October Meeting October 15, 2009

Meredith Arnold showed us how to make fabulous silk beads!  We had a blast playing with stamping, glueing, tying, and  beading to create unique soft beads.  Here she’s demonstrating sewing on sequins.

Here we are, hard at work play.

For Show and Tell, Valerie brought her completed mini-quilt from last month’s Melissa Williams workshop

and so did Astrid.

Glenda showed us two of her hooked and beaded pieces that will be on display at the Mill Creek location of Laughing Ladies Cafe.

 

Glenda and Mona challenged each other to intepret the word “North” — Glenda did hooked fiber and beads, and Mona did painting and collage.

Mary Black brought samples of the kumihimo balls she will teach us to make in November.

September Meeting September 18, 2009

Melissa Williams gave a wonderful talk about her journey with quilts, and then taught a mini-workshop on making flowers in the styles she developed for her fabulous Flower Quilt.

Here she is,  pulling out some fabulous ribbon that we shirred to make into flower centers.

Here’s the quilt we were working from — as we bring back our completed mini-quilts, I’ll post pictures.

I just love this sunflower Melissa did– the center is heavily beaded, and there are tiny crocheted green sepals peeking out from under the yellow petals.  It’s as much sculpture as quilt!

Now With Updates! September 7, 2009

I’ve updated the calendar for the coming meeting year, September 2009 through May 2010.  As our programming team puts together more workshops, talks, and learning opportunities, I’ll post them.  See that link on the right called Seaview Meeting Calender?  That’s it!

How Time Flies! September 1, 2009

Clearly, I haven’t been doing such a good job updating the Seaview Weavers Guild blog!  Because I’m all about the moving forward, let’s just agree that yes, we’ve had many  fun, productive, inspiring,  and educational meetings for the past year and a half  . . . and just leave it at that. I’ll do my best to keep this more current this meeting year, September 2009 through May 2010.

January Meeting February 5, 2008

Robyn Spady gave a wonderful talk titled “Less is More”, about how to weave fancy trims, called galloons and gimps. These are the sort of trims you pay enormous amounts of money for at the fabric and upholstery stores, yet are surprisingly easy to weave, and utilize very few ends of warp. As Robyn asked, “Can you manage to warp five ends?” You bet, Robyn!

My apologies to Robyn!  This is best of the pictures I got — the auto focus wasn’t doing very good job that day.  She is holding a fringed trim that has three warp sections, one in the center and one on each side.  The weaving is done with a thick bundle of assorted yarns, is this case red and black.   The weft is mostly floating free, and when the weaving is done, you cut up the center to make two strips of lovely, fluffy fringe.    She also showed us how to to make a variety of other trims, similar to those shown here.

We got so inspired by this that we are bringing warped up looms to the February meeting to let everyone have a try.

December Meeting February 5, 2008

Just a potluck — good food and good company, but no pictures.

November Meeting February 5, 2008

Valerie lead us in a damp but fun workshop onmaking felted flowers.  First a base shape is felted, and cut to the size and shape wanted.

Then, some additional fiber can be felted on to add detail

resulting in a lovely flower!

Beads and a pinback need to be added.

And they can be any color that amuses.

The best thing at Show and Tell was Heather’s amazing wall hanging. This is a hand painted silk warp, woven with a silk weft, that will be installed in the dining room of her client. The framework  will support it vertically and will give the effect of a  cascading waterfall. Sure hope we get to see some pictures of it in place!

Heather is on the right, above.

All we can say is, “Wow!”

October Meeting October 11, 2007

The post  on the October meeting is posted below the post on the May meeting.  Why, you ask? Well, I did the write up on the May meeting after I did the write up on the October meeting, and foolishly thought that by calling it “May Meeting” it would miraculously sort itself out.  It didn’t.

May Meeting October 11, 2007

 In the Better Late Than Never category, here’s a report on our May, 2007 meeting:

Cheri Bridges of Ah! Kimono taught a fabulous workshop on Japanese shibori dyeing.

Cheri brought some wonderful samples to inspire us! The pieces in the picture are all her work — the indigo fabric in the first picture was made in Japan.

Silk scarves could first be underdyed, or not.  Then they were folded and carefully stitched in various patterns.

The stitching is pulled up tight to create a resist, and the scarf is ready to go into a second dyebath.

Here are our finished scarves –

And here we are, wearing them!

October Meeting and Show & Tell October 11, 2007

Michele (left, above) taught us how to make origami ornaments from folded fabric.  First we made a trial version from paper, then moved on to the cloth.

Crisp, precise folds are the key.

A few stitches help hold it all together.

Almost done . . .

Michele made these — aren’t they fun?

 Show & Tell  — click to enlarge thumbnails

Valerie made this lovely silver bracelet and the gorgeous felted flowers.  They inspired us so much that we’re doing felting next month.

Ruth received a lot of donated eyelash yarn, and has knitted 30 scarves for friends since June!

Astrid brought the latest socks she’s knitted, and also some hand dyed yarn that she has for sale in her online shop.