Friends, Fashion, Flowers! AAFG Spring Luncheon, Fashion Show, and Sale

On the runway - three of my hand-dyed silk jackets.

The Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild's annual event, Fiber Feast, is held annually at the Washtenaw Community College/Ann Arbor on the third Saturday in April. 

The event includes a wonderful sale including items in the fashion show.


My table is filled with my felted purses, fiber/glass/beaded pins, felted flower pins, and silk cowls. I have a rack of silk and velvet scarves plus 13 garments and a scarf in the fashion show.

Felted purses with my dichroic glass buttons 
  There are descriptions on how I make purses in the August 6, 2014 blog article and glass buttons in the January 4, 2015 blog article.

FRIENDS
What a delight to spend the day with friends! Jeanne Sarna is a long time friend and a "partner in (fiber) crime"! Here she is modeling a garment she made for the recycle runway event. She turned an unused jacket and upholstery fabric scraps into an art-to-wear vest.

Carol Furtado, another wonderful fiber artist, is standing at her table of gorgeous scarves, jackets and jewelry

Sandra VanBurkleo, owner of Artisan Knitworks, and I go back a few years! What a delightful person she is! Helen Welford is quite a seamstress and loves making clothes styled from the 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's.  Helen is modeling her fun 50's recycled outfit made of cruise travel bags with hanging tickets for earrings. Her hat is made by Barb Schutzgruber from woven strips of National Geographic maps.

FASHION

Sharon McKenna is chief organizer of the day's event and MC of our fashion show.



This year I entered several jackets, a coat, and a free-form crocheted sweater. Some jackets were dyed, some discharged, and one was woven.

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These three jackets are silk screened, stenciled, stamped, painted, and sponged with thickened dye. The fabric is a linen/polyester blend.

Free-form crochet sweater of wool, cotton, and some novelty yarns.
I've been a knitter for a long time, but Sandra introduced me to the fun of free-form crochet!

Details about making this sweater is in my January 2015 blog article.

The orange coat and brown jackets are made of cotton fabric that I discharged with a bleach/water mixture.
This process is discussed in my September 2, 2014 blog article.

I'm just learning how to weave and  I'm really enjoying the process. This chenille jacket is  woven stripes of brown, black, and beige  with a little green and orange for accents. 

Details about this jacket are in the May 6, 2014 and the May 15, 2014 blog articles.

My friend, Jenny Shue, is modeling my silk screened habotai silk jacket. Doesn't she look grand?

And FLOWERS?
Beautiful flowers graced the luncheon table and a wonderful jazz combo played for us. All in all - a very good day!