December - Happy Holidays!

 Welcome back all.  

We started the meeting with some housekeeping.  

The Whispers pieces were returned and Joan has sold her piece.   The display was very well done and well received as well.  A couple of the small Raising the Surface pieces sold as well.  If you weren't there to collect your piece Sandie has them and will bring them to the next meeting.

We discussed the challenge for this year,  Pioneering Women.  Everyone is planning on participating and Christine has a sign up sheet for next year to give a short (5 minute) talk about your choice of woman.  You will not need your piece to be presented then.  We think the due date will be June but that is to be decided later.

Our executive committee is looking into some ideas for a spring or summer work shop.  Maybe one day or two days?  More information to come.

Show and Tell 

 ( my apologies if I get a picture of the paper collage labeled wrong, just let me know and I will fix it)

Jeanette brought in her Symmetry piece that she made during Covid.  We hadn't seen it in person before and it is beautiful!

Lena had more feathers and a table runner made in a curved ruler class.  I think this is her collage but it did get confusing keeping them all in order.

Shirley W. showed a bright and cheery Christmas hanging done with her embroidery machine and an amazing 3D piece.  Not really sure what it is but look at the lovely stitching on the inside of each section!

Joan had a lovely fabric collage and an amazing selection of jelly plate printing on fabric and on Tea Bag paper.  (Available on Amazon).  She used open acrylics for her printing as they are slower to dry that regular acrylics.

Shirley P. finished her collage as well and brought in a small quilt she made with a book title as the prompt.  Can you guess?  She also talked about doing free motion writing on your quilts.  Feel up to trying it?

Bev had her bright and colourful collage of tulips to share.

Cath had a couple of collage pages from her sketchbook.

Judith also brought in a collage.  Her's had her favourite bird of course, the quail.

Jan finished her collage page as well.

Elisabeth has been very busy!  She had her collage and then a variety of things from a Make and Take day with the guild.  There is a table runner, a trapunto picture, Christmas trees and some lovely cards.

Linda W.  showed us her collage, love the oranges included in the bouquet!  And a Christmas card she painted from a photo.  So cute!

Christine has some lovely pink circles and a cool feather in her collage.  She also made pop up Christmas cards for her nearly grown grandsons.

Brigitte also did her collage and showed us a Christmas table topper with lovely fabric and pieced curves.

An impressive array of work from the group!

We moved on to our activity for the day, did some painting before lunch and finished it after a delicious pot luck.  Thanks to everyone for the great food and of course the good company!

Scissor Holder

Jeanette got us started by painting our squares of felt on one side.  Then some stitching and there were 4 sewing machines to help that part go quickly.  Most left the decorating for another day and we are hoping for an excellent show of the completed holders in January.  

Elisabeth showed us how to make a fob to identify your scissors, water bottle etc.