July

 A sunny hot day to welcome us and summer back!  

We need you to bring your scrolls to the next meeting in August so we can decide how best to hang them at the show.  They must have your name on the back.  

We have a new Steering Committee to take charge in September!  Thank you so much to Shirley W., Joan, Linda W. and Shirley P. for stepping up and offering to lead us into a new season.  Cath will continue to do the blog.  More information will be coming.  As usual we know that everyone will contribute ideas and expertise to share.

The August meeting will be a swap meet, related to Art Quilting of course!  Fabric, books, beads, embellishments, threads etc.   We will also have 3 work stations to explore various methods of printing on fabric.   Vegetable printing, flower pounding and sun printing.  

Show and Tell

Bev brought in flowers she has made for the QuArtz display at the quilt show.  

Joan made butterflies as well and showed us some paper collage pieces she has mounted on canvas.

Linda W. has been trying her hand at gelli printing even before today's demo!  And playing in her sketchbook as well.

Roll off page is great too!

Christine used a stencil and her gelli plate to make the birds in this sweet wall hanging.

Then we were on to Gelli Plate Printing.  Sandie gave us demo's in the basics and continued to show us new techniques and then off we went to try them out.  

I don't have names to go with all of the pieces but enjoy looking at such an amazing variety of colour and texture.

Some of the roll off sheets were works of art in themselves.

Kitchen tools are handy.

Also engineering tools.

Stencils.

How about toilet paper rolls?

Stencils too.

A bit of water on the gelli plate makes for interesting marks.

Even a couple of fish joined in the fun!

June

 We welcomed a visitor today, hello Ella!  She is considering coming back next month as well.

There was a lot of talk about the quilt show and more to come.  We have confirmed tables for the 3D display.  Sandie has volunteered to do intake at the show and Jeanette will be there for the pick up at the end.  A sign up sheet went around with a lot of slots signed for.  It will be available next month as well.  

 We are asked to bring our scrolls to the August meeting so we can decide how to hang them.  Don't forget that they do need a label on the back.  

Shirley has made a vase to display spirals at the entrance to our area.  She needs some more flowers, leaves and butterflies to decorate it.  She is also looking for more spirals, if you are interested in making one talk to Shirley W.  

We can have a personal artist statement with our Trailblazing Women quilts so if you hadn't written one on your entry form you can get it to Jeanette by the August meeting and she will have it printed for you.

We were told that the Fibre Art Network (FAN) has a half price membership offer on from July 1 to September 30.  That makes the cost for a new member only $30 for the first year.  

There is a call for entry out for the Grand National 2026 - Textures of Canada, Comtemporary Fibre Artists Explore Canadian Identity.  

 

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Our July meeting will be gelli plate printing.  Sandie will be sending out an email with a recipe for making your own gelli plate and some suggestions on what to bring along.  There is an article in the Summer 2025 issue of Quilting Arts, Gel Printing in Layers.  Sandie suggests looking into it in advance so you have an idea of what we will be doing.

We had 4 Trailblazing Women presented and all were interesting and inspiring.  There will be information on them up on the blog in the next day or so.  

Linda K. presented  Hide Hyoid Shimizu

Linda W. presented Phyllis Monday

Bev  presented  Sveva Caetani

Endy presented The Flying Seven

We had a lot of the quilts for the Trailblazing Women at the meeting but only 3 were complete.  The rest were in various stages of completion so I haven't put pictures up yet.  Sorry Christine.                       They are all looking good and so very different!

Show and Tell  

Cathy brought in a finished cyanotype from a class she took in Vernon and her collage piece.  She also showed us a pop up book bought for her granddaughter, a whole doll house!

Jan had her collage piece from last month.

Endy showed us her silk fusion and two collage pieces.

Jeanette turned her inset circle into a lovely finished piece and had done another covered rock as a gift for a friend.

Brigitte also had silk fusion and her collage.

Sandie has turned her collage into a book.

Linda W.  showed her silk fusion and two collage pieces.

Bev had treasures from her trip to India and her collage as well as a small painting from a recent class.

Stitched scarf, she was lucky to keep a hold of this one!

Stamps

Pigments

Elisabeth showed her silk fusion, collage and her Piecemakers challenge for the main guild.

Linda K.  also brought silk fusion and her collage.

Cath played with the dendritic printing that Janet Scruggs talked about.  She also finished a small card holder from her silk fusion and a sketchbook cover from another piece of silk fusion.  She made a sketchbook cover from a piece of fabric that had been airbrushed with ink using a stencil.