Luthvarian Fiber Arts Giveaway From January

Our applications are designed to foster this special work in basketry, beadwork, clothes design, crochet, embroidery, felting, knitting, lacework, needlework, paper, quilting, rugs, sewing, spinning, surface design, and weaving. Here’s a quilt I’ve been engaged on this week which is a sample for the Scrappy Batiks Brick Quilt class I’m instructing at the Dragonfly Quilt Shop in Watkinsville, GA in February. We hope to have between 50 to a hundred and fifty leaves made by neighborhood members” Saturday morning, mentioned Marty Petillo, a longtime MCFA member who works full-time at Olbrich Botanical Gardens and does fiber art, quilting and embroidery on the aspect. Participants will print a personally created photograph on an inkjet prepared fiber collage substrate that they create!

The more we as crocheters who respect art educate ourselves about fiber art and the extra we get out there to indicate our work, the more we will probably be represented on this discipline. Founded about 20 years in the past, MCFA (pronounced mick-fah”) is a mixture of hobbyists and professional fiber artists. This competition occurs in May and October, with fall being the bigger of the 2.

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