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Moving Forward

March 8, 2018 admin

Hello, The wet heavy snow this week really effected the landscape. We got about 17 inches and it really ground things to a halt. But by Monday the world was almost normal at least for March. I got a bit of cheer with these tulips from my friend Joyce. The first Tuesday of the month came this week so I had meetings. The QuEG’s meant at Sue Ellen’s. She had a lot to share as she is working on a commission. This shot is of the sun set she is working on. All the rows are cut- but not connected yet and there is a sea to add on the bottom. I look forward to seeing how this turns out. Liz is pulling up her UFO’s and working on this long lost piece.

The Diva’s also had a lot to share. Liesa is doing great things with the marbleized fabric she has created.

Sharon is busy creating now that she has finished Graduate school . I really like the colors she has put together here.

Cheri showed off her DNA quilt. She stared it in the Surfaces class we were in at the Schweinfurth last fall. She is mixing papers in her surfaces now too.

Regina is being as productive as ever. This is just one of four wool birds quilts that she has created this month. She also shared her felted scarf that is very jewel like. I always get so much inspiration and support from all these gals.

Yesterday the FAB group meant. Patti showed off her loaded loom. And explained how it works.

Progress Report: Forest I have been beading away on my Spring Forest piece. The colors of the beads make me feel like a season other than spring so I am going to change the name to just Forest. It may not work so well for the Awakening show. But I will see.

New Work The base layer is cut and pinned for this work.

.Most of the leaves are my own hand dyed with a few ( the dark green ones) cut from commercial fabrics. I like the red brown of the vanes in the leaves so I tried to follow that idea. I loaded the eye of the sewing machine with a light green thread and a red thread to get this effect. It takes about 15 to do the vanes in each leaf so it will take a while to finish this step.

Glyph IV I keep doing the beading on this piece too. I am more than half way down the left side of the O now.

Frozen This project is inching forward. I think most of the rocks that are protruding through the ice are done now and I only need to concentrate of the last few ice flow patterns. This project requires lots of looking and thinking on my part.

Memory Map: Carroll I stared a new Memory Map project. It is the same size as the other three completed ones. I spent my life from the third grade to seventh grade in Carroll Iowa and have great memories that I will try to incorporate into this work. This is the base layer.

Daily Practice The hand work on this piece goes forward. I continue to use the strait stitch as much as possible on this piece.

Collage X- Flower Dance The work goes forward.

The Lovers This is the next card. I love to use old photographs when I can in my collage work. They are not family ones but little jewels that I have picked up along the way.

Keep Creating

Carol

Collage, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Glyph IV with Beads, Radial Joy, Shaman, Winter Apples, Zapped

Snow Fall

February 22, 2018 admin

Hello,

After several warms days with warm temperatures and lots of melting we back to winter again this morning. Beautiful big fat flakes are falling now. It looks like a crayon drawing out there. This week has been busy. Liz and I taught a collage card workshop for Associated Artists on Sat. Everyone had a good time and asked us to do it again in the furture. FAB meant yesterday and Nancy had three projects to share. I think she did a great job with movement with her interpretation of Aerobic Twist.

Progress Report: Zapped This work is 35” w X 34 “ l. I think this new form of the word Zap works better then the old version as it is crisper and sharper. I used fabric that I hand dyed for the letters this time and I even used some in the background too. Liz and I are doing a personal challenge to use our hand dyed fabric in our work this winter. I am having fun doing so.

Radiating Joy I am to the point where I am doing the zig-zag applique step on this work now. It is backed with tear away paper so it is stable with all the turns and changes in direction I should be able to avoid bubbling and have a flat final piece .

Winter Apples All the satin apples are hand stitched appliqued now. It took several trials before I found a way to show the crisp crystalline snow on the fruit. It has layer of white satin with silver ribbon on top to get the effect I am after. I am stitching it down by hand too as each apple has a different type of snow cap on it.

Frozen The operation has hampered my progress on this project and others as I can not yet work for a long time at the machine. I also need to look a lot before I add new lines to the surface of the ice here.

