November RAFA Meeting

It was kind of a nice day to get out and visit our Rochester Area Fiber Artists meeting as the weather was just miserable. You can see from what was shown that it is a very eclectic group utilizing all sorts of different surface design techniques. Here, Donna is showing her latest jacket. The fabric was bought by one member, then dyed by another member and then sold to Donna who added her own hand dyed fabric for the front band and made the jacket.

This is just a section from an absolutely awesome quilt that Julie Brandon has done. She has been experimenting alot with using Photoshop to change photos and then having them made into yardage. This quilt will be on display at our annual gallery show next March.

Donna also made this necklace pendant using a glass piece that she had fused herself, then surrounding it with beading and then hanging it on a purchased necklace. It was really nice.

A newly nuno felted scarf! I am seeing a trend here as several had newly felted pieces.

Mary had embellished two of the Ricky Tyms tops she had made using her marbled fabric from the Elin Noble class last year. This quilt is to go to a grandson who plans on heading to Las Vegas to do some bigtime poker games. Mary was skeptical but the picture is of her grandson.

This was a small felted vessel made by one of the other group members. She said it just kept getting smaller and smaller. There were quite a few examples of felting and knitting at today's meeting.

Our featured program today was a demonstration by Pat Faulkner on hand or finger weaving. Pat used to be a weaver and taught many of these techniques years ago. She has incorporated it into some of her quilts. It is hard to see in the photo but on either side of the whitish area there is a band that she made by finger weaving using the technique she was showing us today.

The band is a little easier to see on this piece. It is the chevron on the left side.

This was examples of all the different techniques that Pat has done.

The first step was looping the yarn around a stick in the order of the stripes that we would create.

Basically there is only a warp. The outside piece of yarn is woven across the piece and then the next outside piece. So these outside pieces become the weft for one turn. You just continue working from left to right until you use up the yarn.

This is kind of a blurry picture of my beautiful granddaughter wearing one of the dyed t-shirts I made and sent to her to see if they fit (which they obviously did). The picture was a screen print from a video chat which thanks to Gmail, we have about once a week! I just got a shipment of white 100% cotton ribbing so instead of making the fabric and then sewing into tshirts, I will make the tshirts and then dye them. I couldn't believe how expensive it was to purchase pfd tshirts of toddlers. Otherwise, I NEVER would have made my own. It took me awhile to actually find a pattern!