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Frayed Edges, March 2006
We had a great meeting today, but really missed having Deborah…so we called her and put her on speaker phone! Previously, we met at Deborah’s house because she had Benjamin at home and he (and mom) were most comfortable with him in his home surroundings, with familiar computer games, toys and such like. Now that (boo hoo, again) Deborah has de-camped to the wilds of Dallas, we will be rotating meeting locations. I got lucky–we had it at my house first! No 3 hours of driving (even though I love the get-away days)! AND, as always, having guests forced us to *really* clean house and tidy, so our house is nice for once!
Hannah is new to the group (Deborah met her shortly before she moved, and introduced us all–thank you!), and we urged her to bring her “stuff”. She is very much a mixed media artist, and newer at the art quilting thing–this is going to be great for all of us. She brought all sorts of totally cool collage pieces and fabrics which she basically created from scratch….silk screening, stamping, surface design. So we decided NEXT month, we’re meeting at her house and gonna play with silk screening! Welcome to the group, Hannah!
Here’s a picture of her 
(gee…I hope this is OK…..I didn’t ask her if I could share a picture of her…well, I’ll ask after I hit “publish” and if it’s not I’ll delete…) with a fantastic piece of cloth she dyed.
This next picture is a piece of fabric she made that is so cool we all told her not to do a dang thing more except maybe add a border, layer it up and quilt it, and possible add a few beads or doo-dads…..the color in this photo somehow seems lighter, brighter and not as rich as the original…which is definitely better than the photo!
Wish I had taken a picture of her collage about “Home”…way cool. And she found some great, LARGE foam alphabet stamps at Target for all fo $9…guess what I’m looking for the next time I’m in Bangor (the Target nearest to me..about 80 minutes away)….
Here’s Hannah (on the floor), Kathy (center) and Kate on our new sofa in the morning….
I took a picture of us at lunch, but haven’t figured out the “backlighting” on my new camera, so we’ll have to check Kathy D’s blog for pictures of our repast. I fixed minestrone, Hannah made beer bread, Kathy brought coffee cake (still warm when she arrived!), and Kate brought pineapple….don’t know how she found a ripe on in Maine, but she did…I never can! YUMMM. Oh yeah…and in honor of Deborah, I dug out the latter maker (no counter space in our kitchen here) and we had lattes. Here’s a picture of the coffee table with detritus during the morning:
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Those of you who surf into Kathy’s blog, Studio in the Woods, know that she just (as in less than 72 hours ago!) returned from a trip to Ireland (we want MORE PHOTOS, please!). Sweet thing that she is, she not only brought us each a goodie from the Emerald Isle, she picked colors special for each of us, mine being my favorite pool aqua blue. Inside the little bag, was another surprise, an envelope Kathy made with little treats. There weren’t any fabric stores in Ireland that she could find, but she did find the one bead store, and found little green beads with shamrocks on them. Then she went to a beach that had no sand, but instead was made of bits of coral. She brought some with her and shared…how totally cool is that…these little bits of branchy white coral…PERFECT for embellishing! Thank you thank you thank you!