Thursday at RAFA

We had a great meeting of RAFA this month. There was a lot of show and tell including quite a bit of the snow dyes which will be the last of the season. Some of the group had quite a bit of snow last week!!

This is Elaine's piece. You can't see it but there is a lot of nice beading on this piece as well!

Patti (a new member) shared this lovely seascape with us.

Diane, fresh back from her travels, showed us an "instant art quilt" made from a technique she learned in an online course which she highly recommended. This was made out of most one piece of fabric (a half yard piece cut into rectangles).

Liz was very excited about this large pile of tshirts she had dyed out in the snow!!

Janet shared several jackets she has completed in anticipation of the Artistry in Threads show later this month at the Rochester Museum and Science Center.

Beth (another one) shared a new top she has made. She is anxious to get some help in completing some of the wonderful tops she has made!

Here is Donna wearing one new jacket and showing a second one that she is still working on. These are made with both purchased and her own indigo dyed fabric!

With heavy hearts, we learned that one of the original RAFA members, Pat Faulkner, will be moving away this summer to be closer to her daughter and grandson. We will really miss her and her ready smile and encouragement. This is a completely hand pieced original quilt top inspired by one of her husband's photos. She has done the whole thing using English paper piecing, a technique I also love.

The next few pieces are some of the snow dyes that people bought to the meeting!

Janet and I were leading the afternoon program which was a quick exercise to do a black and white composition (using construction paper) which we would then critique using the style we both learned from Emily Richardson. It is really more of an exercise in observation and leaves out most of the value filled words that so many associate with critiques. It really forces you to look more closely at pieces in terms of where your eye is moving etc.