June Meeting 2016

Old Business Bandon Retreat is June 20-24th see Amy for details. New Business The Black Sheep Festival is going to be in Eugene on June 26-28 contact Cheryl or Jana for details. Ravelry.com has their Tour de Fleece starting July 4th to coincide with the Tour de France, Jana participates every year, spinning every day while the race is on. The Knotty Lady yarn shop is having a charity for battered persons, bring in a pair of knit socks and get a free skein of yarn. The Medford quilt show is June 24-25, any one interested in going contact Meredith. Show & Tell

Amy ice dyed several silk scarves from Dharma, she will use them for gifts when she goes to the family reunion in Missouri. See the previous post on the ice dye Playday at Amy's click here

One of Cheryl's many beautiful pieces of fabric from the ice dyeing.

Cheryl created the background for this art with blue and white sponged onto black base. Then she put white paint on her leaf and other plant materials and made a print. This is for one of her kids classes at the UV Arts Center this summer.

Bead weaving was used by Vi to make this red, white and blue collar for her birthday on July 4.

This vintage 1930's pink blouse with wool embroidery is one of the items Vi is looking to find a good home for, as she is downsizing her home.

Vi is the Queen of beads, as she hand beaded the butterflies onto her sun printed vest.

Ryan experimented with welding two saws together, to make his plasma cutter tree.

Ryan saw a deer head on Pinterest covered in knitting, so he acquired this tattered old head and plans to cover it with quilted fabric. I am curious to see the outcome on this project. He is looking to acquire an elk head too.

Tracy and Ryan have gotten the very cutest baby Rocket the Papillion, to join their others. He slept through the whole meeting. Meredith has been busy working on her whole cloth project, but does not want to share until she makes further progress on it. Barb has been cleaning in prep for the Sisters Quilt-athon, and she has "quilter's butt" and a sore lower back from the repetitive motion.

Barb finally finished her antelope UFO, that she made from one of her photos. To mark the quilting lines, she drew on Solvy and placed it over the antelope and stitched the lines, and washed away the Solvy. Barb is very involved in the Hart Mountain area every year doing census work on the antelopes.

Peggy has some great results from the ice dyeing playday, her silk scarves shimmer with color, and her fabric is so colorful.

Peggy's t-shirt screams fuchsia!

Jana plans on spinning this "Rose Quartz" merino roving for the Tour de Fleece, sponsored by Ravelry.com

Jana finished her doggie quilt, she spent a lot of time thread painting her precious pets.

Jana loves thread painting so much and crows are a favorite subject, she thread painted this crow for Clare.

Nancy made a fleece dice mat for her bunco group, the sides are padded bumpers to keep the dice from rolling off the table, it must be a wild group to keep throwing the dice away. She also had a display at the lamb show, and found her vintage pleated plaid Pendelton wool skirt she made in high school.

Clare had lots of fun at the ice dyeing, she did several large pieces of fabric.

Clare also dyed two pieces of cotton lace to match her fabrics.

Compare the finished purple spiral fabric that Clare did, with the photo in the previous post when it was wet and coming off the dye process.

Lorraine dyed a set of cotton napkins with the scalloped edges. Her twisted fabric was done with the Indigo dye color, not a traditional indigo dye bath. My notes also say that Lorraine is also doing a red and green study of radishes, we'll have to wait to see what that means. Sue C. has been doing a collage from a pile of scraps, from a friend from Washington's boxes.

Pat G. finished her ragged patchwork sweatshirt. She used a fabric bundle of "Stonehenge" fabric giving it a very coordinated look.

Pat G. has made a large bed quilt for herself, with Civil War reproduction fabrics. Each block is 8" square and has 57 pieces.

