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.
Shirley Rampton “Bottle Fantasy”. An original design inspired by the artwork of Jean-Claude Gaugy
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.
Barbara’s basket sampler from Jean Impey’s applique class “Basket Case”
Barbara’s application of what she learned in Lynn Koolish’s class “Colour Pop”
Gail’s sampler from Melissa Marginet’s Edge to Edge Walking foot class.
back of Gail’s sampler from Melissa Marginet’s Edge to Edge Walking foot class
We have used up scraps, finished UFOs and generally had a stitching good time.
Nina’s creative use of scraps
Freda’s whole cloth quilt with a friend’s hand died batik.
This quit started with 5 embroidered blocks and a box of fabric. Gail used the rest of the fabric to practice ruler and walking foot quilting techniques.
Back of Gail’s sampler quilt.
Donated poppy appliques were turned into this gay wall hanging by Gail
The box full of blue scraps overflowed and became this fun quilt. Gail practiced her new walking foot quilting techniques with diamond lines.
Creative Isolation
Isolation does not mean insulation from new ideas. Quilt patterns and techniques proliferate on the internet. Opportunity abounds to take online classes.
Gail pieced and quilted this using the Shadow Dance pattern from Cool Cat Creations
Gail pieced and quilted this using a Disappearing HST pattern from thersadownunder.com
Gail pieced and quilted this using a Disappearing HST pattern from thersadownunder.com
Jean incorporated a charm pack into this nice soft looking quilt. Gail quilted it with another pattern from Melissa Marginet’s walking foot quilting book.
Tumblers iced by Jean and quilted by Gail using one of Melissa Marginet’s walking foot patterns.
Sylvia used up a lot of intriguing scraps and Gail quilted it with a diamond pattern inspired by Melissa Marginet
Quilts can be simple, complex and fun. Each with their own charm.
Suzanne made this happy, restful scrappy quilt.
Jean pieced this from a Block of the Month pattern. Gail quilted it.
Gail made this fun quilt with fat quarters using Missouri Star’s Pins and Paws pattern.
Sherry had lots of scraps to work with. It is interesting how different scraps and border design can make a quilt unique.
Sherry made this wonderfully colourful circles pattern with scraps.
Seeing Spots with strippy border by Sherry
Seeing Spots with chevron border by Sherry
Quilters often have stashes of fabric that might be cute to use ‘some day’. Covid restrictions have made the ‘some day’ now. Moreen dug into her stash and came up with some wonderful creations.
Moreen made an awesome runner out of an interwoven leaf pattern
A delightful quilt for kids by Moreen
Two fun kids quilts by Moreen destined for Family Place.
What do you do when you get quirky fabric? Corisande combines it imaginatively to produce some very fun quilts.
Ladies at large! Pieced and quilted by Corisande.
Fanciful ladies. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.
Delightful ladies. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.
Gloriously colourful. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.
Off to the beach. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.
Ladies at work and play. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.
Home Sweet Home. Pieced and quilted by Corisande.
Applique is a technique that enables wonderful designs to emerge from pieces of fabric. Corisande has made many pieces from the elegant to the fun and whimsical.
Oriental themed applique quilt wall hanging by Corisande.
Oriental themed applique quilt wall hanging by Corisande.
Oriental themed applique quilt wall hanging by Corisande.
Oriental themed applique quilt wall hanging by Corisande.
Oriental themed applique quilt wall hanging by Corisande.
Intriguing pottery. Appliqued and quilted by Corisande.
Fun with mice. Appliqued and quilted by Corisande.
Fun with mice. Appliqued and quilted by Corisande.
Seeded Reflections by Judy Leslie
We had a fun event to see the Fibre Arts Network “From a Tiny Seed”. This slide show had amazing creative expressions of the small growing large.
Gail’s “Japanese Spring”, created as part of the Guild President’s challenge in 2020 is being exhibited at the “Cherry Blossoms: A Textile Translation” show in West Vancouver. You can find out more about this interesting show here.
Original work by Gail. Uses Lorna Shapiro’s free form curved piecing, raw edge applique and thread painting.
TAGOR held its second online event on March 23 with renowned textile artist Susan Purney Mark. Susan treated us to a talk about her month long residency in Iceland, the places she mot enjoyed seeing, the art she produced there and influences still resonating in the art she is producing now.