New Work This new project is full filling two challenges. The Associated Artists next show theme is Rebirth. Spring certainly is a time of new things and that is what this project is designed to do. This piece also fits with the Liz challenge . I designed the stencil and l printed it at one of the open studio weekends at the Schweinfurth a while back. I am free motion quilting with two different colored threads in the top of my machine to draw in the limbs of the trees here.

Daily Practice A personal challenge for this project is to try to use as many variations on the strait stitch as I can on this work. I continue to work on this project during the news every night.

New Daily Practice Sometimes chance play a part in what I do. This is and example of that happening. When I was cutting up the fabric for Zapped it happened to be piled on top of this piece of purple hand dyed. I liked how it looked and realized I had never tried orange and purple together before. So I decided to go with that thought for my next base in this series.

Collage- Blue on Blue After watching my friends have a good time on Saturday at the workshop, I sat down at home and created this bit of collage myself. It is too big to be a part of the series but I sure had fun.

Collage- Fading Memories This is 8.5” X 11” and is # 7 in the collage series. It has a little stitching in it too.

Card Sharman This is my high priest card.

Keep Creating

Carol

Creative Assistants, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Fox Tails, Pealing Oranges, Raw Edge Applique, Trust

Getting Rolling

November 30, 2017 admin 1 Comment

Hello-

I am finding it a bit difficult getting back into the studio after the holidays. There is so much I want to do that is not art work related. I am hoping that will remedy its self with time.

I did do a big trunk show at the Schweinfurth Art Center on Sunday and that took a lot of preparation. I discovered some themes in my work that I had not noticed before and that is how I structured my talk. I talked about five of them- Animals, Water, Rocks, Plants and Text. I was epically flattered by the attendance of my friends from all parts of my life. I did have fun with it and enjoyed the support I got from everyone. In talking with folks afterward I came across another topic that I could do a whole different presentation on- my use of embellishments.

There was a FAB meeting yesterday and we got to look at Nancy’s newest work. She will be making “postcards” out of these images from the National Parks for a quilt. More evidence of being busy is the fact that I am still working on getting the fabric washed out from the play weekend at the Schweinfurth three weeks ago.

Progress Report: Fox Tails This work is 12” w X 12” t. I created the heads of the fox Tails in the Experimental Surfaces with Amanda McCarver . It was a great class and I learned a lot. The background rock wall is felted wool roving.

Peeling Orange I am to the point on this project where I am doing reflective quilting on this work. I have decided to leave the orange plain and not quilt in that area. I think the contrast will add interest.

Zap It As the photo shows I have made the “It’s” a part of this work. They are just pinned in place and subject to change, but one needs to start some where. I ended up making a second “It” stencil as I wanted a second size.I am planning to hand stitch down the circular “It” add ons after a bit of quilting by machine.

Creative Assistants I really am at the end of making these fellows. I know I was avoiding starting a new hand project and that is why I did them. But I need to straiten up and begin the project.

Card- Trust I usually trust that good things will happen to me and for the most part that has been a truth in my life. But the happening in the world at this time are throwing a lot of question into my mind on this subject.

Keep Creating

Carol

Diva Meetings, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Felt Work, Finger Lakes Fiber Artists, Glyph IV with Beads, Glyph Series, Pealing Oranges, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs), Share the credit, ZAP

Travel and such

November 9, 2017 admin

Hello,

I have had a busy two weeks. It all started out with traveling and visiting museums . Marty and I visited six different ones on our trip to Maine and back. With shopping, a factory tour and visiting with friends it was all very exciting and stimulating- A very enjoyable experience. But before I went away there was a three day workshop with Amanda McCavour. She is an expert on the use of various water soluble materials. I learned a lot. She has a show of her life sized machine drawn rooms on display at the Schweinfurth that will run from now until the first week end in Jan. Most of the work we did in class was much smaller. This shot is of Cheri’s peacock feather. I experimented with creating Fox Tail for use in one of my felted pieces. Doing this workshop with fifteen others creative women made for lots of different and exciting applications to the use of this material.
The Quilts =Art= Quilts 2017 opened on Sat at the Schweinfurth too and so I went to the opening as I was already in the building. This work is by Elizabeth Bush. She won a Jurors Choice award as did my friend, Julia. This work by Emily was done by one of the other gals in Amanda’s class. She came all the way fro California to be at the opening and to take the class. It’s a strong show and I plan at least three more visits.

