Hanky Exhibit Opening Reception September 3

Bobbie’s Hanky Buffet

September 2 -14

An exhibit of embroidered

vintage hankies

from the

Making Memory Cloths Circle

Reception September 3

4– 5:30 pm

Lakeside Street Coffee House

402 W Lakeside Street

Madison, WI

Circle Notes July 30, 2014

Maureen is back from France and glowing.  Notable highlight was seeing the historic “Bayeux Tapestry” which, we learned from a book she brought about it, technically isn’t a tapestry but an enormous and spectacular embroidery.  She found a small shop in Bayeux – see photo – that taught classes in the types of stitches used in the original.  Maureen spent two hours in class with these teachers.  Brought with her a kit from the Bayeux Broderie which depicts a portion of the historic embroidery, with gorgeous embroidery yarns.

 

Beverly Gordon joined the group today.  She was a member of the original Café Allonge.  Beverly brought a big bag of fabric to share with us, and shared her own current memory cloth project.  

Beverly also facilitates Soul Collage workshops.  Sherri has participated in several workshops with Beverly and brought a number of collages to show and share today.

Joan recently went to the Ethel Stein weavings exhibit, at the Art Institute Textile Gallery through November 9.  Below is the cover of the exhibit booklet.  Magnificent.

Sherri, Pam Niebauer, Ann E. and Brenna all working on the Bobbi-hanky projects. Brenna plans to embroider family names on her handkerchief, which she feels is in the spirit of a seder/matzoh cloth.  She emailed a Russian friend for the Cyrillic spelling of her grandmother’s name which will be prominent on her hanky.

Laurie spent some time pulling the little papers off many skeins of embroidery floss to give to Sherri. She also shared a wonderful book of embroidery motifs, 500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery. Laurie is also working on another piece for the silent auction at her family’s reunion and fundraiser in Boaz, WI.

Another Ann joined our group today with a knitting project. She also brought her finished piece from her Café Allonge visit. 

Sherri found several wonderful textile related shows to share with the group:

Pinning the Past: British Folk Art Textiles and also at

British Folk Art at the Tate Modern   

ArtistFills Corner Store with 4,000 Hand-Stitched Felt Products

Leslee updates 8-2-14

Hankies

Marilyn' s in process hanky 

Adventures

Leslee's going to Mesa Verde.

We went to Mesa verde and even climbed the 4 ten foot ladders to see the Cliff Place!

Amazing places built from 700-1300 CE  The crevices they built into and springs of water that had been filtered through the earth.

I sent in a Peace flag from the link on this blog -- Thank you for sharing that.

front

Back side

Rainbow outside our cabin in the Sangre De Cristos mountains -- 8000 feet!

I'm embroidering the flowers here
this is a thistle with some wild lavender asters next to it 
not finished yet
"How wonderful!" is a quote from the Buddha

I'll bring all of them to show you.

Miss you
Leslee