Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild Holiday Ornament Exchange and Show and tell

As usual, we had a fabulous time enjoying each other's food, talking, visiting AND exchanging ornaments as well as showing some of the work we've been doing at home.  Below are the Christmas ornaments and below that are the Show 'n Tell items that were brought.  Enjoy!

Wendy Rice's roving sheep that Alexa Urquart received.

Jennifer Gould's antique lace angel
that Sue Vegter received.
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Jennifer Hefko created this felted Snow Man Ball.

Jonetta Brown made this little Santa
with a needle tatted hanger.

Jeannie Emery's sheet music stars given to Jennifer Hefko.

Jonetta Brown received Alexa
Urquart's fused glass
bead dangle ornament.

Pris Lynch created this little felted bird which
Arlene Tiemeyer received.

Wendy Rice received Arlene Tiemeyer's needle tatted heart.

Sue Vegter's felted and pleated wreath which
Marti Swank received.

Jennifer Gould received Alice Breese's
handmade paper angel.

Marti Swank's beaded snowflakes received
by Alice Breese.

SHOW 'N TELL:

Sue Vegter's table runner from Dawn Edward's workshop
on nuno felting (silk sari strips inserted into wool).

Silk scarf dyed in sumac by Sue Vegter.

Jennifer Gould's deconstructed screen printed fabrics.

Some more the knit fabrics that Jennifer screen
printed using the deconstructed screen printing method.

Sue Vegter's Fascinator Hat (nuno felted wool and silk) from a
Dawn Edwards workshop.

Marti Swank's deconstructed coat
which she took apart, made
smaller and resewed!

Sue Vegter wearing her Fascinator Hat!

Pris Lynch wearing her waffle felted
scarf and showing her bag she
designed with leftover felted and
dyed felt.

Pris Lynch with her quilt top of various
arashi shibori cottons.

Pris Lynch's kantha embroidered and hand dyed piece
(Dorothy Caldwell workshop).

Pris Lynch dyed fabric with machine stitching and
resisted areas.

Pris Lynch's experiments with 3-D felt.

Arlene Tiemeyer's hand woven bag in which she used
shots of roving (dark stripes); lining is hand printed
African fabric.

Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild’s annual Holiday Potluck, Ornament Exchange, and Show ‘n Tell

Christmas ornaments made by former guild member
Carol McCloskey (basketry fish) and Jonetta Brown
(needle felted tree and Santa).

The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild’s annual Holiday Potluck, Ornament Exchange, and Show ‘n Tell will take place Wed., Dec. 4, at the Holland Area Arts Council, 150 East 8^th St., Holland, MI 49423, starting at 6:00pm. 

We invite members of the community who are interested in the guild to attend.  You may bring a dish to pass with the appropriate serving utensil.  Plates, “silverware,” and beverages will be provided.  Wrap your ornament so no one will know who made it. Sign and date the ornament so the recipient will remember who made it in years to come.  Everyone who brings an ornament will take home an ornament.  For Show ‘n Tell bring what you’d like to show that you’ve been working on (from summer? for Christmas gifts?).

The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild invites anyone interested in the textile fiber arts to their monthly program meetings held the first Wednesday of each month at the Holland Area Arts Council.

Needle Tatting presented by Arlene Tiemeyer

Arlene Tiemeyer presents Needle-Tatting on Nov. 6, 2014
at our guild meeting at the Holland Area Arts Council.

Needle-tatted sample.

Thirty-five women attended, many visitors and guests from
the surrounding Holland area.

Arlene's examples of her needle-tatted edgings amazed everyone.  Even though it took a bit to get the hang of how to get the two loops on to the needle, most of us finally got it!

Arlene Tiemeyer Demostrates Needle Tatting

The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild’s November meeting will feature Arlene Tiemeyer on “Needle Tatting.” The program will be Nov. 6, at the Holland Area Arts Council, 150 East 8^th St., Holland, MI 49423, starting at 6:00pm. 

