A Fabulous Retreat! Part One

I recently got to attend a 3-day retreat with my SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) regional (Florida) group. Oh my, it was SO wonderful! The scenery, facilities, meals, workshop, demonstrations, and CAMARADERIE were all fantastic! I think the recent lock down made us all that much more elated to be together again. We did enjoy it so!

We had a well-lit and large room where all 28 of us had plenty of room to work and socially distance.

We worked on our own projects and also had several opportunities for learning. The highlight was a 4 hour workshop presented by Bobbi Baugh.

She taught us for 2 hours on Saturday, about the concept or story of our artwork. Something I tend to overlook. The next day she taught us for 2 hours about composition. This was VERY useful, even for those who had art degrees.

The slides Bobbi showed were excellent examples of what she was presenting. I can’t recommend her highly enough! (Even though I didn’t take a picture of her.)

We had several short demonstrations: hand embroidery from Laura Parkel, 3D vessels from Joan Engel, and working with tulle from Jan Lipsky. These were well attended and quite interesting.

In addition, two people were using interesting techniques which others wanted to learn, so they did “pop up” demos for us. Linda Geiger taught us how to intentionally make fabric pucker and Ellen Nepustil showed us how to make paper shells.

While everyone was distracted during one of the demos, I took photos of some of the projects going on in the room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can’t you feel the energy and creativity? I’ll show you more in the next post.

Ellen Lindner