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QBL 2016 Plus

August 4, 2016 admin 1 Comment

Hell,

So much has happened in the last weeks it is hard to know where to start. Quilting by the lake was as wonderful as ever. I helped hang the quilt show for QBL on the Friday before. We started out with a empty gym and over the course of the day filled it with beautiful quilts. This shot is of a special exhibit is of work by Debbie Heaps. She did one of the little lectures about her work during week one where she explained her process and philosophy of quilting. It was great.

I had a class with Carol Southerlund called in the Thick of It. She is a strong teacher with lots to share. The first day she sent us out at noon to find images that we enjoyed. I got hooked on the patterns and shapes in car tail lights. These images turned into the inspiration for our foam stamps. We did them in both positive and negative.

This is a shot of my work space on the third day.

My good friend Regina was seated behind me.

There was lots of work going on . Carol showed us how she built her steamer to fix color in cloth on Thur eve.

She also showed us how to discharge fabric. This is a shot of part of the class wearing out masks. One can never be to careful when it comes to using chemicals in dyeing.

My friend Sharron worked in Independent Studio. This is her sixth summer of working on six Dear Jane Quilts. She is doing the triangle boarder blocks now and she assures me that they will all be done by next summer.

Friday Evenings at QBL is show an tell form the classes were students hold up There work and the teacher’s explain what they did.

Randy was in Valerie Goodwin’s class and did many little works.

There are two other parts to the final evening. There is a raffle and my friend Ethel Whittamore gave me one of her unfinished quilt to put into this project. I finished it and put it in the raffle as she requested. The money goes to the scholarship fund. Sally Davis won the quilt. She was an old friend of Ethel’s too so I am sure it went to a good home.

The teachers also altered bags that are then auctioned off to add more money to the scholarship fund.

It was a good week and I went home tired.

I unloaded my car with the dye stuff and packed it again for week two and my class on Pattern, Rhythem and Repetition with Rosalie Dace.

Like week one there were lectures. John Kubiniec talked on Monday and showed all the quilts that are in his new book Spin on Drunkards’s Path. The book came out this week too.

Nancy Bailes also did a talk for us. She will be teaching her

techniques next year. I am so happy for her.

Rosalie started us out with some paper work were we built our designs. She spent a lot of time talking about value and I think I have a better understanding of it now. This is a lay out on my desk of light , medium and dark values that is considered for my piece.

This shot is of my work space on day two.

Again Regina was seated behind me. This is an early shot of her first piece in Rosalie’s class.

I got involved with Graffiti again in this class and did my name in two colors on different backgrounds.

I then sliced them up and reassembled them in this pattern. It is all put together now and I am pondering how to quilt it.

At the end of class we had a short critique. John was in the class and this was his work for the week.

Regina and I also took down the part of the quilt show. That process always make me feel sad.

This is how it looked before we started. In the end it was just a gym again.

Week two ended with the same pattern as week one. Here is Debbie with her top and Jean Riley too.

Again the teachers did bags and made more money for the Scholarship fund.

Sat. morning I got up and went to Ithaca to take down the Diva 15 show. I had great help so it did not take long.

These are two of my woks that were in that show.

Briar Patch was in it too.

I feel I am still recovering but I did go to both the QuIG’s meeting and the Diva meeting on Tuesday.

Noel was in Rosalie’s Transparencies class the first week This is one of her works.

Lori started this work at QBL.

Liesa did this work for her living room wall.

Maureen is doing free motion machine work on her work now. It is fun.

Susan shared her Bronte sister dolls with us. The Diva group is so diverse that it is always exciting to see what folks are doing. I enjoy it very much.

Label Blocks #70 and 71 I did manage to keep at this project and made progress.

