair, paid $20 to Pat Ecdall for repair to donated loom, leaving the guild with $2301.50 in account. There are currently 36 paid members.
Also, we are in need of supplies for the spindle kits. Doris is going to work on getting our supplies when members of the local woodworking club order theirs, so that  we may get a discount due to ordering in bulk.
Library: Heidi brought books from our guild library. They were made available for checkout prior to the end of the meeting. She also shared four books that she felt we as a guild needed in our library. She stated that with exception to a couple of new purchases, most of our books are fairly old, and felt we would benefit by adding some books on new techniques and ideas. It was decided that the guild would spend $100 yearly on new books for our library. It was voted and approved.
Old business: There is some donated supplies, tapestry loom, and bobbin winders that will be put up for silent auction at our annual fall retreat.  Research is being made in order to decide what the starting bids should be on each item. Donated items are being stored at Doris’ home.
We will be attending the Cowboy Poetry event at Bartley Ranch in August. The marketplace will be open from about 10 am to 6 pm on Saturday August 20th. Please let Virva know if you can donate some time that day to participate in demos, or just to sit and spin. Upcoming events also include: Farm City Days April 14, 15th Fuji Park in Carson City; Spindle retreat in Dobbins Ca. May 19 - 22; Celtic Fair September 24, 25 at Bartley Ranch Park.
There was a brochure passed around regarding a location in Soda Springs California, that might be used as a location for a retreat or other guild function.
Raffle: Barbara needs more items for the raffle. If you have anything you think would make a nice raffle prize, please let Barbara know. All proceeds from the raffle go to the guild.
New Business: It was decided that in lieu of a hospitality person, those interested may take a place setting from the box, and bring it to each meeting that involves a pot luck lunch. Black Sheep Gathering is coming up June 23 - 26th. Is anyone going to go? May meeting will be held at Doris’ home. It will be brown bag. Plan on bringing a chair, hat, and sunscreen. See the blog for directions. Learning tree - please check with Mim and take a look at the list to see if there is anything you want to see addressed.  Discussion followed regarding what some of the members would like to see for learning tree. Nevada Museum of Art is holding a beginning tapestry weaving workshop. The fee is $75 for materials, or $10 if you provide your own loom. Workshop dates are May 14 -15th and May 24 - 25th. Please check their website for more information.

Show And Tell: Sharon - dual purpose scarf, Doris - 2 week old lamb, Sherrie - felted slippers, Heidi - puppies, birthday book regarding variegated yarn, Janet - mittens with Buddy on them, Sue - lace tatted butterflies, bulletin regarding tatted butterfly info, Jo - wolf fur bracelet, Connie - Black sweater from alpaca challenge fiber mixed with sheep wool from Doris and Wayne, also blanket with multicolored hand painted yarn, Mim - fiber, Barbara - shawl.
Attendance: Toni Strassburg, Janet Drozd, Eileen Jacobs, Jo Van Winkle, Gail Hock, Lois Leeming, Carrie Austin, Connie Vann, Nancy Grundy, (who we hope is recovering from her surgery!) Sue Gottsacker, Mim Bullard, Barbara Greene, Virva Porcelli, Sharon Campbell, Barbara Hunt, Libby Hejny, Doris Woloszyn, Marilynn Clarke, Sharrie Jones, Heidi Ericson

Doris Woloszyn’s in Chilcoot, California.  Hwy. 395 north from Reno, past Bordertown into California.  Exit 395 at Hwy. 70 to Portola/Quincy, turn left on Hwy. 70 going west for about 2 miles.  Turn left on Scott Road after crossing Long Valley Creek, before going up Beckwourth Pass.  Scott Road is dirt, and after 4/10 mile to the railroad crossing you’ll pass 2 homes(stay left on main road, not right up the hill), the railroad tracks and creek will be on your left.

Below is directions for Connie's poncho. I'll work on getting a picture to post with this pattern.

CONNIE'S DISHRAG PONCHO

Using worsted weight yarn and size 4 or 5 needles, cast-on 2 sts.  Knit across.  At beg of e/row, cast-on 1 st and knit across.  Do this until you have 20 sts on the needle.  To make a striped block, tie-on a new color of yarn, and cut-off the old color.  For next row, do NOT make an increase at beginning of row.  Knit across.  For remaining rows, bind-off 1 st at beg of each row until you have 2 sts left of the needle.  Bind-off last 2 sts, and tuck in tails.  Throw finished block into a bag for safekeeping.  To make a solid block, repeat above pattern, omitting the second color tie-on at the halfway point. 

