May 7: First Friday Opening at Pacific Textile Arts —Chenille — Explores the various uses of the luscious yarn that requires so much expertise to handle. Come cheeck it out and be amazed. Pacific Textile Arts, 450 Alger Street, Fort Bragg. 5:00-8:00. Refreshments.
May 15-16: Image Transfers: Paper and Fabric. Richard Elliott. MAC. $165 (member), $190 (non-member).
May 22-23: Hand Spinning for Beginners with Lenora Shepard. Basics of drop spindle, wool, silk, flax and bamboo, exotic blends and novelty yarns. MAC. $165 (member), $190 (non-member).
May 28-30: Soroptimist International of Fort Bragg Memorial Day Quilt Show. Fort Bragg, Town Hall, Masonic Lodge, Old Fort Bragg Recreation Center. For info:
http://www.soroptimistfortbraggca.org/SIFB/quilt.htmls
May 29-31: Beginning and Intermediate Weaving: Warp To Weave with Lou Grantham. MAC. $240 (member), $265 (non-member) +$12 - l$15 Materials includes yarn for first project.
June 1: Naturally DyeYour Yarns for Spin Off, Fall 2010 Issue. Send 5 yards handspun yarn or felt 100% naturally dyed by you to arrive by Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at Handspun Gallery: Natural Dyes Spin-Off Interweave 201 E. 4th St. Loveland, CO 80537-5655. Questions to (970)613-4682 or aclarkemoore@interweave.com
June 1-4: Guatemalan Backstrap Weaving with Albertina Lope Martin who is from the highlands of Guatemala. MAC class. Call MAC for information.
June 7-11: From Rags to Rugs. with Linda Hartshorn. MAC class. Call for more info.
June 18-20: The Eugene Oregon Black Sheep Gathering: It will include the 3rd National Blue-faced Leicester Show and the National Shetland Sheep Association General Meeting. BFL will be BBQ'd Saturday night and live animals featured in the Spinners Lead. Workshops are held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, featuring local and international animal experts and textile artists in the O'Hara School across Amazon Creek and the fairground camping lawn. Information is now posted at http://blacksheepgathering.org/ and registration opens both by mail and on line March 27.
June 19-20: Cavandoli Knotting For Jewelry with Ellen Athens. MAC class. Call for more info.
June 21-23: Free-Motion Machine Quilting with Leslie Carabas. MAC class. Call for more Info.
June 26: Saturday, June 26 is the day for our very important yearly Fair. This includes a high quality rummage sale, silent auction, plant sale, artists' booths, bake sale and yarn sale. Gate opens at 9:00 a.m. and lasts to 3:30 p.m. The silent auction ends at 3:00 p.m. People wishing to donate quality items for any of these categories may call (707)964-5279 for information about drop-offs, pick-ups and timing. This is always a remarkable day of trading, bidding and buying. Come join us for the fun!
June 20-27: Quincy Camp: Feather River Art Camp for Adults — Felting, bookbinding, clay, writing, guitar and more classes for adults and children. http://featherriverartcamp.com/lindex.html
July 2-4: Sebastopol Festival: 3rd Annual Lao Weaving and Culture Festival with weavers from Laos, weaving and silk spinning demonstrations, a Lao dance troupe, traditional Lao band, and sampling of Lao food. Janet @SilkMoon.org at Silk Moon Gallery, 195 North Main Street, Sebastopol. (707)824-4300, 10:00 a.m. -6:00 p.m.
July 5-9: Reigniting the Creative Spark with Lisa Grey and Jason Pollen. MAC Class. Call for info.
November 1-17: Serena Lee leads a small group to Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi in search of textiles and traditional costume. $3995 + airfare. textile_odyssey5@yahoo.com
July 10-11: Dimensions of the Sacred Self: Heart Song of Your Sprit (Dolls). Mac class. Call for info.
July 16-18: Paint Once, Get Many--Polychromatic Screen Printing. Joy Stocksdale, MAC class. Call for info.
July 26-30: Felting and Stiffening Hollow Forms with Lisa Klakulak. MAC class. Call for info.
August 6-8: Shadow Weave Chenille Scarf with Linda Hartshorn. MAC class. Call for info.
August 9-13: Jean-Baptiste Silk Art: With Daniel Jean-Baptiste. MAC class. Call for info.
Augusst 14-15: Surface Design With Photos with Mickie McCormic. MAC class. Call for info.
August 28-30: A Greener Indigo. Discover the magic of indigo, one of the oldest and most influential dyes. With Barbara Shapiro, a Board member of the Textile Society of America and the Textile Arts Council of SF. MAC class. Call for info.