Category Archives: Foundations Series

Forest Floor, Mill Site Melody, Rifts, Scrap Happy Quilts

Summer Actions

August 26, 2015 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

These beautiful Morning Glories are from Susan’s garden. I had an unexpected invite to go to Quilt National last week and that happened on Thursday and Friday. That was the reason there was no post. It was a glorious experience and I have a ton of new thoughts and ideas about work.

There were wonderful works by many folks I have seen before as well as lots of new comers. I purchased the book, and I treated myself to a poster with Elizabeth Bush’s quilt on it. It was a good experience.

I did not get busy and write on Wed before we departed because I went to Susan’s with Noel and we had a play day. We did a mimic of the work form David’s class and I have a lot more paper to play with now. It was a pleasant day and we all enjoyed ourselves.

I also spent a day both weeks making silk paper. I have used some of it on quilts already. But my main reason for making the paper is I want to teach a class were the we make the paper and then use some of it to make book jackets.

Progress Report:Rifts

This is the new rock piece that I am working on. It too is another close up of the shore of Arcadia. I am struggling with direction on this one and keep pinning it up with different orientations. Looking is the only answer for me. It is also were I used some of the silk paper that I mentioned earlier.

The process is still in it’s early stages so there will be lots more build up of the surface and changes.

Mill Site Melody I stared this piece at QBL and I am to the quilting stage now. I have had a good time doing reflective quilting in this section and making additional machine drawing in other areas.

These wheat like shapes are based on the images I see in the discharged print image.

Forest Floor I continue to do hand work on this piece. The stitches are beginning to build up with more remaining to be added.

Scrap Happy I finished this quilt this week. It will be a gift to help comfort my friend Tanya who had to have her horse put down. She is quite sad about that and I hope this red and black quilt with give her warmth and comfort.

New Work I took David’s suggestion and selected one of my collages as a starting point for a new work.

The collage only has two pieces of paper in it- but I could not limit myself to just two fabrics. I have added more and as I build I can see I am making alternations in the design due mostly to scale I think. It is a different approach and I like that.

There is no shot of a finished block this week either because I am not done with one. I am off to spend tomorrow playing with another friend working on Gelli plates so I am writing this a day ahead. Summer is just a busy time.

Keep Creating

Carol

Label Blocks, Remote Recesses, Scrap Happy Quilts

Good Old Summer Time

August 13, 2015 admin

Hello,

I am enjoying a bit of a slow down that one associates with summer. I have done a lot of walking and enjoying all the colors of summer. This shot is from Susan’s garden. I have been doing a bit of sorting too. When I put things away from QBL it is always a good time to look at the collections of stuff I have and prepare some of it to pass along to others who can and will use it. Most will go to the school that I once taught in as I know Margaret will use it with the kids.

Progress Report: Remote Recesses

I started this work in Independent Studio at QBL. It is a selected section from the same photo graph that I used for Relinquished Regions. I am enjoy the movement and action in this piece. This work has lots of different textures and materials in it. There is silk fabric, silk paper, wool, velour, and organza, and some imitation leather that Susan gave me when I went to visit her in FL. The cream and white fabric with the orange speckles on it is from the studio sale that I went to two weeks before QBL. I just find fabric every were that works for me.

Free Flight I had started this work before I went away to quilt camp. It did not get quilted until this week. The Butterflies are cut from ground cloth and painted. I then stitched them down with silver thread and did reflective quilting around the out side with little loops added every now and then to represent butterfly erratic flight patterns.

Scrap Happy This quilt is will be a wedding gift for one of my friends sons. I sure enjoy building these and I think this is # 140 of this style.

New Work This quilt is also one I started in independent studio. Some of the fabric is from Randy and the brown pieces with the leaf prints on them are from a long ago week end outing at Mill Sight Lake. I have started the quilting by doing some stitch in the ditch so it is well anchored. Now I need to decide what type of free motion decorative stitching I will add to fill in the rest of the spaces.

New Rock I started a new rock based piece on Wenesday. My friend Tanya gave me some fabric and it just had to be used in this manner.

This work is only the pin up stage and it will change with time. It too is a detailed section of my Arcadia shore shot. A very small section that this shot shows. It is the basis of the quilt for what I have pinned down.

