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. 

We're Back! September 2021

 Hello again!  So nice to see most of you in person, and those who couldn't make it were missed.  It was a bit chilly outdoors but we had some interesting talk and show and tell.

Christine, Sandi and Jeanette have been busy putting together a program for the coming season.  The plan is to take a deeper look into some techniques we have touched on in the past.  We will start with Solar Dyeing.  

Elisabeth and Linda gave us some insight into the process they used and had some lovely fabric samples to show us.

Elisabeth's dye jar and some results

       Linda did a few batches and had dried flowers for sale so we could try out some of her colours.

One of the websites she recommends is 

https://www.vibrantacres.ca

I found this one as well and I am sure there are lots more.

https://caitlynirwin.com/blog

Next month we will talk about Over Dyeing.  

The idea for January to March is Improv.

April to June will be Recycle, Upcycle, and Repurpose.

Jeanette is going to introduce us to A Button a Month instead of doing the Joltz.  Looking forward to seeing what she comes up with!

As October 2022 is the VSSQ Quilt show we are doing a Challenge to display there.

There were 3 choices given and we voted on them, with the winner being:

A Page From My Book.

There were no size restrictions given.

We will meet in October at Brigitte's clubhouse.  She will book it for the following two months as well. 

There was quite a bit of show and tell, great to see that even with the horrible smoky summer we had we can still be creative.

Sandi is making a retirement journal.

Elisabeth has a nature theme in her journal.  The cover is almost done.

Cath has done her journal with her parents on the cover and pages from various school works and music of theirs.  There are pages from her mother's high school chemistry notes.

Bags made from screen print fabrics purchased is Whitehorse, Yukon a few years ago.  Fireweed seemed quite appropriate to work with this summer.

A screen print of two of Dawson City, Yukon's most famous buildings.  Built on permafrost they have leaned into each other over the years of freezing and thawing.

Linda has made another wonderful journal full of interesting things.

Brigitte was concerned when the summer began that she had lost her creative mojo, but with all these wonderful pieces completed I would say she found it again!

Whew, that is a lot of wonderful work!  Well done everyone.

The Pentiction Guild is having a Fibre Art Exhibit at the Penticton Art Gallery from Sept 18 to Nov 6.  Well worth the trip down as they have a very creative group there.  Maybe get together with a friend and make a day of it?

VSSQ is having a quilt sale on October 30 this year.  Check with the guild for more details if you are interested in selling any.  

Projects completed!

 I love getting pictures of your completed projects!

Here is the latest from

 

Cathy

Cathy has done a whole quilt with the mandala dotting technique.  

First ironing onto freezer paper, then marking the grids using a template.  She selected her designs and colours and did a lot of beautiful dotting.

Finally the quilting was done and then finished.  Beautiful background fabric that sets off the mandala's so well.

Cathy sent along a picture of the two mandala's she has made with buttons.  The white one is made with her mother's buttons, what a wonderful memento to have!

Coldstream Park for July

In spite of the heat and smoke 8 of us made it to the park for our meeting this month.  Lovely to meet in person again!

We had a variety of show and tell, some based on last month's Mandala Dotting and some more general work.

Cathy had really gone to town with her dotting, doing everything from fabric and paper to some lovely paint pour dotted rocks.

 

Sandie has been making books, this one with a circle motif.  It is an accordion book with signatures in the valleys.  

Jeanette has finished her accordion book of birds, complete with a lovely soft fuzzy edge.  The back side of each bird has a tag naming the bird and showing a variety of artwork.

Jeanette also brought along some Dorset buttons she has made and is looking for feedback on the idea of a 'Button a Month' for the new season.  What do you all think? 

Linda gave us some instruction on her technique of making journals with large envelopes.  She was using fabrics in red, black and brown to represent the fires burning all around us now.  

We all started a book cover with a variety of themes, some in fabric and some in paper.  

A great way to use up some of those scraps!

A link from Linda:

Treasure Books, Making a Journal from a large envelope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92IKPIWaBQ