The theme this year is New Directions. Some ideas to start you off with are:

• Finished work you are proud of
• Spinning - reviews on the "new" fibres available to spinners now, the more unusual the better. We may not spin it but it'll be nice to know how to if we want to
• Felting - is very popular and felt artists are moving beyond nuno/cobweb scarves, etc. What are the latest techniques popular among felters?
• Art Yarn - now you've spun it (or bought it) what are you going to do with it?
• Colour - an article on colour trends or perhaps something on how to make your work "pop and sizzle"
• Braiding - new developments or historical discoveries?
• Weaving - Members who weave are familiar with rigid heddle, 4 shaft and 8 shaft looms. So how about going off the beaten track onto the more unusual forms of weaving like card weaving, backstrap looms, etc. Someone must have photos from an overseas trip or something, hopefully with a pattern or two. Or share what to take with you to weave on holiday
• Knitting/crochet - maybe someone can come up with a pattern for using all those little bits and pieces we have from our experimentations
• Hints and tips column (Eureka) - I invite members to send in their tips and hints for spinning/weaving/teaching kids, etc. What may be commonplace to them may be an eureka moment for other members
• Dyeing - how to calculate lengths when warp painting, unusual dyes
• Something fun - like how members have managed to take their obsession with them on holidays, events, the strangest places they have plied their craft. (I taught a scout to knit using two twigs whittled with a kitchen knife and some crochet thread while shivering next to a campfire in 6 degree weather)
• Participants to write a report about our workshops, especially the Yoshido Wada seminar
• Finally, anything you'd like to show and tell!