April Meeting!

Pat S is one of our most prolific members and she has three of her ATC's (Artists Trading Cards) published in a new book by Patricia Bolton, publisher of Art Quilt Magazine (among others). Go to our "Gallery" to see the inside photo of her three cards. Good work Pat!!!

At Show & Tell she shared some of her latest work with us; the blue fern piece has a photo printed on fabric - twice! The sheer fabric is mounted about an inch in front of the back photo and give the work a very 3-D look. She had seen it in Quilting Arts and had to give it a try.

Another one of Pat's recent pieces; beads and wire on hand dyed China silk.











Another Show & Tell dazzler; Sandy O's denum jacket that she has embellished. Beautiful!

Or meeting was a review of some techniques we've done in the past for our newest members; torturing Tyvek, Shiva Paint Sticks on fabric, silk screening, and a few other things.









But one of the fun events involved Cathy A pulling out her hand-dyed fabrics that were left from her booth at the Chicago Quilt Show last month. They were gorgeous and turned into a "feeding frenzy". No one was surprised except Cathy (and don't you just lover her pink hair?)!

March Meeting!

Our March meeting was fabulous. We unveiled some of the quilts for our "Eye" challenge. Not everyone has finished their quilts (yours truly included) but the quilts that were there; finished, unfinished, and sketches of great things to come, were very impressive. At left is Kay S, Pat S, & Sandy O discussing some of Sandy's incredible work.

We had a great show and tell as well; Many people had the yarns and fabrics they dyed last month and they looked marvelous - sorry I didn't get photos of those - I spaced out!

http://www.sheepyhollowherbs.com/ is a local herb and wool farm that is owned by Jenny D. who did a great demo of Needle Felting for us. She showed us some incredible techniques for needle felting as an embellishment to our work. The wheels are spinning (so to speak) with ideas for adding this medium to our embellishment tool box.

And last, but not least - we hit the big time! This meeting was the 2nd anniversary of our group, two years have flown by and we have grown as a group and as artists. To celebrate we had cake (thanks Kay!) and a reporter from the Tri-City Times of Imlay City come and interview or group. In the March 4th edition we appeared - Cool, huh?