Keep Creating

Carol

Deep Jellies, Felt Work, Garden Gate, Generational Whispers, Going Deep, Label Blocks, Natural Elements, Sweetheart Tree, Trees

Preparations

July 14, 2016 admin

Hello,

This week has been a quite one and most of my efforts have gone toward preparation for two weeks of Quilting By the Lake. That begins on Sunday. But I begin helping with the hanging of the quilt show on Friday. I will be taking a dyeing class the first week so I have spent a lot of time pulling things together for that and soda soaking fabric. I am looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. There will be no blog post for the next two weeks do to my classes. The next post will be Aug 4.

Progress Report: Generational Whispers

I put in a lot of time on this piece this week. I started out by taking Gwen off and re drawing her. Then I put her on again. There are still some stitching wholes, but I will remove them with water.

The I went forward to add Wendy and Alexis. I am going to rework Alexis a bit so I will not show her at this time.

Garden Gate The quilting step is going along nicely now. he paper patters help me keep the size correct with this one. I can also add the design beyond the print on the fabric with the paper stencils. They are made of paper and getting rather shabby now. It is a good thing I only need to make two more copies of them before I begin the fill in quilting.

Sweetheart Tree This is the saved work I started altering last week. With the quilt work complete the piece got its blossoms. The plan it to add beads in the green and blue to the centers. That will add another texture and build a focal point in each flower.

Deep Jellies The hand quilting is going slowly forward on this piece. It has been too nice out doors in the evening to set inside and watch TV so I do not put much time in on it.

Going Deep This felted work in building nicely. It is the only one with a title too so that is why it is listed separately. This is still a very early stage.

Wool Work This piece is nearly complete. I have not formulated a title for it however. That will happen before I stretch it.

Wool work III . Again no title yet. This one is at the adding fabric on top stage. They are mostly just pined in place. The two greens hanging off the bottom are possibilities.

Wool work IV is still at step one without any fabric added at all.

Label Blocks #68 and #69 I tried to get a head on this project this week as I know I will not be around to do this type of hand work.

Keep Creating

Carol

Diva Meetings, Felt Work, Garden Gate, Label Blocks

Diva 15 Show- plus

July 7, 2016 admin

Hello,

This week has been a full one starting with the opening of the Diva 15 Show. This work is Anne’s and it sure looked great on the gallery wall. I think the whole show was a wonder of our diversity and talent.

Sally’s piece just glowed on the wall with its bright colors. I enjoyed the large number of people who visited and talked with lots of them. There where fellow quilters of course and lots of younger folks too.

Maureen really showed off her shobori with this piece. The evening went quickly and I had a good time.

This is Alice’s entry for the 15 wall. It is one of the works that has sold already too. She also has a show at the Earlville Opera House this month. The 15 wall was a big draw as the display took the entire back wall of the space. Cindy’s little work was a real gem with all its machine worked movement.

I was espically taken by Noel’s piece because it grew out of a play day she and I had with Susan last summer.

Susan’s work looked good near the food table and I heard lots of positive things about it. I feel the opening was a success and the whole show is as well.

This is also the fist week of the month so, I had meetings. The QuIG’s had lots of nice work. Angela is making great progress with her felted pieces and Liz keeps putting out her little blocks every week too.

The Diva meeting is doing more critique work so not a lot of pieces were/are completed . Only Regina has a big display of her Black and White studies. The were based on paper sketches she did in a class. But all the fiber work she did in isolation. They were so strong and went she changed their orenatation there were big changes too. I find them dramatic and can hardly wait to see were she goes with these ideas.

Progress Report: Blue Iris This work is 39″ l X 34” w. It features the Sachiko panel of course. The Japanese characters are scattered around as I felt they went together. I ended up making a panel for the back with the translations on it. That seemed like the simplest way to transmit that information. This panel is Luck.

This panel is Good Health. This is another Ethel project as she had all of this fabric sorted into a little bag. The Sachiko was not even started so I feel this is more my work then many of the other projects of her that I have completed.

Garden Gate I am now ready to start the quilting on this project. I am using the orange print as the basis for the quilting patters. They are so complex that I drew them in paper and cut them out. I will now stitch around the paper patters in the non printed areas.

