Hello,
I can not believe that this is how the gym at Onondaga Community Collage looked on Friday July 14 the day after my last post and the day we started preparing for Quilting by the Lake for this year. This post will be full of photos and snippets of what happened in those glorious days plus a bit of what has happened this week too.
So by the end of the day we had filled the gym with all the quilts that we had received at that time. It was not ready for guests as more work
came in on Saturday,
but we did a lot.
I spent my Saturday helping my friend Sharron move into her dorm room and decorate for Christmas in July. We had fun, but more about that later.
There were four special shows within the quilt show at QBL this year. One was five Dear Jane Quilts by Sharron.
She talked about her journey with the development of this project one afternoon after class. 
I have watched her work away on the blocks doing all the color variations at the same time for each of the 350 blocks. It has taken her six plus years to complete this master body of work. It looks great. Marcia De Camp had a solo show as well. Non on my photos of that are strong enough to be included here, but believe me when I say it was powerful too.
The Finger Lakes Fiber Artists had a great display . 
These two works are from that section. The top Quilt is by Sharon Souva. The bottom one is by Cheri Sheridan. 
This quilt is by Liz Anderson, she is also a part of the Finger Lakes Fiber Artist’s group. The little girl on the far right is Liz at the age of six.
Noel Keith also had a solo show and talk the second week . Some of her works have been included in the Quilts=Art=Quilts shows in the past. 
She works with silks that she has hand dyed herself and that adds a wonderful layer of excitement to her work.
Sister Sew and Sew made an appearance at the quilt show. She had lots of tips and bits of knowledge that she shared with us as well.
This shot is of Sister checking the length of this woman’s hem from the floor. An item that my Catholic friends assure me was common in their pasts.
My class week one was with Cynthia Corbin. I am going to post a few of the solutions that folks created in class.
This is a shot of Annette’s project in the middle of the week. It changes as she assembled it. I really like the quiet colors.
This work is by Diane. Her first work with all solids she tells me. 
This shot is of my table partner Robin and her work as we did our Mimi talks about our work for the week on Friday afternoon.
We were Cynthia’s last topic class and so we gave her flowers as a thank you for her kind support and help.
Friday night at the end of the first week of QBL we have show and tell where each class with their teacher get up on the stage and show what they worked on. This is a shot of Alice with her project from Studio class.
One class- on the use of wedges- just moved there boards with their work into the auditorium and display them. Nice touch.
Another event at the end of the week is the action of TOTE Bags to raise money for the Scholarship 
Fund. This is Rosalie Dace with her “Chicken bag” .
Week two I had a class called “One Theme – Many Variations” with Kerr Garbowski. 
We started each morning with some drawing. This shot is of Cherri doing a blind contour.
of onions- her subject.
We worked with colored pencils, chalk and paint blocks too. This is Cherri’s experiment using those things on a silk screen. 
With each pass she added more color so the image changed with each print.
Lots of my friends where in this class and we all had great fun. We did lots of deconstructed screen work. 
Cris and Ann were in front of me. Both worked hard. 
Robin sat next to me again and did some strong work.
Gerri really did some big works with her little screens.
I have been dyeing with Liz on most Mondays this summer and her big strong gestural work is so inspiriting. These two works from class confirm this feeling.
Angela was also in this class and she did this wonderful series using a glue line print of her husband’s saxophone keys. She too changed the background color with each pull.
These are 
some of my fabrics from class.
Quilters are a divers group. One of my friends,
Emily has done a lot of beading in the form of bracelets this year. She shared them with us. They are wonderful!
Week II of QBL also brought our Christmas in July celebration.
We played games based on carols.
We pulled poppers. We drank eggnog, we had a garb bag gift exchange and laughed a lot. 
Sharron dressed in red and was our master of ceremonies.
It was great fun.
The second week ended with show and tell like the first. Debbie had completed this quilt.
This shot is of Linda with one of the works she did in class. 
And another class project.
The week ended with the tote auction and Cynthia’s tote sold for $1,350.00 – the highest price paid for any work that was going to the scholarship fund. 
Cynthia sweetened the pop of her tote by adding some of her own hand dyed materials to the collection.
This is a shot of the bag after the sale. Nice way to close QBL for 2017.
Saturday I went downtown to the Art’s and Crafts fair where I saw several artists friends and watch the native American dancers. They really moved and I enjoyed all the action.
My daughter’s company had a booth there too and this shot is of her and several of her fellow workers. 
