Social Hour 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

General Guild Meeting 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Fiber Foolishness and Disaster Recovery 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 

Have you ever thrown a fiber project into the garbage can in disgust? Have you ever ripped out and remade an entire sweater three times before finally getting it right? Have you ever cut a warp off your loom in frustration only to give it to the dog as a new toy? I have done all of these things! While I have had some great successes, I’ve also had a number of outright disasters. Recently, after a particularly heartbreaking failure, I decided that I needed to stop and analyze my mistakes in a more systematic way. During this presentation, I will share with you my findings about error analysis, and offer some practical ways to reduce errors and recover from major disasters. Taking time to think about our failures can actually bring back lost confidence, save resources, and push us to higher levels of creativity.

Mary Renstrom Bio:

Mary Renstrom has been involved with fiber crafts since childhood. When she was five her mother taught her to sew. As a teen, she taught herself to knit and crochet. In 1990, she bought a spinning wheel she assembled from a kit and taught herself to spin from a library book. In 1995, she added knitting machines and a loom to her growing assortment of fiber tools. She finds great solace in spinning and working with her own handspun yarn and is an inveterate experimenter, who makes lots of mistakes but also discovers new and exciting things she likes to share with other craftspeople.

Presentation follows general Guild meeting