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2 | 3 - Warkworth Guild’s Spin-In 2017
10:00 -15:00 2017/10/03 50 Bridge St W, Campbellford, ON K0L 1L0 50 Bridge St W, Campbellford, ON K0L 1L0 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/warkworth-guilds-spin-in-2017/ Celebrating 28 Years! 10:00 – 3:00, Tuesday October 3, 2017 All Welcome! ADMISSION $5.00 SWEETS TABLE; BBQ LAMB BURGERS Bring a MUG SUPPLIERS & DRAWS CONTACT: Joan McCulloch 705-653-1509 or joanmcculloch40@gmail.com
| 4 | 5 - Spinning Drop-in at Riverdale Farm
13:00 -15:00 2017/10/05 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/spinning-drop-in-at-riverdale-farm/ Come to an informal afternoon of spinning or other portable fibre activities every Thursday afternoon in The Meeting House
| 6 - Eastern Great Lakes Fibre Conference
17:00 -16:00 2017/10/06-2017/10/09 Chautauqua Institution, 1 Ames Ave, Chautauqua, NY 14722 Chautauqua Institution, 1 Ames Ave, Chautauqua, NY 14722 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/eastern-great-lakes-fibre-conference/ The joint effort of five American guilds, the Eastern Great Lakes Fibre Conference (EGLFC) is a biennial conference held in western New York State. It is a small conference of around 85 participants with three days full of weaving, basketry, felting, spinning, fabric embellishment and woven jewellery. The main activities are the specialist workshops run every day, but there is plenty of opportunity to shop from local vendors, browse fibre exhibits, meet other fibre fans and showcase your work to others. Registration opens on April 1st and closes on June 1st 2017. Registration includes nine meals and three days of classes (excluding material fees). You must find your own accommodation in the area. Cost: $355 (USD) For more information: eglfc.org
| 7 - Opening of Judy Martin’s Exhibition at David Kaye Gallery
14:00 -16:00 2017/10/07 Cannot determine address at this location. Cannot determine address at this location. https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/opening-of-judy-martins-exhibition-at-david-kaye-gallery/  Please join Guild member Nieves Carrasco from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 7th to meet textile artist JUDY MARTIN and view her amazingly stitched thread wall drawings/objects. Never one to sit idle without needle and thread, Judy has created an incredible body of work. She says, “The exhibition it is about the process of making and the stitched objects are just the evidence of time and labour. Making things by hand is a very positive and nurturing thing for anyone to do. Creating the pieces for this exhibition has been healing for both my body and spirit.” Judy is featured in the book Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art.
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9 | 10 | 11 - October Meeting
19:30 -21:30 2017/10/11 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/2017october/  This month we welcome local fashion designer and fibreshed hero Peggy Sue Deaven Smiltnieks, creative director of The Peggy Sue Collection. After winning the Toronto Fashion Incubator in 2016, Peggy Sue has been growing her brand while still remaining true to her core values: that fashion should be connected, conscious and regenerative. The collection is fully traceable, designed to accentuate the best of the North American Fiber Industry and built to sustain lifetimes of wear. For more information: www.peggysuecollection.com
| 12 - Spinning Drop-in
13:00 -15:00 2017/10/12 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/spinning-drop-in/ More information to come!
| 13 | 14 - Woodstock Fleece Festival
09:00 -17:00 2017/10/14 875 Nellis St, Woodstock, N4S 4C6 875 Nellis St, Woodstock, N4S 4C6 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/woodstock-fleece-festival/  The Woodstock Fleece Festival is an annual fibre event that brings together fibre enthusiasts and others in an atmosphere of appreciation, learning and camaraderie. Things to look forward to: workshops and demonstrations from top instructors, as well as vendors selling fibre, fleece and finished goods. There are also some fantastic local food vendors to try! Cost: $8 cash entry fee For more information: www.fleecefestival.com
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16 | 17 | 18 | 19 - Spinning Drop-in at Riverdale Farm
13:00 -15:00 2017/10/19 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/spinning-drop-in-at-riverdale-farm-2/ More information to come!
| 20 | 21 - New York State Sheep and Wool festival
09:00 -17:00 2017/10/21-2017/10/22 Dutchess County Fairgrounds, 6550 Spring Brook Ave, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Dutchess County Fairgrounds, 6550 Spring Brook Ave, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/ny-sheep-wool-festival/  The New York State Sheep and Wool Festival had humble beginnings in 1980, but has now grown to become one of the USA’s biggest fibre festivals. Featuring over workshops, kids activities, fibre vendors, demonstrations, book signings, competitions, a used fibre and equipment auction, livestock displays, fibre artists and makers selling their wares… This weekend is packed with fibre excitement. Saturday 21st: 9am – 5pm
Sunday 22nd: 10am – 5pm
Cost: $12 (day) / $17 (weekend) entry For more information: sheepandwool.com - I am Ai, We are Ai – A talk by Rowland Ricketts
14:00 -16:00 2017/10/21 Cannot determine address at this location. Cannot determine address at this location. https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/i-am-ai-we-are-ai-a-talk-by-rowland-ricketts/ The region of Tokushima is known throughout Japan for the indigo, or ai, that has been grown there for more than 400 years. This lecture, by indigo artist Rowland Ricketts, will explore the history and practice of indigo farming in the region and examine the current culture of indigo through the lens of the artist’s public art project I am Ai, We are Ai. This event is free, but registration is required.
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23 | 24 | 25 | 26 - Spinning Drop-in at Riverdale Farm
13:00 -15:00 2017/10/26 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 201 Winchester Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1B8 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/spinning-drop-in-at-riverdale-farm-3/ More information to come!
| 27 | 28 - Collapse Weaving Workshop with Denise Kovnat
All day 2017/10/28-2017/10/29 56 Neilson Drive, Etobicoke, ON, M9C 1V7 56 Neilson Drive, Etobicoke, ON, M9C 1V7 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/collapse-weaving-workshop-with-denise-kovnat/  The Etobicoke Handweavers and Spinners are hosting a workshop by Denise Kovnat. This two-day workshop focuses on weave structures, choices and finishing techniques that work independently and/or together to create fabric with dimension and personality. What appears flat and grid-like on the loom will crinkle, puff, and bloom almost immediately in the water, taking on an entirely different character. In a round robin format, participants will complete a notebook of samples that illustrate different shrinkage techniques for wool and cotton; “cram and space” techniques using silk warp and overtwisted weft; deflected double weave in wool that creates horizontal ribs; deflected double weave that “poufs” after washing; plain weave and twill using stainless-steel yarns that bend and crinkle; waffle weave alternating with plain weave with seersucker bumps; and other 4-harness techniques. There are still one or two spaces left in For more information or to register, contact dorothy.thomson@gmail.com
| 29 - Yuma Taru at the ROM
14:00 -16:00 2017/10/29 Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6 Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6 https://toronto-guild-of-spinners-and-weavers.com/event/yuma-taru-at-the-rom/ For a week, the Royal Ontario Museum Textile Department is hosting Yuma Taru, a National Treasure of Taiwan who has been for the past decade reviving dyeing/spinning/weaving amongst aboriginal Taiwanese women (whose culture has been suppressed since Japanese occupation in early 1900s). Yuma Taru is an amazing fibre artist. She and her 10 year old daughter, who is apprenticing, will be demonstrating in the Africa, Americas and Asia-Pacific gallery of the ROM this Sunday, October 29th from 2-4pm. Please pass this information on to anyone you know who may be interested.
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