Many of WAV Quilts at the Lovell Quilt Show

Pindroppers Quilt Club of Lovell Wy. invited WAV as well as TAGY to "introduce Lovell to Art Quilts" at their annual quilt show. It was a huge success with lots of positive feedback. They really loved the stories about the art and wanted me to pass on a thank you to all of you who made it happen. So, thank you.

May WAV Meeting

Cheryl Wittmayer provided the program on Seminole piecing, as seen on this vest.

She showed how to create this and provided a handout.A thank you gift was presented to Cindy St. Charles. The folding book included a 6" square from participants in the Fiber Expressions show, as well as gallery manager Jane Dechner.

Isn't it amazing?

It was put together by Kathy Hammond.

Cynthia St. Charles' glue gel dye painted piece above, and the piece below is of painted fabric and fused applique.

Gelatin plate prints with screen printed butterflies and birds - Cynthia St. Charles.

Brooke Atherton's works in progress.

More from Brooke. The pillow above is created from the Growth Thru Art fabric.

Jane Neale's graduation gifts for her two granddaughters. She made these using the lost wax casting process.

Work from Kathy Lichtendahl above and below.

More from Kathy L.

Kathy Hammond's felted piece with free motion embroidered tree.

Larkin Van Horn Trunk Show!

Larkin Van Horn presented a wonderful trunk show for our April WAV meeting!

She covered two banquet tables with wonderful eye candy. This included some of her delicious jewelry, stunning garments, intricate vessels, medallions, and quilts.

She generously shared the story of her creative journey, along with her current work.

We were able to get up close and personal with her very intricate works of art.

For a closer look at her work, in greater detail, visit Larkin's website here.

We had great treats, and Cynthia St. Charles did a presentation of her technique for block printing fabric, as featured in the April / May issue of Quilting Arts Magazine. Cynthia will be offering a fabric painting and block printing workshop on May 23 and 24th. You can learn more about Cynthia's workshop here.

March WAV Meeting

Kathy Lichtendahl with her charity quilt for the upcoming Machine Quilter's Conference. This piece was made with challenge fabric and with two other participants - one of them Jeanne Knudsen.
Wanda Nelson with her piece from Melody Randol's class at Big Sky Quilt Retreat.


Linda Cleve-Roberts brought several new pieces for Show and Tell.

Linda Cleve-Roberts has been working with Gel Pens on cotton.

Kathy Hammond's work in progress.

Linda MacDonald's Fast Friday Challenge.

The group met at the former location of Elements Gallery.

Kathy Lichtendahl's program presented one approach to using photographs as a basis for art quilts. Her technique combines a number of photographic images, and involves using a light box.

Kathy offered a really good tip for consistency with shadows in photos.

Jeanne Knudsen shared her technique for creating realistic images in fabric, based on a photograph.

Big Sky Quilt Retreat

February 2009 WAV Meeting

Brooke's latest creation below. Brooke offered to take our quilts to the Big Sky Quilt Show for us. Linda J. and Wanda collected the quilts from the gallery show and will take those also. Guest Lynn Carter is interested in displaying quilts at her work. Linda Roberts showed pages from her Journal.
Linda M's FastFriday challenge "Soaring".
Linda M's T-shirt fabric challenge of color discharged fabric and beaded birds.
Kathy H. showed us her "photo" quilt. Each of 6 participants received a small piece of a photo of a flowering Kale, and made six blocks like it, then they exchanged the pieces to re-build the photo. I'm sure there is a better way to explain this. Brooke shows off her fun cats.
Jane Neale's clown was made with the discarded T-shirt fabric and with parts of the old Shriner uniforms.
Jeanne Knudsen brought a guest, Rachael Tresa. Here they are reviewing the new SAQA book.
Jane's "closure" jewelry. She made zipper earrings to go with the necklace.

Fiber Expressions

Fiber Expressions at the Ryniker - Morrison Gallery on the campus of Rocky Mountain College

January 15 - February 13, 2009The artists from left to right: Cheryl Wittmayer, Wanda Nelson, Brooke Atherton, Jeanne Knudsen, Linda MacDonald, Jane Neale, Pegee Haman, Kathy Lichtendahl, Linda Jackson, Kathy Hammond, and Cynthia St. Charles. Linda Cleve-Roberts is not pictured

Barbara Olson was one of the first visitors. Work on this wall from left to right:
Cottonwood Calendar by Cynthia St. Charles
Around by Cheryl Wittmayer
Spider 1 by Linda Cleve-Roberts

Spirit of the West by Kathy Lichtendahl
The Green Green Grass of Home by Kathy Lichtendahl
Lost Treasure, Found Objects by Jeanne Knudsen

There was a very good crowd at the opening reception.

One Single Color (Does Not a Rainbow Make) by Kathy Lichtendahl

Southwest a group round robin owned by Jane Neale
Spirit of the West by Kathy Lichtendahl
The Green Green Grass of Home by Kathy Lichtendahl
Lost Treasure Found Objects by Jeanne Knudsen
One Single Color by Kathy Lichtendahl
Central Park by Cynthia St. Charles

Joe St. Charles (dedicated supporter of walls and artists).
Blue Blue Christmas by Jeanne Knudsen
Closure One by Kathy Hammond
Closure by Wanda Nelson
War Protest #2 by Pegee Haman

Closure #3 by Kathy Hammond

Laura Cater-Woods admiring Tyvek 1 by Cheryl Wittmayer

Tyvek 1 by Cheryl Wittmayer
World Gone Wrong by Brooke Atherton

Totem a round robin owned by Linda MacDonald

December WAV Meeting - Christmas Party

For the December meeting, we celebrate with a feast. Everyone brings something to share.
The gift exchange theme this year was "Time". So, participants made a gift related to the theme to be exchanged through a random drawing. This is always a lot of fun.

Pegee opened Kathy H's package (Kathy was not able to attend the meeting, but had a gift for the exchange).

Jeanne got the gift created by Kathy H.

Wanda got the gift created by Jane.Kathy L. got the gift created by Jeanne.

An Altered Book that is actually a working clock.Cynthia got the gift created by Linda M.

Jane got the gift created by Kathy L.

Linda M. got the gift created by Wanda.

Linda R. got the gift created by Cynthia.

November WAV Meeting

The November WAV meeting kicked off with a tulle grab. Cynthia brought a box of tulle that had been gifted from a manufacturer. More than she could use or give away, it was offered to the group members.

The next stage of the tulle give away is Salvaged Threads - a small quilt challenge with an entry deadline of January 6. Here is the link to the details.

Denise's Show and Tell

Pegee's Show and Tell

Much of the meeting involved self jurying for a group show.
Everyone brought several pieces, which were spread on the table. We selected our favorite two from each artist. These will be delivered to the curator.

Cheryl's

Jeanne's

Kathy L's

Pegee's

Wanda's

Linda J's
Linda M's

Kathy offered a wonderful program. First, she shared the results of her bleeding tissue paper dyeing.

Next, she shared some of her felting projects.

And brought supplies for each of us to make a felted ornament!

Special thanks to Jane who took all the pictures and therefore isn't shown in any of them.

October WAV Meeting

October 19 at Elements Gallery.
A very good turnout! Awesome meeting. The pictures do not do it justice, but this is all I have this time.