PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Always the journey, never the destination.

Simon Rattle

I am excited about this coming year!  Over the summer many of your Guild friends have been busy getting activities, programs and workshops in place.  It’s going to be a great year!

Has everything worked out the way I envisioned it? In a word “No”.  But if you were here last year, you will recall that I am an optimist. Things change, life is full of fast pitches and curve balls that we can’t always hit–but with only 4 wild pitches we can walk to first base.

Roxane Colburn has a study group and a workshop planned for October:

 Weaving Basics, a  study for brand new weavers as well as those in need of a refresher. Planned and presented by Wendy Pare and MaryAnn Straight, this class promises to get you started in the right direction with your weaving.

 The other will be Fiberworks–The Marvelous World of Drafting taught by Liz Moncrief. This will be taught in three sessions over Zoom and will give you great instruction on drafting your own designs, --you may sign up for whichever sessions you want.

 The Program committee is lining up  interesting programs for the coming year, MaryAnn Straight has a challenge project ready to present, and the Website is getting tweaked for easier use.

The executive committee with input from all committee chairs  is hammering out a budget proposal.  As you will see in the Audit report (in this newsletter) we need to do a better job of balancing the budget. This  will be presented at the September meeting.

I hope to see lots of you on September 7th for our Round Robin event featuring everything from Basket weaving to dryer balls.  You won’t want to miss it. And don’t forget to bring your Show and Tell!

As always if you have ideas or  suggestions to make our Guild more user friendly and welcoming–please don’t hesitate to let someone know.  That’s how we grow and prosper!

Susan

president@skagitvalleyweaversguild.org 

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