First issue of Quarter Notes, the newsletter of the Handweavers Guild of America (HGA), November 1984. It includes Pat Jemian's account of a two-week artist residency teaching fiber arts to elementary students in Eufaula, Alabama, and a calendar of exhibitions and calls for entries. Book reviews cover Armenian Lace and The New Handbook of Time-Saving Tables. The "Mohair Modes" feature by Donna Sullivan gives general tips on spinning, warping, weaving and finishing mohair, with project directions for a plain-weave mohair shawl/blanket and a 2/2 twill jacket, both with drafts. The issue ends with Guild View notes on guild management and newsletters, news of the Certificate of Excellence (COE) recipients, and the newsletter naming contest result.

Issue 3 of volume 1 of Quarter Notes, the Handweavers Guild of America newsletter, dated May 1985. It opens with Donna Sullivan's instructions for an extra-warp woven-pile cotton jacket, including a threading draft, color orders, a weaving plan and costs. Other items are Dee Stille's garment design decisions checklist, William Koepp's plans for self-tensioned selvage bobbins with a bibliography, a calendar of conferences and exhibits, guild news and tips (evening guilds, felting with a steam iron, drinking straws to prevent mohair matting, demonstrating at craft shows), and a profile of flax tapestry weaver Claire Westerink.