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Nutmeg Spinners' Guild Meeting

  • St. John's Episcopal Church 679 Farmington Avenue West Hartford, CT United States (map)

Join the Nutmeg Spinners Guild _in-person_ for our bi-annual Four Corners program. Participants will circulate among four timed activities, as follows:

Shawl Pin: Leslie Wind, Jeweler, (LeslieWind.com) will mentor small groups in creating their own Shawl Pin. This activity will be limited to members only, with two active participants at a time and four observers, all cycling through. Materials will be provided. Leslie is offering Nutmeg Spinners 20% off between December 9 and December 16 on her Etsy site—she is going to be too busy helping us with our own creation to oversee a vending table. The discount code is NUTMEG21. Her shop can be found at https://www.etsy.com/shop/lesliewind?coupon=NUTMEG21

Spinning with eSpinners: Theresa Guerette (TerriSpins.com) will bring her cute little Electric Eel Nanos and train people on eSpinner techniques. Bring a niddy noddy, nostepinne, or skein winder to take yarn off the spinner.

Weaving with a Hand Loom: Participants will each be given a simple, small cardboard hand loom, and Vicki Miorelli will help with easy patterns and techniques. This is a fantastic way to use up your stash of extra project yarn or spinning samples. Some yarn material will be available, and bring your own balls of handspun or leftover yarn from projects.

Needle Felting: Alanna Sultar will lead participants through needle felting techniques to make a simple project. Tools for use in the meeting and felting 􀀽fiber will be provided.

A Beginner’s Corner will be available for people who are new to spinning (would you let Taryn McCarthy know if you can help with this please)? Non-members are welcome for a $10 program fee. All participants should go to the membership table to check in.