What's Been Happening

Hello to all.  Well it must be admitted that the caretaker of our blog went on vacation during the summer.  Mentally more then physically.  We have been meeting regularly and making and sharing ideas.  Right now we are in a transitional stage of figuring out our direction.   We have been working on pieces that were influenced by different art styles and artists.  It has met with various degrees of success, but I don't think that overall we have been that enthusiastic about it.

I think now we are looking for new inspiration.  One of the things that we did this summer was fabric dying.  It was great fun.  Some of us had dyed fabric before and some of us had not.  Actually the process, as I was one of the 'newbies' in dying, was fairly simple.  Messy, fun, but easy.  I am hoping that this experience will help us along a new path.

We are also branching out by going on some 'field trips'.  I think that this will sort of happen as we find things to go see.  More on that when there is news.

We have some new work to share and several examples of our fabric dying experience. Grace and Adena both brought quilted pieces to share.  Grace's piece was from our last art style, which was Art Deco/Art Nouveau.  She found inspiration in Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural designs.  Adena shared a quilt that she finished from a class/demonstration that she participated in some time ago.  All of our other ArtDeco/Art Nouveau pieces, unfortunately did not make it into this post, owing to some camera/photo mishaps and basically technology working against us.

Enjoy our dyed fabrics and Grace's and Adena's  pieces.

Grace Hoya

Adena Joseph

Becky Haley

Becky Haley

Barbara Sawyer

Barbara Sawyer

Barbara Sindlinger

Barbara Sinlinger

Karen Taber

Karen Taber