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Meetings
Whatcom Weavers Guild meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of the month, at St. James Presbyterian Church, 910 - 14th Street, Bellingham, Washington. Enter through the west side at the lower level. Parking is available in the church parking lot and on the street. Meetings are open to all members and visitors are welcome.
Monthly meeting schedule may be changed to accomodate special events or Field Trip programs. Unless noted, meetings will start at 10:00am and continue until 2:00pm, with a short break for brown-bag lunch. Hot water for coffee and tea is provided. Interest groups are welcome to stay after the 2:00pm meeting. These will be groups that are structured by the participants. Ideas for groups might be basket weaving, felting, band or inkle weaving, dyeing, beginning weaving, weaving for garments or ??? If you're interested, stay after 2:00pm and find your Muse! Special programs may be scheduled differently. Please refer to the schedule below for times and program topics.
The meeting will include a program, a business meeting and a "show and tell" of items newly created by guild members. Programs are developed to interest weavers and all fiber artists alike. Programs such as lectures, slide presentations and hands-on-learning activities bring members together to discover (or re-discover) interesting techniques and approaches, all to inspire creativity.
Monthly meeting schedule may be changed to accomodate special events or Field Trip programs. Unless noted, meetings will start at 10:00am and continue until 2:00pm, with a short break for brown-bag lunch. Hot water for coffee and tea is provided. Interest groups are welcome to stay after the 2:00pm meeting. These will be groups that are structured by the participants. Ideas for groups might be basket weaving, felting, band or inkle weaving, dyeing, beginning weaving, weaving for garments or ??? If you're interested, stay after 2:00pm and find your Muse! Special programs may be scheduled differently. Please refer to the schedule below for times and program topics.
The meeting will include a program, a business meeting and a "show and tell" of items newly created by guild members. Programs are developed to interest weavers and all fiber artists alike. Programs such as lectures, slide presentations and hands-on-learning activities bring members together to discover (or re-discover) interesting techniques and approaches, all to inspire creativity.
2017-2018 Meeting Schedule and Program Calendar
(See Events Page for more Textile related events in Bellingham and Beyond!)
October 11-14, 2017 - October Special Event!
Fibers and Beyond sale open to the public. Fibers and Beyond Workshops and Sale, including WWG members and Spindrifters, the Whatcom and Skagit Counties Hand Spinning guild. Held at the Jansen Art Center, Lynden WA.
For more information about a specific workshop or the keynote address please click on the links below.
FIBERS AND BEYOND KEYNOTE by Dr. Susan Pavel, sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 pm
POWERFUL COLOR FOR WEAVERS with Gail Harker, Friday, Oct. 13, 9-4
COAST SALISH TWILL OR TWINE WEAVING with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa Tuesday and Thursday, Oct 10 & 12, 9-4
SURFACE DESIGN FOR THE WEAVER: The Exciting World of Warp Painting with Liz Moncrief, Thursday, Oct. 12, 9-4
FELTED BOWL WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 1-4 pm
FELTED FLOWER VASE WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-noon
FELTED HAT WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Friday, Oct. 13, 10-3
CRACKLE WEAVE with Liz Moncrief, Friday & Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
DYEING WITH LICHENS with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 9-2
BEGINNING RIGID HEDDLE WEAVING with Susan Torntore, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
OVER AND UNDER with Gail Harker, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-4
Please download the 2017 Acceptance Criteria here and the Entry Form here.
If you plan to stay in Lynden during the conference, the Inn at Lynden is will have special room rates available for conference participants. Please call the Inn at 360-746-8597 for reservations and let them know you are part of the conference. More information about the Inn can be found at www.innatlynden.com.
The Fibers and Beyond Exhibit Opening is on the Jansen Art Center Website and Facebook, and press releases have gone out.
If you are on Facebook, you can help promote our event by doing the following:
1. log into your facebook account
2. Go to the event page https://www.facebook.com/events/162429040979009
3. Click that you are "Interested" and "Going" to the event (even if you aren't sure you can attend).
4. Invite your friends to attend by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Invite Friends" then select individual friends by scrolling through your friends list and clicking on those you think would be interested and then clicking on "Send Invites"
5. Share the event on your page by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Share in Newsfeed." then you can type a little introduction such as "Come see me and my artwork in this amazing exhibit at the @Jansen Art Center." If you type a @ before Jansen Art Center, and then click on our icon when it pops up, we will see your share and we can like it to make it show up in more people's newsfeeds. After you type your message, click "Post."
