April 2019 Buellwood meeting a taste of Surface Design

We meet in April to explore what the students from Phyllis's Spring surface design class had done this semester.

But first we had our usual great show and tell 

from the guild members.

Karen has been very busy with preparing for some classes in San Diego and Stowe Vermont. she also had 3 upcoming shows the first one will be in Curtis MI from June until September, 2019. Then onto Suite Saint Marie in October, and March in Marquette MI. Keep an eye out for exact dates of these exhibits. Also she will be in the MBO show in Bowling Green Ohio. Karen will be teaching at the Porkies on August16th and September 5-8 at Siever's Fiber Arts School on Washington Island, WI.

Karen basket sample 1

Karen basket sample 2

Karen basket sample 3

Join her for one of her wonderful classes and check out Poppy's two classes at the Porkies Folk School that same weekend.

A new design for Karen

We have a great lineup for 2019 at Porcupine Mountain State Park near Silver City MI. Check out Karen and Poppy's classes as well as the Artist in Residence program which has a fiber artist this year. Martha Kotter, Textiles, Columbus, Ohio. Textiles (August 19 - September 1, 2019) Presentation August 29. This is a free presentation by the Artist in Residence.

Donna Kallner will be teaching Nalbinding at the Porkies July 13 and 14th,
and Debbie Jircik will do an Eco dye class August 9th.
These and other fiber Events will be offered this year at the Porkies Folk School.

Karen also has been working on her Needle case in her spare time. I am sure she has little spare time right now, but it looks like her needle case will be done before mine.

Karen's needle case is progressing

Anita our persistent resale shopper found another treasure. This one is called Speed O Loom by Lily. As you can see by the smile Anita was very happy with her find. The group also was anxious to try to assemble the loom and see that it is very sturdy and quite large.

Delight with her find.

woven sample that she found

John and Phyllis had to assemble this treasure.

  



Marilyn is trying her hand at Tablet or Card Weaving. I am amazed at her and others interest in trying out, on their own, a new weaving technique. With the help of U tube it has made this very easy--for some! What a nice job Marilyn and this is quite a complicated pattern.

Mary wanted to show the group a tapestry she did long ago as an Art Education Project on a cardboard loom, it was a fun experiment and has lasted a long time hung over her loom.

Dawn brought in samples of fiber dyed with Alder Catkins with a Alum mordant. The dark one was mordant with iron for an iron/tannin interaction.

Phyllis announced the student shows that are now up at Finnish American Heritage center. 

ISAD Bachelor of Fine Arts Diploma Works exhibition

May 4 to May 29, 2019

SURFACE DESIGN PRESENTATION 

Our program was an excellent display of dyed fabrics presented by Lynn Anderson and Miriam Pickens who are both attending Phyllis's Spring Surface Design class. I was busy taking notes and pictures so I hope I got these samples correctly labeled.

What we Saw:

Gold fabric below, samples of Immersion dye where you just let it be - On the left and on the right

Shibori Technique clamped with clothes pins. Both are dyed with onion skins

White Damask fabric stitched and dyed Shibori

onion skin dyed full Emerson and clamped with clothes pins

The Pink fabric above is an example of Low Water dye which the fabric is scrunched up and placed in a tight bowl and dye poured onto the fabric. 

Block Printing

Miriam's Handsome Hairy Woodpecker-Block printed movement was the goal not accuracy.

block Printed

Lynn's black and orange block printed

Stencil 

I believe the rust color is screen printed and the white is a stencil with paint.

Stencil vs screen printed

Screen Printing

screen printed printed on blue cloth.

Batik

Batik wax resist is very transparent

Batik by Maona

 Cyanotype

Cyanotype using photo sensitive treated fabric which is placed in light box and an object or a stencil are placed on top. then exposed to light.

Cyanotype treated photo sensitive material

Natural Dyes

avocado pit dyed

 Snow Dyed

 snow dyed with dry dye materials

Below are some more samples Lynn talked about during the presentation. We liked the block printing results and Lynn agreed to do a workshop at our retreat using block printing. This may be combined with Dawn's Eco dyed paper workshop.

Edible Resist

Miriam's dyed top.

painted and over dyed

Rust dyed

"Meeting News"

We meet and discussed the September 2019 Buellwood Retreat. Something we are all looking forward to. Save the date Sept 21 and 22 at the Marsin Retreat house in Houghton.

****I believe that this will be our 6th Retreat! as Leslie has been in New Mexico for 5 years now and she was at our first one!*****

Buellwood Best will be May 21st at Gloria Dei - Bring in your best fiber work inspired by a photo or nature.

August 19 th,  Gary Olds will be at our meeting talking about how he chooses colors and pattens for his weaving.