Color and other fun stuff

Last night we talked about color and lots of other good sewing and non-sewing topics. Here are some highlights from show 'n tell (or is it sew 'n tell)? First is Rena's suit for her eldest daughter (though we all suspect it is for her - after all, it probably fits!) Jan shows a cute dress for her baby girl. Barbara shows a great fitting summer top. And, can you tell that I lust after Ginny's great Japanese fabric?

Missing Shannon

Goodbye and God Speed to Shannon. Prayers for her family. At left, Shannon helping Mary during her 2009 Perfect Fitting Jeans class.

Silk Dye Painting class at Binders starts Monday!

Sign up now! Click here for Binder's Class Website.

The latest Threads

This is the skirt from the latest Threads Magazine. Not "the" skirt, but my version. I made it for my 10 year old daughter and I like it so much, I think I might make one for myself...but probably not a horizontal stripe! Once you get your head around the instructions, the skirt is very simple and the options are endless. I'm thinking this would be a great addition to a t-shirt dress.

Silk painting with Hellenne

Everyone had an absolutely wonderful time at last night's meeting. Our wonderfully talented Hellenne taught us how to paint on silk. Everyone was able to paint their own design using silk stretched on frames by Hellenne - who had painstakenly drawn designs on all of the screens for us. She then took them home to finish processing them (steaming them and removing the resist from the silk)

For pictures from last night's meeting, you may view the Flickr album here

Look at what Sue and Sandie did!

Sue and Sandie are in my Silk Dye Painting class at Chastain and here are some of their first scarves:

Bookbinding by Jo Ellen

Jo Ellen gave us a wonderful demo on bookbinding, sewing the signatures together with lacing, and the many ways to create covers. They were all beautiful and several members will be making wedding books using this method. Jo Ellen also gave us links to the wonderful handmade papers she uses:

http://www.hollanders.com/papers/BrowseSubCategory.aspx?CategoryID=07eaf77d-8567-49e6-a8ab-6f23b2b926dc

http://www.hollanders.com/papers/BrowseSubCategory.aspx?CategoryID=3fa8d9f7-8721-4aaa-8189-f0499193d5f9

And here's the link to the cute purse download that Martha made:

http://quiltingartstv.com/projects/300/302/302-1.htm

And Colleen sent us a link to those toilet paper face sculptures!!!! http://www.loudreams.com/2009/04/06/toilet-paper-roll-sculptures/