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!

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!

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

Our April meeting featured a fabulous talk by Anne de Vuono, who makes the most amazing hats! I didn’t think to get more pictures of them, but do check out her website. She gave us an overview of the history of hats, and explained some of the techniques she uses.  Then she showed us two amazingly cool things to do with ribbon.  If you are very nice, I’ll post pictures later.

Show and Tell — click to enlarge thumbnails

Heather is back from Costa Rica, and showed us the fabulous dyework she was able to do there. Above left, she and Patty are stretching out the dyed portion of the warp, which so far has the colorways of three different hummingbirds. The remaining undyed warp is that luscious pile of silk in the middle, and take a closer look at those fabulous colors!  Above, the warp slightly spread out, below, slid together for your amazement. The total warp length is 18 meters.

All I can say is, Wow!

Valerie free motion machine embroidered a harp motif for a bag, them scanned the image and used it with some of the paper techniques Patty showed us last month.

Ruth had a surprise when she washed the blanket she showed us last month.  She thought it was all acrylic yarn, but it turns out most of it was wool, so it shrank quite a bit.  The later part of the weft was acrylic, so she cut off that portion. The wool part is soft and lovely, and the striping from the sleying disappeared.  The acrylic part still shows the striped effect — it’s the top layer in the picture on the right.

Michele took a class at In the Beginning and made this gorgeous doll.

Well, how fun was this!  Patty set up three stations where we could Play with Paper to our heart’s content. Stamping, layering, crumpling, painting — it was all good. As always, please click on the pictures to enlarge.

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