🎄✨   Winter Potluck Lunch   ✨🎄

Date: December 9, 2023. Time: 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm

Place: Paradise Community Hall

Event Details:

🎄 Winter Potluck Lunch, a potluck in the true sense of the word. There is no assignment of what to bring!!! So surprise us and contribute if you are able.

🎄 This is a great opportunity for all of us members to share our favourite Christmas or winter fibre piece. As always, it can be something you have made, been gifted, inherited, or purchased. Bring along the story of your piece to share with us all. Stories inspire us!

🎄 Bring your recipe for your Winter Potluck Lunch if you want. Bring along your own mug. Bring a friend if you like. Best of all bring yourself!

Everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask as there are those nasty viruses out there!

Upcoming Events – Mark Your Calendar

July 30. 2022

World Embroidery Day

Join us in Annapolis Royal at 212 St George St (Across from Bainton’s) from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm

This is an outdoor event so bring your fibre art and a chair to celebrate World Embroidery Day with  us “weather permitting”. Shade umbrellas will be available.

World Embroidery Day began with Skåne Sy-d, a local group of Broderiakademin, the Swedish Embroiderer’s Guild. The first World Embroidery Day took place in Vismarlöv, 30th July 2011.

Their Manifesto states: “The importance of embroidery must be made known and World Embroidery Day will spread around the world. Make July 30 a day filled with creativity for the sake of Peace, Freedom and Equality.”

August 18, 2022

Meet us at the Annapolis Valley Exhibition from 2-4 pm and 7-8 pm in the Homecraft Building

September 10, 2022 – 2 choices!

Saturday Snips

Come out to the Paradise Community Hall, 10300 Hwy 1, Paradise.

1-4 pm – The September Saturday Snips Sponsor is River House Rug Hooking Studio

100 Mile Food and Fibre Festival 

Find us at the Northville Farm Heritage Center on Saturday from 10 am until 4 pm. Rain date (significant rainfall) is Sunday, September 11th. Save both dates!

September 18, 2022 – Program

If you enjoy gardening, dyeing or just beautiful flowers and vibrant colours, you’re in for a treat. SOFAAR’s September 18 program will feature the owners of Vibrant Acres Colour Farm, who will share their experience in growing dye plants in Nova Scotia with our members. Details will be announced closer to the date.

In the meantime, visit their website at vibrantacres.ca. Pure Nova Scotia colour!

October 29, 2022 – Come Play with us

At the Annapolis Royal Fire Department – A chance for the public to meet us, learn about all the different aspects of fibre art AND get some hands experience.

We need volunteers from our membership who love to share their fibre art and craft with others. Contact Leslie McFarlane at PlayWithUs@SOFAAR.ca

 

 

SOFAAR:AGM March 14th: important notice

SOFAAR members,

As you are no doubt already know the World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 to have reached pandemic status. At this time in Canada, as reported on the Government of Canada Health site,  80% of cases are travellers and 10% are close contacts of those travellers. There are no confirmed cases in Nova Scotia at the time of writing but this can change in a moment and progress rapidly.   With this in mind let us take the following precaution:

Anyone returning within the last 14 days from a country or province with confirmed COVID-19 cases, or been in contact with anyone who has, DO NOT attend the AGM event.

We all need our immune systems to be at their best so anyone suffering colds and seasonal flu please stay at home as well.

We are all going to have parts to play in the coming weeks. If it falls to me that my part is to stay home, I will immerse myself in fibre projects and be glad to do so. If we all do our part the show and tells once the contagion has abated could be amazing.

When I became SOFAAR president I never imagined penning such an email, but at this conjuncture I feel it is essential.

Yours wanting to keep us healthy,

 

Cheryl den Hartog

President SOFAAR

Saturday Snips: January 11th

Welcome to a brand new year of fibre crafting!

This coming Saturday, we will gather from 1-4 (weather permitting) at the Saint-Alphonsus Church at 93, South Street in Bridgetown.

All members are welcome as well as guests who would like to see what we are all about.

Bring a project to work on and bring a show and tell. Come and see how much more background Rachael has filled in on her peacock 🙂

We look forward to lots of fibre crafting in 2020.

Rachael’s stunning peacock struts its colours.

December Saturday Snips the 14th

We hope to see you at our final SOFAAR event of 2019.

This month’s Saturday Snips will take place on December 14th from 1 to 4 pm at the United Church in Annapolis Royal, 393 St. George St right by the traffic lights.

Bring a current project and get to know your fellow members, share creative ideas and enjoy yummy refreshments.

The next Snips will be on January 11th, 2020 at the Saint Alphonsus Church in Bridgetown.