This is our opportunity to share what we’ve been creating for the last few months. Whether it is something you’ve learned from a CNCH class, workshop, study group or what you’ve been working on, on your own we want to see it! Share your creativity and inspire all of us.
Note: Our meeting this month will be held at the Sequoia Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Ct. Redwood City, Ca. 94063
Directions: http://www.sequoiayc.org/node/49
Join us for our annual Fundraiser and Stash sale on June 16th at 7:30 pm, at our usual venue, Woodside Community Church in Woodside CA. Clean out those nooks and crannies of that yarn, fiber or equipment you no longer have interest in. Please contribute an item for our Silent Auction if you can. This is fun evening of camaraderie before the summer, Don’t miss it!
Reservations for dinner beforehand will be made at 5:30 p.m. at Buck’s Restaurant on Woodside Rd., Woodside CA.
Jane Ingram Allen will be joining us Feb. 20th to share her expertise and experiences with using handmade paper in weaving and other textile techniques. One of the founding members of the Black Sheep Handweavers guild, her career has taken many roads. From teaching weaving at Foothill College to living abroad, her vast knowledge of weaving and now paper making, has her creating many unique pieces.
Join us Feb. 20th for an interesting presentation of her current work with paper made from plants from all over the world.
Renown creative cloth maker and surface embellisher Anita Luvera Mayer is our speaker. Her unique designs are known throughout the weaving and hand embellishing communities. She will be sharing with us her creative journey in surface embellishment, and weaving.
Come join us for an evening of inspired creativity and hear from Anita about her journey in the fiber arts.
Our annual Holiday Party Potluck and gift swipe, er, swap will be December 19th. Come join us for this fun community meeting full of holiday cheer. Festivities start at 7:00 with a potluck and continues with a gift exchange.
What has Ulla been up to lately is everyone’s question and we will be finding that out on Nov. 21st. Black Sheep’s own Ulla de Larios will be our presenter. An accomplished artist, we all wonder will she be talking about Stitch Resist? Will it be about her Damasks? Her Crossing and Transparency weavings? I’m hoping it will be all of the above. The breadth of Ulla’s art encompasses many media and techniques.
Come join us on Nov. 21st for an interesting and inspiring evening.
You can see more examples of Ulla’s art on her website at http://www.ulladelarios.com
Black Sheep Handweaver’s Guild’s very own Barbara Shapiro will be joining us to share her current work.
Her interesting and creative work in textiles is always an inspiration. Whether it’s her basketry, mantles, card weaving, scrolls or indigo landscapes the breadth of her work is amazing.
The sculptural textiles of Ealish Wilson have developed through her travel, fascination with a variety materials, architecture, photography and traditional sewing techniques. Ealish combines her inspirations into constructed and deconstructed pieces creating one off textile works.
The work represents a collection of experiences & observations from her daily life and travels. Although the places are different the natural process of development is always the same, inspiration captured by photographs, sketches and collecting ephemera. Architecture plays a pivotal role within the work. The juxtaposition of old and new provides intriguing contrasts of texture, ideas for form, shape and colour combinations. Through the computer her collected inspiration is developed and manipulated to create prints which subsequently influence the pleating and shaping of her textiles.
An intriguing aspect of the work is how the eye is deceived through her influencing the fabric texture both physically and creating surface images. The observer is challenged and captivated. The viewer initially sees the colours and the surface texture. Closer observation slowly reveals an apparent three dimensional image emerging from the two dimensions present. This creates a depth which suddenly assaults the senses. All these aspects are combined through smocking and pleating which gives a physical surface texture,then the printing which provides the decoration to render complex and unusual sculpted textiles.
For additional information, visit her website at http://ealishwilson.com/
Ginger will be sharing with us the marvelous textiles she has collected from her extensive travels in Africa. Exotic prints and designs convey stories from peoples on the other side of the world. Come join us for an evening of immersion into another culture through their textiles.
Our August meeting is yet another opportunity share your love of craft. Gudrun Pollak is sharing card weaving, Kathleen Dickey is sharing backstrap weaving, Dorothy Thursby is sharing tapestry weaving and Paula Dennis is sharing spinning. Last minute sharing is always welcome.
Come learn a new technique and get inspired to try out a new craft.