Meeting Announcements

PLEASE NOTE:

Our February meeting has been moved back one week to the third Saturday, to avoid Affair of the Heart. We will meet on Saturday, February 17, 2018 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

Cheryl Reich will lead this two-part class to help you build a variety of canes for your inventory to prepare for the upcoming retreat in April. In part 1, we will be focusing on Skinner blends, Skinner plugs, bullseyes, spirals, and more!

Clay (prepared in advance)

Bring 4″ squares of clay in the following colors and quantities – #1 pasta machine setting (thickest):

• 3 white
• 1 black
• 2 yellow
• 2 red
• 2 blue
• 1 green
• 1 purple

Additional Clay

• 4 oz. black clay
• 2 oz. white clay

Tools

• Pasta machine
• Tissue blade
• Acrylic roller
• Smooth work surface
• Alcohol and paper towels to clean pasta machine and work surface

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, January 13, 2018 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

Lee Ann Kelley will show us how to do wire wrapping.

Supplies

• Wire – Parawire, Vintaj or Artistic – 20 gauge and 26 gauge. Hobby Lobby has all three brands. You will need 10 inches of 20 gauge wire and 4 feet of the 26 gauge wire.
• Polymer clay disks – Lee Ann will supply these, baked and ready to go.

Tools

• Pliers – round nose and chain nose
• Wire cutters
• Nylon jaw pliers – if you don’t have these, you can borrow Lee Ann’s.
• Sharpie
• Ruler
• Small paint brush or knitting needle to make a bail

If you can’t find some of the supplies, you can use Lee Ann’s.

Announcements

• This is inchie month, with a theme of Winter.
• We will have our bimonthly drawing, so if you won something last time, bring something this time!
• Guild officers will be elected.
• Time to pay our guild dues of $24 for the year.
• Retreat registration will be announced.

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, December 9, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

It’s December, and as usual we will not have a lesson this month – instead, we will have a pot-luck and a fun social time, as well as playing Dirty Santa (so much fun!).

About Dirty Santa: REMEMBER the items in the Dirty Santa game are NOT gag gifts but should be something you’d like to receive. Everyone playing the game brings a hand-crafted polymer item. An item using a technique learned this past year or one you just enjoyed making and sharing. Playing Dirty Santa is optional – but please, please do bring an item. It is so much more fun with many participants, we had such a good time last year.

I’m reposting the rules that Tom has adapted for our Dirty Santa game:

How to Play Dirty Santa

Everyone playing the game brings a hand-crafted polymer item. Sometimes an item using a technique learned this past year or one you just enjoyed making and sharing. Please, please bring an item. It is so much more fun with many participants.

VARIATION: Since we will be showing off our gifts during Show & Tell, I will bring gift bags to mask the items for the game. Just to keep it in the spirit of Dirty Santa.

Numbers are written on pieces of paper for every gift and placed in a basket, bowl or hat.

Each person draws a number. Getting a higher number is actually better because you will have more chosen gifts to choose from.

The person with #1 picks a gift to open from the array of gift bags. The person with #2 can choose to take another bag or steal the gift from #1. If a gift is stolen, the person who had it then steals from someone else or picks another gift to open. Gifts stolen cannot be directly stolen back. They must be in the pool of opened and unopened gifts for at least one turn.

The game continues like this until everyone takes a turn select an item or stealing an item. The last person to go can steal from anyone in the game or select the remaining item.

NOTICE: If the first person has not had their selection stolen during the game, they may steal a gift from anyone else. This may open a new round of stealing, but that’s the nature of Dirty Santa.

Once a gift is stolen three times, it is retired from the game.

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, October 11, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds.

Deborah DiMaggio will lead us in decorating wine glasses with roses.

Materials

• Clay in color of your choice for rose
• Clay in color of your choice for leaves and stem
• Bake and Bond, if needed

Tools

• Pasta machine to condition clay
• Work surface

Deborah will have wine glasses anyone can use, or you can bring your own (wine not included, LOL!).

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, October 14, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. This is inchie month, with a theme of “Fall”. We will also have a drawing this month, so if you won something last time, bring some goodies for this one!

This month, Cheryl Reich will be teaching a traditional Mokume Gane technique, plus unique twists.

Supplies

• Clay – about 1 oz. each of black, white, and several colors that work well together (metallics are great!)

Tools

• Work surface
• Pasta machine
• Acrylic roller
• Any texture sheets or rubber stamps that are deep cut

Cheryl will be providing a special baggie, the barrette clip, and many different textures, rubber stamps and other cutters to share.

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, September 9, 2017, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Due to the State Fair, we will be meeting this month at NorthHaven Baptist Church, 4600 36th Avenue NW, in Norman, OK. Directions: From I-35 coming from the north, exit on Indian Hills Road. If coming from the south, exit on Tecumseh Road. Go west to 36th Ave. NW – the church is about halfway between Tecumseh Rd. and Indian Hills Rd. We will be going in the west entrance. Click here for a map.

This month, Myra Cleveland will be showing us how to make functional and sturdy ceiling fan pulls.

Tools

• Scissors
• Scotch tape
• Ruler
• Sewing needle & thread or Aleene’s Tacky Glue (NOT superglue) to secure tassel
• X-acto knife
• Needle tool or Etch ‘n’ Pearl tool
• Wire cutter
• Round nose pliers
• Needle nose pliers
• Pasta machine
• Blade
• Your favorite clay tools

Materials

• Polymer clay in your choice of colors
• Cane slices, Skinner blends, texture sheets, and/or mica powders to decorate fan pull cap
• Medium/large beads (polymer clay, glass, wood, or metal) to decorate top of fan pull
• 20 gauge wire (about 24”)

Myra will provide:

• Ball chain and connectors
• 1/4” diameter wooden dowel
• Small circle cutter
• Fringe for tassels

Our next guild meeting will be Saturday, August 12, 2017 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Contemporary Arts Center at the fairgrounds. We will have a drawing this month – so for those who won something last time, please bring something this time!

For the August meeting, Wendi McKinnon will lead us in creating a Christmas scene or a Nativity scene in an Altoid tin. We will be focusing on the figures inside the tin during the meeting. The outside of the tin will be your own design.

Materials

• Altoid tin (the larger one, 3.5” x 2.25”)
• Small amounts of clay:
  • For Christmas scene: red, white, brown, green, black, orange
  • For Nativity scene: tan, flesh, brown, blue, gray, white, gold
• Ball of scrap clay
• Miniature Christmas trees (optional)

Tools

• Needle tool
• Pasta machine
• Work surface
• Baking surface
• Blade
• X-acto knife
• Small ball tool