Yarn Ball!! December 13 at 11:00

Date: Saturday, December 13, 2025

Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover

Our program this month is: Annual Yarn Ball

Join us this month for our Annual Yarn Ball! Please note our later gathering time of 11:00 am. The festivities will start a bit late, but will be MAGICAL!

Wear your yarny/wooly finest to the party. We will have prizes for those that are best dressed, most sparkle/shine, most creative, best use of fiber and color! Show off your best and take home a prize!

Also, please bring your appetite and your favorite party food to add to our potluck. We will have a table set out to offer our favorite finger foods and party platters. The more we have the more we can share and be merry.

If you would like to participate in our Secret Santa, please bring a $10-20 gift in a plain brown paper bag. The theme for this year is “Containers.” Whether that is bags, notion boxes, project bags, or a lovely box for accessories or a notions tin, everyone can always use a new container to keep our tools organized and handy.

We will also be voting on the newest additions to the Board. The positions are Social Media and one Programs subcommittee member.

November guild meeting and other guild activities

Date: Saturday, November 8, 2025

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover, AL 35216
Our program this month is: Yarn Rosettes

Just in time for the holidays, our wonderfully creative Guild member, Denise Stanton is walking us through making yarn rosettes. Perfect little flourish for those Christmas gifts, holiday sweaters and children’s accessories. 

Please bring DK and/or Worsted weight yarn scraps, including art yarn. The funkier the better! 

The guild will provide the cardboard looms and bent-tipped tapestry needles. 

By the end of the morning you will go home with beautifully creative way to use up those odds and ends of your favorite yarns.

Other News: 

Please join us November 14-15 at the Alabama Fiber Festival at Cahaba Brewing Company, 4500 5th Ave South, Building C, Birmingham, AL 35222; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.

The Greater Birmingham Fiber Guild will have a table at the festival and we are still in need of volunteers to answer questions, encourage new membership and sit and craft while “manning” the booth.

Please reach out to Shira Robinowich-Miller if you are able to give some time. We will happily take you for an hour or the whole day!!

November Ravelry Rumpus: Wolfenoot!

All right, dog lovers, this one’s for you! Tired of cute cats hogging all the yarn? Well, November 23 is Wolfenoot, a holiday created by a 7-year-old boy in New Zealand to celebrate canines, kindness, and kindness to canines. It’s also described as celebrating both our human and canine packs and making the world a better and kinder place to play with fiber.

All month long (not just November 23), post your pictures and projects in our Ravelry thread of dogs with yarn, dogs wearing yarny things, yarny things that look like dogs, you get the idea. Ravelry link: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/greater-birmingham-fiber-guild/topics/4381949

December Meeting: Yarn Ball

The theme for this year’s gift exchange will be project bags and notion boxes. Please keep in the $10-$15 range. We will not be doing Dirty Santa this year, but will have a friendly exchange at the end of the meeting. 

Board Elections and Positions

We still have a few positions available and are always looking for members who wish to share their expertise and time. Please reach out to Denise Stanton via text if you are interested in being on the Nominating Committee or volunteering for an open Board position.

Membership Dues and Renewal

The Guild’s membership year runs January through December. Annual dues are $25 per individual, and $30 per family. Remittance of payment gets meeting announcements and Zoom room information. You may pay by cash/check at any meeting or mail your check to Jennifer Lackey . Dues also can be paid using PayPal. Please mark it “friends/family” and NOT “goods/services”. Use this address: paypal.me/GBFiberGuild or use our gmail account gbfiberguild@gmail.com 

October Guild Meeting, Saturday, October 11, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover, AL 35216 

Our Program this month is: Natural Dying with Beth Booth

Guild member and Expert Dyer Beth Booth will be introducing us to the wonderful world of natural dying. By using the world around us we can create beautiful naturally dyed yarns and fibers.

She will walk us through her process as well as share some of her hard-found secrets to successful dying.

Through discussion and samples, Beth will open our eyes to the wondrous world of nature; you will never look at those pesky “weeds” the same way again!

 

Join us after her discussion for Q&A and then stay for Show and Tell. Bring your latest awe-inspiring piece to show off and tell us all about how it came to be!. 

