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Announcing CWG workshop with Susan Conover in March 2021

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New Year’s wishes for a better 2021, for a weaving year to beat all!

And mark you calendars for this workshop March 17 and 18.

It is to be Shadow Weave on 4 or 8 shafts.  It is  presented with a good plan of internet instruction, Zoom and at home weaving. Take a look at Susan’s examples.  Materials required and warping instructions will come before the workshop.

More details are forthcoming.  Please contact Patty for more details and registration.  The workshop registration is currently open to CWG members. Other guilds will be invited later.

CWG Program News and COVID-19

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Patty and Sheri share:
This April our weavers guild had many exciting events and opportunities planned and on the calendar. Many of them we have been looking forward to for more than a year. And, BOOM! now we have nothing! Well, we can make the adjustment, it will be different, but we will still be weaving and we will still want to see each other and share information as well as beautiful hand woven projects as we have been doing for 50+ years.
As of today, April 6, 2020, we have notified our guild members that the Study Group meeting for April 2nd. and the April 3rd. hanging of the show at the Beachwood library will not take place.
Further cancellations are:
                The entire show at the Beachwood library has been cancelled considering the library being closed until further notice.
               We are cancelling our workshop with Sara Bixler April 23 & 24. Sara was considering her possibilities of video workshop or mailing us the workbook materials for the workshop. We have not talked to her for a final determination but when we do we will make the proper refunds to each weaver who had signed up for the workshop.
               We will not, obviously, have to take down the show on April 24 & 25.
As for May, I wish I could use my Seer skills and be able to predict what the virus situation will be in May. At this time, I am assuming the normal study group meeting will take place on May 7 and the regularly scheduled Guild  meeting will continue on May 21. We hope so! Meantime, I suggest we consider an email vote for officers for the next Weaving Year, 2020-2021. We will hopefully be able to have the show in Chagrin Falls in conjunction with the Valley Art Center’s Art by the Falls Festival. That is still on the Art Center’s “Cautiously Optimistic” calendar.  June 1 will be our set up.
Won’t we be delighted as we meet next, the days will be warm, our greetings reflecting how pleased we are to see each other, our weaving efforts will look brilliant! Meantime, Weave ON!

Update from Elfriede

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Dear Weavers,
because we have to stay home (and weave) for a while, some of our planned events are

cancelled:
There will be no study group meeting at Jessie’s house on April the 2nd.
The set up for our show at the Beachwood library on April 3rd is cancelled. The show will not

take place because the library is closed all of April. We do not know at this time when it will be open again.

We are still hoping to do the show in Chagrin Falls in June. We will keep you informed as to events there.

At this time there is no definite news about our meeting and workshop in April. It does not look too good, but Patty will be in touch when she has more information.

I hope you are all in good spirits and healthy. Keep sending pictures and news. Elfriede

Our CWG reminders and sign-up requests

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Happy weavers, happy new year! There will not be a normally scheduled study group meeting for January. We have no hostess nor presenter signed up. Thus there will be a wonderful time to work on your Pictorial. We look forward to seeing everyone, Feb 6th, 2020  at Miriam’s house, 10:00 am with Victoria and Miriam presenting.
Our February program for the Guild is to go to Lake Farm Park to enjoy the fabulous annual quilt show. We have the inside experts, Sheri Gittinger and Joan Horwich to give us pointers about the quilts, categories, ribbons and many aspects of quilting many of us weavers know not. There will be a sign up sheet at the Jan. 23rd, 2020meeting or  please call or email Patty to have your name put on the list. There is no charge for this program and we will have a room for our brown bag lunch or buy  from their cafe.
Patty is also taking a deposit for the April 23-24, 2020 workshop of $60 and will add you to the list of participants when she gets your deposit. Again, please call or email for more information.

Teotitlan Tapestry Techniques with Marcos Bautista on March 22 and 23

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Cuyahoga Weavers Guild announces a workshop on Teotitlan Tapestry Techniques with Marcos Bautista.

There are openings for anyone interested in participating,

March 22nd and 23rd  at the South Euclid/Lyndhurst Public Library

Cost for non-members is $150

for more details contact:

Victoria Johnson-Parratt at 216-321-6016 or

Elfriede Heaney at 216-470-3794

Learn more about Marcos

Teotitlan Tapestry Techniques with Marcos Bautista

November meeting is Thursday, November 17

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Join us for the November meeting.

Thursday, November 17th

11:30 am lunch

12:00 noon business meeting

12:30 pm program at

Judson Park near the Howson Gallery

Find Judson Park at

1801 Chestnut Hills Dr

The program is:

Dorset Buttons with Tracy Jackson

We will surround ourselves with our work on display as we have our meeting at Judson Park! Tracy Jackson will be in to teach us with a 2 hour class on Dorset buttons.

 

 

Request from EGLFC. Help needed!

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EGLFC 2017 is at Risk

Volunteers make our beloved regional fiber conference happen. Unfortunately,
volunteers have not stepped forward to fill crucial roles for the 2017 event.
Good teachers and venues book far in advance. Unless a committee begins work
soon, there will be no conference.

EGLFC 2017 has the treasury to bring in top-notch instructors, but so far no
program chairs to select them or treasurer to pay them. It has volunteers for
important jobs such as registrar and website, but so far no person willing to
coordinate them all.

If you value our regional conference — big enough to bring in excellent
teachers yet small enough to get to know them — please consider what you are
willing to do to help it continue. To volunteer or ask any questions you may
have, please contact 2015 chair Peg Houseman at 716-648-2987 or
peghouse54@gmail.com. Thank you!

April meeting is Thursday, April 21 and Carol James workshop update

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Join us on Thursday April 21 for the April meeting.  Brown bag lunch and social time starts at 11:30. The meeting is at 12:30. Our program is a trip to the nearby CWG library annex. Duplicate materials will be available.

Church of the Saviour, 2537 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 in the new meeting room.

Two places are still available for the Carol James finger weaving workshop in May.  It is Friday, May 20.  Our May Thursday, May 19th meeting will be her lecture program about sprang.