June Meeting is Right Around the Corner

Our next meeting is taking place on Saturday, June 6. On site setup starts at 9:30 AM, Zoom Opens at 1030, and Demo is at 11. Bring your lunch, cold drink and coffee cup if you will be partaking in our complimentary coffee service.

We are meeting at Making Awesome not just on Zoom. 2818 Industrial Plaza Dr, Suite H, Tallahassee, FL 32301

Zoom information will go out to members on Friday, June 5. Cindy will be hosting the June meeting.

IMPORTANT: DUE TO ANOTHER CLASS TAKING PLACE AT 2 PM, WE NEED TO BE PACKED UP AND OUT BY 130 PM

June Program

Easy-Peasy Three Seam Pouches
by Ellen Rumsey Bellenot

Most of us make small items for gifts.  I hold that presentation is, if not Everything, at least a great way to elevate Anything.   

These are a simplification of the pouches that my mentor, Mary Elinor Riccardi, taught me. Hers were done with a single piece of fabric and you needed her brilliant mind that combined art and engineering to do it. At least I hope that’s the case because I found it to be a Bear.

Mine is two pieces of fabric, no measuring, and three seams, all of which end up inside after you turn it inside out twice.  Handwork? Horrors, no!  

The photos are ones that I made for Fandango. They’re painted with Dye-Na-Flow fabric paint which acts like an ink or a dye. You can use commercial fabric of any sort. If you use batik, you won’t have to worry about wrong/right side since they’re pretty much the same. 

I’ll do a brief demo of mono-printing your fabric with acrylic paint prior to constructing the pouch. For that you’d need a gelli plate, brayer, fabric, freezer paper, paint, and fabric medium, which turns any acrylic into a fabric paint.   

If you want to play along to get the idea, all you’ll need are strips of one or two fabrics that are .5 to 1 inch wider than you want your pouch and a sewing machine.   

I use a Pentel Arts Gel Roller for Fabric, (1.0mm) to write or draw on them. That would personalize a gift to within an inch of its life.   

Upcoming Meetings

If members do not offer a program idea, on-site members will meet for an open Clay Day. Zoom will not be offered.

• July 4: Is anyone interested in meeting? Contact Barb.
• August 1: Program Needed
• September 5-6: Clay-bor Day Retreat and 20th Anniversary (Programs Needed)