Leslie McFarlane will be holding a “Wet felted mittens” workshop on Saturday, January 4th from 10 am to 3 pm at the Brickton Hall.
Please contact Leslie for more information at: <lesliemcfarlane56@gmail.com>
Merry Christmas from SOFAAR
Merry Christmas from all of us at SOFAAR.
All we want for Christmas is expressed in this image:
May 2020 bring you even more time to spend on your fibre projects.
December Saturday Snips the 14th
We hope to see you at our final SOFAAR event of 2019.
This month’s Saturday Snips will take place on December 14th from 1 to 4 pm at the United Church in Annapolis Royal, 393 St. George St right by the traffic lights.
Bring a current project and get to know your fellow members, share creative ideas and enjoy yummy refreshments.
The next Snips will be on January 11th, 2020 at the Saint Alphonsus Church in Bridgetown.
Getting Started Workshop in January
Getting Started is a free workshop for SOFAAR members.
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 1:30 – 4:30 pm.
Snow date, Sunday, January 26, 2020, 1:30 – 4:30 pm.
Paradise Community Hall, 10,300 Hwy 1, Paradise, NS
The Sofaar Program committee invites you to an afternoon presentation by Karen Warner. This program is intended for members who would like to learn more about the principles of original design. Karen’s presentation will include the following:
-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.
Karen had a private apprenticeship in the Old Master methods and materials of drawing and painting followed by 2 years in representational impressionism. She has taught privately and to groups since the late 90’s. She works mostly in oils, graphite and coloured pencils; however, the basics of all art have the same underpinning that is applied to all mediums, fibre art included.
Please bring a small notebook for your own use.
Please let us know if you plan to attend so we know how much nibbles to provide.
Contact <info@sofaar.ca> to sign up!
Use of AR LibraryInnovation Lab
The Annapolis Royal library would like to see more SOFAAR members use equipment in their innovation lab.
What equipment they have available for fibre artists are:
• Sewing machine
• Serger
• Bolivar cutter for rug hookers
• Swift and ball winder
• Drum carder
• Quilting rulers, mats and rotary cutters
• Lights with magnifiers
• Iron and ironing board
You do need to be a member of the library, which is free. In order to be able to use the equipment unsupervised, you are required to be signed off each piece you need to use.
How you do that is with Charlette Janes, who is the Systems and Collections Access Coordinator with the Annapolis Valley Regional Library. She will sign you off as being proficient, once you have had your training and you will receive a card stating that.
Charlette will be at the Annapolis Royal Library every 2nd Monday.
Her dates are:
November 18th
December 2nd, 16th.
Possibly she will be there December 30th too.
Phone beforehand at 902-531-2226 for the Dec. 30th date.
January 13th and 27th, 2020
You can just drop in on the above dates between the hours of 1 – 4pm at the Library, 143 Ritchie street, the rear entrance of the Academy behind and below the gym. Once you are signed off, then the Innovation lab is open for your use as below.
Monday 1 – 4pm
Wednesday 1 – 4pm
Saturday 10am – 2pm
We encourage you to make use of the free equipment. We are very fortunate to have it available to us as fibre artists.
A Successful Snips
About 24 SOFAAR members were present at Moose River Hooking Studio where we met for our monthly Saturday Snips gathering.
Members were working on crocheting, knitting, redwork embroidery, quilting, hooking and cross-stitching.
We spent an enjoyable afternoon hosted by Blaine and Leslie in their wonderful, colourful space.
Our next Saturday Snips will also be our Christmas party! Stay tuned for details and follow us on Facebook.
Saturday Snips, November 9th
Our next Saturday Snips afternoon will take place on November 9th at the Moose River Hooking Studio just outside of Annapolis Royal. The studio is located at 14 Clementsport Rd in Clementsport.
From 1 to 4 pm.
Please bring some show and tell and your current project to work on.
Refreshments will be served.
We look forward to seeing you all.
Saturday Snips: October 12th
Bring a project and join other SOFAAR members and guest to share information and visit. Bring something for Show and Tell if you’d like and join us at the Paradise Community Hall, 10300 Highway 1 in Paradise.
And bring your lug-a-mug if you have one!
See you there!
Third annual Fabulous Fall Fibre Retreat
28 ladies and one gentlemen enjoyed our third annual Fabulous Fall Fibre Retreat at the Hillsdale House Inn in Annapolis Royal this past weekend.
Lots of laughs and well-deserved down time for project work punctuated with walks, shopping, sipping and show and tell.
Retreaters enjoyed the Saturday Farmers and Traders market, the SOFAAR exhibit at ARCAC, the O’Dell museum crazy quilt exhibit and so much more.
We will be keeping you posted for 2020!
Saturday Snips. September 14th
SOFAAR members spent another agreeable afternoon at the Annapolis Royal Library working on their projects for our monthly Saturday Snips gathering.
Our next Saturday Snips afternoon will be October 12th in Paradise. We hope to see you there.
