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Cherry Blossom Time, Crow Calls, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Label Blocks, Pods, Samurai Romance, Starfish, Still Life

Moving Forward

April 13, 2017 admin

Hello,

I am enjoying the unfolding of spring here. There are lots of buds and birds. I went to the Towpath Quilt Guild quilt show on Friday.

My friend Noel’s quilt looked great as did many others. I enjoyed the show and saw many friends too. It was inspired to go home and work in the studio.

FAB had a meeting on Monday and Nancy show us this label that she programed for her Mom’s Blue Bird quilt. It looks good to me.

Progress Report: Cherry Blossom Time This work is 39” X 35”. I created it from the branch that was left over from the Blooming Branch project. It was too dark for that work so this one was born. The branch was created from the sleeve of a wool jacket that I then built up with two different yarns.

There area 61 blossoms on this quilt. I made the centers from silk paper that I cut in circles and then stitched down with long French Knots.

Flag-Starfish This is my newest flag from the Susan Challenge. The text on this piece is machine writing in the section on the bottom.

Pods These are the newest completed pods. I am enjoying the embellishing step as I get to use lots of beads sequins and pearls with this project. I cut six more felt embellished units this morning so there will be more in the future.

Crow Calls This project is a reworking of a completed quilt. I built up the trees and stitched them to the quilt. Now I am adding the crows. They are cut from suede that is then free motion stitched down. I added twenty five birds yesterday.

Samurai Romance I have been following the suggested techniques in Stitch, Fiber, Metal and Mixed Media. I have not purchased any new materials to do this project, but adapted what I have on hand to do the projects. This week I applied foil to thick interfacing and then did free motion machine drawing on top to create the flowers. The centers are glass beads.

Still Life This work is an experiment. I have been making silk paper for a while and for this project I made the silk in the flower shapes instead of the sheet form. Now I am stitching them down.

Ice I have started adding the leaves to this project. This week I made leaves out of copper. They are embossed with a blunt pencil. This first one is trapped under a bit of “ice” and I like the effect. The other one isset to be in the water section of the work. It may need netting too but I do not know at this time. I also want to also add some fabric leaves too.

New Works This is a started build up for a new work. There is a minimum of free motion machine work on this piece at this time. It is based on a photo of a rock face. This is a second pin up for another new work. It is based on another section of the same rock face- with a different color base

Top I fell in love with this piece form Guatemala. he hand work is beautiful. But it is far too short for me and I wanted the sides closed. So I have started altering it to work as a top for me.

Label Block #115 #116

I got inspired and did two blocks this week. I also cut 15 more black squares to complete the top.

Keep Creating,

Carol

Bee Happy, Blossoming Branch, Crow Calls, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Flag Challenge, Label Blocks, llegado

Home again

March 30, 2017 admin 1 Comment

Hello-

I am home from my trip to Florida. I had a good time and enjoyed my stay with Susan. We got up with the sun and went to the shore to see it rise. She and I worked on rust dyeing and I came home with a nice selection. Jim took this great photo of me holding one of my rust creations. We went to his home one night and drew all evening too. I will do a tutorial of the process rust and post it by next week. This shot is of Susan across the table at drawing on Tues.

Chris Winter visited on afternoon and we did image transfers with Citra Solv .

Through out the week we cut stencils and made flags with them. Now all I need to do is the finish up on all fifteen of them. They all need text of some sort because that was the main challenge to begin with. I will put the two I have completed in the progress report section. We worked away very day and the time flew bye. I came home to find ice and snow still remaining from the storm that dumped 24” before I left. This shot is of the sky light in the airport.

Monday I went off to visit with my friend Angela. She did a special demonstration for me of how to use pre felt. I now feel I know a lot more about how to use my roving and felt more effectively. She is a good teacher. I am sure the processes will be a part of future works.

This morning the FAB gals meant at my house. Nancy has finished the top of her quilt for her mom. It is beautiful. The colors make one feel so summery and warm. We will get together and pin baste it in the near future. Judy is still knitting away on her red sweater. She is working on the arm wholes now , so the end is in sight.

Progress Report: Flags 1 Bee Happy This is the fist flag I finished. I did most of it in Florida and only added the sleeve here at home.