Also, if you provided pieces for the Homewood Library show in September, they will be available for pick up. Stay and let the Guild see what lovelies you provided for the community to see!

In Other News: 

Ladderback Jacquard Colorwork: Zoom Workshop with Jennifer Miller

Have you ever struggled with float tension or peek-through colors in stranded colorwork? Do you like trying a new technique? Join us for our Zoom workshop with national teacher Jennifer Miller to learn ladderback jacquard, a colorwork technique that will solve (almost) all your pesky colorwork problems. We’ll practice by knitting a cute hat with hearts and learn how to apply this technique to other colorwork charts.

Date: Saturday, Ocotober 18, 2025

Time: 10 am- noon CST

Location Option 1: Zoom from your home

Location Option 2 (in-person group): Hoover Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover, AL 35216

Note: This is the same place as our REGULAR meeting space for monthly guild meetings. Lunch will not be provided, but you are welcome to bring your won and eat with friends.

Cost: $30 per person (guild members)

Check the emailed October meeting announcement for more information about registering.

 

Spin in Public Day, Sept. 20

 We're celebrating Spin in Public Day this coming Saturday, September 20, at the Homewood Public Library. We'll sit in the same area with the ongoing show of our members' work. There is room for spinning wheels or spindles, or bring whatever you are working on. 

We'll begin at 10:00am and stay until we all leave. Come when you can!

Everyone is welcome! Bring your own chair!

The Frenzy is coming!

 

FIBER FRENZY!!! This Saturday, Sept. 13!

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Location: Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover, AL 35216

 Our program this month is: Fiber Frenzy!!!

 Have you had a hankering for more fiber in your diet? Want to make new friends with common interests? Does a particular fiber art peak your interests?

Bring a friend and join us this Saturday for our Annual Fiber Frenzy!

Doors open at 10 a.m. to a wonder of yarnie delights.

Register for door prizes (must be present to win)!

Visit craft displays by our study groups!

SHOP with guest vendors!

Peruse our freebie/trade/member sale room and take home a treasure or two!

Bring your unused fiber, yarn and tools to rehome! We are taking donations for the freebie room so please bring those to the Room Hosts Yvonne and Shira as soon as you arrive. If you’d like to sell items and are not a vendor, we have space for you, but you will be responsible for your items and the transactions.

In Other News:

Join the Guild for World Wide Spin In Public Day, Saturday, September 20th at 10 a.m. at the Homewood Public Library, 1721 Oxmoor Road, Birmingham, AL 35209

We will set up in the Gallery with our September Guild display in the Ellenburg Art Gallery. Please bring your spinning apparatus of choice (wheel, spindle, etc) and a comfortable chair. 

Ladderback Jacquard Colorwork: Zoom Workshop with Jennifer Miller

Have you ever struggled with float tension or peek-through colors in stranded colorwork? Do you like trying a new technique? Join us for our Zoom workshop with national teacher Jennifer Miller to learn ladderback jacquard, a colorwork technique that will solve (almost) all your pesky colorwork problems. We’ll practice by knitting a cute hat with hearts and learn how to apply this technique to other colorwork charts.

 Date: Saturday, Ocotober 18, 2025

Time: 10 am- noon CST

Location Option 1: Zoom from your home

Location Option 2 (in-person group): Hoover Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover, AL 35216

Note: This is the same place as our REGULAR meeting space for monthly guild meetings. Lunch will not be provided, but you are welcome to bring your won and eat with friends.

Cost: $30 per person (guild members)

More details and registration can be found here:

https://form.jotform.com/252455758263162

 We hope to see you there!

From Jennifer Lackey...

We installed the Show at the Homewood Library yesterday and, thanks to all the people who submitted their work and the amazing volunteers who came to help with the displays, the Show looks AMAZING!! If you have any time this month, definitely stop by the Library to check it out.

OR consider blocking off some time on Saturday, the 20th to come to our Spin in Public Day at the Library! We'll be there from 10am to ??? Bring your wheel, spindle, charka, etc. (and maybe a chair?) OR just your knitting/stitching/whatever:) It's fun to be surrounded by the Guild's work while showing how it's actually made.