Softly Spoken
Susan Purney Mark
Points of Contention
Susan Purney Mark
Spring at Brooks Point Susan Purney Mark
TAGOR held its first online event on February 23 with a showing of the Fibre Art Network (FAN) Circles and Lines exhibit. More information about FAN, their artists and artwork for sale can be found on their website here. We enjoyed seeing quality images of the many wonderful pieces inspired by the theme of circles and lines.
Gaia by Tracie L. Maryne $200
Circles and Lines Rust by Lilly Thorne. $150
Blood Moon by Judy Leslie. $150
Hanging in the Balance by Cindi Plant. $80
Christmas is over and members are back working on other projects.
Moreen is still using up her stash creatively.
Lots of fun colours in this split nine patch pieced and quilted by Moreen.
More fun colours but in a different pattern pieced and quilted by Moreen.
Amazing detailed piecing of tiny squares in a comfortable brown and gold. Pieced and quilted by Moreen
Sometimes neighbours sort their sewing rooms and find they have tried out patterns but don’t know what they would do with another quilt. Extra quilt tops are welcomed and quilted for our partners.
Trying out a variety of blocks. Nice relaxing colours pieced by Moreen’s neighbour and quilted by Gail
Beautiful batiks pieced by Moreen’s neighbour and quilted by Gail
Colourful Stack n Whack. Pieced by Moreen’s neighbour and quilted by Gail.
Sherry and Freda have been sewing and knitting.
A joy of quilting is figuring out how to use up fabric leftover from various projects. Sherry did a beautiful job with a box of blue scraps.
Freda loves to knit. These colourful fidgit muffs are ready to have tassels and buttons added for dementia patients to play with.
Attractive and practical toques for chemo patients to wear in cold weather by Freda
These four are the latest contribution to our partner Lion’s Manor.
Traditional star pattern pieced and quilted by Gail
Beautifully crafted butterflies in blue by Suzanne
Creative use of leftover fabric and half-square triangles from other projects by Gail
Flower garden pieced by a friend of TAGOR and quilted by Gail.
With Christmas around the corner and time to work on a project, Sherry completed this fabulous table runner with fabric that had been sitting in her cupboard for too long.
The table runner pattern uses the snowball technique. The little pieces left over make a delightful matching hot pad!
Just in time for Christmas are these quilts made for our community partners.
Moreen’s delightful array of patterns
Very cute play quilt with trains
With Anne of Green Gables medallion in the centre and PEI tartan on the back it is a delight for girls of any age.
Checkers anyone?
Monkey Wrench pattern in fun colours
Moreen’s wonderful eye for colour makes this simple pattern pop!
Creative use of donated blocks into a marvellous modern style quilt.
Corisande made fun quilts of interesting fabrics
Cute center picture with family on park bench
Interesting girls in costumes
Bright colours accent the black fabric
More cute pictures of people on vacation
Colourful medley of interesting fabrics
More fun fabrics and colours
Christmas means giving to family, friends and those who need cheer and a helping hand. These ornaments will certainly add cheer to the Turning Point recovery houses. The toques will go to St. Alban’s church for their outreach program to help replace supplies stolen and damaged in the November break in.
Suzanne made these delightful ornaments using a traditional log cabin pattern.
Freda knit these warm, colourful and unique toques!
This second lockdown has felt difficult but we’re not so isolated that we can’t have phone conversations with friends. We discovered other needs in Richmond. Moreen, Sherry and Gail were able to supply nine quilts to Richmond group homes in time for Christmas.
Sherry put her leftovers to good use in this colourful treasure.
Sherry’s imagination produced this delightful scrappy hourglass quilt.
Sherry used a square in square motif to make a dent in her scrap pile with this cheerful quilt.
Nice vibrant colours in this bed topper by Moreen.
Moreen had a bunch of pieces left over from a stack-n-whack. A little creativity produced this fun, colourful quilt.
Moreen used red, black and white to make this dramatic quilt!
Moreen shows us how a simple four patch can be quite elegant!
Moreen used shades of green sashing to nicely tie together a myriad of fabrics.
