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

January 8th 2019 - Meeting Notes - HAPPY NEW YEAR!

January 8, 2019

(Note: I deeply apologize as this month has started off with illnesses and so I hope you will forgive me for the delay in posting this entry! Much love, Alicia)

Meeting was called to order at 6:06 by Rosemary Hargrove.

Old Business:

A Soy Wax Batik and Ice Dyeing class has been set-up for Saturday April 27 for an all-day class.  It will not be more than $50 plus supplies.  The cost will vary with the number that sign up.  Maximum is 20.  The owners of Dragonfly Dyeworks will be teaching.  www.dragonflydyeworks.com .  We need a commitment by next meeting.

December Challenge:

The Challenge from the December Trunk show was discussed.  The deadline for pieces will be May 7, 2019.

In February the program will be on different types of felting.

How to prepare for a Quilt Show vs Art Show.

Sue Gilgen

Why enter shows?  To learn how your work measures up to other quilters and to get feedback from the judges on ways you can improve.  Quilt show look for craft—stitching, binding etc.
How well do you do what you try to do.  You can use patterns as long as you give credit to the designer.
 

How do you find out about shows.  Lyric Kinard’s website lists shows by month.  Sue suggests making a   list of all shows you might consider entering and keep track of all the info about the shows.  Sue has suggested a template to help you with this.  Download the template: click here.
 
When your quilt is finished record all pertinent info, so you will be ready when the time comes to enter.  A quilt is good to enter for about only 3 or 4 years.  Small venues may take older quilts.  Each show has its own rules. Read them.

Good photos are essential.  They will get you into a show or not.

Margaret Abramshe

Why enter an Art Show?  
For the sheer Joy of Creating

To build a body of work.

To help grow the art community.

Keep up with what is trending.

In order to enter exhibitions, you need more than a beautiful quilt hanging on your design wall.  You need a system of keeping track of potential exhibitions.  You will need a high quality photo, an artist statement and the courage to risk rejection.

Margaret talked about the following and has given links that will help you:
SAQA Calls for Entry (listing of art quilt exhibitions for both members and nonmembers)

Sacred Threads (Biennial exhibition near Washington DC)

Art Show (Juried Show in all mediums)

CAFE (searchable database)

How to photograph your quilts:
Shoot that Quilt

Resizing your Image

Writing an Artist Statement:
Textile Artist
  

SHOW AND TELL

Margaret showing a preview of next meeting.

A lovely meeting for a year's end.

We had a lovely time at our December 4th, 2018 member meeting. 

We talked about our future class and Rosemary asked us to come next time with a date that would be the best for everyone. We are looking at May or June.

We all enjoyed a great potluck. The tables were decorated so beautiful. Thank you, Janey! And thanks everyone, for all the yummy food!

Lynn Greenleaf showed us her super cute “Dressed-Up” rocks and talked about how she made some of them. Also, we wish you well in your recovery, Lynn! Thank you for coming us and giving us ideas on how to make a one of a kind gift.

  

We were then pleased to hear from Margaret Abramshe. She brought examples of quilt art from SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) and a handout that had a Critique Activity. We all took some of the samples and as a small group went through the Critique Activity. It was interesting to hear the different opinions and interpretations. What was interesting was reading about why the artist created this work. It put a new perspective on the piece.

It was decided that we our challenge would be to make a “Art Mini Quilt”, such as the ones we critiqued. The mat will be 9x12 so your piece can be smaller than that to fit on the mat. Include an artist statement on the back. We would like to have you complete this by May.

 

 

Show and Tell

Shannon had taken a landscape Craftsy class so did a wallhanging. She commented that she doesn’t do cutesy and it was too cutesy but it was beautiful! She also showed a mosaic of Frida Kahlo and needed help on how to finish it. She got a few suggestions. Can’t wait to see it finished!

 

Cindy Oxley showed us a Mosaic quilt. It is a Cheryl Lynch design.

Lyn Coble also did a Mosaic of a blue turtle. Go Ladies! 

Jane Dallmeyer showed us a Sun wall hanging.

Sylivia Lewis took a Swedish quilt class. It uses walking foot quilting and the “golden Mean” Technique

Janey showed a fun necklace made with different sewing and quilting pieces, Nicki made this for the quilt guild. Nice job Nicki! Then Nicki showed us a fun thread painting wall hanging that she made in Houston at a class. She also showed small gift ideas such as card holders and a bag made out of men’s shirts.  

 

 

 

Melanie Wilson showed some cool gift ideas that she made. She had an i-phone holder and a tissue holder.

 

Happy Holidays! Have a wonderful holiday season and may you have wonderful new year! We will see you next month!