AND if you've ever wanted to learn to spin but can't make the monthly Spin Study group, this is a great opportunity. I'll have my Ashford Traddy there and it's a great wheel to start with. I'd love to show you (and the Public!) how to spin!!

August Guild Meeting, Saturday, 8-9-2025

Topic: Hands-on Beginner-friendly Crochet Bunting

Date: Saturday, August 9, 2025. 10:00am

Location: Hoover Church of Christ

Crochet Bunting is a delightful way to add charm and a pop of color to any space! Whether it is decorating for a party, your local guild’s meeting space or just adding some jazz to your home, this versatile and beginner-friendly project is perfect for all occasions.

With endless colors and shapes, crocheted bunting is as fun to make as it is to display.

August 15 is National Granny Square Day and to celebrate we are gathering with our hooks in hand to create a unique and colorful bunting that will be displayed at September’s Fiber Frenzy.

Hosted online by Simply Crochet magazine, if you’d like to participate in the nationwide event, please take a picture of your finished product at the meeting and post to Instagram with hashtags #GrannySquareDay2025 and #GrannySquareMake2025

Please Bring:

• Scrap yarn of your liking
• Crochet hooks and/or knitting needles (you can find size preferences on the ball band of your yarn)
• Darning needle
• Scissors

The guild will provide patterns for the bunting both in crochet and knit. The wonderful members of our Tatting and Crochet group will be available to assist and lead small groups.

In Other News

The Homewood Public Library has again asked for the GBFG to display our wonderful talents in September in the Ellenburg Art Gallery.

Please bring your items to display to August’s meeting. They will be set up/displayed at the library for all of September and will be returned at the November meeting. Please include your name, phone number, email address and a brief description of your item(s).

We would love to display items that have been made throughout the year at meetings; felted bowls, quilted mug rugs, etc.

If you would like to volunteer to assist there is plenty to do! We need Museum placards compiled and made, displays arranged and pieces cataloged. Please reach out to the Board at 2025gbfgboard@googlegroups.com

 

Family Picnic is this weekend!!

https://www.bbhillalpacas.com/

Everyone is invited to our annual Family picnic. Bring the whole family! Well, except for pets, they need to stay and watch the house.

This year’s gathering will be held at the award-winning alpaca farm/event venue Blackberry Hill Alpaca Farm. Come see and pet the Alpacas!

Date: Saturday, July 26, 2025

Time: 10:00 am-Noon

Location: Blackberry Hill Alpaca Farm, 6330 Saks Road, Anniston, AL 36206

Please bring your own lunch, drink (non-alcoholic, please) and a dessert to share, if you'd like. Tables and chairs will be provided.

Spinners, bring your spindle or wheel for an informal spin-in for Tour de Fleece.

Keep an eye on the weather and your inbox! If weather gets bad again, the Board will notify all via email of any changes/cancellations.

See you Saturday!!

July Guild Meeting, Saturday, July 12

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover, AL 35216

No Zoom available for this meeting

Our program this month is: Christmas in July

Tis the season to start thinking of handmade holiday gifts. To try and evade the last minute holiday rush please join us for a little gift and decoration making fun.

We will be doing a few make and takes and also have examples of other projects with take home instructions to do later. We will also be providing supplies, but if you have anything specific that you want to use please bring it with you!

Felted Soap: Cover a bar of soap in felted wool! These are so easy to make and are great gifts for almost anyone on your list. We will have wool and some soap on hand, but if you have a specific kind of soap that you like, please bring it with you.

Washcloths and Facecloths: Cotton washcloths are a great way to use less paper towels, are quick to make, and are a fun way to try out a new stitch without committing to a full sweater or blanket. We will have some Knit Picks’ Dishy yarn and other cotton yarns, but please feel free to bring your own yarn if you wish.

Felt Ornaments: We will have lots of patterns and supplies to make stuffed felt ornaments.

Granny Square Trees: Now these are just adorable as either an ornament or making several and making them into a garland. We will have a variety of greens and browns for the trees but if you have specific colors or yarns that you like please bring them. 

