Barbara Heins on Programming

Barbara Heins on Programming

Shaelagh Cull

Barbara Heins

Malting Tower at the Tett Centre

The main thing that I've really contributed to the guild is I started coordinating programs. And so when we have our meetings, often the first sometimes the last hour is reserved for some kind of a program where we either make something or have a guest speaker or slideshow or you know, something like that. And so I've coordinated programs for probably 20 years of the years I've been a member, often with other people's so that we would share ideas. And often we did presentations ourselves. So Beth Abbott and I did work together quite a few years. And she and I presented quite a few programs over time as well. So one that Beth Abbott and I we got together and did a program on buttons one year, and we had so much fun getting ready to do it. And as well for the people where we crocheted buttons, we made every kind of button you could imagine and went through history of buttons as well. The other one that was more recent. So in the fall of 2019, we were doing a kickoff to our annual challenge and the topic was going to be top so any kind of a top. And so I did a program along with many guild members where I asked them to bring in tops that they have hand spun or woven. So we had sort of did a history of tops and basic tops and then we'd everybody show all the tops that they've made to inspire people for our challenge. That was a really fun program.