Cathie Purdy. Featured Artist at SW Quilt and Fiber Festival

 Did you know 2 members of Southern Utah Fiber Artists (SUFA) were featured artists at the Southwest Quilt and Fiber Art Festival? Cathie Purdy and Sue Gilgen.  Today we will be featuring the work of Cathie.  Enjoy!

Cathie sent me a lovely video of her booth, but it was too long for me to transfer to my computer. If I can sort it, I will put it up here or on SUFA's site.  Too bad because it is good.  Rats!

But I do have a picture of her primary exhibit:

 

 These were taken in less than awesome light in her old studio, but you will get the picture.

It started with four seasonal photographs taken by photographer Craig Primas .  Cathie approached him and asked him if she might translate those beautiful photos to fiber art.  These are the result.

Below are some examples of Cathie's quilting.  She doesn't use a computer.  She comes up with her own quilting plan and does it all on her long arm by hand. I am sure there is a technical name for that.  But it is a serious art form. 

And finally a snippet of the kimono quilt. She deconstructed her friend's father's kimono reconstructed its elements back into a quilt. I would suggest zooming in to appreciate the quilting.  Love.

 

She is an incredible long arm quilter, fiber artist, embroiderist, batikist, dye scientist😂... and above all, a terrific person.  She is a Creative that I hope to post about here for many years to come.

Love ya lil Miss. 

 

SUFA Website Reboot!

 Yes, it has been 6 years since we last posted.  Why the wait, you ask?  We lost the dang password and the email account.  Yes.  Laugh all you want.  We excel at ARTING not COMPUTING.  So keep that in mind as we reboot.  And thank you Cheryl who answered my call and puts up with my giddiness when I figure things out.  Bless her.

OK on with the show.  And by show I mean the festival. Did anyone get good pics from the Southwest Quilt and Fiber Festival? I took some and blogged about it on my personal blog The Creatives of Southern Utah.  I would encourage you go take a peek at it because I posted pics of a few of our members won ribbons for their work that they entered on the quilt side of the festival. Here are a few pics I took of our booths.  I did no closeups because I was just capturing the general look for the next festival workers to reference. I didn't think I would restart this blog!  If you have good pictures I will post them onto this blog - especially if you have closeups of your pieces. Send them to southernutahfiberartist@gmail.com or to my personal email if you have it.

 If you are reading this and are not a member of Southern Utah Fiber Artists (SUFA) who hosted this booth, consider joining us!  We meet at 10am the first Tuesday of every month at YLI Threads (87 E 2580 S St. George, UT) at the upper part of the building to the right side where the workrooms are.  We'd love to have you.  Consider bringing a sample or two of what you like to make so we can get to know you better.

If you entered a piece into the fiber side of the festival, thank you very much!  We ladies who set everything up and probably talked to you before the festival enjoyed seeing your work and look forward to your entering pieces in next years festival (Nov 2027).  Finally, to all the SUFA members who worked so hard to make our fiber booth happen, thank you.  Special thanks to Sue Gilgen.  If she didn't talk to Bob about including us, it would not have happened! 

 

 

 

Show and Tell January

Rosemary (notice weaving)

Cindy

Cindy

Chris

Melanie

Janey - but that's obvious!

Ann

 

Sue

January Meeting

January 14, 2020 SUFA Meeting Minutes

Meeting chaired by Lynne Greenleaf.

Joe Cunningham (quilt artist, author and lecturer) workshop.  We gathered money and created a sign up list, but did not have enough members sign up.  Lynne asked all interested members to get in contact with her before the 19th (email went out to all members to remind them) if they wished to attend.  Nickie (who will running February's meeting) will update us the status of the workshop.

Lynne will be out of town February and March so Nickie will chair those meetings.

 Upcoming meeting and event information

• Art Perspective class/lecture by Royden Card will be in February or March. Jane will lecture on Theory in a future meeting. Brainstorming list to go to Nickie for scheduling.
• Gallery 25 submissions:  Please bring in one of their art pieces appx. 9” x 12” or 8 ½” x 11” to display at the Gallery. Rosemary will be collecting these. Please put a sleeve on the back of the piece and your name. Sleeve directions have been emailed out. 
• Throw Pillow challenge is March 3, 2020
• Everyone is asked to hand make a name tag and to wear it at the monthly meetings.

Now about the meeting. We had a four lovely lady weavers as meeting guest to discuss weaving techniques, portable weaving looms, fibers used and large weaving looms. Many beautiful samples of their woven works were brought in. Handmade portable small, large and triangular looms were displayed. Some made out of wood, some card board and even a loom made out of a picture frame.

Linda from Shed Weavers displays and sells her table runners and ponchos ( made on a triangular loom) at Ancestor Square and Alfogotos in St. George. I (Cindy Oxley) personally have one of her ponchos and a table runner. 

Two of the gals were from Keyanta. They meet with other ladies as a group once per month. Sandra Sandberg is from the St George Weaving Studio located at 400 S Donlee Drive in St. George. This is up by the old Airport. Many of the looms located there were brought over from Dixie State University. The studio is participating in the Arts to Zion event now. We were all invited to come check out the studio and perhaps sign up for a class or workshop. We were also invited to attend the Weavers Guild held on Monday night once a month at The Roost 1075 S 960 E St. George. 

