Mary Kay sent me the minutes from the most recent regional meeting; it looks like a lovely time. There's some useful information included so please take a read through!
SAQA KS MO OK
Kansas City
Area Regional Meeting Minutes
May 21, 2016
11:00 am –
1:00 pm
Johnson
County Central Library
1. Short business meeting
a.
Reminder
to be working on pieces to enter into the “Our Changing Landscape” regional
exhibit.
i. Entry date: February 1-28, 2017
ii. Size: min 24” to max 48” for height
and width (can be portrait or landscape orientation)
iii. More information at
http://www.saqa.com/members.php?cat=21
b.
LVAC
Exhibit committee:
Karen Hansen - Co-Curator
Mary Kay Fosnacht - Co-Curator,
Advertising and Marketing materials
Cynthia Parry - Reception
Cindy Brendzel - Information
Book
Carol Jones - Juror
selection
Shannon Conley – Marketing
Carmen Rinehart, Jackie Stoaks,
Marney Clausen and Ada Niedenthal – Committee members
c.
To
join a second SAQA region – go to members, manage your account, update contact
information. Scroll down to “Details below apply to SAQA members only” – see
region and “region 2”, select your second region from the drop down menu. Click
“Submit” at the bottom of the page to save your selection.
d.
KCRQF
2017 (Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival) – SAQA approved a booth, Linda Frost
will coordinate volunteers. Show dates are June 15-17, 2017. It was suggested
that we put out a challenge to use different techniques to create pieces that
would be appx. 8-1/2 x 10” to decorate the booth.
e.
News
or exhibits
i. Holly ? at Studio 63 (corner of Oak
and Gregory in KCK) until May 28, 2016 – all pieces are in the window.
ii. “Wild
Fabrications” traveling exhibit will be at the Spiva Center in Joplin from July
16 through September 4, 2016
iii. Dora Agbas,
fiber artist, showing at All Souls Unitarian Church 4501 Walnut, KC, MO. May 22
– June 20, 2016
iv. FAO – Fiber
Artists of Oklahoma exhibit in Oklahoma City, July 15 – Sept 3, 2016 at the
Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery. More info here: http://fiberartistsok.org/fiberworks-2016/
v. SAQA National
Conference will be in Lincoln NE Apr.
27-30, 2017
f.
Next
meeting date August 20th
i. Topic – it was suggested that we
contact Golden Products to come do product demonstrations. Karen and Mary Kay
will follow up.
ii. Another suggestion was to car-pool
down to see the exhibit in Joplin.
iii. The October meeting will focus on how
to use the online registration system for the 2017 regional exhibit.
2. Show and Tell
a.
Andrea
Luliak brought many pieces illustrating different techniques such as: potato
paste resist, tissue paper fabric, fabric from yarns and threads, rusted
fabric, lutrador – painted and melted, etc.
b.
Karen
Hansen showed her auction quilt.
c.
Mary
Kay Fosnacht showed a piece that is dye-painted with Derwent Inktense pencils
and sticks.
3. Presentation by Andrea Luliak on
tissue paper fabric. Andrea demonstrated 3 different methods of applying paper
to fabric. She had many samples illustrating how these fabrics could be used. Andrea
recommended the book, Mixed Media by Beryl Taylor. The 3 methods are outlined
below:
a. Fusible #1
Take a piece of muslin onto which you apply an
ironed-on fusible such as Heat N Bond or Wonder Under. Take the
paper off and crumple up a piece of tissue paper; smooth out, leaving most of
the folds in the paper and apply it to the fusible. Press, do not iron
smooth. You have a textured surface you can use to paint, stamp, stencil,
etc. If you aren't aiming for texture, then you can apply several torn
pieces of any kind of paper to the fusible and press using a piece of parchment
paper. Onto that surface you can stamp, paint, stencil, etc.
b. Fusible #2
With this method you use a sheet of Steam a Seam
2. You simply take the paper off one side of the fusible and arrange
several pieces of different papers onto the sticky side of the fusible. The
papers will adhere until you can iron them on, so you really don't need an iron
to start the process, it can be ironed at home. The entire sheet of SAS
must be covered with papers, then when ironed down you can embellish or stitch
on the top of the papers and you can adhere the other side of the fusible to
any fabric or stabilizer of your choice.
c. Fusible #3
Start with a piece of muslin placed on some protective
surface (plastic). You apply a thin coat of a 50/50 solution of PVA or
Elmer's glue and water. While still wet, apply decorated papers, napkins,
tissue paper, phone book paper, dress pattern paper to the surface, leaving
some areas of the muslin bare. Apply another thin coat of glue/water
solution to the top of that layer. And while still wet you can cover the
surface with a watered down layer of acrylic paint, transparent paint or
watercolor. When dry, the "paper" is suitable for machine
sewing, hand sewing, etc, because of the muslin backing.
And all posts are better with pictures, so here are some she shared from the meetup!
