Old Business Plans were made for the Elkton Butterfly Garden Event on June 29th, Meredith volunteered to coordinate supplies, and activities. Please bring supplies for kids to make "Festival Flags", crayons, markers, 6" x 8" fabric, stencils, etc... to the June meeting. We will be able to display items for sale, hand out info on our group, and hopefully have the "River Runs Through It" pieces for display also. If you have items for sale bring them to the meeting, with a tag with your name and the price. Call Meredith for details. The Black Sheep Festival is June 21, 22, 23 in Eugene, Jana, Peggy and Cheryl are going, call them, to go along and carpool. The festival has vendors with wool, fibers, looms, spinning wheels, art displays and other fun stuff, and LOTS of Sheep! The Bandon Art Retreat is June 17 &18, still have one spot left, plans and info will be finalized at June meeting, for questions call Amy. There is no demo for June yet, any ideas? Volunteers? "The River Runs Through It" is due at the June meeting, this could take a while, is this and Show & Tell, enough for the meeting?
New Business Vera has volunteered for a workshop Play Day at her house in October for wet felting, and making fabric with yarns/fibers/threads and Solvy stabilizer. There will be no dyeing workshop this August, as Vera will be out of town.
Show & Tell Vera had her samples from Meredith's Play Day, a piece of black fabric she discharged, and another piece she embellished with fuseable interfacing colored with Shiva oil Pastels, then added gold foil to.
Vera's "River" piece is finished, she used squares of hand dyed fabric to represent a topographical map, stitching rivers, and lakes, and other features onto the squares.
Cheryl brought her "River" piece in progress, she hand needle felted a sky, waterfalls and coconut palm trees, while on vacation in Hawaii. The piece is very 3 dimensional, with coconuts and palm fronds. She also brought an assortment of fibers she received in an exchange at "Fiber in the Forest" at Camp Myrtlewood. She will also be taking a card weaving class soon.
Maureen's "River" piece is mostly finished, but still in progress, she intends to add beads, and stars to it. Her inspiration is a cover photo from "Scientific American" magazine of a "Naked Singularity" black hole. She used "shirt taylor" stabilizer, and needle felted, yarns, fibers, Angelina to create a swirling space theme with a sparkly river running through it. Her panel is the far left edge, and will make an awesome beginning.
Nancy had a beautiful ice dyed mauve silk from Meredith's PlayDay, and brown and "camo" ice dyed muslin and cheesecloth, which she will use for shoreline in her "River" piece. She used "After Fix" on her Spectra Art Tissue sample, and most of the color still washed out. She used a fern stencil at home to decorate a denim shirt with purple and brown Jacquard Decolourant Plus. The discharge paste has not been ironed to activate yet.
Crystal and Corienne did not have show and tell, but Corienne had a bag of Thai silk sample booklets to pass around. Pat had gone home and fondled all her hand dyed fabrics, muslins, silks, and cheesecloth to make strata for her "River" piece. She is still contemplating the starta and what she wants to create. She used one of her pieces of fabric from Meredith's to make a Ricky Tims "Convergence" wallhanging, it has hand dyed fabric with metallic Shiva rubbings texture.
Pat and Peggy both had several silk scarves they ice dyed at the Play day, the silk picks up the dye very well for intense, rich color. Peggy also had an old t-shirt she used green to over dye. The stenciled t-shirt with the Jacquard Decolourant Plus, came out very well, she added acrylic paint highlights and detail to make the sunflowers stand out.
Kay's finished "River" piece is an abstract landscape with hand dyed fabric and papers, yarns and beads. Her peach sky is striking, and goes well with Vera's sky. She has dangled various shapes of dyed paper from the bottom.
Meredith and Amy have their "River" pieces in progress, Amy's is ready to quilt. Amy also brought her t-shirts and ice dyes she made at the Play Day, see previous post. Next post - Water Soluble Crayon and Watercolor pencil demo.
Vera's "River" piece is finished, she used squares of hand dyed fabric to represent a topographical map, stitching rivers, and lakes, and other features onto the squares. 
Cheryl brought her "River" piece in progress, she hand needle felted a sky, waterfalls and coconut palm trees, while on vacation in Hawaii. The piece is very 3 dimensional, with coconuts and palm fronds. She also brought an assortment of fibers she received in an exchange at "Fiber in the Forest" at Camp Myrtlewood. She will also be taking a card weaving class soon. 
Maureen's "River" piece is mostly finished, but still in progress, she intends to add beads, and stars to it. Her inspiration is a cover photo from "Scientific American" magazine of a "Naked Singularity" black hole. She used "shirt taylor" stabilizer, and needle felted, yarns, fibers, Angelina to create a swirling space theme with a sparkly river running through it. Her panel is the far left edge, and will make an awesome beginning. 
Nancy had a beautiful ice dyed mauve silk from Meredith's PlayDay, and brown and "camo" ice dyed muslin and cheesecloth, which she will use for shoreline in her "River" piece. She used "After Fix" on her Spectra Art Tissue sample, and most of the color still washed out. She used a fern stencil at home to decorate a denim shirt with purple and brown Jacquard Decolourant Plus. The discharge paste has not been ironed to activate yet. 
Crystal and Corienne did not have show and tell, but Corienne had a bag of Thai silk sample booklets to pass around. Pat had gone home and fondled all her hand dyed fabrics, muslins, silks, and cheesecloth to make strata for her "River" piece. She is still contemplating the starta and what she wants to create. She used one of her pieces of fabric from Meredith's to make a Ricky Tims "Convergence" wallhanging, it has hand dyed fabric with metallic Shiva rubbings texture. 
Pat and Peggy both had several silk scarves they ice dyed at the Play day, the silk picks up the dye very well for intense, rich color. Peggy also had an old t-shirt she used green to over dye. The stenciled t-shirt with the Jacquard Decolourant Plus, came out very well, she added acrylic paint highlights and detail to make the sunflowers stand out. 
Kay's finished "River" piece is an abstract landscape with hand dyed fabric and papers, yarns and beads. Her peach sky is striking, and goes well with Vera's sky. She has dangled various shapes of dyed paper from the bottom. 
Meredith and Amy have their "River" pieces in progress, Amy's is ready to quilt. Amy also brought her t-shirts and ice dyes she made at the Play Day, see previous post. Next post - Water Soluble Crayon and Watercolor pencil demo.
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