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Challenge III, Circle Challenge IV, Circle Challenge V, Circle Challenge VI, Five Jacks, Label Blocks, Three Jacks

Value

January 20, 2017 admin

Hello,

As the image shows I am still struggling with Value. Thus far in my own study I would say that value works best in strong contrast- or at least it is easier to see. Gradation limits the ability to see value, or perhaps that it is just more difficult to label. I can see that I really do not know what I am exploring. A good thing I think.

FAB meant this week. Patti was/in really into knitting hats this month. This red one is for a newborn and will go to the hospital.This second one if for a friend who is going to Washington on Sat.

Nancy is still working away on the Blue Bird quilt for her Mom. She had concerns about her boarders. The striped boarder will be followed by a cream one. It is good to have folks to explore ideas with.

Progress Report: Five Jacks This work is 20” X 31”. It is stretched on bars that my friend Tanya gave me. The final work is pleasant and I enjoyed doing the piece a lot. Applying the jacks this week was fun. I added color to the body of the jack with water color pencils that I then heat set. Because I knew I was going to stretch this work from the start, I also used paper as part of the material in the background. The dark brown jacks were all created with a wide statin stitch. Wools, velvets and a rust dyed green silk scarf were also used in this piece.

Three Jacks I finished the leaves on this work this week. The jacks in this piece are made from brown velvet.

Circle Challenge III This work is 16” X 19.5”. I only need to press and add the sleeve to this work and it will be complete. I like the horizontal hand work on this one. The beads add interest too I think.

Circle Challenge IV I am almost done with this piece too. I am back to quilting in the circular patterns in the background. I introduced a darker orange to the triangles as I needed a higher contrast.

Circle Challenge V I am changing things again with this work. Because I do not have any more of the light fabric that I used for the faced little circles, I tried using the dark orange that I used for triangles in number IV. I also dropped the triangles all together here. I am still machine appliqueing down the circles. The may move about yet.

Circle Challenge IV The same can be said for this layout. The tilt is the biggest change. Again most of the circles are free floating at this point.

Bird Block This is just a start for my entry for the SAQA auction. Not at all sure were I am going with this one.

New work 1 I pinned up this new blue work and have just started doing the free motion work. I am sure it will change with time.

New work 2 This piece like the other is small and in an early stage. I do enjoy this part of the process a lot. Its so fluid.

Red study I got a book for Christmas called Stitch, fiber Metal &Mixed Media by Alysn Midgelow-Marsden. This is one of her exercises using mostly felting on red velvet. I am so rusty with the falter I broke three needles and did not have any replacements so I had to stop and order some new ones. I do like who it is going however.

Label Block #103 And the bead goes on as they say. One more done and only seventeen remain.

Keep Creating

Carol

Challenge III, Circle Challenge IV, Five Jacks, Label Blocks, Name Game, Three Jacks, Wendy and Mark

Word of the year- Value

January 12, 2017 admin

Hello,

This is a shot of Caramelized from the Foundations show at May Memorial. The opening was Sunday and there were about 100 folks there. I was thrilled by the positive response. I even sold one of the works. It is a great space to show work as the walls are nice warm wood and the space is very large.

Rosalie Dace gave me this card of gray scale and pushed us to lay out our fabric for a project from light to dark to see the Values in class last summer. I feel I have not paid attention to this idea enough in my work so VALUE will be the word I concentrate on this year. I plan to make a poster with that word on it to hang above my pin wall to help me keep the idea front and center.

I also made a little promise to myself that every time it snowed more than an inch this winter I would do some snow dyeing. This is the first batch. I love the wild patterns and the color mixes. It snowed again this week and that next batch is reds and pinks. They are drying on the line now.

Progress Report: Wendy and Mark- Name Game This quilt is 50.5” X 45”. It is the main reason I am doing the word Value- because I feel this does not work as well as it might. The shapes are strong and I like how they play together- but there just does not seem to be the vibrancy that I was hoping for. One needs to expect that there will be second rate work sometimes. The important thing is to learn from the mistakes. It will be a fine lap quilt.

