CVFG 2023 IN-PERSON Monthly Craft-in/Spin-in

Join us for an informal IN-PERSON craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month, September – May. All are welcome!

July 2 @ 11:00 am 2:00 pm

Join us for an informal craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month (except not in October if our date is the same as FFF).

All are welcome! Bring your wheel, loom, or other portable fiber art to work on, get help, or play.

NOTE: The July Craft-in’s different time and location. The Craft-In will be held 11 am – 2 pm, at Sunset Farm Studio, 5026 Jones Mill Rd, Crozet, VA 22932

Questions, email programs@cvfg.org.

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July 2
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11:00 am – 2:00 pm
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5026 Jones Mill Rd
Crozet, Virginia 22932 United States
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CVFG 2023 Annual Business Meeting and Virtual Field Trip

Please plan to attend our Annual Business Meeting. After the meeting, stay for a virtual field trip to the Memphis Cotton Museum.

May 21 @ 1:00 pm 3:00 pm

Please plan to attend our Annual Business Meeting. We will give members a review of the past year, plans for the upcoming year, and present the guild budget for 2023-2024, including dues. And agenda and the Zoom link will be send to all members a few days before the meeting.

After the meeting, stay for a virtual field trip to the Memphis Cotton Museum, with curator Ann Bateman.

The Memphis Cotton Museum was founded in 2006 to preserve the history of this worldwide market place and to tell the epic story of the famed cash crop and its profound influence on the city of Memphis. The museum not only explains how Memphis became Memphis but how the economic world evolved from this unassuming plant grown in the Delta heat. This is a story Ann loves to share.

About our speaker: Ann Bateman is the Executive Director of the Memphis Cotton Museum. A lifelong learner, educator, and lover of all things Memphis, Ann jumped at the opportunity to first volunteer and then lead the Cotton Museum.

Questions, email programs@cvfg.org.

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Date:
May 21
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1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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MAFA 2023 Mini Virtual Conference

With two full days of virtual classes, lectures, and other events, we think there will be something for everyone.

July 8 @ 8:00 am July 9 @ 6:00 pm

Join us for the first MAFA “Mini” Virtual Conference – July 8 & 9, 2023!

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MAFA is trying something new this conference year. After the great response to the 2021 virtual conference as well as our ongoing virtual classes and lectures, and since we know not everyone can attend the in-person conference in June, we have planned a two-day virtual event for July.

With two full days of virtual classes, lectures, and other events, we think there will be something for everyone.

  • Three dozen virtual classes – some hands-on, some lecture/demos.
  • Sign up for as many or as few classes as you like. Classes will be recorded and available to watch for 30 days after the Mini. So, you don’t need to worry about classes overlapping!
  • Our lunchtime lecture on Saturday, July 8th will be with Dawn Hoeg of Stitch Buffalo. Hear the story of what led her to begin working with refugee women artisans in her community, and how that experiment in community building through simple hand embroidery gradually transformed into a diverse and thriving textile arts center.
  • Join us on Sunday, July 9th for our lecture with Jane Dunnewold – Living with the Paradoxes of Creative Community. MAFA 2021 attendees will remember her moving talk at the virtual conference. We’re delighted to check in with her two years later as we have all found new ways to build community and be creative.
  • Informal morning coffees.
  • Yoga for Crafters with Gigi Matthews.
  • Saturday Fiber Trivia Night with Jen Weber.
  • Closing Session with Show & Tell.

Registration will open April 1, 2023, at 9 a.m. (EDT)

  • Enroll in the Conference Pass for only $10 for access to all non-class events: morning coffees, lunchtime lectures, fiber trivia, yoga, show & tell.
  • Class fees will be $35 for 2-hour sessions, and $50 for 3-hour sessions.
  • Classes will run 10 a.m. to Noon and 2 – 4 p.m. or 2 – 5 p.m. (EDT) on Saturday and Sunday.
  • Sign up for as many or as few classes as you like. Classes and lectures will be recorded and available to watch on Lessonface for 30 days.
  • Find our virtual FAQs and cancellation policy here: mafafiber.org/virtual/faq.

Questions? Email us at virtual@mafafiber.org.

Intro to Tunisian Crochet with Edie Eckman – Virtual

Tunisian Crochet is a little bit crochet, a little bit knitting, and a lot of fun!

April 23 @ 1:00 pm 3:00 pm EDT

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Tunisian Crochet is a little bit crochet, a little bit knitting, and a lot of fun! Also known as Afghan Stitch, this hybrid technique uses a special crochet hook to quickly create blankets, placemats, scarfs, and garments. In this introductory class you’ll learn the Tunisian Simple Stitch and the Tunisian Knit Stitch, as well as how to increase and decrease.

Class Time/Location:  April 23, 2023, 1 – 3 p.m. Eastern, on Zoom

Skill Level: Students should be comfortable crocheting a simple chain. If not, see homework below.

Cost: $30 members, $35 non-members.

