Hill
Country Smocking Guild
15 May 2017
meeting
Minutes
In attendance:
Roberta Toni Kim Melissa
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Mary Kit Helen Patty
Deanna Lise
Big welcome to Sabitha who visited with us.
The March minutes and March and April financials were accepted as
presented. (There was no meeting in April).
Show and Share:
Helen brought the tuffet she had completed. The cover was Texas Wildflower prints. The central button
was covered by an armadillo. On the
bottom, she used upholstery tacks to hold the fabric in place. She reports that her grandchildren really love it.
She also bought a folding fabric box that she had made in a class at the Austin Area Quilt Guild's Gift of Quilting
the first weekend in May.
Deanna announced that she had been to Amsterdam recently and she
had found a shop selling Liberty of London prints for $25.00 per yard, and they
also had made matching bias tapes for the fabrics. The shop is at www.nanuccitessuti.nl
Lise announced that she had also attended the Gift of Quilting.
Her classes were a paper piecing class using the Lucy Boston pattern, and an
introduction to beading class that included making fringe, making an edging around
a cabochon, peyote stitch, as well as stitching freehand onto ultrasuede and
burying the knots in the center of the ultrasuede.
Melissa brought Eloise's Easter dress. It was made of blue dotted swiss, and it just grazed the ground as Eloise had requested. She also had a ring that had belonged to her grandmother re-created, using a dental mold to get
the detailing accurate.
Mary brought a panel that she had created to go on the back of a t
shirt to make an Anthropolgie-style dress.
The t shirt is a long University of Tennessee shirt. She also brought
the completed project sample for the fagoting class with extra beading along the bottom of the lace.
Door Prize:
Deanna was the lucky winner of a tabletop Ott light.
Programs:
Kim presented this summer's Wee Care challenge. The base fabric is mint green, but other
colors (except yellow and gray) may also be used. The gowns can feature smocking, shadow work, or fagoting. There will be a contest to vote on the
favorite gowns at the August meeting.
As usual, there will also be a prize for the most Wee Care caps/bonnets and gowns of all kinds turned
in. There will be two work days again this summer, on Saturday June 24 and
Saturday July 29, both hosted by Deanna.
Mary presented the capstone project for the fagoting classes - a
hand towel with crochet-style lace fagoted to one end, plus the basting paper and
white #5 perle cotton. She noted that
other colors of perle cotton were also perfectly
acceptable.
Respectfully submitted by,
Lise Waring
