Can You Help?
Anna Amegah is a refugee – a single mother with 4 children – who lives in the area. She can sew but doesn’t have a machine. Funds are very limited and she wonders if anyone has one they are not using they would give to her. If you can help, please contact info@sofaar.ca.
GOOD NEWS: When renewing or purchasing a membership, SOFAAR can now accept e-transfers to email address info@sofaar.ca. The e-transfer will automatically be deposited into SOFAAR’s chequing account; no password is required. We hope this will make payment easier during this difficult time and in the future.
In the April/May issue of Snippets we announced that, due to interruption of our ability to host Saturday Snips or provide workshops, all members in good standing as of March 2021 would have their membership extended for 3 months.
Because of the ongoing COVID-19 social distancing requirements, that extension has been increased to 6 months. We are looking into options for programming that might involve meeting via Skype or Zoom and we hope to resume Saturday Snips as early as September if circumstances allow. In the meantime, we’d love to see your works-in-progress. Send them to info@sofaar.ca and we’ll post them here on the website.
In light of the pandemic and the need for social distancing, the SOFAAR Board has cancelled upcoming sessions of Saturday Snips until further notice. We will continue to monitor the situation and make decisions about upcoming meetings as the need arises. In the meantime, we’re lucky that fibre arts can be practiced in isolation.
This is a good time to finish UFO’s and start challenging new projects.
While Saturday Snips is on hold, we’ll publish monthly issues of Snippets. Send photos of what you’re working on to gracebutland@eastlink.ca and we’ll include them in the next issue.
SOFAAR members,
As you are no doubt already know the World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 to have reached pandemic status. At this time in Canada, as reported on the Government of Canada Health site, 80% of cases are travellers and 10% are close contacts of those travellers. There are no confirmed cases in Nova Scotia at the time of writing but this can change in a moment and progress rapidly. With this in mind let us take the following precaution:
Anyone returning within the last 14 days from a country or province with confirmed COVID-19 cases, or been in contact with anyone who has, DO NOT attend the AGM event.
We all need our immune systems to be at their best so anyone suffering colds and seasonal flu please stay at home as well.
We are all going to have parts to play in the coming weeks. If it falls to me that my part is to stay home, I will immerse myself in fibre projects and be glad to do so. If we all do our part the show and tells once the contagion has abated could be amazing.
When I became SOFAAR president I never imagined penning such an email, but at this conjuncture I feel it is essential.
Yours wanting to keep us healthy,
Cheryl den Hartog
President SOFAAR
Our March 14th AGM with its ever popular ‘Fibre Swap & Sale’ is
now less than a week away!
There will be four tables with stash for sale and…
we will also be giving away ‘fibre stash’ rejects/leftovers. So, if you have any stash stuff you’d love to see find a new home with a fellow member just contact info@sofaar.ca
See you this Saturday and remember, we will also be having a Saturday Snips afternoon from 1-4 so bring along a project to work on and something for show and tell.
We were in Digby on February 8th to enjoy a Saturday Snips.
SOFAAR was pleased to welcome two new members:
Linda Hankinson is hooking these pigs:
And Frances Vienot has done some lovely appliquéed fabric painting:
Rachael’s flowers in her peacock hanging really shine:
And Christine is working on a medieval bunny hooking:
Our next gathering will be a special one. We will have our AGM followed by a stash sale and give-away (always a hit) followed by our Snips afternoon.
We hope you will join us on Saturday, March 14th at 1 pm at Saint-Luke’s Hall on Saint-George St. in Annapolis Royal.
This month’s Saturday Snips takes place on Saturday, February 8th at the Digby Baptist church.
As for every Snips, our gathering is from 1 to 4 pm.
The Baptist Church is located at 2 Mount Street on the corner of Mount Street and Montague Street.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Please bring along something for the show and tell.
Non-members are welcome to come and see what we are up to. Fibre work of all kinds is done at the Saturday Snips from knitting to needlepoint, hooking to quilting.
All welcome.
Our program Getting Started, a presentation by Karen Michael Warner, originally set for January 19, 2020, is rescheduled to Sunday, January 26, 2020, at 1:30 pm, at the Paradise Community Hall, weather permitting. If we have to cancel, we will post it on our web site, www.sofaar.ca and on our Facebook page, FibreSOFAAR, on the morning of the 26th, so please check before leaving.
This program is open and free to all our members; non-members will be charged a $10.00 fee. You are welcome to attend even if you did not resister for the 19th.
Please let us know you are coming at info@sofaar.ca so we know how many chairs to put out. This is not a strict requirement but if we know you are coming we can inform you by email of a cancellation.
If we do have to cancel the event we will reschedule it for a Sunday in March or April when the weather may be more cooperative.
Best regards,
The Program Committee
P.S. Karen’s presentation will touch on the following topics: -Sourcing good reference material
-What constitutes a good reference for a work of fibre -Shape, Tone, Colour
-Colour temperature and how it affects the look of a work
-Composition and breaking up of borders, cutting things off and dynamic viewpoints -Understanding tonality; making plains recede
-Complex colour
-Texture
-Thumbnails and colour studies: How to do them and in what medium.
SOFAAR Workshop –
Phase II – Conception to Completion scheduled for Sunday, January 19th 1:30 to 4:30 at the Paradise Community Hall, has been cancelled due to the snowy forecast for tomorrow.
The Workshop is being rescheduled for next Sunday, January 26th. same time and same place.
Please contact info@sofaar.ca if you have any questions.