Study Group
The lace study group will meet January 17, 7:00 PM at the meeting room, with Joan presiding.

Birthdays
January 5 – Linda McDaniel

If you participated, bring your WeaveO Project.

Also   basket for the silent auction and your covered dish
for the potluck.
Study Group
The next Lace study group is January 17, 2012 at the
church at 7:00 PM.
Birthdays
December 16 – Alice Prentiss
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

Committee Reports

Workshop Committee
• Will check interest in spring about bringing in non-member to present workshop
• Round robin lace program

Activities Committee
• Trip to Fiber Universe (305 SW Water Street, Peoria)?

Projects and Business in Process
Spinning workshop
• November 19 from 8:30-4 with Tom Svihla in Lewiston. Bring sack lunch; Tom will
provide snacks and light beverages. Bring your own fiber.

Lace Weaves Study Group
• Report on a weave or 2 every meeting; Making samples from “Lace Weaves Portfolio”
by Leslie Voiers; samples need to be at least 6” wide
• No December meeting
• Januaryʼs topic Barleycorn presented by Joan Quigg
• Next meeting Tuesday, January 17 at 7:00 at St. Francis Church

Meeting

The meeting is on November 1, 7:00PM at the meeting room. The program will be make and take by Joe. A list of supplies will be attached.

Dates to Remember

November 6 – Lise’s annual sale – Grab your friends and family and bring them to the sale. 10:00AM to 4:00PM

November 15 – Lace Weave study group at the meeting room, 7:00PM

November 16 – Basket class at Joe’s house from 7:00PM to 9:00PM

November 19 – Spinning Class at Tom’s house

Thanksgiving

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

The tradition of celebrating the holiday on Thursday dates back to the early history of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, when post-harvest holidays were celebrated on the weekday regularly set aside as “Lecture Day,” a midweek church meeting where topical sermons were presented. A famous Thanksgiving observance occurred in the autumn of 1621, when Plymouth governor William Bradford invited local Indians to join the Pilgrims in a three-day festival held in gratitude for the bounty of the season.

Thanksgiving became an annual custom throughout New England in the 17th century, and in 1777 the Continental Congress declared the first national American Thanksgiving following the Patriot victory at Saratoga. In 1789, President George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday, when, at the request of Congress, he proclaimed November 26, a Tuesday, as a day of national thanksgiving for the U.S. Constitution. However, it was not until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to fall on the last Thursday of November, that the modern holiday was celebrated nationally.

With a few deviations, Lincoln’s precedent was followed annually by every subsequent president–until 1939. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last Thursday that year, as Thanksgiving Day. Considerable controversy surrounded this deviation, and some Americans refused to honor Roosevelt’s declaration. For the next two years, Roosevelt repeated the unpopular proclamation, but on November 26, 1941, he admitted his mistake and signed a bill into law officially making the fourth Thursday in November the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.

Joe’s Attachment

Here’s the list of things to bring for those interested in the November Make & Take: a newspaper or other paper to protect the table tops a rule or tape to measure the reed kitchen shears for cutting the reed a small container for soaking the reed a utility towel for drying the reed (it may get dye on it!) Elmer’s Glue for gluing the reed a couple of small clamps or clips to hold the star while it dries

Shirley called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.
Review of Minutes; no corrections
Treasurerʼs Report
Committee Reports
Program Committee
• No report
Workshop Committee
• Shadow Weave workshop had 4 attendees
Activities Committee
• Trip in spring to yarn shops in Iowa
Assets Committee
• No report
Projects and Business in Process
Celebration Day 2012
• July 14, 2011
• Japan will be the country to be explored
Spinning workshop
• November 19 from 8:30-4 with Tom Svihla in Lewiston. Bring sack lunch; Tom will
provide snacks and light beverages. Bring your own fiber.
• Bishop Hill Fiber Guildʼs annual Spin-in at Black Hawk College East Campus on
October 15, 2011 has beginning spinning class from 10:30-11:45
Lace Weaves Study Group
• Next meeting Tuesday, October 18 at 7:00 at St. Francis Church
• Will be making samples from “Lace Weaves Portfolio” by Leslie Voiers; samples need
to be at least 6” wide
• Workshop day will be planned
New Business
Road Trip
• National Museum of the American Coverlet in Bedford, PA
Outreach/visibility in community possibilities
• Weaving day to make mug rugs that could be given to homeless shelter with a mug
• Chillicothe Public Library has Christmas tree to decorate that our guild could adopt
• Make baby blanket(s) to donate to charitable organization
• Heifer International (give sheep to town)
• Humane Society make item to donate for auction
• Peoria Public Library display case to showcase our talents
• Weaving Day at Dunlap Public Library
• Demonstrate at Gems of the Prairie Show (4th weekend in September)
Meeting adjourned at 8:00
Program: “Guatemala and Its Textiles” presented by Pam Ritch
Next meeting will be Tuesday, November 1 at 7:00 at St. Francis Church. Joe will be
leading our Holiday Make and Take. Please bring ruler, shears/scissors, glue (Elmerʼs is
fine), and clips/small clamps (clothespins will do

Dates to Remember
October 15, 2011 – Spin In, at Blackhawk College East
Campus: 26680 N. 100th Ave, Galva, IL. Doors open at
9AM

Birthdays
October 31 – The Great Pumpkin

The meeting will be September 6, 7:00PM at  the meeting room. The program will be Types  of Lace (classification ) by Joan.

Shadow Weave Workshop

Shadow Weave workshop will be September 23,  24, and 25 at Jennie’s house. Come with your  loom dressed and ready to weave. If you need  help with your draft or choosing a thread,  contact Joan. Don’t hesitate to ask someone  for help dressing your loom if necessary.
Saturday will be a pot luck. Bring a sack lunch  for Sunday. Friday 6:30PM to 9:00PM.
Saturday 9:30am to 4:00PM. Sunday 10:30AM  to 2:00PM.
For more information contact the guild at hgp.mchsi.com

Spinning Workshop

Spinning workshop will be on November 19,  8:30AM to 4:00PM in Lewiston with Tom Svihla.  Arrive 15 minutes before class begins. If you  have a wheel bring it. If you do not have a  wheel, he has some. Bring a sack lunch. He will
provide coffee, tea and a snack. Bring your  payment of $50.00 (cash or check payable to  our guild ) to the September meeting.

Study Group

Lace Weaves study group will be on third  Tuesday of the month, 7:00PM at the meeting  room by Jennie. First class is September 20.  The book will be Lace Weaves Portfolio by Leslie Voiers. This book is available online for about  $11.00.

UK Day

The day started with books, photos and  breakfast. Then we played a game called  Consequences, brought by Linda. We danced  through the Draper’s Gardens, which caused us  to break for lunch. Lunch was English cuisine.
Next was Show & Tell, in which the variety of  English items was amazing. We ended the day with more knowledge of the UK. ( There will be copies of Linda’s game available at the next meeting.