Lakeshore Fiber Arts Guild

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 First things first

Lunch at Mizu Sushi 

And then on to our brief meeting and the

Brown Bag Challenge

Sue from ?

Sherry from Judy P.  Hidden yarn cone inside 

Nancy from Jennifer

Suzanne from Priscilla

Jennifer just couldn't decide what to do with Suzanne's items, these
are some of her own that she will incorporate into an art piece, soon.

Wendy's wacky woman, items from Susan J.

Judy from Sherry

Lots of detail, tiny pink fabric pieces on shoulder, zipper, coiled design.

Priscilla from Wendy

Fun notebook cover, love it

Show and Tell

Jonetta

Jonetta has some wonderful knitted items

Jonetta also has several pottery pieces,  wood, gas or electric fired

Miranda

Our newest member Miranda, showed off her knitting skills with some yarn
that Margaret has shown her how to spin this summer.

She also likes to make pottery pieces. We are glad to have a younger member
join us.  Welcome Miranda!

Wendy

Wendy finished up a BOM quilt from Rebecca Bryans class online.  Lots of triangles. 

She also made a Laura Heine pattern of a bee in a class.

This Mosaic Cat is made of lots of tiny fused pieces. A Cheryl Lynch pattern.

Jan

Jan bought a fun felted bar of soap at a small stand up north.

Priscilla

Priscilla is experimenting again.  This time with leftover pieces of Kantha cloth.

KANTHA
In Sanskrit “kantha” means rags and originally meant piecing together scraps of fabric made from layers of saris and other clothing using rows of running stitch.  Embroidered motifs were often added with the running stitch quilting around them.  Today kanthas have become a vital source of income through village cooperatives to produce blankets and other household and clothing items for sale to the general public.  The Bridge in downtown Holland often has kantha blankets for sale.  Dignify and Cultural Cloth are websites with beautiful kanthas.

You can see the original stitching in these pieces. 

Priscilla made a vest out of pieces and then over stitched to give more body.

Priscilla also has been experimenting with dyeing with Cochineal.
Those are the reddish yarns above, she also has tried other natural dyes.

This is a piece she dyed, below are pictures of the Cochineal bugs,
dried and what they actually look like.

Priscilla highly recommends this book.

Priscilla made this practice jacket out of this Coat pattern.  
Simple but lots of options and fit will.

This is the cute top pattern that Priscilla had on.
I found one on Ebay as it is out of print.