Team Vulcan Spinners, Tour de Fleece 2025

The Vulcan Spinners are back up and riding; join us and spin up miles and miles of yarn. You can find us at: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/greater-birmingham-fiber-guild/4366494 Whether on your old production wheel, spindle, e-spinner or anything you can put a spin on fiber with, join the Team Vulcan Spinners for spinning fun.

 

Family Picnic is Back on the Schedule

May’s Family Picnic has been rescheduled to July 26, 10am-noon at Blackberry Hill Alpaca Farm, 6340 Saks Road, Anniston, AL 36206. Bring your own food and drink and a dessert to share. We will have use of the pavilion and take a tour of their working alpaca farm. There is a small gift shop with alpaca themed items so don’t forget your wallet!

Save the date!

The May picnic that was canceled due to scarey weather has been rescheduled! Saturday, July 26, 10:00 to 12:00, at Blackberry Hill Alpaca Farm. Bring your own food and drink. Shared desserts are welcome!

More information will be posted and emailed soon.

Register by Wednesday, June 25!

Confetti Crumb Quilting Workshop

Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025

Time: 10 am-3 pm (break for lunch at noon)

Location: St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church, Holy Family Room, 2061 Patton Chapel Road, Hoover, AL 35216

Instructor: Rosalynn Fairless

Cost: $15 per person (Guild member exclusive). Space is limited to first 20 members who fill out the registration link below.

Do you have fabric, yarn or fiber scraps that are too small for you to use but you can’t bring yourself to throw them away? Would you like a fun, gratifying low-risk, quick project playing with color? In this workshop, we’ll explore confetti crumb quilting to make a mat out of tiny scraps. We’ll make a “pocket” out of tulle and fabric-lined batting, stuff it with scraps, quilt it, and then add a binding around the edges. This is a great scraps stashbuster project.

Payment options are the same as guild dues: You may pay by cash/check or mail your check to Jennifer Lackey, 1907 Saulter Road, Birmingham, AL 35209. The fee can also be paid using PayPal. Please mark it “friends/family” and NOT “goods/services”. Use this address: paypal.me/GBFiberGuild or use our gmail account gbfiberguild@gmail.com

We’re excited to see what everyone makes! Register for the workshop by clicking https://form.jotform.com/251485030256149

Reminder: UFO Days is starting soon!

Are your circular needles tangling into crop circles? Do you have a strange feeling like someone is hovering over you as you craft? UFO Days are almost here again! Join us on Ravelry starting Tuesday, June 24, and post pictures of your UFOs (UnFinished Objects). We’ll offer support and cheers while we work on our UFOs together through Wednesday, July 2. Post a picture of your now Finished Object, and win a special commemorative sticker at our in-person UFO Days Party of Saturday, July 5 at 1 pm. (Location: TBD, but probably the Hoover Public Library).

WWKIP at Purl on the Plaza

Date: Saturday, June 14, 2025

Time: 1-5 pm

Location: Hoover Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Hoover, AL 35216

Our program this month is: World Wide Knit in Public Day

Join us for our annual Guild outreach at the Hoover Public Library on World Wide Knit in Public Day. Bring your project (or two) and share with others our love of all things fiber. We will have a display table set up and there will be demonstrations by guild members going on all afternoon.

The wonderful staff at the Hoover Public Library are allowing us to join in their festivities. There will be giveaways, prizes, demonstrations and comradery.

 

UFO Days

Are your circular needles tangling into crop circles? Do you have a strange feeling like someone is hovering over you as you craft? UFO Days are almost here again! Join us on Ravelry starting Tuesday, June 24, and post pictures of your UFOs (UnFinished Objects). We’ll offer support and cheers while we work on our UFOs together through Wednesday, July 2. Post a picture of your now Finished Object, and win a special commemorative sticker at our in-person UFO Days Party of Saturday, July 5 at 1 pm. (Location: TBD, but probably the Hoover Public Library).

(Psst, this is probably a great time to get some stuff off the needles so that you’re ready to cast on new, shiny things for our Christmas in July program)

 

Guild Family Picnic

Due to inclement weather, the Alpaca Farm picnic that was scheduled in May had to be cancelled. BUT don’t fret because it will now be a “Summer Field Trip”. Keep an eye out for a poll about your availability and preferences as we try to reschedule this warm and fuzzy (and hopefully dry) afternoon.