To construct poncho, you will need 4 completed blocks, alternating stripes with solids, start sewing them into a triangular structure.  The first row will contain 1 block, the second row will contain 3 blocks, the third row will contain 5 blocks, etc., etc.  Keep the stripes going in the same direction throughout the piece, if possible.  Make 2 large triangles the same size.  Lay one triangle down on the floor, and lie down on the triangle, centering your body.  Lay arms out flat at a 45 degree angle from the body to see how much "wingspan" your poncho will require.  Mine reaches from the wrist bone to the collar bone on each side.  Next, construct 2 strips of blocks the same size and sew each strip to both the front and back triangles, joining the entire piece together, and leaving a neck opening that is 5 blocks long and 1 block wide at center-top of poncho. 

Knit 4 triangles in the same manner as you would knit one-half a striped block, and sew each triangle into the 4 inner corners of the neck opening, thus creating a more streamlined neckline.  Pick up 4 sts and leave 1 st behind around entire neckline.  If you don't end up with an even number, make one st.  Make a k2, p2 ribbing at neckline that extends for 8" and bind-off.  You may stripe the ribbing with colors from the poncho. 

To finish, tuck in all tails.  Then, slip-stitch an edging around the entire outer edge of poncho using silk ribbon.  Pick out a ribbon that has colors from your poncho.  The edging will give the poncho more stability and a more finished look.

Tip:  Use kid mohair for stitching blocks together. 
Tip:  Either do a color scheme, or your own free-form design.  Number each block the way you want it to appear when you lay it out.
       Decide how you want your rows to look before you sew the blocks together. 

Connie Vann

May 14, 2011 Meeting

April 2011 Meeting Minutes

The meeting was called to order at 11:00 am at Bartley Ranch. Introductions followed.

Minutes from the last meeting are up. Please check for any errors.

Treasurer Report: Five dues were paid for a total of $125, last month’s raffle netted $37, we paid out $300 as a donation to Nevada State Fair, paid $20 to Pat Ecdall for repair to donated loom, leaving the guild with $2301.50 in account. There are currently 36 paid members.

Also, we are in need of supplies for the spindle kits. Doris is going to work on getting our supplies when members of the local woodworking club order theirs, so that  we may get a discount due to ordering in bulk.

Library: Heidi brought books from our guild library. They were made available for checkout prior to the end of the meeting. She also shared four books that she felt we as a guild needed in our library. She stated that with exception to a couple of new purchases, most of our books are fairly old, and felt we would benefit by adding some books on new techniques and ideas. It was decided that the guild would spend $100 yearly on new books for our library. It was voted and approved.

Old business: There is some donated supplies, tapestry loom, and bobbin winders that will be put up for silent auction at our annual fall retreat.  Research is being made in order to decide what the starting bids should be on each item. Donated items are being stored at Doris’ home.

We will be attending the Cowboy Poetry event at Bartley Ranch in August. The marketplace will be open from about 10 am to 6 pm on Saturday August 20^th. Please let Virva know if you can donate some time that day to participate in demos, or just to sit and spin. Upcoming events also include: Farm City Days April 14, 15^th Fuji Park in Carson City; Spindle retreat in Dobbins Ca. May 19 - 22; Celtic Fair September 24, 25 at Bartley Ranch Park.

There was a brochure passed around regarding a location in Soda Springs California, that might be used as a location for a retreat or other guild function.

Raffle: Barbara needs more items for the raffle. If you have anything you think would make a nice raffle prize, please let Barbara know. All proceeds from the raffle go to the guild.

New Business: It was decided that in lieu of a hospitality person, those interested may take a place setting from the box, and bring it to each meeting that involves a pot luck lunch. Black Sheep Gathering is coming up June 23 - 26^th. Is anyone going to go? May meeting will be held at Doris’ home. It will be brown bag. Plan on bringing a chair, hat, and sunscreen. See the blog for directions. Learning tree - please check with Mim and take a look at the list to see if there is anything you want to see addressed.  Discussion followed regarding what some of the members would like to see for learning tree. Nevada Museum of Art is holding a beginning tapestry weaving workshop. The fee is $75 for materials, or $10 if you provide your own loom. Workshop dates are May 14 -15^th and May 24 - 25^th. Please check their website for more information.

