Wednesday 19 September 2018

September Meeting

Welcome Back!  The guild season has started again and we had our first regular meeting of the year.

Brigitte introduced us to the idea of making art on used tea bags.  Two each month, one for yourself and one for the group project.  The group project will be a large collaborative piece for show.
There have been a variety of theme's chosen for the project including dandelions, leaves, circles and the word Joy.

Quilting Arts Magazine has two articles on tea bag art:

Issue 87  (June/July 2017)
Issue 94(August/September 2018

Libby Williamson is the author of the articles and she has an interesting blog as well.


Example of Libby Williamson's tea bag art
To get us started on the project  Cathy Gaetz-Brothen  gave a presentation on Steampunk! and Tea Bag Folding.

Steampunk is described as:
A genre of science fiction that has a historical setting and typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.  
Cathy had done her first two tea bags in a Steampunk fashion with metal gears as the embellishments.  One thing you will never see in Steampunk?  Plastic!

For next month, two tea bags inspired by Septembers presentation. 
Joyce showed her wonderful tea bag art! Inspiring!
Cathy showing us how to fold tea bag covers.
A beautiful rosette.


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