This September we met in Butler Memorial Park at Optimus pavilion.
Our program this month was about mordants, natural dyes, making dye stocks, and modifiers for a variety of fiber types.
September meeting
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August Meeting
We will be at Butler Memorial Park for meeting and project day in August.
The program this month was about band weaving. Marilyn showed us some of her fantastic bands, looms, and books on the subject.
July Meeting
Meeting was held at the Big Butler Fair with a demonstration as program.
June 2021
Optimist Pavilion
For the June meeting we will be returning to Butler Memorial Park.
For the program, I would like to have our second “stash to treasure” of the year. I know many members were unable to attend the meeting at Steward Hall this winter. With the outdoor setting, hopefully everyone who wants to attend will feel comfortable attending.
May Meeting
We will be returning to Trinity Lutheran Church for May meeting and project day. We will be meeting upstairs in the fellowship hall, not in the basement meeting room.
The program will be about preparing and spinning from fleece. Last month we discussed skirting, where (on the fleece) to find the best wool, and sampled some. This month we’ll dive deeper into prep, prep tools, cleaning, and blending.
April Meeting
Due to an event at Steward Hall, we will be returning to Trinity Lutheran Church for April meeting and project day. We will be meeting upstairs in the fellowship hall, not in the basement meeting room.
The program was about spinning from fleece. We discussed skirting, where (on the fleece) to find the best wool, prep, and spinning techniques.
February 2021
The meeting was held at Stewart Hall in Harmony. Stash-to-Treasure will be the “program” for February’s meeting.
I am tentatively planning “Christmas in July” in the park for those of you (myself included) who aren’t necessarily comfortable with an indoor meeting yet.
I hope everyone had a happy and safe Christmas and New Year’s!
-Jen
January 2021
January’s meetings have been cancelled. Stash-to-Treasure will be the “program” for February’s meeting provided it is once again safe to meet.
Trinity Lutheran Church (where we have been meeting since fall weather pushed us out of the park) has informed us that they will be closing until further notice in order to help curb the spread of Covid 19 through the community.
I hope everyone has a happy and safe Christmas and new year’s!
-Jen
November, 2020
November’s meeting was held at Trinity Lutheran Church (120 Sunset drive in Butler) just past the Clearview Mall. Project day was there also.
The program was a zoom presentation by Pittsburgh fiber artist and author Deb Brandon. Her presentation is available for guild members to stream until November 27, if you did not receive a link in your email, please comment and I will get that to you ASAP.
We collected a table full of handmade items to donate to various local charities: 
And a handful of members told of items they had already donated to charities of their choosing.
October, 2020
October’s meeting was held at Trinity Lutheran Church (120 Sunset drive in Butler) just past the Clearview Mall. Project day will be there also.
The program this month was about spinning wheels, with a focus on drive types (what does double drive mean?) and maintance.
This was also the final day for the 1oz angora challenge. Five contestants submitted projects:
Since we will be inside, I would like to encourage our membership to follow indoor gathering guidelines. From the CDC website: “In general, the more people you interact with, the more closely you interact with them, and the longer that interaction, the higher your risk of getting and spreading COVID-19. Indoor spaces are more risky than outdoor spaces” and “Masks are meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected but does not have symptoms”. I will have some disposable masks available if you need one.
BSWG 