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2023-2024 FiberArts Guild Meetings Schedule
First Fridays September through May Meetings rotate between Buena Vista and Salida. Members and their guests welcome. Join Us! Times: 9:30 Open Forum - announcements 10:00 Member show and tell 10:30 Program 11:30 Business Meeting Meeting Locations: See Maps below. |
Program calendar
Aug. 25, 2023
Location: Thornhoff Park
Outdoor meeting @ Thornhoff Park. Election of Board Members, Summer Projects Show and Tell; Challenge; Info on upcoming programs.
Oct. 6, 2023
Location: BVCC
Dorset Button presentation by Kathy Buon0, followed by a workshop on making a simple Dorset button
Nov. 3, 2023
10:00 am (PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME)
Location: Field Trip to Jefferson Farms Natural Fibers
Address: 8815 CR 150, Salida, CO; Jane will put a flag out at the entrance gate.
Program: Tour of Jefferson Farms by Jane Levene
Dec. 1, 2023
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: BV CUCC
Annual Potluck Holiday Party
Jan. 5, 2024
Location: Salida UMC
Janelle Sowers - "Meet Wet Felt Artist, Janelle Sowers”
Janelle will share her works, travels in Mongolia, and current projects inspired by felt making and natural dyes.
Biography: Janelle Sowers is an avid lover of all things flora and fauna, owing to her work with wool and natural dyes. Her motivation is from the colors extracted from the dye garden and the natural world, crafting images inspired by her innate longing to commune with nature. Janelle has over 20 years of experience in art education with children to adults, eight of them spent internationally. Two of those years were in Mongolia, affording the opportunity to develop her felt making with master artisans. Her main technique is wet felting imagery that seeks to enhance the wild quality of the fiber as well as exact edges through specific techniques gained in Mongolia and observed in traditional central Asian rug making.
Janelle will also conduct a workshop on “Wet Felting for Bold Effects” the afternoon of Jan. 5.
Sign up for the workshop here
Feb. 2, 2024
Location: BV CUCC
Deborah Robson - a Zoom presentation on Breed Specific Wools: What They Are and Why They Matter.
Wool grows in an amazing range of varieties with all sorts of different properties, and the wool you want to use to make a camisole isn’t the same wool you’d choose to make a laptop case or stuff a mattress with. Wools vary in comfort, warmth, durability, and other factors that can make or break our textile projects. What is a breed? Why do breeds matter? What are some breed-specific wools, and how do we best use them? With a combination of science and art, we can broaden our fiber horizons and have more fun with the fabrics we construct and use.
Deborah Robson is a fiber generalist who specializes in spinning, knitting, and weaving, although she experiments with all aspects of textiles. She is the fiber author of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook and of The Field Guide to Fleece, in collaboration with livestock expert Carol Ekarius. For fourteen years she worked at Interweave Press, editing both books and Spin-Off magazine. She has a DVD set now available from Long Thread Media and a class on wool types available at Craftsy.com and is publishing focused fiber-topic monographs. Her website is independentstitch.com.
Mar. 1, 2024
Location: Salida UMC
Kimberly Perkins - Cat Mountain Fiber Arts will be doing a presentation on Creating a Fusion of Color and Texture: Dyeing Yarn with Multiple Fibers and Textures.
Biography: Kimberly Perkins
Fort Garland, Colorado
Kimberly has been an avid knitter for 35+ years, and in 2004, decided to try dyeing her
own yarn with Kool-aid. She has since adopted more sophisticated dyeing methods, and in 2008, founded Cat Mountain Fiber Arts. She has taught classes at fiber festivals,
designed knitting patterns especially for her hand-dyed yarns, and has participated in
fiber events and conferences across the US.
Kimberly will also conduct a workshop the afternoon of Mar. 1, 2024 at "Box of Bubbles" in Salida.
Sign up for the workshop here (scroll to bottom of page)
Apr. 5, 2024
Location: BV CUCC
Art Garment Presentation: The April program, presented by members of the Art Garment group, will feature garments made by members and the processes that lead to their creation.
A garment is defined as any clothing, including uniforms, footwear and related accessories, such as hats, caps, ties, scarves, ribbons & shoestrings. Garments may be embellished by a variety of creative processes such as buttons, ribbons, embroidery, patches etc. The Art Garment (AG) group includes creative people who use fibers and fabrics as media to create wearable art, repurposed clothing and accessories. Members of AG meet monthly to share ideas, inspirations and projects. Membership is open to anyone that shares our purpose. The April program, presented by members of the group, will feature garments made by members and the processes that lead to the creations.