Label Block I am back in the hand work pattern again. Enjoy the slow days of summer.

Carol

Label Blocks, Name Game, Relinquished Region, Spray Painted Works, Three Grand Sons, Working in a Mans World

Summer Days

July 9, 2015 admin

Hello,

Its summer here and I am enjoying the weather. I spent a day on the lake with my art friends and enjoyed myself toughly. As the pictures shows we played with bubbles and it was great fun. I especially like how the bubbles still floating in the air are lightly reflated in the water.

The first Tuesday of the month was this week so I had meetings. First I went to the QuEGs meeting. Linda is making great progress and quilting on her quilt. She will be teaching this construction method at her quilt guild next month. Barb was on a completion of work push last month and she showed us four works. I like this one with all its texture.

Liz did a shop hop and got into the Row by Row game along with the shop license plate thing. She will be busy at the machine for a while now.

Then I went off to theDiva meeting. Sharon got things started with her wonderful hand printed screen. There is a layer of organza on top with light green leaves printed on it too.

Lori was also on a finish up mission this month. She completed three of her little works. This one features a hand made button o the left. I love how she builds up so many layers of stitching in her work.

Susan is looking and then working on old work with a new eye. The dolls were started long ago and the wood cuts were as well. It is always a challenge to return to unfinished business after time. Her life style of living six months in Florida and six months in New York means she does this all the time. Quite a challenge in its self.

Anne is doing a powerful job with this work on grasslands and concrete. I love how the roads add to the broken feeling of the trees.

Alice is working of getting ready for

the Art Trail. I like this happy little fox work the best this time.

We had three visitors from the PEEPs group at this meeting. They kindly showed us their work too. Perscilla is working on this great quilt using some of the Mola’s she has collected over the years. I really like how she put space between each panel and the red and green patchwork boarder is a strong addition too.

Jean dyed all the fabric

used in this piece. I admire how she used the blue and orange together.

Marcia explained her personal challenge for this quilt. I like how she created great depth with all her own hand dyed fabric.

Progress Report: Relinquished Region After the Diva meeting I felt I had to change the title of this work. Formerly it was called By the Shore. This new title helps give more of a feel for the location. I really enjoyed working on this project. Some areas must have eight or nine layers of fabric work

with lots of stitches on the surface. I so wanted the long vertical to be dark- but not black. Building that area was a great challenge to me. There are a wide variety of fabrics and yarns in this work: Silk paper, silk organza, velvet, wool, valor, yarn, netting, upholstery fabric, rust dyed cotton and burlap. If it was the write color –I used it. Some areas took up to six hours to complete.

Working in a Man’s World Not until I took this to the QuEGs meeting did I see how a turn of 90 degrees could save this work. I was just about ready to call it a lost cause when some one suggested I rotate it.

The difference was amazing. This only reinforces how important having a support group is to me.

The hand work also adds to the work.

Name Game IV- Three Grandsons This quilt also got finished this week. Each of the boys is done in a different color. It makes for a nice overall movement. I like too, how some of the lines meet across the seam lines.

Label Block This block is number 15 in the series. My pile is building ever so slowly.

Keep enjoying summer and Creating too.

Hugs

Carol

By the Shore, Curvie Cuts, Foundations Series, Label Blocks, Name Game, Three Grand Sons

Visits

July 1, 2015 admin

Hello,

This quilt-” Unbroken Circle” is by my friend Sally Dutko. I purchased it from her before I went to Indiana and I am enjoying it a great deal. I think I can learn from looking at the details of this work. I made the trip to Sally Dutko’s studio sale before I went off to Indiana. She has a wonderful space with lots of display areas. She is an artist I have long admired and I was fortunate to purchase one of her works for my self. I will be very sorry when she makes her final move from this area. She has given me great advice about my work in the past.

I had a wonderful time on my trip to Indiana. Barbie is a wonderful hostess and we did a lot during my stay. We went to a visitors center in Nashville IN and looked at this wonderful Chihuly among other things.

This work, “Family Life” by Susan Else, was a part of a wonderful show at the Carnegie Center for Arts and History in New Albany IN. The works were all excellent and we enjoyed ourselves. Got me to thinking about some new approaches too. Making our viewers choice created lots of discussion among the four of us.

