This is your bi-weekly posting, to let you know what sort of changes are being made at the website.
Since last time, I’ve renamed the “Announcements” tab to “Items of Interest” and added three categories beneath it. Guild Announcements, Upcoming Textile Events and In the News. If anyone has any events or website links to be added to these categories, just contact me at webmaster@wgmv.org.

I’m told some people are having problems receiving the notifications from this blog. Make sure you check in here once in a while in case you’re one of them and let me know. In fact, it’d be good if everyone who gets this were to post an email to me. That way I have an idea of who might be missing. Make sure the email didn’t get lost in any spam folders, because it may be the mass-mailing function that’s causing a problem.

This next month has some exciting stuff coming up. There’s the Fleece to Hat contest at the meeting, the Changing Landscapes exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute and a Drop Spindle “mini-workshop” coming up. Come and see!

Tomorrow is our regular meeting. Lisa Morrisette, from the Dayton Art Institute will be discussing the “Changing Landscapes” Exhibition coming up in March. I’m excited about this, because I’ve always been fascinated by Asian textiles. Hope to see you there!

Also, we have two “mini-workshops” coming up on spinning. February we’ll be doing tuning your spinning wheel and in March we’ll have drop spindling. (Note that these aren’t full-blown workshops. Just a way to get together and learn from more experienced spinners. No fee is involved.)

Don’t forget to check our announcements page for important information.

New programming:

• Our programming schedule has been updated thru April, with a new speaker for our February meeting. Lisa Morrisette, of the Dayton Art Institute, is coming in to discuss an exciting new exhibit of contemporary Chinese textiles. Go check out the February programming tab for more information.

• We have two teams for our March “Fleece to Hat” contest. More are welcome, however. Karren is handling that, so make sure you let her know if you’re going to participate.

• April will be Dr. Rivera-Strohm, who is also teaching a workshop in that month.

Updates to the site:

• Announcements: I’ve been making some changes to the way the site looks. If you look at the menu line at the top of the screen you’ll see that there’s an additional item – Announcements – for you to visit. That’s where I’ll be putting help wanted messages or the like.

• Gallery: I’ve started putting up some pictures from the meetings. If you have photos you think would help the site, pass them to me.

• Calendar/Programming: If you hover your cursor over the Programming menu item under the Calendar, you’ll see more menu options, one for each upcoming month. You can still get an overview of Programming by selecting that menu item (just like you can get a full overview by selecting Calendar) but if you select a specific month you’ll get a full listing of information about the program for that month.

I will be beginning to write blog posts once a week here. Let me know if it gets to be too much.