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Diana, Trees, Twilight Trees

January 17, 2013 Preparing Solo Show

Hello,

I am all excited about the fast approach of my one woman show.   I addressed and sent post cards on Monday.    Hanging day is the 20th and I am busy doing all the little things that go along with that job.  I did my labels this morning.   A quick check of the location yesterday revealed the fact that I need to make new hanging rods as the ones I have are too large to fit with the gallery hanging system used at Sparky Town.  I got the lumber and I plan to cut  and drill the wholes in it tomorrow.   All the work is done now that I have finished the Diana piece.  I will have 15 pieces ready to display, but I do not think they will all fit.   But I always feel more comfortable bringing things home than not having enough.    This also gives the curator some choices.

Diana
16.5″ X 29.5″

Progress Report:  Diana    I am pleased with how this quilt finally came together.   I got to use some  fabric I had done a bit of dye painting.  I then used acrylic gold paint on a spiral stencil  on top.  This fabric  was created about three years ago and it was just the thing for this piece I think.   The owls were fun to free motion quilt around.  I like this stamp and I am sure I will use it again on more fabric in the future.  The  Drawing of the head on the other hand is a one time thing.   It was drawn with a sharpie pen and colored pencils were used as well.   The two other attempts of this face are already cut up and disposed of so no one will ever be tempted to “save ” them.

Spiraling Out
I am still working on the hand step of the facing of this work.  it will be finished this week.  I am sure that after the show is hung I will feel more at ease to do  other things.I did spend a couple of hours adding more quilting to this work this week as well.  

Rusty Text    I have started quilting on this work- all in the ditch  so far.     I am thinking that I will use the green liner units as my starting place for the real quilting action .  That will provide a lot of directional movement I hope.

Twilight Trees      I have really enjoyed working on this top this week.   I am feeling much more confident about the inserting of slender strips of fabric after this  project.    It is  pin basted  and  some quilting is already done to the edges of  the trunks.   I am not sure what to do next so I am just looking at it every morning when I first come into the studio.   It needs to set in the subconscious until it is ready for quilting.

Peli    I know that the goddess quilts are all done – but the ideas are still running around in my head.  Cali is the Hawaiian goddess of fire and this top has that feel for me.  I am not done with the curve cutting thing yet either I guess.  I have learned a lot on this one too- like do not make too sharp of a curve.  It is still not at all flat and I will need to do some additional cuts to remove the bubbles- but that is part of the learning I think.

My wish is for everyone to be as happy and busy as I am in winter. Keep creating

Carol

Diana, Paper Quilts, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs), Rusty Text, Text in Quilts, Trangle Show, Twilight Trees

January 10, 2013 Winter Work

Hello,

Angela with printing stuff

I always love this time of year after all the wonderful joys of the holidays have become good memories and things seem to slow down and commitments diminish and I can really get some work done.  That does not mean I am not busy- it just changes and I find I am more focused on what I want to accomplish.  I started on that path with a play day with  four friends.

Liz

We  ( the QuEG’s – Quilt Exploration Group) got together in Angela’s  new big studio and played.  It was so much fun that we decided to repeat the play part for the next few mouths doing different projects each time.   We will all be “teaching” a technique or leading in the exploration of a new material for the up coming days.

Corinne, Liz and Angela showing a sample for the future
Corinne and Sally

I enjoyed the silk screen printing with dye that we did in the morning and got some nice images.  They are true to the color expected because Angela mixed up the dye that day.   I do not have any idea where I will use these fabrics.  I do know that I will eventually use them.

After lunch we made cards for a fellow creative friend who had fallen over the holidays and could not join the party.

The whole day was great fun and really got me going for this week.

Progress Report: Spiraling Out   I am still quilting  on this project.  I have not done anything this large in a while and I had forgotten how very long the process can take.   This shot is of the quilt under the needle at the top.  It is fun to do the free motion  work again.
 Paper Quilt   I am enjoying working on this project.   I edged the openings  and edges with a  zig -zag stitch and knobby yarns.  I keep trying different solutions to filling the wholes and different arrangements for the four units.   This sort of play takes me much longer than I expect.