May 3, 2024
Location: BV CUCC
Presentation of 2023- 2024 Yearly Challenge Finished Objects
Location: Thornhoff Park
Outdoor meeting @ Thornhoff Park. Election of Board Members, Summer Projects Show and Tell; Challenge; Info on upcoming programs.
Oct. 6, 2023
Location: BVCC
Dorset Button presentation by Kathy Buon0, followed by a workshop on making a simple Dorset button
Nov. 3, 2023
10:00 am (PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME)
Location: Field Trip to Jefferson Farms Natural Fibers
Address: 8815 CR 150, Salida, CO; Jane will put a flag out at the entrance gate.
Program: Tour of Jefferson Farms by Jane Levene
Dec. 1, 2023
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: BV CUCC
Annual Potluck Holiday Party
Jan. 5, 2024
Location: Salida UMC
Janelle Sowers - "Meet Wet Felt Artist, Janelle Sowers”
Janelle will share her works, travels in Mongolia, and current projects inspired by felt making and natural dyes.
Biography: Janelle Sowers is an avid lover of all things flora and fauna, owing to her work with wool and natural dyes. Her motivation is from the colors extracted from the dye garden and the natural world, crafting images inspired by her innate longing to commune with nature. Janelle has over 20 years of experience in art education with children to adults, eight of them spent internationally. Two of those years were in Mongolia, affording the opportunity to develop her felt making with master artisans. Her main technique is wet felting imagery that seeks to enhance the wild quality of the fiber as well as exact edges through specific techniques gained in Mongolia and observed in traditional central Asian rug making.
Janelle will also conduct a workshop on “Wet Felting for Bold Effects” the afternoon of Jan. 5.
Sign up for the workshop here
Feb. 2, 2024
Location: BV CUCC
Deborah Robson - a Zoom presentation on Breed Specific Wools: What They Are and Why They Matter.
Wool grows in an amazing range of varieties with all sorts of different properties, and the wool you want to use to make a camisole isn’t the same wool you’d choose to make a laptop case or stuff a mattress with. Wools vary in comfort, warmth, durability, and other factors that can make or break our textile projects. What is a breed? Why do breeds matter? What are some breed-specific wools, and how do we best use them? With a combination of science and art, we can broaden our fiber horizons and have more fun with the fabrics we construct and use.
Deborah Robson is a fiber generalist who specializes in spinning, knitting, and weaving, although she experiments with all aspects of textiles. She is the fiber author of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook and of The Field Guide to Fleece, in collaboration with livestock expert Carol Ekarius. For fourteen years she worked at Interweave Press, editing both books and Spin-Off magazine. She has a DVD set now available from Long Thread Media and a class on wool types available at Craftsy.com and is publishing focused fiber-topic monographs. Her website is independentstitch.com.
Mar. 1, 2024
Location: Salida UMC
Kimberly Perkins - Cat Mountain Fiber Arts will be doing a presentation on Creating a Fusion of Color and Texture: Dyeing Yarn with Multiple Fibers and Textures.
Biography: Kimberly Perkins
Fort Garland, Colorado
Kimberly has been an avid knitter for 35+ years, and in 2004, decided to try dyeing her
own yarn with Kool-aid. She has since adopted more sophisticated dyeing methods, and in 2008, founded Cat Mountain Fiber Arts. She has taught classes at fiber festivals,
designed knitting patterns especially for her hand-dyed yarns, and has participated in
fiber events and conferences across the US.
Kimberly will also conduct a workshop the afternoon of Mar. 1, 2024 at "Box of Bubbles" in Salida.
Sign up for the workshop here (scroll to bottom of page)
Apr. 5, 2024
Location: BV CUCC
Art Garment Presentation: The April program, presented by members of the Art Garment group, will feature garments made by members and the processes that lead to their creation.
A garment is defined as any clothing, including uniforms, footwear and related accessories, such as hats, caps, ties, scarves, ribbons & shoestrings. Garments may be embellished by a variety of creative processes such as buttons, ribbons, embroidery, patches etc. The Art Garment (AG) group includes creative people who use fibers and fabrics as media to create wearable art, repurposed clothing and accessories. Members of AG meet monthly to share ideas, inspirations and projects. Membership is open to anyone that shares our purpose. The April program, presented by members of the group, will feature garments made by members and the processes that lead to the creations.
May 3, 2024
Location: BV CUCC
Presentation of 2023- 2024 Yearly Challenge Finished Objects
Map of Meeting Locations:
Buena Vista: Congregational United Church of Christ, 217 Crossman Street
Buena Vista: Congregational United Church of Christ, 217 Crossman Street
Salida: First United Methodist Church, 288 E. 4th St.
Poncha Springs Town Hall, 333 Burnett Ave., Poncha Springs
Buena Vista Community Recreation Center, 715 E. Main St., Buena Vista