Thank you for helping us spread the word about this event and helping it be a success!
October 21, 2017 - Saturday meeting & program/Field Trip
Coded Threads: Textile and Technology – This Exhibition brings together fourteen visual artists who use new textile technologies in their art. New Textiles comprise a range of materials: spider silk, nanotechnology, bioculture, smart textiles (conductive threads, fiber optics), and incorporation of Arduino microprocessors. September 27 to December 8 Western Gallery, WWU Campus
10 am business meeting, at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own) then carpool to the WWU campus for a tour of the exhibit. Stay on campus for a tour of the Outdoor Sculpture collection, visit the WWU Library or have coffee at a campus eatery. Parking $1.00/hour on weekends.
November 18, 2017 - Saturday meeting & program
Sock Monkeys for Skookum Kids: June Fraser Thistle presents her inspiring story, at a local intersection of fiber arts and social services, and invites us to share the warmth, healing and fun of craftivism in our community!
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own, coffee, tea and cookies provided) Program at noon, stay for hands-on Sock Monkey making or study groups.
December 16, 2017 - Saturday meeting & program
Holiday Potluck, Weavers Harvest & “Finishing Bee”
Members bring your work made in, or inspired by workshops at the ANWG conference, or other conferences and workshops in 2017. Scholarship recipients will present their short programs. Bring your unfinished items, we’ll set up tables for a “Finishing Bee” throughout the afternoon. Iron, Ironing board, sewing machine, fringe twisters, and shared expertise will get those projects done before the holidays. We’ll have an ornament-making table set up too. (For those who are all done with their projects) Bring a potluck dish to share, or a $1 to cover the cost of crock-pot chili or soup, your own napkin and table setting, and your un-finished work.
January 20, 2018 - Saturday meeting & program
Working With Color: It’s a Wrap! Matinee and hands-on color exploration. Inspired by Daryl Lancaster’s talk about ways to work with color, this program is a movie day, and hands-on session. Bring your bobbins and tail ends, small balls of yarn, even long thrums. We’ll watch one or two of the great color videos in the WWG Library collection (popcorn provided). Then we will arrange our colors and textures and make color wraps to use in planning future projects. Color wheels and other color planning tools will be available.
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch then movie and color work.
February 17, 2018 – Saturday meeting & program
Towel Exchange, and “Walk the Dog” Challenge.
Bring a towel to enter into an exchange with other members. And/Or bring that project you just don’t want to finish. Put your “dog” up for adoption, and see who takes the challenge. Take that puppy home, see what fresh eyes and a liitle training can do for it. We’ll bring them back in June for the Big Reveal, and show off new tricks.
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch, towel viewing then challenge distribution and towel exchange.
March 17, 2018 – Saturday meeting & program
Polly Adams Sutton talks about her Cedar Bark Basketry, and Basketry in America, with Field trip to Whatcom Museum to view the Basketry in America Exhibit. (Exhibit is open Feb 7- May 6)
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, then field trip to the Whatcom Museum.
April 21, 2018
May 19, 2018
June 16, 2018
July 21, 2018
Fibers and Beyond sale open to the public. Fibers and Beyond Workshops and Sale, including WWG members and Spindrifters, the Whatcom and Skagit Counties Hand Spinning guild. Held at the Jansen Art Center, Lynden WA.
For more information about a specific workshop or the keynote address please click on the links below.
FIBERS AND BEYOND KEYNOTE by Dr. Susan Pavel, sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 pm
POWERFUL COLOR FOR WEAVERS with Gail Harker, Friday, Oct. 13, 9-4
COAST SALISH TWILL OR TWINE WEAVING with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa Tuesday and Thursday, Oct 10 & 12, 9-4
SURFACE DESIGN FOR THE WEAVER: The Exciting World of Warp Painting with Liz Moncrief, Thursday, Oct. 12, 9-4
FELTED BOWL WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 1-4 pm
FELTED FLOWER VASE WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-noon
FELTED HAT WORKSHOP with Donna Hunter, Friday, Oct. 13, 10-3
CRACKLE WEAVE with Liz Moncrief, Friday & Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
DYEING WITH LICHENS with Dr. Susan Pavel – sa’hLa mitSa, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 9-2
BEGINNING RIGID HEDDLE WEAVING with Susan Torntore, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 & 14, 9-4
OVER AND UNDER with Gail Harker, Saturday, Oct. 14, 9-4
Please download the 2017 Acceptance Criteria here and the Entry Form here.
