February 2024 Monday Muse
2024-02-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
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Our monthly just-for-fun Zoom schmoozefest!
Log-in details are sent via email to all Active PenWAG Members

March 9 Simulcast | Rachel Clark: Not just another Coat
2024-03-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Campbell Community Center Roosevelt Room (Q80) (with Zoom Simulcast), 1 W Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA, 95008, United States
Rachel Clark: Not just another Coat!
This will be a showing of the coats and jackets created to celebrate Rachel’s “Year of the Coat.” Rachel’s year of the coat looks like it may become the decades of the coat. Rachel will share some of her most recent garments and some of her old favorites.
Rachel D.K. Clark is a contemporary folk artist, teacher and lecturer who comes from a long line of sewers, beginning with her great-grandmother. She has been creating wearable art since 1973 and teaching on the national circuit since 1990. Eclectic fabric mixes, vibrant designs, and a keen sense of humor characterize Rachel’s work.

This is an hybrid seminar and Zoom simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $5 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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March 2024 Monday Muse
2024-03-18 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

April 13 Simulcast | Harriete Berman: Prestige, Value, and Identity
2024-04-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Campbell Community Center Roosevelt Room (Q80) (with Zoom Simulcast), 1 W Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA, 95008, United States
Harriete Berman: Prestige, Value, and Identity
Harriete Estel Berman has been creating jewelry from post-consumer tin cans since 1988, transforming mundane materials from the refuse of our consumer society into meaningful layers of social commentary.
Familiar images and patterns ranging from bar codes to brand name icons are ironically metamorphosed in her bracelets, pins, and earrings. They explore the seduction of advertising and marketing that promotes brand recognition and loyalty as personal identification. These materials are not as precious as gold or silver, but in many ways reflect more accurately the values of our culture.
In the past few years, Berman has expanded her repertoire of materials to use post-consumer plastic as an extraordinary environmental statement creating imaginative jewelry from even more unexpected materials.
Berman’s jewelry was recently featured in a PBS program produced by Craft In America titled, “Jewelry”.
This is an hybrid seminar and Zoom simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $5 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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April 2024 Monday Muse
2024-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

May 2023 Simulcast | Holly Badgley: The Magic of Possibilities
2024-05-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Campbell Community Center Roosevelt Room (Q80) (with Zoom Simulcast), 1 W Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA, 95008, United States
May 11| Holly Badgley Simulcast: The Magic of Possibilities
Trunk Show and New Work

The possibilities in what surrounds us, like the beauty of nature. Or what we surround ourselves with, in our studios, like stacks of fabrics, colored spools of thread in a row, paints, a photograph. Seeing and imagining, being led to what gives meaning and pleasure to our souls. As makers, we love to see the transformation of nothing into something tangible.

Trunk Show and New Work

Holly Badgley creates layered and complex garments with silk screening, overlays, stitching and collage. Her textile origins in California led her to Morocco, France, and back to California again where she now has a studio in Marin County.
May 11, 2024: 10:30-noon PST
Roosevelt Redwood Room (Q80)
Campbell Community Center
This is a hybrid seminar and Zoom simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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May 2024 Monday Muse
2024-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

June 2024 Webinar | Kay Khan: Contemporary Textile Sculptures of Kay Khan (Zoom Only)
2024-06-08 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Kay Khan Webinar : Contemporary Textile Sculptures of Kay Khan (Zoom Only)
In every stitch, a story

Kay’s work is a complex blend of imagery created in stitched and embroidered fabric. Her inspiration is life itself: her experiences, the things she touches, things that touch her, ideas, even the interplay of words. This presentation will be an overview of Kay Khan’s textile constructions including some jewelry and in progress images.

Kay Khan lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

June 8, 2024: 10:30-noon PDT
This is an Zoom Only webinar free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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June 2024 Monday Muse
2024-06-17 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

July 2024 Simulcast | Member Show and Tell
2024-07-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Campbell Community Center Multipurpose Room M50 (with Simulcast), 1 W Campbell Avenue, Campbell, 95008, United States
July Simulcast: Member Show and Tell
July 13, 2024: 10:30-noon PST
Multipurpose Room M50
Campbell Community Center
This is an hybrid seminar and Zoom simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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July 2024 Monday Muse
2024-07-15 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

August 2024 -- Community Sewing Day (Zoom only)
2024-08-10 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
August Community Sewing – Zoom link will be open from 10:30 – 4
We have a choice of two projects
For each item that you donate, you will get one entry into a drawing for a prize.

Ryan’s Case for Smiles is a national organization that sews pillowcases to donate to children in hospitals undergoing cancer treatment. We have a local chapter in the San Francisco Bay area but there are chapters in other areas of the United States. You can check their website for a chapter in your area. https://caseforsmiles.org. They have a goal to collect 40,000 pillowcases in the month of September, one for every child in cancer treatment. Let’s contribute to that goal.

How to Sew a Pillowcase using the burrito method.
Directions click here!

What kind of fabric can I use to sew pillowcases?