Wrapped wire insert
Hand made lace insert

I did eliminate on of  my attempts for filler so I feel like I am making some progress.

Lines in Fabric     This is an exploration project.  I talked last week about doing the DMC Quilt challenge.  This shots shows I am still working – but the progress is slow.  Marty  told me  that  I needed to press each seam toward the outside ,cut the “line” fabric and  then sew the next piece on.  That way I can get narrower lines – and that is my goal. I have really not had an opportunity to do that yet.  I will get to it I am sure.

   Diana  I am pleased with how this top came together  yesterday afternoon.  I  added the gold embellishment to the fabric in a class two summers ago.   It is the just the right touch of elegance for this work.     This will be my last quilt for the Goddess Show.  I plan to start the quilting tomorrow.   I have got to get busy with the labels for that show next.

  Rusty Text    This is really a working title for this top.  I needed to do a little creative work that did not include any pressure.    It is also another  bit of play with the Text stuff for  a possible entry into that competition.   I printed letters on inner facing and mixed that texture with silk.  The silk was also printed on in the green stripes.   When I showed it to Marty on Tue she was quit supportive about the work.  I am still not sure about the direction  I want to go with the quilting of this work, but there is not real  pressure here as I have a mouth before it is due.

 Enjoy the wonders of winter.

Keep Crating

Carol

 

 

Adventure Challenge 2013, Diana, Diana, Rusty Text, Twilight Trees

Thur Jan 4 New Year

Hello Everyone,

I hope you  have all had long enough to relax a bit for the hassles of the holidays.  I spent today at the Schweinfurth Art Center viewing the Quilts=Art=Quilts show with a friend.   I always find it so very inspirational.  Fibers can be used in so many ways to express so many ideas!    I got excited all over again about embellishing and piecing and color!   It is good to be stimulated in the beginning of winter.  For us that means lots of snow and shoveling as well as ice cycles.  I took this shot out the bathroom window of the light on the deck last eve.  I like how the light reflects off the ice.  Winter brings a new appreciation for limited color to me.   It is a good thing for me to consider as I have a challenge to work on that uses a very limited pallet using  light, med and dark tones of three colors.  It is the DMC challenge for this year.   That means we all selected a color and purchased the three tons of each of the colors and then gave the other participants  our selections.  The size this year for the three works is 18″X 24″ and one color from the other two pallets , needs to be used in each work.  There are no other rules….sounds like lots of room for variation to me.    I selected purple and my fabric are at the top.  Marty selected blue and her choices are to the left middle.  Dawn chose  black and her fabrics are on the bottom of the right.    I am a bit surprised at how well the three go together too.  I think my work with Leslie’s Riley’ s ” Artist Success Class” – Composition and You  will prove to be helpful here.      I have also decided to impose a little challenge of my own on the first quilt at least.  I want to further my ability to insert slender bits of fabric into my work and this first quilt will use that method.     So yesterday I started practicing with some blue fabric and this is the result.  I think I will play just a bit more before I start on the challenge fabric as we purchased it in Washington state last Sept and I can not run out and get more if it is a total flop.

Jots and Joints
22″ X 34″

Progress Report: Jots and Joints
This quilt is now completed and it is the first one for 2013.    I really was working to show the free form cutting in this work and I feel I was successful in that respect the curving edges work well here too.   I am also having fun mixing my hand painted fabrics with stock fabrics. This close up shows the raw silk in the left hand corner and some of the silk screen image.  I sketched them after looking at a circuit board from a calculator.  The drawing was done from memory several day later, so it is really my own invention.

In looking at the photo here I am concerned with the high number of wrinkles present.  Perhaps more quilting is in order.  I will need to do a bit of study over the next few days.