We spent two days in Barbie’s studio doing silk painting. This strong scarf is her work. Her work is wonderfully complex and she sells them at the Holiday event in town. My work on the other hand is quite simple. Barbie has developed this wonderful stretch technique with pipes, rubber bands, rings and clips. It is so very flexible that she can adapt it most sizes of silk that she wants to use just by moving the parts around. The process of adding the guta was was easy and clean. I have not done this type of thing in a long time and it dose require skill.

This top one came home with me as we got some work steam set on Sunday . The second one is still in Indiana with Barbie. She will mail it to me when it is steamed too.

Progress Report: Hand Work I felt I needed to take some hand work with me to Indiana so I started this piece. The base is a silk screen I did a while ago. I did a lot of couching on the surface and then added some of the slices from the jelly roll felting that I did last fall at Cheri’s Blue Moon studio. I am enjoying the process.

Name Game- Three Grand Sons

I worked on this one before I left and again when I got home. I have cut the three names into 4.5” squares and I am in the process of moving and playing with placement now. When I am happy with that I will stitch them all together.

Curvy Cuts – New Project I got such positive feed on my work on “Encounters” that I had to go looking through my stash of fabric and make a second starter for a similar project. I do enjoy cutting the curves more every time I do it. I have the other hand work project too so this one will not be seen again for a while.

Van Goth When I went to Maine in April I purchased a panel print of Van Goth’s Iris’s. I though it would be a good place for me to practice free motion work. I tend to get excited and my stitches are not uniform in size. So I have been doing little bits of this picture to help me build some uniformity .

Near the Shore I am working away on this piece. There are lots of bits of different colored fabrics and yarns building up on top of one another with this one. I am building rich color layers like a painter.

Spray Paint When we went to visit Elizabeth she showed us her spray painted works. They were amazing. Marty and I tried it when we got home. Control was much more difficult then we both expected- but we had fun. I have tried to build a work using some of that material. At this point I do not feel it is at all successful. Even adding hand work did not seem to pull the piece together or give it the focus I think it needs. Perhaps so input from my Diva and QuEG’s friends will help save this. I am willing to just say it was a learning experience too.

Label Blocks I have two blocks this time as two weeks have passed by.

Keep Creating

Carol

By the Shore, Encounters, Foundations Series, Label Blocks, Scrap Happy Quilts, Three Grand Sons

More on Lines

June 18, 2015 admin

Hello-

I just had to post these flowers today. I love both the color and the contrast in textures. I have not been very good about

concentrating on lines as I intended to be this year. But I took a renewed look this week. I was caught by the lines on the street and thought the are indeed one type of line- strait. They are a lines of direction and ones of illusion. They create a feeling of depth on a flat surface and lead the eye back in space. Most art is an illusion and a bit of magic. I say magic because if one looks at the materials ( paint, pastels, fabrics and yarns) that an artists starts with-it is nothing but magic when one looks at the end result.

Encounters 26" X 25" — Encounters
26″ X 25″

Progress Report: Encounters This is my newest completed hand embellished work. I put a postage stamp on the lower left to help with scale. It is a standard size- but I am not happy with it. So I will keep looking for an item to add along the side to help give the viewer a clue as to the size of the piece.

This work has more of the fabric form the discharge screen printing class in it. The dark fabric is a Judy Roberts piece form her monthly mailing. It came in January and I just knew I had to use it with the white material. I think they play well together. I have enjoyed doing the various stitches on the surface of this piece. I only did machine work as stitch in the ditch on some of the seams to hold it together.

By the Shore

I am ready to start to build up the dark sections of this work. I want it to feel deep – not just black so I am going slowly. I like all the textures too

Name Game- Three Grand Sons This is the next one in the series. Stage one here with Nick and Ben. Both positive and negative shapes are shown here.

Gavin shows the second cut of the fabric. It is already getting difficult to read the name. I will slice all three of the names into 4.5″ blocks and shuffle them next and put them all together for the top of this quilt.

New Work This top is all put together now. It seems quite weak to me so I will have to do some wild machine work on top to pull it into a work of some interest.

Scrap Happy Sense I sold one more of my Scrap Happies to Beth and there is a wedding for Barb’s son coming up I started more work on these types of quilts. The one with the red and black centers is all set in rows. This shot is only three rows.

