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Butterfly Days, Hand work, Something Big

Active Summer

 

Sharon workHello,

Summer seems to bring lots of movement for me.  I went to a studio sale on Friday last week.  What a bargain for me- fabric at $3.00 a yard- how could I go wrong?  I helped empty the tables.   Then stopped at Sharon’s studio before I went home.  These are two of her River Grasses series.  They are bot sold.   I am happy for her.     I also spent a day this week packing up four quilts to ship off to the opening show at the Pink House Gallery in Saranack Lake.     My friend Cris Winter kindly asked me to participate.   There will be a second opening in Aug and I will be sure to attend that one.

Then I Blue Notesmade a trip down to see my friend Ethel and pick up two of her quilts for the Quilting By the Lake show.  This quilt is titled ”Blue Notes”.      I always love the way Ethel builds such a complex surface with such a limited pallet.011  Fun too to have it in my studio for a few days for close and repeated study.   I will be helping hang the Quilting  By the Lake show tomorrow.

Something BigProgress Report:  Something Big     This work in nearly finished.   I used the felted jelly roll cuts from one of our play days at Blue Moon Studio  on this one.   I have put so much time into the hand work on this project that I did not finish a Label Block this week.

 

IrisesVan Goth’s Iris’s    This is the full finished panel that I purchased in Maine.     I know who will get this work in the fall.

015  This close up shows how my practice with the free motion work paid off.

Butterfly Days  This work has been pieced for a long time.  It has spent most of that time under other works.  Then one night last week just as I was falling asleep- I realized that I could add Butterfly Dayssomething on top to make the quilt work.  I had noticed several butterflies on my walk that day and so that is what I added.  They are cut from ground cloth( the  stuff one puts down under stones so weeds will not grow up from below).   I think now I will add some paint to the surface of the ground cloth before I stitch it down.

I am off to Quilting By the Lake for the next two weeks so there will not be any posts until  Aug 6th.

Enjoy the summer

Keep Crating

Carol