Detour map to this Saturday's club meeting

Driving to our club meeting this Saturday will be a little trickier than usual.  Construction on Washington Street means that we'll have to detour to get to the library.  Here's a map.

The 'A' marker is the library.  Most or all of the intersections between Emerson and Arlington are closed on the south side of the street, so you cannot get to the library from Washington Street at all.  Instead, go south on Emerson or Arlington all the way down to Brookville.  Take Brookville to Audubon, and turn at Roscoe's Tacos (which has great food, by the way!).  Then take Audubon all the way back up to the library.

Just so you know, it is not hard to get a map image into a blog -- but I did have to learn the two-step process.  I had to paste a screenshot of the map from Google into Paint, and then save it as a jpeg file.  Anyhow, see you Saturday!

Silk Painting Workshop

Here are the pictures from our wonderful visit to the silk painting workshop at the Traditional Arts Building in Nashville, IN.  We had a beautiful day with our teacher, Mary Pendergrass.

Here are two close-ups:

Denise invented a technique for painting two pieces at once. She layered the sheer silk (on the right) on top of the heavier silk, and painted both together.

This is Julie G.'s beautiful scarf.

And more fabric:

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info about our trip to Nashville

Hi, everybody!  The doll club is not holding our regular meeting at the Irvington Library on Saturday the 18th.  Instead, we are going to a silk-dyeing workshop in Nashville, IN.

Class starts at 9:30 in the Traditional Arts Building at 46 E. Gould Street in Nashville.  Bring your lunch.  A car pool is meeting at the library at 7:45.

Coming soon: pictures from Dye Day!

June 2012 Show and Tell

What a great June meeting!  Lots of people, including one new member (welcome, Shelby!) and tons of show and tell.

Night-Mer by Mary McNeely

First is Mary's newest original doll, Night-Mer.  The idea for this one has been hanging around Mary's brain for a long time, but those tentacles took a while to figure out.  You can see the doll in person next month at the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Art Exhibit at Garfield Park, on the south side of Indianapolis.

Mary also brought her Lucius Malfoy doll, started in our Elven King workshop with Judy Skeel (way back in 2006, but who's counting?).

Lucius by Mary M., pattern by Judy Skeel

It has obviously been a good time to finish some UFOs, because Julie G. also brought a workshop doll to share.  This one was from a Lucy Landry workshop at Magic, Mischief, & Mayhem in 2010.

Moth Woman by Julie G., pattern by Lucy Landry

Our next doll was not years in the making, although she looks like she should have been.  Katie brought her absolutely gorgeous original doll, Tashi.  Check out Katie's blog for lots more pictures and close-ups.  She describes the Tibetan jewelry and other costume bits that inspired her design.

Tashi, original design by Katie

From elaborate to elegant simplicity -- the next doll is actually a knitted lamb, made by Erin for Baby Bea.  I was in the other room, taking pictures of our Round Robin dolls in progress (maintaining the secrecy until the grand unveiling this fall!), so I missed all the discussion about Erin's soft and cuddly creation, and do not know what pattern was used.  I can vouch for cuddly, though.

And finally, our last doll is actually the first doll ever made by our newest member, Shelby.  She is from Jan Horrox's book, Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls.

Great meeting, everybody!  See you next month :-)