All posts by admin

Aplique, Cockle Burs- Noogoora, Collections, Label Cards, Meadowlark, Sky, Totem Fox, Waterfall

End of year

December 27, 2018 admin

Hello,

I had to add this photo of my grandson’s creation for his mother for Christmas. I am so very proud of his creative welded work.

We are reaching the end of 2018 and reflection on all that has transpired over the course of the year seems to be apart of that ending. I have had a wonderful year with lots of shows and lots of creative work. I continue to be healthy and the ideas keep flowing out of my brain while the fingers do the work. My New Years wish for you is that you too will find new beginnings and joy at every turn.

Progress Report: Gathering Storm This work is part of the elements series from Corrine’s online class book. I have done all the palmary work and I am now doing the finishing up of the four works as the instructor suggests. I have learned a lot as I have follow the instructions. It has revived my interest in Angelina too.

Cockleburs/Noogooras I thought that this work was done last week, but upon further reflection I realized that it was not quilted enough with just stitch in the ditch work. So I added more steams in machine drawing. They add the quilting to make itavoid sagging and a quiet interest. Do that however meant I had to re-square the work so it has become a bit smaller as well. I am happier with it now.

Meadowlark This work is 12” X 12” and it too has a felted base with machine drawing on top. I really like this process and can see more works in this style down the road. There is a bit of recycling in this piece too. The fence post is made from some of the leftovers of the rock piece that became Rain Puddle. I added brown nylon netting on top to quiet it down a little too. I made the barb wire from yarn as it frayed like the little spikes on the wire does.

Waterfall After adding batting and backing I am now stitching down the parts and quilting at the same time. I’ll finish this like Gathering Storm as it too is from the Elements class.

Forest Flock I built this quiet background this week. I am making thread painted birds to add in on the top. I will create felted trees to add yet another layer of depth to the work. This will be the biggest work that I have done using the thread drawing as a part of the process.

These are some of the birds. There are two shades of gray and red threads on them. They need black beaks, eyes and feet to be complete. That will be my next action.

Sandpipers I also did the research and some palimony drawings for the next machine drawing bird piece this week. After doing all the solo birds I want to do groups for a piece or two

Jeanne’s quilt This work got about an hour’s worth of work every day that I went to the studio this week. Some rows even got connected to the ones next to them as they got completed.

Totem Fox I am done with the quilting and I am adding the facings to this work now. I think I will have it finished by tomorrow. I have enjoyed this project.

Collections V This piece did not get much attention this week. I am still collecting things that I think go together here. But now that Totem Fox is done I will need some hand work.

Label Cards: Rework The new beginnings of the season even became a part of this challenge this week. At the same time I do not think one can leave the past behind so using some parts of an old project to build upon was a natural way to move forward for me.

The Thing The future is like opening a door when you do not know what you will find. What is” the thing “that is in your future that will change everything that follows. We can only move forward doing the best with what lies a head.

Another Thing At the same time I can not think that good things are out there too.

Enjoy the holidays and ay your heart be full of joy.

Keep Creating

Carol

Aplique, Collections, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Label Cards, Meadowlark, Noogora/Cockelburs, Plants, Shows, Totem Fox, Waterfall, Wildfire

Everson Show

December 20, 2018 admin

Hello,

The big event in my life this week was the opening of the Everson show: (Re)Generate. It is a show of women’s work from gals all over 60 years old. I was invited to participate and this is my Wildfire piece that is there. The show is up until Jan 15. I am very happy to be a part of this show along with so many friends. The other event this week was a FAB meeting. We went to Nancy’s new home. It is wonderful with great views and splendid rooms. In the basement there is a wonderful old pool table and some very old billiard balls.I could not resist this colorful shot.

Progress Report: Noogoora/Cockleburs All the parts are attached now and I have even done additional quilting in the form of more branches to fill in. I will add the facing and finish it this week I hope.

Totem Fox I continue to do the quilting on this piece. I am just about half way done with that step now.

Waterfall I added the painted dryer sheet for the water fall yesterday and a bit of silk paper. I will now free motions quilt it all down.

Meadowlark All the base machine drawing is done now and I am ready to wash out the stabilizer. Then on to the felted base.

