September Meeting

6th September 2011

Good to be back, time to catch up with everyone news. Members that went to summer school will tell us about their course. Do you have any interesting pics of your hol's(I mean textile related) then bring them along and share.

Autumn programme

Coming soon............

First meeting of autumn will be Tuesday 1st September 2009 7:30pm in the Linen room, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

Selling your yarn and Purl Celebration plans

Last nights meeting focused on selling your yarn. Joanne, Inga and Freda each gave a short presentation. Joanne discussed using the internet and marketing your products. Inga introduced us to 'googlewack' and 'making yourself viral' in her talk on promoting yourself and Freda talked about her experience of selling at craft fairs, shows and local shops. Hopefully everyone was inspired and maybe we'll all be decreasing our current stash so we can make a new one!

We were reminded to leave items for display/sale at Knit and Stitch with Joanne, Dorothy, Kay or Inga before Wednesday 15th April.

Forthcoming events also mentioned were:
UFTM Cultra Wool Day 30th May
Saintfield Show 20th June 2009
Castlewellan Show 18th July (TBC)
Holywood Transition Town event Sept 2009 (TBC)

As it is our 30th year as a guild a celebration was proposed. It was also pointed out that 30th anniversary is represented by pearl, so this will be our Purl celebration! It will be on Tuesday 16th June at a venue to be arranged. We hope to contact as many current and past members as possible and new members will also of course be very welcome!

update to programme

The presentation at the March meeting is now confirmed as Freda McGill of the NI Rare Breeds Trust and April will be on using the internet to sell your yarns.

february meeting

Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the February meeting, but luckily for me neither could the speaker Freda McGill! The weather here was cold and frosty with snow in places and travel was difficult for many. We are hoping to reschedule Freda's talk for March or April and will update the blog once finalised.

december meeting

Remember to bring your secret santa gifts tomorrow........
And perhaps your wheel/spindle/current WIP for a relaxing evening of socialising and mince pies!

november meeting

at our november meeting (4/11/08) we were treated to a complete demo of weaving with a four-shafted loom by the ever-entertaining rosemary from the ulster folk and transport museum. she ran through everything from winding the weft to threading the loom and at the end we were all invited to do a little weaving ourselves. so informative!

i'm already looking forward to the rest of rosemary's demos later on in the season.

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the fiber for secret santa was passed around.

secret santa presents will be given out on tuesday 2nd december at our christmas party/gathering .

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we'd love you to join us...just drop me a line at maisiehandspun@live.ie