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!

AAUW Art Show Entry Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the link to .AAUW Website (Click on it).  They have lots of pictures from past exhibitions.

 

Call for entries now open for the

Utah Women Artist Exhibition – 2020

Celebrating Women – Vibrant and Equal

A juried exhibition for women in Utah

 

Enter at https://utahwomenartistsexhibition.artcall.org/

 

Open to women Artists 18 and older currently

residing in Utah.   Categories: Student,

Amateur, Mature Amateur, and Professional.

Art works must have been completed within

the last two years.  Original art in all media

welcome except video and installation.

 

Entries accepted through January 10^th 2020.

Jury decision notification – 2/15/2020.

Reception and Awards Ceremony will be

held May 7^th, 2020, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the

Utah Cultural Celebration Center

1355 W. 3100 S. West Valley, Utah

 

We hope you will enter again this year. 

Questions contact uwae2020@gmail.com.

October's Meeting AND a lot of other important things

Did you read the email about the extension to get your lovely challenge items in for the gallery?  Yes?  OK, no excuse!  Sew on a hanging sleeve and get your item in to show it off.

I find it best to start off a blog post with a nice finger wag.  Gets that warm, happy feeling going!

OK down to business.

In case you missed October's meeting like I did (thank you Cheryl and Rosemary for the notes and pics) there was a show on threadology (all things thread).

We also discussed future "classes" our members would be willing to do in order to teach us new, interesting techniques we might like to incorporate into our own designs.  You don't need to be an expert and it can be newish to you so don't let those sorts of things be a hindrance to sharing.  I will make a blog post listing what our members have offered to teach.  If you are not on that list, but have something you'd like to show and share OR you are already on the list, but remember another thing you's like to demonstrate, then comment on that blog post and I will add you to that blog post list.  It is a nice way to keep track of those things PLUS if you need help doing a technique (say you want to bead on a piece) it will provide a reference for who you might call for help.

Lynne has asked that each of make a name tag and wear it to the meetings so she (and the rest of us) can learn the names of all the members.  If you don't know someone, be sure to introduce yourself.  If I (Shannan) introduce myself to you, but you already know me, roll your eyes and give me a hug.

November's meeting Cheryl and Sue are going to do a slide show and will be showing their work that came from taking a Joe Cunningham class.  Who is Joe Cunningham.  Joe teaches a terrific creative design class that we might be offering up to our members this Spring. Lynne is going to contact him to see if we can make that happen (the class is $750 plus expenses). Go look at his site and google him.  You will find that a class might free up the ties that bind you to the "rules" we all learned from quilting and maybe give you new license to do (or discover) what you want to do with fabric.

December's meeting will be a potluck and Tina from Eweful of Wool will/may? be coming and doing a demo on wool.  Maybe someone can clarify that for me in the comments. 

If you happen to miss Novembers meeting, I will put a separate blog post of a list of who is bringing what for potluck and if you are planning to come to December's meeting you can leave a comment on that post saying what you will bring.

January's meeting will be the grand show and tell of the pillowcase challenge. Remember the case can be any size and using any technique that you have learned. NOTE:  January's meeting may be switched to the second Tuesday of the month (Jan 14) due to clubhouse scheduling.  Janey will let us know.



Now how about a bit of eye candy!

Linda Murrie's fabric and agate clock and her wire wrapped jewelry (That's lapis nestled in that wire)

Patti VanOrdt's Jaqueline Dejong pattern "Dream Flight" quilt made with batik. Dreamy indeed!

Diane Johnston who visited our group this month from Pahrump, NV showed her Koi Quilt

Have a blessed month and enjoy your fabric.

Meet Lynne Greenleaf!

Lynne  Greenfleaf  Greenfield

Lynne will be leading SUFA from this point on for the next year.  She has big shoes to fill, but she is ready to go!  I asked her to write a little something about herself so we could all get to know her a bit better.  So without further ado...

A word from Lynne Greenleaf:
First I guess I should clear up the confusion about my name.  My last name growing up was Greenfield.  48 years ago I met this wonderful young man who had just returned from Viet Nam.  His last name was Greenleaf.  I go by Lynne Greenleaf (I said Greenfleaf for a long time!). I use my maiden for my email so it is lyngreenfield@yahoo.com

I grew up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and began sewing in 8th grade.  I sewed thru high school mainly so I didn’t go to school naked!  Remember when fabric was a much more affordable option?  Now it’s an expensive hobby unless you only buy your fabric with Joann’s 50% coupon, or at thrift stores, or you have friends who purge their stash on your door step!  Somehow, like most of you, I seem to have an endless supply of fabrics.  And trims.  And embellishments.  And yarn....  just like all of you!

I did some weaving on a floor loom way back in the 70’s and 80’s and have recently joined a group of friends who meet every Friday to play at tapestry weaving on small table looms.  I’ve also taken up crochet and embroidery recently.  Its an affliction!   I get around any kind of fiber and my fingers begin to itch... just like all of you!

Anyway, I love Fiber Rebels and am in awe of the talent in our group.  I feel so lucky to have found  you and look forward to every meeting.  It seems we covered so much last year, I hope I can help facilitate keeping the momentum going.  I’ll need your help in coming up with ideas, so lets plan on doing some brainstorming on just what we would like to explore this year.

Lynne

Thank you Lynne!

Thank you to Rosemary for making this past year so interesting and fun.  Thank you for bringing in instructors to learn new skills and for wrangling the cats (as they say). Also thank you to each of the ladies who volunteered to teach or talk about different fiber art methods and ideas, helped out their fellow artists with solutions to big and small stumbling blocks with their work and generously filling in the gaps in knowledge. Thank you all for  graciously offering up opinions and for taking opinions so kindly😎.  We are a blessed group! Finally, big thanks to Janey for ensuring we have had another year of being able to use the clubhouse.  We truly appreciate it.