Jeanne’s Project I keep building away on this project. It is slow because, I audition a piece of fabric, look and then decide if it should be stitched on. The if it works I stitch and move on to the next row. I think she will be happy when it is complete.

Collection VI I started a new work in this series this week. There is not a lot on the surface yet but the building is part of the fun of these projects.

Cards: Inspire Be aware and open to the world around you.

We never Know One never knows what will spark a new direction or work.

I hope the holidays bring you joy and delight.

Keep Crating

Carol

Cockle Burs- Noogoora, Dickcissels, Label Cards, Linnen Jacket, Shows, Solo Blue Jay, Totem Fox

Quiet Days

December 13, 2018 admin

Hello,

We are in a quiet winter week at the moment. Snow and Christmas prep keep one in the house and busy. I had several days at home working and I enjoyed them a lot. Sat afternoon was the opening of the 12X 12 show at the Broad Street Gallery in Hamilton.

Sharon and I went out together and we had a good time. Several pieces were sold but not our work.

This piece is in the show along with two more bird pieces. I was told by one of my Social art friends that she really liked this one.

Progress Report: Dickcissels This felted work is 12” X 12”. I am having a good time doing little birds. The felting portion is fun too. Then adding all the details on the birds as I build them with the stitching is a real learning process.

Solo Blue Jay This bird work is also 12” X 12”. ( I have backgrounds built for two more) I tried to make the background more interesting by putting him in a tree. The Dickcissels are found only in meadow settings so building trees for this background was especially enjoyable. I have been experimenting with putting two treads through the eye of the needle and that makes for a more complex color mix with the feathers.

Totem Fox The fox its self is all appliqued down now and I am to the quilting stage. I am trying to follow the dye lines and create grass with them.

Jacket The hand work on this jacket continues. I am still feeling the inspirations from the Slow Stitch class I took at the Schweinfurth last month.

Cockle burs- Noogoora’s The bur heads are all stitched down now and I am ready to do the finish work on this piece.

Jean’s Project

This is the early stage of building this box quilt. All the little white tags are the centers of the rows and they are labeled so I don’t accidently put them on the wall upside down when I walk back to the pin wall. I seem to only be able to add one or two patches at a time on this work. Then I must look and decide what to do next.

Waterfall The tree’s crown is attached to the background. I am now ready to begin doing the rocks and water in this piece.

Label Cards -Laughter This is almost a cheat as I did so little in creating this card. But when I saw this quote I could not stop myself from using it.

Line of Sight I enjoy how the eye is lead up and away in this sculpture. Lines are strong directors for our eyes.

Keep Creating

Carol

Collage Based Work, Creative Assistants, Diva Meetings, Felt Work, Label Cards, Pods, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs), Two Chickadees

English

December 7, 2018 admin

Hello,

This is a bit different way to begin my post, but it is where I am so here goes. I did this card in response to the weekly card challenge and I was struck by how what a big part of the English language is mixed with body terms. When we usually hear someone say ” Body Language” we are talking about how our physical body can send signals of thought or actions, but there is another side too. We often use body terms to describe the world as well. One can use the face to raise and eyebrow, eye the competition, look through shuttered lids, roll the eye, give a fellow the evil eye or have looks that could kill. One can put their nose to the grindstone, or use a sharp wit, be a loud mouth, have a sharp thong , voice an anger, or say or do something that is jaw dropping. One can shrug things off, or carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. One uses the gray matter, or brain power, can have a pea brain, be scattered brained or hair brained. A person can laugh things off, but heads with a fellow , be tickled in the funny bone , nod off or have a stiff spine, stiff upper lip and some times get kicked in the seat of the pants. A person can get side swiped, man handled , and piss his fellows off. Or you can give your right arm, put you toe in, split a hair, have spring in your step or a belly laugh, get hip checked, or even hop to work. My mind is reeling with the whole idea. It is a pleasant activity to think on and I am sure you will come up with things I forgot.

The first Tues of the month was this week so I had my meetings with QuEGs and Divas. Corrine shared her leather work. Dori showed us her new raw edged applique quilt. Shabby sheek is my style she told us.

Angela has been busy too. This project from childhood made us all smile.

She is doing hand work on her deconstructed piece from two summers ago. I like the colors she used. Then I went off to Divas.

