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100 day Challenge, Collage, Curvie Cuts, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Hand work, Pixies Group, Sisterhood of the Scissors, Take Off

Temperature Change

Hello,

   It is that crazy time of year when the cold just doesn’t want to let go.  I had to bring in my plants last night due to the chance of a freeze.   so here they set on the studio floor to greet me this morning.  It was so warm earlier this week I worked in only a tee shirt in the yard and still sweated a bit.   I still feel fortunate when  I hear of the forest fires in western Canada and the storms in the west.      For me this week was busy with meetings.  The Sisterhood of the Scissors meant as did the Pixies.  I also went off to a FAD meeting yesterday.   I like the outside stimulation.

Progress Report: Take Off  This work is 39.5″ X 37″.     I did enjoy the applique of the birds this week.  I have learned a lot about Terns sense I started this piece.

 

 

 

 

Ferdiand  This is the newest piece that uses prints form the 100 Day Challenge.  I also added a lot of  other altered fabrics to this one.   I am now ready to layer and quilt it.

 

Hands  I only did the stitch in the dich work on this pieces this week.  It is a bit awkward to move under the needle.

 

 

Equal Voice   This piece is for the Diva challenge as a part of the Together We Rise  project.   I am happy with the lay out and the little bit of stitching I have done.   I will keep moving on this as I want it completed by the next Diva meeting.

 

 

 

Blue Beach  I worked away on this at the Pixie meeting this week. Every button put me closer to the completion.

 

 

   Collage- Concern   I  become interested in doing collage during the 100 Day Challenge as there were folks doing such wonderful things.  Now that it is complete I got myself together and  did one this week.  I think it is strongly influenced by what Cheri is doing with printing.  I had many false starts and I am not sure if this is complete.  But it is a beginning.   I think I will try to do one a week for a while.

 

I am hoping spring smooths out a bit and not too many blossoms were destroyed by the frost last night.

Stay safe and keep Creating

Carol

100 day Challenge, Circulation, Creative Assistants, Curvie Cuts, Pixies Group, Split Compliments, Take Off

Still Recovering

   Hello,

 

I  am still a little under the weather although now it seems only to be a head cold.  I am just glad not to feel the all over body Ake.     I had a good week however.   I went off to the Schweinfurth Spring Retreat and go to see my old friends and got some work done too.

Susan was there working on a stitched paper pieces.   Making them “float” together with stitches between took a lot of pashents.

 

 

 

 

Victoria worked away on her high relief pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sharon did a nice bit of building on her newest felted piece.   it is based on a photo of the reflections in her bathroom mirror.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donna spent the weekend building pillow cases for the QBL teachers.

 

 

 

 

 Ellen worked away on several pieces based on some of her classes this year.

 

 

 

Linda made three lap quilts from a bigger quilt that was a family piece.

 

 

I worked away on  my hands project and got it all  arranged.  The pieces got united and the over lays got pinned on before the week end was over.

There were several other folks too all of us happily doing our own thing.

 Meanwhile down stairs the Made in New York show was going on.  My friend Joyce Holman  had a great piece in this show.

 

 

 

 

Pat Pauly was in the show and  her work looked great.

 

 

 

 

Then there was Julia’s piece and it won best of show.

My only other event this week was the Pixies and we talked as usual.

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Circulation    I did  quilt on this project at the retreat as I needed a bit of a break from the hands project.    It is 36″ w X 44″ l  and the second piece in the split compliments series.   I used a lot of the precut pieces from Liz in this piece and had a good time with it.

 

 

 

 

 

Circus Grounds    This work is 40″w X 50″ l.   I seemed to have let the materials get a way from me here.    It it the last of the 100 day project pieces that I started during the 100 days.  I still have prints to use and will start another soon.  I did lots of machine quilting here and again enjoyed the process.

 

 

 

 

Take Off  I finally got back to this piece this week.   I drew the birds in inktense  pencils and now I am machine appliqueing them down.   It takes me about 20 min to do each bird.

New Split    I  pulled these fabrics for the next one in this series.   Yellow is the main color.    It too has some of Liz’s curved scraps that I will try to incorporate.

 

 Creative Assistants   I did give away a batch of these little guys at the retreat this week.  But I made more than I passed out so I am  making progress.

I hope the wonders of spring are around everyone and that they are all healthy.

Carol

 

 

 

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Under the Weather

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Hello,

I am suffering a sore throat at the moment.  I caught it from my husband and I am not real happy about that.   I really don’t fee too bad, but I sure do not want to pass it on to anyone I know so I have canceled a few things already.     Before I became ill I had a busy week.  Friday Liz, and I drove to Palmyra to help  Marcia sort and price items for the Perilla sale in June.    There are a lot of her beautiful coats that are for sale.  Liz and I both priced fabric  and we all talked the whole day.   It was a good time.   I will post more about the sale as it gets closer.

I made it to the Diva meeting  and it was very stimulating.   We are working on a  group project and that took most of the meeting time.   We are doing a group banner for Together Women Rise. Then we did do show and tell.  Cheri is doing some great printing.   I really like this approach.

 

 

 

 

 

Denise went off for two weeks to an artist in residence program and came home with three wonderful fiber works.   They all have so much texture and color.    They are felted wool plus so much more in the way of fabrics and stitching.

 

 

 

Mary is still  working through some of her purchased fabric prints that she  got in Africa.

I made it to the Zoom meetings this week too.  The QuEGs  meant on Tue, the Pixies meant on Wed and I did the Schweinfurth Art Talk with Nancy Crow yesterday.

 

 

Progress Report:  Together Women Rise-  Equal Voice.   This is the start of  my project for the group.  I have cut the figures and will keep building on this through the month.

