October 4th, AfroCentric Inspired Clothing with Georgia Mae Farr

Byron Center, Michigan – The Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild’s next program meeting is on Wed., October 4, featuring Georgia Mae Farr on “AfroCentric Inspired Clothing,” at the Holland Area Arts Council, 150 East 8^th St., Holland, MI 49423, starting promptly at 6:30pm with social time beginning at 6pm.  Guests are asked to pay $10 toward the speaker’s fee.

Grand Rapids resident Georgia Mae Farr will talk about how she uses traditional handmade

African mud cloth in her clothing creations, her methods, and how she handles fabrics.  She will have samples of her one-of-a-kind clothing on hand.

An experienced sewer who started sewing, doing alterations, designing and making garments when she was very young, Farr began her Creations by Georgia in 1992 after years of professionally altering clothing.  She later had a custom fashion business where she made formal ware and wedding attire.  Her work can be seen on her Etsy Shop, https://www.etsy.com/shop/CreationsbyGeorgiaF; at the Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives (GRAAMA) on Monroe, NE, in Grand Rapids; or on her Facebook page.

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 http://lakeshorefiberartsguild.blogspot.com or contact jgould1526@gmail.com or 616-878-1526.

Painting with Thread with Priscilla Lynch

Priscilla is an amazing fiber artist. Following are several samples of different types of thread painting or free motion embroidery. She uses many types of fabric, quite often a very heavy painters canvas as she can just fuse this to pellon and stitch, no hoop needed.  She also uses, tyvek, plastic, felt and vanishing or wash away fabric.

This is an example of thread painting on a painted canvas.  Priscilla uses a 

lot of her own photographs in her fiber art.

Sometimes she uses them as is, but often times she photo shops them

into a modern type design that she likes.

The skeleton leaf is a drawing she downloaded, hooped with wash away

stabilizer and free motioned stitched.

The words above were stitched on Vanishing Stabilizer. (Wash Away in warm water)

                 The Meadow above was a fabric collage on
                     Aqua Bond with free motion stitching.

Priscilla likes doing free motion faces on vanishing fabric.

Contour drawing face colored in with ink tense pencils.

Swallowtail was printed on fabric

 and stitched on vanishing fabric.

This is a lovely soft scarf made with yarns and other snippets,

layered between two sticky vanishing stabilizers.  Two sticky pieces were way too sticky. Gums up the needle.

Stitching on felt allows for more stitching and more dimension.

My Mother Left Me Her Words

Priscilla photo transferred some of the letters her Mother had

written her years ago.  She then use the text to quilt the piece. Her Mother is in the top photo and she is in the bottom.

She makes lots of sample pages to keep track of threads, fabric, stabilizers etc.

Lovely Jackets Made by Sue and Judy