Flag 2- Llegado I added the tabs and the beaded fringe on the bottom of this one to make it long enough to fit the size we agreed upon. Llegado is Spanish for alight.

Blooming Branch All the blossoms are stitch down now. I am working on the hand quilting step of this project. I did not add enough wind lines with the machine for me to feel it is stable . So I am outlining things in the background by hand.

Summer Meadow This work is nearly done now. I added the daises and little yellow flowers to the surface . All the work was done from the back side of the work with extra thick threads in the bobbin. Another new machine process that I will add to my tool box of techniques for use in the future.

Crow Calls I thought I was ready to add these trees to the surface of the quilt. But when I started pinning them up, it became apparent that the black trees are too dark. The crows will be lost in them if I do not build up more browns and grays into the black trees. So there is work ahead for this week on this project. I think the wash away partly obscured this problem until this point.

Samurai Romance I am adding the beads around the outside of the leaf panels for this project. That and the Turkey Work stitches take lots of time. This panel is done the other similar one does not have any hand work yet. It is smaller then thisfist pannel.

New Ice I started a new ice piece this week. I took a lot of photos of the ice forming in Xavier wood and this one had leaves sticking up through the ice and snow. I want to try to capture/show them with this piece. I have some ideas, so stay tuned.

Label Blocks # 111, #112,#113

The one thing I have completed in the last three weeks is my label blocks. But I did discover that when I laided them out that 120 blocks will not be enough to cover the bed without sashing. I do not like that idea so I will cut 25 more black squares and add labels to them before I put the top together.

Keep Creating.

Carol

Birds, Creative Assistants, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Finger Lakes Fiber Artists, Xavier Wood Ice

Winter Return

March 2, 2017 admin

Hello,

We are experiencing a snow storm today with cold blowing winds. It’s a bit of a shock after three days of wonderful warm temperatures near 60. I do like the soft effect the snow creates on the the landscape however. It is just early March so one should expect a bit more winter. I guess I will be doing another batch of snow dyeing today.

I had two meeting this week. The first was the Finger Lakes Fiber Artists meeting and they meant on Sat. Priscilla had been to Guatemala and she had purchased some wonderful embroidery works that she shared with us. Bev and Mary had nice works to share too. I always get some much out of meeting with fellow creative folks. They helped me see a change I needed to make with one of my works too. It was great.

The “Both Ends of the Rainbow” show was up in the main gallery at the Schweinfurth. I checked it out after the meeting. The kids and the adults had grand works. I was really taken by this altered book.

The FAB group was my second meeting this week. Patti is weaving away with embroidery floss on this project. I like the way she is mixing her threads to avoid sharp color changes that would create strips. Nancy also brought some color from south of the border as she in now home from her trip to Peru. This work is from the natives who live on Lake Titikata. Wonderful work with the chain stitch here. The natives are working for the tourist’s dollar and they are using much brighter colors then when I was in Peru 8 years ago.

Progress Report: Creative Assistants I am working away on my little pins now. This batch of 34 is now complete. Or it will be when the Squeezie Paint is dry tomorrow morning. I think I am done making these for this year. I have over a hundred to give away and that it enough.

Branch I am about half done with this second branch. It is built out of a tweed jacket sleeve that is then build up with layers of yarns on top to give it more texture and to add interest. The water soluble is trimmed away from most of the left side at this time. This close up shows a section that is almost done.

Blossoming Branch I am ready to add this first branch to the new background. I’ll add flowers too as it is suppose to be a Cherry Blossom branch. It almost appears too light so I may have to build up some darks in the limb as I put it on the surface.

Summer Meadow This is the first assignment from Layer, Paint, Stitch. I am now doing the bobbin grasses. That process means that the bobbin in this case is loaded with crochet thread – it is too thick to go through the machine needle and that is why it is in the bobbin. Then one sews from the back side and the thread is couched down on top. This little trick is wonderful and I can see many ways to use it in my work. Learning new tricks and techniques is why I do these type of exercises. Paint will be added to this surface later and the grasses will show up.

Samurai Romance I have now finished the first panel of this project( on the left). I couched by hand some think yarn and leather strips to the build up the vertical lines. The two brown patches on the right are now ready for step two of there alteration for the project from the Stitch, Fiber, Metal and Mixed Media book. They are small wet felted wool pads. There will be lots of texture on this piece.

