Category Archives: Rifts

Label Blocks, Rifts, Scrap Happy Quilts

Line Types

 

 

Hello,
I have been thinking a lot about lines.  That is my emphasis for this year.    I think lines in art at least can be put into five  categorize.   There are strait lines, curved lines, broken or dotted lines and a combination type line that puts two or more of these types together.    The last category is the outline or the edge line.  This type does not really exist in nature, but artist us it all the time.  The edge line is some times created when  two colors meet.  Another time you get the edge/out line is when an object meets space.     This air to earth line also helps us see and define up and down.  We tend to think of the sun as being up and light from that source is on top of objects while the line is dark on the underside that is away from the sun, there for it is down.    I am still pondering this effect of edge/outline and I am sure not that it is in my consciousness I will see it more often.
004.jpg Progress Report: Rifts

This is the newest member of the Foundations series.    I am enjoying doing all this rock work.  This piece is the third based on a photo that I took in Maine a few years ago.004.jpg  I really enjoyed all the deep cracks in the surface of the rock and tried to show the depth of that with these last two close up treatments of the image.009   I am enjoying using the silk papers as well as threads and various fabrics.

 

001.jpgNew work   This work is based on a collage from my class with David Hornung.   He suggested that we use collage as a way to work out design problems before doing all the fabric work.  because I liked the print on the light brown fabric I used it in this work.  It is a very loose weave and so it did not sew quite the way regular cotton does.   It took a lot of adjustment and re-seaming to get it to lie flat.   I still need to work on the bottom edge.

IMG_4379.jpgNew Butterfly work   At the Diva meeting a few weeks ago Noel challenged me to make a second butterfly that showed off the butterfly’s more.  This is my new background for that idea.

 

 

 

 

 

 Creative Assistants   Football014.jpg season has begun and so has my work on the Creative Assistants.    I have about 19 faces done now.  I do enjoy this process.

 

 

 

011.jpg  Scrap Happy Twin 1  I am building a set of quilts for some bunk beds for a friend.  This is the first of the two.  I am only to the step were I add boarders so there is still a ways to go.

Label Block #19003  I decided to number the label blocks so I can tell how many I have done.

Keep Creating

Carol

Foundations Series, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing, Mill Site Melody, Rifts, Sunny Seas

Mistake

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I take a great deal of joy in celebrating the work of friends. That has been my intent with the images I have shown in the past here on the blog.   But even good intentions can create disasterous effects and such was true here.  My posting went viral.  I do not know how this happened and Goggle could not give a clear answer either. The unknown and unintended consequence of my actions caused the denial of a powerful potential opportunity for the friend. The out come for me was a badly brushed friendship  and a feeling of shame. She as forgiven me, but I have not forgiven myself fully for this action.   I ma truly sorry.  I will no longer be posting images of anyone else’s work on my sight. Please learn form my mistake.

Summer seaProgress Report:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This little quilt came together very quickly when I got started.  I used a lot of silk paperSummer Sea clupon this one to represent the sea weed and the flow patterns of the water.

 

 

 

 

 

Mill Site MelodyMill Site Melody

 

 

 

 

I have been enjoying the free motion work on this piece this week.  The dis charged fabricclose up was done by Randy and the print was created by Jean.   I used very heavy thread around the fern print to help it show up.

 

 

 

 

closeup 2The idea for the free motion wheat heads  came form Randy’s fabric.

 

 


Rift’s   I am still not Rift'ssure what direction I want this quilt to hang so if it looks different- that many be the reason.   I keep adding layers of stitching yarn and fabric to this one and it will ” tell me “when there is enough.

 15Diva  15 Block     The Diva’s will be celebrating there 15th year together with a show next summer.  For that event we are designing a block that is 15″ X 15″ and has some aspect of fifteen in the work.  This is my first run at that challenge.

001Label Blocks:  I have finally got the label blocks back on track.  These two represent blocks 20 an 21.

Keep Creating

Carol

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

Summer Actions

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Morning GloriesHello,

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.032

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.

Susan  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  001both 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.

020Progress 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. 027.jpg

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

030Mill 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.Wheat heads

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

Forest Floor 033  I continue to  do hand work on this piece.   The stitches are beginning to build up with more remaining to be added.

023Scrap 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.034

The collage only has two pieces of paper in it- but I could not limit 021.jpgmyself 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