Then on Monday morning with the help of Cheri, Julia and Liz we hung a Finger Lakes Fiber Artist show at May Memorial Church 3800 Genesee St, in Syracuse. This shot is of a work by Sharon. These works show two quilts by Regina and a piece by Alice. There was a Meet the Artist event on Sunday and that went well. The contact at May was very pleased.

Marty and I visited the Sherborn Museum as one of our early stops on our trip to Maine. We were blown away by the work of Patty Yoder who did wonderful hooked wall pieces. She raised the sheep, sheared them, spun the wool and dyed it before she cut it into strips to create beautiful and playful wall pieces with it. This is a close up of the eye of the sheep in the first photo. There was lots of humor and fun in this delightful show and we enjoyed it very much.

Our next stop was the Ben and Jerry’s Ice cream factory. We took the tour and had ice cream Sundays for lunch that day. I Loved their motto” If it’s not fun- why do it?”
We went on to visit our friend Elizabeth. We enjoyed visiting her studio and talking about her work. This shot is of a colorful basket full of the hats she makes to give away at Christmas.
The next day we went on to Camden to visit with Barb and Steve. Barb took us to Rockland and the Farnsworth museum. We hurried through the Wythe art works as we had seen them before and went to a great show of wok by Marguerite Zorach. No photos where allowed, but take my word for it – the works was fabulous. The photos is of the black and white show, another temporary exhibit that was up in the museum. We also visited the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. The last museum we visited before we drove home was the Clark, where we saw the exhibit of Impressionist Line and listened to the lecture on that subject. I did not know that pastels were invented around the same time those artists were working. Degas and Mary Cassatt sure used that new material.
Tuesday was the first one of November so I had both the QuEG’s meeting and the Diva meeting. This quilt is by Liz and will be for sale at the Everson’s Christmas Tree event. Angela continues to work away at her on line felting class. I really like this piece. Sally is busy with Christmas gifts for her grand daughtersand Sue Ellen is having fun doing cats.
The Divas had a good meeting as well. Regina did a splendid job Finishing off her Garden Gate piece. I love how she combined a rubbing with a hand dyed to get this great look.Maureen is working with colored pencils and stitching on this piece. Most folks had work in various stages of completing in preparation for the Thread of Change Show at the Unitarian Church in Ithaca to open Dec 1.
The to round things out I had a FAB meeting yesterday. Judy is working away on her red sweater again now that it is cold. Nancy is making “post cards” to attach to her quilt. It has been a full two weeks.

Progress Report: Glyph IV Because I was away not a lot of progress has been made here. But I am working away to fill in the L with beads now.

Peeling Orange I have started zig –zagging down the shapes on this project. I am still thinking about how I want to quilt it.

Zap I did start to applique the shapes down – but had to remove all I had done as it puckered up. I purchased tear away and now I am ready to try again.

KnittingWinter cold has finally found us. I could not find my muffler, so I decided to knit one as I still have not focused on a evening hand project.

Felted work I made this rock face a while back and thought that I would use the Fox Tail from Amanda’s class on the surface. But I think they are too close in value to get the effect I am shooting for. So they will be a part of another project and I will work on a different idea for this piece.

Label Card “ Share the credit.” I have been thinking about how important it is to work together for a big goal and value all the different things one brings to projects. I was trying to express that with this card.

Keep Creating

Carol

Creative Assistants, Ethel Scarp #6, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Finger Lakes Fiber Artists, Glyph IV with Beads, Spring Whirl Wind, ZAP

Color every where

October 26, 2017 admin

Hello-

I am enjoying the peak of fall color here. The trees just seem to be burning with color. I was hard pressed to choose a photos to use this time.

This week was a busy one. There was a meeting of the Finger Lakes Fiber Artists on Sat. I collected the quilts for the show I will be hanging for the group on Monday.

Marcia shared the new SAQA magazine and her work on a new jacket. This is the small quilt Pat shared with us.

Maureen is busy doing Indigo dyeing for her class with Jane Dunwald. She is really mastering this technique. Liz shared her projects form her class at the Barn. She is learning Shibori. And I am of benefitting from this experience because we are doing more together.