Circle Challenge II This little work is 16” X 19.5”. It flows well. I am enjoying the challenge of using machine and hand quilting together as well as the bead work.

The projects are small enough that I get to move onto the next idea quickly.

Circle Challenge III I really like the darks that are a part of this one. The addition of the triangles also makes this one more interesting I think. I am ready to add the hand stitching and feel that this time I will fall back to normal quilting thread.

Circle Challenge IV I did the circle on this base before I really did the hard looking at the Challenge III. It laques the power that the dark gives the work in the other piece. I will keep that in mind as I add the additional shapes to the surface.

Three Jacks These are my Jacks for this project. When I got them done and drew the leaves I realized they would cover too much of the background I had built and its power would be lost. So I created a simpler back ground for these Jacks. This is still not simple- but I think I can make it work for this project.

Five Jacks So Three Jacks became Five Jacks. The flowers are much smaller and they dance along the bottom edge of the rock face I had designed. It is ready to be stretched now.

Bird Square I started playing with the the few little birds leftover from a previous project. It is at an early stage and will change with development.

Label Block 102 I just keep at these little squares and they keep getting completed without much effort. I am starting to think about what will come next when this project is done in about 18 weeks.

Keep Creating

Carol

PS. One more shot from the show.

Circle Challenge, Circle Challenge 2, Diva Meetings, Label Blocks, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs), Three Jacks, Wendy and Mark

New Beginnings

January 6, 2017 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

In the deep cold we are experiencing now, I think of the wonderful warmth of spring and the new beginnings that a new year makes on consider. New sketchbooks, new book keeping, and new calender’s are all part of the new start for 2017. I am working on choosing a new word for my focus this year too, but have not decided quite yet. Sue Ellen at the QuIG’s meeting was thinking of spring too with this new Hosta leaf pillow she shared. The machine work is wonderful. The Diva’s also meant this week. Because of the show that Donna is hosting for us there was lots of talk and work for that event. I served as transport for work for Noel and Sharon as both could not attend. Sharon kindly gave me a little gift in the form of one of the book marks that she makes for her booth. I like it. Regina has been doing a lot of indigo dyeing. ( look at that pile) Cheri had two new pieces for the show as well as to share. She also does such nice little surprises for the backs of her quilts that I am sharing one of those too.

Ruth got into a traveling trunk show for SAQA and she showed us the new wave she did just for that. I like the waves out to sea too. Then there is the wonderful foam under the wave. It is really a strong work I think.

Lliese had a wonderful piece to share with us as well. This piece is much bigger than she usually works.

I hung my Solo Show yesterday with the help of Steve and Lynne. Preparing for this was a good experience for me as I got to really look at the body of work. I have been on this earthy foundations work for about three years now. We hung 21 pieces and I took 24 home with me that we did not use. I like having a choice. It is a beautiful place to display and I enjoyed doing that step too because of the wonderful help.

Progress Report: Circle Challenge 1 I am pleased with how this turned out. All the parts seem to work together for me.

Circle Challenge 2 This second challenge has different colors in some of the strips and the rotation is different. Three additional colored circles remain but the parts of the solid yellow circle have been dropped and replaced with four triangles. I am ready to do the bead work now .

Name Game Wendy and Mark I am all done assembling the strips of this work now. I made the back the other day and I am now ready to add the batting and begin quilting it.

Three Jacks I have finished the background of this work. Then I did some research followed by some drawing. The paper patterns are enlargements of the sketch. I still have one more to do as you can easily see. I could not find the color fabric in my stash that I wanted to use so I had to purchase the green on Tues at Quilters Corner when I was there.

Bird Block I am playing with some leftover bird cuts from the Bird land quit here. It is always a little challenge to see if the remainders can become something on there own. I am thinking now that I will balance the birds with some free motion bushes based on this sketch book drawing. They have such a light feeling that I feel they can balance the heavy birds on the left.

Label Block # 101 I am working away on these little blocks. Only 19 more to build now.

