Category Archives: Applique

Applique, Hand work, Pixies Group, SAQA, Scissors, Scrap Happy Quilts, Sisterhood of the Scissors

Visiting

Hello,

It has been a week with several visits to other quilters.  Thursday,  I went off to Mill Sight Lake with Nancy to visit Judy at her camp.   I was surprised to find several of my old works hanging on the walls there.    Sharon joined us too.   Sadly,   it rained both days, but we still had a good time talking and doing hand work.

 

Rose, Judy’s dog and good companion, spent a lot of time on her lap.

 

 

 

 

Then on Tuesday,  Sharon and I went to Ann’s Barns for a  day of quilt play.    It was sort of a mini Sisterhood of the Scissors meeting.  She as been busy doing lots of renovation so the space is more livable to her and the new studio looks wonderful.   This is a shot of her fabric wall cabinets.

Ann’s work   looks great on her new walls too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Val shared her City Scrapes piece with us.   In the sky she free motion wrote lots of words about the city of New York City.

 

 

 

 

  Sharon has only to stitch the binding on her Heron Quilt now and it will be complete.   It is one of her best works in my opinion.

 

The Pixie’s meant yesterday and we had a good talk and I also listened to the SAQA lecture on “Labeling Your Quilts”.

Progress Report:   New Scissors    I started a new scissors piece and I am making progress.  Many pieces are cut, but nothing is fused down yet.     I hope to start that step later today.

Scrap Back   I am in the process of adding together scarp pieces for the back of my next Scarp  Happy project.  Grandson Gavin, expressed an interest in a new one, so I am off to it.

 

 

Scarp Blocks     I have cut the 4.5″ centers for the new blocks for the Scrap Happy and they have one side of the Roman Strip added to them.  I know this pile does not show much- that’s  it.

 

 

 

Handwork -Glove Block  I work on this up at Mill Sight.  It is started now and I am sure I will keep at it.

 

 

 

 

Little Monsters     Joyce and I have a little challenge going and this it my solution.      I think they work  as the only two rules were that there had to have ears and teeth.

I hope that the summer is providing you with good times and joy.

Keep Creating

Carol

Cutting the Corner, Diva Meetings, Hand work, SAQA, Scissors

Early post

Hello,

I am off to Mill Sight Lake tomorrow , so I am posting a bit early.

Liz and I went off to Marcia’s on Friday last week and meant with three other gals.  Joyce had created a wonderful beaded doll sense last we saw her.   She is just getting better and better.

 

 

 

 

Deb was busy finishing up the binding on  a  work she created with some parts from Perilla’s collection.

 

 

 

 

 

Marcia is working on her challenge piece.

 

 

 

 

Our community Art, Garden and Sustainability Trail was Saturday.  It was  hot , but enjoyable.

 

 

 

 

 

I sold 12 little pieces and felt really good about the day.   This is shot of my booth.

 

 

Yesterday the Diva ‘s meant at Seneca Falls  at the National Women’s Hall of Fame.  It was very informative and I learned a lot.

 

 

 

 

I enjoyed this painted collage of Katie Statian .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denise was in the Art show that was there. In addition there was also a display from the Smithsonian on the history of voting.  We all had a great time .

 

This shot is of five of the ten  Diva gals who were there.

 

 

 

 

We visited a local art gallery after lunch   and enjoyed the art work too.

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report:  Cut the Corner   I finished  this work yesterday.  It is  41″ w X 28.5″ t.

   I am having a good time with scissors at this time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gloved square  i finished this square at Marcia’s.   Only three more to go.

 

 

 

Small    This work is my response to the SAQA  Big Small challenge.   The big work is Cut It Out.   I think  I am nearing completion of the embroidery work on this project.

 

 

 

Creatures    Joyce and I have a little challenge to create  a creature with ears and  teeth.   I am enjoying the process.

 

 

 New Work   This is my color run for the next scissors project.

 

 

 

I hope all are enjoying a wonderful summer.

Keep Creating

Carol

 

 

Cut It Out, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Scissors

Off to Quilting by the Lake

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Hello,

This week has been a full one for me.   I am of course packing for my two week at Quilting by the Lake.  I will have lots of new stuff to share  on Aug 1, the next time I post.

Summer walks continue to be full of new sights as well, such as these Indian pipes.

   I did go off to the    Opening of   the Rock  Garden Show on  Friday.  It is always a divers and interesting show.    I knew four artists this time.

Terri had this wonderful bed sized work in that show.   She has been working n it for years.

 

 

 

Barbara shared some of her quilts and  her paintings too.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheri showed off her print works.

 

 

 

 

 

Denise had four of her powerful felted works  on display.   The show is in Homer at the Art Center and will be up until  the end of Aug.

I attended the  Lavender Festival in Red Creek  with my grandson on Saturday and  zoomed with the Pixies as well.     I am blessed with a full life.

 

 

Progress Report:  Cut It Out      This work is 45.5″ X 28″.     it proved to be a challenge as giving the view in x-ray vision  meant I really had to watch what I was doing.    My pile of miss cuts was a big one.

 

I zig -zagged the edges and appliqued down textured yarn at the same time.

 

 

 Big and Small    I decided to take the Big and Small challenge.  This is my 12″ square that is the start of the  Small .    Some of the miscuts are used in this piece.  Now to do some embellishment work with thread.

 

 

 

Ties   I made more square for this project and I am all done creating them now.   I plan to start assembling  blocks later today.

