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Letter From Our President,
Susan Allen
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A New Year!
This is the time to begin to think about new beginnings:
..what’s in store for the new year?
..what do I want in this 'season of my life'?
..what is valuable to me and what can I let go of?
For me, this year it seems to be about decluttering…. my studio, my stash, my kitchen, all the neglected cupboards and drawers and more…. so much more…..
Clearing the path before us aids in moving forward on a new one. Make room for new stuff, ideas, creations, even hobbies! Sign up for a class, try something new, refresh forgotten skills,
Saying goodbye to the last three years, many of us are finding renewal. The world seems to be opening up again. Enjoy it! Seek your joy! Laugh more! Love more!
LOOK FOR THE GOOD AND PRAISE IT!
Susan Allen, President
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From President Elect, Jane Wolfe
Adapt Any Pattern – Genius Sewing Tip!
Use a rubber band and wrap it around two pencils together to easily create a seam allowance. The pencils will be about 8 mm apart. That makes it exactly what you need to go up or down a size! Pattern making is going to be a cinch with this sewing trick!
Sharpen Scissors with Aluminum Foil
Sharp scissors are a must-have for any sewist! If your scissors are getting dull, lightly rub them with aluminum foil. This will help you keep the blades sharp. You can also cut through the foil a few times if your blades are especially dull.
Make A Needle Sharpening Pincushion
Fill a pincushion with steel wool to make your own needle-sharpening pincushion.
Keeping your needle nice and sharp will make pushing it through the fabric so much easier! Such a smart idea!
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Walker Bags!
Here are a few of 40 finished walker bags made lovingly by CFG members for Pacifica Senior Living, Calaroga Terrace residents.
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Thank you to seven CFG volunteers who made 40 bags in December for Pacifica Senior Living, Calaroga Terrace residents.The photos above show happy, grateful faces. The Activities Director, Max Graves, reports," The bags are all out into the world and everyone loves them."
If you would like to make a bag, the pattern is below. If you would like to help in another way please consider donating fabrics for bags. Fabrics or completed bags may be dropped on my front porch (see address below). We like using interior fabrics, just something a little more substantial than a quilting material. Thread also would be a helpful donation.
I recently found out that St.Vincent's Hospital outpatient rehabilitation supervisor would be very pleased to receive 50 walker bags. So start your engines CFG volunteer stitchers: let's sew!
If you know of residents in other places who would benefit from our bags please contact me.
Thank you to our stitchers and donors. Outstanding!!
Karin Graves
Outreach Coordinator
510 SW Meadow Drive
Beaverton, Oregon 97006
503 804 2648
Karinagraves2@frontier.com
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News From Our Program Committee | |
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It's a Busy Time For Programs!
Registration for our 2023 workshops began at noon, December 11, and moved right along without much fanfare. In just the past few days, the last remaining slot was filled. There’s a wait list for each class, so, if you’re considering taking a class and have not registered for it, add your name to the waitlist for that class. Experience tells us that by class time, there are often changes in individuals’ schedules that cause them to need to skip or miss a workshop. Such openings will be offered to those on the waitlist, offered in the same order as added to the waitlist.
Supply lists will be sent out in the next few days to enrollees in the March 9-10 class with Carol Anne Grotrian. The list will also be available on our website for attendees to download at their convenience.
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CFG Quarterly Meeting, March 8 at
Congregation Neveh Shalom,
2900 SW Peaceful Ln, Portland
10am - business meeting begins
11am - Carol Anne Grotrian will present Shibori & Me: From Ancient Techniques to Contemporary Quilts. Ms. Grotrian combines East & West: American quilting & Japanese textile traditions, using her hand-dyed fabrics, often using shibori to create patterns. Her current quilts are all hand sewn, either whole cloth or using raw edge applique and boro, as well as hand quilting to sew the usual layers of a quilt together. Listen as she shares her knowledge of the history of these techniques and how they’ve moved into the world of contemporary fiber art. See samples of this amazing work below.
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Additionally:
Last year’s extra, online artists’ lectures were well received, and we’re planning to add to the lecture schedule this year. We will publish information as it’s available. Lectures will be available free of charge to all current CFG members.
Finally:
Programs 2023 (Emily, Carol, Lottie) and Programs 2024 Elect (Laura, Marnie, Sally) committees met to share progress, successes/failures, ideas, questions/answers, etc. We had a fun and fruitful time and came away inspired by the enthusiasm for the programs coming from both groups.
Keep in mind that you, too, can participate in selection of programs for CFG. Share your ideas. Share your time. Every summer, the call goes out for programs’ producers. Summer’s coming… think about raising your hand - volunteer - it’s fun!
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Hand Stitching Online Gallery on the CFG Website
Check out the Winter 2023 Gallery of works featuring Hand Stitching on the website. Find it by clicking on the Exhibits title near the top of the page. This is an exciting show with so many approaches to fiber art featuring hand stitching. The Jury was pleased to have over 40 entries with a variety of methods and themes. Stay tuned for information on the next online gallery call. Below is Pat Fifer's, Garden, from the online gallery.
