Since 1985
The Peachtree Handspinners Guild will meet
Saturday, January 25, 2025, from 1:00 pm -4:00 pm
in the fellowship hall of North Decatur Presbyterian
Church (NDPC) located at 611 Medlock Road,
Decatur. The door will be open at noon.
It’s time for our second meeting January! Hope
everyone can attend this social spin.
Alert! once again a church event will cause us to start a bit later.
Starting time will be 1:30.
Start the year right with a day of spinning on Distaff Day!
We will meet from 10-4 at North Decatur Presbyterian Church.
Bring a dish or snack or dessert to share for lunch.
Bring your spinning or your project, bring your questions.
It’s like a social spin, but all day.
Update! We will be able to have dye pots on Distaff Day after all. Since Alyssa can’t make it, Nena will be her stand-in, so bring whatever you want to dye. We’ll experiment with colors, ice dye and try other new methods.
Feel free to bring fabric as well as your wool. It will be dye anything day!
The Peachtree Handspinners Guild will meet
Saturday, December 21, 2024, from 1:30 pm -4:30
pm in the fellowship hall of North Decatur
Presbyterian Church (NDPC) located at 611 Medlock
Road, Decatur. Please note the later start time!
It’s time for our Holiday Social!! Bring a potluck dish
(salad, appetizer, main or dessert), wear your
reindeer antlers or sparkly headgear if you dare, and
get your jingle jazzed. After welcoming of guests and
abbreviated announcements, we eat, and the
festivities really begin. We hold the biggest raffle of
the year – the Teacup Raffle. Everyone is encouraged
to bring a really nice, fiber-related contribution. With
one or more items from everyone, we’ll have LOTS of
prizes to award. Extra special items will have a $1-
ticket, but everyone present gets one fifty-cent ticket.
We’ll also have Show ‘N Tell and don’t forget the
Dizzy Spinsters Awards! This meeting is a blast so
make plans to be here and have a good time!
Please don’t arrive early, as the church has a function
that should be complete by 1:30. But, if the parking
lot is full, please go get a cup of coffee and come back
in 15 minutes.
Home Grown, Hand Made:
A Fiber Arts Exhibit by Peachtree Handspinners and Etowah Valley Handspinners Guilds
Saturday, September 14, 2024 to Friday, January 31, 2025
The Peachtree Handspinners Guild and the Etowah Valley Handspinners Guild are hosting an exhibit of handspun textiles at the Bartow History Museum in downtown Cartersville, Georgia. This exhibit will feature a large variety of member-made hand woven, knit, crocheted, felted, braided, dyed and/or sewn textiles made from handspun fibers. Many of the yarns are spun from locally raised wool, mohair and cotton raised by guild members (see photograph).
The Bartow History Museum’s permanent collection features some of the rich textile history of Cartersville and Bartow County. You’ll find several beautiful antique spinning wheels and a loom that were used in the area, as well as the American Textile Company’s (ATCO) Cotton Mill factory and village history. Cartersville and Bartow County are on the West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail. https://westgatextiletrail.com/
Cartersville Georgia is known as the “Museum City”. It is home to the Bartow History Museum, the Booth Western Art Museum, Tellus Science Museum and Savoy Automobile Museum. It is also home to the Etowah Indian Mounds on the Etowah River and Red Top Mountain State Park on Lake Allatoona.
Bartow History Museum
4 E Church Street Cartersville GA 30120
https://bartowhistorymuseum.org/
770-387-2774
Exhibit Events:
Artist Panel Talk
Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 7pm-8pm
A guild moderator will lead a panel of guild textile artists in a discussion of their work, techniques and history.
Sheep to Shawl Educational event
Saturday, October 26, 2024 10am-5pm
All-day demonstrations of wool washing, carding, spinning, weaving and knitting using local sheep’s wool from Dry Creek Naturals Farm (@drycreeknaturals). This event is at the Bartow History Museum and is part of the Booth Western Art Museum’s West Fest Event. https://boothmuseum.org/west-fest/
Check our learn-to-spin page for more on a new class for beginning spinners.
Spinning 101
Do you want to learn to spin?
Peachtree Handspinners Guild will hold a “Learn to Spin” class on Saturday, August 10, 2019 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at North Decatur Presbyterian Church.
Bring your own spinning wheel (or let us know and we’ll have one there for you to spin on) and a check for $15 made out to PHG.
Preregistration is required. Reserve your space by emailing anniehall60@gmail.com with the subject heading “PHG Spinning 101,” letting us know if you’ll bring your own wheel.
North Decatur Presbyterian Church is located at 611 Medlock Road, Decatur, GA 30033.
Spinning 101
Do you want to learn to spin?
Peachtree Handspinners Guild will hold a “Learn to Spin” class on Saturday, July 21 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at North Decatur Presbyterian Church.
Bring your own spinning wheel (or let us know and we’ll have one there for you to spin on) and a check for $15 made out to PHG.
Preregistration is required. Reserve your space by emailing anniehall60@gmail.com with the subject heading “PHG Spinning 101,” letting us know if you’ll bring your own wheel.
North Decatur Presbyterian Church is located at 611 Medlock Road, Decatur, GA 30033.
By Paula Vester
The guild received its copy of Piecework and I picked it up from the mailbox the other day. It appears to be an issue filled with socks – history is interesting, but I will never knit a pair of historic socks like those amazing examples in that issue. But tucked in the back of the magazine was a wonderful article about a sweater. An amazing sweater that survived 75 years and now resides in the
Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. The pattern taken from that sweater is available on Ravelry, or you can buy it from the museum bookshop (the Ravelry income for the sweater sales also goes to the museum). The modern designer is Lea Stern (you can search “The Green Sweater by Lea Stern” in Ravelry), and the story is wonderful.
I will soon be in search of a nice fingering weight yarn to try and make this sweater. It seems to be sized for about a 7 yr old, and I may just knit it in that size and see if any on my great nieces can eventually fit it. I just want to see if I can follow a pattern of this kind…….my question: who might want to join me this coming year and choose a project to be knitted, crocheted, embroidered, or quilted from some historical story?
Maybe this could be our Library Exhibit Challenge for the 2018 year — history in fiber…….Find some historical – or maybe a family related – story/project and work on it for the exhibit at the DeKalb Library in June. I like some of the stories I hear you guys talk about pieces in your family collections, so those would certainly be perfect. I am sure some of us have some of the old books from grandmothers, aunts, etc. of patterns or books of the things people were doing in textiles throughout several generations. Let us make this year’s exhibit a fabulous one of history, fiber, family and friends.