 

Confetti Crumb Quilting Workshop

Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025

Time: 10 am-3 pm (break for lunch at noon)

Location: St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church, Holy Family Room, 2061 Patton Chapel Road, Hoover, AL 35216

Instructor: Rosalynn Fairless

Cost: $15 per person (Guild member exclusive). Space is limited to first 20 members who fill out the registration link below.

Do you have fabric, yarn or fiber scraps that are too small for you to use but you can’t bring yourself to throw them away? Would you like a fun, gratifying low-risk, quick project playing with color? In this workshop, we’ll explore confetti crumb quilting to make a mat out of tiny scraps. We’ll make a “pocket” out of tulle and fabric-lined batting, stuff it with scraps, quilt it, and then add a binding around the edges. This is a great scraps stashbuster project.

Payment options are the same as guild dues: You may pay by cash/check or mail your check, send a note to gbfiberguild@gmail.com to get the USPS address (we are protecting the home address of our treasurer by not posting it here, it is in the email sent to members). The fee can also be paid using PayPal. Please mark it “friends/family” and NOT “goods/services”. Use this address: paypal.me/GBFiberGuild or use our gmail account gbfiberguild@gmail.com

We’re excited to see what everyone makes! Register for the workshop by clicking https://form.jotform.com/251485030256149

Rescheduling the Picnic

The guild's May picnic was canceled due to bad weather. Watch your inbox for information and a survey about possible dates for rescheduling.

GBFG May Family Picnic

 

Photo from https://www.bbhillalpacas.com/

Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.- Noon
Location: Blackberry Hill Alpaca Farm, 6330 Saks Rd, Anniston, AL 36206

Everyone is invited to our annual May Family Picnic. Bring the whole family! Well, except for pets, they need to stay and watch the house.

This month’s gathering will be held in a new location! An award-winning alpaca farm/event venue, Blackberry Hill Alpaca is a 60-acre farm just outside of Anniston, AL.
 
If you have not responded yet, please complete the evite. We need all responses in by Wednesday, May 7.
 
The Guild will provide sandwiches and water. Pack your own drinks (non-alcoholic, please) if you would like something more. Also, please bring a dish to share; whether it is your famous pickle-salad, a mid-Western apple/Snicker salad or other culinary concoction.
 
Need a ride? Want a friend to hit the road with? Denise Stanton, Guild Programs/Workshop Coordinator, asked that you reach out to her via text (her contact information is in the emailed meeting announcement that members received. She is organizing a caravan to go to Anniston that will meet in the Hoover Church of Christ parking lot the morning of the picnic.
 
 
Ravelry Rumpus:
Star Wars Day: May the Fourth (Be With You) is Star Wars Day so this month we’re featuring our favorite light-up tools and glow-in-the-dark yarn. Show us a picture, discuss tips for fiber crafting in low levels of light, or tell us what your favorite Star Wars character would knit while waiting for their X-wing to deploy.
Mad May: May has traditionally been dubbed Mad May among Tosh enthusiasts, the month that we make sun projects out of Madelinetosh yarn. Judging from the Madelinetosh group, it may not be an official thing anymore, but we can still have our own mini mad celebration. Post your projects and pictures of your favorite colorways in this thread during the month of May.
Tra la, it’s May, the yarny month of May
That lovely month when everyone knits blissfully away
Tra la, it’s here, destashing time of year
When tons of woolly little things merrily appear
 
Looking To The Future
June: June is World Wide Knit in Public Day. We will join the Hoover Public Library for a day of sharing our love for all things fiber.
Rosalynn Fairless will be teaching a workshop on scrappy fabric mats. More detailed information to come.
July: This year, help us celebrate Christmas in July in conjunction with UFO Days. This will be an event to finish all our Un-Finished Objects (UFOs).