Xavier Ice I just keep working on getting every thing free motion attached to the surface of this work. The build up is moving forward.

Birds I thought I might make some little birds from the leftovers of the Pods Project. These are Ok, But I think I can do better. So I will keep thinking and make a second run at this idea with some of the other leftover felted fabric I created.

Label Block 109 Another one down and only 11 to go now.

Keep Creating

Carol

Circle Challenge VI, Circle Challenge VII, Creative Assistants, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Fling, Label Blocks, Scrap Happy Quilts, Three Jacks

Working time

February 2, 2017 admin

Hello,

I feel good about the confines of winter as I seem to get a lot done. I am still feeling the energy of my show too. I will take it down tomorrow however. I have four works in the Cabin Fever Quilt show at Bette Branch Library here in town though. These four little works pictured here are my 6” X 6” pieces for the Rochester Art center. I mailed them off on Tuesday. They are all part of the felted work I was doing last week. I still have big chunks of the felting to use in the project when I get the final additional parts.

FAB meant this week and everyone had work to show and talk about. This is Patti’s new weaving project. The can at the bottom is full of her woof threads. Judy put aside her red sweater for the summer and has not pulled it out again. She is getting to the arm wholes near the top now.

Nancy got busy and finished off six new placemats for her home. They are spring like I think.

We had another snow storm last night so I am doing more snow dyeing. This is a shot of the top of the bucket shortly after I put the dye on top of the snow that is setting on top of the prepared fabric. Now to await the melting/dyeing.

Progress Report: Fling This work is 50” X 34”. It is based on a collage and has Ethel’s Marbleized fabric( the orange) and my hand dyed yellow and the light green and blue stuff. The quilting is done in two styles. For the orange and the white fabrics I followed the edges of the color changes. For the purples I did a pebble style.

Circle Challenge VI This work is 14” X 19” . It has a lot of movement in it. The quilting is reflective of the circles and done in quilting thread. I liked adding the beading at the end and I will do that again in number VII.

Circle Challenge VII I finished the quilting last eve. It is trimmed and ready for beads and facings so I will finish it quickly this week .

Three Jacks I put this work under glass this week- and that makes for awful reflections. Then before I sealed the back with brown paper I checked it and noticed that I had some how gotten a nail on the outside between the matt and the glass. So I will need to take it all apart and do it again before it is complete.

Scrap Happy I continue to work through Ethel’s scrap box. I need to complete a scrap happy quilt for the Prevention Network so I have been putting in an hour a day putting the scarps together. They are cheerful I think.

Scarf I have always enjoyed looking at a project and trying to figure out how it was done. So this week when I saw a wonderful image on Pinterest I thought- I will try to do something similar. First I pulled out a lot of green roving. After adding some leaves I cut from gold ribbon, I placed them on some wash away and drizzle some yarn on top of the whole thing. After placing a second bit of wash away on top to create a sandwich I started stitching everything together. This will take me a while to complete, but I am looking forward to this little challenge.

New Work I am all done with the assembly of the background for this project. But when I added the Tezel on top I did not quite work as I though it would. Then I looked at it in gray scale on my camera and realized the Tezel heads are too small and too close in value to the background. The opposite of what I did with the Jack in a Pulpit project. So I took the heads off and created new ones that are bigger and have a bit of orange in their color to create a contrast with the background. They work a lot better. Now I will need to create a new background for the first heads. I am going to test myself by creating it in the same size as the first and see if I can make it work with just a value changes.

Sharron’s Challenge Sharron and I purchased the same kimono( the stuff in the center) last year and have a challenge to created something with it. I pulled some fabrics that I think work well with this fabric and will start a project soon.

Creative Assistants I finished off a new batch of these little fellows this week. I need to really get going on them as I do not have much of a tribe yet this year. I want to be able to give them away at QBL this summer and not leave anyone out so I need to get going.

Label Block # 105 I think that I only need to do fifteen more and I will be done with this step of this project.

Keep Creating

Carol

FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Felt Work, Label Blocks, Landscapes

Golden Carpet

November 17, 2016 admin

Hello,

Mother Nature has now stripped the trees of all there golden leaves and put down a carpet of gold and cream on the lawn. I sure like the quiet colors. But, I need to rake yet again. This week was a retreat at the Schweinfurth. I along with 11 other gals took advantages of the open wet studio to dye and print fabric.

