Meetings & Events Calendar
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| Jan. 26 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Program: Dr. Elizabeth Barber on "The World's Oldest Textiles." Free for guild members. Non-guild members $12, $8 for students. | |
| Feb. 23 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Program: Randall Hayden on Wheel Mechanics. single drive vs. double drive and the various methods of tensioning a wheel, how to use your ratios to your best advantage and the proper care and feeding of your wheel. | |
| Mar. 22 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Program: Chris Acosta on Angora rabbits, their fiber properties and spinning of Angora fiber. Learn about these wonderful creatures and sink your fingers into delicious fibers! | |
| Apr. 26 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Program: Kitchen Sink Batts! Group activity making beautiful one-of-a-kind batts. Bring your scraps and leftover fibers of all types and colors and join in making beautiful batts for spinning or felting. We will have drumcarder stations around the room for people to use and a very short presentation on how to use a drumcarder for those who have never used one. We are looking for extra drumcarders for this meeting. If you have a drumcarder you are willing to share for the day, please contact Janel. | |
| May 24 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Program: Janel Laidman on the chemistry of dyes. Just in time for the dyefest next month! How both natural and synthetic dyes work. Did you ever wonder how the eye sees color, how a molecule creates color or why some plant dyes don't stick around? Janel will talk about the chemistry of dyeing and fun experiments to try. | |
| June 28 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting, Nominating Committee forms
Location: Garen's house Annual Dyefest. Program: Two mini-workshops, one on natural dyes and one on a no-felt space dye method for rovings. These workshops will be offered at different times of the day so you can take one or both if you like. Of course we will have all the usual free-form dye pots simmering as well for those who want a less structured approach. | |
| July 26 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Program: Anna Zinsmeister on dyeing, spinning and weaving an American Flag. In celebration of Independence day, we'll have a talk from Anna Zinsmeister about her fascinating project creating a replica of an American flag from scratch. | |
| Aug. 23 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) | |
| Sept. 27 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting and Elections
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) | |
| Oct. 25 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) | |
| Nov. 22 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Meeting date may be changed to avoid conflict with holiday. | |
| Dec. 27 (Sat.), 2008, 9:30am |
Regular Meeting and Holiday Party
Location: St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 11555 National Boulevard, Los Angeles 90064 (corner of National and Federal) (Map) Meeting date may be changed to avoid conflict with holiday. |
