FAN Sharing

Our first activity at the Fibre Arts Network retreat at Edenvale Retreat Centre in Abbotsford was to design our own name tags. We had lots of fabric, fibres and bling to choose from. Lots of time to get re-acquainted while we did it.

Then after greetings from the committee, we began our FAN sharing on the theme of 'Reap What You Sow'.  Lots of amazing pieces. The best part is hearing the story that goes with them!!

Guess whose name tag this is!?!

Judy Leslie explaining how she make her own books.

Some of the sharing art pieces.

More sharing pieces.

Karen buried all these fabrics for a few months before she made this.
She literally reaped what she sowed!!

My piece - a cactus seedling emerging in the desert.

Val's piece that was created on the computer and printed out.

Jenny's piece that is made out of silk fibres.
The butterfly is printed on silk from a picture of a monarch butterfly that she saw in Mexico where they gather.

Jaynie's piece represents reaping what you sow when you put ideas, thoughts, word out there.

Alison's piece, many parts of it come from various  activities she did this year.
I recognize the bee as what she did in Weyburn this summer.

Diane's piece has felting and french knots.

Judy used a photo that she took in Scotland and printed it on fabric.

It is reversible.
The backside is below.

Sue didn't know what to do for the reap with the sow theme as she isn't much of a gardener,
 so she thought she would do a weed instead.