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Deborah Zibrik – Creating Art Using Stitch

Deborah presented her journey into creative stitchery with good humor, delightful examples and thoughtful tips. She was very encouraging and offered practical ideas to further our own artistic journeys. It was a wonderful afternoon talk!

If you missed this and/or want to see more of Deborah’s work check out the exhibits at Knox United Church May 28-29, noon to 5pm part of Artists in Our Midst

Textile artist Deborah Zebrik

Sparkle and Pop workshop with Stacey Day

All the workshop participants enjoyed learning from Stacey how to fold and stitch rectangles and squares into marvelous curved diamonds. It was fun to see how a single design could be interpreted multiple ways for an interesting and marvelous variety of results.

IMG_1182 Sparkle and Pop Workshop — Freda pins her pillow top to the design wall.

Our sewing machines are not locked down!

Corisande and her daughter-in-law Bev have been quilting up a storm. Here are a few of their cheerful creations for kids and the young at heart.

A fun quilt by Corisande

Cheerful, colourful quilt by Corisande and Bev

More Fun with Quilting

Suzanne made this strip quilt with cheerful colours.

Moreen played with orange , brown and green.

An split rail fence complimented by a beautiful border by Moreen.

When there is fabric left over from other quilts Moreen makes fun scrappy quilts.

With lots of black and red in hand Moreen put on her thinking cap and came up with an intriguingly beautiful design. The middle pieces are large triangles cut and rejoined.

Moreen’s imagination produced this wonderful combination of modern and traditional.

Log Cabin Fever

Gail’s scrap pile was getting too large. The first job was to tackle the brown pile. Then she cut up the Blue with pink highlights and the Pink with blue highlights but put together they didn’t work after all so it was back to the scraps and there were lots of white and cream so one quilt became two.

Gail pieced and quilted this wonky log cabin. Jean added the binding.

Gail pieced and quilted this log cabin in spiral stitching from the centre of each circle. Jean added the binding.

Gail pieced and quilted this in ‘diamond’ rays. Jean did the binding.

February Show and Tell

We had a Zoom meeting and shared some of the projects we’ve been working on.

When you have wonderful fabric it can be hard to cut it up. This delightful quilt showcases some beautiful fabrics.

After acquiring this intricate pattern 20 years ago it took COVID to slow her down enough to have time to put it together. What a wonderful rendition!

Barbara made this wonderful and quirky, creative gardener wall hanging.

Barbara’s “Could’a Been” was inspired by her California quilting group challenge. Make something with a length of red fabric and a theme in the world of entertainment. A very creative and pretty original design!

Barbara’s pretty, practical iPad and other stuff carry.

Sherry used up more scraps with this delightful “Rose Garden” quilt.

Sherry practiced her free motion quilting making eleven toiletry bags for Family Place to distribute. Isabelle, Pat and Moreen helped her acquire items so they could be donated full.

Inspired by the cold weather and Gail’s pieced jackets, Jenny made a lined and sandwiched jacket. Just right to brighten a winter day.

Gail turned the leftover snowball pieces from a ‘Log Jam’ lap quilt into this warm and colourful quilt.

Gail turned the leftover snowballs from the ‘Square Knot’ quilt into small pinwheels and added some big ones for a fun lap quilt.

Our members find working with colourful fabrics adds colour to our lives amidst the latest wave.

Beth chose wonderful colours for this fabulous and well crafted design.

Starry design began with leftover snowball cuttings and fabric scraps Gail had laying around.

Elly turned these luscious purple leftovers into a fun crib quilt.

Elly used this fun ‘stained glass’ design for crib quilts.

Members and friends of the guild have been busy creating quilts for the new supportive housing opening in Richmond in the summer. Rather than have them just sit in her cupboard Bev took her creations to show residents at Crofton Manor. “They are truly works of art and we so enjoyed seeing them”, they reported in their newsletter.

ArtRich 2021 entrant Gail Newell’s wall hanging. When hiking in the alpine in summer there is a swath of colour and up close an exquisite variety of shapes and colours.

Gail designed and stitched this quilt using Ricky Tim’s convergence techniques for the background.

Applique of Lupines, Columbine and Paintbrush patterned from Gail’s photographs.

Inspiration comes from a variety of sources

Suzanne tried paper piecing and made these beautiful wall hangings to brighten the walls of several of our community partners/

Jenny took lots of bright scraps to make this fun crumb quilt for a kids bed.

A friend of Gail’s daughter-in-law was starting chemotherapy. They adapted a pattern from Spoonflower into this warm rainbow lap quilt.

Proud of her daughter’s marathon racing, Pat put the T-shirts together into a warm quilt.

What to do when it’s raining?

Eileen used a really cute panel to make a crib quilt.

This Hartford star pattern will brighten up a room. Using a donation of 1-2 m cuts Gail pieced and quilted it. Binding by Jean. It is already in the hands of one of our outreach partners.

Grateful for the 1m donations this fun and colourful “Square Knot” pattern pieced and quilted by Gail and bound by Jean will go to our outreach partners.

Melissa Marginet

We gathered together, some in person and some online with Zoom to listen to Melissa. What a great presentation filled with ideas and tips for making something unique and making the creative process fun!

