The Memphis Guild of Handloom Weavers
2010-2011 Calendar of Events

revised 4/20/11

August 28
Saturday 9:30 AM

Convergence

 Guild members share their experiences from HGA's Convergence 2010 Albuquerque.
September 25
Saturday 9:30 AM

Creativity

New member and graphic designer Leigh Ann Dye will share 100 ideas for generating your creative spark.  

October 6-10
Audubon Park

Pink Palace Crafts Fair

 MGHW participates for the 23rd year as demonstrating craftsman and vendors. Are you weaving for this?
Wednesday 10/6 (setup)  11:00 AM
Thursday 10/7 10AM - 6PM
Friday 10/8 10AM - 6PM
Saturday 10/9 10AM - 6PM
Sunday 10/10 10AM - 5PM

November 20

African Textiles

 Linda Weghorst will share tales and textiles from her visit to Ghana.
December 11
Saturday 11:00 AM
Location TBA

Holiday Luncheon
and Silent Auction

 Join guild members for a pot luck luncheon and holiday auction. We will be selling some of the guild's old looms by silent auction.

January 22-23
Pick Palace Mansion
Time TBA

Painted Warp
Workshop

 Workshop with Linda Weghorst. Permanent fabric paints will be used to create designs on warp threads using a wide variety of techniques. Weaver controlled Design Weaves will be used to enhance painted designs.
February 26
Saturday 9:30 AM

Bead Leno

 Jennifer Sargent will demonstrate how to set up loom-controlled crossing of warp threads for Leno weave.
March 26
Saturday 9:30 AM

Weaving School
in New Mexico

 Linda Glickert will share her experiences weaving in the summer program at Northern New Mexico College.
April 9-10
off-site

Collapse Weave
Workshop

 Anne Field of New Zealand will present her workshop on Collapse Weave: weaving with overtwisted yarns to create fabric that collapses off the loom.
April 30 rescheduled from May 14
11:00 AM
Jackie McNamara's

Spring Luncheon
& Basket Weaving

 Join the guild for the end-of-year potluck luncheon. We will try our hands at basket weaving.

Meetings are held in the Weaving Studio (room 300) at St. John's United Methodist Church at the corner of Peabody and Bellevue in Memphis unless otherwise indicated. Members are encouraged to bring current projects, weaving problems, new yarns, or ideas to share. Prior to every program there will be a brief business meeting.