 

 

 

 

 

Lap #12   I am working on the hand step of binding   this work now.    I want it done before I depart on Sunday.

 

 

 

Handwork     I did a little handwork this week.  I sure made a lot of blocks for the Joyous Embroidery class- still some left to complete.

 

New Cuts      I have new ideas for a scissors themed  project.  So I  though I would try a different approach this time and make  a paper pattern that I could trace and move  around  on a background.    Here is my new pattern in a heavy paper.    I will let you know how this works in the future.

Enjoy summer and keep creating’.

Carol

 

 

Applique, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Flag Challenge, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, Scissors

Berry Season

Hello,

As I plucked a ripe  berry form the Mulberry Tree  on our walk, I was  reminded that when I was in Kindergarten I learned that there were 4 seasons.  So when summer came and there was Cherry season, and Strawberry season, followed by Raspberry season, I was a little confused and wondered why they were so short.   My Dad explained that the fruit seasons were just labels for what was ripe and a joy to eat at times of the year, while the four seasons represented the leant of day light and weather.   My childhood mind still though it was a bit unfair that the berry seasons were so short.   I am  now enjoying watching the  blue berry plants grow large wonderful large green berries in Rachel’s  yard,  and paying attention to the first ripening  wild  black berries  along our path.    I love berry seasons, perhaps that is due to how brief they all are.     My other big delight this week was to discover a young opossum in my hedge when I was watering my plants .    Then there were all the firefly’s  in my back yard last night .   Nature is constantly surprising me.

My only quilting events this week were  a  FAD meeting and a Pixie Zoom meeting.

Progress Report:   Lap 11   I really enjoyed this project this week.  It is so very cheerful.

 

 

 

 

 

Lap 12     I can’t let things go so I started a new one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field of Flowers    I try to work on this every day  so I am making progress  on it.   I think I only need to add the last of the free motion,  Angela, and  roving flowers I did to start this idea .

  Tie Quilt   In my efforts to clear away and finish up things I came across a box full of ties that a friend has sent me.   I decided to tackle building some blocks for a bed quilt with them.

 

 

Scissors Quilt  Marty sent me this little image of a painting made with scissors.  The water color artist had allowed himself to have X-ray vision with the work.  Seeing that was all it took for my imagination to go flying.     So I arranged my scissors and did a drawing.  This full sized drawing is the result.   I have pin based a base  and I am ready to start cutting pieces to fuse down and stitch now.

 

 

Glove Block # 5      This is my handwork for the evenings at the moment.      I am now ready to move on to the next block.

 

 

 

 

Flag for Susan     I came across this perfect piece of handwork by my Aunt May and though of Susan’s flag project.   I will mail it this week.

 

I hope folks are enjoying the wonders of summer.     Due to the fact that next Thursday is the 4th of July ,  I will not publish until Friday next week.

Stay Safe

Carol

 

 

Applique, Consider, Contemplating, Coy Pond, Creative Strength Training, Hand Out, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, Pondering, Reaching

Rolling Along

Hello,

This week was a good one for me.  I had lots of social stuff over the week end, and great studio time this week. The Pixies and Creative Strength Training went forward as well.  I am re reading the Creative Strength Training book that Jane wrote and I had too.  I am following the exercises she recommends and I started a little self challenge to do a bunch of Expanded Squares.    In keeping with the ideas of using what you have I cut my squares out of some dark gray paper that I had. 

 

Too  easy to  put  off   doing the exercise when one does not have exactly what is  required.

 

 

I also put in a day in the studio with my Grandson Nick on Sunday.   He designed and printed the shirt  for one of his friends.

We  spent the rest of the day designing and starting a back pack in the form of a fox.     Without  a pattern it took a lot of thought and we got about half done we ran out of gas on that project.  It was great fun though.

Progress Report:    Ponder   I  worked on all three of the pieces in this group.  This one is now done with the quilting and the binding has been completed.  I need to do some hand work in the solid colored areas to hold them down.   Contemplation is at that same point.  I need to finish the binding on  Consider and add a sleeve there too.

Lap Quilt  I stared and completed this top this week. I intend to send it to my Uncle in Iowa in the fall when it is done.

 

 

 

 

 

Golden Leaves   This work got its start at QBL this summer.  I am now ready to begin stitching the parts down.

 

 

Three Witches  – Samantha   I worked mostly on this second witch this week.    I am mixing the weight  of the thread just like I would do if I was drawing and adding more or less pressure.   I like how it is developing.

 

 

 

 Coy Pond    I started this project before I went off to QBL and it got buried.  I uncovered it this week and went to work . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the coy fish are made of at least three  parts and many have four. I think it needs about 10 more fish for me to be happy with the numbers.   But in looking at it  I realized that everything is of the same value .   That dose not make for a good work so I will build a new background this week  and hope I can fix the problem to my satisfaction.

 

Reaching ( hand project 3)   I was given a wonderful old  hand worked wool blanket that was falling to shreds.  My friend Ginny  said do what ever you want with it.  I am trying to save the good parts and make tributes to the hand work of women in the past.  I made two works using parts of the blanket  for Creative Stitch Club and I had  a few new ideas so I am moving forward with them now.

 

 

Hand Out( hand project 4)   This is the other idea.  I have only laid out the back ground at this point.     I sure have lots of hand work to do this week.

I hope you are enjoying the summer and keeping creative

Carol