We all made messes and wonderful fabric too. The wash room line quickly filled with a colorful collection of fabrics that were batching.

Liz and Susan took advantage of the big sinks that are in the wet studio to wash out dyes before putting them in the washers. Penny and I along with other retreaters, did visit the Quilts= Art = Quilts show up stairs at lunch time and enjoyed it.

Not everyone worked with dye. Cheri painted this wonderful piece for her circle challenge. It was all very exciting and I am still washing out the dye from the stuff that I tried. But here are some of the final pieces. I have a lot of raw material for some future work.

There was a FAB meeting this week too. Judy has made great progress on the quilt she started in Augest when we were up at her camp. I really love the colors she is using on this piece.

Progress Report: Wool Works 1 This work has the felted part done and a bit of fabric pinned to the surface. Last week it was only a line drawing on the black felt. This is just a beginning.

Wool 2 I put in a lot of time on this work this week. I added the yellow leaf to the top of the rock yesterday as I though it needed a more focused point of interest. It is not stitched down yet and I keep moving it about as I am not sure about were I want it to “fall”. When it is just right I will stitch it down.

Wool work 3 This wool work is now ready for lots of machine work. I have started that process- but just in small areas.

Self Challenge I did not do much on this work as I was away. I am also unsure about what I want to do with it so it sets were I can look up and see it very now and then. I hope that will lead to inspiration.

Felted Landscape Regina and I shared a room at the retreat. We were awakened on Sat morning at 5 am by the call of crows. Our room was on the third floor so when we looked out we were in the tree tops along with the crows. There were so many in the predawn that it looked like the trees had leaves on them. As the sun came up the birds flew away a few at a time. It was a wonderful experience. We watched until most of them had left for their foraging for the day. It was amazing. I am going to use my felted landscape from last week as a place to add this memory to a new work. So far I have only gotten the tree to add to the top.

Label Block # 94 Being away I only got one block completed this week.

Keep Creating

Carol

Along the Shore, Collage Based Work, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Generational Whispers, Small Cleft

A Bit about process

September 22, 2016 admin 1 Comment

Hello-

I am getting back into my usual grove this week. I went to a FAB meeting where Judy showed us more of the blocks she created after the Mill Sight weekend. I think the colors work well together well and it will result in a grand quilt. I have finished several pieces this week so it is time to begin new work. I though I might talk about one of my processes. First I select an image. This is a photo that I took in Washington state of a cut in the road. Then I make a little windows and run them around the photo to find an area I think is a good jumping off point. When I choose one and I then do a little sketch of it using dark, medium and light. At this point I need to decided on a size and select a fabric for a base. Because of the great amount of shrinkage and warping that occures with all the felting and the stitching I apply I make the background fabric 10 inches bigger then the final projected finished size. The next step is to lay out roving in the areas that are light med and dark and felt it down. I then build up the surface with yarn, silk paper and fabric strips.

Progress Report: Small Cleft This work is 24” long and 20” wide. It is based on a photo I took four years ago. I used the same process I described above for this work. I incorporated silk yarn in this work as well as silk paper. There is also some fabric bits and yarns here too.

Beach Front This quilt is another in the three challenges process. My hand dyed fabric is the white with colored spots and Ethel’s is the blue and dark batiks. It is based on a collage. The top half is quilted in parallel lines while the bottom section is done in a wavy pattern to suggest water.

Generational Whispers This work is 43” long and 38” high. I shows five generations of women in my family with my grand daughter at the center in the bottom. I did free motion drawing on organza to create the portraits and then sewed them to the background. The last step was to add the names of the women represented then quilt. There was not enough space below all the heads to add their dates of birth and death on the top so I have added a panel on the back with that information.

Butterfly I am just about done with the thread painting on this butterfly. The black sections on the body and the left wing remain. Then I will add it to the top and do the final quilting on that piece.

Ethel’s Nine Patch I am enjoying building these squares. I have completed 25 at this point. To make it a queen sized quilt it will take 43 blocks so I am a little beyond half way done at this point. Looking at the scrap box I know there will be a second one of these too.

