October Meeting 2012

Old Business We have quiet a few Beatles Challenge pieces, they are going up at the Sutherlin Library this month. Our new challenge "Weaving" any thing goes, 18" per side max, smaller ok. Due at December meeting. Nov. meeting Amy will demo covered buttons as embellishments. Bring covered buttons, either style, larger is better. Dec. meeting will be a potluck. Jan. meeting Amy will do a hands on of photo transfer techniques from the book Peggy brought in. New Business Kay and Sherry are hosting a "leaf making" day at Kay's, on Oct. 18th, gather between 9 and 10am, Kay will provide lunch. RSVP with Kay. Supplies will be provided, but you can contribute your own, paints, stamps, brushes, an email went out to all. Show and Tell

Nancy made a pair of napkins for a friend with English pub fabric, edged in blue and yellow. She got the fabric on her trip to England. We had a special visit from our missing friend Jan, she brought her newest jacket with an embroidery theme. Machine embroidery dragonflies with embellishments adorned the blue batik jacket. She and Bonnie are working on a new bag/purse pattern project for Simplicity. Meredith brought along a new book "Japanese Quilting" that had beautiful photos of quilted projects. Corienne is dyeing pots and pots of white yarns that she has spun, and brought us scraps of her hand weaving to pick through. She also has pieces on display at the Portland Hand Weavers Guild Holiday Show, Nov. 9-11 in Lake Oswego, Or.

Kay has been working on her Beatles challenge "8 Days a Week" with a pieced and embellished heart. Jana got her piece finished "I am the Walrus" with a wonderful walrus portrait with eyeglasses. Amy made a second Beatles piece, "The White Album" with trapunto whole cloth free motion machine quilting. It is a portrait outline of the four faces, and song titles and lyrics stitched around them, all white on white. Demo by Vera Vera did a hands on demo of screen printing with iron on vinyl and organza. We each had a piece of iron on vinyl that she had colored with a black marker so you can see what you are doing, picked a pattern and cut it out. It was then quickly ironed to the organza, 8 seconds on the vinyl side and 4 seconds on the back, use a pressing cloth.

We then used acrylic paints mixed with mat medium and textile medium to scrape across the silk screen and print the image onto cotton. Place the image shiny vinyl side down on your fabric.