Ann Growley called the meeting to order and Chris Cornell gave the treasurer’s report  The minutes from February were approved.

Old Business: Ann Growley is continuing to arrange for our participation at Duran’s Down Home Days and Highland Games.

New Business:  Roz Macken noted our subscriptions for Spin Off and Piecework are due for renewal. After discussing whether they are both still useful to the guild, it was generally agreed to renew both. Next month’s program will be sewing mittens from felted sweaters; a list of materials will be included in the newsletter.

Show and Tell: Phyllis Lord brought her grandmother’s well loved knitting kit, a strapped basket she made that suggests an option for our project today, and her rigid heddle loom with a brightly colored scarf-in-process. Mabel Cable has been working with her water colors. Roz Macken brought the green and brown cotton she grew, along with seeds, for anyone to try spinning or growing. Sarah Peelman showed the blue-green heathered cardigan she has been knitting. Karen Fry brought a draw-string Fair Isle glasses case made for her by her daughter and a project bag with yarns. Anne O’Boyle knit a number of cotton dishcloths. Sharna Harger, tired of chintzy Christmas stockings, has been working on generously sized stockings for each of her six children. Chris Cornell had a number of nice yarns she wanted to use up, so she has been weaving them into a stack of runners. Kim Smolinsky attended a fundraiser for her shearer, Ross Farm, recently destroyed by fire, and got a compact crochet stitch book and a book on Tunisian crochet. She is crocheting a cotton lace blanket for her friend’s baby. She also just successfully helped one of her sheep through a difficult breech lambing for the first time. Tammy Tenpas finished her head band, plied the yarn she was spinning last time, and finished her son’s socks, knit partly from her own wool, partly from wool given to her, and partly from wool dyed with Wilton cake dye. Elizabeth Tomcho has been reading the book To Dye For, which exposes some of the disturbing concerns of the textile industry. Bernadette Bird passed the completed rug she crocheted based on the presentation Tammy Tenpas did last year. Marje Koehlert is continuing her explorations in double knitting with the help of the stitch markers she made from Jane Lenart’s presentation last month. Jane Lenart is just back from a visit to Arizona’s Montezuma Castle National Monument where she gained a new respect for the efforts early people had to make to provide themselves with clothing and other basic necessities from nature. Meghan Vorisek has been reading Abby Franquemont’s Respect the Spindle. Cate John’s found a cone of boucle yarn and has made a stack of diagonal weave pin loom squares from it. Maddie Mumford has been weaving green and white cotton towels on a four-shaft table loom and crocheting a lace blanket. She has also been reading The Key to Weaving by Mary Black.

Respectfully submitted,
Marje Koehlert, Secretary