This second with three shades of blue as it’s centers is not as far along When the rows are all assembled . I will make scarp backs for the two of them. They are always fun.

New Hand Work Because I always want to have some hand work to do I laid out and pinned up this new start for my next hand challenge. The white base has a bit of screen printing in pink on it. I added some organza, yarn, silk paper and some of the felt slices I made as a part of a play day with Cheri had last fall. I will be using mostly the same colors of yarn and floss as I did for “ Encounters”.

Spray Painted I plunged in and started the quilting on this one this week. I am outlining the reds and purples and then inventing the areas on the solid units on this top. I am enjoying the process, but I am not sure about what I am doing.

Label Block I just keep working away on these little fellows.

I will be away next week so there will be no post again until July 2.

Keep Creating

Carol

By the Shore, Encounters, Foundations Series, Label Blocks

Natural Beauty

June 11, 2015 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

This moth was in my yard this week. I have never seen a live one before and it is beautiful . Marty and I came across it when we were out side painting on Friday. We were so taken by Elizabeth’s spray technique when we were in Maine that we had to try it our selves. It was a lot of fun and we both have a new respect for what Elizabeth is doing. It takes a lot of skill to control the application and just folding the fabric is not all that is involved. We altered lots of different types of surfaces with the paint. From cotton, satin to corduroy and organza. This play sent me off in a bit of a new direction.

Progress Report: Painted Work I got all excited by the painted cloth and so I started and assembled a new top. It is big simple blocks because I want to feature the painted surfaces. Adding in sharp quilted lines will really extend and enhance the painted areas I hope. I am really taken by the sometime crisp edges and sometime soft ones.

By the Shore Now I am to the fun stage with this work as I am building up the surface with colors and textures. It is so much fun to add all the different types of fabric, paper and yarn to the surface.

Encounters I am still doing hand work on this project. The base is a mix of fabric that I did deconstructed silk screen printing work on and some of Judy Roberts wonderful hand dyed material. It seems to become lost for periods of time and when I come across it again I see it with new eyes. I think I am nearing the end as I add different types of stitches to the surface. They have helped me solidify the vision for the work.

New work I am still building this piece. At the moment I am not real delighted with it and feel it is only a background for something more. It needs a focus I think.

Label Block These nightly practices are moving along. I am finding it very hard to keep the labels square sense I can not stretch the fabric. I will not do a hand project like this again.

Keep Creating

Carol

Arches, By the Shore, Freedom's Joy, Label Blocks, Minion, Paper Quilts

Buds Opening

April 30, 2015 admin 2 Comments

Hello,

I have noticed as I have been walking this week a daily change in the environment. Not only is the grass growing but flowers are up. I also see that spring flowers are different here than in mid west. These white violets are a good example. ( I have purple ones in the yard too) Every day the shadows cast by the trees changes as the buds explode out into the sunny world. I find it exciting to see the major changes from one day to the next. I spent Monday playing with Cheri in her studio. She was busy creating freezer paper stencils, ironing them down and then painting over them them. While she did that I worked on adding a layer to the puppet heads that I made at Varna last month. I added paper clay over the two human heads and the dog head as I was happy with the forms. I then built up the bird head with more paper Mache’. I moved from that to building a mask with a cardboard base. The mask seemed to take on a life of it’s own as I started out trying to create a lion- but it seems I have a horse instead. Cheri suggested a different type of Mache paste and so I added the paper layer on top of the cardboard. I like what is happening even though it is not were I thought I was going. Then the third 3-D project this week was to start to create a new batch of Minions. I seem to be exploding with my own creative push as I also pulled out and sorted stacks of fabric for six new projects this week. This shot shows four of the piles. I only have eight yellow tubs for separated projects and they are all full, that along with the 3-D stuff and I have a lot on my hands to work at for a while.

Make Visible 23"X 29" $235.00 — Make Visible
23″X 29″
$235.00

Progress Report: Make Visible I am done with this quilt now. This project started last summer when Susan and I were playing with all her different mark making tools. I did several different quotes with the tools and I am now getting around to finishing them off. I quilted the words Make Visible seven times on the surface of this quilt . Some times I did them in block letters and some times in cursive. Then did reflective quilting to finish it off. I used the obi that I got from Ginny in this project too.