Keep Creating

Carol

Circle Challenge 2, Cotton Candy, Dead Horse Canyon, Felt Work, Label Blocks, Name Game, Uncategorized, Wendy and Mark

Numbers

December 29, 2016 admin

Hello,

We are racing now toward the end of 2016. In thinking about the end of the year and closing my book keeping, I become very aware of numbers. Because I am still enjoying Ethel’s fabrics I only purchased 38 yards of fabric this year and most of that in half yard units. The first for the Label Block project for this year was block # 34. This week I completed block # 100 so that is 67 blocks for the year. A bit more than one a week. I make pillows and fill them with the cut off bits of batting from the trimming and squaring off of quilt work. This year I completed 9 pillows. I donate quilts to almost every organization that asks for them and this year I gladly gave away 13 to such deserving origination’s like Ronald McDonald House, the Art Rage Gallery and my local Public TV station. I am still ahead in that game as I completed 59 on my own creations. I use lots of thread in my work and this year and I emptied 65 spools. I was a part of 5 quilt shows and I am looking forward to my solo show in January. I participated in 4 challenges. A good way to stretch ones self. I was rejected from 7 competitions. But I keep trying. I wrote and posted 37 blogs this year too. This year has been a full one with lots of things going on in my quilt life. Looking back, I feel that 2016 has been a good one for me and I hope you can say the same. I hope that I can face 2017 and handle the challenges it presents as successfully as I did this year.

Progress Report: Aunt Shirley’s Quilt This work got shipped off to it’s new home on Monday. I hope it gets to my Aunt before her birthday Jan 2.

Cotton Candy This work is 12” X 12”. It seemed to take me a long time to get to this little work. I just kept shuffling it to the bottom of the pile. The colors are so very different from what I am working with at the moment. But once I decided not to try to make it into one of my rock works it was easy and enjoyable. I will try again for rose quarts later.

Name Game- Wendy and Mark This work has gone through a major change sense last week. I added Mark’s name- (he is Wendy’s husband)- because the Wendy section was not enough. Still it is not something I look forward to working on. But I felt the same way about the one I did last summer where I used my own name. Perhaps that is the nature of this project. I am still shuffling the strips at this point.

Dead Horse Canyon I have been calling this wool work 1 for the last few weeks. That just does not cut it so I selected a name. This name comes from a childhood play area near my then home in Carroll Iowa. I have been thinking about it a lot of late and though this could be a tribute to all those memories.

New Work This is the newest rock based piece. I used gabardine for the base and I also added fusible inner facing to the back. That extra body has some real strength. I really like how it is not a warped as the wool piece above.

Circle Challenge 1 I have finished the hand circle quilting on this work now. I am ready to add the facing and finish it off.

Circle Challenge 2 With the end of Circle Challenge 1 in sight I put in machine quilting work on this one. I now feel I need to work on the layout for the third in that series now.

Scrap Happy I am working with the scraps from Ethel’s box this week. She had a whole stack of batik samples and they are all 5” square just like the ones I made for my quilt in the fall. So I am using them with some old and new 5″ squares for this new top.

Label Block # 100 As the big Spiegel label ( upper left corner) shows I am still using labels that are not all current. I just enjoy the process.

May the new year bring you joy and creative times.

Carol

Aunt Shirley's quilts, Label Blocks, Wendy and Mark

Holiday Season

December 22, 2016 admin

Hello-

I am in the holiday spirit and enjoying the fun. I like the lights, the trees, the great smells, the bright packages and the candles. Folks seem to be happier too. This tree is Judy’s and it is always lovely. Mother Nature is doing her part as well. All the trees were outlined in white this morning when I got up. I sure like that look too. We had a FAB meeting this week. It was good to see folks as we seem to only meet once a month now days. Nancy had been working away on her mother’s Blue Bird quilt and it looks great.She has appliqued down all the big sunflowers now. They look so happy.

Progress Report: Circle Challenge 1 This project is getting hand attention now. I have completed adding the big beads and I am now quilting big circles. This is slow progress.

Circle Challenge 2 Because I am impatient I laid out and did the top for the second one in this challenge. I have only stitched the shapes to the background. I have several ideas about how to embellish this one. There will be some color changes in the next one as I am out of some of the fabrics already.

