Members and guests are welcome to join us at the San Dieguito Heritage Museum at Heritage Ranch (450 Quail Gardens Dr. Encinitas, CA, 92024; turn onto Ecke Ranch Rd. to access driveway). We meet outdoors under a covered patio, so please dress accordingly. We look forward to being with you all to find out what you’ve been up to and discuss and receive feedback on Guild activities.

Continuing the format we started during at October 2023 meeting, we will eat lunch, show-and-share and hear announcements from fellow members. Also, the Board will share pertinent topics from the prior Board meeting. There is electricity for crockpots, but no kitchen facilities.

We encourage you to bring finished projects and/or your works-in-progress. Also, if you have a problem piece, there may be fellow members who can brainstorm ideas that will help you.

Following these activities, Grace Swanson will teach those interested in taking the mini-workshop how to make a nametag (or could be used as a basket start) on a gourd shard. She will give a demo on five options/ideas and have samples (woodburning, dyeing with GourdMaster metallic dyes, chip carving, a row of pine needles, faux patina). Grace will provide the supplies (prepared gourd shards, leather and felt for finishing the backs, cord for lanyards, pins for pin backs, dyes, pine needles, waxed linen, and sewing needles). She will have the needed tools available to share, but if you have a wood burner and want to use this option, bring it along. There is a small fee for the mini-workshop.

You’re welcome to join the 11:00 a.m. Board meeting and a Zoom option will be available to members not able to attend in person (excludes mini-workshop).

For those who cannot attend the meeting in person, an email with a Zoom option will be sent to current members the week before meeting (not an option for mini-workshop portion of meeting.)