April 12 Guild Meeting - Sustainability

 

Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover also available via Zoom
Our program this month is: Sustainability

Ever wonder what to do with all those bits of leftover yarn and fabric? Jeans that are just worn out? Old tshirts that don’t fit anymore? The ever growing drawer of plastic bags?
Join us for a day of sustainability with Daly McCay and Rosalynn Fairless.

Daly McCay is a lifelong crafter and runs Craft Rescue Collective, a creative reuse business. Her focus is on making crafting more affordable, accessible, and eco-friendly through second hand craft supplies and creative reuse workshops.

A native of Huntsville, Alabama, Rosalynn Fairless holds a lifelong avocations for fabric and fiber arts as well as for recycling and environmental sustainability. With a primary passion for lace, she knits, crochets, quilts, sews, and occasionally tats and embroiders. She is currently a Materials Engineering student at UAB. Her primary interests lie in possible recycling solutions for polyester textile waste, the applications of weaving techniques in composite materials, and the mathematical translation and applications of knitting stitch structures to engineered materians as expored in work by Dr. Matsumoto at Georgia Tech and by Drs. Niu, Kamien, and Dion at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, respectively. She has been a member of the Greater Birmingham Fiber Guild for approximately 12 years and presently serves on the board as the primary Ravelry administrator. When she’s not studying or playing with textiles, she enjoys art song and choral music, medieval history, reading, writing fiction, and Bharatanatyam (South Indian classical dance). She lives in Hoover, Alabama with her husband of 15 years, her 8-year-old unicorn-loving daughter, and a tiny dragon who resides in her grandmother’s train case.

Farm Day at the Birmingham Zoo

Farm day at the Birmingham Zoo is Saturday April 19, 2025 from 10am-2pm at the Farm petting zoo area.

We participate yearly in this event to show how fiber arts impact our lives on a daily basis. If you participate admission to the zoo is free. You should have received an email from Jennifer Lackey; please complete the requested information if you plan to come. Also, bring your fiber craft, whether it is knitting, crochet, tatting, spinning, weaving, hand sewing, etc and join us for a day of fiber exploration and public education.

May Family Picnic

This year’s family picnic will be at Blackberry Alpaca Farm near Anniston, AL
We’ve rented the pavilion and will get a tour of the working alpaca farm. This year will be a potluck of sorts so start thinking about what side, salad or dessert you’d like to share with everyone.

Carpooling from Hoover Church of Christ will be an option so keep an eye out for your RSVP email link in the near future!

March Guild Meeting, Saturday, March 8

Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location:  Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover

Our program this month is:  Panel Discussion: Spinning

This month’s gathering will be all about spinning! Join us as some of our talented members share their knowledge, experiences and antidotes about spinning fiber in to yarn. The panel consists of:

Yvonne Gauntt will be speaking about Turkish Spindles. Yvonne has been spinning since 2005, when she re-spun the yarn in a chunky, lightly spun tourist shawl, full of vegetable matter and lanolin to knit a prayer shawl for her mother. She used a cheap, heavy drop spindle to do it, and was pleased with her accomplishment, but liked the idea of spinning more than the actual practice. In September of 2016, she went to Homewood Library to see a movie with her husband for their anniversary. She never made it to the movie. It was Spin in Public day, and she spent her time spinning with one of Kathryn Pitt’s Jenkins spindles. The rest is history. Yvonne now has a whole herd of Jenkins spindles, and although she uses other spindles sometimes, Jenkins Turkish spindles continue to be her favorites.

Mary Spanos will be speaking about Supported Spindles and Small Distaffs. Mary learned to spin 40 years ago and a few years later she left a normal career to live full time down the handspinning rabbit hole. She loves single treadle spinning wheels and low whorl spindles.

Clare Emily Clifford will be speaking about how to prepare a Braid for Spinning. Clare first learned to spin 25 years ago and has since fallen deep into the fiber rabbit hole. She appreciates how spinning thread & yarn connects us to people of all cultures on every continent throughout human history through the techniques, tools, and fibers we work with. Sometimes you’ll find Clare working with the technical aspects of spinning, but she always loves the meditative simplicity of adding twist to fiber, whether she’s doing so on a spindle or spinning wheel.

