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!