Regina’s Blanket This project is made from some of the wonderful designer samples that Regina gave me a few weeks ago. It was fun to try her techniques with her fabric. It is great to snuggle under too.

By The Shore I was looking at my photos of the trip to Arcadia with Barb and Marty from a few years ago. Among the pictures was a great shot of the basalt along the shore. So I decided to use it as the start of my next Foundations piece. This is just the pin up.

Paper Quilt I came across some papers I had done as Gelli plate prints. Two of them seemed to go together so I started this work in the Carol Weibe technique. It has two cuts in it. I had also melted the tyvek that Cheri and I had painted from the week before. Now there is lots of that to play with and I may add a little of that texture to the surface of this paper quilt too.

Flag- Arches I am using these flags as a place to really play with things I do not normally try. In this case I used Caran D’ache water soluble crayons to add color. Then I spritzed it with water. The word “Arches” is written in broad line Liquid Copper magic paint marker by Deco Color. It did not bleed when I sprayed it with water.

Flag Freedom’s Joy With this project I stamped a bird with a foam stamp that I had made several years go and then I used colored pencil on top to enhance it . I also used the colored pencil in the lines to add motion. The words are done in permanent marker.

Label Block I am doing my daily stitch work with this project. Every little bit adds up.

Keep Creating

Carol

Diva Meetings, Label Blocks, Name Game, Patti, Running Red, Whip Shock Hill #2

Spring Effects

April 9, 2015 admin

Hello,

I will admit that the weather and the sight of spring flowers does effect me. I have been on real “start new” push of late. I have also been a little upset with one of my pieces- but more on that later. This week was the Diva meeting and I was very excited as I have not been to one sense Oct. The winter has been a bad one and it really kept me home. But before the meeting Cheri, Noel and I went to see Alice’s show of her accordion fabric books in down town Ithaca. They looked wonderful on the walls. There were several I had never seen and so I am glad we made the effort to go and check the show out. There was lots and lots of new work at the Diva meeting too .Alice is getting ready for the Spring Art Trail and so she had this pillow among other things to share. This one along with several others that will be for sale on the trail.

One of the things that Lorrie does, is deep layered hand work and this is the one she is currently working on. She builds so many stitches on top of organza and other fabrics to create great depth. A different sort of collage fabric effect.

Cheri is doing wonderful canvas work were she starts with freezer paper masks and builds paint layers on top and then stitches by hand and machine on top. The layering is amazing to me. Like me, she always has many things going at the same time and this spider ( in progress) is and example of her 3-D work. I had given her the fabric that she used for the legs and body and I think that is why she brought it along. Liese did this soft “Island Garden “ as her entry for a garden completion. The plants that she stitched are ones that could grow under the sea/ tide/ wet conditions of the area. Quilting can expand your horizons in unusual ways.

Anne had this specular work to share too. I really enjoy how she cuts up her photo graphics to use as strong jumping off points for her work. I find this piece wonderful!

Noel showed us several works and among them were these two quilts for the Rainbow Challenge for the Tow Path Quilt Guild. These two along with 22 others will be on display next week end at the guild show in the Manilas Library. Ruth has finished her quilt about Kemo Treatment and it is wonderful. I am sorry that my photo of the full work is not sharp enough to post- but this close up shows how powerful her stitching is. She has such strong skills.

Then Wednesday, I went and spent the day playing at Batik with my friend Ethel. We had a grand time and I now have six new pieces that will be starting off places for more work. She has a wonderful piece on the pin wall and I took a shot of it too. She uses her hand dyes so very well. I have been watching this one develop over the course of this year. She keeps moving the pieces about as she develops the idea.

Progress Report: Whip Shock Hill II This work has given me a mix of emotions this week. I had worked so carefully on mimicking the photo and I liked that portion of the work. I am done with the stitch work and all the textures are down. But- it does not work for me at all! So I roll it up on Friday and decided to take it to the Diva meeting and ask for help. I am so very glad I did! One can easily get trapped in there own head and not “see” how to get out ad solve a problem. When I put this work on the wall next to Whip Shock Hill I the group could see it was not working too. But they helped with an easy suggestion. Flip the new piece and add it to the other side. I love the results and I can now add the sleeve and complete the set.