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Garden
by Pat Fifer
10" x 14"
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Committee Member Needed for Online Gallery
The Exhibits Committee is looking for a CFG member who can join the team to help facilitate the twice-yearly exhibits. Most of the time and effort is concentrated in a two week period just after the call closes. If you are interested or have questions, please email Jill Hoddick at hoddick@up.edu
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News from Laura Shaw
Laura writes, "I’m a relatively new quilter/textile artist and was thrilled to have two pieces juried into QuiltCon. Both are machine pieced and quilted.
My quilt website is https://www.laurashaw.net/"
Artist Statement for Your Mother. Your Daughter. Your Sister. Your Grandmother. You. "Started in the spring of 2022, after the leak of the draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, I felt the need to work through my anger and frustration knowing that this fundamental human right to essential healthcare was soon to be lost for millions of women.
When seen from a distance, the more than 3,000 squares of this quilt form a red cross that swirls and fractures around the edges, eroding just as reproductive rights are eroding across America. Viewed up close, each square, made up of red fabrics that cover the full spectrum from purple to orange, solid to patterned, is uniquely shaped, a visual reminder of how each woman must uniquely cope with the unpredictability of having a uterus—from miscarriage to infertility, failed birth control to traumatic birth and delivery—and how all women collectively depend on and benefit from access to safe, legal reproductive care and safe, legal abortion.
As I cut and stitched up each block, I thought about how this disastrous decision, rendered by five men and one woman, will impact us all—women most directly, our families by extension.
The red cross is an internationally recognized symbol of protection and care offered to all in times of conflict and disaster. I can think of no better symbol to represent this unfolding calamity for American women, for those they love, and for those who love them."
Artist Statement for Scrap Bin Quilt No. 1: Just like weeds—trash is only trash when we decide it is.
This quilt honors all of our quilting grandmothers’ sense of thrift and beauty by only using scraps of fabric that would've normally been thrown out, hopefully transforming them into something worthy of keeping.
Like many quilters, I somewhat obsessively keep all of my scraps, sorting them into separate bins by shape—strips, squares, oddballs. This quilt was made from the 'strip' scrap bin and the rules I set for myself were to use only these scraps and to try to use them all up. In the process of cutting out the squares from the strip sets, I generated yet more scraps with all the little corners left over. But I kept those too, and I'm sure they'll make an appearance in another quilt somewhere down the line.
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Your Mother. Your Daughter. Your Sister. Your Grandmother. You.
by Laura Shaw
82" x 82"
Photo credit: Hoddick Photography
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Scrap Bin Quilt No. 1
by Laura Shaw
39" x 39"
Photo credit: Hoddick Photography
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News from Mary Arnold
Mary writes, "I was gobsmacked to recently receive an email from the Dairy Barn that informed me that my Quilt National piece, A Road Less Traveled, sold and was already in the possession of the new owners. It is always bittersweet news when a piece is purchased. You are delighted to have sold a piece and to not have it sitting around in storage. But you are sad to see one of your "children" grow up and leave the nest. It was also the first piece in my new series, created in the height of the pandemic which added to the specialness of it to me personally. In any case, to sell a Quilt National piece is just extraordinary and delightful news."
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A Road Less Traveled
by Mary Arnold
34" x 53"
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News from Glenda Mah
Glenda's piece, Women's Circle, was accepted as part of the gallery exhibit ROE 2.0 - It Ain't Over Yet, at the Women Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
The show runs from January 28 - March 4 and there is also an online exhibit.
Glenda's piece, The Four Winds, has been accepted into the Birds in Fiber exhibit at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Museum in La Conner, WA. The exhibit runs from January 25 - February 26.
Glenda has been asked to coordinate the Art Quilt Division at the first Annual Oregon Quilt Festival to be held at the Salem Convention Center, Salem, Oregon, which runs January 27-29, 2023. There is still time to submit artwork, just download the form and either mail or bring to Will-N-Bee'z Quilt and Coffee Shop,1555 12th St SE, Salem. The website is OregonQuiltFestival.com. The featured guest judge is Kathie Kerler.
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Women's Circle
by Glenda Mah
20" x 22"
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The Four Winds
by Glenda Mah
36" x 36"
Photo credit: Benma Photo
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Tightwire Exhibit News
The members of High Fiber Diet would like to invite all CFG members to join us at the opening reception for Tightwire on February 2 at Mt Hood Community College Visual Arts Gallery from 11 to 2. This will be the premier venue for this new exhibit of fiber art. Many of the artists will be there and would love to chat with you about their artwork and the techniques they used to create them. Please feel free to invite friends and family as well. We look forward to seeing you.
The Tightwire exhibit runs January 30 - February 22.
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What's Your 8? Exhibit News
High Fiber Diet members' exhibit What's Your 8? will be at Eugene Textile Center, 2750 Roosevelt Blvd, Eugene for the month of March. These pieces are mounted on 8” artist frames.