Show And Tell: Sharon - dual purpose scarf, Doris - 2 week old lamb, Sherrie - felted slippers, Heidi - puppies, birthday book regarding variegated yarn, Janet - mittens with Buddy on them, Sue - lace tatted butterflies, bulletin regarding tatted butterfly info, Jo - wolf fur bracelet, Connie - Black sweater from alpaca challenge fiber mixed with sheep wool from Doris and Wayne, also blanket with multicolored hand painted yarn, Mim - fiber, Barbara - shawl.

Attendance: Toni Strassburg, Janet Drozd, Eileen Jacobs, Jo Van Winkle, Gail Hock, Lois Leeming, Carrie Austin, Connie Vann, Nancy Grundy, (who we hope is recovering from her surgery!) Sue Gottsacker, Mim Bullard, Barbara Greene, Virva Porcelli, Sharon Campbell, Barbara Hunt, Libby Hejny, Doris Woloszyn, Marilynn Clarke, Sharrie Jones, Heidi Ericson

The May 14th Guild Meeting is at Doris Woloszyn’s High Plains Woolies Ranch in Chilcoot, California. Brown Bag.

Driving directions (as provided by Doris in 2009, but I don't suppose it has changed): Hwy. 395 north from Reno, past Bordertown into California. Exit 395 at Hwy. 70 to Portola/Quincy, turn left on Hwy. 70 going west for about 2 miles. Turn left on Scott Road after crossing Long Valley Creek, before going up Beckwourth Pass. Scott Road is dirt, and after 4/10 mile to the railroad crossing you’ll pass 2 homes (stay left on main road, not right up the hill), the railroad tracks and creek will be on your left.

Continue south on Scott Road for one and a half miles to a small bridge over Scott Creek.
Another 4/10 mile to a large Cottonwood tree and the 3rd home, this is where the county stops grading the road so it’s a little rougher. Another 2/10 mile to several buildings on hill with SPRAGUE sign, but stay to left and pass the driveway. Next 3/10 mile the road curves from left to right up a small hill. Stay to the right at the fork, going up the hill and look for my 404-185 sign on a “rock jack” fence corner. This is where you turn right onto my driveway.

My driveway is 4/10 mile, first straight with a wooden fence on the left and barb wire fence on the right, then at the next group of rock jacks curve right, down over the culvert and uphill to my house …cedar siding with a dark green metal roof and large wooden barn in back. Sounds complicated but there are very few places out here. I’ll try to put up some signs to help. Call 530-993-4296 if you have questions or need help.

Minuets for March 2011

SPRING in NEVADA

Carson Sierra Spinners and Weavers Guild meeting was held at South Valley Library March 8th 2011
Meeting started at 11 am with introductions.
Treasurer Report: Doris stated she was given 2 dues, we sold 5 spindle kits. The liability insurance, $519 was paid for the year, leaving the guild with a total of $2422.50 in account. There are currently 31 paid members.
Fair Report: The Nevada State Fair was canceled for the year 2011. The fair is working on paying debts for last year, and trying to avoid bankruptcy. The guild voted to donate $300.00 to the state fair to help. The vote was yes, so Doris will provide a check to Amy to give to the state fair board.
No Weaving Study  update.
Denise Quirk was present as a representative of the Soroptomist Club, to inform us about the cowboy poetry reading event to be held at Bartley Ranch on August 19th and 20th. They are expanding the program to include a marketplace, and have invited our guild members to participate. Discussion followed regarding participation. If you are interested in being a vendor at this event, please contact Denise for resale information. If you are interested in participating with the guild, please let Virva know.
There is some donated equipment, specifically a tapestry loom, bobbin winders, and shuttles that will be made available for silent auction at our annual retreat in the fall.
Don’t forget the spindle retreat in Dobbins Ca, May 19th - 22nd. It looks like many of our members will be attending and it sounds like fun.
New Business: Carson City Farm Days will be held April 14, 15th at Fuji park in Carson City. There will be an area indoors where members from the guild will be demonstrating for the children. Toni and Ellen will be outside in the barn area with a llama and an alpaca. The children love this event. They ask great questions, and are usually very attentive. You are welcome to come and participate. Lunch is provided. Plan on being there from about 8:30 am to about 1:30 pm each day. Bring your wheel, or something else you thing the kids might be interested in learning about.
In the latest issue (spring 2011) of Spin off magazine, Stephanie’s helix scarf project is featured. It is a great article, and includes a scarf that Nancy Prior knit up. Also available through the interweave store is the Aldon Amos dvd (ready for pre order), and Stephanie’s spinning cotton dvd.
The date for the Celtic Fair may be changed. As of now, it is September 24 and 25th, but this could change. Update will be made available as soon as we are notified.
Jeanette Miller of Sierra Nevada Alpaca in Red Rock is looking for homes for some of her alpacas. If you or someone you know is interested in owning a couple of alpacas, please contact Jeanette at 775-969-3871 for more information.
Show and Tell: Mim - Shetland hats spun and presented as kits. Sharon - fabric purchased in New York sewn up into a pair of pajamas offered up for the raffle. Melanie- mink yarn, bone needles, ufo hat. Sharie - color dye books Wild Color and Color in Spinning.
The meeting was adjourned with a demo of a McMorran yarn balance by Sharon, and the second dvd Gentle Art of Plying by Judith MacKenzie to follow.
Those in attendance at the meeting were: Toni Strassburg, David Armer, Melanie Carr, Denise Quirk, Virva Porcelli, Sharie L. Jones, Carol Lopez, Barbara Greene, Victoria Klasch, Amy Shannon, Libby Hejny, Janet Drozd, Marilyn Clarke, Doris Woloszyn, Peggy Horan, Carolyn Thompson, Sharon Campbell, Mim Bullard, Jo Van Winkle.
Our next meeting on April 9th will be a pot luck at:
Bartley Ranch:.  Drive .8 mile west from the intersection of McCarran Blvd and Hwy 395.  Turn left (south) on Lakeside Drive and continue .4 mile.  Bartley Ranch is at the north base of Windy Hill.  Turn left on Bartley Ranch Road and continue several hundred feet to the main parking lot.  Cross the covered bridge and turn right into the parking lot for the School House