 

Spiraling Out   This quilt top is about half quilted.  It grew a lot as I worked on it.  The whole project started with some discharged fabric that I purchased form my friend Randy Kennan last summer at the  Quilting By the Lake Conference.   I had done just had my first experience with this type of print dyeing in my class with Judy Langille.  I was/am fascinated by the effect one gets as one does not have a lot of control as to how the color will disperse .   I am free motion quilting on the surface and doing a bit of zig-zag  couching along the way to push the spiraling feel of the top.   I feel I am nearing the middle point of the quilting work on this piece.   

Diana   This  drawing on old silk is the start of my next and probably final goddess quilt for my show this mouth.   I did the drawing three times before I got what I wanted on the fabric and all three were “traced”  from a  drawing that I did to begin with.  The drawing was done from a ancient Greek coin.  My Grandfather Howard found the coin while he was in Greece in WWII.  My mother made the coin into a pendant by adding a silver band around the out side and creating a bail that holds a diamond from my great aunt May’s engagement ring.    On the back of the coin is an owl that I used to create this foam stamp.  It will also be a part of the  quilt.  The owl is Diana’s creature and that is why it is on the back side.

Letters
This last image is also a start that I made this week.  I stenciled the rust and brown letter shapes onto white inner facing and plan to pair  it with some orange silk that has green lines on the surface.  I got the silk scarp from my friend Jean Riley before she moved to PA four years ago.  It is not something she had silk screened, but something that  had  been in a bag full of silk that she was given.  We quilters are  frugal and sharing bunch.   I want to create a second entry for the Text Challenge with these  fabrics.

Lastly as to my 30 day challenge- I am going to stay away from sugar for my first challenge.  I realized on Friday last week that there was far too much candy,cookies and sugar around this season- so I passed most of it off to the teen ages and made that my challenge.  It has been an eye opener- I did not realize that I had developed a craving for it, but I have.  So this will be a good test.

Keep Creating ,

Carol

 

Felt Work, Goddess Series, Out of the Dark, Stump Men, Text in Quilts

Thur Dec. 27 Between the Holidays

Hello-

We are now in the space between the gift rush and celebration of  Christmas and the celebrations of new beginnings that come with New Years day.  I happen to be in the middle of a big snow storm too and that does give one pause as travel is not really a good idea at this point.  I fortunately do not have to leave the house except to shovel the walk so the post man can get to the mail box.  I will venture out and walk up the street to check on the 95 year old- Fred, but mostly I am staying put.       This week is the time I try to evaluate and be realistic.  To finish up the started projects  and to discard the unsuccessful things, and be honest about what seems to slip to the bottom of consideration and toss out the things I really will never go back and finish.   If I do have anything in the way of resolutions there are two.  This one about being realistic and the second is to try the 30 day exercise that I have been hearing about.  That proposition is to take a small thing that you have wanted to do like become a better  drawer, learn to use  my Print Shop Pro program, or do more collage  journaling, and commit to yourself to doing that idea for 30 days.  Then you reevaluate.  You can then choose your next action on this idea.  This sounds very doable to me.  I will make my decision by next Tue.

Out of the Dark
16.5″ X 25″

Progress Report: Out  of the Dark

 This quilt is a new work for the goddess show that I will be doing in Jan.  I actually did the first piece of this in Aug with Susan.  That section is the middle sized goddess that I drew in pencil and we made a photo transfer onto fabric.  The other drawn images are done in permanent ink.

I did the ink drawings from the images in “The Language of the Goddess ” book by Marija Gimbutas.   I really enjoyed working on silk for this project.

Painted Sands   This is another of the wiggle series and I am enjoying the freedom

Painted Sands
25.5″ X 26″

of this process.  The big painted units I did last summer.  There is also some text on thous areas from a stencil that I created.

The crisp gold line here is the stencil.  It is a part of my graffiti series were I was using my name as the element of the stenciling.