Class Size: Max 30 students

Deadline to Register: April 21, 2023, at 6 p.m.

Questions:  Email programs@cvfg.org

Supplies:

  • Smooth, light- or medium- color sport, dk or worsted weight yarn
  • Tunisian crochet hooks in size(s) appropriate for your yarn, or an interchangeable crochet hook set. (Note: you’ll need a much larger hook than you usually use with your chosen yarn. For example, I typically use an 8 mm hook with worsted weight yarn.)
  • Scissors

Homework:

You should be comfortable crocheting a simple chain. If you don’t know how to crochet a chain, please practice that before class. How to crochet a chain (right-handed), (left-handed).

About the Instructor:

Confident crafters are happy crafters! That’s why Edie Eckman teaches, writes, and blogs about crochet and knitting: to help you be successful with every project. With over 25 years of fiber-arts teaching experience, Edie excels at teaching, both in person and in virtual classrooms. Her self-published patterns are always professionally tech edited to ensure accuracy and clarity. She is the author of a number of best-selling books, including The Crochet Answer Book, Around the Corner Crochet Borders, and Learn to Knit Socks. Find her at www.edieeckman.com, and on Facebook, Ravelry, YouTube and Instagram.

CVFG 2023 IN-PERSON Monthly Craft-in/Spin-in

Join us for an informal IN-PERSON craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month, September – May. All are welcome!

January 8 @ 1:30 pm 4:30 pm

Join us for an informal craft-in/spin. NOTE the January 2023 Craft-In will be on the second Sunday since the first Sunday is New Years Day.

All are welcome! Bring your wheel, loom, or other portable fiber art to work on, get help, or play.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • In-person meetings may be moved outdoors or canceled depending on COVID numbers.
  • If meeting indoors, all attendees must follow the guidelines of our host regarding mask-wearing and use of facilities, regardless of individual vaccination status.
  • We will continue to have virtual monthly meetings on Zoom in 2022, even when in-person craft-ins resume, both for those from out of the Charlottesville area and those who don’t wish to attend in person.

Questions, email programs@cvfg.org.

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January 8
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1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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CVFG
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1510 Broad Crossing Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22911 United States
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Fiber to Fabric: How the underlying fiber informs the fabric, with Margaret Radcliffe

Each type of fiber brings its own distinct benefits and challenges to a knitting project. In this four-week workshop, learn to evaluate the potentials of your particular yarn and techniques for ensuring success in your hand knit garments.

February 1 @ 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

Join us for a four-part workshop, Wednesday evenings, February 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2023. Sign-ups will close two weeks prior to the first class to allow students time to prepare their homework. Class recordings will remain available to students for one month after the last class.

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From dependable sheep’s wool to tricky rayon, every yarn is individual. Each type of fiber, from a specific breed of sheep or other fiber-bearing animal, from plants like bamboo, hemp and flax, manmade or remanufactured, brings its own distinct benefits and challenges to a knitting project. Learn to evaluate the potentials of your particular yarn and techniques for ensuring success in your hand knit garments.

We will cover the roles of garment architecture, fit, and borders, ways to prevent sagging and biasing in inelastic fibers, and pattern stitches and seaming techniques to stabilize garments. Class will be a combination of lecture, hands-on work, and discussion. Students will take away an understanding of fiber characteristics, yarn behavior in knitted fabrics, and an arsenal of techniques for best results. Note that homework will be assigned before each class session.

Class Dates:  February 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2023.
Class Time:  7 – 9 p.m.
Skill Level: Intermediate through advanced. Students should be comfortable casting on, binding off, working simple pattern stitches, increasing & decreasing, and picking up stitches for borders. Students will find this class most helpful if they have already finished several garments..
Cost: $75 members, $85 non-members.
Class Size: Max 25 students
Deadline to Register: January 25, 2023 at 6 p.m.
Questions:  Email programs@cvfg.org

Supplies:

  • One ball of each of the following yarns. Sport, DK or worsted weight preferred.
    • 100% fine wool (for example, Merino)
    • 100% longwool or coarser wool (for example, Icelandic, or Wensleydale)
    • 100% other animal fiber (for example, angora, alpaca, or cashmere)
    • 100% cotton
    • 100% linen or hemp (be sure to get natural which is stiff, not rayon
    • 100% silk or rayon (look for a soft slippery yarn, rather than one that’s been processed and spun to feel like cotton)
  • A small amount of fingering weight wool yarn (for example sock yarn)
  • Needles in the sizes used to knit homework, plus needles 2 and 4 sizes smaller and 2 sizes larger
  • Ruler (12”-18” long)
  • Calculator
  • Optional: Wraps per inch (wpi) tool. You can also use your ruler, a narrow piece of cardboard, a short dowel, or a pencil marked with a 1” or 2” length using permanent marker.
  • Optional: Tags for labeling swatches
  • If you have one, a notably successful or a notably unsuccessful garment knit in yarn from a single fiber (i.e. 100% wool, cotton, silk, angora, linen, rayon, etc.). Email a clear photo of the garment to instructor at least 48 hours before class begins, with notes on what worked or did not work in this garment.
  • Basic knitting supplies (scissors, markers, cable needle, etc.).

