We met at Gallery Vertigo, October

 The rain kept us from meeting in Coldstream and doing rubbings as we had planned.  Gallery Vertigo offered us their space to hold our meeting.  Thank you, Brigitte.

Cathy had a wonderful presentation on Colour My World.  As she told us about brilliantly named cites all over the world as we coloured on our maps.  The thought of blue cities, or yellow cities or rainbow landforms makes us want to travel again soon!  

                                                              

   

Here are the links she used to find her information: 

Wikipedia

Sensationalcolor.com

World life expectancy.com

Travellittleknownplaces.com

Geotarget.com

World Economic Forum

Mysa

hotstelworld.com

ScienceLive

We were delighted to have Joyce back with us and she had done some rust dyeing on her own.  She brought along a pretty little piece with hand stitching giving a great texture.

Linda brought her rust fabric as well and her paint pour box.  A four sided art work.

Elisabeth brought her first abstract work to show us.  It just needs to be stretched over canvas.  She also showed us her rusting, wrapped around re-bar and some nails.  It could turn into a lovely scarf.

Cathy not only gave a great presentation but she had 3 samples from past meetings.

She continues with her 4" square canvas', they are going to make a striking presentation.  Another paint pour, this one round.  Do I have it upside down?  Rust dyed and hand stitched, pounded flowers.  And sun printing with coffee soaked fabric.  Very subtle but beautiful leaf prints.

Brigitte showed us work from a Sorrento retreat with Catherine Nicholls.  As she has been working with masks for a few years she tried her hand at stitching a resist in the shape of a mask before dyeing with indigo.  Great result!  

There is also some lovely hand work presented, Boro stitching and Sashiko stitching.  

Christine has finished her Symmetry piece from last season and it is such a bright cheerful work!  Trapunto on the butterflies really show them off.  She also showed us her paint pour butterfly or is it a moth?

Judith has finished her paint pour "The Igniter", inspired by the Christie Mountain Fire in Penticton this summer.

Cath had done two Japanese Folded Fabric Flowers with her rust and some indigo dyed fabric.  A possible bouquet of flowers for this year?

Jeanette has done some research into our next idea of rubbings.  She made some on her sidewalk and then dyed them.  It was too wet to do any at the meeting so we will continue on our own and see what we can come up with.  Oil pastels were used for the rubbing.

Jeanette brought along some Quilting Arts issues that have information on Rit dyeing and some interesting links.

Interesting information on dyes though out history. 

We finished up by talking about what you will make with this year's exploration of Colour. We had talked about making a concertina book.  If you are going to do that you will have to consider consistent size of your samples and idea's for construction.  The possibilities are endless!