Tree Men

This is one of the old projects that I have pulled out to work on.   After trying out four different arrangement for the units I think this is the strongest one and now I need to decide what the next step will be.  It is hanging from the bookshelf in the direct sight line from my sewing machine.  I think this will help me look and think about the process more.  I do not hold any illusions though- it has been 5 years sense I started this so going forward may be slow.

 

 

Written Words  This quilt is again one where I am using the graffiti stencil.  It is

Shot of blue and green quilt with letter stencil in blue/purple. It is free motion quilted with the word Carol in many overlapping directions.

a bit easier to see as this time the letters are stenciled in a blue purple paint.  I quilted my name in free motion work in all directions to hold this quilt sandwich together. There are blue facings on the top and bottom  that I will pull to the back and stitch down to create a knife edge.

Jots and Joints   This is a new quilt top that I started this week as I wanted to use several of the painted fabrics I had created in my class this summer.  In class I   created the stencil- the line with a dot at both ends show here in dark green.   I am still playing with scraps from the silk scarp bag with this top. The light blue/white is  a course weave silk fabric.

 

I hope you are all enjoying the season.  I will post my 30 day effort  resolution along with my work next week.

 

Keep Crating

Carol

 

 

 

 

 

Abame- Sisters Quilt, Curvie Cuts, Explorations 3, Out of the Dark, Text in Quilts, Written Word

Thur Dec 20- Solstices computer failure……

Hello ,

Happy Solstices! I am looking forward to the days getting longer – even if it is cold.   I am not a fan of the long nights even though I do enjoy setting by a fire.   I just hate to find crows flying to roost in the  darkening   4 o’clock sky.

Sorry to have dropped on the map so abruptly.  The computer  crashed.  We took it off to Best Bye and they had to send it out to have the Mother Board replaced.   When it came back the machine crashed again while they were running a diagnostic check.  Off the machine went again for 10 days.   Needless to say I learned how much I depend on the silly thing and short cuts as I could not excess this sight for the whole time.  The second computer that I did have access too did not have Photos Shop either so I could not do photos even if I could have gotten to it.  I will try  to up date without being  overwhelming.

Progress Report:  Exploration 3

Exploration 3
22″ X 24.5″

I really enjoyed working away on this quilt with the free form cutting and the irregular edges.  It is both freeing and a bit worrisome as I give up control and the reliance on the ruler for strait lines.   I do really enjoy the feeling of flow however and feel there is a lot more room for exploration here.

 

 

Thunder Boomer   I started this work  because I was nervous about the wiggle cut things I was trying .  I needed  to work on something

Thunder Boomers
19.5″ X 26″

that I felt comfortable with.  I did challenge myself by using silk as a part of this work.  The silk was a way of expressing how the air feels all electric when a storm is going on.

I enjoyed doing the machine drawing here as well.   This was a good confidence builder for me at that time.

 

Pillows    I did two pillows to accompany the quilt I did for the bride last mouth.   They came out looking good and I think they will enhance the  bed when they are placed on top of the quilt.

  Abame – Sisters Quilt  This little quilt is the next in the wiggle series.  I call it a sister quilt because a second quilt grew out of this work as well.  I made too much material and found it worked better as a separate unit.  I am almost done with the stitching of the face panels.

Sunmi Wash Up
This  top is mostly done by hand.  I have been seeing lots of images of the large amounts of plastic washing up on the west cost.  The piles I find distressing so I thought I might do a bit of a “junk ” collection piece to highlight this idea.

  Out of the Dark    This top is my next work for the solo show that I will be doing in late Jan.  I have always  been fascinated by stories of the gods and goddess of the past as well as all the little stone figures of women that have been uncovered.  Joseph Campbell’s books have also influenced me.  I was delighted when he came and spook at Ball State.  

Letters This is just the working title of this piece that I just started.   There is a challenge to do a quilt using text and this is my first attempt at that idea.  I feel this does not say exactly what I had in mind- but I like the way it is coming together so I think I will finish it none the less.