 Toni sent in a cool story about her    "WINTER BLUES"
 
I got bored one day not too long ago because I think it was snowing outside and I could not go out and play so I decided to play indoors. It started with some roving I had been saving, bought at the SOAR marketplace back in 2006. I had finally spun it up. It was something put out as a special SOAR blend called Deep Waters, Dark Woods produced for Carolina Homespun to celebrate SOAR being held at Lake Tahoe. It turned out beautiful as singles, but I had some reserve about plying it together. I also wanted the 4 ounces spun up to go a bit further, so I decided to find something else to ply it with. I dug through the copious fiber bins upstairs in my wool room, and found some white tussah silk I purchased from Mim a while back. Just the right thing to pair with the mixed blend textured singles, but it was white. Who wants to spin boring old white when you can have say, blue fiber to spin? I dug out my big dyepot and the rest of my gear, and (CAREFULLY) set about mixing up a blue that would compliment and be reminiscent of the water at Lake Tahoe. Using Gail Callahan's Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece as a guide, I managed to put a nice deep blue in my white silk. I used a mixture of blue, violet, and black from a dye kit produced by Judith MacKenzie. After letting the exhausted dye bath cool, I removed the fiber and hung it along side the fireplace to dry. The next day I had blue silk to spin. I have since finished the spinning, and the yarn sits in a basket next to my chair while I decide what to make with it. I was a bit hesitant to dye fiber in the kitchen, but with the instruction from the book and attention to safety, it was a day well spent.  Toni

SILK BLEND BEFORE

SILK BLEND DURING

SILK BLEND AFTER

DEEP WATER DARK FOREST

FINISHED YARN

Faeries

This was sent in by Carolyn  "I came across these two little stories about spinners and thought they were cute and funny."

Woman spinning flax using a drop spindle and distaff.

MS Fr. 599, f. 40, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

15th c. France

Woman spinning flax using a drop spindle and distaff.

MS Fr. 599, f. 40, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

15^th c. France

Excerpt from a book entitled The Faeryland Companion by Beatrice Phillpotts 1999 Barnes & Nobel Books



Spinners and Shoemakers

  The Faeries had a great reputation for various skills.  Faery women were famous as spinners and dyers, while the Leprechaun was a celebrated shoemaker.

                Magical dyes were concocted from lichen, roots, bark, leaves and fruit.  A faery pool near Loch Lomond in Scotland, where the water was of a peculiar shade of green, was believed to be the site of a faery dying factory.  It was abandoned however, when their mortal neighbours came to investigate.  The faeries did not have time to remove their equipment and were forced to leave it at the bottom of the pool – hence its strange colour.

                The Scots had a faery patron of spinning called Habetrot.  In “The Three Spinners” by William Henderson in Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, he describes how Habetrot helped a beautiful but lazy peasant girl to win the local laird for a husband by spinning for her.