Wendy is the one in the middle.
I also had QuEG’s and Diva meetings this week. At QuEG’s we looked at many projects folks worked on at QBL.
This is the piece that Linda was working on in Independent Studio.
This piece is what Liz worked on in Rosalie’s class week one at QBL.
This is another 3-D work by Sally. The whole section at the bottom is all made with thread- except the door. The light house had a lite in the top too. She does amazing work with her embroidery machine.
This is another bit of jewelry by my quilting friend Corrine.
The Diva gals had lots of wonderful work too. 
Lori showed off her knitting with these hand warmers that she made on her curse to keep her hands warm. She also showed off her stitch work.
Sandy proudly displayed her work just home from a quilt show.
Noel showed off her newest work where she was mixing black and white with solid colors.
Sally displayed her second quilt showing off her morning walks. The quilt shows a map of the rout in red and the photos are some of the items she sees.
Ruth is actively working away on her dinosaur track quilt. These first layers are ready for the mud layer now. 
Maureen is working away on layers of dye for her new projects. This is lovely.
Susan is still doing little units of work on Pellon. These are memory pieces of her experience in Mexico. As I have said many times I am so very fortunate to have so many stimulating and creative friends.
Progress Report: Owl project
The first week I took a class with Cynthia Corbin called The ABC’s of Composition. In this class we design blocks using letter forms as the basis of the blocks.
This is the black fabric patters for my blocks. We then interpreted the patters in color and built the quilt around them. I stayed with this word all week and went from this first start to a “glyph” using the word owl.
I have always been fascinated by the positive and negative spaces in art and this project played into and developed several more pieces in this vain.
At this point I wondered about a size variation with the glyph. I did a shrink and an enlargement.
I have not done any work with the smaller ones even though I have several ideas.
The larger one however has become two pinned works. Watch for upcoming developments.
Label Blocks More blocks is getting smaller and the end of this step is insight.
It has been a busy few weeks and my mind is full of ideas. Now I need to slow down and get some work done.
Keep Creating.
Carol
The next stop was Central Park where we watched the pigeons as they enjoyed the sculptures too. We walked to Time Square where we stopped in the M&M store. I had to purchase Pumpkin Pie Flavored M& M’s. I was amazed by the walls of choices
Across from this on was another with eight shades of purple on it.
Friday we got up and went to the Bronx to the Botanical Garden to see the Chihuly show. This ” Rods and Logs” sculpture was the fist we visited. Then we walked to the Native Plants garden to see this Boat.
I really like the colors here and the reflections. We walked to the library and viewed his sketches and “Baskets”. Even though the drawings were one three or four lines, it sure was a great testament
for doing sketches before you begin a work. This Ice Blocks sculpture was in front of the Library. We went to the greenhouse and 
looked at more work. I think I took as many photos of plants and flowers as I took photos of the glass. In this last one the glass and plants sure blend together nicely. We visited the Succulent Garden the Rose garden, the Lilac Garden, the Cherry Blossom Garden, and two waterfalls. We rode the sub way back to 59th street where we got off and walked to a restaurant for dinner. Then we went down to Time Square and the theatre where we watched “Kinky Boots”. We enjoyed our day and we walked over 23,000 steps. I will be hard pressed to beat that record.
After eating on the museum patio we walked the High Line Park north.
It was a chance to get some great views of the city and the Hudson River as well as people watch. We had a good time and I enjoyed myself a lot.
Tues I dyed again with Liz. It is so much fun and relaxing to know we will be doing in again in a couple of weeks- so there is no pressure to do it all at one time.
Progress Report: Glyph VI This work is 33” w X 43” l. I quilted this one from the center out. Each section is in a strait line in both directions. I enjoyed working on this project.
This work is 32” w X 43” l. This quilt is a made from the cut-aways from Glyph VI. I pebble quilted in the green and gold areas, and reflective quilted the other areas.
This method of quilting means the raw edges are more rugged. 
Glyph IV I am still beading away on this project. It is slow, but I am enjoying it.
I started this project at Judy’s camp. All the sections are stitched together now and it is time to connect the units and begin the quilting.
Fall Card I did this card to celebrate Autumn Solstice. It is so beautiful here and I am enjoying being out doors.
Label Blocks These are the last two blocks. I still have labels- but I have run out of gas for this project. I will make rows of blocks next.
I am going to build the back out of black and white fabrics. So I started cutting today.
I am enjoying this series.
