2023 In the Know Archives

Here are some of our "In the Know" announcements from 2023.

Meeting Highlights & Show and Tell 


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Meeting Highlights & Show and Tell

September 2023

August 2023:  What a month! We celebrated at the closing reception for our 2023 show, FUNtastic Fiber, and members' challenge, Golden Opportunities, paying tribute to all our award winners. We also welcomed a new president, Karen Zupanic, said goodbye to our outgoing president, Lu Peters, and honored our 2023 volunteers.


2023 FUNtastic Fiber Award Winners


  • Best in Show: Lucia Miron, Herding Cats
  • First Place: Deborah Boschert, Near and Far
  • Second Place: Carolyn Skei, Buzz's Garden
  • Third Place: Christine Miller, In Full Bloom
  • Juror's Choice Award: MaryEllen Sax, Grandmother's Wallpaper
  • Viewer's Choice Award: Lucia Miron, Herding Cats
  • Best Work by a First-Time Entrant: Ruth Callahan, The Delicate Art of No
  • Best Interpretation of Theme: Reid Barnhart, As the World Shut Down, Another World Opened Up: Zoom!


2023 Golden Opportunities Award Winners


  • First Place: Loreen Smith, Waldboden (Forest Floor)
  • Second Place: Carolyn Skei, Eulogy to an Amazon Iron
  • Third Place: Carol Kovacs, Golden Slippers
  • Viewer's Choice Award: Carolyn Skei, Eulogy to an Amazon Iron


    • July 2023

    June 2023 Meeting

    May 2023 Meeting

    President Lu Peters thanked and honored the outgoing Board of Directors for their truly outstanding contributions in assuring several successful years of excellent programs, educational and community outreach, and valuable leadership.  Thank you!!

    2022-2023 Board of Directors
    Traci Hutton, 2023.
    Jonquele Jones, 2023.
    Margaret Montgomery, 2023.
    Carrie Noess, 2023.
    Ruth Callahan, 2023.
    Jeanene Evans, 2023.

    April 2023 Meeting

    Adrianne Brown, 2023.
    Dee Merrell, 2023.
    Marcia Brown, 2023.
    Mary Masal, 2023.
    Patrick O’Halloran, 2023.

    March 2023

    Our booth at the Quilters Guild of Dallas show (March 10-12, 2023) was a resounding success! We met many enthusiastic quilters and mixed-media fiber artists, and we reunited with many former members.


    Members generously shared their fiber art for our display, showing the diversity of techniques we employ in our work.

    Staffers at DAFA Booth, 2023 Quilters Guild of Dallas.

    At our March 2023 General Meeting, Patrick O’Halloran shared many fiber art pieces created by his late wife Lisa Covert. 


    Lucy Miron displayed heart angel pins that and her mother created to memorialize the extraordinary contributions that Lisa made to DAFA as president.

    Carol Regan is making more of the Ukrainian hearts by felting, instead of gluing and fusing with WonderUnder, and these new versions have a very nice texture.


    She is going to donate them to MakersConnect for Chris to sell again for Ukrainian relief funds! This photo shows both the fused ones and small felted ones.

    Carol Regan, Ukrainian felted and fused hearts, 2023.

    Members' Publications & Awards

    Christine Miller has published a book covering the 30 years of her experience of weaving with wire on a loom. Her book teaches the process of warping and weaving on a loom with wire. Included are many examples of her work over that period of time.


    In addition to the basic instruction of the process, she includes advice for using the woven metal fabric for jewelry, basketry, sculpture, as a mixed media material, and combining the woven metal with small metal work.


    The book will be released August 28, 2023, but can be pre-ordered now from the publisher, Schiffer Publishing: 


    https://schifferbooks.com/collections/schiffer-craft-weaving/products/weaving-with-wire

    Christine Miller won two awards at the Contemporary Handweavers of Texas Conference this June for her woven-metal sculpture Rosalinda. The piece won 1st Place in the Art Concept category, as well as Best of Show of the Members' Exhibit.

    Carol Kovacs recently won Best of Show at the Art Club of McKinney for her painting A Starry Night Over the Chapel at Chestnut Square.


    At the Quilters Guild of Dallas Show in March 2023, two of our members won awards: Carolyn Skei won two Third Place prizes, a Judge's Choice Award, and an Honorable Mention. Lu Peters won an Honorable Mention.

    Carol Kovacs, A Starry Night Over the Chapel at Chestnut Square.

    Carolyn Skei, master gardener and award-winning art quilter, was featured in Neil Sperry's egardens newsletter!  Check it out at neilsperry.com/e-gardens.

    Carolyn Skei

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