April

 Spring is here and we are back again.

Gallery Vertigo is having it's Grand Opening on Thursday April 11, 6 to 8 pm at the new location on the main street of downtown Vernon.  It has been open this week and the reviews are very positive with more visitors in the first week than they had in two months at the old location.  Such a welcome addition to the downtown core!

3D 

It has been decided that June will be the reveal of your 3D pieces and August will be the reveal of the scrolls.  

Batik with Endy

The July and August meetings will be learning about batik from Endy.  She brought along some examples and we went over the supplies needed for the meetings.  There will be more information closer to the date, but if you have any of the following please let her know.

             -small deep wax melting pot or fondue pot, it needs to heat to 85C.  

             -chantings (jtanting) for applying the melted wax, Endy is looking into ordering some more as well

Christine is going to get some bees wax for us.

Show and Tell

Christine showed us a necklace she made from silk cocoons many years ago.

Brigitte brought here Herringbone stitch for her scroll

Jan is back from a holiday in Sedona and made a small quilt to celebrate.  She captured the colour and feel of the area very well.

Shirley has done a couple of online courses with her favourite quilt artist, Carol Bryer-Fallet Gentry of www.bryerpatch.com.  Check it out as some of these are free courses.

Cath has finished the raven she made to go on a strip background and finished her 3D piece early so brought it in as well.

Look closely to see Mama bird sitting on her nest.

Elisabeth filled her fabric ball with dried soup mix for a nice fragrance.  She has also done a lovely long spiral from concentric circles.

Suzanne has another wonderful very large quilt she designed and sewed and then had Endy quilt it.  

Whispers 

Brigitte talked about her Whispers piece.  She followed Cath and her hot air balloon's but found her inspiration in the write up as it mentioned a carnival.  She used the theme of Carnival to continue her mask theme that has shown up in her work for the last few years.  Various techniques were used to make the masks and then fusible appliqué was used to add the features.  And since it is Carnival some sparkle was necessary and she used sequins held on by beads.  

3D

Cathy made us do math!  But we did end up knowing how to draw a hexagon.  

Page 124 in Exploring Dimensional Quilt Art.

She also brought along her Starry Night piece based on Page 89 - Hexagonal Base.

Cathy also made a vase based on Prisms, Page 91.  Love the feathers standing in it.

Embroidery Stitch

Brigitte gave us our embroidery stitch this month,  The Buttonhole Stitch.  A wonderful reference for embroidery is Pintangle.com      https://pintangle.com/  These images are from the site.  For many more wonderful variations go to the site.

You can also arrange them around a circle

March

Spring is on it's way and the sun is shining!

There wasn't much housekeeping to go through but there were give aways for all.

Sandi had extra stamps on offer.  Elisabeth had two pots of small brushes, some of which will be saved for doing batik later in the year.  Bev found a great deal on brightly coloured embroidery floss to share.  Thank you to all. 

Christine found a nice bead shop in Victoria and shared the card for the store. No website but you can find them on Facebook.

Gallery Vertigo is working on their new space and will have a soft opening on April 2, with the Grand Opening on April 11.  New address is 2901 30th Avenue. Great to have them back downtown on the main street.

Whispers

Jeanette followed Christine and her lovely flower piece.  The debris on the ground under the flowers inspired Jeanette to use driftwood on her piece.  She used wire and beads to separate the wood and to hold the driftwood tree together.  

Cathy followed Joan, and used the canoe shape as a starting point on her work.  She found some leaves that had a similar shape and used those to design her piece.   She incorporated dotting on the leaves and globe, used cording for the spines of the leaves.  Karen Eckmeier's book Wiggles and Waves, Freeform Curves helped make the foreground with gentle curves and turned edges.

Sandi followed Bev, who had made the view through snorkel goggles.  Sandi decided on one of the beautiful views from an Italian vacation.  The water sparkles in the distance and there are bushes made with wash away stabilizer and the castle window forms the frame for the piece.

Show and Tell

Lena started us off with a great vase.  She used iron on interfacing to stiffen it and it going to try a few other ideas to see if she can get it to hold a final shape she likes.  Love the green with the black and white, always a wonderful combination!

Elisabeth made a small fob and finished her pop up Christmas Card.  She played with a marbling kit and had some lovely examples.  She has also finished a beautiful example of Ricky Tim's Convergence Quilt.

Bev had some macrame treasures from Thailand but they wandered off before I could get a picture, not surprising as one was a very mischievous looking monkey.   She also brought in a beautiful multi-coloured quilt.

Cathy had been inspired to select an image from a piece of fabric and then embroider on it.  the little green tree turned out well.

Judith showed her tree rings and a strip landscape she made.  The landscape is going to have a heron on it next time you see it.  She also showed a napkin with beautiful embroidery that is double sided with no knotting.  

Joyce continues to play around in the D&D world.  Most of these pieces she has had to paint, but what tiny details!

Endy showed us a wonderful reverse appliqué face with her usual beautiful quilting.

Christine had a Reliquary Box.     Reliquaries, the containers that house relics such as a bone chip or hair or a personal item, took on many forms throughout  the Middle Ages and were often crafted in homage to the martyr whose remains were within.  

3D Structures

Sandi talked to us about 3D structures and had a large variety of examples to help explain.   Pages 66 -83. in Exploring Dimensional Quilt Art.  

she showed us :

Platonic solids, shapes made from all the same pieces, as in a cube or the small triangle pieces.

                         :Archimedean solids, made with more than one shape.

                          :Crescents and a two piece orb.

A few suggestions for inspiration for your 3D piece.  I am sure there are a lot more too if you look around.  

https://www.clairepassmore.com/artworks.html

http://www.shannonconleyartquilts.com/

Embroidery

Sandi had missed last month but still had some ideas on using the French or Colonial knot in an interesting way.  Love the little cherry holding the button on!

Jeanette gave us this month's embroidery stitch, the Herringbone Stitch.