This popular annual event will be help on Sunday, November 28, 2010 from 11am to 4 pm at Whonnock Lake Center, in beautiful Whonnock. There will be hand-woven, hand knit and handspun for sale, among other unique original clothing, linens,and baskets, plus an assortment of wonderful pottery, glass jewelry, wrought iron, and woodturning from our guest artists.

Our Guild Sale, Uncommon Threads will be held on November 5th and 6th at Greenbank Farm, we will be open until 7:00pm on Friday the 5th, so come to shop and have dinner at the Farm. Hope to see you there!

Click for a map of Greenbank Farm.

May 30 – June 5, 2011 | Willamette University | Salem, OR

“Exploring Fiber Horizons” Look into the future; see where we are going as fiber artists. Weave the creativity of the past into your fiber explorations; the sky’s the limit. Use our theme to reach for your own horizons. Join us!

***Moderators note please consider making purple hats for the infants and donating directly to your local hospital, this is a very good program being presented to all new parents in British Columbia, new parents are given information about the period of purple crying that all infants do and provided a DVD about coping during this time.******

We invite you to join our mission: make a PURPLE newborn baby cap so we can give select babies born in British Columbia the week of November 15th a gift to coincide with Canada’s National Child Day. Please share your knitting or crocheting skills to help Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC.Unite and lend your hands now to knit or crochet PURPLE newborn baby caps for this great cause.

Create as many as you like – from five to 50, or a…ny number in between, using any newborn baby cap pattern, and any colour of soft baby-friendly PURPLE yarn.

Please help us spread the word by RSVP’ing YES to share this information with your network and encouraging them to also start knitting now!

PURPLE caps must be received no later than by November 5, 2010.

If you have any questions, please contact Melissa Pelto: melissa@limelitepr.com or call 778.786.1495

Please knit and mail your PURPLE caps to
BC Children’s Hospital:
c/o Claire Yambao
Provincial Program Coordinator, Prevent SBS BC
BC Children’s Hospital
4480 Oak Street, K1-209
Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4

By knitting and sending PURPLE newborn baby caps to be given to babies across the province, you will make a difference by:
Raising awareness for this life-saving project – Period of PURPLE Crying – Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC – that promotes crucial parenting skills, infant/parent bonding, and understanding of a typical early infancy stage that every baby goes through which is frequently misunderstood.
Participating in a growing, province-wide grassroots effort to educate new parents about the normalcy of early infant crying and how to cope with the frustration that can accompany it.

Assist in promoting the Period of PURPLE Crying – Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC so that parents (and all others) learn to understand normal increased early infant crying and that crying is a key trigger to shaking.

The Period of PURPLE Crying – Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC is a part of the most comprehensive shaken baby syndrome prevention initiative in North America. To learn more, visit www.PURPLEcrying.info and follow us on Twitter @PurpleCrying

Gibson’s Landing Fibre Fest is on this year but has been cancelled for 2011…… who knows if it will come back to life after this (I doubt it). So, one may want to make a special trip this year to take in the festivities as they may not repeat in following years.

Read all about it at their website. http://www.gibsonslandingfibrearts.com/preview.htm

This is the last call for applications for a table in the Wool room for our November 2010 sale.  The decision will be made at the Sept 7^th exec. Meeting and you will be notified as promptly as possible.

Please find attached the application form and cover letter (read carefully).  You can fax, mail or email.

Just a reminder  you do not have to own a weaving or spinning business to be part of the Wool room.  It is open to those who have been members of the guild for one year, have a current membership and love and grow fibre and need an outlet to sell your product.  If you have local raw product (for example: roving’s, raw fleece, mill spun home grown yarn) for weaving and/or spinning you are more than welcome to apply.  Tables have been shared in the past by members who may not have enough for a full table.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Marianne Iberg

Wool room coordinator

fibrefriendzy@telus.net

Vancouver Island Conference Centre Nanaimo, BC

September 10-11, 2010

The VI Fibre Arts Showcase is an opportunity for fibre/textile artists to showcase their talent and highlight the vast array of art that is created using fibre and textile media. We are looking for original, one-of-a-kind, classical, whimsical, innovative pieces that we can exhibit during the Fashion Fiesta – part of the two-day

Vancouver Island Fibre Arts Showcase being held at the Nanaimo conference centre this September. Every item submitted will be displayed subject to the space available. Please read everything carefully. You must include a completed copy of the information form and a completed and signed contract with your submission. See our website www.vancouverislandfibrearts.com or contact Jenny Tindall at jndtindall@shaw.ca ; 250-468-9932 or Pat McLeod at mcleodph@shaw.ca; 250- 752-4631, if you have any questions.

• #0 Reeled Silk Yarn
• 20/10 Spun Silk Yarn
• 120/2 Spun Silk Yarn – on cones
• Silk Chenille Yarn
• 13mm Silk Ribbon
• Silk / Cotton Spinning Fibre
• Embroidery Silk Threads & Ribbons

A classified ads page has been added to the website.  You can access this page under Guild Benefits.

Thanks Iris.

We are in the process of listing our books online and the library catalogue can be accessed at

http://www.librarything.com/profile/LWSGlibrary (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/LWSGlibrary (catalogue)

If you have read any of these books please consider opening an account of your own and leaving comments about the books so others can know why you enjoyed the book and if it will be useful to others.