Regina has been busy this month finishing things from her classes at QBL. The triangles are from her class with Rosalie Dace. The quilt at the top on the right is from Cynthia Corbin’s class. Noel is playing with different quilting and piecing techniques. It was a very stimulating meeting with a varied group of creative gals.

We also had a FAB meeting today. Judy was working on a baby quilt for her church. We had our own little quilting bee as we tied it off before the end of the meeting.

Progress Report:Glyph IV I am done with the beading on the W now. That letter is the center so I feel like I have made progress.

Peeling Orange I am to the point where I am zig –zagging down the parts of this piece. I will do all of this before I quilt it.

Spring Whirl Wind ( Renamed from Tossed Salad as the blue does not work for salad. ) I am doing the line green with free motion quilting on this project. I wanted to push the green back a bit.

New Scrap I started building new blocks and pinning up possible layouts for the sixth quilt built from Ethel’s scrap box. It may change as I have only made three rows of blocks and they are not connected.

Zap I have cut the dark purple in the ZAP pattern. I stitched the parts to the fabric and I even zig -zagged around the right one. But it pulled and puckered up the fabric so much that I took all that stitching out and now there is inner facing on the back. I will re do the zig zag before quilting.

Creative Assistants Another new batch of silly little fellows. I am working away during the football games.

Card- Some Days This card is to celebrate having a day without any event. Feeling a bit over done- I am going to plan some days like this in every week from now on.

I will be traveling next week so there will not be a post. I will write all about it Nov. 9 .

Keep Crating until then.

Carol

Keep creating,

Buggy, Confussed, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Felt Work, Glyph IV with Beads, Glyph Series, Label Blocks, Pealing Oranges, Pond Water, Quartered Glyph, Raw Edge Applique, Tossed Salad

Fall Events

October 12, 2017 admin

Hello,

This week was full of events. Last weekend I went off to the Tompkins Quilt guild show. Cheri won a ribbon there. So too did my friend Pat. But this red work is not the one she won a ribbon on.

Regina and I enjoyed viewing the show and talking about what we saw. My shots of Regina’s quilts are not good enough to share.

I went off to the Schweinfurt with Marty and we vied the Geologic Landscapes show on Wed.. This wall piece is of the watershed of the lake. The white lines are of the creeks and streams that feed into the lake and the white area near the top is the lake. The outline of the shape is of the highest elevations around the lake area. I loved this concept as I have always liked topographical maps.

Then this morning was the FAB meeting. Both Judy and Nancy are working on different variations of Disappearing Four Patch. Judy’s is the one in dark blues and whites. Nancy’s is the one with the greens in it. It is great how unique they both are.

Patty has finished her extruded cotton thread knitted shawl. I think it is great!

Progress Report: Buggy This work is 40” w X 49.5” l. The bugs are oil stitch on fabric using my own designed and cut stencils. The gray and light green panels are made from stamps I cut in Pat Pauly’s class at QBL two summers ago. I dyed the dark green and the fabric with the turquoise and white in it too. Liz had challenged me to use some of the stuff we have been creating and this one fills the bill. The reflective quilting looks like bug trails one of my friends said. These big black insects are based on cockroaches. The blue green insects are also beetles.

Quartered Glyph This work is 44” w X 48” l. I used a smaller version of the Owl Glyph pattern that I created to do this work. The quilting is strait line starting from the center and working out using variegated thread. The shapes of the glyph are raw edged appliqued.

Glyph IV I just keep beading away on this project. I like the effect, but progress is slow.

Tossed Salad This quilt is made from all the cut away parts of Quartered Glyph. I am machine stitching down the parts in the raw applique style here. I have added the back and batting too so this time I am quilting at the same time as I put the parts on. I do not know if I will have to add additional machine lines until I am done with this step.

Pealing Oranges This quilt is still growing. I made a smaller Owl Glyph pattern and used a beautiful piece of orange fabric from Regina to place that pattern on. It is being mixed with some of the other cut away fabrics from various other Glyph projects. This is an early step in the process.

Wool Work I have started doing free motion machine drawing on this felted work. I am also tacking down bits of fabric and yarn with the machine stitches.