This is Regina’s newest thing. She does love that Indigo- even her shirt is dyed.

I also meant with my friend Tanya this week. She makes silk scarves to sell and this is just one of her new beauties. She had about six that were natural elements works too. All were beautiful.

Progress Report: Southern Crows This work is 45”w X 56” l. I did the stenciling with Susan in March. I finally put it together and did the quilting.I did reflective quilting around the birds and leaves and then did parallel quilting on the rest of the work.

Two Chickadees This work is 12”X 12” square. I did the birds on wash away with machine drawing. Then I added them to the surface with machine stitching. I am enjoying exploring this technique and have learned a lot about bird plumage in the process.

Creative Assistants I continue to build faces with found objects and make up these little guys. It is fun for me.

Cockle Burs All the cockle bur( Noogoora) heads are all done now and they have padding behind them. I am ready to build the branch to cross the surface and begin adding the burs now.

Felting: I’ve spent a lot of time using the felting machine this week. Built several backgrounds with little direction of where I want to go with them. This is one is an example of this. I believe I can find more birds that I would like to explore and this with work may be the answer. These Dickcissels for example. They are ready to be washed out now.

I built this felted piece with a Blue Jay in mind. I have only just started with the machine drawing here.

Sisterhood Challenge: Totem Fox I have cut out the pieces and they are required to the background fabric. ( a Judy Roberts piece) I am ready to zig-zag around all the parts at this point.

Sisterhood Challenge: Nine Patch This challenge has proved to be a difficult one for me. But after several weeks to struggling I have devised a way to go forward, The challenge is to make nine units that go together and are independently created. This collage of Mentos will be my soft guide for how to build my units. The block are all 18” square in my case, and they all must have back and white somewhere in the square. I have cut by bases ( the blue)and decided to use this black and white print as my unifying unit. I also pulled two other pieces of fabric that I want to use on more than one square. It’s a good challenge for me as I am in uncharted ground as far as I am concerned. A good stretch and that is what challenges are suppose to do.

Card Closed MindsIt is good to be reminded to keep the mind open – no matter where one is.

Keep Creating

Carol

Creative Assistants, Daily Practice, Experiments, Felt Work, Fundations XIX Mossy Stone, Label Cards, Rain Puddle, Southern Crows

Winter Whites

November 29, 2018 admin

Hello,

After three days of wet snow, I have been thinking a lot about white. In this photo the door that is painted white and that is different then the white siding and the snow created a third white. Snow quickly becomes a dirty white with age and light can also effect snow making it appear blue at times. This is a good time of year to look closely at this color.

This is the second snow with more than 4 “ so I snow dyed again this morning. This shot of the pot makes it look like it is red and black- but the dark color is labeled navy blue……. only time will tell what I get. This shot is of the first snow dye that I did two weeks ago with yellow and blue. I have been home a lot between events the last two weeks and I have worked away in the studio. There is a lot to show for that effort.

Progress Report: Rain Puddle This work is 18” X 24” stretched. It is a rework piece. I started with this Mossy Rock that I created in my Foundations series. I did 27 of those and very few are of any interest to anyone but me. So in recalling what my good friend Ethel said “Carol, you make good backgrounds” I thought what a better background then a rock for a puddle. So I looked at puddles on my walks and noted how they appeared to darken the leaves and thought I could use organza and nylon net to create that depth. I also noticed how the oak leaves were all so uniformly cream and brown so I used them as my subjects for this work.

Daily Practice V This work is also 18” X 24” . It takes about 7 weeks for me to complete one of these works. I enjoy all the hand work that is a part of the process. This one also used a great hand dyed that I did last year with a piece of upholstery fabric that Regina gave me. This is the last one this series as I have a new challenge to do for my daily work that involves a lot of hand work.

Scrap Happy This is a queen sized quilt that I created for my granddaughter Alexis for Christmas. It is made from the box of scraps from Ethel. This is the fifth one using up her scraps.Many of the little units were created by her.

Southern Crows I am to the quilting stage on this work now . I am doing reflective work around the bird square and just building around the squares out side of that.

Butterfly Wing This work is nearly done and I really like some parts of this experiment. Others – not so much. I may just cut this up and use sections separately as it is a bit much all together. Little areas work so much better.