Generational Whispers I took this work to the Diva meeting and got some good direction from my fellow art quilters. I stitched down Mom and myself yesterday. I decided that Gwen who was the only person in profile did not work so I took her image off the surface and will re do her. Sometimes errors are made – “Rumpus” as Susan calls them.- They lead to growth.

Wool works There are no titles for these wool pieces yet. But this on is the oldest of the four and it has the most machine work on it. There is a lot of distortions of the wool as the machine work is added. All four of these works are based on rock structure photos. This one is from on of my visits with Marty. I am not staying with the colors of the rocks- but I am trying to keep with the dark and light patterns. I enjoy this step and I like how the threads, yarns and bits of fabric build up the surface. The first two are built on a tweed wool base. This piece has a great deal of silk fabric built up on top of it. Beth gave me a bag of silk scarves last fall and I finally got into it and I am having a good time using them.

This wool piece is done on a black felted wool skirt that I cut up. Building over the dark color sure makes the wool roving glow some how. This piece only has about and hour’s worth of work at the sewing machine in it at this point.

This wool piece has not had any sewing machine work done on it. The roving has only been punched into the skirt felt. This is an example of step one for all these wool projects. I have not worked much on this project as I usually run out of time before I get to it.

New Work I do not seem to do well when the pin wall is blank so I started another 3 Challenge piece. It is in the fabric/color selections stage. Here is the collage that is the inspiration.

Label Block # 68 Week another square.

Keep Creating

Carol

Blue Iris, Felt Work, Generational Whispers, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing, Weeds

Openings

June 30, 2016 admin

Hello,

Summer is blooming all around my house. I love all the color that surrounds one this time of year.

Have you crossed over from the room to another and then stopped cold -not remember what you were in search of. It happens to me all the time and then I read that is a common thing. The scientist studying the brain have determined that this is part of a self protective alert system man kind has carried from his early development. Moving from the inside of a cave to the out side world meant that one had to clear the brain of all distractions to be aware of the new environment. The same is true of going from the protection of a forest out into a meadow. These clearing or emptying of mind the may have meant the difference between life and death to our ancestors. So the next time you forget why you went to the living room forgive your self and chalk it up to old mental protection processes.

Progress Report: No Clue This project is 50” l X 41.5” w. It fits in my three challenge too. Snow dyed and direct dye painted fabrics where used in this project. It was based on a collage and it has some of Ethel’s fabric in it. The quilting lines run parallel to the edges of the color changes in this work.

Generiational Whispers The faces are starting to be applied to the surface on this work. A few of the lines are new to the portraits but many are just drawn over the machine lines that were on the organza. This person is my grandmother Ruth.

Blue Iris I just used reflective quilting on this project. I have labels on the back noting what the oriental symbols mean. I am still quilting.

Weeds I am still working away on the flower heads on this project. There did not seem to be a lot of time for hand work this week. I am enjoying working on the discharged fabric that Randy made.

New work This top is almost complete now. The quilting pattern is the new part of this challenge. The big orange print is rayon that is backed with iron on inner facing so it will not stretch. It was a gift and was a pair of bib pants in its last life.

Wool projects I have started adding silk paper, yarn and fabrics to the surface of this project. This is my favorite part of the process. My friend Tanya gave me some of her unused stretcher bars last week so I put three sets of them together and started more wool projects. This is the early stage of one of them. I start out laying roving in patterns and then felt it down. The next step is the layering of more material on top to add the texture.

Found Project This project was in the bottom of a basket of UFO’s. I was frustrated with this project last fall. But looking at it with new eyes now -I see a direction to go with it.

Label Block #67 Another block done.