Label Block # 81 I feel back into my old pattern and only finished on block this week. I have started making Creative Assistants in the evening so I did not put in any extra time on this project.

Keep Creating.

Carol

Deep Jellies, Ethel's Scarp Nine Patch, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Far Off Forests, Felt Work, Label Blocks, Tall Text, Text in Quilts

Summer’s Ending

August 25, 2016 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

As the nights get shorter and a few bits of color are starting to appear in trees one is reminded that summer is fast coming to an end. I went off to Mill Sight Lake along with other FAB gals for a weekend of talk and quilt work. We did swim in the lake too, but due to a much needed rain on Sunday we did not get any boat work in. We talked and discussed all sorts of things including the projects we where working on. Patti made Pillow cases and Judy and Nancy worked on Disappearing Squares- a block with lots of possibilities. The food was great and we had a good time.

Progress Report: Deep Jellies This work is 37” long and 41.5 “ wide. I did stay true to my vow to do hand work on it every day for and hour and it got done this week. I sure enjoy the mixing of the orange and blue. The dyed blue green lace and the deep blue ribbons represent the parts of the jellyfish that capture the food and pull it into the center so digestion can begin. I still find the idea that these colorful fellows live in total darkness.

Tall Text This quilt is 49” long and 32.5” wide. started this project in Rosalie Dace’s class at QBL. I did reflective quilting in the negative spaces around the text in this work. It has been a good week to finish things up as I prepare for my travels. I like to come back with a clean studio as I am sure I will get lots of new ideas on this trip.

Far Off Forests I am now done with the free motion work on this piece. I need to get new stretcher bars to finish it as the machine work has so distorted it that it will not stretch to fit the ones I have.

Ethel’s Scrap Nine Patch I inherited this box full of leftovers from Ethel. I took it on the camping weekend. I had one idea about how to use these colorful pieces but the other gals have convinced me to make a nine patch quilt with them.

This is a shot of all of the parts I put together over the weekend that I am now ready to cut into 5” squares and mix with solids for this project. I know I would not have done it in this fashion without the influence of the other gals.

Label Block # 75 I only got one block done this week. I have several near completion though so I will keep my numbers correct.

I will be traveling with Marty for the next few weeks so the next post will be Sept 15.

Happy Trails to you as well.

Carol

Collage Based Work, Dappled Sunshine, Deep Jellies, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Generational Whispers, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing, Scrap Happy Quilts, Weeds

Butterfly Days

June 16, 2016 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

These beautiful paper butterflies represent the happy feelings I feel for this time of year. Patti cut them with her press cutter on Wed when the FAB group meant. I have seen some live ones too, but I am not fast enough with my camera to capture any images. They seem to represent the slow easy time we seem to be in now. We had our last FAB meeting until Aug as we all agreed that travel and family will now fill our days for a while.

I have learned that when I am unsure of what I need/want to do next I tend to start a new project. The result of this is I have lots of new projects going on at the moment and only have a Scrap Happy quilt finished this week. That project too represents my feelings of unease, because scrap happy’s are also fill in projects. I have made 150 of these scrap quilts and they require no thinking on my part. But they do keep my hands busy and allow me to think through what is upsetting/ blocking me with other work.

Progress Report: Dappled Sunshine I finished the pebble quilting and the line quilting on this piece this morning. I am now ready to add the facings and finish this project. It will be done by next week.

Scarp Happy 150 I have no home in mind for this quilt, but I am sure it will go to a worthy cause.

new Scarp Happy When I put together the center blocks for the last scrap happy I also made extra blocks. Enough to make two more actually. This one got put into the row form this week.

Generational Whispers The grandmothers and great grandmothers got drawn on to organza this week. I know this was part of the stress I talked about as I do not feel very sure of myself when it come to do portatures. My machine drawings are human but not good likenesses of the folks they represent. I have decided to let that be that way as only a few people know the subjects any way. I will add a second layer of machine drawing when I attach them to the quilt surface.

Deep Jellies This work is also causing some stress for me. I love the colors and the textures of the jellyfish themselves. I am just unsure about the movement of the tentacles and how I want to quilt on this project. There are lots of little design decisions in this piece.

