It’s July!

The Basketry poster, to the left, has nothing to do with July. In fact, it has nothing to do with me! But it’s the only poster from the 2021 event that didn’t fall neatly in line with our existing study groups. Hopefully, someday, we’ll have enough people working in the area of basketry that we’ll be able to start a study group up for that fiber art and I can add it to our list of Study Group pages. The website update is still continuing, hopefully mostly in the background. I think I’ve got most, if not all, of the bits and bobs of information we used to have access to available on the site now. So I’m now adding new things – changing up the pictures, trying to make the site more user friendly on a phone, etc. Let me know (emc@thsg.org) if you hit a wall somewhere as I might inadvertently break something along the way.

Did you have a good 4th? I hope so. Don’t forget that the 6th, at 6:30 p.m., is the First Wednesday of the month when we have our Zoom chat. Come talk about what you’re working on, ask questions, get inspired by others. And, if you’d like to be able to touch and get really close to others’ work, go to the Summer Soirée on Saturday, the 9th. Sandy Gold will be at Grace St. Paul in the Weeks room (in the basement) from 10-3. Last month they evidently worked on both the handmade Ranch as well as aiding a member in warping their rigid heddle loom.

Also on the 9th, at 4 p.m. our time, the New York and Philly guilds are having their Zoom monthly movie night. This month they’re focusing on an artist named Igshaan Adams and, I must say, as a weaver of cloth for clothing I’m not quite sure how he comes up with some of the pieces I’m seeing online. I’m looking forward to the discussion after the presentation that the two guilds have come up with.

Links and more information to the above mentioned topics are available from the front page. I figure if I make you go looking for it, you’ll have to check out the website. LOL!