This program will feature handwoven tallitot by Jodi Paley:

Her website, at http://www.chezpaley.com/stichtenaku, describes her many years of self-directed study, moving into individually commissioned tallitot, as well as other applications of weaving, shows and sales. See other pictures of her work there.

She has also been awarded the Reader’s Choice top Jewish artist/craftsperson for South Bay in 2011 from J Weekly.

Elizabeth Eddy will exhibit a collection of stoles in a variety of fiber media, used in worship in the Episcopal church. Elizabeth is a natural dilettante, resulting mostly in mixed-media expression. Since 2002 she has been a Beginning Weaver. Her interest in fiber and professional experience teaching philosophical aesthetics  lead her to present and comment on the work of others, especially fiber artists.

Both presentations are aimed at stimulating your creative juices and opening an avenue of creativity which may be new to some of you.

Reservations will be made at Buck’s Restaurant at 5:30 pm before the meeting, all are welcome to come. Buck’s is happy to add more tables to our usual cluster. The Parish Hall at Woodside Community Church, on Woodside Avenue, will be opened by 7 pm so we can gather and chat. The program will run from 7:30 to 8:30 pm, followed by refreshments and a brief business meeting.

Our regular meeting for the month of January will feature Wayne Wichern, milliner on the Peninsula for nearly 30 years.  He has exhibited in galleries and museums across the country, lectured widely throughout the west coast, and created theatrical costume millinery for a number of theatre and ballet companies. His personal story of change and development in his artistry is described in a fascinating YouTube clip at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ogbyg5XFc .

You’ll see his studio with equipment, and many of his felt fashion hats. He wanted us all to come to his studio, but we are too many to fit. He will welcome any of us there in the future.

More photos can be found at his website www.waynewichernmillinery.com.

Reservations will be made for dinner beginning at 5:30 pm at Buck’s Restaurant, Woodside and anyone who wishes may join us there. Our featured speaker will be present with us for light conversation.

Here are photos made of his presentation display. Please see Show-and-Tell for members modeling hats.

9.18.14     Alfred Eberle, Silk Reeling

10.11-12   Jason Collingwood Workshop, see Workshops

10.16.14   Barbara Shapiro, Japanese Slow Fiber

11.20.14   Rebecca Burgess, Natural Dyes, clothing, Fibershed Project

12.18.14   HOLIDAY PARTY

1.15.15      Wayne Wichern, Millinery

2.19.15      Jodi Paley, Elizabeth Eddy et al., Weaving for Worship

3.6-8.15    Carin Engen, Three Felting Workshops

3.19.15      Barbie Paulsen, Overshot

4.16.15      Natasha Foucault, Painting on Silk

5.21.15      CNCH 2015 Retrospective Show-and-Tell

6.18.15     Season FINAL Meeting and Sale

SUMMER 2015 – TBA

Our first meeting for the fall 2014 will feature Alfred Eberle, speaking and demonstrating silk reeling.

Reservations will be made at Buck’s at 5:45 pm for those who wish to eat together and visit beforehand. Everyone is welcome!

We begin to gather at 7 pm at Woodside Church further down Woodside Road, across from the school, beside the library.  The library parking lot is available for our use, and usually too is parking in the school lot.  The program begins at 7:30 pm.

Alfred will show use a mix of modern and antique equipment to carefully unwind silk cocoons onto bobbins. He will talk about warping with silk, show us his collection of naturally dyed silk textiles he has woven, and if possible give us a chance to try our own hand at silk reeling.

We break at 8:30 for refreshments, and complete the meeting with show and tell,

upcoming workshop business and the like.

We’ll meet at our usual location in Woodside Church Parish Hall at 7:30 pm.  Dinner space will be reserved at Buck’s from 5:45 pm and anyone who wishes to, come!

This will be a Round Robin event with demonstrations of felting, plying with a spindle and with a spinning wheel, natural dyes from our own neighborhoods with dyed wool samples, and a special sort of challenge which Kathleen Dickey says is a lot of fun. If you just attended Teresa Ruch’s weaving for draping workshop earlier this month, bring some examples to share. If you’d like to demo a technique not on this list, bring that as well. See you there!