Hello,

I hope everyone is enjoying a choclate chip cookie today.  What a wonderfully silly thing to make a national day.  Not sure of the origian of this idea, but I am sure  the cooks approve.  As do those of us who will eat a cookie for any reason.

This week contained the first Tuesday of the mouth so I had meetings.   The  QuEG’s  meeting was  great with lots of show and tell.  Sue Ellen showed us this wonderful book/ album/portfolio of all of the fish quilts she has done this year.  What a great way to present your work.     Corrinie is not beading on this wall piece.  I sure love the semenate.    Linda and I showed the  fabrics we had created in the soy dyeing class from last month.

Then it was off to the Diva meeting on Tuesday evening.     Anne and Ruth had both taken a workshop with Gwen Marsdon.  This first one is Anne’s take on the processes.   I like how crisp and clean Anne’s work always is.  She limits her color and uses it so very well- something that I could afford to learn a little be more of.

Ruth chose to try all the techniques and plans to assemble them into a sampler type thing when  she is done.    As is usually true in a class each person puts their own stamp on the final outcome. They both had a good time too.

Spring seems to bring a lot of workshops to all of us as Donna took one as well on Encostics.   She came away with three wonderful images and I found it difficult choosing the one I liked best to show here.

Liese continues to wow us with her wonderful little dioramas.    This one she finished up on Earth Day (April 22) and it is her statement about all the pollution in our Oceans.     I really enjoy her little people- they are so very animated and full of life.   She told us this work was the center piece for the dinner table on Earth day too.

This meeting marked my fifth anniversay with this very diverse group of gals.  I so enjoy them and I drive home with my mind spinning with new ideas and inspirations every time.

Progress Report: Foundations XVII Obsidian   This quilt has many different fabrics in it.  I used some denim from my husbands pants in one area.  There is velvet, silk, cotton, taffata and nylon fabric here too.   I made my choices based on  the  colors  that I saw in the rock  ( there are lots of reflections due to the nature of the stone)  – it did not matter what type of material it was.     The process also involved some fibers that  I purchased years ago  without any knowledge of the content or type.  I was delighted by the color then and I still am.    I am glad to finally find a home for some of them.      There is some aposistory fabrics in this too.   the textured gray black show here was on the piano seat  Mom covered when I was in Jr high.      I m glad to find a home for it too.

 

 

 

 

 Foundations XVIII – Rusty    This quilt has lots of old fabric that was intended to become clothing.  The rust colored wool was  purchased for an a-line skirt.     I am still struggling with  the  irregular shape and the high point at the top of this quilt  is still a problem   here.  I though I had it sloved, but that proved not to be the case.  I plan to add some stays in to that section today.  I am not surprised  as there are always new problems with unexplored territioy.    This first close up shows some fabric that I rust dyed.  I did break a needle when I tried to  free motion through the three layers of the rust dyed fabric.  I do not know why, but I fear that even though I did wash it when I finished the fabric there still could contain a bit of  residue .    Again I used lots of different fabrics on this piece.  Wool, velvet, cotton and the back side of taffata can be seen here.   I am enjoying the process.

Maya’s  Tee Shirt Quilt    I finished this quilt this week  too.    It took me   four hours to do the hand stitching on the binding of this project.     It is a queen sized quilt.    The free motion work  on the blocks was the most enjoyable part for me.

 

 

 

New Iris’s     This top is now ready for the quilting step.  It is a little too much like a very nice background at this point so I will  need to think carefully about how to go forward on this  project.

 

 Foundations XIX –      This is the new pinned up section for the next work.  I love the wonderful moss green fabric that Noel gave me a few weeks ago.   This mossy stone is  the outgrowth of that feeling.   I feel the striped fabric that is the base for this one is still too strong so I will keep building on top of it.

Daily’s       My  storage box for these little exercises is almost too full so I think I will end this series soon.    I want to move on to another idea as well.

Keep Creating.

Carol

PS  I am off to spend a week in Paris so there will be no post next week.  Look for lots of pictures the following week.