A snow day cancelled our meeting at Gallery Vertigo. Winter is here.
We will continue to create but more from our homes. We are looking into ways to stay in touch through online group chats. Stay tuned as we try to sort this out.
Show and Tell
Joyce sent in three lovely pictures of what she has been playing with.
Rust dyeing
And another one based on Cathy's presentation of Colour Your World
And finally rubbings that Joyce dyed at home.
Christine has used some of her hand dyed fabric and the embroidery stitches on her machine for her work inspired by the Rainbow Mountain in China.
Starting with her interpretation of Colour My World.
Cath
Cathy then did a paint pour on canvas and did not like the result. She removed the canvas from the frame and cut out two pages. She will spray shellac on the art so the paint does not flake.
The rubbings were a lot of fun and since we did not have our meeting Cathy tea dyed hers at home with rooibos for one and turmeric ginger tea for the other.
Next we have sun prints on coffee dyed fabric and some great results from the rust dyeing.
Cathy says she was inspired by the gallery X and O challenge. In the middle of the night she thought about her world coin collection and thought they would work well for rubbings. They were done with all the blue and orange crayons purchased at Staples. She has done 12 blocks!
Cathy is interested in feedback on what people are choosing as a base for their pages if they are doing an accordion book. She has quarter inch foam board but thinks that might be too thick for 12 to 15 pages.
Jeanette says she loved Cathy's idea of mounting pieces on little canvasses so ran out and bought a pack at Scattered Goods.
After thinking about Colour My World she remembered the awesome colours she had seen at the Aberdeen Columns. If you haven't heard of them then you are in for a treat! To find the columns you drive south into the forest behind Lavington, follow several logging roads and eventually, if you are very observant, you will find a tiny sign dangling off a tree indicating the trail head. The columns are only a 5 minute black fly infested walk from there. She has included the photograph of the actual columns as well.
Jeanette has decided to fill the 4 canvasses with mini quilts showing colours found in the natural world that you wouldn't expect to see and are a pleasant surprise when you do come upon them. She chose the red sandy beaches of PEI for her second piece. Did you know they actually dye T-shirts with the sand? These are available to be bought throughout PEI.
Thanks for the inspiration Cathy!
Cathy has done more!
Creating a fabric accordion book is all new to me. I did a two page mock up book so that I could experiment with different options. Have chosen to go with Pellon stabilizer as a base and did Fagoting stitch to join each of the pages. This allows for additional pages to be added at whim. Once the front and back art pages are completed, and quilted onto batting, they are clipped onto the Pellon and machine stitched. Tried finishing the edges with ribbon or decorative stitching but preferred the raw edge effect. a closure is made with a handmade button and wool.
It will be so interesting to see the variations in all the other members creations.
Thank you for all your input, instructions and encouragement.
Front pages
Back pages
I considered what to do for Colour Your World and thought about how some countries are well known for their colours. Some times the colours relate to areas like the magical blue/green of Kalamalka Lake, or the architechture of sunny Greece. The national colours are often on the flags of the countries. When I think of Canada the red and white of our flag always comes to mind.
Since I am using folded flowers instead of a book page here are my Canada flower and a bonus poinsettia for the holiday season.