Earth – Waterfall This work is building up. I built this tree( on the left) and then added foliage to create the crown. I am ready to build up the stones and add the water now.

Noogoora Pods I just finished quilting stitch in the ditch on this piece. I am now ready to build the steams and add the pods to the surface. Hopefully it will not need additional quilting after that point.

Felts 1 I am building backgrounds for the machine drawn birds that I have been creating. This is an early stage but a start

Felt- 2 Because I have to give up part of my desk when I use the felting machine I like to build more than one background at a time. This is the second and it is even rougher than the first.

Felt-3 This one is hardly tacked at all. I have only layer in the base and will build color over the top before I do much felting on this one.

Creative Assistants I have watched some sports on TV lately so I am creating little faces on my assistants. I just packed away 30 of them that were totally done on Tue and did not pull them out for a photo.

Totem – Fox The Sisterhood of the Scissors has a challenge. It is to create ones totem and this is my enlarged sketch for that project. I plan not to use the traditional color scheme, but limit it none the less.

Label Cards: Marriage As a part of my thinking about what I was thankful for over the last holiday I realized how very important my marriage is to me. So I made this card.

Saving. At the other end of what is happening is all the pressure to Shop! Black Friday , Small Business Saturdays, Cyber Monday…….. and for what? Do we really need more things? I going to give experiences, Theater tickets, and trips to the Zoo. That way I can save MEMORIEs instead of spend money of things that really do not matter.

Keep Creating,

Carol

Birds, Daily Practice, Deep Jellies, FOX, Label Cards, Scrap Happy Quilts, Sisterhood of the Scissors, Southern Crows, Word Forms

Fall Retreat 2018

November 16, 2018 admin

Hello,

The Schweinfurth Fall Retreat was last week end. I had a good time and got a bit of work done along with lots of old friends. Janice, a friend I made at the fall retreat two years ago, made and appearance and worked on this baby quilts. Her child is due in April. Sally finished up this top. One of her children gave it to her.

Victoria returned to work on this piece that has some hand dyed stuff in it that she created in the wet studio last fall.

Susan made three Christmas stockings( yes, that is an opossum on the one above her head ) and quilted on a piece that she started at QBL two summers ago.

Sally F worked on this wonderful soft colored piece that is a jump off from a Kay Facet design.

Randy quilted with the quilting machine in the front of the class room and made progress on this quilt.

Janet worked on creating these diamonds in Cherry wood strips and she got all the blocks done this weekend.

Liz worked away on this piece using some of her hand dyed fabric.

I started playing with some trapped cut yarns just to see what would happen. Then I also started to assemble a top using the crows I printed at Susan’s in Florida in March. Everyone had fun and made progress. There was so much going on it was rather exciting.

Sisterhood of the Scissors meant at the Schweinfurth today and looked at the the Q=A=Q show. We decided to use this nine patch quilt as the basis for our next challenge. The wild piecing and applique work appealed to us. Not sure about he rules- but I think it will push folks to some unique work.

After checking out the Q=A=Q show the group went upstairs to view the Members Show. This is my piece, Deep Jellies that is in the show.

Lots of my friends are in this one too. There is work by Victoria . I know she dyed this in a workshop with Pat Pauly.

Lori’s piece from Danalia was displayed.

Angela’s felt work was shown too. I regret to say that my shot of The Crows Of Auburn, by Regina , is too fuzzy to post- but it was there as well. NOel had a ceramic piece too. It is a strong show with lots of variety and very enjoyable.

Progress Report: Purple Study I enjoyed building this little 11” X 11” piece. The hand work class is still resonating with me.

JacketAs further proof of that the handwork classes influence, I started altering this linen jacket this week. I took out the shoulder pads and added a few patches of color. I have even done a little hand stitching here as well. I can see this is a long term project.

Black Capped Chickadee I did some tread painting of Chickadees this week as I want to keep building the free motion skills.

Earth – Waterfall I have not touched this piece in awhile but I got back to it this week. I am building in the trees at this point. The water over the rocks will come later.

Scrap Happy I am assembling the rows through the backing and batting in a sew and flip fashion. I will quilt over all of it later to add strength.