Keep Creating

Carol

Collage Based Work, Dappled Sunshine, Deep Jellies, Fabric Collage Constructions, Felt Work, Generational Whispers, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing

Summer has begun

June 23, 2016 admin 1 Comment

Hello-

I spent Monday, Summer Solstice, at Susan’s. The wonderful Fox Glove is from her garden. We were experimenting with adding color to fabric. Susan being more systematic did a lot of different studies. I did rubbings with chalk and paint. This example is of one of my early works. Susan’s daughter Rebecca worked up stairs and completed a quilt top. Then she tried another color combo of the same block and this little work is a corner example of that. I like how the high contrast creates a glow effect here. It was a good day and I enjoyed myself.

Progress Report: Dappled Sunshine This three challenge quilt is done now. It is 58” l X 45” w. I have not worked this big in a long time. There is pebble quilting in the orange areas and strait quilting in the tan and brown areas. I used some very old altered fabric like the cream with lines of paint at the top of this photo. The area under the brown strip is ice dyed from this spring. There is also some canvas in this and a print I did in paint using a doily as the resist.

Deep Jellies I have started doing hand quilting in the areas of solid blue in this quilt. I like the contrast. It will be a slow project too as there is lots of blue.

No Clue I keep trying this work with different orientations every time I work on it. The machine quilting is going forward and I have quilted about half of the pink areas at this point.

Blue Iris I have now completed the top assembly of this work. Ethel had collected all the fabric in one bag. I have put together all the squares and done the lay out. Now on to the quilting step. Great fun.

Generational Whispers I continue to work away on this project. I re drew Alexis’s head because it was too small. I decided I did not like my drawing of Gwen so I re did her too. I took this work with me on Monday and got some help from Susan about how to move forward on this challenge.

Wool work The base is mostly down on this work. I will start to add in fabric and yarn this week.

New work This work got buried under the other stuff this week and did not get any attention. That sort of thing happens when one has so many projects going on at the same time.

Label Block #66 I just keep plugging away on these.

Keep Creating

Carol

Collage Based Work, Dappled Sunshine, Deep Jellies, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Generational Whispers, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing, Scrap Happy Quilts, Weeds

Butterfly Days

June 16, 2016 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

These beautiful paper butterflies represent the happy feelings I feel for this time of year. Patti cut them with her press cutter on Wed when the FAB group meant. I have seen some live ones too, but I am not fast enough with my camera to capture any images. They seem to represent the slow easy time we seem to be in now. We had our last FAB meeting until Aug as we all agreed that travel and family will now fill our days for a while.

I have learned that when I am unsure of what I need/want to do next I tend to start a new project. The result of this is I have lots of new projects going on at the moment and only have a Scrap Happy quilt finished this week. That project too represents my feelings of unease, because scrap happy’s are also fill in projects. I have made 150 of these scrap quilts and they require no thinking on my part. But they do keep my hands busy and allow me to think through what is upsetting/ blocking me with other work.

Progress Report: Dappled Sunshine I finished the pebble quilting and the line quilting on this piece this morning. I am now ready to add the facings and finish this project. It will be done by next week.

Scarp Happy 150 I have no home in mind for this quilt, but I am sure it will go to a worthy cause.

new Scarp Happy When I put together the center blocks for the last scrap happy I also made extra blocks. Enough to make two more actually. This one got put into the row form this week.

Generational Whispers The grandmothers and great grandmothers got drawn on to organza this week. I know this was part of the stress I talked about as I do not feel very sure of myself when it come to do portatures. My machine drawings are human but not good likenesses of the folks they represent. I have decided to let that be that way as only a few people know the subjects any way. I will add a second layer of machine drawing when I attach them to the quilt surface.

Deep Jellies This work is also causing some stress for me. I love the colors and the textures of the jellyfish themselves. I am just unsure about the movement of the tentacles and how I want to quilt on this project. There are lots of little design decisions in this piece.

Weeds I am happily to the detail part of this project. I like doing the hand work that defines the weed heads. Three done and a dozen to go.

wool work This is the biggest machine felted work I have ever done and it too is very slow work. I finally got stretcher bars with out any canvas on them and that is what this work will be used on. I am not even done with the first layer, so there will be lots of color changes.

