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Virtual party! Socialize, share your pandemic creations, share your studio, play games and wrap up the year with your fiber art friends.

Joy started working in fiber by growing up in a cotton growing family, where she learned to card and seed the cotton, then use it for quilting. In 1963, while pregnant with her second child, she took a class from Jean Ray Laury. Jean, a student of Stanford University's Matt Kaun, was doing banners, quilts, and writing books about what […]

Gene will explain all the different types of threads and when to use them. There are some really interesting threads out there and some you should stay away from- learn all about it! Gene has worked as a Bernina repairman and has much experience repairing Machines Gone Bad from broken needles and crazy threads.

Katy is interested in the connection between tactile traces of physical environment and the system of landscape semiotics that have traditionally been derived from them. Her works are abstract landscape collages made with an interesting and unexpected process. Learn more at the meeting. artist@katyschmader.com

Hannah does punch needle large scale installations. She will demonstrate her power punch needle and share her works and past exhibitions. https://hannahbusekrus.com/

Laura Maclay will show her art dolls and explain how she makes them. Laura is also known for her whimsical embroidered purses and clever details. See her work on instagram.

Hallie Rae creates with a variety of media. Pipecleaners! Yarn, found objects, wood! She wraps yarn around lights to illuminate them. She photographs her works and makes fabric, then makes clothing and housewares. Cool stuff! Hear her artistic journey and see her creations. https://www.hallieraeward.com/

Join us at Holy Cross for our first post-pandemic meeting! July is our open house event, where members can bring all the friends and family members they can to partake in a fiber arts party. We'll have hands-on creative activities, fiber arts to view, and light refreshments. Come on over!

Due to increase of COVID-19, this meeting will only be on Zoom. Program is a webinar on Native American quilting.

Sondra Primeaux, embroiderer, embellisher, teacher, podcaster, will address the southern group. See more about her at https://www.theunruffled.com/

Fiber/mixed media artist Jade Walker will address the northern meeting. See some of her work at https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/jadewalker

Mary Baughman of the Austin Book Arts Center will address the southern meeting. This is a long-scheduled meeting delayed by the pandemic but it will be worth the wait! See more about the Austin Book Arts Center at atxbookarts.org