A friend gave Gail some larger pieces of fabric that enabled her to do some fun pinwheel blocks.
Linda’s daughter returned for a visit and busily used up more of her mother’s stash. Gail put her thinking cap on to figure out what to do with some donated fabric. Three quilts later with two of Moreen’s now all the beds at Elmbridge have a cheery bed topper. We thought it would take at least two years but we did it in 18 months!
Lovely fall colours pieced by Linda and Quilted by Gail.
Always fun to see what can be made of donated fabric. Pieced and quilted by Gail.
Perfect as the fall turns cool. Pieced by Linda and Quilted by Gail.
Armed with a mound of batting Moreen went to work quilting several tops she had worked up while organizing her stash over the isolation months. The first seven quilts are ready to brighten new homes. 🙂
Moreen made interesting motifs with the artful positioning of half-square triangles and square blocks
Moreen using up stash with a colourful scrappy four patch
Take one with black and white fabrics Moreen found buried in her stash.
Take two with black and white fabrics Moreen found buried in her stash.
Tan nine patch pieced and quilted by Moreen
Cheerful Red and white nine patch pieced and quilted by Moreen
Blue nine patch pieced and quilted by Moreen.
Social isolation doesn’t mean we are isolated from our sewing machines. Over the summer we worked on quilts for Lion’s Manor, the intensive Care Nursery, Elmbridge Supportive housing, Turning Point for Women and Family Place.
In a cool trick, Eileen made strips of orange and blue into diamonds of colour.
Eileen’s take on railroad tracks.
It’s a girl! A lovely preemie quilt by Eileen complete with sheep for counting.
Jennie took some donated hexagons and turned them into a wonderful lap quilt.
Colourful squares made by Eileen, Jennie and Pat were quilted by Jennie into a fun play quilt.
A prolific quilter, here are some of the dozens of preemie quilts made by Joan.
Joan stitched a delightful array of colour into these play quilts.
A bunch of colourful play quilts by Joan.
Gail decided it was time to use up as many of her 1.5″ and 2.5″ squares as she could.
Gail’s neighbour gave her some colourful, lightly used kimonos to give new life to.
Linda pieced this delightful zig zag and Gail quilted it.
Creative juices have been flowing!
Pam was approached by a woman who had found lots of lace handkerchiefs among her mothers things. A few photos and lace turned them into a wonderful keepsake wall hanging.
The patience of Joan to make and stitch together hundreds of 1/2″ hexagons. But what a beauty!
Joan’s Jacobean Applique panel
Joan’s Jacobean Applique panel
Joan’s Jacobean Applique panel
Elly likes making Preemie and play quilts. She has been sewing steadily over the last few months.
Elly took assorted fabrics and turned them into colourful Preemie quilts.
Elly had some fun fabric for a couple more Preemie quilts and lots of blues and greys to make into play quilts.
Our members are creative thinking beyond quilts and blankets to other items our partner organizations would find useful.
Sherry made these wonderful tote bags from ‘fish’ motif donated fabric.
Some donated brocade fabric too heavy for quilts was skillfully turned into tote bags by Sherry.
There is no end to imaginative use of scraps. Sherry used donated zippers and leftover scraps of fabric and batting to make these awesome cosmetic bags.
When you can’t sew any more you can take up knitting!
For something different Freda started knitting and made dish cloths in a variety of patterns. She was surprised and delighted at how easy the round one was.
On a roll with knitting Freda made these face cloths to go in the bags Sherry quilted.
Vickie knitted this cute blanket from a pattern called Bunches of Bobbles.
Time is flying by and quilters are looking ahead to Christmas.
Suzanne’s festive Christmas Star Table Runners and log cabin ornaments.
Moreen found too many pieces of black and white fabric in her stash so she got busy 🙂
Blocks on the diagonal add interest to this one.
What you can do with black and white squares and rectangles1
With a wedding in the family and a son and daughter in law moving to new digs Gail has made a couple of quilts to celebrate.
Adapted from George Boe’s Swirling Star Quilt pattern. Sewn and quilted by Gail for a housewarming present for her son and daughter-in-law.
Gail’s nephew and his fiance met in the scouting movement. He loves cats and she loves golden labs. Hence cats and labs enjoying the camping experience!
