Join us for an informal IN-PERSON craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month, September – May. All are welcome!
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.
Please plan to attend our Annual Business Meeting. After the meeting, stay for a virtual field trip to the Memphis Cotton Museum.
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.
Embroidery Study Group, every 3rd Wednesday at 7 pm. on Zoom.
Embroidery Study Group, every 3rd Wednesday at 7 pm. on Zoom. Contact Sarah Tremaine, sunsetfarmstudio@gmail.com, for more information about the group, and to be added to the email list for the monthly the zoom link.
With two full days of virtual classes, lectures, and other events, we think there will be something for everyone.
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.
Questions? Email us at virtual@mafafiber.org.
With dozens of classes in weaving, spinning, dyeing, felting, basketmaking, and other fiber arts, MAFA 2023 is sure to be a fun and inspiring experience!
With dozens of classes in weaving, spinning, dyeing, felting, basketmaking, and other fiber arts, MAFA 2023 is sure to be a fun and inspiring experience! Shop the vendor marketplace, peruse the fashion, fiber art, and hat exhibits, take part in the towel exchange, enjoy yoga in the afternoon, and make new friends — there’s a lot to look forward to!
The MAFA 2023 conference will be held at Millersville University, Millersville, PA. The campus is located between Harrisburg and Lancaster, in south-central Pennsylvania’s historic Lancaster County.
Download the conference brochure HERE.
Register through May 25, 2023 on Cvent at https://cvent.me/PrY5em.
Learn applique and a variety of embroidery stitches while making a wool felt pincushion.
Plain and Fancy Stitches with Moira and Ellen MacAvoy
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the registration form.
In this class you will learn how to make a wool felt pincushion using applique and a variety of embroidery stitches. When the project is worked as shown it is a basic wool applique class with basic and intermediate level embroidery. We will offer simpler alternatives for some of the stitches to make this class suitable for all levels. It would be helpful to have experience with basic hand sewing, but the only real requirement is that you be able to thread an embroidery needle, either with or without a needle threader.
Class Time/Location: March 26, 2023, 1 – 4 p.m., Peace Lutheran Church (Charlottesville, near Hollymead)
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate. The class samples are intermediate-level embroidery when worked as shown, but can be adapted for less experienced embroiderers as we offer substitutions for the more complicated stitches.
Cost: $35 members, $40 non-members. Plus Materials Fee $15 paid directly to instructors at class.
Class Size: Max 20 students
Deadline to Register: March 19, 2023, at 6 p.m.
Questions: Email programs@cvfg.org
Supplies: All supplies provided by instructors for a Materials Fee of $15.
About the Instructors:
Moira and Ellen MacAvoy have been sewing and embroidering since childhood.
In addition to garment making and other utility sewing, Moira has specialized in traditional hand embroidery techniques, both counted thread and free style. She has a Master Craftsman certification in Crewel Embroidery from the Embroiderers Guild of America.
Ellen has been quilting for more than 40 years, and her exploration of decorative arts has ranged from sewing custom clothing, to making theatrical costumes, to fashioning art dolls, to exploring mixed media, to adding dimensional ribbon work and surface embroidery to a variety of projects.
Together they enjoy designing and teaching hand applique and embroidery.
Find them on Instagram and TikTok as: @macavoysisters.
Join us for an informal IN-PERSON craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month, September – May. All are welcome!
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:
Questions, email programs@cvfg.org.
See the newsletter for this month’s topic. We will have announcements, a program, then time for show & tell. All are welcome!
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.
Join us for an informal IN-PERSON craft-in/spin in the first Sunday of each month, September – May. All are welcome!
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:
Questions, email programs@cvfg.org.
See the newsletter for this month’s topic. We will have announcements, a program then time for show & tell. All are welcome!
Find out more about the Southern Highland Craft Guild at www.southernhighlandguild.org/.
Meetings with a program WILL be recorded and posted on the Guild Meeting Recordings page on the website.
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.
