We had our February meeting of the Fiber Arts Alliance group yesterday and as always, it was inspiring and great fun....especially since I hadn't been in a while...so nice to see many friends. I really only planned on staying a short while as I have so much to get ready for the Mid-Atlantic conference (new workshop, patterns, lecture etc.)...but much as I tried, I couldn't pull myself away. Heather Yurgeles showed us this beautiful scarf she made below...using a water soluble stabilizer (I believe). She didn't like the way one of the yarns behaved so she crocheted an edge on the finished piece giving it more stability and definitely more WOW...it was a wonderful piece.
She also showed us a precious baby quilt...I'm collecting patterns for baby quilts and this one was just precious...from the subject matter to the polka dots (which I love) to the colors....
Edie Sloan showed us another one of her fabulous quilts....she has a good friend whom she has a bet going with every year (don't know what that is.....) but whoever loses has to make a quilt in the style of the other person. Edie's friend is traditional...Edie is SO NOT....but her friend won and told Edie she had to make a 9-patch.....All Edie could invision was tons and tons of tiny little pieces being sewn into a 9-patch....so Edie thought long and hard and came up with this....Well...how clever is this ...it kinda looks like a 9-patch....in places.... and there was no rule on how many 9 patches there had to be.... what a great quilt....and it's definitely SO Edie!
Forgive me....as in all Show and Tells...the info wizzes by so fast, you sometimes miss the person's name....although everyone gave me the go-ahead to use their work...still didn't get all the names. This member is a knitter "extraordinaire"...really incredible....I can knit a simple scarf...barely...so this is very impressive to me!
Sally Fargo created this wonderful portrait in fabric of her husband.....a cute store behind it...Her and her husband don't do that many presents for Christmas....like many of us, they are at the point where they buy "Christmas" presents throughout the year - works for me....anyway, Sally started to get suspicious and thought maybe her husband had indeed gotten her something....so she put together this wonderful self portrait of him...last minute....
The detail in the beard is my favorite....done with saw dust chips...apparently he is such a neat nick, she couldn't even get the sweepings from his workshop, as he cleaned them up everyday...so she got them from a friend...but isn't it a wonderful touch.
I love the real "recycled" shirt and apparently he doesn't like change so the "change" with a slash though it button is perfect!
And the back....tape measure fabric....I need to find this fabric for my husband as he's a woodworker.
PS....Sally wasn't wrong in her suspicions...Her hubby got her a Laptop.....
Sally also showed us a sampler of an online class she was taking making use of all the decorative stitches on her machine as well as hand embroidery stitches...apparently once you sign up...there's a great amount of time to keep going back to lessons...
I always look forward to seeing Peggy O'Connors work...it's always wonderful and packed with wonderful detail (below).
Beautifully dyed fabric and beadwork....wonderful to see up close.
Maureen Kampen shared with us a hostess gift she made for a recent trip she made to a friend's house. They are fabric coasters but she had a more clever name for them which I forget...but the thing I loved the most was the photos they took while visiting their friends and then....
incorporating them into these small pieces of art...such as an interesting tree on one of their walks.....
A seashell from a walk on the beach....
And favorite sayings.........................as I leave you with this parting thought!.........
Hmmmmmmm.......
A great meeting...
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