March Meeting at Donna’s

Donna is the hostess with the mostest…. she invited Uncommon Threads to have our monthly meeting at her house, and cooked us a fabulous lunch, and let us tour her fabulous art collection. And let us sneak a peek at her very orderly studio with fabulous Mola collection on display….

Not to mention those wonderful windows that run throughout the house. What do you see out those windows?

Ozark hills and trees galore. Needless to say, Lettie was snapping photos right and left.

It was a rainy spring day, but that only make the subtle colors of the still-leafless trees more vibrant.

And, someone’s in the kitchen with Donna, someone’s in the kitchen, I know…

Actually once again the roving camera has missed the elusive Donna, but we did capture Christine, Merrilee, Arleta, and Lily chatting it up in Donna’s kitchen.

After lunch and more chatting about a top-secret project concerning a show in a wonderful gallery juried by a famous person yet-to-be-announced, the meeting came to our favorite part - show and tell.

Cathy Jeffery showed her newest project. She’s very productive and always surprising us with new directions for her art.

Donna Fairbanks shared her newest project and tales of woe regarding the struggle of creative process. Looks like she pulled out okay, don’t you think?

Lucy Silliman had a particularly interesting display of inspiration to product. She showed the original photograph she took in Ireland on the left, and the finished art quilt on the right.

Check out her hand-painted fabric, wonderful machine-quilting, and the accomplished manner that she finished the irregular edges of the piece.

This little gem is one of Susan Leslie Lumsden’s newest series — small framed pieces for the beginning collector — a way for her collectors to start small, later to progress to acquiring her larger art quilts.

And here’s Susan herself, presenting her latest masterpiece which you can see more of on her blog Rebel Quilter. Maybe she’s smiling so big because she just won the Niche Award at American Craft.com.

Or maybe she’s smiling because she was chosen as the cover artist for the Missouri Art Awards poster and invitation. Whatever she has up her sleeve, you know it’s going to be good!

Maureen rhymes with jean, and that’s what she did. Showed up in these “to-die-for” custom embroideried jeans. How’d she do it?

Don’t tell I told, but she opened the inside seams, embellished with her own embroidery design, then sewed the inside up. How clever is that? And how can I get some?

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