Card Confused I build this card from multiple copies of the same image trying to mix and confuse the eve. All the cutting and pasting made it warp a bit but I think the confusion is there. I sure feel that way about the world at large at the moment.

Pond Water I am now hand quilting on this project. The horizontal quilt lines are meant to give the impression of water patterns as well as hold it all together.

Label Quilt This work is 95” X 95”. I am now done with this weekly project. It has been an enjoyable and calming evening daily work. It took me a week to finish each of the 144 squares. I am now trying to decide what the next daily practice project will be.

Keep Creating.

Carol

Buggy, Diva Meetings, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Glyph IV with Beads, Label Blocks, Make Belive, Pond Water, Quartered Glyph, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs)

Water Main Break

October 5, 2017 admin

Hello,

One of the big excitements for this week was a water main break on Sunday morning. I was washing up after making muffins and suddenly no water came out of the tap. I looked out the kitchen window to see the road full of muddy water. I went out doors and discovered the gal across the street had just called the water department. The water was bubbling up and running down the street- it overwhelmed the street drains and ran all the way down to the park – four blocks away. The water was so powerful it cracked and threw up the street. The men came in about 20 min and turned off the water. A little later they were followed by a repair crew who started about 9. First they broke up the tar via and cleared away all the mud and stone to expose the pipe so they could replace it. The whole was about 8 feet deep and 10 feet wide. It was huge. They cut away the broken area of the pipe and then put in a new section. It was about 3:30 by that time. Then they began to fill in the whole with loads of stone. It took four trips with dump trucks full to do that job. Lastly after 9 in the evening they patched over the filled opening with tar via. There was lots of mud on the street and the street sweeper made five runs up and down the road to get it up on Monday – but it is still dusty here.

This shot of a side walk that got flooded and is still muddy this morning when I walked. The street sweeper could not get to that space. It was quite and adventure.

FAB meant here last week too. Marty came as she is in town. She brought her newest little project.

Patty had just finished a new scarf that she shared with us. I think it is grand- only knit and pearl she tells us. Judy brought one of her Disappearing Four Patch blocks that she started up at camp when we were there. It was a good meeting and we all had fun.

The first Tuesday of the month came this week so I had QuEG’s and Diva meetings too.

Angela is taking an on line class in felting and having a grand time. She showed us about ten pieces she had done already. These two show different wools on the left and adding different silks on top of the second one.Linda is finishing up this “ Almost Black and White “ top. Sally is working away on Christmas gifts and this bag she made was full of them- hand bags, soft toy bags and such. She dose great work.Corrine had this wonderful bracelet to share. She made it from and exchange she did at a conference where she traded a great luggage tag for the charms.

Before I went to the Diva meeting, I stopped and had a little private visit to the Rock Garden Show in Homer. Cheri and Terri- the gallery guru show me through. They both had work there of course. Cheri’s was one she started in the class she and I were in with Kerr at QBL. Terri’s work is much larger and full of texture. It is a great little show with nine artists and wonderful work. This work is Cheri’s too.

The Diva’s were hopping as well. Lori had this wonderful little bag to share with us. She did it for her entry for the Embroidery Guild of American 2017 challenge. She got feed back on several other stamped and hand dyed projects that she is working on.

Alice has almost completed her Mary Colter quilt for the Woman Museum. It looks great.

Liesa has completed her quilt for the “Threads of Change Show”. Let Us Stay-is wonderful commentary I think.

Regina wowed us again with all her indigo dyeing. She is creating up a storm of beautiful work.

Anne has finished “ Blind In justice” her work on the American’s with Disabilities Act. All those brail dots are three dimensional.

Ruth’s wave is moving along as she wants it finished for the quilt show this week end. It was a powerful meeting and I enjoyed my self . Came home all hipped up again.

The other thing I tried this week was dyeing with wall nuts. It is great fun and I got some real nice browns.

Progress report: Buggy I am to the reflective quilting stage on this project. I added two more oil stick stenciled insects to it this week too.

Glyph IV I just keep putting in my hour a day on this project. It is moving forward.

Quartered Glyph I started this one up at camp. I am ready to start assembling the four units now that I have trimmed away the second layer. The Cut aways are so beautiful that I may need to do another work using these shapes and pieces.