Wool 1 I have not touched this work in a few weeks so I really came back to it with clear eyes this week. The colors need to flow together a bit more for me to be really happy with this one. There is lots of distortion at this point too. More free motion work will help that part.

Pinks This little work has not been touched in an even longer time than wool 1. It dose make me feel like spring or cotton candy. The spring thing is not a good sign as winter only started yesterday.

Name Game- Wendy and Mark I am in the early stages of this new project. These two sections are Wendy’s name on the top and the negative space on the bottom. The Mark sections are laid out the same. They are only pinned to the surface and not stitched down yet. After that is completed I will stack the four parts and slice them into units and mix the pieces and put them back together.

Aunt Shirley’s quilt This is a scrap happy quilt for my Aunt. It is a small twin as the first one I gave her was too big. I hope this dose the trick. It is a bit quieter than most scrap happy’s because she asked for lots of greens for her quilt. I need to add quilting and do the binding then it will be done. I gave away a scrap happy today because my daughter needed one for her one of her clients. Now I need to make a new one for the closet so I am prepared for the next request.

Label Block # 99 This block went fast as the labels were so very big. Only 21 more to complete.

I hope the joys of the season bless everyone’s, days.

Hugs

Carol

Circle Challenge, From Dry Falls, Label Blocks, Pond Water, Red Nebula, Spotted, Wild Patches

Supporting a Friend

December 16, 2016 admin

Hello,

It’s a brisk 10 degrees out side this morning and the heat from my neighbors chimney is clearly visibel.

My big event for this week was to be a support a person for my friend Noel at her Trunk show at the Schweinfurth on Sunday. This shot is of Donna and Noel.

As it turned out most of the work was displayed on the walls and I only ended up holding a few pieces. It was very impressive to see most of her wonderful work hanging toghther.

These works represent years of effort on her part and they show how she has taken an idea that she loves and run forward with it playing with new color approaches and ides along the way. She even explored using an artist’s work as a jumping off place for some of her own work. I sure cant tell what work is based on another artist. A lot can be learned from this process.

She dyes most of the silk she uses in her work too so there is an extra layer of personal involvement in what she does. It is one thing to see works by others one and two at a time and quite a impressive and wonderful thing to see them all together. I am glad she is a friend.

Progress Report: Spotted This work is 39” X 38” and is one based on a collage. I am seeing the end of this type of exploration for a while. Doing one a month is not necessary any more. Not only have I learned how to build a work without strait lines I feel my quilting has improved with this series of projects. I also feel more free in my approach to design.

Red Nebula I am getting ready for a solo show in Januray and as a part of this process I am looking at older works. I did this piece a while ago but did not finish it. I decided to stretch it and add it to the mix of possible works for the show. Working with older pieces and doing this additional work makes me want to return to this subject and do further exploration.

From Dry Falls This work too is one I did over a year ago. When I check this piece for the stack of works to be considered I discovered that I had not stitched the label to the back. So I had to do that to complete this project.My labels include the title, size, my name and add.

Pond Water
This work has not had any attention for a few weeks and it too came to the top of the pile this week. I am enjoying adding embellishments to the top with hand stitches. I have seven pieces that need hand work on them at this time so it may be a while before I finish this one.

Wild Patch This work is in the washer at the moment. I have stitched all the patches to a solid purple background fabric with may raw edges on the top. I want to see if the frayed parts add a texture that I can use and control in my work.

Circle Challenge I This is a personal challenge I am working on. I want to use circles as a stronger element in my work. I am to the hand step here and the threads on top are what I am thinking about using for some big hand stitched lines on top to hold the work together.

Circle Challenge II

This is the second on in this challenge. More circles and I am still using the cut away as a part of the design. I will trim it to the same size as the first one. Beyond that I have not made any decisions about this second work. I know I will have to make some modifications as I am out of one of the fabrics in the circle section.

Dog quilt Our local dog pound has called for little quilts to add to the metal cages that the dogs are put in to add to there comfort. I had started the quilt, but lost my intention so it was just a top. I thought it would do better to go to this cause then sent in the box of UFO’s.

