Good morning to all of you.
We started our meeting, chaired by Cathy, with three interesting notes.
First was a quote from a Peanuts comic. Charlie Brown- "We only live once, Snoopy." Snoopy- "Wrong. We only die once. We live every day!"
Second was the three things that keep super agers going. They are physically active, enjoy hobbies and mental stimulation and are social.
The three metaphorical bones needed to thrive in life are a wishbone (for dreaming and setting goals), a backbone (for strength and courage), and a funny bone(for laughter and joy).
We have submitted an article to Canadian Quilter Magazine about our Trailblazing Women of BC quilts. I will keep you updated about a publication date.
Show and Tell:
Joan brought in her paper collages, started in an online course that some of us did in January. She really has some lovely results.
Cath has made a bag from the piece of woven fabric she showed last month.
Deborah showed us a hand beaded purse she has that was made in Vietnam. She also has framed her shrink foam and presented a lovely tulip.
Shirley has covered one of her wool beads, Wow! She also had some questions regarding constructing her accordion book.
She has a recommended link to those who would like a little more information on thread sketching. Check it out here: https://threadsketchinginaction.com/ Deborah Wirsu
Jeanette has turned her beads into tassels and brought in some couching samples from a quilt she is working on.
Bev showed us the progress on her Home quilt but no picture until it is finished. She also made a lovely picture with her foam and button grapes.
Ella thread painted a poppy and tried her hand at a cheesecloth tree. She had some issues with the cheesecloth as she had dyed it with thinned acrylic paint, which can make it very stiff. Some online searching and she found a recipe for homemade fabric softener which did the trick to make her cheesecloth manageable.
Linda W. has been busy doing more traditional quilting with a lovely selection of brick blocks and some pieced cat blocks.
Christine made a foam flower and finished her wool beads.
Cathy has a foam butterfly, a intricate paper pillow bead and some interesting copper beads that were made from......potato!
Beads
We moved on to our Bead of the month led by Linda K. She found a YouTube video on making paper covered paperclip beads but turned it into fabric covered paperclip beads with beading. They were so much fun to put together!
 |
| Some of Linda's examples |
 |
| First demo bead |
 |
| Now we are working on ours. |
Toolbox Tuesday
After a much needed lunch break we came back to watch Linda W. explain about the very deep rabbit hole she went down to introduce us to our Toolbox Tuesday.
Linda got a lot of her information from two books in the VSSQ library.
Both are excellent resources into a large variety of techniques. Linda looked at couching and cording.
Couching is adding cords, threads or yarn to the surface of fabric. We often do this by machine or hand stitching over the thread. Cording raises linear designs from the surface of the fabric. Cords are often inserted into channels stitched into two layers of fabric.
There were a large variety of examples for us, some with quite intricate designs.
 |
| Couched yarn |
 |
| Variety of cording |
 |
| Covered cording |
 |
| Stitching fabric over cord |
 |
| After turning, the wider area at the end helps in turning the fabric right side out |
 |
| Covered cord ready to use |