                The girl was ordered by her mother to spin, but could produce only “a few feet of lumpy, uneven thread”.  She came across an old woman, who was the skilled spinner Habetrot.  She offered to spin the lint for the girl and promptly vanished.  But the girl spied her in an underground faery hall:  “…she saw a great cavern, with a number of queer old wives sitting spinning in it, each on a white marble stone.”

                The local laird rode past the girl’s cottage the following morning and was so impressed by the “smoothness and evenness of the skeins that the faeries had spun, that he proposed marriage to her on the spot.  She accepted but knew there would be trouble, because he “kept talking of all the fine yarn she would be spinning for him after the wedding.”  She asked Habetrot for help, and she invited them both into her faery cavern.  The laird asked why the spinners all had long lips and spoke with a stutter.  When Habetrot told him that his new wife would be just like them soon, because she loved spinning so much, he lost all his enthusiasm for fine yarns and forbade her to do any more spinning.

  Some faeries preferred using man-made wheels to their own and would steal into cottages at night to do their spinning.  Residents of the Isle of Man tried to prevent them from doing this, but usually failed, as in the following story from Sophia Morrison’s Manx Fairy Tales:

                “Some time in the night my brother wakened me with a:  “Shish!  Listen boy, and look at the big light in the kitchen!”

                “Listen!” I said, “it must be the Little Ones that’s agate of the wheel!”

                And both of us got very frightened.  In the morning we told what we had seen.

                “Aw, like enough, like enough,” my Father said, looking at the wheel.  “It seems your mother forgot to take the band off last night, a thing people should be careful about, for it’s givin’ Themselves power over the wheel.””

February 2011 Minutes

Meeting was brought to order by our president Virva.
Secretary Doris gave her report. We have 29 paid members and she will pay the insurance due in March.
Connie Vann has excepted the V.P. position.
Fair Report by Amy: The fair is in dire need of funds this year. It is not sure yet if there will be a State Fair this year in August. It was mentioned that if possible we will donate some money to help the fair this year. We should know more by the March meeting. We also talked about other venues for the guild to participate in this year. Should look into Wooster Highs "reskilling" day. There is a conflict with doing the Celtic Fair this year. It will be in September on the same weekend as the Retreat.
Sharie is collecting pictures of members and the projects they do. Please send her pictures of you with your fiber animals or spinning and knitting to collect for the fair displays.
Fair Challenge: Everyone is working with their fiber, black Alpaca.
Would anyone like to be in charge of "Hospitality"? If not Virva will keep the coffee pot and the rest of us please bring your own dish and eating utensils at all pot luck lunches. Plus we all need to help Virva clean up after each meeting.
Heidi reported that she has our brochure for all events we attend ready to print. 
New Business: The guild received a LeClerc Loom complete with shuttles. We will talk about an auction to sell  everything as a fund raiser for the guild.
It was brought up that on August 19th and 20th, from 12 noon to 5 that is a Friday and Saturday this year there will be a Cowboy Poetry get together. We are invited to spin and sell our hand made products. This would be a great venue to bring some fiber animals. Will try and see if Toni and Jeannette would bring their llamas and alpacas and maybe a few sheep. Virva will check to see if we need a business license to sell.
Raffle: Barbara needs stuff to raffle at the monthly meetings. All fiber related stuff please bring to the meetings. Sharon donated a pair of hand knit socks this month!
The Learning Tree was Q&A. We talked about blocking knitted items.
Show and Tell: Marilyn brought a skein of her black Alpaca fiber challenge fiber mixed with silk and wool and spun with beads added.
Melanie: showed us her pouch made with a medal ruler used as a closure, her new interchangeable knitting needles and her valentine yarn vase with crochet hooks. 
Heidi: hand spun woven scarf, and her alpaca/angora/silk noil
Mim: four felt scarves from fiber purchased at Black Sheep last year.
Barbara G: beautiful yarn dyed with food colors
Sharie: hand dye yarn, and first pair of hand knit socks, and first Navajo plied yarn
Sharon: had her hand spun hand knit shrug
Barbara H: had her "Stephine" scarf made with sock yarn
Connie: had a shrug also knit by her friend
Malinda: brought her first pair of knit socks
Attendance:
Mim Bullard, Sharon Campbell,Sharie L. Jones,Nancy Grundy,Janet Drozd,Barbara Greene, Barbara Hunt,Melanie Carr,Perry Louie,Doris Woloszyn,Marilyn Clarke,Virva Porcelli,Carol Lopez,Connie Vann'Amy Shannon Heidi Ericson,Judy Wells,Malinda Parks, Karen Starr
Our March meeting will be held at:

South Valleys Library:  will be held in the multi-purpose room.  Driving directions:  Exit onto Mt Rose Hwy from Hwy 395 and proceed west to the first stop light, which is Wedge Parkway.  Turn right and continue about a mile.  Turn right on Whites Creek Ln.  The library is bright yellow and quite visible. 