From Pam Pilcher, pilcherpam@gmail.com
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New Installation!
The Creative Wearables Group has a new installation at the Fiber Arts Gallery in Lincoln City Cultural Center. This exhibit runs through March 19 and is open Thurs-Sun 10-4. It features our newest collection, Upcycle, plus previous collections, Metaphors on Marriage and Dare to Lead. The photos below are from the current installation encompassing all three collections.
Creative Wearables was featured in Oregon Arts Watch recently: oregonarts
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Surface Design is a group of fiber artists focused on all facets of applied design, where members inspire creativity and innovation in textile art through workshops, demonstrations, speakers, and field trips along with sharing of each other's work and problem-solving techniques. | |
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Event Calendar Submissions
CFG's calendar of events is found on our website, columbiafiberartsguild.org
Submissions for upcoming events such as:
- Small group meeting information and events
- Information for guild / small group meetings, such as guest speaker name, meeting location, etc.
- Art submission dates
may be sent to Terri Wanke, terri.wanke@yahoo.com
To view the calendar, click Events near the top of the homepage of the website (don't select a sub-option, just click Events) and scroll down the page a little way. To view calendar entry details, such as time and location, click the entry.
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New Exhibit -
Emergence: Fiber Art from Concept to Stitch
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The new exhibit of art quilts by members of SAQA Oregon from the book, Emergence: Fiber Art from Concept to Stitch, runs through February 11 at:
Center Gallery, Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, 97219.
Gallery hours are:
Mon-Thurs 9am-9.30pm, Fri-Sat 9am-5pm
Don't miss the hands-on event February 3, 6-8pm!
For more information contact Gerrie Congdon, gericon@comcast.net
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Vancouver Music & Arts Festival (VMAF)
CFG is a member of Columbia Arts Network (CAN) and is invited to participate in the Vancouver Music & Arts Festival, August 4-6. CAN is currently in the process of planning for the visual arts portion of the program. This seems like an excellent opportunity for the small groups to show their work.
Please let CFG President Elect, Jane Wolfe, jwolfe@quantumleaders.com, know if you are interested in participating.
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Common Threads Exhibition - Information and Submission Instructions
2023 marks the centennial anniversary of the Camas Public Library. Throughout 2023, the library will celebrate its long history as well as the history of Camas and its community. The second story gallery is taking this opportunity to present the exhibition Common Threads. The exhibition will run May-June 2023. We encourage local artists to submit artwork that engages with the history of this region, and/or reflects on its community and environment.
Theme
The theme is local history. However, the history of this region encompasses far more than just what is included in news headlines. It includes personal, social, cultural, and environmental history. We invite artists to reflect on the many facets of our region’s rich history in their artwork.
Eligibility
Artists must reside in the greater Camas, Vancouver, and Washougal area.
Work must have been completed within the last five years.
Artist must be at least 16 years old.
Work submitted must be original in both concept and design.
Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork can be submitted.
The jury retains the right to refuse work that, in its judgment, does not meet the eligibility requirements.
More information and submission process at: https://www.cityofcamas.us/library/page/second-story-gallery
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Umpqua Valley Quilters' Guild Show
Shirley Pyle, the quilt show chair for the Umpqua Valley Quilters' Guild show, writes:
"Our quilt show is coming April 28, 29 & 30, 2023 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Roseburg, OR. We would love to host an exhibit from Columbia FiberArts Guild. I'm sure you have something very creative to share. Please contact me if you are interested in having an exhibit at our show. Our show grew last year and an exhibit from you would be well received."
Contact Shirley Pyle '23 UVQG Quilt Show Chair 541-430-2566 shirleyquilts2@gmail.com
The show website uvquilters.com is still being updated & developed.
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The Fine Print
Please send items for publication in the newsletter to:
columbiafiberartsnews@gmail.com
The Columbia FiberArts Guild meets quarterly in March, June, September and December. No newsletter is published in those months. The newsletter is published seven times a year: October, November, January, February, April, May, July/August. Deadline for articles is around the 10th of the month of publication and will be detailed in the email reminder for articles.
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2021-2022 Executive Board & Committee Chairs
President: Susan Allen
President Elect: Jane Wolfe
Past President: Cheri Jolivette
Secretary: Linda Dyer
Treasurer: Beth Wells
Online Exhibits: Jill Hoddick
Membership: Carolyn Walwyn
Newsletter: Sue Redhead
Outreach: Karin Graves
Program: Lottie Smith, Emily Stevens, Carol Anderson
Program Elect: Laura Lehroff, Marnie Murray, Sally Trude
Publicity:
Webmaster: Doug Garnett &
Judith Quinn Garnett
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CFG Board Meetings
Meetings are held monthly on the first Monday when there is no quarterly meeting and are open to the membership to attend. Contact the President for more information.
Committees are: Exhibits, Membership, Newsletter, Outreach, Programs, Publicity and Webmaster
Minutes of meetings are posted in the CFG Newsletter.
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