Homework:

  • Knit 6 swatches, one from each of the yarns specified in the supplies list. Use whatever needle size you normally would for each yarn, to create a stockinette stitch fabric you like the feel and look of. Swatches should be 30 stitches by 42 rows. Begin each swatch with 8 rows of K2 P2 ribbing, then continue with 26 rows of stockinette, and finish with 8 rows of K1 P1 ribbing. Bind off. Do not block. Keep a record of needle size used for each swatch. Have swatches and remaining yarn available during class.
  • Download and review the handout.
  • Print a paper copy of the Yarn and Fabric Evaluation Table from your handout.

About Margaret: Margaret Radcliffe is the author of the bestselling Knitting Answer Book, The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques, Circular Knitting Workshop, and The Knowledgeable Knitter. Margaret has taught knitting since 1991 and began publishing her designs in a line of knitting patterns under the name Maggie’s Rags in 1997.

Margaret’s books explore knitting techniques at a depth well beyond what’s usually presented, in a way that makes both the techniques and their appropriate uses clear to readers. As a designer, her specialty is rewarding garments that look complicated but rely on the simplest knitting techniques. As a teacher, Margaret enthusiastically teaches everything from beginning knitting to garment design, and is acclaimed for her ability to help all knitters to develop their independence and creativity.

Margaret’s many teaching venues for knitting and dyeing have included the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Madrona Fiberarts Winter Retreat, the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF), Knitters’ Day Out, Houston Fiber Fest, the Schooner J&E Riggin out of Rockland, Maine, online fiber challenges for The Livestock Conservancy, plus numerous shops and fiber guilds across the U.S. and into Canada.

Like many knitters and spinners, Margaret has had a long and varied career. She has degrees in Medieval Studies and English Literature, has been an internal auditor, computer programmer, business executive, research administrator, dancer, and editor. Her current fiber arts interests include preparing, spinning, and designing handknits using heritage breeds and participation in The Livestock Conservancy’s Shave ’Em to Save ’Em program.

Visit Margaret’s website at www.maggiesrags.com , and find her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/maggiesrags.


The deadline to sign up for this workshop is January 25, 2023 at 6 p.m. EST.

CVFG 2023 VIRTUAL Monthly Meeting

See the newsletter for this month’s topic. We will have announcements, a program, then time for show & tell. All are welcome!

January 15 @ 1:00 pm 3:00 pm

Join us for a monthly meeting on Zoom, except June when we will hold our Annual Business Meeting, and we take July and August off as a Summer break.  Most months we will have a demo or program, and we’ll have time for show and tell and discussion.  Meetings with a program WILL be recorded and posted on the Guild Meeting Recordings page on the website. Some speakers only allow us to post the recordings for a limited time, so be sure to check them out shortly after the meeting date.

All are welcome! Members, check the newsletter for the Zoom link.  Guests, please email for an invite.

NOTE: We will continue to have monthly meetings on Zoom in addition to our  in-person craft-ins, both for those from out of the Charlottesville area and those who don’t wish to attend in person.

Questions, email programs@cvfg.org.

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January 15
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CVFG 2023 IN-PERSON Monthly Craft-in/Spin-in

Join us for an informal IN-PERSON craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month, September – May. All are welcome!

February 5 @ 1:30 pm 4:30 pm

Join us for an informal craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month (except not in October if our date is the same as FFF).

All are welcome! Bring your wheel, loom, or other portable fiber art to work on, get help, or play.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • In-person meetings may be moved outdoors or canceled depending on COVID numbers.
  • If meeting indoors, all attendees must follow the guidelines of our host regarding mask-wearing and use of facilities, regardless of individual vaccination status.
  • We will continue to have virtual monthly meetings on Zoom, along with in-person craft-ins, both for those from out of the Charlottesville area and those who don’t wish to attend in person.

Questions, email programs@cvfg.org.

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Date:
February 5
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1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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CVFG
Email:
programs@cvfg.org
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1510 Broad Crossing Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22911 United States
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CVFG December Holiday Gathering & Craft/Spin-In

Join us at the December Craft-in for a Holiday gathering and gift exchange!. All are welcome!

December 4, 2022 @ 1:30 pm 4:30 pm

Join us at the December Craft-in for a Holiday gathering! Bring your fiber handwork along to socialize and craft, along with a holiday goodie to share (think finger foods).

We will have a gift exchange for those who want to participate. Bring a fiber related gift (value of $25 approximately)wrapped up, and we will exchange gifts in a number draw.

Come and spend time with guild members as we celebrate together and spread some Holiday cheer!

All are welcome! Bring your portable fiber art to work and play.

Questions? Email programs@cvfg.org.

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Date:
December 4, 2022
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1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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CVFG
Email:
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Website:
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1510 Broad Crossing Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22911 United States
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