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January 2026 Program | Lynn Yuhr Zoom Webinar: Say Yes, and See What Happens!!
2026-01-10 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Lynn Yuhr Zoom Webinar: Say Yes, and See What Happens!!
Lynn Yuhr’s journey as a self-taught artist is as interesting as her creative jewelry. She often ignores boundaries and conventions, applying techniques from different mediums and utilizing unusual materials. Her intense curiosity to try new things often drives her direction. Overcoming obstacles in project construction is often her favorite part of the creative process. Her diverse experiences directly influenced her artistic life, where she has developed a playful yet distinctive style.
Polymer clay is the main material that Lynn uses in her art jewelry. Using a variety of other materials, she develops simple elements using mark making, textures, and sgraffito techniques, then she combines and layers them, sometimes adding some wire to provide a depth of interest and a tactile quality.
Lynn’s presentation will include her journey to find her own voice and the unexpected consequences of saying YES! The little and big steps along the way are equally important to move forward. She hopes to encourage others to say yes and move forward in their journey.
$10.00Read more

January 2026 Monday Muse
2026-01-19 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

February 14 | Harriet Riddell -- Zoom Program and Demo: Travels Around the World with a Sewing Machine
2026-02-14 10:30 - 13:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Harriet Riddell Zoom Program: Travels Around the World with a Sewing Machine – Art as a Means of Communication
Demo: Live Stitchery Portrait of our member Kevin Roche
(Special extended program 10:30-1:00)
www.institchyou.com
Harriet has traveled extensively, taking with her a sewing machine and a table strapped to her back as she bicycles through groups of people. Typically, she will settle down within a local marketplace, set up her sewing machine, and create power through solar energy and by inviting villagers to pedal on her now-stationary bike in order to create power to use the sewing machine. She will then select a subject of which she will create a portrait. But this isn’t the usual charcoal sketching – the sketch is totally stitched on the sewing machine with no hard sketches preceding. As she stitches, she will carry on a conversation with her subject to draw out their interests which she will then incorporate into the stitching in some way. She also frequently “sketches” scenes along the way, such as a wedding, or fishing village, or an interesting local scene, all powered by a bicycle!
She will talk about her travel experiences, showing scenes and people along the way. This will be followed by her stitching of Kevin Roche live-over-Zoom from her home in London. All of this is pretty fascinating to watch! Some of her stitching is shown below. Note that this meeting is a little longer, extended to 1:00.

Originally Harriet was scheduled long ago to present last October. But a happy pregnancy ensued, with an expected delivery date just a few days prior to our PenWAG meeting. She offered to meet the original commitment – unbelievable! – but we agreed to reschedule. She is now the mother of two sons, 3 years old and miniature.
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February 2026 Monday Muse
2026-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

March 14 2026 | Mayumi Fujio: Simulcast Program: Natural Dye and Botanical Printing
2026-03-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Saratoga Senior Center with Simulcast, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
Mayumi Fujio: Simulcast Program: Natural Dye and Botanical Printing
www.mayumix.com
Have you ever seen a stunning flower, vine, mushroom, or leaf in nature and wished you could capture its beauty in cloth, to wear or display at home? Join us for a talk and a demo with fiber artist Mayumi Fujio who lives in the Bay Area creating silk scarves, wall decorations, and art to wear garments using natural dye and real leaves to print their pattern.
Mayumi taps into the inspiration she gets from nature—she is always looking at flowers, mushrooms and plants wherever she goes. Her latest series is a combination of mushroom dye and botanical prints, and her art pieces are sold at the Seattle Art Museum, ACCI gallery in Berkeley and other prestigious art fairs around the Bay Area.
During this presentation, she will talk about natural dye using plants, mushroom and botanical printing.
Be sure to check out her in-person workshop in the afternoon!
Botanical Printing on Silk Scarf
Guest Registration: $10.00Read more

March 14 2026 | Mayumi Fujio: In-Person Workshop: Botanical Printing on Silk Scarf
2026-03-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Saratoga Senior Center with Simulcast, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
Mayumi Fujio: Botanical Printing on Silk Scarf
(In-person only)
Mayumi will introduce botanical printing using fresh leaves and flowers along with minerals to transfer natural colors and shapes from plants onto fiber. This introductory class will give you an understanding of dye plants and deepen your relationship with nature. You will take home a beautiful, one-of-a-kind silk scarf dyed with fresh plants from the Bay Area.
www.mayumix.com
Kit FEE:
Mayumi will provide a kit for each participant at the workshop. Kit price is $15, payable with cash or check to the instructor at that time.
In-person workshop: $75.00Read more