January Meeting 2016

Old Business The Sweatshirt workshop is scheduled at Pat W's on Jan. 14th, 10am. Contact Amy or Pat. A field trip to the Oregon Gardens Quilt Show is planned for Jan. 23, 2016. Our challenges are both due at the March meeting, "She Flies with her Own Wings" and "The Path Less Traveled" they all need to be ready for the Umpqua Valley Quilters Guild Show in mid-April. New Business The dates for the Bandon Art Retreat are June 20,21, 22, Mon thru Thurs. We had so much fun last year we scheduled an extra day. I am sending in a deposit in Jan, anyone who wants to save their place can give Amy a partial payment. Next meeting, for Feb. Sara will demo paper and fabric beads, bring a heat gun if you have it, fabric, paper and white glue. In March, Amy will do a printing swap with rubber stamps, then in April we will do lesson on image transfers with the stamped images. For May Lorraine and Pat G. will explain the workshop they took at Asilomar for "line and composition." In June we will reschedule Corinne's hands on Kumihimo Japanese Braiding. Show & Tell

Amy made a hexagon zen tangle Christmas ornament from a pattern by Jill Buckley at www.thequiltrat.com click here It was inked and painted with acrylics, then stitched together as an English paper piecing project.

"She Flies with Chickens" is ready to be thread painted and machine quilted. A photo of Amy's cousin's granddaughter was the inspiration for this challenge piece. It is fused and raw edge appliqued, the thread work will really bring out the facial features and the feathers on the chickens.

Meredith has been working on a big project, she would rather show it next month than talk about it now. She brought her Zen Tangle sketchbook to show us. She had two sketches she is considering for her "Path Less Traveled" challenge. Landreth got together with a friend and worked on a large piece 36" to 45" with multiple layers of fusible. She is making big changes to her artistic style and life, but she is sticking to her rusted fabric projects. She has 18 yards of rusted fabric she is starting to fuse to go into 16 Goodwill picture frames. She is creating 16 different compositions and highlighting different sections of her fabric. Pat G. is ready to go on her month long trip to the coast with friends for a quilting get away, they have rented a house together in Bandon. Lorraine is working on her "Path Less Traveled" in a Laura Wasilowski style, with fused hand dyed fabrics. She and Pat G. took a class from her on their last quilting cruise. Nancy has gotten her sewing machine fixed and has big plans in her head.

Clair had a brown bag challenge with her weaving group, she received a skein of "Sugar and Spice" yarn which she over dyed and made into several lovely card weaving strips. They are also embellished with beads.

She also made tassels with the leftovers, the finished items go back to the contributor of the brown bag.

Clair's second challenge was to choose a style of colors from a color wheel, complimentary, analogous, etc... She ended up with the "Rainbow" option. Her very colorful weavings began with the painted wooden paint stirrers, then various yarns with some extra beaded embellishments.

Jana began her "She Flies with Her Own Wings" challenge by rubber stamping the words for her talkative crow. The crow was then thread painted with amazing detail.

Jana liked the process so much, she stamped a phrase she found on Pinterest, into this framed wall hanging, for herself.

Dorie made this "cat fascinator" hat with silk roses, tulle and feathers.

This turquoise scarf was difficult for Dorie to knit because of the thick and thin nature of the yarn. Peggy is re-learning how to knit, and is making a simple shawl. She made a baby quilt that has been sent off to a grandchild. She is actively working on her challenge pieces. Sara ordered some dyes, silk, and some paints from Dharma for her Christmas present, and she can't wait to try all of them.

Vi brought the umbrella she made from Shibori fabric that the Tie-Dye Master gave to her when she was in Japan.

Cheryl made three Angora hats for a friend who wanted something very SOFT.

Cheryl's dragon bag, is needle felted for a class at Knotty Lady yarn shop on Jackson St. in downtown Roseburg.

Cheryl made the cartoon character with wet felting for a children's class at the Umpqua Valley Arts Center. The 2 pin weaving strips are sewn into coasters, also for a kids class at the UVAC.

The rosewood spindle and the merino/tussah silk sliver are a Christmas present for herself.

Demo Amy showed us how to use Tsukineko inks with shaving cream as a medium, to swipe across delicate stencils. She had sample she did on muslin and some hand dyed fabrics.

The stencil worked best by swiping the dauber over the fine stencils, pouncing it, forced the excess ink under the plastic to give a blotchy image. We will try to order some inks from a former member Cynde who is a Tsukineko dealer. Check back with us next month for the reveal, to see what everyone has been doing, the challenges are becoming due soon.

I am linking this to Nina Marie's "Off the Wall Friday" click here check to see what other talented textile artists are doing.