Weeds I am happily to the detail part of this project. I like doing the hand work that defines the weed heads. Three done and a dozen to go.

wool work This is the biggest machine felted work I have ever done and it too is very slow work. I finally got stretcher bars with out any canvas on them and that is what this work will be used on. I am not even done with the first layer, so there will be lots of color changes.

New top This in the newest piece that it based on a collage. It also has Ethel fabrics and some I have altered, so it fits my personal challenge. I think the the title will have something to do with angles or irregular cuts.

New Work My friend Tanya gave me the wonderful big orange print fabric I am using in this piece. It is in the real early stage.

Label Blocks #64 and #65 I did double duty on the blocks this week. It is so pleasant to set out doors after dinner and work in the evenings. I hope summer is bringing delight into your life too.

Keep Creating

Carol

Columbus Junction, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Label Blocks, Lion King- Cherrywood Challenge, Memory Map Quilts, Purple Pleasures, The Heron

Active time

May 27, 2016 admin

Hello-

Do you see the four leaf clover on the right in this cluster I was out in the yard the other day and it just jumped out at me. Had to capture the image to share. I hope that everyone enjoys the out doors on this Memorial Day Week End.
This week has been a full and active time. It began last Thursday afternoon when I went off to Turquoise Street Studio to play with Barbara. She worked on her pastel of beach folks and I did hand work on my own. It was a pleasant time.

Saturday was a meeting of the mixed group folks. This quilt is by Bev Kondolf. We talked of many things, but most important from my point of view was about how museums like the detentions of works to be presented in high first and then width. So I will be using that system in the future.

This work is by Anne Garrison. It is always such a stimulating time and I always go home so worked up with ideas and thoughts.

This work is by Noel Keith and is one of her entries for the Diva 15 show That opens on June 3 and runs until July 29 i n Ithaca NY. The round circle at the bottom is rust stained silk.

Regina brought this piece to the meeting to show Pat what she had done with some of the fabric that she altered in her class in the fall. As a teacher I sure appreciate seeing finished results and Pat did too.

On Monday Noel, Victoria and I went down to have a play day in Regina’s studio. This shot is if Noel and Regina looking at one of Regina’s new yard sale finds. It is so kind of her to open her space to us to play. I like the way she has starts hung on the wall like I do. I find this one epically exciting.

Regina’s computerized machine gets a real work out . This is a great example of that.

We were dye painting. This shot is of Victoria carefully painting symbols on the fabric with Dye Magnet. Hope to see this when it is done. Noel really played. She started with this blank . The end piece looked like this. So much color!

Then on Tues I had the FAB group here. Judy is working on finishing up old started projects. This soft summer quilt is a real beauty with its mix of black and deep blue centers.

Nancy is working on a quilt for her Mother that has daises and blue birds on it. She is a real wiz when it comes to medallion quilts. She had lots of boarders and always makes a great challenge for her self with these projects.

Yesterday I went off and spent my time with Joyce who is a collage artist. I did three little works- two are suitable for starts for quilts I think. The top two.

Progress Report: Memory Map: Columbus Junction This work is 21” l X 14” w. I am calling it done although I do not think it is a good piece. There are too many things that are the same size I feel.The images tell the story but it is weak. I may show this to some other folks and see if they have suggestions. I will do much more drawing and pre planning for the next piece in this series.

The Heron This work is 16” l x 16” w. I got the heron printed on organza from Ethel a few years ago. It hung on the pin wall and made me feel good, but I could not place it. Then this week it all came together in one afternoon. Using Ethel’s fabric’s and her style , plus my love of texture. I am quite happy with the results.

Lion King:Coming Home No one but me will see the differences here. But I did take off the lion and redo him this week. Thats done and it is pin basted and ready for quilting… A whole different challenge.

Purple Pleasures The triangles just keep filling up the surface of this work. It is very slow however.

New Work This is what I worked on at Turquoise Street. All the raw edges are tacked down with hand stitches and I have done the paint step on this work. Now I need to begin the machine drawings of my grandmothers on organza.

Label Blocks #59.I finished # 59 on Friday last week. Two more blocks and I will be half done.

