Christmas Market at Gallerie Plus

This past weekend we held our annual Christmas Market at the new gallery in town, "Gallerie Plus".
It was wonderfully attended and the vernissage featured locally made artisanal bread and bubbly provided by Bert and Heather Markgraf, our gracious hosts.
Here are some photos from our weekend market....

Workshop in Eco Dye

This past summer we had an eco dye workshop at the home of Phyllis Spriggs who has a wonderful dye garden.  This is something many of our members were eager to try.  (Notice I didn't go for the obvious "dyeing" to try - lol)

In the first photo, Phyllis embellished the resulting print with embroidery. The second image is

my first attempt and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised and will be thinking of planning what flowers to plant next Spring to be able to continue.

The last photo was taken at our Christmas market and shows the range of beautiful colors and prints

on the silk scarves that Phyllis had for sale.

This works beautifully on watercolour paper as well as silk fabric.

Hudson Clothesline Gallery

We had a chance to show off our newest project at the Tea Party recently held at the Hudson Historical Society Museum.  This project will be an ongoing collection of mini quilts averaging 10" x 10" inspired by our town of Hudson.  India Robbins (second from right in second photo) hosted this successful gathering.  Here are just a few photos....more to follow.

Hudson Fine Craft, Arts Alive, ELAN and the White Bandanna Project

This year ELAN is again sponsoring an Arts Alive festival and in conjunction with Hudson Fine Craft, we planned a "slow stitching" demo/workshop this past weekend.  Attendees were spotted wearing their stitched bracelet cuffs at the Artisan even across the street.

Next up will be our spot at the Hudson Street Fair August 5th, an event that gets bigger and better every year!

Catching Up (Again)

 This is a case of being so far behind, I'm ahead of the game!  Photos form 2016's Scarecrow workshop held at the Hudson History Society Museum grounds.  This posting is actually good timing after all as we are planning this year's workshop to be held in September.

Summer 2017

Well since the last time I was here, so much more has been accomplished and I will attempt to fill in the blanks in the coming weeks.  But until then I thought I'd share a teaser of our current project

which is to invite members of Hudson Fine Craft to let their inspiration guide them in creating small format textile pieces.  The motivation for this inspiration is our lovely small town (population <5,000) on the banks of the Lake of Two Mountains just west of Montreal.