Label Block #98 One more done. I am happy to say my embroidery thread stash is shrinking as I work on this project.

Keep Creating

Carol

Awakened by Black Birds, Coastal Color, Felt Work, Label Blocks

Reworking

December 8, 2016 admin 1 Comment

Hello- I am getting ready for my solo show that I will hang on Jan 4. I am not a person who puts things off and being a quilter I know the value of doing lots of small things completes a task with a lot more success then tackling the whole thing. So I have started pulling pieces for the show and looking with care at them to make sure they are ready for the public eye. Big Blue( 36” X 24” X 2”) is one of the works I needed to add to. I had not added a label so that was one of the little finish up projects I took on this week. That just meant that I had to stitch a white square of fabric to the back of the stretched workand write the label infoirmation on it. This process of pulling out work for the show also revealed a work that I really liked, but it was badly warped. It was one of the early works in my wool based projects and I had just added batting and a black back to the wool felted quilt like project. I took the time to take the project apart and stretched it over a canvas based set of stretcher bars. Coastal Color 1 ( 20” X 16”) looks a lot better now and I am happy with it. It will now go into the show if there is space. This rework is a much better solution than the process I had used with it before. Time and pashents really worked together to make this new treatment a much more successful piece then it was before.

The fist Tues of the month was this week so I had meetingsof both the QuEG’s and Diva’s. Corrine did this wonderful piece of jewelry that she shared with us at the QuEG’s meeting . Sally had a whole pile of Christmas projects that she had completed, but I love the Snow Man the best. Even the the hat has thread work all over its surface. Angela is in the middle of a on line class on three dimensional wool works. I really love this one she did withits wool units about 2” tall sticking up from the surface. She sure had become a major felter.

I then went off to the Diva meeting. It was a very small group of us – only six, with not a lot of work to share. But I do enjoy seeing folks.

Anne has created a wonderful top with a very limited pallet. She has gotten very good at inserting those points too.

Noel is working on a small Van Goth landscape. It is inspired from a card she received.

Ruth took an indigo class. She had some real beauties from that experience. This is her sampler of different stitches. She was also in the Open Wet studio at the Schweinfurth early in Nov. She did some specular dye pieces. This one is my favorite. Both meeting got me all excited again as they usually do.

Progress Report: Awakened by Black Birds This work is 19.5” X 19.5 “. This felt based pieceinspired by my experience at the Open Wet studio weekend is complete now. I used the fly stitch to add the feeling of birds in flight in the sky as well as the cut ones. I also did a lot of machine drawing to create the limbs on the tree.

In the ground trees I added just little strait stitches to indicate the birds.

Spot On I am still doing the free motion machine drawing on this work. I only have the big white areas and the yellow ones to fill now so I am sure it will be done by next week.

Wild Patch I am trying a new approach with this work. I laid down a solid base and drew with a white pencil the areas I wanted broken up on the surface. The I proceeded to place fabric on top in those shapes. Sometimes I stitched the adjacent pieces together with the raw edges out and sometime I did it in the regular manner. In other areas I just left raw edges with the background showing through. Most of this is not sewn to the back ground yet – but that is the next step I plan to take. When everything is attached to the background I will wash it to make the raw edges fray. This is unchartered- so I do not know if it will be successful or not. It is a true “what if” project.

Label Blocks # 96 and # 97

I did finish two this week to make up for not finishing any the week before.

Keep Creating

Carol

Approach, Awakened by Black Birds, Circle Challenge, First Fall, Label Blocks

Systems Failure

November 25, 2016 admin

Hello-

I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving. I am thankful for my family, friends and health. This week I had a little bit of a break down with my projects system. I try to keep the fabric for each project in a separate little plastic bin. There is a bookshelf on in the corner were they are stacked. Well I have been so harried these last few weeks I had not been using my system- hurrying too much meant I did not put things back and sometimes threw things in the wrong bin. The bins themselves were piled up on the cutting table instead of the shelves so it was a real mess. I was spending far too much time looking for what I needed and I was frustrated. I had to stop work for a morning and put everything to writes again. It was worth it as I was so very relived the next day when I walked back into the studio and things were tidy again. I hope I have learned my lesson and will do a better job of taking the time at the end of each work period to do the clean up correctly. Last Saturday was the first year anniversary of the mixed group meetings. ( all the gals pictured are from that meeting) It was good to get together again and talk even thought there were only 8 of us.