 

Some Pictures of the homemade weaving looms.

 

And some of their work on and off the loom

Saving Show and Tell for the next post!

December Meeting

Tina among her wool goodies

December 3, 2019 SUFA Meeting Minutes

Our annual Pot luck was held at this meeting. Everyone (but Shannan) enjoyed having dinner together. So many wonderful dishes were brought in by all.

Our guest speaker was Tina Cox. Her company is called Eye Full of Wool: Eye Full of Wool Website. Tina brought many samples of her felted hand dyed wool patterns and kits. Her colors were magnificent. She talked about how she started her business and where it is at today. We all had fun shopping after the presentation. She works out of her home and will let the group know when her next Open House will be.

Rosemary reminded us to bring in our 11” x 12” (approximate size) to the next meeting. These will be displayed in a Gallery in St. George. Sleeve must be on the back of your piece. Don’t forget your name must also go on the back.

Lynne reminded us the Pillow Challenge is due at the March 2020 Meeting.

Nickie made some wonderful needle threaders that she offered to all of us as a gift. What a nice special surprise. Thank you Nickie. 

And some pictures:

 

If you have any information about the pictures, please leave a comment.  I would love to know more about the gorgeous quilt which appears to be comprised of the most adorable transferred drawings mostly done by children.  Love. If nobody comments, I will track down the info at the meeting in January!

Be well.  See you at January's meeting.  Bring your deposit for the Joe Cunningham Wkshop.  Spots will fill fast. 

January Meeting!

January's meeting is scheduled for Tuesday January 14.  That is one week later than normal.  Janey's clubhouse is reserved for our normal date.  Hope to see you there.



 

November Meeting.

Attention:  There was no turkey served at November's meeting (for those of you who decided not to come to November's meeting for fear that you would be forced to eat yet another turkey this month).

Instead we had a lot of fun.  Here's what you missed:

Lynn was out of town (where she was not eating turkey, but was eating tacos and enchiladas), so Nickie ran the meeting.  Thank you Nickie!

Cheryl, Sue G, Rosemary and Carroll Lee gave us a slide presentation of their trip to SLC to see the museum/home of Pilar Pobil, the"Sew Bewitching" Utah Quilt Guild Quilt Fest 2019 and the Springville Art Museum (SAM).  Here are some selected photos from the museum show.

If you are interested in entering a quilt in the Utah Quilt Guild's Quilt Fest 2020, the theme is "Alice in Quiltland".  There are three different challenge categories you can enter that look fabulous.  Here is the link for that information:Alice in Quiltville Challenge info.

Sylvia Lewis and Team Styler Gilgen both showed quilts at the SAM.  Here they are in all their glory:
Team Gilgen Styler:

Remembering Old Nauvoo

Cheryl's holding her right arm funny cuz I hit her.🙌  One more thing about Cheryl.  In the process of making this quilt she gound out her family lived in Old Nauvoo.  If you get a chance ask these ladies about the quilt, how it was constructed and where they got the idea.  Particularly about the book.  If you missed seeing this in person -   Big mistake.  See ya next meeting!!

Sylvia's Entries (she didn't bring them to the meeting).  They are too interesting and beautiful not to be enjoyed:

Crooked House

and

Sego Lily

Beautiful, hard work ladies.  Very inspiring!

If you are interested in visiting Pilar Pobil's house (All 4 ladies who went said it was the highlight of the trip and their photos bore that out), click on her name above and contact her foundation.  BUT  If anyone happens to be in Salt Lake City on December 6th, she is holding an open house from 4-9 pm, a visit to this wonderful artist's home for this open house would be an event to not be forgotten.  Here is the link for the open house info.  No appointment necessary.  To give you a taste of her home, here is an interview with Pilar down in her burial chamber 


Upcoming Meeting and Class Information:

December:  Potluck.  Please bring any dish you'd like to share.  Tina Cox will be giving a felting presentation.
January: Lecture/Class on Weaving
February:  Art Perspective Royden Card
March: Not nailed down yet
April:  Color Theory with Janey Argyle*
May: Collage Quilting with Sylvia Lewis

*Color theory might be moved if we can get Joe Cunningham (Joe the Quilter) in for a class on April 24-26.  Stay tuned.

If you would like to teach a class or do a presentation, you do not need to be an expert.  Call Lynn (or shoot her an email) to set it up.  We have 2 months available.

Reminders and upcmoing due dates:

• Do not forget to get you 9x12 or smaller piece in to Rosemary for the gallery show ASAP.  It requires a sleeve (you were mailed instructions for constructing a sleeve). We didn't make the last show that Alicia set for us, so let's try to get our pieces in for a show.  It is a great opportunity to show our community what we are doing!
• Pillow Challenge due date March 2020. 

Show and Tell
Prescript: Ann N brought pillows for the challenge.  She is an overachiever and finished well before anyone else.  I am saving those pictures of her pillows for the pillow challenge roundup.

Sylvia brought several items for us to enjoy

From Joe Cunningham Class

Frankenscarf Project.  Aptly Named.

Next, Janey's Tony Whitney Giraffe (with baby).

The next meeting is December 3 at Janey's club house as usual.  Bring a dish to share.  December's meeting has always been loads of fun so we hope to see you there!  I will send out a reminder.

See ya next month!  Happy Thanksgiving!