For our meeting in September, bring your dye day results to share! Our president, Tim Cardy, will also share a report of his experience at this year's HGA Convergence in New Orleans. Tim will also lead a mini project to decorate personalized name tags that we can each bring with us to future guild meetings.

We gather in Tucker’s Grove for our annual celebration and joint experimentation into botanical dyes. This year, we will have pots of indigo, cochineal, mushroom, logwood, and weld.

In July, we welcome Ellin Klor, a board member of the Textile Arts Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and producer of the Bay Area Fiber Artists Archive Video series.

We are excited to welcome Melissa Leventon, founding partner of Curatrix Group and a specialist in European and American costume and textiles.

We’re pleased to welcome Julia Ford, local fiber artist and educator. Known for her innovative and expressive woven work, Julia explores weaving as a dynamic art form. She will share her work along with her methodology and approach to teaching weaving.

We’re thrilled to welcome San Francisco textile artist Barbara Shapiro for our April 4th Guild meeting, sharing a remarkable body of work spanning five decades.

We will once again rely on input from our community of fiber enthusiasts and learn from one another together find new ways forward. Collectively we will celebrate our accomplishments and also sort through solutions to problems that have presented themselves in our work.

The Japanese papermaking and bookbinding Intensive was designed to provide the unique opportunity to learn four distinct Japanese crafts: Nagashizuki hand papermaking, natural dyeing and cover decoration, hand bookbinding, and portfolio box-making.

Not sure how to price that piece of art you plan to submit for our exhibition in January? Come learn from those with experience assigning a price to a piece of art.

Guild member Lisa Barry presented a detailed walkthrough of Ravelry, a website with a database of patterns and yarns, and many other features.