Zeeland resident, Arlene Tiemeyer, will demonstrate how to do tatting use a fine two-pointed knitting needle or a long doll sculpting needle to create intricate but easily made tatted pieces.  Supplies will be available for attendees as well as easy patterns to follow.  The hands-on session is low-key and a lot of fun for those wanting to learn a new way to do tatting without a shuttle.

Arlene is the mother of 13 children, has been married to Brian for 38 years.  They have a business on Etsy.com, Big Fam 15, making and selling mini-weaving looms and supplies for spinners and weavers.  All the items are made from recycled wood.  Arlene also has her own business, "Grandma's Hands," for which she makes and sells handcrafted items.  She teaches and does demonstrations trying to keep the "my grandmother used to make this" alive.  She weaves, spins, needle tats, knits, crochets, does kumihimo Japanese braiding, sews, and a little quilting, and tries to combine these arts into work with a new twist. 

The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild invites anyone interested in the textile fiber arts to their monthly program meetings held the first Wednesday of each month at the Holland Area Arts Council.

Mary Sundstrom: Hands-on Turkish Marbling

Mary Sundstrom demonstrates the basics of marbling while
avid guild members watch.

Mary Sundstrom presented her creative approach to marbling on Wed., Oct. 2, at the Holland Area Arts Council where she works as Program Director.  She loves learning and watching students of all ages develop new ways of creating.

So, after demonstrating the basics of marbling, she watched and helped all of us create a myriad of colorful and wild marbled fabric.

Evidently, it was the Chinese and Japanese that developed the technique but it was the Turks that came up with the carageenan (made from seaweed) to float the fabric or paper on the surface.

Turkish Marbling on fabric presented by Mary Sundstrom

The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild’s October meeting will feature Mary Sundstrom presenting a hands-on program, ”Turkish Marbling on Fabric.” The program will be Oct. 2, at the Holland Area Arts Council, 150 East 8^th St., Holland, MI 49423, starting at 6:00pm. A $5 guest fee will be requested at this speaker’s meeting for those who are not members of the guild and, for those wanting to do the hands-on marbling, a $10 fee for all supplies is required.

Explore the art of Turkish marbling on fabric. Mary Sundstrom will demonstrate how to float paints and inks on thickened water using traditional techniques. During the program, she will demonstrate how to create the sizing used to float pigment as well as how to treat the fabric with mordant so the color stays put. Once the color is applied the fabric is draped on the surface, and the fun of creating patterns can begin. The result is the transfer of beautiful swirling shapes onto the surface. 

With a $10.00 supply fee mordant pre-treated fabric swatches will be available to use and learn from as well as the use of all tools and inks. Pre-registration is required by Sept. 28 by emailing directly to Mary Sundstrom at mary@hollandarts.org.

Mary Sundstrom is the Program Director for the Holland Area Arts Council.  She also teaches at the arts council and sells her work through eBay.

The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild invites anyone interested in the textile fiber arts to their monthly program meetings held the first Wednesday of each month at the Holland Area Arts Council. For more information, visit the guild’s blog at lakeshorefiberartsguild.blogspot.com or contact jgould@JenniferGouldDesigns.com or 616-878-1526.

Our Guild Display at the MLH Conference

 

Our guild has had a display at the Michigan League of Handweavers for every biennial conference since 1981.  Fortunately for us, the conference has been in our backyard
at Hope College's campus here in Holland, Michigan, for a long, long time (10-15 years?).   We try to use the theme of
the conference as our guide (this year's theme was "Finding Your Fiber Path") but, because we had spent more than 6
months on the Surface Design Collaborative work, knew from our first planning that the pieces each of us created would be our guild display.  The room this year where the guild

exhibits were located was rather difficult to photograph in so our President Jeanne Emery, who set up the guild display at the conference, recreated it at our Sept. 5 meeting,using two tables and lots of space to show everyone's work to advantage.