From the Circle July 16, 2014

Jane Perlmutter, quilter, knitter and knitting pattern designer, attended.  She was a guest of Pamela.  Jane brought a vintage thimble she found in her sewing stuff: from the campaign of Calvin Coolidge!  Jane sells from “Ravelry” a database and storage site.  She has strong connections in Scotland and leads tours of librarians to sites in Scotland.  Yesterday she was mourning the fire at the Glasgow Art School that destroyed exquisite documents relating to Charles Rennie Macintosh.

Pamela brought a very special embroidered cloth that was given to her by a young Albanian woman she visited when Pamela was a social worker in New York.  The young woman did extraordinary embroidery which was displayed around her apartment.  No one in the Circle could determine what kind of stitch she used to get this effect, almost like she worked with felted thread.

Cyndi is working on the hanky project.  In her research she learned that purple poppies (which are on her hanky) are symbols to honor animals lost in wars.  On her hanky she has embroidered “ghost” animals in very pale colors. 

Peggy continues to stitch on her handmade paper.  She brought and distributed mini-clothespins for us to decorate and use to hang our hanky project.

Bobbi brought her own hanky which she passed around for each of us to sign our first names on her daisies.  She will embroider our names on her daisy hanky.  Bobbi finished one more joke punch line on her quilt.  Six more to go and six more spaces on the quilt.  She also brought an amazing and beautiful framed woven piece of her own depicting a white pinafore…woven by artist Deborah Stobbins.

Sherri went to Erin’s beautiful farm last weekend, embroidered and had fun.  

 She finished the small piece she was working on about how her Mom always made her favorite cherry cheese cake for her birthday.

Margaret used wilted irises to dye on muslin, to beautiful effect.  Thinking about how to fix the color and design.

Marilyn brought her eco-prints using leaves, flowers and ferns on watercolor and Arches Text paper.

Laurie working on a piece for her family reunion’s silent auction, which will raise money to repair and care for tombstones in the Boaz Cemetery in Boaz, WI.

Joan still stitching and thinking on the concept of the piece “You don’t have to tell Mom everything.”

Ann brought and distributed copies of “Start and the Art Will Follow.”  She continues to embroider pithy, wise words of the Circle on her (Bobbi’s) hanky.