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May 2025 Newsletter

Guild Calendar

Guild Meeting

Thursday, May 22nd (rescheduled)

10:00 am to Noon

Gooseberry Room

North Berkeley Senior Center

Study Group

Saturday, May 24th

​10:00 am to Noon

Susie Hodges' house​

Topic: Space Dyeing Plant Fiber​

Get Together

Monday, June 2nd (pending NBSC approval)

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Gooseberry Room

North Berkeley Senior Center​

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President's Message

Dear Fellow Weavers,

 

Every time we get together is another opportunity for Show-and-Tell. This month is no exception, so please feel free to bring what you would like to show.

 

At the recent CNCH in Asilomar the Golden Gate Guild members were out in force. There were six of us at the event this year: Bernie, Sandy, Susie, Karen, Liz and Me. 

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We were all in different workshops, and have much to share about our experiences. I’m calling it a Share-and-Learn opportunity. We all have samples to touch, and stories to tell. Hope you can make it.

 

We have our Annual Picnic and Auction at Tilden Park coming up, and usually on the 3rd Monday in June, making it the 16th. Let’s talk about what day is best for most people when we meet this Thursday.

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Please go through your stash and see if you have something you can contribute. Fiber books, magazines, and loom tools are also welcome. All money collected goes straight to our programs fund for the upcoming year. If you can’t make the picnic, but have a donation, please let me know, and a pickup can be arranged.​​

 

Look forward to seeing you soon.

 

Happy Weaving! ~ Vicky

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2024 Picnic

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Meetings

Guild Meeting

Date: Thursday, May 22nd (rescheduled, was Monday, 19th)

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

 

Topics: 

  • CNCH 2025 review: Share-and-Learn Opportunity ​

  • Annual Picnic: Schedule the date

  • Show and Tell

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The Golden Gate Weavers Guild meets the third Monday of the month, 10:00am to Noon in the Gooseberry Room, at the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave, or on Zoom. No meetings in July, August and December.

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Study Group

The Study Group meets Saturday, May 24th, 10 AM at Susie Hodges' house, 1272 Queens Rd, Berkeley

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We will Space Dye Cotton Yarn in the front yard patio. Bring:

  • COTTON YARN: clean skeins or 1'- 2" warp chains. Tie loose figure-8 trouble ties along yarns to avoid tangles. Tie off the beginning and end of warp chains and make a loose tie around the cross. 

  • Any of the following equipment that you have:

    • Plastic bucket

    • Flat basin or kitty litter box, or foil roasting pan from the grocery store

    • Plastic wrap

    • Plastic drink cups.

 

We will pour the dye on the skeins with the cups or with other applicators like car sponges, turkey basters, and nylon brushes.

 

Instruction sheets, dyes, and soda ash will be provided.

Get Togethers

Date: Monday, June 2nd, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

An informal gathering and an opportunity for Show and Tell.

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Get Togethers are on the first  Monday of the month, 1:00 - 3:00 pm in the Gooseberry Room, at the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.

Show and Tell

Study Group  

No study group in April​

CNCH News

 

 

www.cnch.org 

 

CNCH 2025 - April 24-27, at Asilomar

    • Who's attended:

      • Vicky (Dyeing for Weavers)

      • Susie (Williamsburg Handled Market Basket)

      • Karen (Metaweave)

      • Bernie (Hands-on Drawloom Weaving)

      • Sandy 

    • THANK YOU to Susie Hodges for creating and donating a Project Tote for the Silent Auction, which contained a Space Dyeing Kit and instructions

CNCH 2026 - May 14-17, Asilomar

  • Classes include: Inkle Weaving, Weaving two Ways on the Ridgid Heddle Loom, Tablet Weaving, Huck Lace, Hands on Color, Vibrant Rugs, Spinning Angora Rabbit & Cotton, Spinpossible, Shibori Dyeing with Indigo, Painted Warps and Parallel Threading, Fabulous Felted Flowers, Transparency Weaving, and Pine Needle Baskets

  • Instructors include: Sienna Bosch, Gretchen Fancher, John Mullarkey, Rosalie Neilson, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Mary Zicafoose, Julie Drogsvold, Michael Kelson, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Denise Kovnat, Dawn Edwards, Rebecca Smith and Marilyn Mckanel

 

CNCH 2027 Planning - Get Involved!

    • Area Three, which includes GGW, is planning the 2027 Conference

    • Details TBD from the new co-chairs

EVENTS

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Board of Directors

President - Vicky McAdams Vickybees@comcast.net

Treasurer - Karen Schwartz 

Acting Secretary - Karen Tripp 

Newsletter/Comms - Bernie Geuy bernie.geuy@gmail.com

Programs - Vicky McAdams & Bernie Geuy

Membership - Koko Baker 

Librarian - Sarah Leverett 

Historian - POSITION OPEN

CNCH Liaison - Sheila Fitzgerald

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Newsletter Deadline:

Please submit any items to be included in the Newsletter by the 2nd Sunday of the month.

Email: bernie.geuy@gmail.com

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