January Show & Share

Lynda's latest weaving. This is still a work-in-progress. She is contemplating how to hang it so that people can appreciate it from all sides.

Hanging by a Thread Studio
Karen has started posting to her Mixed Media blog.
Visit her, and leave comments! You'll also find a link at the right side of the CinC Blog.

Both Karen and Michele are participating in The Sketchbook Challenge. You can too! The January these is : Highly Prized.
See some of Karen's January entries here.
See some of Michele's entries here, here, and here.
There's also a Flickr Group devoted to the work participants post in The Sketchbook Challenge. In the first month, there are over 1,200 pictures!

Michele brought some new snow dyes to share:

Detail snow dye Kilt Green.


A piece thrown into the catch basin. Dyes used : black, wine, havanna brown, black cherry.


Detail of snow dye with Havanna Brown and black cherry on mercerized cotton.



Snow Dye with New Black and Wine on Mercerized on mercerized cotton.

Books of Note (Any of these would be great topics for future CinC Meetings!):


Confetti Naturescapes by Noriko Endo



Inspired to Quilt by Melanie Testa



Totally Tangled : Zentangle and Beyond by Sandy Steen Bartholomew


Zentangle Basics by Suzanne McNeil

September 2010 Show and Share

Sandy's Tie Bag. She will show us how to make one of these at our October Meeting.


Sandy's jacket made from a beach towel with polar fleece lining and sleeves.


Sandy also made a bra that is on display in Bernina's Bling Your Bra Contest. Scroll down to see Sandy's elegant handbag made from a bra. She made another one with Angel fish for Casting for Recovery. Karen and Lois also made bras but they are not on display yet.


Betty's slash bag, with instructions from Coloricious.
It has a chenille-like surface.


The back side of Betty's bag.


Zipper Flower Brooch by Karen and Lois.
Lois got the instructions from Martha Stewart.


Here's another one.


Michele did 3 "beginning fabric portraits." Maria Elkins offers instructions for Beginning Portraits on the Quilting Arts website.


Rock star, Eddie Vedder. Yes, I'm a fan from way back in his grunge days with Pearl Jam. That's a microphone in his hand.


An update to the Oliver Quilt. He's older now. ;-)


Karen finished the beaded face. Wow!


Karen made 2 Modge Podge collages to benefit a good cause (Breast Cancer?) through The Art Garage in Green Bay.

Karen's 2nd Modge Podge Collage.


This is Roxanne, a doll Karen made in a class at Keep Me in Stitches, Appleton, WI.


Karen also made this copper necklace.

May Show and Share

Thanks to Sandy A. for diligently taking notes and pictures, while Michele was absent in May.


1. Sandy's bra purse with matching hat

2. Sandy's messenger bag and small bag with metal ruler closure

3. Sandy's checkered garden hat with a size 48 DD bra for the top of the crown

4. lining of the garden hat with misspelled word in the title (bra decorated fabric)

5. partial photo of Lynda's woven piece

6. beaded bracelet made by Karen

7. beaded earrings made by Karen

8. Julie's make over tote bag with new fabric pocket

9. Lois' technique for creating new fabric covered with netting

10. Lois' tote bag using newly created fabric; window in the side of the bag

11. Lois' recycled corduroy bag with prairie points on the exterior

12. Julie's red bra purse

13. close up of window in Lois' tote bag

April 09 Show and Share

Only 4 of us at the April Meeting. Here's what we brought to show :

Lois Wolfe's art quilt. At the meeting, she was adding beadwork, so we'll be interested to see the finished piece!


Another piece by Lois Wolf. This work was the result of a class with Sue Benner (?)


Karen's piece from the Sue Benner class.


This is the result of the online Faces-in-Fabric class Michele has been taking with Terri Stegmiller at Two Creative Studios. It combines applique with fabric painting.


Lois shared a method for saving ugly fabric : Scrunch it up, spritz it with water, and steam the heck out of it to add texture. There may also be some fusible interfacing on the back to help it keep it's new shape.


Karen brought these surgical scissors that are wonderful for "un-sewing."

March Show and Share

Karen took a floor loom weaving class in Minneapolis. This is her first effort at weaving : a Chevron Pattern.


Karen finished her Ndebele beaded bracelet.


Katy's Rain Wall hanging.


Katy's Star Table Topper.


Katy's Tryptic 1


Katy's Tryptic 2


Katy's Tryptic 3


Michele shared a personal Journal Quilt called What Have You Lost.
Read more about it here.


5-part gradation dyes from Michele. Bark and Antique Rose.


Parfait Dye (Color-by-Accident) method by Michele


Lynda's amazing Felted piece. [Looks like Northern Lights to me!]


Sandy's 44D Bra Purse (components courtesy of Goodwill)


Gill's Gourd and egg


Gill's notebook cover.


Gill's needle felting


Gill's Needle Felting (small case)


Betty's beaded pin.