Rework FOX I thought I was finished with this work a few weeks ago. When I took it to the QuEGs meeting folks like the colors and the layout- but said it needed more quilting. This is a case where in my rush to finish I did not really look at the work to see it’s flaws. It is easy to repair this one- I merely took off the sleeve and labels and pealed back the facings so I could add more machine quilting. I am building up the new quilting in a diagonal pattern.

Daily Practice The hand work continuers to fill in on this work. I need to finish that step and then live with it a while to see if it needs any additional embellishment. I am trying to allow for the looking stage.

Southern Crows The top I stared at the the retreat is all assembled now. Pressing and basting need to come next so I can begin to quilt it.

Shredded Color This is a close up of the other piece that I started at the retreat. I have plastic bags of shredded yarn in color groups that I capture between the felted background and various colors of nylon net with free motions stitching. It is an experiment and I am leaning lots. I may or may not keep the piece as a whole unit. Got to do the careful looking and living with it – but first I need to finish the work.

Label Card: Beyond In this crazy fast pasted world, it is difficult to look beyond our next step or the next day. I fear we are losing lots of joy and wisdom by not looking a little bit beyond the immediate events. So this card is to remind me to slow down and think about the future as well as the past.

Next Thursday is Thanksgiving so there will not be a post next week. Enjoy your blessings.

Keep Creating,

Carol

Cedar Wax Wings, Daily Practice, Diva Meetings, Finger Lakes Fiber Artists, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Re Work

Busy Week

November 8, 2018 admin

Hello,

This week was full of fiber art meetings. Saturday was the FLFA meeting at the Schweinfurth.

Pat shared her latest work with us at the Finger Lakes Fiber Artist meeting on Sat. She hand dyed all the fabric in this work. There where lots of folks present as we had to cancel the Sept meeting. These works are by Joyce. She really puts a lot of motion in her work.

Marcia shared this dynamic piece with us. She creates movement in a different way.

Bev is working in a much quieter pallet than Pat and Marcia. I like the irregular bottom edge too.

Sharon had a whole pile of little works that she is going to sell at the 12X12 show at the Broad Street Gallery in Hamilton. This one was my favorite.

Angela is still exploring with Polynesian tapa cloth symbols. She made the screens and printed all of these by hand. Julia is exploring in a new direction too. I really like the text like shapes she is using. Liz went off to the Barn and took a class with Clair Bends and this is just one of the dye pieces that she created. He is fun.

The QuEG’s also meant this week. Liz shared these three pieces again from Clair’s class.

Corinne had been to the Red Thread workshop and shared this wonderful book that she made. It is full of different types of experimenting that they did. This photo shows work with a copper plate and a Gellie plate print.

Sue Ellen made a top using a cool Cat Pannell that she had purchased. She is planning on giving it to the service project at Tow Path. I think that is very kind of her.

After four I went south with Noel to go to the Diva meeting. Cindy shared this beautiful work with us.

This quilt will be a part of the Diva show Earth Song, at the Unitarian Church in Ithaca from Nov 30 to Jan 10.

It has been a full week and I am excited about moving forward.

Progress Report: Cedar Wax Wings This work is 12” X 12”. It is my entry for the Off the Wall Show/Sale for Associated Artist in the Manlius Library. It opens on Sunday. I am so enjoying doing thread painting that I can add on top of the felt.

Black Capped Chickadee n the same vain as the Cedar Wax Wings, I am doing a Chickadee.I built this background in felt. I drew my birds and I have just started to do the free motion work here.

Consider This is a rework of an old quilt that I cut up and used as a base for some hand work.

Noogoora I am doing the hand work on my seed heads now. The white side shows the my out lines that I am attempting to stay within with my stitches.

Experiments: I try to use the books and magazines I have on my shelves and this little experiment grew out of one of them. I had tried tacking yarn down on top of felt like suggested earlier. This process is done under wash away and is suggested in …………..msdmf I moved on. I have a great photo close up of a butterfly wing showing all the little “scales” of color. I wanted to try adding bits of color – fabric or yarn in little pieces to get this type of effect. I thought that if I scattered the bits on felt- then might stick enough to remain on the surface until I could stitch them down. That did not work. But adding a bit of nylon netting over the top did. Now I want to try that idea on a bigger scale. In the book Layers of Stitch by by Valerie Campbell-Harding and Maggie Gray in chapter 6 Cutting out the Patch talk about stitching on felt and cutting it away. My mind jumped to the wash away and I built my net using that instead. ( I never could follow directions) Not sure where any of these ideas will go, but I really am not to worried about that part.

