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 
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