September in Falkland again

It was another lovely sunny day in Falkland.  The museum hosted us again and let us borrow some wonderful rusty bits for our rust dyeing.

Christine will collect them at the next meeting and return them to the museum.

We had lots of wonderful rusty objects to choose from.

And an iridescent winged supervisor as well.

Everyone got busy with fabric, vinegar and water and rusty objects.

I don't know who used these two beauties but I can hardly wait to see the finished fabric!

Thanks to Jeanette for the great pictures!

After lunch Jeanette updated us on the VSSQ guild and some of the protocols at the church.  Less than half of the current members are thinking of going back this season.  There will be an email coming from the guild to explain it all.

We have not committed to renting the workshop room this year and are taking it more on a month by month basis for our meetings.  There was talk of an outing to Coldstream for the October meeting, weather permitting of course. We are talking about possibly doing some rubbings at the local cemetery.   More information will come later.  We have to enjoy the fall weather while we can.

Christine has a sign up sheet for the membership, email and phone number updates.  She is also looking for people to do a presentation or workshop during the year.  We are focusing on Colour this year, although not in the traditional sense.  Some of her suggestions are: 

Light

Meaning of colours eg. red, blue

The role of neutrals

Effects of substrates on the piece

Gold

Historical aspects of colour eg. purple

Indigo

Transparency/lustre

We had show and tell and time for just chatting. We explored a bit more around the museum grounds and looked for good sized pieces in the gypsum pile. 

Show and Tell  

Cath's pour, she calls her 'Cheap and Cheerful'  She also showed her reverse appliqué on the back of her jean jacket. 

Jeanette has been playing with silk fusion, this is a work in progress.  Love that orange!

Elisabeth has finished her Symmetry and turned it into a large pillow.

She has also been busy with her sun printing from last month.

          

Brigitte is working on hand stitching one of her sun print pieces to form the cover of a journal.  The lovely rosy piece was sun printed and will be the inside of the cover. The pages have been eco printed and some silk tie's use to print as well. 

Gloria was busy hand stitching on her painted piece from last month.  She collected all the little left over bits of paint and splattered it on the cloth.  Now she is covering it with her signature beautiful hand work.

Cathy has reworked her sun print and her pour and then mounted them on small stretcher frames.

Christine has stamped on the background of her 'wretched butterfly' but feels she can pull it all together with the use of some sparkly threads. (I have no doubt it will be wonderful!)

August in Falkland

 Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves on Tuesday and it was good to get out and do something for fun!

Our August meeting was held at the Falkland Historical Museum.  

Jeanette had been contacted by the Guild about next year and the vote seemed to be that we would all continue to belong to the Guild but not physically attend until such time as things improved - re Covid. We had also been asked if we would want to use the church facilities but we are feeling cautious about any commitment at this time for obvious reasons as we want to be flexible as to venue and whether we will be able to meet or not.

We discussed alternate venues for next year with Gallery Vertigo as a possibility, particularly if we could find somewhere to park without having to feed the meters.  Alternatively, Brigitte's community room could be available for use.  It was proposed that we would charge everyone $20 for the year and depending on how many times we were physically able to meet then possibly asking for further was and when required.  A sign up sheet will be available so that we have up to date emails and phone numbers at our September meeting.

Colour with a Twist

The idea of colour for our next season was presented to the group and most people seemed to be on board. It was suggested we could use Zoom if needed to present a workshop or even a video.

Rather than look at colour as we have done before with complementary, triadic etc. schemes we would look at colour in a different way.  Some examples of ideas are as follows:

Light

Meaning of colours eg. red, blue

The role of neutrals

Effects of substrates on the piece

Gold

Historical aspects of colour eg. purple

Indigo

Transparency/lustre

Each month we would made a piece inspired by the demo with the idea that eventually it could be turned into a concertina book. Therefore each individual needs to decide on a size at the beginning.  A sign up sheet will be available next month for individuals to present a demo on colour and the workshops.

During the year we would aim to have 2 or 3 workshops. We are open to any ideas but as a suggestion we could us Quilting Arts and/or Art Quilt Studio magazines for ideas. This way we could experiment with new techniques.

Our next meeting will be at Sandi's.  More information to come.

Sun Printing

Christine gave us a quick reminder of sun printing and Cath showed some pieces she had done together with some new techniques for sun printing.

Check out Lisa Walton on YouTube her Dyes and Sun Printing video

https://youtu.be/nIwTD2UCdh8                        https://www.lisawaltonartist.com  Lisa Walton website

     

And some of the results!

Acrylic Pouring

Jeanette gave a demonstration of her method of acrylic pour using fabric.  This was a lot of fun to see what we produced using this method.  As the paint takes awhile to dry we were not able to use the foils we had hoped but some of us did use the stamps. 

We were challenged to make something from our 'pour' results and bring them to the next meeting!

 

Stamping 

Rusty objects

As we were taking pictures we found some really interesting rusty items.......... whole sheds filled with them..................hmmm maybe a day of playing with rusting fabric in the future?

July get together!

July 2020

We could finally get together and catch up!  What a treat for those who could attend.

Gloria invited us to her patio so we could still social distance and work outside.  The weather even cooperated and gave us a warm and mostly sunny day.

Show and tell

                                                                          Gloria

                                            Bright colours and an array of hand stitching.

                            Elisabeth showed two brown bag challenges and her symmetry study.

Christine and Linda brought their brown bag challenges and Linda's book made of papers and textiles.

Cathy has been working on an art journal highlighting San Carlos.  

Sandi has been very busy!  Practicing free motion quilting and trying a New York Beauty.

Jeanette's art journal  The Faces of Vernon

                                             

                                                   Scissor case, an idea for a workshop?

Brigitte's study of symmetry.

                                                            Masks, an art journal.

A sunny morning to play with paint and rocks from Gloria's yard.