 

 

 

Circulation   This is the second in the Split Complement Series.   As the photo shows I am to the quilting step of this one now.

 

 

 

 

Circus Grounds  I am also doing free motion quilting on this project.   This is the last of the SAQA 100 day challenge.  I found that without the requirement of   daily posting I do lots other projects instead of focusing on this one.

Blue Beach  I just keep adding buttons to this surface.   I am beginning to feel like I am near the end.

 

 

 

 

 

Take Off  I am working away on this project and drawing the more Terns in take off mode.   I am using inktense pencils to add the details.

 

Hand Work    This is the on going project that I only pick up when every thing else is “done”.   I did work on it although the Pixie meeting this week.

Creative Assistants     I finished another batch of these little guys.   Each completed one is closer the end of the process.

I hope no one else is under the weather and that  enjoying spring is your main goal.

Carol

 

100 day Challenge, Curvie Cuts, Drawing, Pixies Group, Split Compliments, Take Off, Uncategorized

Crazy Weather

Hello,

Mother Nature sure has put us through our paces this week.    We had these ice balls one morning and   then we had a 70 degree day.     The warmth  sure has pushed the buds to open on the trees  and the flowers as well.     There is a bit of a cozy feel as the trees become more and more solid with leaves.   One can only dress in layers to remove as the day goes forward.   The sun is around longer too and not setting until after 8 in the evening.  It is a time of change!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Associated Arts meat on Saturday and  we had a workshop on Artist Trading Cards.    I had a good time and did not want to stop when we got to the  end of the  meeting. My only other meeting this week  was with the Pixies  and that was good as well.

Progress Report: Analyze   This work is 34″ w X 44.5″ t.  It is the first in the Split Complement series.      I did all the quilting in a  blue metallic thread with a zig zag stitch. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circulating ( formerly Fractured)   This is the second in the Split Complement series.   Liz kindly gave me a lot of solids that she had left over from  her bulls eye quilts.  That means there are lots of curved pieces.   I find it fun to sue them as a starting place.      Therefor I have changed the title as I am concentrating on curves and I really can’t thing of anything that fractures in curves at all.    Red is the primary and yellow green and blue green are the other  colors.  I seem to have lost my emphasis on red with this one.

Circus Grounds   The 100 Day SAQA challenge ended on Monday.  This it the last work that I started as a part of that challenge.  The top got completed Monday.  It got pin based  and I have done a lot of the stitch in the ditch work at this point.   Now I  need to fill in with some fun quilting.

 

 

 

Take Off  This is a curve cut project.     I am just about ready to add the birds.   I am using Inktense  colored pencils to add the detail colors here.

 

Blue Beach     I just steadily add more buttons to this project.  It is getting a bit heavy and I need to pay attention so it hangs strait.

 

 

 

 

Scrap   After discovering another box of units, I am finishing up the  cutting of the strips.     I am sewing the strips together now and making what I call wheels of 2.5″  strips .

 

 

 

 

= Voice  The Quilt Diva’s have a new group project.   We are building series of units that will hang together for Together Women Rise.   We will build our independent sections with lots of limits so they work together and can be auctioned as sections or independently.    I  have started and made one of my sections.    I plan to cut this up.

 

Drawing    I did a little drawing this week.   I admired one of the gals work in the SAQA challenge and I tried some similar stuff this week.  She started her work with a bit of paper, then did some paint on top and drew on top of that.   I did have fun with this formula, but mine do not look at all as strong as her work was.

I hope you are enjoying the change of season and being a bit creative too.

Carol

100 day Challenge, Birds, Color Study, Creative Assistants, Curvie Cuts, Pixies Group, Scrap Happy Quilts, Sisterhood of the Scissors, Split Compliments, Take Off

Spring

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Hello,

This week was a busy one as they all seem to be.  I went off to Bever Lake with my friend Sharon to the Wool Festival and had a good time.  I did purchase a few oz. of purple and pale blue roving for my next felting project.    The trees were still bare, but the temperature was wonderful so we took the woodland trail and enjoyed the reflections in the pools and all the wonderful textures we saw.    The Sisterhood of the Scissors had a Zoom meeting as did the Pixies.  I always like to catch up with my fellow fiber artists.  I also listened to the SAQA talk this week so my stimulation has been high.

Progress Report: Circus Parade   This is part of the SAQA 100 day challenge.  It is 35.5″ w X 39″ t.      We are on day 96 of the challenge so I only hope to nearly complete one more piece before the challenge is over.  I used all the animals that I printed for his project.

 

 

 

 

 

Circus Grounds   This is the last one of the SAQA Challenges that I will finish in the 100 days.   I may or may not keep going with the printed images as my starting place for some new work- that remains to be seen.     I am also using lots of the precut curved pieces that Liz gave me in this project.   Doing that adds another bit of a challenge to the process.

 

Analyze-  Split Compliment 1   This a self challenge continuing with the color play stuff.  Again I must thank Liz for the most of the fabrics here.   I am quilting following all the skinny  insert lines for this work.      I am using a metallic blue thread for this one  sense blue is the  Primary color.

Fractured -Split Compliment 2   I have just pulled the fabrics for this project.  The primary color is Red with Yellow Green and Blue Green as the t

 

Creative Assistants   I have been working away on these little guys.  I am having fun cleaning out containers of addons as I go.

 

Take Off   I added one additional curvy cut insert into this base this week and pin basted it .   Now I can begin the birds.

 

 

 

Scrap Happy   I have been working away at this project for a while and I am now to the stage were I have lots  of strips to connect to one another .  These long strips become the edges of the 4.5″ centers for my Romans Strip blocks that I use to create Scrap Happy Quilts.

I hope you are enjoying springs awakening.

Keep Creating

Carol