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I want to welcome members and visitors to the Vermont Weavers Guild's new website. I hope you enjoy the site. If you are not a member, are in the area, and are interested in weaving, please join us for a morning meeting as our guest.

Vermont weavers make lace in Laurie Autio's workshop in April...

Message to members:

We had an enthusiastic group at the last meeting to hear Laurie Autio give an excellent talk about lace weaves. She showed us a beautiful collection of lace weaving samples and items. The equally excellent round-robin workshop provided us with great samples of the varieties of lace weaves. My warp is 10/2 pearl cotton, threaded in canvas weave. As I saw the samples emerging as members worked at my loom, I realized what a great scarf I could make with the remaining warp!

We have had two members step up to fill the positions of chair and assistant chair for the guild show. We have a new library committee chair and hostesses set for the next two meetings. Opportunities still open included a third member for the scholarship committee and someone to organize the guild table at NEWS.

To strengthen the guild we need to set up a finance committee. We would do well to have a publicity committee. We need to get more effort behind raising money for scholarships. And I would like those who are interested in teaching weaving to kids, or doing demonstrations to form a committee and start making plans. We talked about having a guild presence at the Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival next September. I hope we can make some firm plans when we meet in May.

Next meeting is our annual meeting. The budget for next year will be presented for approval. As most members know our rent has gone up and dues are going to have to go up to pay the rent. We will be electing a treasurer, a secretary, and new member of the nominating committee.

I think we need to amend the by-law to state that the president and vice-president start their terms in odd numbered years and the secretary and treasurer in even number years. This would bring the by-laws into accord with what we are actually doing. I think too we should remove the restriction that officers can only serve two terms. The by-laws require a month's notice to the membership before voting on changes. We can talk about this is May.

Take a look to the website. We have added the library holdings and information about the programs for next year (and beyond). Also members who have a personal website can ask Lida to be added to our list of links.

Hope to see you at the May meeting.

BJ Allen, VWG President 4/20/08
 

	Meeting Notes....
	from Mary Schwartz The weather report was pretty bad for Saturday but the meeting went ahead anyway. Driving down was OK, but those of us in the Richmond carpool gang chipped ice off our cars on the return trip. The meeting was somewhat compressed because of the weather which makes this one of the shortest reports I’ve done in a long time..... Notes continued....

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