Meetings
- January - Farmington meeting
2. March 18th - Dolores Public Library. Ann will demonstrate Fireworks, a weaving software program that works on both PC and Mac computers. Bring a sack lunch.
3. May 20th- Basket weaving.
4. July 15, 2023. Our annual picnic will be at San Juan Lavender Farms. We’ll weave a mini-want or lavender basket. Bring a sack lunch.
5. September 17, 2023. Learn to sew a small bag with your handwoven fabric.
6. November 18, 2023. Our annual Christmas Partynand service item donations.
Special Interest Groups
- Wild Woolly Women of the West Spinning Guild. They meet once a month on the last Saturday of the month at different locations. Everyone is welcome. You can find information at their blogsite: http://wildandwoollywomen.blogspot.com/.
- Cortez Area Fiber Artists. This group meets on the third Sat. of the even numbered months from 9:00 to 1:00. They meet in different locations and everyone brings a project to work on. Fiber artists from Cortez, Mancos, Dolores, Yellow Jacket and elsewhere in the Cortez area are welcome.
- The New Mexico Fiber Group meets on the third Thursday of each month in Aztec. This also includes Bloomfield, Farmington, Kirtland and surrounding areas. Anyone interested in spinning, weaving and fiber arts in general is welcome. Bring a project to work on.
- Study Groups
- Double Weave - Ann Kennedy
- Deflected Double Weave - Elaine Bakkenson
- Dyeing - Corey Heisler
- Weaving for Clothing - Anne Worthington
- Methods of Measuring a Warp and Dressing a Loom - Kathy Sehnert
- Overshot - Shirley Haisman
5. Cricket Club
Interested in learning more about rigid heddle weaving? The Cricket Club meets at Dancing Hooves Farm and Studio on the 2nd Friday of the month. Whether you know how to weave or not, you are invited to come. Bring your Cricket rigid heddle loom or other rigid heddle loom and join the club! If you do not have a loom you are welcome as well. We will be learning how to do different things on our looms and work on group projects as well as our own projects. We will be meeting from 1-4 on the 2nd Friday of the month. Call Karen Dearing for more details.
Please refer to your membership list for email addresses and phone numbers.
Guild Sponsored Events
At this time there are no Guild sponsored special events. We will be sponsoring a workshop in 2020. The Intermountain Weavers Conference will be held in Durango 2019 so we encourage you to sign up for one of their workshops.
Events
Estes Park Wool Market
June 2019
Estes Park, CO.
www.estesnet.com/events/woolmarket.htm
Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta
May 2019
Expo New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
For more information visit www.fiberartsfiesta.org.
Intermountain Weavers Conference
July 2019
Ft. Lewis College, Durango, CO.
For more information visit www.intermountainweavers.org.
Sheep is Life Celebration
June 2019
Tsaile Campus, Navajo Nation
For more information visit www.navajolifeway.org
Salida Fiber Festival 2012
September 2019
Salida, Colorado
For more information visit www.salidafiberfestival.org
Taos Wool Festival
October, 2019
Kit Carson Park, Taos, NM
For more information visit www.taoswoolfestival.org