January 2020

2020 began with our annual Christmas party in January.  Great food, wonderful handmade gift exchange, and sharing friendship and ideas with some of my favorite ladies.  This was a great way to start the New Year.  Thank you all for participating in our TAGY group.

Coming soon:
Jan 15th - Marie will give a talk at the Cody Library from noon to 1:00 pm about her Native American piece.

April - Kathy Lichtendahl, one of TAGY's founding members, will have a solo exhibit of bug photos, and possibly a talk to accompany the show.  More info later.

wreath from old book

Gift Exchange
Pictures of the wonderful hand-made items in the gift exchange.



The theme was "Plaid", and gifts include a Christmas wreath, scarves, handbags and fabric grocery bags,  a box of handmade cards, covered notebook and cards, hand-dyed apron, wool table setting with mug mats, fancy oven mitts, a wool knitted sweater, wall hanging, and more.  And a cute Christmas elf was even present!

Christmas Elf

Barbara H

Monthly Challenge

January's challenge was "Bird's Eye View".

Jan H-Grand Prismatic Spring

Jan W

Marybeth

Linda M-farmland

Marie -umbrellas

Other Show and Tell:

Jeanne's Cherrywood's Bob Ross Challenge

Bonnie's "Tired"

Ellen's sweater

Pam's version of plaid

Linda M's button tree

February Challenge

Stitch Meditations - Three small 4" x 4" hand stitched pieces.  Based on
Liz Kettle's Textile Revolution which has a Facebook presence .  Check out her Pinterest site for examples:  https://www.pinterest.com/lizkettle/daily-stitch-meditations/

The idea is to spend 15 or 20 minutes hand stitching anything.  Just slow down and stitch.  Some ladies say they enjoy it so much that they just keep going and 45 minutes will go by before they realize it.  For this TAGY challenge, the 15 to 20 minutes for each 4" x 4" piece is a good target.

Next year's Christmas Exchange theme will be "Something old is new again".