Out of Control This too is a working title.  I am so upset by the shooting in the elementary school this last week.  I used some discharged fabric to start this quilt because one has so little control with that process and league of control is how I feel  in relationship to this tragedy.   I tried to show the chaos I felt with this piece.   It does not give that feel yet –  I think that the quilting I plan to use with help with this.

Discharging
I did a little hand writing with dish washer soap to discharge  the surface of this black fabric.  This is another go at the text thing.  I put the dishwasher soap in the mustard container to do the writhing and it worked well.  The fabric is in the washer at the moment .   Even if I do not use this in the Text Challenge, it was a fun thing to try

 

 

I enjoy preparing  for the up coming celebrations so that is where my energy will be going for the next few day.  May the wonders of the season ans the joys of your life fill you in the up coming holidays.

Keep Crating

Carol

 

Curvie Cuts, Jubilee

Thursday Nov 15, 2012 Textures

Hello Friends,

I hope the weather has been treating you well.  It is crisp and cold here today but I still enjoyed my walk in the sun shine.  When I was taking my photos for this post I noticed that my Christmas  Cactus is blooming already.  Such a nice flash of color for the eye.

In the Quilt Exploratoin  Design Group we are working on composition.  This mouth the emphasis is Texture- one of my favorite interests.   It goes hand in hand with color most of the time in my eyes.    I this emphasis has made me more aware of the textures around me than normal.  I took  30 photos  of textures while I was in Indiana last week.  I arrived home on Monday and  and now look forward to using the images in some future work.  I am busy getting ready for the one and only craft fair that I participated in now.  It is only 15 days off so I am pushing myself to finish off some little works.   The  small 5″ X 7″ pieces need  that final visual check before  I  matt them.  I will post a few next week.

Jubilee
20″ X 22″

Progress Report:  Jubilee  I really enjoyed working on this quilt.  I am having a lot of fun exploring the use of curved lines in my work.  That seems to add a bit of fun to what I am doing. I though I had finished it when I took the work to the Quilt Diva’s meeting last Tue evening, but the gals pushed me to do some changes as far as the technical aspects of the work.  This had mostly to do with the flatness of the edges.  After their instructions I took out my old work and re did the facings.  It is much improved with the seam of the top and the facing just at the edge as apposed to the turn over of the top to the back as I had it before.  I enjoyed creating  quilting  to extend the curves of the piecing  too.   This quilt also got away from me as far as size is concerned.  I intended for it to be a bit narrower- but liked the look at this width that I kept it that way.   I still have lots of the wiggly units remaining and  I intend to keep playing with different color combinations  using them. 

Exploration 3
 This is an example of the further use of the curved inserts.  I showed this work last week in the piecing stages.   The orange and apple green print around the edge is the backing fabric.  I really enjoy how the colors of the big units can totally change the feel of the work.    I am quilting it now.  I think I will keep the irregular bottom edge in some fashion.   I am anxious to create a new one in this series as well.

Until next time- Keep Creating

Hugs

Carol

Curvie Cuts, Explorations 3, Scrap Happy Quilts

Thur November 8, Winter Cold

Hello Friends,

Sandy did not hit this part of the country- but the cold sure did.  We went form fall to instant winter.  It snowed on Tue- not a lot just enough to make me glad I had pulled out the hats, mufflers, and mittens over the week end.   I worked away on a quilt to ship to the shore for the

Scarp Happy
Queen size

relief program the quilt group organized.   I have been working away on this scarp happy quilt fora while and now I am very happy that I have been.  I only had to finish the binding and now it is ready to ship.  I always have one of these types of quilts in some form of assembly- it is my way of getting started some times. It is also  a way to use – by cutting up-my mistakes and they do not become just trash.  I machine assemble them and they are totally machine washable and dry able.   It is just about time to start putting together pieces again so I will do a tutorial on the process by early Dec.

