“What We Did on Our Summer Vacation & Brown Bag Challenge Results”

 We certainly were a busy group over the summer.  It took us well over 2 hours to show the items we made, always interesting and informative.  I apologize for any unflattering pictures.  I really would like each person to take a few seconds to stand still and look at me so I can get a nice picture.  I do really try hard, taking several shots of each but it is tricky. I am always willing to redo a picture if you send me one.

Brown Bag Challenge

We exchange brown bags with about 5 items in them, each person is to be creative with the items in the bag, adding extras if necessary.

Sue from 

Susan from Wendy

Judi P. from Jennifer

Wendy from Nancy

Priscilla from 

Nancy from Priscilla

Jennifer was not real happy with the contents of her bag, but

loved the project once she got started.  Bag from Judy R.

Coleen from Jane

Jane from Coleen

Show and Tell

Coleen continues to make more rugs, each more
beautiful than the last.

Sue won awards for her beautiful scarf made from feather 
weight cashmere with added circles and stitching.

Gargi took a class from Sue Cortese, Shibori stitched flowers.
It will be fun to see what she does with these pieces.

Julie had a lot of interesting things to say about her pieces but I was 
to busy listening to take notes.

Marie is learning to incorporate even more items in her art works.
Wet wipes in the Mystic Beach scene.

Leather pieces

Eco Print with Eucalyptis - Priscilla

Raw silk dyed with color from a color blanket with mordants.

Priscilla Eco Printed on leather and accidently boiled it,
a wonderful learning experiment.

Priscilla experimnting with a type of eccentric weaving,
Silvia Heyden class

Susan has been busy weaving.  She also knit some hats out of yarn she 
bought in Iceland.  And she also bought this wonderful small sheep skin, 
carefully hiding it from her family she was traveling with.

Jane made this wonderful art piece that you can see from both sides.

She also enjoyed some felting.

The Bag Lady AKA Pam

The Bag Lady in the bag

No sense stopping at 3 bags.  All different styles.

Pam also made this wonderful shawl.

Suzanne is also trying new ways to display her felted friends.
She had fun gathering wood with holes to put them in.

Quilted Shoes, who would have thought,  Judi made shoes from a Happy Feet kit.
They turned out really nice. She also made a Japanese Rice Bag with lots of different
stitches on it.

Nancy has been extremely busy, she loved her 6 hour shibori class,
but it was not near enough time to do all the stitching she wanted to do.
She also did some felting, and a couple art basket weavings.

Jennifer made the Green Piece on the spool as part of the Woodland Weavers
Stitch Group.  She also tried her hand at natural colors,
she prefers more colorful items, but these have lots of fun texture.

Wendy had a great summer winning a blue ribbon for her Cat Quilt, 
and a second and third place ribbon for two other quilts in the 
Lighthouse Quilt Guild Show.

Patty made fingerless mittens out of yarn from a friend who she will now give the mittens
back to.  She also had some beautiful punch needle pictures.

Janice took weaving classes on bronson lace, really an interesting 
woven runner.

Another woven piece by Janice.

Jan showed us this wonderful wrap she made out of a piece of fabric she
bought in Egypt.  She did miss the boat trying to negotiate, who would have thought???

Jan also learned how to dye a pair of shoes to get the exact color she wanted.

Linda adopted this cute puppy early in the summer, who I am  sure helped 
she and her husband with the wonderful projects below.

Fused glass

Fused glass

A wonderful bench in her back yard

Linda and her husband made this desk and had someone cut out
with a router the Michigan design and fill with epoxy.

And another unique yard piece for Linda's art musuem yard.

Diane experimented with small stitched pieces.

Ava (above) and Sherry both took a class making ZINEs.
A zine is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via a copy machine. Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation..
They said they got to use a copy machine that was amazing.

Linda who was a guest of Jennifer's, brought these very interesting and original doll type 
figures to show us.

I forgot to get an overall picture.  The meeting was most enjoyable.