Head over to Melissa’s website for patterns, books, ideas and free stuff.

Design fun!

Whether using modern or traditional designs it is always fun to figure out what patterns work with the fabrics you have.

Suzanne made this marvelous quilt that uses a simple but elegant linear design.

Ruth made a modern baby quilt that has an nice touch of whimsy in purple and green.

The monkey flannel makes the back of the baby quilt so much fun.

Habitat for Humanity

Six new homes were opened in Richmond by Habitat for Humanity. We were pleased to welcome the new residents with quilts.

Suzanne made this restful quilt in blues.

Vickie took interesting fabric scraps to make a fun and colourful quilt. The curved quilting adds a nice touch.

Moreen used the Logjam pattern to make this fun quilt.

Sherry made this interesting quilt with a couple of panels and coordinating scraps.

Pam appliqued octagons to an interesting backing to make a delightful flower garden which Gail quilted and Jean finished.

Joan used autumn colours to make this wonderfully warm quilt.

Garcia_Julie_Bench_Under_Blossoms_fullview-1 — Julie Garcia – Bench Under Blossoms

Julie Garcia

What a great presentation we enjoyed! Julie has some wonderful techniques that got our imaginations going. We learned about making sky and water, layering pieces for landscaping, use of yarn, thread and embroidery for awesome trees and other embroidery techniques to bring life and interest to fabric pieces.

If you missed this fabulous presentation you can visit Julie’s website http://www.juliegarcia.com for more information and see the following videos on YouTube.

Julie’s YouTube demonstration videos

Neighbourliness

Some people are great neighbours. Moreen’s neighbour Joan has a big stash and being good neighbours Moreen has been helping her whittle it down. These quilts will cheer up kids new to the country and feeling a bit at sea!

Really cute teddy bears to snuggle under.

Cheerful colours and an alphabet border.

Inspiration

Sometimes we find a particularly cute panel. Other times we get a wonderful assortment of fabrics in a donation that along with a fun pattern turn into wonderful quilts.

Jean hand quilted this very cute panel into a wonderful warm treat for a little girl.

A large donated piece of beige with other interesting colours inspired this 9 patch madness. Pieced and quilted by Gail with Jean doing the binding.

A recent donation had several 1 yard WOFs. Gail decided it would be fun to see how using different patterns could make mostly the same fabrics into very different quilts.

This Jelly Roll Twist was pieced and quilted by Gail and Jean did the binding.

A “Log Jam” pattern pieced and quilted by Gail with Jean doing the binding.

Fall Show & Tell

After a late but good AGM we got down to the business of sharing our adventures in stitching.

Joan has been very busy with cross stitch. It takes thousands of hours to create such gorgeous pieces but she also managed to work on quilt tops.

An image to warm your heart on a cold wet winter day.

Delightful detail on these wild animals.

Joan made a bunch of quilt tops with scraps. This was a lovely purple one.

Ruth enjoys modern quilting and has been trying out and practicing several techniques.

Curved and bias pieces make up this lovely, restful image

When you have leftover bias pieces and someone donates interesting strips it becomes a table runner.

An interesting quilt in which the center of one block becomes the outside of the next (starting from bottom left)

Ruth made this colourful placemat for a nephew who enjoys Japanese art

There are always scraps and then inspiration (or desperation) strikes!

Gail something for kids from leftover scraps after making pajama’s and vests and decided they would make a fun play quilt.

Sherry executed a wonderful variety of projects.

Sherry pieced scraps into this gorgeous “Mountain Lily” quilt. The borders and binding used up the smaller leftovers.

Sherry made good use of lots of scraps for this colourful play quilt

A whole cloth play quilt lets one practice curves in the quilting phase.

Midsummer Arts Dream 2021

The Community Arts Council of Richmond held their annual show September 10-12. Due to COVID restrictions only some of the work of Painting/Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Textiles could be displayed but the full online show can be found here until December 10. Shirley and Gail had four entries accepted between them, of which two were textiles.

2nd place winner in Textile Category. Shirley Rampton “Bottle Fantasy”. An original design inspired by the artwork of Jean-Claude Gaugy

1st place winner in Textile Category. Gail Newell “Chickadee”. An original design from one of her photographs using techniques learned from Sue Sherman to produce a textile hanging.

Shirley Rampton “Poppies”. In this painting Shirley painted her favourite flower with an abstract feel.

Walking in Terra Nova last December Gail took this photo marveling at the sight of a single rosehip with one frozen droplet and one melted droplet.

Summer Quilting

Moreen and Gail played with fabric in between gardening.

Moreen designed this unique and interesting hanging to look like a cathedral wall with ivy growing up it.

Gail borrowed a template to try out making inset circles. It was fun mixing and matching fabrics.

Brenda gave Gail some butterfly blocks. She found a flower pattern to try and it became “Butterflies in the Garden”

June Show and Tell

We gathered on Zoom to catch up with each other and share what we have been working on and learning. Lynda, Gail and Ruth have been learning Walking Foot quilting from Melissa Marginet. Barbara has taken courses from both Jean Impey on applique and Lynn Koolish on colour pop.