Mark your calendar for March 11 for a jam-packed afternoon of SOFAAR events, all at St. Luke’s Church Hall in Annapolis Royal. Here’s what’s happening:

1 p.m.  – Annual General Meeting

2 – 4 p.m. – Fabulous Fibre Stash Sale & Giveaway — see details below

2 – 4 p.m. – Play Time! We’ll have chairs set up and the tea kettle on. After you check out the Stash Sale & Giveaway, you can try out your new treasures or work on your latest project (or a UFO you’ve been meaning to finish) and knit, hook, stitch, spin or otherwise play with fibre.

Fabulous Fibre Stash Sale & Giveaway

Here’s your chance to reduce, increase or revitalize your fibre stash! Following SOFAAR’s AGM on March 11, we’re promoting a fabulous fibre stash bash. There will be tables of fibre supplies for sale and giveaway. The public is invited and we’ll advertise the event widely. Here’s how you can participate:

• Reserve an individual table to sell your work, or share one with a friend (you work out the sharing details). Cost for a 6-ft table is $10, and you tend your own table.
• Donate items to SOFAAR. We’ll sort them into “sale” and “give-away” categories, display them and staff the tables. Funds raised from SOFAAR sales will help finance our programs for the year.
• Use the opportunity to add to your stash at bargain prices! ·Tell your friends about the sale and encourage them to come.

If you want to reserve a table, contact grace.butland@bellaliant.net by February 28. If you have items to donate to the SOFAAR tables, please get them to Christine Igot (Christine@latext.com) by February 24.

Sofaar is excited to officially launch the detailed information package about its Fabulous Fall Fibre Retreat which will take place in Annapolis Royal the weekend of September 29th to October 1st.

Accommodations will be at the historic and beautiful Queen Anne Inn.

Attendees will enjoy their fibre arts get-away weekend working on their projects in the Inn’s beautiful parlours.
You can stitch the weekend away and explore the birthplace of Canada while strolling along the river, taking in the Farmers’s Market, visiting Canada’s First National Historic site: Fort Anne and enjoying fabulous breakfasts and a three-course Saturday evening meal at the Queen Anne Inn.

Attendees will have a special guided tour of the Historic Fort Anne tapestry and a visit to the local gallery featuring a SOFAAR fibre exhibit.

Why not bring a fibre friend and spend a lovely weekend with like-minded fibre enthousiasts!

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Twenty-three stitchers, hookers, knitters and other fibrephiles came out last Saturday afternoon to spend an agreeable couple of hours on Saturday the 28th of January working on their different fibre projects with like-minded individuals.

Sofaar members and others enjoyed sharing ideas and tips.

We all appreciated the lovely church hall of Saint-Alphonsus in Bridgetown.

We’ll be sure to do it again next month so keep an eye out on the location.

Here’s a great way to beat the January blahs!

Join your fellow SOFAAR members for a relaxed afternoon plying your needles and hooks in a social setting on January 28, 2 to 4 p.m. at St Alphonsus Hall in Bridgetown.

Bring your latest project (or a UFO you’ve been meaning to finish) and knit, hook, stitch, spin or otherwise play with fibre. There’ll be no business meeting, no pressure; just a chance to sit and stitch.

There are lots of tables and electrical outlets if you want to bring a machine or extra light and washrooms and a kitchen handy if you need a cup of tea.

Feel free to bring a fibre friend. There is no charge for the event, but a small donation ($2) to help offset hall rental costs is requested.

Where:                St Alphonsus Catholic Church – 93 South Street, Bridgetown.
(See map, attached)

When:                  January 28, 2 – 4 p.m.

Some Conditions Apply: 

Here’s your “small print” warning of conditions that apply to this offer: In the event of a major snow storm, the event will be cancelled. It will also be cancelled should a funeral be scheduled for that date.

If we have to cancel, we will post the cancellation notice on our SOFAAR  website (www.SOFAAR.ca) and our Facebook page.

We hope to see you there.

Most of us will not be in Savannah, Georgia over the holidays… but if you are, you can check out SOFAAR member Sam Norgard’s amazing beaded pieces.

She is featured in the “Tiny Treasures” exhibit of the Coastal Bead Society running through December and January at the Cultural Arts Gallery in Savannah, Georgia.

Sam’s creations are amazing !