Pond Water This project has become my short term evening project. I am hand quilting it so this is a good replacement for the time being. I do have a new nightly project in mind however.

Card Make Believe This is my newest card. I am so distressed by the shooting in Los Valgus that I want to escape into make believe. Thank goodness I have art as a way of getting away into my own world .

Label Block quilt. All the blocks are assembled now. I will stitch in the ditch quilt it and finish the job.

Keep Creating

Carol

Creative Assistants, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Glyph II, Glyph IV with Beads, Glyph Series, Glyph V, Series, Wind &Water

Fall Retreat

September 14, 2017 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

I took this photo of the sun setting over the St Laurence on Sat. The FAB group had a weekend retreat at Judy’s Camp last weekend. Saturday we went out to dinner. It was so enjoyable to eat along the river and watch the many boats as they slipped by.

Patti worked away on her pillow case project. She finished all but six of them. Both Nancy and Judy worked on “Disappearing Nine Patch” projects. This shot shows Nancy ready to do the first cut of her four patch. We enjoyed our work time and in the evening we launched two paper lanterns over the lake. They rose strait up until they reached the top of the ridge where the wind caught them and then they sailed north on a fast wind. We all watched open mouthed, until they disappeared in the night. It was a wonderful weekend and we all felt the it jump started us all for quilt work this fall.

Progress Report: Glyph II This quilt is all done now . It is the second one and where I really started the use of the negative space units that were cut from the back of the project.( the brow squared fabric) I am enjoying this series.

Glyph IV I continue to bead for an hour every day on this project. It is coming along, but the progress is a slow one.

Glyph V I am doing two different types of quilting on this project. inside the green areas I am doing pebble quilting with green metallic thread. In the blue, green and purple areas, I am doing reflective quilting in a variegated thread.

Glyph VI This quilt is all pinned in place and I am ready to start to quilt it. I am however not sure about what style/type of quilting I want to use here. I am just studying it now too.

Glyph VII This is the project that I worked on at camp. The four smaller glyph patterns where designed to go together to create a four patch quilt. I am now auditioning different layouts for this project. I am not sure if this is the final at this point, but I feel it is the strongest so far. I try one layout and live/look at it for a while and then take a photo and try another layout and repeat the process. nothing is stitched down yet so I can make all sorts of changes.

Wind – Water card I am still trying to deal with my feelings about the newest hurricane- Irma. Mother Nature sure has used her power of wind and water to remind us that she still has the final say.

Creative assistants I have now completed all the little fellows that have completed faces at this time. I will now move back to the face creation step in the process to move forward.

Capture scarves In cleaning up the studio space I opened a box that was full of these scarves. All with out the fabric neck units on them. Deciding I needed to finish the process I have done these black ones and red ones. There are still a few to go so there will be more next time.

Label Blocks

Only two more blocks and this step of this project will be completed.

Next week I will be in New York City for three days. So there will be no Blog post until Sept 24.

Keep Creating

Carol

FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Green Dargaons, Label Blocks, Little Jellyfish, Rainbow Tree

Spring Warmth

June 15, 2017 admin

Hello,

The north east has finally warmed up and we are enjoying the weather. I have spent a lot of time pulling weeds and moving plants. I do like playing in the mud almost as much as doing studio work. I did spend and afternoon dyeing with Liz, but I have yet to wash out the dye so there is nothing to show for that yet.

FAB did meet on Tues and there was lots of activity. Judy was tying three baby quilts during the meeting. She always uses such bright colors for them that it is a joy to the eye. Nancy is finally finished with her Blue Bird quilt. It is beautiful. Unfortunately my photos of it are not- so take my word for it.

Progress Report: Spring Jacks This work is 18” X 20”. The background is all felted work and the Jacks are appliqued on top. Sense the big Three Jacks piece has a new home I did this smaller one to remind me of that other project.

Prayer Flag Pins As the picture shows I am having too much fun using little bits of projects and stuff that ends up on my desk making these little guys. The freedom of no size or shape restrictions is wonderful.

Rainbow Tree I keep working away on this project in one hour units. I love the effect so I am not at all unhappy that I am only about one third done with this project. I am sure it will be well worth the time when it is complete.