Brown bag and we will be watching the last half of our DVD " The Gentle Art of Plying"

New Items For Sale

January minutes 2011
Meeting was called to order at 11 am. Introductions were made, and there were three new people present.
From Amy: Please give her your email info for updates. She also explained differences between the email list and the yahoo group.
November and December minutes were approved.
Treasurer Report: Dues are due now. $25 for the year. Current balance is $2476.50. There were 44 paid members for 2010. Our biggest expense, $512 is liability insurance which is coming due for this year.
Weaving Study Group: Will meet at Badlands Motorcycle, 1554 Linda Way in Sparks at 10 am. February weaving study group would like to meet on the 26th. If you would like to host this meeting, please contact Nancy Pryor.
Fair Report: No info at this time.
Old Business: List of meetings updated on blog. Linda Lindsay’s pocket slipper pattern posted on blog. Fiber challenge: There is still bags of alpaca fiber available if you want to participate. All projects will be displayed at the Nevada State Fair. Please contact Nancy Pryor for alpaca fiber. She noted that even if you just spin a skein of yarn and don’t actually make something out of it, it is still acceptable as a finished project.
New officers are as follows: Virva - President, Connie - Vice president upon verification, Doris - treasurer, Toni - secretary, Mimi - learning tree and blog, Amy - fair coordinator, Barbara - raffle, Heidi - library. We are still looking for someone to take over the task of hospitality and perhaps handling publicity.
It was suggested that the guild equipment should be rounded up into one place each year to inspect it and make sure each item is in working condition. Have you read a new book or watched any of the new dvds?  A book or video review would be great information to add to the blog.  Please send your review to Mimi so she can post it to share with the rest of the members.
Today’s learning tree is part one of the Gentle Art of Plying. Part two will be shown after the March meeting at South Valley Library. Sharon has info regarding spindle camp. Camp dates are May 20, 21 2011. It is being held with members from Foothill Fiber Guild. Location is Lake Francis Resort near Dobbins (Grass Valley Nevada City area) California. There is an optional Thursday night, the 19th planned.  A head count for reservations and camping preferences is needed asap. Please contact Sharon for more information.
New Business: List of activities is located on the sidebar of blog. Sharie would like to make a guild collage with pictures from guild activities in the past. If you have photos of anything you would like to share, please let Sharie know.
Show And Tell: Virva, new sweater, yarn from Mim’s Shetland roving. Nancy, modular knitting pattern hats and sweater pieces. Amy, fingerless mitts with pattern on her blog Purple Fuzzy Mittens. Marilyn, shawl turned sweater. Heidi, merino/silk wrap and candy corn color dyed yarn. Mimi, itty bitty sweater ornaments knit from Shetland, alpaca, silk, merino, angora. From a pattern found on Ravelry. Judy, a ‘husband made’ wooden yarn swift. Carolyn, purse made of leftover yarn. Libby, dyed bamboo merino beaded scarf. Barbara, sock yarn from Mimi’s merino bamboo fiber.
Meeting adjourned at 12:05 for lunch and dvd viewing afterward.
Attendance: Toni Strassburg, David Armer, Carol Lee Lopez, Sharon Campbell, Victoria Klasch, Eileen Jacobs, Barbara Hunt, Libby Hejny, Barbara Greene, Janet Schueller, Carolyn Thompson, Janet Drozd, Judy Wells, Mim Bullard, Melanie Carr, Heidi Ericson, Doris Woloszyn, Sue Kelly, Marilyn Clarke, Amy Shannon, Nancy Pryor, Virva Porcelli


Check out the new items Allison has on our "Classified" page at the top of this blog. I also want to let you know that for the "Learning Tree" we will be having the "Questions and Answer" time after our meeting on February 12th. If there is anything you have been wanting to know bring your questions and will find an answer for you!

I will post the minuets for January as soon as I get them from Toni. Till then I hope your enjoying our beautiful weather.
Mim