Fabric needs to be 100% cotton, no flannel, no fabric with glitter.
Prewash fabric, do not use scented detergent or dryer sheets
Remember to use fun, colorful novelty prints!
Include a note with your name and address so Ryan’s Case for Smiles can thank you

A second choice is to make a SHIB or shirt bib from an upcycled shirt. These are used to create a dignified way for elderly and dementia patients to protect their clothing during meals. When an adult is wearing a Shib, it looks as though they have on a regular shirt.
How to Sew a Shib. Directions, Click here

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rXUzjOr2c
What do I need to make a Shib?
A man’s shirt or ladies’ blouse with a button front closure, larger is better

A piece of tee shirt fabric or flannel to line the front
Bias tape to coordinate, or you can make your own bias from the shirt back, or you can make a rolled hem on the edges
Zipper foot
Buttons, snaps, or small strip of Velcro to fasten the back yoke

Completed pillowcases and Shibs will be collected by Mary Reynolds and Claire DeLucchi. Bring them to the September Stash Exchange or contact us for mailing instructions.
Guests may join too
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August 2024 Monday Muse
2024-08-19 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

September 2024 | Members Stash Exchange!
2024-09-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
Members Stash Exchange

September 14, 2024:

10:00 noon PST
Saratoga Senior Center
19655 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga, CA 95070
(Park at Civic Center)

This is an IN-PERSON only event; free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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September 2024 Monday Muse
2024-09-16 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

October 2024 Webinar| Christine Barnes: Color Your Wearable Art (Zoom Only)
2024-10-12 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
October 2024 Webinar| Christine Barnes: Color Your Wearable Art (Zoom Only)
October 12, 10:30AM-noon, PDT
“Color theory” for wearable art? Sounds a bit academic, but there are classic color combination concepts that you can consciously apply to your fabric choices when planning a garment. The key is in the basics: how light or dark a color is (value), how warm or cool (visual temperature), and how bright or dull (intensity). And with the color wheel, an amazing tool for wearable artists and quilters alike, you will see new possibilities for creative color combinations. Of course, color usually involves pattern and texture, so we’ll include those de-sign elements in the conversation, too. Come see-and take the color challenge!
Christine’s quilting life began when she was eight or nine, making a doll quilt on her crank Singer sewing machine. She asked her grandmother what was inside a quilt, and she said “cotton.” Christine stuffed her little quilt with cotton balls—and wondered why it was lumpy! But she perse-vered and learned to sew clothing and more quilts. After college she worked at Sunset Publishing, wrote the book, Quilting, Patchwork & Appliqué, and other book chapters on color theory. Christine has spent many years teaching color theory to quilters and publishes a newsletter called Christine’s Color Connection

This is a Zoom Webinar simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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October 2024 Monday Muse
2024-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

November 2024 Simulcast | Lorri Scott: My Designing Story
2024-11-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
November 2024 Simulcast | Lorri Scott: My Designing Story

November 9, 2024: 10:30-noon PST
Saratoga Senior Center
19655 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga, CA 95070
(Park at Civic Center)
Fiber artist and author Lorri Ann Scott magically transforms silk fabrics, ribbons
and garments into colorful and visually-striking works using shibori, resist, vat-dye
and dye-printing techniques. Lorri is a self-taught weaver, dyer and clothing
designer. In addition to her own book, Wayward Threads, her work has been
published in numerous juried shows and publications, including Altered Couture,
Quilting Arts, Spindle Shuttle & Dyepot and Belle Armoire Summer 2012,.
Lorri will bring some of her early handwoven/hand dyed garments and
accessories, talk about her dye work, and how she segued into creating upcycled
garments. She will also show some of the garments that she created for her book
“Wayward Threads: Techniques and Ideas for Upcycling Unloved or Discarded
Garment”.
Lorri’s latest work is focused on shibori, botanical, and rust dyeing. Her creations,
either made from dyed fabrics or discarded garments, are upcycled by
appliqueing dyed pieces onto them or overdyeing the garment itself. It’s been a
journey over many years, always exploring and
making new discoveries.
Lorri resides in the Santa Cruz Mountains outside Los Gatos, CA.
This is an hybrid seminar and Zoom simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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November 2024 Monday Muse
2024-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

December 2024 Simulcast | Carol Ziogas: Stitching the Sky
2024-12-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
December 2024 Simulcast | Carol Ziogas: Stitching the Sky

Stitching the Sky – History of Sashiko in pre 20th century Japan
Carol Ziogas has been collecting vintage Japanese kimonos for more than 20 years ago. She enriched her knowledge with extensive research, learning the history, and developing a love of traditional Japanese stitching. Carol’s presentation will include a display of 19th and 20th century Japanese textiles including indigo, shibori, katazome, kimono, and sashiko pieces.
In Japan, sashiko stitching was first applied to clothing out of a practical need and would have been used to strengthen the homespun clothes of the time. Worn out clothes were pieced together to make new garments by using simple running stitches. After these garments wore out, they would been used to layer thin fabrics to create warmth, and, in the case of some garments such as the coats of firemen, to create a thick and absorbent material that would be soaked in water before carrying out duties as a fireman.
Carol lives in Alameda, CA and owns Kimonomomo, which specializes in new and vintage Japanese textiles and sashiko supplies, on Etsy.