If you plan to stay in Lynden during the conference, the Inn at Lynden is will have special room rates available for conference participants. Please call the Inn at 360-746-8597 for reservations and let them know you are part of the conference. More information about the Inn can be found at www.innatlynden.com.
The Fibers and Beyond Exhibit Opening is on the Jansen Art Center Website and Facebook, and press releases have gone out.
If you are on Facebook, you can help promote our event by doing the following:
1. log into your facebook account
2. Go to the event page https://www.facebook.com/events/162429040979009
3. Click that you are "Interested" and "Going" to the event (even if you aren't sure you can attend).
4. Invite your friends to attend by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Invite Friends" then select individual friends by scrolling through your friends list and clicking on those you think would be interested and then clicking on "Send Invites"
5. Share the event on your page by clicking on "Share" then choosing "Share in Newsfeed." then you can type a little introduction such as "Come see me and my artwork in this amazing exhibit at the @Jansen Art Center." If you type a @ before Jansen Art Center, and then click on our icon when it pops up, we will see your share and we can like it to make it show up in more people's newsfeeds. After you type your message, click "Post."
Thank you for helping us spread the word about this event and helping it be a success!
October 21, 2017 - Saturday meeting & program/Field Trip
Coded Threads: Textile and Technology – This Exhibition brings together fourteen visual artists who use new textile technologies in their art. New Textiles comprise a range of materials: spider silk, nanotechnology, bioculture, smart textiles (conductive threads, fiber optics), and incorporation of Arduino microprocessors. September 27 to December 8 Western Gallery, WWU Campus
10 am business meeting, at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own) then carpool to the WWU campus for a tour of the exhibit. Stay on campus for a tour of the Outdoor Sculpture collection, visit the WWU Library or have coffee at a campus eatery. Parking $1.00/hour on weekends.
November 18, 2017 - Saturday meeting & program
Sock Monkeys for Skookum Kids: June Fraser Thistle presents her inspiring story, at a local intersection of fiber arts and social services, and invites us to share the warmth, healing and fun of craftivism in our community!
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch (bring your own, coffee, tea and cookies provided) Program at noon, stay for hands-on Sock Monkey making or study groups.
December 16, 2017 - Saturday meeting & program
Holiday Potluck, Weavers Harvest & “Finishing Bee”
Members bring your work made in, or inspired by workshops at the ANWG conference, or other conferences and workshops in 2017. Scholarship recipients will present their short programs. Bring your unfinished items, we’ll set up tables for a “Finishing Bee” throughout the afternoon. Iron, Ironing board, sewing machine, fringe twisters, and shared expertise will get those projects done before the holidays. We’ll have an ornament-making table set up too. (For those who are all done with their projects) Bring a potluck dish to share, or a $1 to cover the cost of crock-pot chili or soup, your own napkin and table setting, and your un-finished work.
January 20, 2018 - Saturday meeting & program
Working With Color: It’s a Wrap! Matinee and hands-on color exploration. Inspired by Daryl Lancaster’s talk about ways to work with color, this program is a movie day, and hands-on session. Bring your bobbins and tail ends, small balls of yarn, even long thrums. We’ll watch one or two of the great color videos in the WWG Library collection (popcorn provided). Then we will arrange our colors and textures and make color wraps to use in planning future projects. Color wheels and other color planning tools will be available.
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch then movie and color work.
February 17, 2018 – Saturday meeting & program
Towel Exchange, and “Walk the Dog” Challenge.
Bring a towel to enter into an exchange with other members. And/Or bring that project you just don’t want to finish. Put your “dog” up for adoption, and see who takes the challenge. Take that puppy home, see what fresh eyes and a liitle training can do for it. We’ll bring them back in June for the Big Reveal, and show off new tricks.
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, break for lunch, towel viewing then challenge distribution and towel exchange.
March 17, 2018 – Saturday meeting & program
Polly Adams Sutton talks about her Cedar Bark Basketry, and Basketry in America, with Field trip to Whatcom Museum to view the Basketry in America Exhibit. (Exhibit is open Feb 7- May 6)
10 am business meeting at St James Church, followed by member show and tell, then field trip to the Whatcom Museum.
April 21, 2018
May 19, 2018
June 16, 2018
July 21, 2018
