October Meeting

Linda started off the meeting with a fun JOLTZ.  Lots of scribble writing with a variety of felt pens, no looking though!  Then rubbed with Inktense blocks and finally some smearing with water.  Add your motif in black felt and you have an interesting background.

Brigitte gave us a recap of the tea bag project for those who missed the last meeting.

The show and tell of the first pairs of tea bags was truly inspiring!

There are still spaces open on the calendar to sign up to lead a JOLTZ and two spots left for a presentation on the subject of your choice.

Linda would still like some more work done on the QuArtz banner, stitching or beading are some suggestions.

Catherine has submitted our Water quilts to the Canadian Quilter Magazine and they will appear in the Spring issue! 

After some lovely show and tell of a bag, some pillows and a shawl we had our presentation.

Kay and Endy - Javanese Art & Wayang Shadow Puppets

Wikipedia describes it this way:

Javanese origin art forms are among the best know in Indonesia and the whole archipelago.  The famous Javanese Wayang puppetry culture was influenced by Hindu and Buddhist traditions.  The Wayang repertoire stories, lagoon, are mostly based on epics from India; Ramayana and Mahabharata.  These epics and stories influenced wayang puppetry as well as Javanese classical dances.  The art of batik is also of Javanese origin.  

Endy brought along a wayang puppet for us to look at and explained about the puppet shows put on at festivals.  It was made of buffalo leather and very intricately cut.  In some area's they make the cutting tools from bicycle spokes.  

More information on Wayang can be found here.  

https://disco.teak.fi/asia/wayang-the-world-of-shadows-and-puppets/

Wayang puppet 

Detail of cutout's

Kay's suggestion was to use the cut out technique for your tea bag this month.  She brought along cork fabric end cuts, donated by Cottage Quilting, to share with everyone.  Her tea bags were decorated with butterflies cut from the cork fabric.

Cut out motif. 

Kay's butterflies.

Cork Fabric