Progress Report:  Lauren’s Wedding Quilt  I am finally done with Laurn’s quilt.  I like

Laurn’s Wedding Quilt
90″ X 100″

the way it looks like a birds eye view of the mid west.  I also like the way the gold and brown centers sort of float up to the top of the work .   This quilt also made me realize I do not seem to be very confident in my use of green.  It was my mothers favorite color and I think I resisted it for that reason.   I will ship it off tomorrow.


   

 

 

  Composition in Purple  This quilt is one I have lots of mixed emotions about.  I like the

Composition in Purple
20″ X 28″

colors and I know that Laurn’s quilt did influence me into starting this one_ (especially the boarder fabric).  I also wanted to contrast the shinny silk with the matt finish of the cottons.   I am still playing with wiggeleing the seams.  It is fun but I do not have the control I really want with this process.   

New Exploration 3
This new top is really into the wiggle stuff that I got from Marty last mouth.  I pictured two others in this series last week.  I am really enjoying inserting the little units into the composition.  I have a lot more control of the curves and movement of seam lines with this process.  The other two in this series are nearing completion , but not done so I am holding them all to show together.  I am enjoying this process so much- that there may be even more.

I hope you are all snug and comfortable.

Keep Creating

Hugs

Carol

 

Bird Goddesses, Goddess Series

NOv. 1, 2012 Sandy’s Effects

Hello Friends,

Sandy proved to be just as mighty and power laden  as the weather men predicted.  I am still reeling from the effects of wind and water on the folks of the east coast.   Such destruction and loss.  The will to survive is amazing and this storm will test many a soul.   We where hunkered down here with water, batteries and supplies  that  somehow seem a bit silly.   Thankfully  the storm just glanced over and around us leaving us untouched.  I, however, watched hours of coverage and listened to lots of reports, feeling sorrow for others and blessed at my own good fortune.   My heart goes out to all the thousands of people and the hard ships they are enduring and will be facing in the future.  We must not forget them when they fall off the front pages of our news reports.

Bird Goddesses
17.5″ X 24″

Progress Report:  Bird Goddesses 

I had a good time finishing this work this week.  Now that I am assured that I will have a one woman show in Feb and that director does in deed want goddess quilts I feel really inspired to work in that direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wedding Quilt for Lauren    I am feeling like I  am making progress on this quilt.  The top is all assembled now and I am ready to begin the quilting step.   I like the way the light centers glow a bit in this work. Composition  in Purples       This quilt really came together this week.    I got excited as I started quilting and did not plan as carefully as I should have and had to rip out a lot.  I enjoyed how the purple organza has a real nice feel for the play of light on the surface.

Tutti Fruity      Last week I was still working on putting together small units of color and

doing so with a wiggle line.  I have quit a pile of them now and so I started using them in a work.   Tutti Fruity is the first in this series.  Quilting in a circular pattern is proving to be a challenge as it stretches the fabric a bit.     I have learned that if I quilt one circle in the clockwise direction then I need to quilt the one inside of next to in it, in the counter-clockwise direction to make it flatter.   New Composition
I started laying out a new composition along the same line as the first.  I was going to try using the stripped units on a lighter background and keeping the crossed effect.  This is the first layout and I will do at least two more before I make my final decision.   I enjoy  making little challenges for myself and watching how they workout.

 

I hope all of you are safe and happy.  To my fellows who experienced Sandy’s wrath- I hope for a speedy return to a “normal” life.

Keep Creating

Hugs

Carol

Uncategorized

Oct 25, 2012 Falling Leaves

Hello Everyone,

It has been cold here in central New York, but the contrast of  today is delightful.  I  am just home from my walk for today.  It is beautiful with summer like temperatures an lots of fall color.  I enjoyed the crunch of  leaves, but  even more the falling ones.  There are many leaves drifting down on gentle breezes  so I played my favorite fall sport of catching as many as I could.  I stood for a long time under a golden Ginko, but was unsuccessful there.  They are just a little to solid and only drop down- no drifting there.  I did manege to get five however.  One very red Silver Maple leaf and four from Sugar Maples.  I had a grand time.( after checking on old posts I discovered that I talked of leaf catching last year in Nov.17 post)

This week has been a busy one out side the studio what with plays and meetings as I get back into the swing of fall activities.