Rework- new I decided I would take a second look at the old rock pieces. I did them just for myself and some are a lot stronger than others. I was talking with Liz about this and she suggested that I build a new ice piece over the rock surface. I like that idea and I will try that as well. I cut this piece so a near square piece so I can stretch it when I am done. When I was on my walk I noticed how the leaves were floating in little pools and I thought I could do that on the rocks too. This is my first attempt. I picked up some oak and Gingko leaves on that walk and I made stencils out of my tracings of the leaves. I will add paint to some fabric using the stencils and add them on top of the rock.

Daily Practice I just keep stitching away on this piece. It is very calming work.

Keep Creating

Carol

Blue Jays, Collage, Daily Practice, Killdeer, Scrap Happy Quilts, Shows

Opening of Quilts=Art =Quilts

November 1, 2018 admin

Hello

Color is filling the leaves of our area now. Lots of gold and red around here. This week has been a full one for me. The QAQ show opened on Sat at the Schweinfurth and I got to see my quilt in all its glory. Julia was one of the folks in this show too. She also came to the opening. I made a connection with a quilter from California- Viviana Lombrozo . Her work was in the same gallery as mine and we went to the banquet together and had a grand time talking and sharing ideas. Then we meant again at the Gallery Walk About on Sunday afternoon. I am still flying high from the experience.

Over this same weekend I was taking a class called Mindful Stitching Practice with Christine Mauersberger. She is a great teacher with lots to share. She gave us various prompts to stitch. This is my piece from day one showing circles and my breath patterns. We did responses to music and other prompts on Sat. There were so many directions that I did not get to all of them. This is my response to taking a walk with my thread. There were 13 other gals in the class responding to her guidance too. Lots f different solution to all the different ideas that were offered up. And down stairs they where doing Indigo dye work. This is a shot of two of Regina’s pieces from that class. There was so much going on that I still have not processes it all.

Progress Report: Blue Jays I finally got going on the 12”X12” pieces for the next show at the Broad Street Gallery in Hamilton. The Blue Jays were fun to do and putting on the stretch felt really was enjoyable too.I think I will do more jays a s they are so active in this area.

Killdeer This too will be part of the Broad Street Gallery show. Their distinctive calls have made these birds a long time favorite of mine.

Cedar Wax Wings I have three of these little fellows done now and I will build a background to use them on next. I enjoy the thread painting and I have ideas for some butterflies as well as more weeds too.

Daily Practice I am doing the button whole stitch alone the chain work now and I am about half way done with that process.

New work- Noogoora/cocklebur This shot shows the fusible inner facing that is on the back of the fabric to make it more stable for hand stitching . I can also draw the shape of the prickly seed heads on the back so I can see what shape I am going for with the stitching. The seed is enlarged about 500 times . I hope this works.

New WorkI am auditioning fabrics for my next piece. It is to be an earth piece in the elements series. I am trying to decide if I will build on browns greens or grays.

Label card- Include All In this time of conflict I wanted to think beyond the division and remind us all that there is only one world and we need to be inclusive not exclusive with it!

Keep Creating

Carol

Collections, Daily Practice, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Friends, Scrap Happy Quilts, Wildfire

Fall Color

October 25, 2018 admin

Hello,

Fall is all around me here in central NY. I love all the color although it has been very rainy so leaves are being pulled off the trees and there is little full color display here. One needs to enjoy what is available.

FAB meant on Friday last week and Sharon shared her completed commissions. She sure can build a great depth in her work and all the seasons are represented.

This week I went with the Associated Artists to visit an artists studio. Chris Baker ( his work is in the photo) was very open and gracious to us answering question after question. It was a good learning experience.

Progress Report: Wildfire This work is 33” w X 34” l. I have so enjoyed working on this project. I used a lot of the information that I learned in the transparence class at QBL last summer . I also used some silk paper that I had created to build up the color. Everything is sewn and quilted together with free motion work. I enjoyed working on this one.

