Handweavers, Spinners and Dyers Guild of Tasmania

Bits & Pieces... 

check the Event Listing for future happenings and the Blog Pages for recent news  

* Royal Hobart Show Guild Display help: Please get in touch with a committee member if you can help.

* Tasmanian Craft Fair 2018: 

We Organise; We Create; We Sell!

The Guild “Stall” in the Deloraine Anglican Church Hall, your opportunity to sell Guild Membership and goods without commission to a sympathetic audience at a famous event.

See the Guild Blog for updated information. Criteria for Guild Stall items  Entry Form

* Winter School: Fun With Rugs & Eco-Dyeing images in the Gallery now. Please send web elf an image of YOUR creation at a Winter School 2018 event.

* Show and Sell:  the 2018 Pop-Up exhibition, Pics here

* President's Precis: June update available HERE.

* Poatina 2018:  see the magic we wove, here. If you have an image, or some words to match your image that you would like added, please let the Web Elf know.

* New Group: Inspired by Poatina another group has formed, The Tuesday Weavers of Deloraine. Keen to pass the weft together, they will meet at the Deloraine Community House fortnightly, beginning 12th June. Use this email contact for more information.

* Bicheno Blog update: See here for update on this year's event. Registration Form

* New Group: A new group has begun in Queenstown, meeting 1st Saturday of the month, welcome Queenie!

* Congratulations and a big Thank You to all the Guild members who volunteered for the current committee.

* A message from your Librarian: Feb 2018

Missing: 2 copies of the "Ashford Book of Handcarding". One of our Guild members was asking for information about using handcarders. This title is the perfect book to recommend, but to our dismay, 2 of the  copies are missing from the library, and they are not checked out by anyone. If you have inadvertantly removed a copy (or two) of this book without completing the borrowing card I would be very pleased if it/they could be returned as soon as possible. Our library borrowing system relies on the honesty of all Guild members, to record your name and borrowing date on the card, and to place that card in the wooden tray.

* Certificate of Competency in Hand Spinning: Interested? Check out the blog.

* Group meetings: If your group has had a change of venue, or contact point, please inform the web elf & the newsletter editor.

* Our 3rd publication: The Weaving Patterns of Edward Hussey, by Mary Williams. See the blog. Order the Book :)

* What Group Meets when?: Printable Calendar or a Table of Info

* Library: Have you checked out the latest additions to the library?

* Website change: Blogs about Workshops are now on a page under Workshops.

* Island Yarn Deadlines: 

Autumn edition end of 1st week in February; Winter edition end of 1st week in May; Spring edition end of 1st week in August; Summer edition end of 1st week in November.

* Advertising in Island Yarns: 

Members may advertise up to Two Lines (approx 30 words), for Free. Other prices: Up to 5 lines of text, no picture is $10. Up to half a page, with picture(s) is $40. Full page with picture(s) is $75. Payment must be made to the Treasurer in full before the advert will appear in the next issue of Island Yarns newsletter. Island Yarns is printed and mailed to every member quarterly. Contact the editor.

* Library News: Browse the Guild library online. This is not a loan facility but it does let you know what the Guild has in the way of brilliant library resources. The weird, the wonderful, the old, the new. Check it out 

* Do potential members ask you "Why should I join the Guild?". Here are some reasons why.

* Have you got a project of which you are especially proud? Share it with us and your fellow fibre artists, send a picture and some information to the Newsletter editor and to the Web elf.

* Find some of us on Ravelry.