Progress Report: Lauren’s Wedding Quilt  I worked away on this project but there is no real visible change.  All the blocks are in rows and ready for assembly.  I am creating the back greens and browns but in my usual scrap back method.   I will try to take more photos this week.

Slender Cuts
I started this method with the instructions I got from Marty in Idaho.   If you look back at the June 25 posting your will see that I have been struggling with  curved piecing for a while.  With the help Marty has given me the cuts are better and they are much flatter.  I like this method and now have about 20 pieces of various widths.  I guess I should stop fooling around and start something with these fellows. Composing in Purple
I decided to try a new approach to my compositions.  I pinned up  three different layouts using mostly the same units and then looking at the digital images selected the

lay out 1

stronger of the three an started the new work from that point.

lay out 2
layout 3

I altered the work as I usually do- remembering what Dr Nichols always said about making “Visual decisions Visually”.   This is nearly assembled and I do not see too many changes before completion.

I hope you are all enjoying fall and the leaves.

Keep Creating

Carol

Bird Goddesses, Curvie Cuts, Goddess Series, Lauren'd Wedding quilt, Wedding quilts

Oct 18, 2012 For the Birds

Hello,

It is really starting to feel like fall here in  upstate central New York.  It has been cool in the early mornings and evenings and worm during the middle of the day.  I spent time today out of doors stacking wood for the fire place.  I am only about half done, but I had to stop as I had an appointment.  Hopefully I will finish the job tomorrow if it is at all as beautiful as today was.  Another sure sign of the approach of winter around here is the reappearance of different birds at the feeder.  I still see our constant Cardinal friends, but this morning I also saw two Blue Jays.   I do not think I was aware how very big they are as compared to many birds. I know they have big voices and their bright blue makes them easy to spot, I just was unaware of how size was also a part of that until I saw them up close.  I do not think they will be around long I do not recall seeing Jays in the winter in the past.  But I will keep my eyes open for them.

Mary’ Wedding Quilt
Queen sized

 Progress Report: Mary’s Wedding Quilt  

This commission is finally complete.  The cream is from Mary’s mothers wedding dress and was the starting place for this work.   The center block is the collar of the dress and the buttons that are in the middle ran down the front of the dress.  I added lace  to all four of the rows of  wedding dress sashing that surround the center.  The double row of lace  on the sixth row from the center has antique lace from my grandmothers collection as a part of it too.

I am very pleased with how the final quilt looks and I hope the bride feels the same.

Purple Marble
14″ X 21″

Purple Marble 

I have enjoyed working on this quilt as it has all come together sense I came home from my visit to Marty.  I was so very excited and full of ideas that I could not seem to get started on anything.  Over choice, I guess.  So I dropped back and went for a pile of fabric I had selected as “working together” and did  a work that was in my usual vain.

  doing that work on something I was fimilar with made it  easier to start a new idea.  I used a variegated  thread to quilt this work too .

Lauren’s Wedding Quilt Blocks

The blocks are now ready for assembly.  This is one of the ideas that I got from my visit with Marty.   I cut the original block ( blow)so the center was 2″x4″.  ( I did not take any photos of this step  you can see what it looked like before I made the second cut)  I then reassembled the squares and made the same cut on the new aliment. Again I put the squares back together creating the blocks you see.  I tried to make each block unique with only the two cuts.  The fun of the layout for final assembly now begins.

Bird Goddesses

This quilt is made from some of the drawings I did with Susan before I went away.  I know I have a show at Sparky Town for January and February and the curator wants goddess quilts for that show.  I already have several, but will take this opportunity to create a few more in the same area. This close up shows one of the smaller drawings.   It is only about two inches tall and just about life sized.

I hope you are enjoying the wonders of fall and enjoying every second. Until next time.

Keep Creating

Carol