March 2026 Monday Muse
2026-03-16 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

April 11 – Karen Miller Zoom Webinar: Katazome Then and Now
2026-04-11 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
April 11 – Karen Miller Zoom Webinar: Katazome Then and Now
Katazome Then and Now
Katazome, the Japanese art of stencil dyeing, has been the foundation of Karen’s textile practice for 30 years. Her work involves beautiful textile art with a general peacefulness and has been widely exhibited in shows worldwide, most recently in two consecutive shows at Portland Japanese Garden.
She will present an overview of history and her approach. Using her own hand cut stencils to apply a resist paste, she produces fabric for art quilts as well as silk garments, linen hangings and indigo dyed cottons. Interestingly, she was a marine biologist studying Octopus oxygen binding proteins before becoming a well-known expert on Katazome. If you watch PenWAG’s wonderful monthly Monday Muse, you will recall seeing her many creative garments and hangings of Katazone as well as other projects.
$10.00Read more

Karen Miller’s Biography and Artist’s Statement

April 11, 2026 | Karen Miller Zoom Workshop: Twist and Wrap Coat
2026-04-11 13:00 - 16:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
April 11 – Karen Miller Zoom Workshop: Twist and Wrap Coat
Twist and Wrap Coat
Karen is leading us in a workshop that is unrelated to the Katazome. It is a fast and easy way to make a versatile and flattering lightweight flowing “coat” using 2 yards of fabric, 2 seams, and 2 hours of time. This requires just 2 yards of a fabric which is attractive from both sides, and somewhat drapey. It need not be silk, rayon works fine. She also suggests using challis, pongee, and various jacquards, dyed, painted, ecoprinted or a commercial print. A serger can be helpful but is not essential. Looking at photos below will give you an idea of what this garment looks like.

After registering, the unique pattern will be sent to you. What you will need is 2 yards of fabric as described above, matching thread, serger if available but not mandatory.
$65.00Read more

Karen Miller Biography and Artist’s Statement

April 2026 Monday Muse
2026-04-20 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

May 9, 2026 | Judith Hollenberger Simulcast Program: The Paths Where Ribbon Has Led Us
2026-05-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Saratoga Senior Center with Simulcast, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
THE PATHS WHERE RIBBON HAS LED US
More is more and less is a bore – Iris Apfel
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different – Coco Chanel

When you think of beautiful things made of ribbon, what is your picture? Antique clothing from past centuries or today’s haute couture? Judith will share her path from California College of Arts and Crafts, majoring in fabric surface design and sculpture, to finding her true passion in ribbon work. She will explore the history and variety of ribbon trim in all its sumptuousness and show you how you can incorporate into your own pieces.
NOTE: This presentation is simulcast (both Zoom and in-person) and will be recorded for replay.
Guest Registration: $10.00Add to cart

May 9, 2026 | Judith Hollenberger In-Person Workshop: Ruffled Roses and Folded Leaves
2026-05-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
Judith Hollenberger In Person Workshop:
Ruffled Roses and Folded Leaves
Instagram: @liondefleur
Judith encourages fun and imagination in n-person class. Make your own version of classic ruffled ribbon roses and two different types of folded ribbon leaves as accents. Will you create these to apply to garments and accessories, or as earrings, pins, shirt collar clips?
A kit containing both modern and vintage ribbons will be available for $25, payable to Judith at the class. Or you may choose to bring your own materials. Check the supply list linked below for detailed information about the types of ribbons and tools needed, plus some helpful resources.
Class Materials (PDF Files):

Recommended products & suppliers
Materials List – Ribbon workshop
Inspirations

NOTE: This workshop is live only (in-person)

In Person: $75.00Add to cart

May 2026 Monday Muse
2026-05-18 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

June 13, 2026 | Sara Eberhart Simulcast Program: Program: Cyanotype: A Blue View
2026-06-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Campbell Community Center Roosevelt Room (Q80) (with Zoom Simulcast), 1 W Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA, 95008, United States
Program: Cyanotype: A Blue View
www.sarakatestudio.com | Instagram: @sarakatestudio
The history of the cyanotype process goes back almost as far as photography itself. Sara Eberhart will explain the historical beginnings of this alternative photography process and introduce you to how a few contemporary artists use this medium on paper and fabric. As a visual artist, Sara will demonstrate the cyanotype process on paper and provide materials recommendations.
Guest Registration: $10.00Add to cart

June 13, 2026 | Sara Eberhart In-Person Workshop: Botanical Cyanotype
2026-06-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Campbell Community Center Roosevelt Room (Q80), 1 W Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA, 95008, United States
Sara Eberhart Workshop: Botanical Cyanotype
Explore the accessible and fun process of cyanotype, an alternative photography method. Experiment along with others using flowers, plants and other objects to create striking blue patterns on fabric and paper treated with an emulsion and exposed to UV light. You will learn how to mix and paint the chemicals, wet and dry techniques, composition and more. You will be able to appreciate the unending possibilities of beautiful art creating using cyanotype methods.

