We are an informal but active spinning guild that welcomes new and experienced spinners, as well as those who want to learn to spin.
Join us on Saturday, May 30, 11:00am to 2:00pm at Shadelands Ranch, 2660 Ygnacio Valley Rd., Walnut Creek, CA (NEW LOCATION!!) Spend the day spinning, snacking, shopping, and visiting with your fiber friends
Featuring California vendors with goodies from raw fiber to finished yarn, spinning wheels, fiber-related items and a dynamite raffle Bring your wheel, drop spindle, or other project, and a chair, for a truly enjoyable day!! Plenty of parking close to the event.
Admission: $10 per person. Follow @FiberFrolicFestival for event updates. Contact T2TFiberFrolic at gmail.com
Eco Printing on Paper: Where Art and Science Meet in Real Time
February 25, 2026 meeting
This month’s meeting will include a mini workshop titled Eco Printing on Paper. We will be using leaves and a solution of iron to create prints on paper
All supplies will be provided but if you have a rolling pin please bring it to the meeting
Where: Pleasant Hill Senior Center,
233 Gregory Ln, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
When: Wednesday, February 25, 2026
7 – 9 pm
Spinning for Rigid Heddle – Weaving Variable Dent
We are about to embark on our spring spinning and weaving project with the guild. Here are a few details about the project:
Everyone spins their own yarn from their own fiber. Protein fibers such as wool, alpaca, silk, angora or mohair are good choices. The amount of yarn you will need to spin will depend on how many folks join the project, and how much you want to give each person.
You may spin 8 feet, 16 feet or 32 feet of yarn for each person. So, if 20 people join you will spin either 160 feet (about 54 yards), 320 feet (107 yards) or 640 feet (214 yards).
Before coming to the March meeting, you will divide your yarn up, so each participant gets a segment. At the March guild meeting, we will exchange yarn, so each participant has yarn segments from everyone else. After the March meeting, you will weave the yarn into a warp faced scarf using a rigid heddle loom. Since the yarn will be different thicknesses, we will be using variable dent reeds that will be provided. Treadles has several rigid heddle looms to borrow if you do not have a loom.
At our last meeting we had a show of hands to assess how many folks want to join the project and the response was wonderful! An email went out on February 17th to guild members with this information, and a signup for the event.
Holiday Meeting
At our December 17th, 2025, meeting, we had the annual sheep ornament exchange. This was an optional activity at the event, but 20 sheep ornaments were brought and exchanged.
2025 Fiber Advent Calendar
We had a full house volunteer for our first annual Fiber Advent Calendar. Wendy and Amy coordinated the whole thing. In September, 24 members signed up to participate in the Fiber Advent Calendar. Each person was assigned a Secret Number, and given 24 small white bags. Our assignment was to mark the bag with our Secret Number, and put 10 to 15 grams of fiber in the bag. Additional goodies were welcome but not required. We delivered our filled bags by the October meeting. At the November meeting, there was a Big Bag of bags for each of us, containing the 24 bags from other participants, and a special red bag for Christmas Day. From there, the idea was we would, beginning on December 1st, open the bags, one a day, in numerical order. What we did with the fiber was up to us. Some chose to save everything until the end and decide what to do. Others are spinning each day. The final day of the calendar, December 25th, we were surprised with a small, warped rigid heddle loom and shuttle.
Dye Day 2025
We dyed one skein of merino/silk yarn (246 yards) using a unique skeining and dipping technique and leaving one skein of merino silk (246 yards) in its natural color to be used as the background color. The residual dye from the dipping technique was used to dye merino/silk roving (as a bonus)!
March 2025 Meeting
March 26, 2025 – Supported Spindles
Meeting Slideshow is HERE
Our in-house expert, Carolyn B, led us through the twists and turns of support spindle spinning. The spindles were specially crafted for us by our wonderful wood turner, Frank O.
Charlie Needs a Cloak
Three guild members – Wendy, Amy, and Jane – co-starred at storytime at the Martinez Library. The book was Charlie Needs a Cloak, by Tomie DePaoli, a story about how wool from sheep can be turned into fabric for clothing. The guild members brought a variety of wool fleece (washed, carded, batt, dyed and undyed), spinning wheels and spindles, and a loom to augment the book’s story. After the story, they demonstrated carding, spinning and weaving for the children who attended the event.
Blending Boards with Roy Clemes
Roy Clemes of Clemes and Clemes spoke to us about Blending Boards
Guild members were also invited to our Blending Board Get Together at Amy’s house where we will be practiced what we had learned from Roy’s presentation
See photos of the Blending Board Get Together HERE
Field Trip to a Farm
November, 2024, a group of us visited Jackie Post’s farm in Vacaville. We visited her sheep, alpaca, turkeys and guinea fowl. She demonstrated her mini-carding mill with fleece from one of her sheep and her felting machine for making wool felt. We had lunch outside, looking over her yard and fields on a beautiful sunny day.
Treadles to Threads Amazing Multi-Breed Spinning Experience
In our group breed study, three breeds are chosen every three months, and participants receive one ounce each of three breeds. We specifically spin undyed wool roving.
To See More Activities, visit our ARCHIVES
Guild Activities: Monthly meetings with presentations, weekly spin-togethers, annual dye day, group projects throughout the year. In addition, we sponsor the annual Fiber Folic Festival. Read emails and watch the calendar for other activities.
