April 2022 E-Newsletter - Week 4 |
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Muttons & Buttons & Pearls, Oh My! by Janet Stone, a 2019 AQS QuiltWeek winning entry. There are eight exhibitions at this year's event.
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Around the Region
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4/27 - 4/30 - AQS Quilt Week, Paducah, KY
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4/28 - 4/30 - Quiltfest, Greenville, SC
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4/29 - 2022 Fantastic Fibers Opening Reception, Paducah, KY
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5/4 - African American Fiber Art Exhibition opens, Charleston SC
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5/6 - Upcountry Fiber Artists: Carolina Mountains to the Shore closes, Aiken, SC
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5/7 - Square Foot Fiber Art Pin Up Show Opening Reception, Chamblee, GA
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5/10 - Signals and Warnings, a solo exhibition by Jim Arendt opens, Gatlinburg, TN
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5/13 - 5/14 - Fiber Festival in the Valley, Sautee Nacoochee, GA
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5/14 - Collage Comes of Age opens, Duluth GA, and The Artist's Question...Answered in Fiber closes, St. Petersburg, FL
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6/3 - 6/4 - Blue Ridge Fiber Fest, Sparta, NC
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Opportunities
(Listed by deadline date.)
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Above, are three upcoming events, you don't want to miss! (Visit the SEFAA website for much, much more!)
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Spinning Silk with Cassie Dickson on Friday 4/29 (in-person): Spend a day exploring silk! Try out drafting techniques to control thread size, learn to ply fine singles, and discover how to set the twist in your silk yarn with several different silk preparations. You’ll also enjoy learning about the history of silk, how to raise silkworms, how to degum silk, how to blend silk with other fibers, and how to dye silk.
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Flax Plant to Linen Yarn with Cassie Dickson on 4/30 (in-person): You’ll have an opportunity to: process flax using 18th-century tools, learn different methods of preparing a distaff, practice spinning linen thread suitable for cloth, learn how to scour your spun yarn, and discover how to prepare it for weaving. Cassie will also share tips on growing flax and retting flax plants to release their bast fibers.
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White to Wow: Kitchen Safe Dyeing with Gale Evans on 5/14 (virtual): Learn to create beautiful hand-dyed yarns with minimum fuss and maximum fun! Session 1 will be a live presentation covering the materials in your kit and how to use them. Then, you’ll try out several dyeing techniques on your own in between sessions, so that you can show off your colorful creations and ask follow-up questions in Session 2.
Below, are images from Claudia Lee's Make and Use Original Decorative Papers workshop: (photos by Jennifer Folsom and Betsy Stark):
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Many thanks to our intrepid Annual Spruce Up Party volunteers (clockwise from front left), Corrie, Betsy, Gale, Suzi, and Karen. We now have a freshly-painted exhibition wall (just in time for Let's Tie One On!), sparkling clean windows and bathrooms, and only a few thread bunnies! |
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