Paper and Ink

Barbara Khachane and Karen Loprete receiving instruction from Carine Greene. 

Last Saturday Carine Greene lead the group in a workshop designed to get our creative energy flowing. The idea came from the book, Drawn to Stitch: Line, Drawing, and Mark-Making in Textile Art by Gwen Hedley. We used india ink and various objects to place lines on two different types of paper. Then we made parallel cuts into one sheet of paper and then strips, one-by-one from the second sheet of paper. The strips from the second sheet were woven into the parallel cuts of the first paper and the results are shown below.

Carol Eaton and Mary Lachman showing their finished pieces.

In addition to our workshop, a few of the members showed new art quilts in progress. In this picture Carol Vinick discusses her creation of flowers using ribbon and thread stitching.

From left to right: Carol, Karen, Carol Vinick (seated) and Rosalind Spann