New Start All the frustration I was feeling about Whip Shock Hill and the effects of spring pushed me to pull materials for a new work. I think all of these fabrics play well together and will make a nice piece. It will be my next project.

New Start Running Red I pulled these fabrics at the same time. I created the red and white fabric in the Deconstructed Screen Class last fall and I really wanted to use it so I started with that stack. There is some silk kimono and taffeta in this work too. I think the frustration I was feeling also effected me a bit so I wanted to do something that I felt sure about. It is coming along nicely now.

Name Game III- Patti This is how this work looks before I started to cut it up. A little planning will help the next time I do this technique. And that planning is in the size of the work. I was so concerned with getting the letters to fit that I was not careful with the size of the base. In the last two pieces I stared with 22” squares and made 5.5” squares when I cut up the two layers. This time I made the base 24 “ and had to make 4.5” squares and I lost some of the image from each row because it did not cut down to even units. One needs to make the mistakes to grow. I then pinned the blocks to the pin wall And stated arranging them. That step took a while and I took many photos of the many layouts as I went along. This is the one I settled on. Now I will join them and quilt them together.

Ribbon Work This work is growing slowly. This is a case were not having a per plan may get me in lots of trouble as I go forward. I have been just adding one hour’s worth of work on at a time. But at this point I have no feeling for were I need to go next. So I am just looking at the work.

Label Block 3
The hand work goes on with my evening TV work.

Keep Creating

Carol

Foundations Series, Heart of Gold, Label Blocks, Patti, Relaxed Energy, Scrap Happy Quilts, Vernal Equinox, Whip Shock Hill #2

Spring

April 2, 2015 admin

Hello,

The trees are still bare, but the sun is shinning and I have spotted several Robins while I have been out of doors, and I even ate my lunch out side today. This shot not only shows the tree but is also shows an aspect of line. A line can change its thickness as well as it’s direction. The more I pay attention to lines the more I am aware of how vestal they are. Lines can be used to express a wide array of emotions. They can be sad, nervous , silly angry, graceful, calm, excited and dancing to name a few. Our culture uses them to communicate with words and images. They are every were when one starts to look for them.

I made Easter Cards one day this week. I took a heavy card stock and on top of that I placed ribbons, yarn and plastic twist. I kept the pallet limited to light spring like colors and then stitched in many directions across the surface to attached the materials. When I felt that the surface was strong enough I cut out the egg shapes. I added pipe cleaner ears and a pome-pome tail to create little rabbits. Then I glued them down to the cards were I had drawn some grass with a green marker. I did leave some of the eggs as just eggs and glued them into nests so I had two different cards. I had a good time and I hope my friends enjoyed my spring fling.

Progress Report: Whip Shock Hill II I am still working away on this piece. I like adding all the texture to the surface of the work. It makes for nice soft color changes is some areas. I am sure I will complete this piece this week.

Scrap Happy 6 &7 The only thing I needed to do to complete this quilt this week was add the binding. That takes me about an hour. This one has center blocks that are all in grays and black and whites, with a few center blocks that have browns in them.

I also completed Scarp Happy # 7. This one has deep red center blocks and gray center blocks. The scale of the prints is much smaller than # 6 so it is not nearly as busy.

Verna Equinox This is the newest piece using the Fabric Collage technique. I am trying to add lots of different fabric textures along with the wrinkle and wad stuff that I have been working on. This piece has cotton, valure, taffeta, silk, double knit, organza, grow grain ribbon, and wide whale corduroy in it. The fabrics alone are lots of textures. I hope I can make it work.

Name Game III – Patti This shot shows the first cut from the brown and gray fabric. The top image is the negative in brown and the bottom image is the positive in brown. I have been very careful in my documentation of this process this time and I will put up a tutorial of the process this next week. Hopefully I will be finished with the work too.

Ribbon Work I stared this new piece trying to play with the same ribbon application technique that was on a piece of red fabric that Susan gave me. The process is slow and I cannot seem to work with the closeness the example has– but I do like the effect. My ribbon is much wider then the example. I am still trying to stay true to my New Years resolution of not purchasing any thing new so I will continue to work with the ribbons I have here.