Karen Ford will be speaking about Drop Spindles. Karen has been spinning since the early nineties after a sheep to shawl Mary Spanos did at a local yarn shop. She loves her Ashford traditional, any and all well balanced high whorl spindles and spinning with supported spindles. Her favorite fiber is colorful and her current favorite combination is Polworth and Silk. She spins for pleasure and usually has no end project in mind. She loves it because it connects her to past generations….and it’s fun!!

Also, if you felted a bowl last month, please bring it in for show-and-tell!

February Guild Meeting, 2-8-2025, Wet Felting

Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025

Time: 10:00 am

Location:  Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover

Our program this month is:  Hands On Wet Felting

Ever felt like you needed some good clean fun? 

Join us Saturday for hands-on introduction to wet felting. The guild will provide 1 oz of raw fiber that we will mold and sculpt into a beautiful vessel.

Please bring: 2 towels, extra fiber bits for embellishments and creativity! Feel free to BYOFF (bring your own feltable fiber) such as locks, angelina, 100% merino yarn to use as said embellishments.

RSVP needed-email gbfiberguild@gmail.com 

Guild members can participate via Zoom. So,, if you would like to participate from afar, please RSVP to above email and let us know you are interested. You will be sent a supply list which will allow you to wet felt from home via Zoom. 

Also, don’t forget to bring in your New Year’s Resolutions since last month was virtual. If you have program or workshop ideas now is the time to shine! Please share your ideas as we begin preparations for our 2025 Programs. There will be a raffle for submissions so all ideas are welcome.

Membership Dues and Renewal

The Guild’s membership year runs January through December. Annual dues are $25 per individual, and $30 per family. Dues are due by February 28th.  If you want to keep getting meeting announcements and Zoom room information, don’t forget to renew on-time. Use the Membership tab above for info on renewing your membership. 

The January meeting will be only on Zoom!

Due to the crazy weather, the January guild meeting will be on Zoom only.

There will not be a meeting at the Hoover Church of Christ. Stay home!

Due to the questionable weather conditions we are not going to have an in-person meeting tomorrow. We will instead meet by Zoom from 10am to 12 noon. Get yourself a hot beverage and a cookie and meet us to share your Fiber Resolutions for 2025.

Zoom information was included in the meeting notice you received earlier. We are sorry that we can't post Zoom connection information online as nefarious people like to interrupt Zoom meetings with their opportunities to buy time shares.

Winter Weather and the Meeting

Saturday's meeting may be converted to Zoom due to inclement weather. If that happens members will receive an email notice with Zoom instructions. If you aren't a member of the guild and would like to join, check the Membership tab on this site.

January Guild Meeting, Saturday, January 11

Percy wants to see what you've been working on!

Date: Saturday, January 11, 2025

Time: 10:00 to Noon-ish

Location:  Hoover Church of Christ, 3248 Lorna Road, Hoover

 

Our program this month is:  New Year’s Resolutions

Join us this Saturday for our annual New Year’s Resolutions! We will discuss what we accomplished in the past 12 months as well as focus on goals for the upcoming year. Please bring your work to show off for Show and Tell. Also, if you have program or workshop ideas now is the time to shine! Please share your ideas as we begin preparations for our 2025 Programs.

 

Membership Dues and Renewal

The Guild’s membership year runs January through December. Annual dues are $25 per individual, and $30 per family. Dues are due by February 28th.  If you want to keep getting meeting announcements and Zoom room information, don’t forget to renew on-time. See the Membership page on the guild blog for more information. 

 

Name-tags: If you don’t have a name-tag or would like to replace your current one, look for the bucket of name-tag supplies at each meeting. If you would like to add something special of your own to the tag, don’t forget to bring it to the meeting.

Knitting Study Group

The knitting study group meets this Wednesday, January 8, at 10:00 in the library at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Paton Chapel in Hoover. Everyone is welcome!

Park in the front of St. Peter’s and come in either entrance, the main door on the right or the door to the left. From the main entrance, walk down the hall on the left, that same hall is to your right if you come in the left entrance. The library is in the middle of that hallway and it's labeled.

Keep an eye on this blog in case the weather is bad enough that the church closes on Wednesday.