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Calendar of EventsSat. Nov. 7 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Guild Meeting, Christ Episcopal church, 870 Diamond Park Square, Meadville Sat. Dec. 5 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Guild Meeting, Christ Episcopal church, 870 Diamond Park Square, Meadville Sat. Jan. 3 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Weather Permitting Guild Meeting, Christ Episcopal church, 870 Diamond Park Square, Meadville November Program
Bring handmade items to donate to charity.
We will continue the slow stitching program introduced by Karen Fry in September. If you need to finish the project we started, bring it along. There will also be additional kits available if you missed the first class or would like to purchase a second. Alternatively, you can bring a project of your choice to work on. Minutes of the October 2026 Meeting Ann Growley called the meeting to
order and Chris Cornell gave the treasurer’s
report The minutes from September were approved.
Old Business: Those participating should bring Christmas donations to our November meeting; please remember to make them washable. Scarves for the December scarf exchange can use any technique or fiber. They should be wrapped but not labeled to any specific person. New Business: There was brief discussion of upcoming programs, including making, spinning and weaving a gradient, beading with Meghan Vorisek, weaving a faux-fleece chair pad with Beth Weldon, and a basket making program next fall. Dates have not yet been set for most of these. Show and Tell: Holly Smolinsky is still working on her Woobles crochet kit. She is also the proud owner of two female angora rabbits acquired from Meghan Beichner. Bernadette Bird has been making pin loom squares, quilting, and working on a knitted hat and scarf set. Claire Griffin got a drop spindle from a workshop at the Shenandoah Fiber Festival, but she primarily spins on a supported spindle. As a potter, she makes her own support bowls, and she also displayed a beautiful flat-folding laser cut kate for plying. Tammy Tenpas got back eleven pounds of fingering and DK weight yarn from a fleece she bought last year. She finished the rug she crocheted in memory of her mother and also finished a pair of teal socks. Additionally, she went to the Endless Mountains Fiber Festival where she got yarns for socks and a sweater. Anne O’Boyle showed her Morgan Hill shawl knit of fingering weight cotton and a smaller shawl made in a beautiful blend of warm colors gently muted with gray. Anne also passed a looped bag made from thigh-rolled tree bast from Papua New Guinea; reportedly these bags are used for everything, including carrying babies and hanging them on the wall at church! Kim Smolinsky, hot off the Shenandoah Festival last weekend, brought a bobbin of mixed samples spun at several different shows. She plied the wool from Holly’s sheep Vivi, and passed a set of gorgeous punis prepared in black and gold. Meghan Beichner brought a fisherman’s rib shawl in bright pastels, a blue and red shawl with purl-textured stripes, and a “Grid Gambit” cowl where her own white angora provides beautiful softness raised above the blue background. She also brought a pair of socks, a shawl on the needles, and indigo reduced from a 5-gallon bucket a to few pure lumps in the bottom of a jelly jar, ready to be used for watercolors and dying. Pat Retchloff got first place at the fair for her cardboard woven pillow, and now she is working on a second weaving for either a pillow or a bag. Pat also hit the thrift store lottery by finding a bag of camel and other specialty rovings for $10. Connie Day brought a number of colorful fleeces from her rescued alpacas, and she is currently working on a prayer shawl. Maddie Mumford made two scarves, one from her daughter’s handspun and another in red, yellow and blue plaid from some especially squishy yarn. Victoria Marsh brought a bag of samples from her summer of natural dying, including colors from oak and pear leaves and Dyer’s Polypore. She plans to blend, spin and eventually knit them. Karen Fry modeled a slow-stitched jacket-in-progress with a corduroy shirt base and embellishments in many techniques, including fussy cuts, darning, lacework, applique and embroidery. She also shared the in-progress pages of a book she is stitching in which Milton Moose guides visitors near Winter Pines village. Cate Johns is working on a cheerful pin loom blanket for her daughter. Patty Bratz, visiting from the Hilltop Spinners, modeled a hand knit sweater and showed her large handspun alpaca “car shawl” and some pretty mystery fiber from the Endless Mountain festival. Marje Koehlert passed her finished slow stitch project from Karen’s program last month, several beach glass stitch markers from Jane Lenart’s program earlier this year, and a finally finished pair of convertible Corriedale gloves. Chris Cornell brought a hand spun and knit cowl in the same Grid Gambit pattern as Megan’s but in a larger gauge and in a different color scheme that perfectly matched Chris’s outfit. She also gave several great tips on an inexpensive set of circular needles, using barber cord to keep stitches from slipping off needles, and making socks from two different balls of yarn by knitting two stitches from each ball alternately. Ann Growley shared an I-cord knitting tool, a portable “Tidy Teasing Board” from Nistock Farms, a skein of white Cormo, and about 800 yards (so far) of yarn spun randomly from an armful of rovings in blues and greens. She also brought a cabled hat knit for her niece in oranges and browns that blend into a pleasant amber. Respectfully submitted, Marje Koehlert, Secretary Classified Ads Sonshine Acres Registered Hampshire, Tunis and Romney sheep. Club and freezer lambs, breeding sheep and fleece. Ryan Rd., Meadville. 814-333-9251; email: wwclark@windstream.net. Old Path Farm David Gamber & family, Guys Mills PA. Finn, Icelandic, & Shetland. Grass fed lamb, wool, pelts. Email: daveanne06@gmail.com Alpaca
Animals & Fiber
for sale. Raw
Alpaca Fiber –Prime blankets that have
been
skirted, ready for washing and spinning. $45. Alpaca Roving –Hand
washed and dyed in various colors. Great for hand spinning and felting.
$16.00 for 4 oz.
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