Sept. Meeting 2012

Old Business Next month, Vera will demo, iron on vinyl and organza, screen printing, she will bring supplies. Nov. Amy will demo covered buttons for embellishments, Dec. meeting Holiday Potluck. New Business New challenge for fall, "Weaving" incorporate woven materials, fabric, yarns, fibers, natural materials, in some way into an art piece. Maximum size 18" x 18" can be smaller, some of us wanted a slightly larger area to work on than the 12 x 12. No theme, your choice. Due at the December meeting, no stress, not required, just something fun to do if you want to. Show and Tell Kay had a woven/braid/stitch around a disk or button, she has instructions for several different styles. She brought a sample made with cotton cording. She also found large foam stamps at Oriental Trading Co. these have been hard to find locally.

Pat found a new book, "Studio Space, vol II" that showed wonderful storage ideas for all the bits and pieces of embellishments we collect. She also brought her ice dyed silk scarves from the workshop at Amy's. Her Beatles piece "Yellow Submarine" was brought so it can be part of the display at the Sutherlin Library.

Sandy had photos of two delicate baby bonnets she made out of vintage linen and lace handkerchiefs, with ribbon roses. They were adorable, they came with directions for disassemble to use as something old for their weddings. Nancy is still cleaning up, will it ever end? And she brought a melty piece of rubber from a horse veterinarian from her England trip. It has lots of texture and she plans on using it for a rubbing plate.

Corienne brought her assortment of scarves from the ice dye workshop. Two were hand woven tinsel/rayon which took the dye very intensely. She went home and wove two silk scarves, one plain weave, one patterned, which she ice dyed, they were very soft and subtle colors. She had two crepe de chin silk scarves which had a different texture, and some washed out pale PDF that did not take the dye at all. We all puzzled over why the PDF did not hold the dye, it was definitely soaked in soda ash.

Peggy found a book "Image Transfer Workshop" by Darlene McElroy and Sandra Wilson, on different transfer techniques, she passed the book to Amy to read and then give a demo. Her Autumn Leaf quilt top is finished with many of her hand dyed fabrics, she is also passing it to Amy to machine quilt her magic.

Jana was very proud of the silk shawl she dyed, she used only "Better Black" Procion dye on it, and it came out a shimmery plum, with touches of turquoise, with long fringe. Her piece of silk scarf came out similar with touches of bronze dye also. She is working on her Beatles challenge "I am the Walrus" we look forward to seeing it.

Vera surprised us with a Beatles challenge "Penny Lane" what a fun cheerful piece with copper pennies her husband Wayne abused, she glued them on with a hot glue gun. She also had a silk scarf to show off, and she was wearing a woven ribbon/fiber scarf in autumn oranges and rusts.

Meredith is so enamored with ice dyeing she did more, trying to recreate one of the scarves Amy made that she likes so much, not even close. The colors were completely different. She also finished a Beatles piece, a 3-D fabric wood frame, hid several lame hearts, with a lock and key. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" The stitching on the wood texture was realistic, and the metal embellishments added a lot to the design.

Amy brought her assortment of cotton scraps which she ice dyed, many were the same color way in pinks and peach, her cheese cloth came out very soft peachy, and her silk hankies and silk cap were rich colors, but had a lot of white areas where the soda ash had not soaked through the fibers. It was a very good meeting, with lots of exciting work by our talented artists. Corienne did a demo of "Kumihimo" Japanese braiding, which I will do a separate post on.