Team Textiles Meeting Notes 2023/05/16

Date: May 16th, 2023

Location: Textiles Studio

Attendees: Rachel, Ted, Liat, Terry, Pixie, and Sylvia

Agenda

  • Share updates
  • Continue discussion of wall space above leather working cart
  • Review preventative maintenance schedule
  • Work on open items
    • Work on completing one Incomplete task in Asana (to be selected in the month before the next meeting)
    • Review Asana actions specific to Textiles program

Meeting Notes

  • Focus of Ace Staff is pivoting to revenue building and Ace Members are being called to action, such as joining a stewardship team
  • Introductions for Ace members new to Team Textiles
  • Textiles is less likely than other programs to end up closed due to unmaintained/unsafe tools; but still needs care and feeding.

Textiles Team Responsibilities

  • Tool Maintenance
  • Develop Textiles Program
  • Keep Space organized and Supplies Stocked

Textiles Classes

Textiles Class Instructors

  • Current instructor is scaling back number of workshops per month
  • New instructor is being added to Textiles program.
  • Search for Serger instructor continues.
    • Action Item: Ted will double-check availability of a potential instructor for the serger class.

Textiles Upcoming Classes

  • Introduce new Leather Class Options
    • New Class – No Sew Leather Bag
  • Ideas for Fiber Classes
    • Crochet / Knit Jam
    • Nuno Felting

Organization for Thread and Acrylic Patterns

  • Cone Thread Hack using drawers purchased from Ikea: drill holes, cut and glue in dowels.
  • Action Item: Unassigned. 2 person / 3 hours project; drawers are back by Heavy Duty Machine
  • Action Item: Unassigned. Make Acrylic Patterns more accessible. Bin is too heavy and patterns could be moved to drawer purchased from Ikea.
  • Action Item: MC Volunteer Jess is making library of Acrylic Patterns for Wiki

Volunteer Coordination

Volunteer coordinator is currently Rachel. It would be great if team could take charge of creating tasks and coordinating (involves creating tasks in Asana and communication)

Textiles Tools

Fixing Coverstitch

Needs a screw. Ted and Rachel will look at machine during work portion of meeting

Upcoming Donation of Free Motion Quilting (non-automated)

What’s the deal with equipment that has been donated? The donors live out in rural Mendocino. They haven’t dropped off equipment yet.

Textiles Program Development

Veterans’ Quilt Project

Lap Quilts 5’x5’ – Discussion of project closure and lessons learned

  • Improve fabric aesthetics

Action Item: Liat volunteers to lead project and volunteers to find quilting grants.

New Member to Fill Role of Secretary in Ace Leadership

Juliana Bruno is secretary and has a development/fundraising background. So Ace Members should route grant information to @heyjulianajane on Slack

Overview of Weekly Janome Machine Check

Documentation for Serger Program

Need Volunteer to take high-res scans of the diagrams because online PDFs have pixelated images not suitable for enlargement.

Action Item: Pixie volunteers for this task (estimated 25 minutes of work)

Repair Coverstitch machine

Needs Holder

BG Press Equipment Fix

  • Missing 2 bolts on Buckle Guy Hardware Presses
  • BG Hardware Press is missing Screw M6X1.0
  • Action Item: Ted thinks he may have this screw as part of his personal inventory.

Irons and Furniture 

There is a broken ironing board.

Proposed Agenda Item for Next Meeting about Textiles Revenue Discussion

Decision: Team agrees to Liat’s Suggestion for Next Team Meeting’s Agenda to set aside time to discuss money-making ideas (45 minutes)

Discussion of Feature wall above Hardware 

Decision: Yes to Feature Wall Display; Team agrees and Operations will get assigned

Ironing Board for Quilts

  • Terry’s Question: Could we get an extender for an ironing board that makes it rectangular for ironing quilts?
  • Rachel offered a counter-proposal with materials already purchased to make Table Top Ironing Pad (materials located in labeled Bin).
  • Decision: Yes, team agrees the tabletop ironing pad is a worthwhile project to prioritize.
  • Action Item: Terry and Ted will coordinate and Liat can consult.

Slack Moderation/Communication

Who is responsible for team-textiles communication in Slack? No one currently on textiles team is comfortable with taking on that responsibility. Rachel pointed out that most Slack responses could have been answered by looking it up in Wiki. Rachel proposed that we recruit a Monster Corp volunteer to handle it.

Team Decision: Yes, let’s recruit a Monster Corp volunteer to handle Slack for #textiles channel communication sent to team-textiles.

Action Item: Rachel will post a call to recruit a Monster Corp volunteer for textiles Slack moderation and communication.

Developing Fiber Arts Program

Pixie is interested in growing knitting and crocheting program.

One idea is to grow Knit/Crochet night

  • Host Knitting Circle
    • Come up with a catchy title such as “Stringing you along”
  • Develop and Sell Kits
    • Free patterns are available on Ravelry
    • Identify Yarn Suppliers that might be open to donating supplies.
    • Organic Crochet forms, such as seaweed scarf
    • Amigurumi Kit Forms
    • Salvage Kit

Action Item: Continue discussion of Fiber Arts program development.

Signage for People to use Skins on Tables When Cutting

  • Put sign on wall near Fire Extinguishers to point to where skins are stored
  • Sign on Table itself
  • Action Item: Submit a request to Operations to put sign on wall near Fire Extinguishers (Ask Liz about improvements on these suggestions when she gets back from vacation)

Discussion of Additional Sewing Stocked Supplies

Liat requests that Textiles Studio stock the following 2 items:

  1. Blue Tape (add to Tools bin and have process to keep in stock)
    • Purpose: used in class for students to align seams on sewing machine
  2. Parchment Paper (1 roll)

Textiles Area Backstock

Terry and Sylvia reviewed backstock inventory in 3 bins on shelves marked Consumables, Thread, and Etc.

Action Item: Learn more about Purchasing and how to use the /buy integration in Slack to make a purchasing request.

Work Portion

The team split up and spent latter part of meeting as work session on machine repair and space organization.

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