November 19, 2025 | Paper Gift Tags from Recycled Paper with Joan Beinetti

Guild Evening Meeting 

6:30pm, Weaving & Fiber Arts Center in person

Joan Beinetti has explored paper making in an almost daily practice. We’ve asked her to share her craft with us as we make small, shaped gift tags to use with our own handmade gifts. Bring your metal cookie cutters to use as forms for making unique paper gift tags.

December 10, 2025 | Radical Potholders: Not What You Made When You Were 8 with Peg Cherre

Guild Evening Meeting 

6:30pm, Weaving & Fiber Arts Center in person

You probably made lots of potholders on a little metal loom when you were a young child. If you’re like Peg Cherre, you just pulled “pretty colors” out of the and didn’t really care about the designs. Now she does much more with potholders - shadow weave, twills in a variety of patterns, clasped warp/weft, multi-layer weaves, clasped warp/weft, and more! Peg will show you some of what she’s made and share helpful resources. If you want to bring your own potholder loom and loops, we can try out a twill.

January 14, 2026 | From Sheep to Skein: The Voyage Wool Makes to Reach Your Hands with Marcia Weinert

Guild Monthly Meeting 

9:30am, First Baptist Church in person and zoomed to home members

While most of us love wool and can even name a few different breeds of sheep, not many of us know much about how the particular yarn on our needles or looms came to be there. Where was it shorn? And how did it get from that place to here? How many miles did it travel, and how many people handled it along the way? Which leads to the most important question of all: are there choices that we hand-crafters can make to support the work of farmers, fiber mills, and— most urgently—the planet? Marcia will take us on a world tour that will happily lead us right back to our own front door!

BIO

Marcia Weinert (who is “Undeniably Loopy!”) has been addicted to turning fluff into stuff ever since sneaking her 9-year-old daughter’s spindle and fiber after their first class together, in 1995! Marcia is trained as a wool classer, wool handler, and shearer by the American Sheep Industry, and acts as a wool broker and yarn designer for NY shepherds and hand-dyers; her award-winning knitwear designs have appeared in print and online. She teaches spinning, knitting, felting, and crochet in outlets across the northeast, particularly the Weaving & Fiber Arts Center in Rochester, NY. “Curriculum” plays second fiddle to students' needs, in Marcia’s classes. She aims to instruct using methods that make most sense to each individual crafter, and encourages students to reach beyond mere technique into the arena of their own creativity.

January 21, 2026 | Ice Dyeing with Natalie Drummond

Guild Evening Meeting 

6:30pm, via zoom

Natalie Drummond has explored and teaches various methods of ice dyeing using fiber reactive dyes and plant based fibers. How does laying your yarn flat in a tub or snaking your yarn over a rack to introduce gravity change your results? No matter what weave structure, she finds that using different methods allow her to plan for more control of hue color interaction and value differences. “Step Up Your Ice Dyeing with Ikat and Shibori” appeared in Handwoven Magazine Winter 2024. In addition, Natalie has written a number of blogs about ice dyeing on her website: NatalieWoven.com

Zoom link will be sent to members before the presentation.

February 11, 2026 | Any Flower Drawn: Restoring a 19th-century Linen Damask Jacquard with Justin Squizerro

Guild Monthly Meeting 

9:30am, First Baptist Church  Zoomed to big screen and to home members

This presentation tells the story of how a mid-19th century Jacquard machine made for the Irish linen damask industry made its way to Scotland and Vermont. The process of restoring that machine to weaving figured linen damask is followed with an in-depth look at recreating a piece of 17th-century linen, from painting the point paper to punching the Jacquard cards and the operation of the loom itself.

Bio:

Justin’s earliest memories of his grandmother are also his first memories of wool. An avid spinner, weaver, and dyer, Justin’s grandmother taught him how to spin yarn on a great wheel while he was still a child and by his teenage years his interests grew to spinning flax and weaving. In 2007, while working at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Justin spent several winters at Marshfield School of Weaving, learning traditional weaving technique. In 2013 he left the museum field and returned to Marshfield to weave for Eaton Hill Textile Works, and in 2017 started his own business, The Burroughs Garret. In 2023, Justin became director of the renamed Newbury School of Weaving. Justin weaves linen damask using a 19th-century Jacquard loom and has exhibited his work internationally. Through teaching he is dedicated to rebuilding a connection between today’s weavers and the handweaving tradition that existed before the 20th century.