QuArtz Canada Art Quilting

We had two visitors today who have joined QuArtz. Welcome to Susan and Brenda.

Quote: Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. Albert Einstein.

Two Ways of Seeing

We gave a short overview on our Challenge for the year, Two Ways of Seeing. The quilt has to finish to 18" square and have a hanging sleeve. Two people are using the same picture for their inspiration. One person is making a representational piece and the other person is doing it in abstract. We encourage you to chat with your partner on this, it is a great way to get to know others in the group.

Gallery Vertigo

On Thursday November 26 from 2-4pm you will be able to add some stitches to the Grey Canal Embroidery piece. The gallery started working on this during it's September Cloth-O event and there is still more to go. Come on down and add a few embroidery stitches, no need to bring anything it will be provided by the Gallery.

Get together

There is a possible get together with the art quilting group from the Orchard Valley Quilters of Kelowna. The group there, known as the SmARTies have expressed interest in meeting with us. Times and dates to be decided if there is enough interest.

Beads

The beads from last season have been returned and we thank Linda K. for the wonderful display she created with them for the visit to the Vernon guild last month.

Name Tags

As we have a number of new members this season we ask if you will please wear your name tag to the meetings. If you haven't recieved a small piece of quartz to add to your name tag please ask Cathy for one.

December meeting and Pot-Luck

Our December meeting will have the FAN travelling exhibit for us to look at. This one is called TEXT-ture. It features writing and letters on small art works. These exhibits travel to guilds and groups and the only charge is postage to send it along to it's next location. To cover this cost we ask that you bring $2 to the December meeting.

It is also our Christmas pot luck lunch. Please bring a label with the ingredients in your contribution as we have a few allergies and sensitivities in the group. We ask that you do not include mushrooms or lobster in your food. Bring along your own dishes and cutlery as well.

We will have a Make and Take also. A supply list will be sent out before the meeting.

Show and Tell

We had a very large show and tell! Wonderful work from everyone.

Sandie did some wool felting to show her Kandinsky pieces and then for Avant-Garde she also managed to get some street art in there. (That is one of the styles for this meeting)

Susan is a new member and she brought along a beautiful large tree quilt done in whites and greys. She also showed us some of her Dutch bead art work.

Shirley P had a bag full of leaves to play with. Some lovely ginkgo ones. There were a lot of mixed results with the glycerin leaves as you will see. A lot of brown ones but some did manage to keep yellows and red colours.

Brenda is another new member and she brought along a lovely batik fabric High Tech Tucks quilt. It is taught by Caryl Bryer Fallert. She also showed us her 40th anniversary of the VSSQ quilt but as they haven't been show to the guild yet there is no picture.

https://bryerpatch.com/faq/HighTechTucks/HighTechTucksWorkshop.pdf

Linda K. had a huge pile of wonderful indigo dyed yarn and fabrics to share with us. She also did some eco dyeing with some others in the fall at the Vernon Community Arts Center. If you are interested in growing plants for dyeing have a chat with her as she has seeds to share.

Linda W. was also involved in the dyeing experiments and brought in a beautiful silk scarf she had eco dyed with yellow horse chestnut.

Brigitte has been stitching a small Kawandi quilt. She stitches patches down by hand, edges turned under as you go. She used silk fabric and found it quite slippery to work with. Here is a link with more information on Kawandi;

Learning About Kawandi QuiltsANY Texture - Textile Arthttps://www.anytexture.com › Blog

She also brought in some pieces of a felt and fabric challenge she is doing. Love the houses and birds.

Elisabeth has some glycerin leaves to show and Christmas postcards made with scrap fabrics. Aren't they bright and festive!

I love the pink and green one!

Cathy has done a Kandinsky as well as a Picasso with food fabrics. She also had glycerin leaves.

Suzanne remade some cushions with a great deal on Sunbrella fabric. She is also making aprons for her parents. Perfect item to use food themed fabric on!

Cath did an Avant-Garde piece with a picture of her cat clock. She played with it in Photoshop to stretch and distort it, then printed it on fabric.

Kaitlyn loved the tree rings from the spring so made her own. She used her leaves to make a 'belly band' for a book she is working on, it will be attached to the book so she can use it like a pocket. She pressed her leaves flat under books rather than try ironing them.

Shelley turned her leaves into bookmarks. I really like the diagonal layout she has used.

Bev mounted her leaves on a board with a tissue paper background in fall colours. She also brought in some lovely beads given to her by a friend and a fabric basket to store them in.

Ella had leaves as well and had done some sashiko stitching on a wall hanging with leaves.

Joan made a piece with leaves on a muslin background. She also did a Kandinsky piece and an Avant-Garde piece.

Deborah did a lovely little piece with her tree rings and some leaves. She has mounted it all in a sectional frame.

Shirley W. had some great stories of her and Endy's trip to the Philippines and Japan. She brought back some wonderful items. A designer leather bag, a bespoke vest and gifts for the group.

Endy showed us a beautiful flower made from thread on wash away stabilizer. She also had her batik fabric from the workshop. The one of the flowers is realistic and the other is an abstract.

Two of the gifts that Shirley gave out. Beautiful work on both of them, they were gifted to Shirley on her trip.

Edge Finishes

Shirley P. presented an edge finish she calls a Flange. It is a two colour binding with one very narrow highlight colour to set off your work.

She had a few pieces to show you how it would look and a handout with the instructions.

Flange binding

Striped fabric used to give the impression of a flange binding

Art Styles

Deborah Street Art

Deborah talked about the difference between Street Art and Graffiti. She noted that the tagging you see on the passing train cars would be considered graffiti while the murals in Vernon are Street Art. There are some famous names in street art with Banksy at the top of the list.

A lot of the street art we see has a political or social message behind it. Deborah moved on to talking about other artists who used their work to relay a message. She is particularly taken with Emily Carr's work.

Her picture, Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky is a good example of Emily Carr speaking out against the clear cut logging of her area.

Deborah made a piece from repurposed fabrics of a tree as survivor. The blue circles behind the tree represent the earth and the tree stands tall.

Some sites with more information on Street Art and Graffiti.

STRAAT Museum

https://www.straatmuseum.com/en/about-straat/what-are-the-similarities-and-differences-between-graffiti-and-street-art

Sotheby's Institute of Art

https://sothebysinstitute.com/articles/info-series-graffiti-art/

Suzanne Geometric Art

Suzanne spoke to Geometric Art. The traditional quilts we all know are an excellent example of geometric art. They are all composed of degrees, angles and designed mathematically. She showed us a quilt top she is working on. She saw a pattern she liked but decided to design her own using her angled rulers and of course, math.