Keep Creating

Carol

FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Foundations XII, Label Blocks, Out the Window, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs)

My Travels

April 14, 2016 admin

Hello,

It is really spring when the dandelions begin to bloom. I see more and more every day. I have enjoyed my last two weeks and my mind is full of all sorts of ideas and happy memories. On the Tuesday before I left I went to a FAB meeting at Judy’s house. Everyone was full of news and even though there were no new projects we had a good time. Then that same day I ran off to a QuIG’s meeting in Sue Ellen’s studio. Sue Ellen is still working on her tree theme series. I really like all the hand work she put into this work. Linda is experimenting with Yupo Paper and ink. She sure got some fine results. I think I purchased some of this stuff a while back, I wonder what I did with it. Sally took a class from Noel were she made this wonderful rose and then built a great evening bag with the knowledge. We had a good time.

Then on Wed. I flew off to Chicago to see my friend Sharron and go to the Quilt Festival. She picked me up and we drove around the city in her wonderful new 2015 Mustang. I was stopped cold when I opened the door and this logo appeared at my feet. Techknowledgy is every where. The Festival was wonderful. The quilts were amazing. Such strong use of color and texture as well as wonderful patterning and breath taking images. I do not feel like I can post any of them on this sight –just believe me. We did go to the dedication and delivery of Quilts of Valor. It was so moving I found myself with tears running down my cheeks. Later Sharron and I spent time at that booth working on blocks and we both finished six for some future Veteran’s quilt. We came home with tired feet and a pile of goodies. This is only my pile. Sharron had one as big. She has a wonderful studio with a full wall of fabric. Her own Quilt store I would say. She is still working away on her six “ Dear Jane “ quilts. She has all the centers doneand is a little beyond a third of the way around all six with the triangles in the boarders. I am sure she will finish this year and they will be amazing! Again I am not going to show them here as she has a show in mind that needs to keep the images off the net until they are shown there. Sharron also has a second passion and that is her Christmas Village. It is set up in a space that was once a dinning room. It is electrified and has a train that moves through the display. Most of the building have lights inside as well. I just kept looking and looking .She told me she has been collecting parts for over 30 years. I sure can believe that . What a delight for the kid in all of us.

On Monday I went to Ithaca and took down my solo show at the Briar Patch. The staff did not want to see it go, but all things must end . Anne has someone else lined up for the next two months now.

Progress Report: Ethel’s Quilt This quilt was designed cut and partially assembled by my quilting buddy Ethel Whittamore. She asked me to finish it and then pass it on to Quilting By The Lake for there raffle in July. The Raffle money goes to the scholarship fund for the classes at QBL the following summer. I did finish the assembly and started doing the hand quilting like Ethel always did on her quilts. But I was unsatisfied with my work so I sent it off to an Amish woman I know who does beautiful handwork. The results came back and I was delight and she got the cash for a new calf. I was so excited when it came home that I took it to a Diva meeting were Cheri asked if she could take it to be shown at the YMCA Central New York Quilt show April 8 /9. I said yes and now it it home with me in all its glory. I will enjoy it for a few months before it goes off to QBL and its new home.

Riverwood This work is 31” X 49”. It meets all three of my monthly challenges. The orange and yellow fabric is some I hand dyed in a class last fall. The silk and the browns are from Ethel’s stash. The design is based on a collage I created. There are always alterations when one goes

from 3” x5” to a larger from. I liked using a limited pallet working with a the bold print against a smaller scaled area. I am also enjoying using the faced shapes to add another detention to the surface.

Out My Window This quilt is 38” X 41”. I hand painted the big white sections. They are all views of things that I saw out different windows in my life time. This shot is of the barn yard I could see from my bed room in Iowa. All the dark purple blocks are machine drawn trees and most of the other areas are leaves or clouds.

New Work -Ice on Vincent As I mentioned before the quilt show was inspiring and so I started this work based on a photo I took earlier this spring of ice along Vincent St. It is a close up and I have already done some major altering of it as I have put down the fabrics.

New Work This is an early shot of the beginning of a new piece. I want to do another stretched work, so this piece is 26” X 50” . It is based on a shot I took in Washington State on a trip with Marty. I am doing it all in shades of blue instead of gray.

Label Blocks # 46 and # 47

Two weeks- two blocks. I did a lot of the work in the airport waiting for the plane. The beat goes on….

Keep Creating

Carol

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