Flags: Heart of Gold I am continuing on the Susan’s Flag Challenge. This week I tackled the purple stencils. Susan did the rib cage that is on this work. I added more color with various fabric markers. The heart is a small bit of gold fabric that was remaindered from some other project as it was just pinned to the wall.

Flags: Relaxed Energy This is my purple stencil. I selected this pose from Susan’s book because I was surprised that many of the exercises that the physical therapist gave me for my back are also Yoga poses. I added a beautiful glittered nylon net that Susan had purchased in Mexico and given me as a part of this flag. I was also thinking about negative space when I made the stencil and when I cut away some of the netting.

Label Blocks 1 &2 I need to have a hand work project for my evenings. So I stated doing these label blocks again. I did my last label quilt in 1988. Some of the labels I am using are left overs form those works. But I will soon be using only current labels. They are much harder to find now because many labels are printed on the fabric as apposed to added units. If you have any you can send them my way.

Enjoy the days as they get longer and warmer.

Keep Creating ,

Carol

Flag Challenge, Lexi, Magic, Name Game, Spring Onion, Whip Shock Hill #2

Mud Puddle Luscious

March 26, 2015 admin

Hello,

My world is headed toward spring. I heard and then saw geese flying north yesterday on my walk. Today it is raining and I am reminded of a line from an e e cummings poem were he described spring rain as creating a world that is “ mud puddle luscious and the goat footed balloon man wanders far and wee” . I will not be walking today for that reason- too much mud in every direction. This week has been as full Saturday I went to a play day were all sorts of things were going on. Noel and I worked on making puppet heads out of paper Mache’. Some folks painted like Annie while others sew on quilt projects and dolls.

At noon we had a little show and tell were June showed off this fun doll. She was working on it the last time we got together. I like the use of the antique wood block as the front of the body. The hair is cool too.

This quilt is a group challenge project by the Modern Quilters. Each person go the same colors and the background fabric. They all made a row that they then assembled. Marie showed us what she has started last time too from the online class she is taking called 100 Sheets of Cheep Paper. This is one of the works she did.

The Social Art Club had a art show this week and the work was wonderful. This piece is a fiber work by Kathleen Simpson. I displayed my chickens as a part of the table decorations for that affair.

I gave two quilts to my local Public TV Station this morning. One was one of those Scrap Happy that I have been working on sense January and the second was Golden Weeds. I will be watching the auction and hoping to see the sales of both works.

This is also the time of year that

Quilt Surface Design Association calls for donations for their auction so I did a work for that too.

This work is a small 12″ X 12 “. Easy Flow is ready in the box for shipping and I will go to the post tomorrow and send it off.

Progress Report: Name Game II – Lexi, For this quilt I used my Grand Daughter’s nick name as my starting point. I used the same sew and cut method that I employed last week with Carol. The big change this time was that background fabric was a plaid taffeta and that added a different design problem. I did the quilting on the background just like before with silver thread. This time I also made the work bigger before I cut it into blocks. As a result I have squares that I did not use for this quilt so there may be a smaller one later. I want to try this type of construction one more time so I can try for a writing text instead of a printed letter form.

Whip Shock Hill II This work is to be a partner with the first Whip Shock Hill and is based on a second shot of the same rock face just further north. This images is a close up as I do not think the full work is very interesting at this point.

Susan’s Flag Challenge: Spring Onion Susan and I both have a dozen flags with the same images on them. How we choose to finish the works will be a fun comparison study when we get together again in June. There is crayon drawing on this work and some beads were added to represent soil under the plants. I learned that one can not add stamped letters over a seam and get a smooth image with this project. The word onion had to be stamped on a second cloth and added on top. Experimenting with new materials and methods is one of the goals of this challenge. The stamped letters on fabric is a new thing for me.

Flag Challenge- Magic This flag uses my stencil of hands . I added the crayon drawing of the swirls and stars then pressed the fabric. I then washed the whole thing in the blue. My test this time was done with magic marker.

New work This work is the next one in the fabric collage series . There is not a stitch on this one yet- just lots and lots of pins. It will morph and change as the stitching and addition of ribbon, yarn and paper goes forward. I look forward to working on this one.

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Carol

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