September Meeting Recap

 An enormous thank you to award winning, Kay Donges, for the fabulous trunk show and power point presentation on creating her art quilts. Kay and her delightful husband, Henry, reside in Blairsville, GA. She began making art quilts three years ago after retiring from a career in the school system teaching art. Kay was very generous in sharing not only her work but the process she goes through to create them.

The October meeting will be the last GreatFul Threads for the 2016 year. Due to holidays falling the fourth week of November and December, the group does not meet. Program for October will be a sew in and demonstrations on making simple/quick gifts for the holiday season. Members are asked to bring 10-12 kits to share along with directions OR show a demonstration on how to construct it. For example I am bringing mono printed fabric and supplies for making cuff bracelets. If you need inspiration look to Pinterest or seasonal "gift" magazines you find at Barnes and Noble, Books a Million or Joann's. Bring your machine to sew and/or demo your craft. If you have questions contact Jackie Cory or Brenda Cregger.

I apologize for the random order the pics are in below. Hopefully the captions will help.

Denise

Catherine and grandson, Noah, working as a team

Laura won the artist give away for September, made by Jackie

Welcome Martha Ooten and handwork made with hand dyed fiber from her farm animals

Vista with free motion sewed on the Q20 during AQS

Brenda ready for Halloween

Delores showing her new bag

Quilt of Valor Delores made for Ben, her husband

Denise with product of Melissa Averenois class sponsored by Spool

Modern quilt made after Michelle Wilkie class sponsored by MQG

Headdress for current quilt, see pic below

Kay's current quilt under progress

According to Kay, her hardest quilt to make, "The Little Red Hen"

"A Toast to Toulouse Lautrec"

"Mistress of the Abby"

"The Bride Wore Red"

"Out on the Town"

"It's Not Just Black and White"

"Ruby" Kay's first quilt three years ago. Border is striped with ribbons

Kay Donges

August GreatFul Threads meeting

What fun we had at the August meeting exchanging the hand made charms. As you will see in the pics below they were very diverse, using fabric, wood, metal, hand painted and beads, to name a few.

Eight members were present with one new member, Laura. (Brenda, I did not get Laura's email, would you please tell her about our blogspot and have her sign up to get the postings?) After a short show 'n tell we exchanged charms and discussed programs for 2017. If you have an art quilt or mixed media technique you would like to learn  let Jackie know. Several great ideas were brought up. Jackie won the monthly door prize supplied by Gail Greer, see pic below.

In September the meeting will be a trunk show and program by art quilter, Kay Donges, from North Carolina. You may remember Kay's portrait quilt hanging in the Bernina store during the grand opening.  October, the last meeting of this year, will be a sew in. We will be making cuff bracelets and microwave bowl covers. Mark your 2017 calendar for the retreat, March 3-5 at Home Harvest in Trenton, GA.

Delores' finished prayer flag from July meeting

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Miriam's prayer flag

Brenda's prayer flag

Door prize made by Gail. Fantastic starfish pillow won by Jackie

 Jackie's embroidered wool wall hanging, machine quilted by Denise

Denise's wall hanging/table runner. Blocks made during 2016 retreat.

Jackie's charm

Jackie's second charm (she has more ideas than Carter has little liver pills)

Sandi was not there but sent her charms

Martha's charm

Miriam's charm

Delores' charm

Brenda's charm

Laura's charm

Gail's charm

All the charms

Charms can be displayed in many ways. This is a collar Jackie made to hang hers. A large loop necklace also works.

GreatFul Threads July Meeting Recap

This month's recap is in pics

When you finish your button prayer flags from the July program send me a pic and I will blog it before the August meeting.

Denise

Sandi Suggs gave a program on using buttons as embellishment.

She supplied a handout on stitching buttons using both functional and decorative stitching

We practiced button embellishment by making 6" square prayer flags

 

                                               June is using a button instead of the O in joy.

Gayle won the July door prize provided by last month's winner, Debra. This handmade polymer clay  button was part of the prize.

 

                                                   June using a button instead of the O in joy

Jackie's show 'n tell, full of summertime joy

Vista made this for Brenda using pin weaving from the May program

Miriam's altered purse from June program. She had to miss the meeting but still made the project, Miriam is no slacker!

                                                         Sandi's pin weaving from May meeting

Close up of Sandi's pin weaving

Jackie's bag with round ends

Melissa's weaving. She asked the group to bring art supplies (childrens) for Larry Burlington, her art teacher whose house/studio burned 

Catherine's quilt for friend battling breast cancer

Technique using cheese cloth, paper and matte medium

Back basting applique

Denise's quilt as you go table runner

 Wonky house beach scene

Delores' altered purse from June program