For our December meeting member Valerie Day showed us how to make gelli prints and how to make pop out cards.
The activity was enjoyed by our members
Valerie shared with us many of her prints and cards for inspiration
Our show and tell included a lovely sweater knit by MariAna Gustafson
Next month our program will be on January 9th with Felting with Art Felt Paper with Meredith Arnold
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For our November meeting guest instructor Sheila Wray and her assistant of Beyond Basic Basket taught us how to make Woven Stars.
The activity was enjoyed by our members
Sheila shared with us many of her finished items for inspiration
Our show and tell included a silk scarves from September’s program, two tops made by Yvonne Ellsworth (the orange/pink is the Nocturne Top from Sew Liberated and the green is Lemon Spritz by Marie Greene). Plus samples from a a course called From White to Wow with Jane Dunnewold. Valerie Day shared a new gelli print piece with amazing texture, as well as a 3D card and her beaded kumihimo bracelet from last month’s program with Shirley. A number of charity hats were knit by Cindy McConnell, as well as variations on scarves woven on the same warp. Gail Parris shared with us her latest exquisite quilting project.
Next month our program will be on December 12 with Gelli Plate Mono Printing with member Susan Lindsay and Basic Pop Up cards with member Valerie Day & Holiday Cookie Exchange
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For our October meeting member Shirley Pauls taught us how to make Beaded Kumihimo Bracelets
The activity was enjoyed by our members
Shirley shared with us many of her finished items made from beaded kumihimo for inspiration
We also had our annual Plaid Llama sale
Our show and tell included silk scarves from last month’s program, a buffalo plaid scarf inspired by Paul Bunyan woven by member Yvonne Ellsworth and featured in the Winter 2023 issue of Little Looms, a jacket dyed and washed by member Valerie Day, a quilt runner by Valerie Day, and a woven band by Vicki Goff.
As an additional treat, the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild had a gallery exhibit up on the walls of Artworks during our meeting. The work was outstanding.
Additionally, there will be an Artists Garage Sale on October 21st at Artworks
Next month our program will be on Woven Stars with Sheila Wray and Elaine Twogood of Beyond Basic Basket. See you in November!
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For our first meeting of the 2023-2024 meeting year, member Valerie Day showed us how to dye silk scarves and paper using Spectra Art Paper.
First we wetted the scarf or paper and then we arranged the Spectra Art Paper. The colors then bleed and color the scarf/paper.
We had some great items for show and tell:
Valerie Day shared her new quilt she made from a class she took this summer.
Vicki Goff shared her ikat weaving project where she played with weave structures (left). She also shared yarn she dyed (right) this summer at a dye workshop hosted by fellow member Yvonne Ellsworth.
Patty Leinweber shared her amazing cards she made over the summer.
Susan Lindsay shared some collages she has been working on using gelli plates. She plans to host a program on it in September.
Next month our program will be on Kumihimo bracelets with Shirley Pauls. See you in October!
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For our last meeting of the 2022-2023 meeting year, we held our annual Plaid Llama sale.
This is like a white elephant sale, but much more colorful. We bring finished items to sell to each other, either made by our own hands or a piece that is ready to find a new home.
It’s always fun to see and shop all the lovely things. This is our major fundraiser for the guild, as a portion (or all) of the proceeds each person earns is donated to Seaview.
This hand towel woven by Yvonne Ellsworth was featured on the cover of LITTLE LOOMS magazine!
We also had our show and tell, with fabulous quilts and other items. See you in September!
Elaine Twogood and Sheila Wray of Beyond the Basic Basket did a wonderful mini-workshop on Nantucket style basketry around a votive candle.
First we got go to pick our supplies — they had done a lot of prep work ahead of time, but we chose the colors of our weavers.
Then they showed us how to begin weaving with the cane weavers.
Having the base glued on and the weft canes in place was a big help.
Here are our finished and almost finished weavings.
And here are sample pieces that Elaine and Sheila did. Aren’t they gorgeous?
Our show and tell included a new quilt by Michelle Murnane, a vintage quilt, and Cynthia Blair’s Covid-era houses.
We met via Zoom. Any organization you, the reader, were involved with probably did, too. So. Much. Zoom. Your reporter did not document our meetings, and is ready to move on from the Year of Zoom, so we will pass over the content of our meetings for the time being, and move into a new meeting year with hope in our hearts and hands ready to work.
The 2021-2022 meeting year calendar is now up here. If you’d like to join us, read the About page, for more details and pack a mask to wear during the meeting.
Judy Irish did an amazing presentation of her quilts and also did a demonstration of her technique for weaving commercially woven fabric to create a unique background for further quilt applique.
Judy combines a variety of materials to get the effects she wants.
Judy loves to add dimensional elements to her quilts.
The background of this piece (a detail of larger quilt) shows her woven background technique.
To make a woven background, first put a fusible backing on your fabrics. Then cut one of the fabric along the length of your finished piece, using a rotary blade to create a smooth cut. Cut random lines for an interesting background.
Then cut the other fabric along the width-wise orientation.
Weave the strips of fabric together, keeping them in their original alignment.
Once the strips of fabric are firmly woven together, fuse them to make a stable background fabric.
Show and Tell — a lovely nuno felted scarf!
Show & Tell — A small quilted and embroidered piece in progress, by Gail Parris.
Show & Tell: Woven chenille scarf by Astrid Bear, woven baby blanket, and woven pillow cover, and a knitted sweater by Christine Stewart.
Cathy Kind showed us gorgeous examples of her work using  various  dyeing techniques on fabric and scarves. Here (left)  she’s holding a cut velvet scarf dyed in two different colors in a single dyepot, using Alter Ego and Dupont Classique dyes. The scarf she’s wearing and the yellow and purple fabric she’s holding (left) are dyed using the ice dyeing technique.
Here are small strips of a variety of ice dyed fabrics. We all left with a great desire to give it a try! More info here: Learn to Ice Dye.
Dee Brown of Trillium Studios led a wonderful mini-workshop on raw edge applique. Here’s Dee with just some of the wonderful work she had on display.
And there were more…
These are all Dee’s designs, and they are for sale through her website — link above.
The project we did was called Kokio, a beautiful hibiscus image. Here’s her sample.
 
Gail and Marie, very carefully cutting out sections of the flower pattern.
We didn’t have time to do the final fusing and sewing of our Kokios, but here’s what some of ours looked like. It was great fun to play with different color combinations!
Seaview Weaving and Fiber Arts Guild 