New top This in the newest piece that it based on a collage. It also has Ethel fabrics and some I have altered, so it fits my personal challenge. I think the the title will have something to do with angles or irregular cuts.

New Work My friend Tanya gave me the wonderful big orange print fabric I am using in this piece. It is in the real early stage.

Label Blocks #64 and #65 I did double duty on the blocks this week. It is so pleasant to set out doors after dinner and work in the evenings. I hope summer is bringing delight into your life too.

Keep Creating

Carol

Dappled Sunshine, Deep Jellies, Generational Whispers, Label Blocks, Weeds

Spring progress

June 9, 2016 admin

Hello,

We are enjoying the colors of spring even though the temperatures are a bit chilly. These pansies are from Sue Ellen’s garden. All three of the groups I meet with meant on Tuesday this week. I was exhausted when I got home. First was the FAB meeting in Judy’s Garden until the rain hit us. Nancy shared her progress on the Blue Bird quilt she is building for her Mom. It is growing beautifully.

Patti blessed us all with a wonderful felted book marks. It is a great bit of felting!

Then I was off to the QuIG’s meeting. Sue Ellen had a wonderful curved challenge on her pin wall. She rotated and changed position of parts so I know this is not the final orientation. It will be fun to watch how she changes this work. Angela is working away with her felting projects toward her show next winter. She showed us her sketches. Linda is working with how to create Sea Grape leaves. She showed us a bit of her school glue resist dyeing too. I love the colors Liz continues to do her two blocks a week challenge and she showed us six new ones.It will be on playful quilt when she is done.

Barb showed off another of her tributes to her ancestor works with this lovely little quilt. I think the way she is presenting the old lace hand work is very strong.

This piece is one of Sally’s wonderful little works. She also shared some very nice pillow cases and bags she had made for her grand daughters. It was a good meeting.

The off to Diva’s. Alice shared her newest work with a tribute to musicians. Sharon showed off one of her altered print works and I really like the texture. She also shared two works that were giving her problems and asked for suggestions. I am sure she will solve the problems with time and work.

Lori has been stitching away on her tundra pieces. This time she also brought along the source of the idea for this work. It is great. I am so very glad I belong to such a diverse and talented group.

Progress Report: Purple Passion This work is 45.5” l X 31” w. It is based on a collage and after some long study I feel could go back and try to represent the collage again. I got so involved in the assembly process that I lost the simple color break up of the original work. I do feel like I am getting better with the technique part of the assembly and quilting however. I enjoyed adding the sparkle of the metallic fabric to this work.

Dappled Sunshine I have just started the quilting on this work. It is another of the bigger pieces so it will take a while for this to be completed.

Deep Jellies The jelly fish are getting tacked down and I am building in the details with machine stitching and the couching down of various yarns. It too is rather large so the getting it under the arm of the machine is tiresome and I seem to only be able to work on it about an hour before I feel I must put it aside and work on something else.

Generational Whispers This too is a monster quilt. I must have been in an expansive mood for a while. The faces, life sized, are drawn on wash away and are of my grandmothers. I am planning to free motion draw them on organza and build the next generation on top of the organza and below them on the work. I am dealing with a bit of fear here too as I do not know what I am doing……

Weeds This work is part of the wiggle cut series. I am slowly hand stitching in the stems of the weeds and will add the heads in time. I only work on this piece in the evenings and only after the Label Blocks and other hand work is done, so it is another slow project.

Leftovers This work is just made from sections of Dappled Sunshine that did not work in that piece. I will use it as base to experiment with some ideas I am trying to work out.

New work This is a new piece based again on a collage. I am learning a lot about how to use angles in my work with the collage stuff. This piece fits my three challenge too. My dyed work are the big purple units and the red and blue sections are some of the snow dyed I did last winter. Ethel’s fabric is the turquoise and and pink stuff.