Progress report: Approach This piece is 18 ” high by 13″ wide. I do so enjoy doing these free motion drawing works. This one like many is based on a rock image that I shot. I try to sty true to the lights and darks on the rocks surfaces but I do not feel I must stay with the colors that I see in my photo. I enjoy building up the textures.

First Fall This work too is based on a rock shot. It is 26″ long by 20″ wide. It was formerly referred to as Wool 2. I added the single maple leaf to the surface to give the work a focus. Building the veins added more to this part of the image too. Again my love of texture is a strong part of this work.

Awakened by Black Birds This project grew out of my experience at the dye workshop the weekend before. Sense our room was on the third floor we were even with the tops of the trees and the crows roosting there. They awakened us early in the morning and flew off as the sun came up. I want to remember the wonder I felt as we watched them. There where so many! I need to darken the bottom section of the work and add more birds to the sky and it will be complete.

New Work This is a work based on a drawing I did based on a dream image. I have changed it and modified it as I enlarged it. There is some of the dyed fabric ( the yellow ) that I did at the dye workshop.

Wool 1 I am to the fabric addition stage with this work. No machine work yet. It still needs more fabric on top too.

Circle Challenge 1 I have added the extra circles to the surface and I am now ready to do the quilting step on this project. There are beads in the upper left hand corner that I plan to add by hand.

Label Block #95 I just keep at it one little square at a time.

Keep Creating

Carol

PS: There will be no blog post until Friday next week as well as I will be away in NYC until Thursday evening.

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

Creative Assistants, Felt Work, Hand Bags, Hand work, Label Blocks, Pond Water

Falling Back

November 10, 2016 admin

Hello-

The winds of autumn are stripping the trees of their golden bounty now. I have been out raking for two days. It is cold and soon days will be spent inside. This last week has been a busy one out side the studio for me. I spent Friday mixing dye with my friend Liz. We will be a part of open studio at the Schweinfurth during the up coming weekend. Play is in my future.

Then this week end I was part of and Exhibition and Sale at John Doweling’s studio for two days. I sold three little framed works and I am very happy about that. The work is still hanging there although I am not in attendance. It will be there until the middle of Dec.

Progress Report: Hand Bag I did put together a hand bag this week so I guess I did finish one thing.

Pond Waters Because I was away so much there is not a lot of progress to report. I continue to work away on this project in the evenings and it is building. Hand work is just slowbut very calming.

Circle Play This is my self challenge to play with faced circles in a creative way. I have a lot to learn with this process. I have challenged myself to do seven works using this striped circle as the main unit.

Wool works 1 2 3 I started these works last week but did not put too much time into them yet. This work is # 2 only because I numbered my sketches as I did them. I am sure it will get a better name with time. This one is just about ready for some machine stitching.

#3 This one is ready for fabric and machine work. It really is not much different than last week.

#1 is still at the prep for wool stage.I have drawn the areas our for the color changes but that is all. I will get to that later today I hope as the felting machine is out on the desk and waiting.

Felted Landscape I did make progress on one wool piece though. This too is in an early stage. I will keep you posted.

New Work I did pull fabric for a new pieced work too. This one will be a lot simpler then the pieced work I have been doing of late. I hope I can stick with that attitude.

Label Blocks # 92 & # 93 I can see the end of this project. There are only 27 more blocks to complete.

Keep Creating

Carol

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Category Archives: Label Blocks

Value

Word of the year- Value

New Beginnings

Numbers

Holiday Season

Supporting a Friend

Reworking

Systems Failure

Golden Carpet

Falling Back

Creative Fiber Collage Artist Carol Boyer