Little Jellyfish I am working by hand on this piece with a fly stitch. The tentacles are couched. I do not want to use the machine to pull away from the movement they produce.

Green Dragon I am doing machine drawing on this piece. I did outline the print( its from Ethel) and started to continue the body. I took a lot of that stitching out yesterday as it was too big for the body. I will try again this week.

Texture Project I painted this background this week. In doing a second look I think it needs another layer of horizon so I will go back in and add some more paint before I machine draw on top of it.

Label Blocks # 127 #128 #129 Do to the warmth I spent a lot of time out of doors in the evening this week and did a lot more work on this project then usual. I am having fun as I see the pile of black square diminish.

Keep Creating

Carol

PS I made an error last week I Label this jewelry as being created by Carrine and it is by Linda C.

This beautiful work is by Carrine. Please accept my apologies.

Creative Assistants, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Finger Lakes Fiber Artists, Label Blocks, Nine Blue Iris's, Notebook Covers, Pods, Transparency work

Keeping Active

May 25, 2017 admin

Hello,

These beautiful Alliums where blooming in my friends garden and they just captured me when I drove up. There are constant changes as the weather grows warmer and the days are longer. One needs to pay attention to the catch those changes. Keep Your eyes open.

I had two meetings this week. The FAB group meant and it was an active meeting. Nancy is making great strides on her Mother’s quilt. I spent time helping her with the free motion work in the center section around the little sunflowers and the birds. She is does not have enough experience with free motion work to make it work flow for her yet. But time and work will solve that problem. Patti is taking painting classes in both acrylic and watercolor. I think that takes courage.

Judy is working away on her “Disappearing Nine Patch” and assembling it . She has plans for a second already

Marty was at the meeting too and she showed us the quilt she made for her great grandson.

I really like how the longitude lines curve just a bit to give the rounded feel to the piece.

The Finger Lakes Fiber Artists also meant this week. It is so stimulating and there is lots of interaction between the participants. This shot shows Regina and Sharon talking at lunch. ( the works on the floor are Sharon’s)

This is one of Pat ‘s rare small works – it’s about 16″ square. Her hand printed fabric really lends its self to a big format so this is a different challenge for her.

This is Julia’s piece in response to a collage that she did in David Horning’s class at QBL two summer’s ago.

This work is by Bev. I love how she breaks up a shape and re assembles it. The colors work well together too.

Then on Monday I went to Liz’s house we spent the day using thickened dye to alter the color of fabric. We both did about three pieces and will meet aging in a few weeks to do another batch. These are mine and I am most delighted by finally getting some pure white in the front piece.

Progress Report: Nine Blue Iris This work is 15” X 31” . Iris are one of my favorite flowers that bloom early in the spring. The old lace in the background here is from a pillow case that my Grandmother Ruth made . I am continuing to challenge myself to work with organza and build up layers of color. Flowers work especially well with this idea as they are so delicate.

Most of these flowers are three layers thick,

Pods I am continuing to build these little works. I only have enough altered felt to do two more and then I will move onto another project.

Jellyfish This project also is working with the layers of transparency. The colors do not come through as well as I had hoped. Not enough contrast here I think. But that is part of what I am learning about this material.

Notebook- Harlequin Paper

I made this book cover from the Harlequin paper I made last week. I fused down candy wrappers to black felt and then layered golden brown nylon netting on top. The work was then free motion quilted over the surface to hold it all together and give it a strong body. Making it into the note book jacket was the final step.

Creative Assistants I finished up another 30 of these little fellows this week. They will disappear that QBL as I give them away.

New Work

Liz challenged me when we were dyeing to create something with some of the fabric we have created together over this last year. I pulled all of these to do just that .

Label Block # 122 I keep working away on this project one little block at a time.

I will be away from home so there will not be any post for the next two weeks. I will have holiday ones to share when I get back.

Keep Creating

Carol

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Category Archives: FAD (Fiber Art Dames)

Moving Forward

Snow Fall

Getting Rolling

Color every where

Fall Events

Water Main Break

Fall Retreat

Spring Warmth

Keeping Active

Creative Fiber Collage Artist Carol Boyer