November Meeting 2015

Old Business For our December meeting will be having our holiday potluck, bring a plate & Utensils, and a dish to share. Wear a festive outfit and we'll take a group picture. Also for December, we will do an art/textiles garage sale, bring things you want to sell/share or give away. Clean out your studio for a New Year. January we will do Kumihimo - Japanese braiding with Corienne. February will be making fabric/paper beads with Sara, she will also show us how to coat them with embossing powder and a heat gun. We are planning a workshop at Pat W.'s to make the patchwork sweat shirts that Sara showed us, TBA for January. Wal-Mart has a great selection of sweat shirts in beautiful colors, right now. Buy one size larger, as we will be cutting the seams off and re-sewing them smaller. We also encourage any of our new artists to make something for our challenge "She Flies with Her Own Wings" these will be displayed at the Umpqua Valley Quilters' Guild show in April. Any Technique, any size up to 20" per side. New Business Several of our members have items at the Umpqua Valley Arts Center Holiday Gift shop, stop by and check out the goodies. The Oregon Handweavers Guild is having their annual show at the Multnoma Canter in Portland this weekend,Corienne is taking some of her wonderful hand woven clothes.
Show & Tell

Sue C. has made a fabric bowl using a Bali batik and adding a brass leaf charm inside. In the bobbin she used Wooly Nylon thread, which puffed up randomly in her stitches on the outside of the bowl, creating a surprising texture.

The Mother Dragon is Sue C's entry for the "She Flies with Her Own Wings" challenge. The photo does not do it justice, the sky fabric shimmers and sparkles, the wings are 3-demensional with several layers of tulle and copper wire. Angelina fibers are used to great effect for the flames. The hand work and detail in this requires a lot of attention to see it all. She found the perfect glass cat's eyes to use at Michael's Crafts.

Peggy was wearing one of her ice dyed silk scarves, with a wrinkled texture, we all agreed that the colors would match any of our outfits.

Sara has made many, many, many knit poppies for Veteran's Day, she brought a few leftovers for each of us.

Crystal had finished her modern quilt, that she was working on at the Bandon Art Retreat, the center squares are fussy cut, many with adorable animals.

Vi's beaded doll is made on a recycled serger thread spool, she says you can use it for voodoo if you use the head as a pin cushion.

Amy has brought a work in progress, made from her hand dyed fabrics and a "curvalisious" acrylic template. She is debating quilting options, and other ways to use the template for working in a series.

Shell has shared two of her mixed media collages that she has made recently, the one on canvas is a work in progress, each has different finishes in different areas for visual texture. She also brought the big coffee table book, "The Dinner Party" by Judy Chicago, where each artist explains their inspiration and techniques for each place setting. Our new visitor Barb is a textile artist, currently working on a moonlit garden for a friend in California, and wanted ideas to use for a shimmery effect.

Corienne has made a beautifully woven black wool Ruana, similar to an open pancho, with a a black/white woven strip on each edge. It will be for sale at the Hand Weavers' Guild sale in Portland.

Dorie has a wonderful purse made from a furry felted sweater, she sewed the purse then felted it in the washing machine. The brass clasp is embellished with beads.

Cheryl's entry for the "She Flies with Her Own Wings" challenge is the soft knit shawl, a delicate Wing pattern in commercial yarns is knit loosely.

I'm sorry I did not get a picture of Cheryl's "2 peg loom" woven rug that she is making for her daughter's kitchen. It is stitched in a circle like a braided rug.

Clare is using photos of the view from her new house as inspiration for her next weaving. She is going to weave it in individual strips to make a composite picture.

She has also been published in Traditional Homes magazine, a collection of her handmade tassels, some with beading, are featured in a beautiful full page photo spread. Yea! Way to go Clare!

Pat G. and Lorraine have just gotten back from the Houston Show, they said be prepared to walk 2-3 miles a day, up and down the aisles, and additional walking to and from the hotel. They said it was over whelming. Pat G. has finished the top for her paper pieced lion, Wow! look at those eyes, she used a small piece of the glow in the dark fabric from Amy to highlight the eyes. But the fabric needs to be exposed to a bright light to glow, not folded up in a bag. Another Guest Sandy from Portland had to stop by and see what we are doing here, she reminded us there is a "Quilt, Crafts and Sew" show in Portland at the Expo Center Nov. 19-21, you can get 1/2 off entry coupons at Fabric Depot in Portland.
Show & Tell

We played with our new work surface boards, Amy led us on a hands on project with muslin, tissue paper and cheese cloth, painted with diluted white glue. The main point of this project was creating texture with the fabric, folded, scrunched, pinched up, twisted and layered. The "what ifs" of this project was working with colored fabric, painting the muslin after glueing, using bleeding tissue paper, and some one brought black Halloween netting and tea dyed cheese cloth also.

Everyone had fun playing in the glue and figuring what to use it for, it can be stitched to other fabrics, painted, embellished with more cheese cloth and other creative uses. Pinned to the boards it was taken home to dry. If not stiff enough, you can add more tissue paper or more glue.

Thank you for stopping by our blog and seeing what all our talented textile artists have been up to.