In Person : $75.00Add to cart

There will be a $10 materials fee, payable to the instructor

June 2026 Monday Muse
2026-06-15 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

July 11, 2026 Simulcast | Show and Tell Spectacular!
2026-07-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Saratoga Senior Center with Simulcast, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
July Simulcast: Member Show and Tell
Our July meeting is all about the most wonderful items our members have made this year. It can be clothing, jewelry, quilts, wall hangings, paintings, em-broidery, beadwork, dyeing of fabric – really anything they’ve been working on.
Calling all PenWAG members, please show us what you have been working on! Remote members and Bay Area members, we want everyone to join in. Our July meeting a slide show of the most wonderful items you have made this year. It can be clothing, jewelry, quilts, wall hangings, paintings, em-broidery, beadwork, dyeing of fabric – really anything you have been working on.
Even if you will be at the meeting in person you need to submit an email and pictures.
Please send ONE email for each item you want to submit. Email should have several pictures of item, your name, and a description of the item, plus any details you want to share. Then send the email to Showandtell@penwag.org

July 11, 2026: 10:30-noon PST
Saratoga Senior Center
19655 Allendale Ave
Saratoga, CA 95070 United States
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
Guest Registration: $10.00Add to cart

July 2026 Monday Muse
2026-07-20 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

August 8, 2026: Dress A Girl Around The World : (Sewing for Others)
2026-08-08 10:00 - 15:00 | Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
DRESS A GIRL AROUND THE WORLD
A PenWAG Community Project

• Want to be a part of a fun super-easy charity project?
• Want one that doesn’t require you to haul a sewing machine or other large equipment?
• Want the opportunity to see and socialize with other members and friends?
• … and create something invaluable for girls all over the world?
SIGN UP VIA THIS FORM!

DRESS A GIRL AROUND THE WORLD
is a project to gift a girl with a pretty new dress – maybe their first ever – and instill pride and confidence for that child to thrive. Thousands of dresses have been sent to over 80 countries.

EASY PEASY– Sewing machines, irons, will already be set up.
Just walk in, grab a kit with a precut
dress, and sew.
Take the opportunity to chat with your friends. Make new friends!

August 8, 2026: 10AM-3PM PDT
There is NO COST to participate in this Sewing For Others project for members or guests, but we ask that you sign up in advance!
We are using a simple spreadsheet to sign up for the event:

August 2026 Monday Muse
2026-08-17 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

September 12, 2026 | In-Person Event: Stash Exchange!
2026-09-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
The Stash Exchange!

Our annual opportunity to reduce (or grow) your stash of materials and hobnob with fellow PenWAG members!
September 12, 2025: 10AM-1PM PST
Saratoga Senior Center
19655 Allendale Ave
Saratoga, CA
This is an in-person event, free to all!
OPEN TO ALL from 10AM to 1PM

Spread the word! Download and print our PDF flyer for the Stash Exchange.

September 2026 Monday Muse
2026-09-21 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

October 10, 2026 | Margaret Peot Zoom Webinar: Broadway & Beyond: Fabric Painting for the Theater
2026-10-10 10:30 - 12:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Margaret Peot
Zoom Webinar: Broadway & Beyond: Fabric Painting for the Theater
Margaret has painted and adorned fabric for costumes for the Lion King, Hadestown, Moulin
Rouge, Wicked, Aladdin and many more. With over 30 years experience painting for Broadway
shows, dance, arena events, ice shows and film, she has a lot of stories to tell! She will talk
about the process – from a designer’s painted sketch, through samples, fittings, painting, paint
corrections, to a finished costume. She specializes in applying metallic decoration on fabric and
other surfaces. and will share sketches, working with drapers, white fittings, painted fabric
samples and completed costumes.
$10.00Add to cart

