Thirteen lovely women attended the TAGY meeting on March 3rd, 2025 in the Grizzly Room at the Cody library: Alice, Jan H., Barb M., Lili, Judy, Sue S., Sue B., Sonja (Welcome!), Marion, Jan W., Cyndy, Jeanne and Karling.
Challenge for April meeting: Color--black & white, Element--happy, Shape--stars and moon. Please make a piece of art with those characteristics for the next meeting.
Challenge for this meeting was: Monochrome, pyramid, sparkles/bedazzled.
Open-ended Special Challenge: Leather! Barb M. has leather (too much leather) from the Molesworth furniture company. Please choose some of the leather, make wonderful art, and present it when you can! Barb will bring the leather to future meetings!
Announcements:
Yarn! There is lots of yarn from Ellen Burkhart's stash at Wyoming Yarn and Fiber in Cody. Ellen passed away in November 2024. She was an avid knitter. You can get some of Ellen's yarn and give a donation for it that goes to Project Linus. Home Project Linus
BBCW: There is a program, "Women's Handwork Workshop," on March 8, 2025. Deluxe Tours & Toddies: Women's Handwork in the West Workshop
Next Meeting: April 7, 2025. Grizzly Room. Vanda has the program!
The Program: Mini-Me's with Jan H., Barb M.
Jeanne passed out the Mini-Me forms to decorate as yourself...or as who you want to be! Attendees picked up some supplies but did not stay to start them. They will continue their work at home! Later we will write a bio. Mini-Me's will be hung next to your quilt when we display your art.
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| Alice's Mini-Me from years past. Gone hiking! |
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| Every Mini-Me should have a backside also! |
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Jan H.'s Mini-Me from years past. Cowgirl days!
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| Jan W.'s Mini-Me from years past. If you know Jan, you know she bakes fabulous cookies! |
Show and Tell:
Challenge for the March meeting (today): Pyramid, monochrome and sparkles:
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| Cyndy's |
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| Cyndy's is a clever gift box! |
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| Barb M.'s |
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| Jan H's pincushion |
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| Barb M.'s beaded pyramid |
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| Alice's pyramids |
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| Cyndy |
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Cyndy
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More Show and Tell:
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| Jan H.'s embroidered tea towel--Grandma's recipe. Embroiderydesigns.com digitized this for Jan. |
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| Printed recipe. Mom's handwriting, printed on tea towel by Spoonflower |
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| Shibori reverse dying (start with black) using toilet bowl cleaner |
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| More Shibori dying using Soft Scrub and hydrogen peroxide |
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| Cyndy and Sue S. brought felted sweaters to the free table. Lots of choices! |
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| Cyndy's rice bag |
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Cyndy's silk scarf dyed with silk ties. She took a class from Marie!
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| Cyndy's scarf dyed with silk ties |
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| Back side of Jan W.'s quilt. She always does something lovely! |
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| Jan W.'s map quilt. She confessed that she will never couch again! |
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| Jan W.'s map quilt. Yellowstone!! |
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| Cyndy's felted ornaments |
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| Cyndy...trying to finish this quilt without buying more fabric |
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| Cyndy! |
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| Judy's greeting cards using scraps. She loves making these! |
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| Judy's |
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| Marion's doll, "Mo" has survived all these years! |
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| Jan W. and Yellowstone map quilt |
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| Marion brought scraps and buttons to share for our Mini-Me dolls. |
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| "Mo" |
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| Karling admires Judy's cards |
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| Judy tells story about her father and sugar cookie coupons! |
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| Alice just finished this cute jacket. Love the ruffle! |
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| Leather from Molesworth furniture...it's now a challenge for you! |
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| April meeting challenge! |