Is it September?

Then it is thread tension month!

Every month is thread tension month in the life of a fiber artist.  Raise your hand if have you been happily sewing along only to catch sight of the back and the gappy, loopy stitching?    Raise your other hand if you have sewn a straight line and you look at it and it looks like it has slightly gathered.  Raise your leg if you have seen lots of the bobbin thread on the top of your quilt.  OK now touch your hands to your toes and squeeze your stomach muscles.

Welcome to quiltercize!

Rosemary gave a presentation on thread tension last meeting.  How you know it is right and how to fix it if it is not.  In the hot pink writing is a short video on how machines make a stitch.  It should help you understand how a stitch is made by the machine.  Knowing how the stitch is made should help you figure out what the problem is when you encounter tension problems.

Meeting Minutes (Thank you Cindy Oxley) can be found here Meeting Minutes

During August's meeting Carroll Lee brought in a few pieces to demo trapunto. "Pele's River" which appeared on page 32 of Quilting Arts Mag in their June/July 20191 issue.  How do I know you ask?  I stumbled onto it while on vacation. "Hey I know her!!"

One more thing before we show and tell.  I forgot to mention last month that Rosemary has issued a pillow challenge. Due date undetermined.  I am setting mine for the first of the year because if I don't, it will be done... never.  You can do whatever you want to the pillow and you can make it whatever size suits your fancy.  


OK Show and Tell!  I know the layout for the photos seems odd, but Blogger is fighting me and I will not win.😡 

 Annette Williamson's Needlepoint

                 Janey Argyle Embroidery on a quilt

Sue Swinyard did some fabric painting and used some of it to make a gorgeous pillow

  

Cindy Oxley did some rust dying and according to Rosemary... "some sort of hooking!"  Haha.  Laughed so hard when I read that.

Chris Baker did some embroidery

                and an octopus button art

Nickie Heying did some more ice dying.

And finally Carroll Lee Stolz brought in a nicely quilted framed red work piece.

She will text me later to tell me what these next two are.  Until then, there will be a guessing/remembering game.  If you know or have a guess as to what she did here, leave it in the comments.  There may be a prize for you at October's meeting if you guess correctishly!

OK that's it!  Not sure what we have planned for October's meeting, but you know it will be fun and interesting!  See you then!

August Meeting - All Things Trapunto

Sue Gilgen's Aspen Red

In this month's meeting we discussed the use and various methods of trapunto.

What is trapunto and why employ this technique in our art quilts?  Trapunto is essentially the clever use of batting either on top or below the top layer of your fiber art project to create dimension and/or design to your piece. Sue, Nickie and Carroll Lee were our presenters of this technique and they brought in their own work as examples.  Above is one of Sue's using regular trapunto (where you stitch extra batting behind the quilt top to enhance items on the front of the piece.  Here she did the trees and cut away all the batting not behind the trees.  Makes it really pop off her piece.  Here is another example of that method:

Geta Grama

Nickie brought in several pieces showing shadow trapunto.  None of us took a picture.  That is how it goes sometimes.  So I snagged some of the net.   This is where you sandwich batting between organza, sew, cut away the batting leaving the organza top, add background and quilt (shadow trapunto).  I think Nickie may have done it slightly differently.  If she did, she can add a comment and I will correct it.  Nickie also dyed the batting in some pieces and used it to great effect in reverse applique.

Geta Grama - click to go to her site

 You can also do trapunto with raw edge applique.  Here is an example.

Getasquiltingstudio.com

There are tutorials for all three methods at the bottom of the post. 


More examples from our artists plus a bit of show and tell:

Sue

close up

Nickie - Trapunto plus dying

Nickie - resident rogue rust artist

Nickie experiments in rust.

Side note: if you see fabric on a manhole cover around town you know who has been there.  Drive around it.😄

Our ladies also made creative use of their dyed fabrics.  Here is a fine example by Melanie Wilson:

Darling blouse from dyed fabric class

 Hope Jan brings her quilt top in after she has quilted it.  Gorgeous.

Jan Kalian

Next month Rosemary is going to be discussing thread tension.  Looking forward to seeing you there.  Bring what you have been working on.  Meanwhile, happy creating!

Trapunto tutorials:
Applique and Trapunto - Geta Grama
Trapunto and Shadow Trapunto - Geta Grama

FELTING FUN in FEBRUARY

The Southern Utah Fiber Artist met at Ridge Point Clubhouse February 5, 2019 at 6pm.  

In a short business meeting the following was discussed:

Nick and Chase from Dragonfly Dye works will be here April 27 for an all-day class on Soy Wax Batiking and Ice Dying.  You may have seen them at the quilt show with their beautiful inventory of dyed cottons and silks.  The class will be $50 plus supplies.  Please let us know by the next meeting if you want to take the class.  Space is limited and we are already more than half full. 

We also voted yes to use some of our money collected to supplement the class fee.

In March Shirley Smith, the president of Color Country Camera Club, will be here presenting a program on “Perspective”.   She is a very good photographer.  Much of what Shirley does is the same as we do in our landscapes.  She will have lots of examples.  In April our program will be on “Copyright for Artwork”

PRESENTATION: FELTING

Ann Nancarrow, Carroll Lee Stoltz, Wanda Bublick, and Rosemary Hargrove presented a program on Felting.  The presentation included Needle Felting by hand and machine as well as Wet Felting in several different ways. The audience was given a chance to try a felting machine.  It was very informative.

        

        

  

  

     

SHOW AND TELL

Doris Claude - mosaic