Hello,
The Blood root is from my garden. Spring keeps pushing forward. Thank goodness!
This week has been a busy one. Sat. Liz and I went to Varna for a play day. I taught folks how to make a boiled book. We had mixed results as the leaves are still too soft to get really strong images. But we did have fun with it. Liz made progress on her applique circles. I think this will be a great quilt when it is finished.
These books and tags are the work of Donna.
I have put in a lot of time making labels doing artists statements and making sure I have all the necessary items to hang and present a good shows. Yesterday with the help of Angela and Julia, we hung the Finger Lakes Fiber Artist show at May Memorial at 3800 Gennesee St here in Syracuse. The quilt by Sharon is a part of the show. The works looks good against these dark walls.
It was great to have the help and the process took less then two hours. I forgot to print out our into statements so I made a stop there today to post that addition. The show will be up until Wed May 29 and is open most days from 9 until 4:30.
Today with Beth’s help we hung a show at the Life Force Center. This quilt is called Tucson’s and is one of 32 of my works in this show. It will hang from now until the middle of June. Beth was very helpful and it took about two hours to hang this show too. Building and hanging shows is a part of being an artist, but I look forward to doing my own creative work for a while now.
Progress Report: Circular Thinking- 3 X 3 This work is 51″w X 51″l and it is my response to the Sisterhood of the Scissors challenge 3 X 3 . It was a bear to assemble. I see now that I really need to take a second look at the one side and perhaps re do the facing there. When one is working on a piece as big as this it is hard to see the total until the end.
I am glad I did all the stitching, even thought there seems to be as much embroidery thread in my stash as when I started.
Icarus I am finishing up the machine drawing on this work now. Even though I fused the fabric to batting before I did that step it sure got distorted. Lots and lots of heave pressing has flattened out most of that however. Again I need to live with this a while to see where to go from this point.
Creative Assistants I finished another batch of these little fellows this week. There are 23 this time. When I was cleaning I discovered under my chair, one more that needed the last three steps to finish it off . Guess that means I have a starter for the next group.
Tee Shirt Quilt I have make little progress on this work this week, but it is moving forward.
Sketchbook Revisited Class Along with many others am doing a online free class for the last week and a half. It is a great way to stretch and explore. This lesson was by Anne Butera. The emphasis on studying the subject, but not getting too hung up on the details. Looking at color and using a big brush captures it all quickly. I am enjoying myself even though I am behind a few lessons.
Childhood Memories -Crack the Whip One year at Thanksgiving time we had a real cold snap for about 4 days and there was no snow. We all went to the cabin that Grandfather Howard had built on the slew.( It is a back water of the Iowa River- created when the river changed its course and left old Chanel still full of water) The ice was thick and flat. One could skate in a strait line for as long as one wanted to if you went up the slew. All the cousins who had ice skates spent a wonderful afternoon skating. Being one of the older kids I had done the “hand me down” thing with several pairs of skates. Uncle Paul pulled us in a laugh filled game of Crack the Whip. Gene, Danny, Russell, Tracy and Doug were there I am sure. My memory is a little fuzzy about who else was there. When we got cold and tired we went up to the cabin and had hot coco and popcorn from the popcorn machine around the stone fireplace that grandfather had built. It was a great day!
Keep Creating
Carol