And it's December!

We met at Brigitte's clubhouse again and had a holiday themed meeting.

We talked about where to meet in the new year and it was decided that with the new variants going around we would stay at the clubhouse for the foreseeable future.  This can be revisited in the new year if need be.

Brigitte collected our accordion books and other examples of the works done by the members of Quartz to take to the guild for a display on Thursday.  Sandi and Christine were going to address the guild at the meeting.

Update:

Brigitte says the show of our work was very well received.  Sandi did a terrific job explaining what we do throughout the year and what we are working on this year. The works sent along were displayed at the front of the room and the membership was invited to come and look.  There were positive comments and some asked about where we meet.  At one point someone commented that the rules seem varied, Brigitte clarified that the only rule we have is 'there are no rules'.  Thank you so much for updating the guild on our group.

We had a lunch break and played some silly holiday games that Shirley brought along.  It was a very good get together and we all hope you have a Happy Holiday!

 Jeanette brought along the book she is using for some of this season's ideas.  We are going to look at improv in January.

Jeanette also gave us a tutorial in Dorset Buttons and has done some wonderful samples to inspire!

Show and Tell

Shirley brought some of her postcards and a piece playing with circles.

Joan has been doing some dyeing, love those leaf prints and vibrant colours!

Sandi used a piece of hardwood for her stamp and double printed it on some previously dyed fabrics. She plans to stitch on the ginkgo leaves and also brought along a tassel made with her granddaughters.

Elisabeth played with a jelly roll and made two of the lovely little Christmas pins shown last time.

Linda was making mug rugs and playing with knitting.  She is using Arne and Carlos's techniques for Norwegian knitting patterns.  They are very popular these days, might have to check it out.

https://arnecarlos.com

                                       

Christine had mixed results with foiling and wasn't pleased with the grey glue left on the fabric.  It seems it has a shelf life and this jar was past it.

Cath did some over-dyeing on previously sun dyed pieces and then stamped with metallic fabric paints.

Cathy has made a piece depicting the view from her house and referencing the events of 2021.  There is smoke, fire, masks and more in her landscape.  Now where is her wine glass?

Cathy also brought along a piece with hand made folk on it.  She is going to do some research to see if she can find instructions for making these.

November

 Hello all!

Linda and Elisabeth will be taking part in Susan Wilson's fibre art show in February in Armstrong.

A Christmas themed meeting was discussed and it was agreed that we would all bring our own lunch, someone would supply desert and coffee and tea would be provided. Shirley will bring a game.

There was a lot of discussion around the Guild and going back to meeting at the church.  Sandie is going to get in touch with Joan and emphasize that we want to continue to be part of the Guild and that it is Covid that is preventing us from attending meetings and returning to meet at the church.  It was decided that we will go back to meeting at the church from January to March and then return to Brigitte's where we feel we can be more creative.

It was also decided that in order for the Guild to have confidence in us staying with them we would look to do a display of our accordion books, plus a few other pieces to show the variety of creativity we work on. We would contact the workshop committee in order to set up a suitable date.

Show and tell had many pieces giving examples of overdyeing, our topic from last month.

Shirley

Judith

  Linda

Brigitte and Elisabeth brought lots of samples of the soy wax resist pieces that had made at the Sorrento workshop they attended recently.

Elisabeth

Brigitte

We then discussed ways of putting marks on our pieces of cloth.  

These included:

Resists - soy, wax, glue, and flour paste.

String printing

Veg/Fruit printing

Rubbings

Paint Stix

Monoprinting

Transfer paints

Photo transfer images

Painting with wax pastels and wax crayons

Snow

Lithography (need oil based etching inks for this)

Show and tell had a few more beauties

Cathy

Shirley

Sandie

Most of us finished the Christmas pins or had a bit of glueing to do later.  Brigitte brought along a stamp making activity that involved a 4" square of foam core and a pieces of sticky back craft foam.  We didn't get to this activity but Brigitte challenged us to complete a homemade stamp for homework.

New and returning faces October 2021

 October 2021

We welcomed a new member, Joan and a returning member, Shirley.  Great to have you join our group.

There was a bit of housekeeping to do.  

Starting with the call to artists for the annual Fibre Art Show at Gallery Veritgo in March 2022. This year's theme is 'Reflections'.  120" maximum perimeter.   https://www.galleryvertigo.com/Call.html

There is a Fibre Art Festival in Armstrong in February.  More information will be forwarded.

The Pentiction Guild is having a Fibre Art Show at the Pentiction Art Gallery, on until Nov 6.

November 18 is the Guild Library sale.

We had a few examples of dyeing to look at.

Linda brought some pieces she had indigo dyed with her home grown leaves.  In some she had used a mordant on the fabric and the resulting pieces were a green tone.  In others she did not mordant first and those turned out a lovely soft blue.

Cath had some solar dyeing on silk and cotton fabric, using Linda's dried flowers and a bit of vinegar in the water.

She also did some eco printing with the indigo leaves and a simmer.  When that did not produce any real colour she added some soda ash and simmered again.  This resulted in a purple colour on the silk fabric

We moved on to the discussion of Over dyeing.  There are so many ways to change your fabric.  Joan had a great piece of blue print she had rust dyed. Some of the suggestions are below:

Christine brought along a few examples of over dyeing she has done in the past.   This one she dyed the bright green and then accordion folded it and clamped it with clothes pins before dyeing it again with purple.  Nice result!

This one had the blue dye dropped on specific area's.

In this piece Christine made the whole piece and then lay it flat on a tray and only dyed certain parts. It looks like she added blue dye to red fabric and ended up with the purple.

Our challenge for next month is to Over Dye something.  You might want to save a piece of the original to show the difference.

Jeanette is doing a new twist on our usual JOLTZ,   BUTTONS!

This month she showed us how to tie a Monkey's Fist Knot and a smaller Toggle Knot. 

Show and Tell

Elisabeth brought along three of her latest works.  The decorated circles use her solar dyed fabric as backgrounds.  The black and white is made from blocks off the free table at the Guild meeting.

Joan has done this wonderful portrait.  Very nice work!

Brigitte was playing with some wool strips, what a great colour combination!  She also brought along her hand sewn green book in it's finished form.  See last month's post for pictures of this amazing work.

Cath showed her piece, Circle of Friends.  Made with fused silk fusion on a plain black background.