Programs
Currently transitioning from Zoom to In-person and/or hybride presentations
Please check each event to see if it is in person or via zoom.
Educational programs take place during Guild Meetings,
which are held at the Shepard Garden and Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento, CA,
10:00 a.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month, September through May, except December.
March 22, 2022
10:00 a.m.-Noon
Speaker: Margery Erickson (zoom)
Topic: Painted Warps
Margery Erickson will be our guest speaker for the morning meeting. We will use the Guild meeting Zoom Link for both the meeting and the workshop.
Margery Erickson is a master artisan and a member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. She specializes in hand dyed warps, wearable art and home décor and sells through an Etsy store. https://www.etsy.com/shop/maverickson She will give the Guild a presentation on creating one-of-a-kind warps using fiber reactive dyes and explain how colors inspire her in dyeing her warps.
April 26, 2022
Speaker : Stephenie Gaustad
Hybrid meeting: In-person at Shepherds Garden Arts Center. Also being transmitted via zoom
Topic: Finishing Cloth
All about fulling, scouring, beetling, crabbing, London Finishing w/ examples of before and after finishing of fabric samples and discussion. Further discussion of non-wool fabrics, like hemp, linen and cotton. Followed by Q & A of members woven cloth.
May 24, 2022
Bring Your Own Picnic, Hall of Fame Award, Place Setting Contest,
Stash/Equipment Sale and Fashion Show
Hybrid meeting: In-person at Shepherds Garden Arts Center. Also being transmitted via zoom In keeping with ongoing concerns regarding Covid we will not have a potluck lunch.
Instead, BYOP (bring your own picnic) lunch and join the picnic place setting contest.
The categories are:
Exotic ~ Repurposed ~ Artistic ~ Elegant
Judging and awards will be given for the best picnic place setting.
As always bring anything you’d like to wear in the fashion show or display for others to see.
Our Hall of Fame Winners will be announced
The members “Stash Sale” will happen in the back room. Bring your items and set-up to sell two years worth of built-up stash/equipment.
September 27, 2022
Speaker : Stephenie Gaustad
Hybrid meeting: In-person at Shepherds Garden Arts Center. Also being transmitted via zoom
Topic: Everything About Hemp
October 26, 2022
Speaker : Sharlet Elms
Topic: History of Textiles
Sharlet Elms is by profession a Public Health Microbiologist and is retired from Placer County but continues to work part time as an instructor in the California Dept. of Public Health Microbiologist program. Her passion is weaving, and she teaches beginning and intermediate weaving to private students as well as teaching Rigid Heddle Weaving classes at Rumpelstiltskin’s in Sacramento. Sharlet started and mentors a weaving study group for the Hangtown Fibers Guild in Placerville and has lectured and taught fiber related workshops for the Sacramento and the Hangtown guilds.