Friends- collections 3 This work is 16” w X 24”l. There are so many little memories for me in this work. Many of the objects are gifts from friends. the Artists trading card here is form my friend Sharron and the black glass button came from Jenny’s button box.

Machine drawing I did a lot of machine drawing of birds this week. Two Blue Jays, two Killdeer and three Cedar Waxwings make up my efforts. The last Waxwing is about half done. I want to add them to the felting that I did last week. Hopefully they will be a part of the 12X12 show at the Broad Street gallery in Dec/Jan.

Scarp Happy workThese are three of the panels that I am building for the back of the scarp happy quilt. I tried to limit the pallet so it hold together visually.

Halloween Cards It is the season and I had a good time playing with paint and stickers one day this week.

New work The base is all done for this new project. I want to build some burrs to add on top of this base.

Dyeing and Indigo Last Thursday I went to Regina’s and she encouraged me to use her Indigo dye pot. I did these four pieces at that time. I think there is a lot of white because I am not sure I soaked them in water before I dipped them. Mistakes are often made when one is learning. Part of that learning included the fact that I stitched and wrapped some fabric before I went to Regina’s. But it was soda soaked and one dose not need to have soda soaked fabric for indigo. So this week I used some premixed dyes from Ethel’ stash on this fabric. It came out pale again because I did not know what I was doing.

Daily Practice I keep working away on this project. I feel I am almost most done with the flow lines around the outside of the fabric shapes.

Keep Creating

Carol

Birds, Creative Assistants, Crow Calls, Daily Practice, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Feed you soul, Felt Work, FOX, Label Cards, Sisterhood of the Scissors, Thousand words, Wildfire, Word Forms

Good News

October 19, 2018 admin

Hello,

This work is in the Quilts unlimited Show in Old Forge NY. I got a letter in the mail this week that told me this work won a Judges Choice award. I am delighted.

Other events happened this week as well. Tanya came to visit and we talked of dyeing. She is working with silk and experimentally dyeing with different materials. I love the colors she The big event was yesterday and it was my first meeting with the Sisterhood of the Scissors. It was a play day at Regina’s house. Everyone just did their own thing.

Wendy spent her time at the meeting working on shome stitchery. Several gals worked on their weaving.

They both had handmade looms.

one can see the image of her dog under this weaving. It will be great.

Regina is mixing her indigo dyed doily and a rust dyed one.I dyed with shaving cream and put a few items into Regina’s Dye pot. We had a good time and d to the next meeting.

Progress Report: FOX This work is 25.5” w X 4hhh. I am finally finished with this work. I used some of my hand dyed.

The modeled orange red here is that fabric. The background with the greens is one of the fabrics I inherited from Ethel. Her influence just keeps going in my life.

Wildfire- I am now done with the free motion quilting on this piece. It sure seems to give the work more of a flow pattern across the surface.

Friends I am done with the hand applique and directive stitch work on this piece now. The glasses are from my friend Mary and the copper belt buckle is from my mom. I now need to purchase some additional stretcher bars as I did not mark the outer edge of the size and I filled the space allotted. So I will purchase some 16” bars and finish this work.The wool is from Tanya and the leaves from Pam. I got the buttons from a big tin from my friend Sally. Folks are so very generous.

Daily Practice All the fabric pieces are attached now and I am working on stitching to pull them together.

Felting I went a little crazy when I got the felting machine out and did four bases. Then I ordered more roving as I did not have as much blue as I wanted.

Birds The felting lead me to do some machine drawing and the Blue Jay and the Killdeer are the result. I will build a few more birds to

apply to the backgrounds.

New Work I started a new background using lots of my hand dyed stuff .

Creative Assistants I watched a little football this week and built a few faces along the way.

Label Cards Thousand Words I think this is a true and powerful statement. Feed Your Soul For each and everyone of us that idea is unique. Color, texture and exercise are some of the things that feed my soul- but I am sure that is not true of everyone.

Keep Creating

Carol

Cre-8

All posts by admin

End of year

Everson Show

Quiet Days

English

Winter Whites

Fall Retreat 2018

Busy Week

Opening of Quilts=Art =Quilts

Fall Color

Good News

Creative Fiber Collage Artist Carol Boyer