Sharing some of the fun photos I have from my recent trip to Scotland. Close your eyes and imagine tartans! In every shop window the country is alive with color and plaids. Pick your family colors and pattern and go for it!! All over Glasgow there were these colorful Scotties. Each decorated “for show”. There were tartan scarves, hats, blankets, shawls. There were kilts and blankets and mittens and towels. Here, there, everywhere! Fun to take in all the color. We l

We started our month with a bang, a buffet and a challenge. The Placer County Fiber Arts Group met on the 4th of July for a noon potluck (featuring no less than Bobbi's HEALTHY HOT DOGS) and a fiber challenge. We had been tasked with weaving something red, white and blue so here are some of our entries: I think we did pretty well and had lots of fun sharing our projects - along with many that were not red, white and blue. Next meeting was the SWSG Spinning Group that meets

Grab your spinning wheels, drop your spindles, card your wool. On your marks! Get set! Spin!!! It is that fun time of year when we follow the Tour de France with our own test of strength: Tour de Fleece. This year's Tour de Fleece runs from July 4th to July 26th and follows the schedule and route of Tour de France. I have the spinning logs printed out and will distribute them at the July 7th spinners meeting. Text or email me if you cant make the meeting - or you can k

Lets start our summer blog with some summer fun: this is Bobbi's "mystery fiber". She told us she rolls her cat's offloading fur into little balls as it sits on her lap. To use them, she created this really cute "picture". That's being resourceful! cat balls!!! Summer is getting heated up now. We were lucky for awhile but now we are going to have to hunker down and endure it. SO....... a perfect time to choose a fun projects and pass our time indoors working on someth

The month of May held our last guild meeting for the 2025-2026 season. We were back at our favorite spot: Shepard Garden and Arts Center. (going forward, known as Sacramento Garden and Arts Center). We had a great turn out, a ROOMFUL of items for sale, a BANQUET of beautiful and delicious food. We thanked our reigning Queen Judy for her two years of hard, time-consuming work. She got to wear her tiara for one last time. She was presented with a boat shuttle engraved wit

PICK YOUR OWN SWEET PEAS AT THE IRIS FARM There have been lots of great adventures going on lately so I'll share a few with you today. The first was yesterdays trip to Horton Iris Farm. It is an annual event the SWSG Spinners Group organizes. We had rain, rain, rain ahead of time so we were a little "iffy" about how things would go. But Hortons Iris Farm had us all set up as usual under a tree with plenty of chairs, tables and area to spread out. We had a great crew of

Come join us on Tuesday, April 28 at The Reason Center and try something new and exciting. Courtney Wright is going to lead us through the pulled warp technique she learned from Susan Iverson at her 3-day workshop at CNCH. I'll let Courtney tell you about it: "Greetings: I have been given the opportunity to share a Pulled Warp technique I learned from Susan Iverson. I took her 3 day class at CNCH a few years ago and it's very interesting with a lot of applications, limite

SO MUCH FUN!! Can you believe it: we were BACK AT THE SHEPARD GARDEN AND ART CENTER!!!! To make it even better, we had our annual Mini-Workshops. It is always such a lively gathering. We can sit together, work together, visit together and learn a new craft at the same time. Thanks to our teachers who made it all happen....and to Sandy S for pulling it all together. We had Sharlet teaching inkle weaving and there were lots of colorful results: Linda taught us rope making

Dennis experimenting with denim seams It is only Mid March and already I have seen so many new and interesting projects - it will be fun to share them with you all. The first group that is bustling along is the Spinning Group that meets the first Tuesday of every month. Here are Linda and Maureen working away: The spinning group meets the first Tuesday of the month year round and all guild members are welcome to drop in any time. That was on Tuesday; the following Saturday

Social Logins When you log in to the Guild website do you notice you are being routed to our website through your Google, Facebook or Apple account? If this is happening to you it’s because you authorized a social login . If this annoys you, it’s easy to fix. To disable social logins for the Guild website all you need to do is sign into the Guild website and go to your account setting for the website. Scroll down about halfway and you will see Social Logins . If any of the