October 10, 2026 | Margaret Peot Zoom Workshop: Bling! Embellishment With Foil
2026-10-10 13:00 - 16:00 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
Margaret Peot
Zoom Workshop: Bling! Embellishment With Foil
www.margaretpeot.com
The use of foil is unique and fascinating! Participants will use glues and transfer sheets to add metallic interest to an existing garment or fabric that they provide. Margaret will guide with ideas and processes unique to using foil as well as other materials, including methods to use foil on both woven and stretch fabrics. Included with be education of creating wash-fastness pieces.
Virtual (Zoom only): $65.00Add to cart

October 2026 Monday Muse
2026-10-19 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse

November 14, 2026: Linda Schmidt Simulcast Program: Flamboyancy Rising
2026-11-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Saratoga Senior Center with Simulcast, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
Linda Schmidt Simulcast Program: Flamboyancy Rising Fashion Show
Linda will bring 20 or more complete ensembles, which range from casual to formal, funky to elegant, and are truly art to wear. My philosophy about garments is that the garment should reflect your own personality, be comfortable, be washable, and truly wearable, no matter your size or shape. In the immortal words of Rachel Kinsey Clark – If you’ve got it, DECORATE it!
If you’d like to volunteer to model some of these garments, please let Judi Seip, PenWAG’s Program Chair, know! (programs@penwag.org). Otherwise, we’ll just pull them off the coat rack and show them that way.
www.ShortAttentionSpanQuilting.com
BIOGRAPHY:
Linda Schmidt started making her first quilt at the age of 8, and has made most of her own clothes since she was 12. She comes from a long line of quilting women and still uses some elements of traditional quilting, but most of her work involves art quilts, wearable art, portraits and landscapes.
Linda has won over 300 ribbons and prizes at textile and quilt shows (including participating at a PenWAG ArtWear show); and has taught, spoken, judged quilts and garments and exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990. She has had many of her quilts published in magazines & books, has taught online classes since 1993 for QuiltUniversity and The Academy of Quilting.com, and was chosen as Quilter of the Year by the Professional Quilter Magazine in 2003.
She is also a 4-time Fairfield and Bernina fashion designer, writer, & musician, and retired from her 26-year position at the City of Dublin in 2017. She has three children, three guitars, three flutes, one piano, 5 million beads, one husband, a suddenly useful BA in French, and a 5-bedroom house she cleans herself. She gardens, cooks, does Zumba three times a week, and writes good music and bad poetry in her spare time.
She has come here with garments to show and stories to tell, so let’s get to it!
Guest Registration:

November 14, 2026 | Linda Schmidt In-Person Workshop: Fire! - Creating Mystical Fabric
2026-11-14 13:00 - 2029-12-31 16:00 | Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
Linda Schmidt In-Person Workshop: Fire! Bag
In-person only; Supply fee of $20 payable to artist
Up to 20 participants.
Using a wide variety of fabrics, fibers, and various non-fabric materials, make a beautiful bag that is an artistic treasure. Linda Schmidt will guide us through not only making the bag, but also using a variety of decorative and functional products, some of which would be new to each of us. She is extremely knowledgeable about products that many of us may be unaware of, and will have various materials available. The Supply list has a variety of things you will want to gather before the class. The kit will contain many additional things to help create.
See Supply list for details. Plus Supply fee in class $20
Supply list
In Person Only:

December 12, 2026 | Carol Ziogas Simulcast Program: The Layering & Meaning of Japanese Kimonos
2026-12-12 10:30 - 12:00 | Maker Nexus, 1330 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, United States
Carol Ziogas, Kimonomomo
Subtle Arts: The Layering & Meaning of Japanese Kimonos
What makes a kimono formal? What can sleeves tell us about the wearer? How many layers are there?! Explore the significance of details in kimono design and how they influence modern styles in both Eastern and Western clothing today through Carol’s collection of 19th and 20th century kimono and related garments.

Kimono generally means “something worn”, but within that meaning there are many variations. Such a garment can tell you from a glance the gender, marital status, social standing, interests, and wealth of the wearer, as well as the season, location, and event for which they might be wearing that particular kimono. From a tattered Buddhist pilgrim’s coat to the formal dress of a young city socialite, kimono speak a language that has stood for centuries in Japan, and continues to evolve today. Each layer within a kimono ensemble serves a purpose, and nothing goes to waste. Explore a selection of these pieces including fine silks, cotton, and bast fibers native to Japan, and broaden your understanding of how this classic garment can teach us more about Japanese art, history, and culture from a very human perspective.
www.kimonomomo-shop.com
Guest Registration:

Monday Muse (template)
2030-01-21 19:00 - 20:30 | PenWAG Online Clubhouse
