Buellwood Best Spring Show

We had our 'Buellwood Best' Spring show last May 20th at our Gloria Dei meeting. If you missed the meeting it was a great turnout. Pictures do not show the excellent work by our members.

Our theme for 2019 was to 'select a photo from nature to create your best fiber piece'  and we had a great turn out for this event. I think it was our 3rd Buellwood Best, each year it gets better.

As always we had a brief show and tell before the main event.

Show and Tell

Anita had another find at the resale shop. This time a book on 'Rose Windows' a book about making stain glass windows with tissue paper.

woven wool hanging

Laura brought in woven piece from Mexico and pictures of two quilts she created this winter in Florida.

Pine Island

Flamingo

willow basket

Dawn showed a basket that a friend made out of Willow. This could be made at a 6 hour workshop at the Rail River folk School, with Emily Derke.

  

Mary knit a pair of socks for herself from a pattern 'Celestial Lights Socks' which were inspired by the stain glass windows at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. Fiber Wild has a whole line of sock patterns from around the world. Since my maiden name is LaChapelle with Paris ancestors, I just had to make these socks. It was a challenge to say the least. The backpacks I bought from a couple, Lilli and Edmond, on the beach in Belize and the screen printed fabric was a gift from my friend who sold these shawls to shops in Hawaii. She knows the owner of the screen print factory wants to plan a tour of the this factory in Bali...anyone up for a long plane ride?

Celestial light socks

Guatemalan woven backpacks

Bali Silk Screen printed fabric

Buellwood Best Spring Show
This year our show was spectacular.
Weaving is still alive! we had a number or woven pieces completed by our members. 

Buellwood Best display

display of BB pieces

more BB best art

Phyllis started out the Buellwood Best show with a felted piece 'Lake, Water, Sky'.

She lives and works in the U.P. and loves the fact that she can spend time on the lake.

Lake Sky Water

Melissa was a busy weaver this year, she loves to make towels to share with friends and family.
She used a stash of 10/2 cotton to create this yardage of handwoven towels. Her inspiration for colors came from a snap shot of her grandchildren on the beach. She used a variation of  '8 Shaft Patterns' from Carol Sticklers book by the same name. Pages 19- 24  sett at 24 ends per inch with 10/2 cotton.

The towels need to be cut apart and finished but the patterns and colors are beautiful.

towels and more towels

inspiration photo

Mary likes to challenge herself with patterns from Handwoven Magazine. This pattern is for the Frank Lloyd Wright Scarf in the March/April 2011 issue. Pg. 48.

She used Rayon Boucle, Rayon Slub and various Rayon or linen from her stash. Set at 48 ends per inch this is a double warp piece woven with 60/2 silk. Once the warp is on the loom, the weaving is rather simple, with just changing which of the two warps are in front when throwing the shuttle.

Mary's FLW scarf adaption

Laura did a fiber piece with snow dyed fabric called 'Snow Birches'.

Free motion quilting, embroidery stitches, beading and cut out applique were the techniques she used.

her inspiration came from, a British print maker, Angie Lewin's book.

Laura with 'Snow Birches'

Print making book

Close up of' 'Snow Birches'

Dawn with a smile on her face got her inspiration from a photo of Mortica, Since she likes to use locs of wool with her hand spun yarn she created an amazing cowl for the BB show.

 

Carol's focus has been on vessels this year and here she is using T-shirts to crochet this lovely piece.  

Kathie wove a runner on a white warp with her natural dyed fibers.

Her love of fall colors and the yarns from the natural dye workshop created this stunning runner that is now displayed on her dinning room table. All this was done on her 4 shaft loom.

Karen created a shawl with Lion Brand Acrylic knitting yarn. This lovely piece was woven on a 27 inch rigid heddle loom. She used 3 balls of yarn for this on a  warp with the same yarn. We really liked the way the multi color yarn intersected in the weave.

tabby shawl multi color yarn.

close up of shawl

Marilyn chose to weave a rug using a very soft Chenille like 'Bernet Blanket Brights'. This created a soft plush rug that could be used as a camping bed also. She wove this on a cotton rug warp in tabby.

 

John did a weaving using the colors from his coleus plant. He chose a white warp to create a wall hanging with a pastel effect. Trying out a number of weave patterns including Leno. He also considered a black warp but we all agreed that the pastel effect was great for the Coleus coloring.

Coleus colors

John's Wall hanging

Anita has been doing a lot of embroidery to embellish her needle cases. She not only finished one for herself but also for a friend. These are so lovely it was suggested she use them as wall hangings.

Anita with embroidered wool

Close up of Anita's work

Coming in via the email from Karen T including the comment!

The basket features eco printed birch bark! I really need to experiment with this technique and plan to teach a class at Northhouse Folk School this October, where I will bring eco printed bark to use, and hopefully will have a demo on printing it! for our guild.

 

Eco print birch bark

in progress basket by Karen

Thanks to all that participated in our Buellwood Best 2019.

I think we decided to make our 2020 Buellwood Best a 'One Foot Piece of Art'. But I will keep you posted if there are other requirements.

Our next meeting will be June 17th at Gloria Dei Church in Hancock , MI at noon.

 Poppy has the day off and will do a presentation on willow collecting and creations.