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December 14, 2024: 10:30-noon PST
Saratoga Senior Center
19655 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga, CA 95070
(Park at Civic Center)
This is a hybrid seminar and Zoom simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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December 2024 Monday Muse
2024-12-16 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

January 2025 Webinar | Jaki Canterbury: Slow Fiber The Beginning (Zoom Only)
2025-01-11 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Jacki Canterbury Webinar Slow Fiber: The beginning

Using conceptual art to jump the divide from fast fashion to artfully living an authentic life in my closet.

Want to know something I think about a lot when I’m not sewing or running my business? How the emerging markets around the globe- India, China, Indochina, South and Central America and they’re growing middle class are are onboarding consumption habits like ours. I know that shopping equals environmental degradation. How selfish of me, right? Here in the west, we got our chance, they want theirs and while we’re thinking about how to undo 400 years of colonial, environmental rape in the US those places are ramping up their buying.
In 2017, being the intuitive, creative, self-employed, self-starter I am, I realized that there was a smoke screen in the fashion industry. It had me, hook line and sinker up until then too. I was going to really have to change my ways if I wanted to be part of a solution.

But what was the solution? Do you just stop buying clothes? Not likely. Do you only buy used? Not realistic. Share?…yuck. Do we make them? Well, we used to, but again, not realistic. This work-hard-play- hard-defend-your-American-productivity- to-the-end-world that we share with others is hard to change. I am part of that paradigm.
We are fiercely independent. We own our own everything. My art and my garment thinking have been intersecting ever since.

January 11, 2024: 10:30-noon PST PenWAG Zoom webinar This is a Zoom webinar, free to all active PenWAG members. Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs $10.00Read more

January 2025 Monday Muse
2025-01-20 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

February 2025 Simulcast | Jenny Ives (remote): No is not a word in my vocabulary, aka Creativity in Sewing
2025-02-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Campbell Community Center Multipurpose Room M50 (with Simulcast), 1 W Campbell Avenue, Campbell, 95008, United States
Jenny Ives (remote):
No is not a word in my vocabulary, aka Creativity in Sewing
February 8, 2025: 10:30-noon PST
Campbell Community Center Multipurpose room M50
Jenny Ives is a Costume designer out of Seattle, WA. She got started sewing as a small child, growing up in a sewing family it was in her blood. In high school, she found her love of vintage clothing. That was a pipeline to starting costuming in the theater and her ballet studio. She loved helping to create a beautiful world on the stage! She started doing cosplay in 2013, cosplay was a new way to build her creativity. She expanded her sewing techniques and was inspired by all the other creators. In 2015 she discovered her love for competing in Cosplay Contests. It lit a fire in her to try so many new things. Making friends with these competitors drove her to be her best, and drove her to challenge herself. She started making her designs of Superhero ballgowns. But designing was never enough. From there it was how to take things to the next level. What new skills could she learn? It started small, sewing in fairy lights to make something glow. Currently, she is making fully articulated wings. There is always a new way to draw her creativity forward.

This is an hybrid seminar and Zoom simulcast, free to all active PenWAG members. (Our speaker will be appearing remotely)
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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February 2025 Monday Muse
2025-02-17 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Our monthly just-for-fun Zoom schmoozefest!
Log-in details are sent via email to all Active PenWAG Members

March 2025 Webinar | Karin Graves: Murmurations
2025-03-08 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Karen Graves Webinar: Murmurations
Murmurations – The dictionary defines this as
“a flock of starlings that fly in a coordinated, twisting, and swirling pattern”
Karin sees a similar movement in painting designs on fabric. Using pieces of previously painted
linen, she helps to tap into shapes and designs which will be assembled and then appliqued,
creating art objects that can be incorporated into a garment, or even done on a large scale for a
complete piece.
March 8, 2025 10:30AM-noon PST
PenWAG Online Zoom space
An online Zoom webinar, free to all active PenWAG members.
Guests may join; a $10 contribution is requested to help defray our costs
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March 2025 Monday Muse
2025-03-17 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

April 2025 Webinar | Pat Herkal: Beading on 3-Dimensional Cloth Figures
2025-04-12 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Pat Herkal: Beading on 3-Dimensional Cloth Figures
My first beadwork focused on jewelry and beading techniques. I then began working in 3D, creating pieced, embroidered and beaded vessels, then sculptural critters. I make lichen, a variety of ocean life, animals, and my favorite – birds. I have created a plethora of birds – real and from my imagination. I use photographs in books and magazines to create my patterns. MY work is made from silk or pages from discontinued upholstery sample books I layer fabric with thread, beads, trinkets, shells, stones and found objects

April 12, 2025: 10:30-noon PST
This is an online Zoom webinar, free to all active PenWAG members.
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April 2025 Monday Muse
2025-04-21 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

May 2025 Webinar (Zoom only)| Karen Lukacs
2025-05-10 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Karen Lukacs Seminar
This presentation shares over 25 years’ of Karen Lukacs’s work in transforming reclaimed garments into artisanal fashion: her journey, processes and inspiration.
May 10, 2025: 10:30-noon PST

This is an online Zoom webinar, free to all active PenWAG members.
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