Minutes for
the January Meeting of the Mid Island Weavers and Spinners Guild on
January 7th,2015
There were
fourteen people present.
Discussion of
Our March Sale of stash and re-stash in March at the Cedar Hall
(Kathy if you
could send me the detail i will post on face book etc. But I don’t
want to type the information and times etc. Without having it all in
front of me.)
Anne Fiddick
and Kathy MacDonald lead the discussion about the sale. The Guild
will have a table and three guild members will have a table as well.
They are looking into sandwich boards to put up directing people to
the hall and possibly having a map.
Joyce said that
we may not have to find another location for the meetings when the
hall gets torn down. We will have to remove and relocate the library.
The building at the north end of the parking lot is possibly going to
accommodate the people who meet at the church while the building is
being done.
Debbie
McClelland will give a programme on baskets for the February meeting.
Looking forward to it.
Dream Spin
information previously posted.
We had a
discussion about a booth for the ANWG conference in Victoria in June
2017. The Theme is treddle lightly. Pat Zogar had a great idea that
we all loved. Circular stairs with local hadspun done in the booth
colours and the risers of the stairs in handwoven fabric in each of
the colours. More discussion will entail but we could get going on it
soon.
Reminder of the
email: I have two people who are still not getting the emails and
they are on the list the addresses are correct and I do not
understand why they do not get them??
EMAIL account:
MIWSGuild has an email address and hence an email account at
google mail:
MIWSGuild@gmail.com.
This is just a regular email account just like anyone would
have, except we use this for the Guild rather than for one individual
person. This means any email sent to
MIWSGuild@gmail.com
is NOT read unless someone goes into the account and reads it and it
stays in the account until someone deletes it. It is NOT sent
to all members of the Guild. So if you send an email to
MIWSGuild@gmail.com,
it stays right there. A member of the guild needs to go into
the account every so often and read the mail and do something with it
(e.g. reply, delete, forward, file it, etc).
Email can be filed in folders. Folders
are listed on the left column. Move your cursor in that area
should force a list of folders to appear.
Distribution Lists.
The Guild has two ways to send email to
people:
1. Using the Gmail account: To
send using the gmail address account you first have to log in with
the username and password. In Gmail, you can also have Contacts (an
address book) set up and you can add people to your contacts, along
with their email addresses and phone numbers.
To send an email to a contact,
just click the COMPOSE button in Gmail and then the TO: button and
chose who to send the email to.
To send email to a group of
people: You can either select more than one person by
clicking the TO: button, and select all those to receive the email;
or, you can type in each address; OR, if you often send emails to the
same group of people e.g. current members, you can save time by
creating a Group, and sending the email to that group. A group has
been created called "Current members". It lists all
the people who currently have a membership in the guild. Each
year, new members need to be added and those who are no longer
members removed from the group.
Other group have been created, e.g.
Guild Executive, and each time a workshop is created, then a group
with the name of that workshop so a message can be sent just to those
registered in a workshop.
You can send to more than one group,
for example you may want to advertise an upcoming event and send it
to the Members group as well as Friends of the Guild group, or to
other guilds as well.
To add a person to the contact list:
Click the word Gmail (typed in the top left with a small triangle
pointing down next to it) and choose Contacts. This switches
you to the Contacts page. The page lists all the contacts,
their addresses and which groups they belong to. To add a new
contact click New Contact button on the left and fill in their
name and email address.
To add a person/s to a group:
You can select a person (or more) and add them to a group. Select
the people and once selected and box with 3 people icons appears
above the list. If the group already exists, clicking the group icon
will drop down a list of groups. Choose the one you want to add
them to.
2. Yahoo Groups. The
Guild also has a Yahoo Group account and web page and this also comes
with a Yahoo distribution list. The Yahoo Group page
is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MIWSGuild/?prop=eupdate The
email address for the Yahoo list is:
MIWSGuild@yahoogroups.com
This is useful to quickly send an email
from your own personal
email address to current members. Someone (who?) at
the Guild is responsible for adding new members to the Yahoo Group
and maintaining this list. Some members have complained that
they do not receive these emails. Maybe their email program
thinks they are spam emails?
Emails sent
to
MIWSGuild@yahoogroups.com
will only be sent to those registered with the yahoo group i.e. only
current members.
Currently, Heather Sinclair maintains
the Yahoo group members. When new members join, an email should be
sent to Heather with the new members name and email and Heather will
add them.
Show and Tell
I talked about
my upcoming tapestry weaving trip so will just have arrived back at
the next meeting.
Kathy MacDonald
showed her nice black alpaca that Anna Running processed
Crystal showed
some spinning she had done.
Joyce had a
dyed knitted sample which is going to work out to be a nice project.
Anne knit
toques from spinning samples
Autumn had
knitting that had a face in it but despite the fact that everyone
else could see it I could not.
Debbie had some
great felted slippers
Pat had a scarf
made from handspun.
Liz had
spinning with dyed Blueface Leichester roving combinded withblack or
dark blue alpaca
A woman named
Sandra had bought a knitters loom from Pat's Ashford business. She
wanted to warp the loom she got for Christmas. Norah was helping her
but she needed yarn for the warp and it was going to take longer than
she thought.