Label Block # 62 I just doggedly keep at these blocks.

Enjoy spring and Keep Creating

Carol

Columbus Junction, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Label Blocks, Lion King- Cherrywood Challenge, Memory Map Quilts, Purple Pleasures, The Heron

Active time

May 27, 2016 admin

Hello-

Do you see the four leaf clover on the right in this cluster I was out in the yard the other day and it just jumped out at me. Had to capture the image to share. I hope that everyone enjoys the out doors on this Memorial Day Week End.
This week has been a full and active time. It began last Thursday afternoon when I went off to Turquoise Street Studio to play with Barbara. She worked on her pastel of beach folks and I did hand work on my own. It was a pleasant time.

Saturday was a meeting of the mixed group folks. This quilt is by Bev Kondolf. We talked of many things, but most important from my point of view was about how museums like the detentions of works to be presented in high first and then width. So I will be using that system in the future.

This work is by Anne Garrison. It is always such a stimulating time and I always go home so worked up with ideas and thoughts.

This work is by Noel Keith and is one of her entries for the Diva 15 show That opens on June 3 and runs until July 29 i n Ithaca NY. The round circle at the bottom is rust stained silk.

Regina brought this piece to the meeting to show Pat what she had done with some of the fabric that she altered in her class in the fall. As a teacher I sure appreciate seeing finished results and Pat did too.

On Monday Noel, Victoria and I went down to have a play day in Regina’s studio. This shot is if Noel and Regina looking at one of Regina’s new yard sale finds. It is so kind of her to open her space to us to play. I like the way she has starts hung on the wall like I do. I find this one epically exciting.

Regina’s computerized machine gets a real work out . This is a great example of that.

We were dye painting. This shot is of Victoria carefully painting symbols on the fabric with Dye Magnet. Hope to see this when it is done. Noel really played. She started with this blank . The end piece looked like this. So much color!

Then on Tues I had the FAB group here. Judy is working on finishing up old started projects. This soft summer quilt is a real beauty with its mix of black and deep blue centers.

Nancy is working on a quilt for her Mother that has daises and blue birds on it. She is a real wiz when it comes to medallion quilts. She had lots of boarders and always makes a great challenge for her self with these projects.

Yesterday I went off and spent my time with Joyce who is a collage artist. I did three little works- two are suitable for starts for quilts I think. The top two.

Progress Report: Memory Map: Columbus Junction This work is 21” l X 14” w. I am calling it done although I do not think it is a good piece. There are too many things that are the same size I feel.The images tell the story but it is weak. I may show this to some other folks and see if they have suggestions. I will do much more drawing and pre planning for the next piece in this series.

The Heron This work is 16” l x 16” w. I got the heron printed on organza from Ethel a few years ago. It hung on the pin wall and made me feel good, but I could not place it. Then this week it all came together in one afternoon. Using Ethel’s fabric’s and her style , plus my love of texture. I am quite happy with the results.

Lion King:Coming Home No one but me will see the differences here. But I did take off the lion and redo him this week. Thats done and it is pin basted and ready for quilting… A whole different challenge.

Purple Pleasures The triangles just keep filling up the surface of this work. It is very slow however.

New Work This is what I worked on at Turquoise Street. All the raw edges are tacked down with hand stitches and I have done the paint step on this work. Now I need to begin the machine drawings of my grandmothers on organza.

Label Blocks #59.I finished # 59 on Friday last week. Two more blocks and I will be half done.

Keep Creating

Carol

Along the Shore, Blue Stone, Columbus Junction, Deep Jellies, Hand work, Label Blocks, Lion King- Cherrywood Challenge, Purple Pleasures

Blooming

May 19, 2016 admin

Hello,

My world is really alive with blossoms now. Blue bells, buttercups, violets, lilacs, as well as many I do not know the names of carpet the ground. Flowering crab apples and tulip trees color the air. The dandy lions are are in seed and they join the Oak, Maple and Beech as they dump there pollen on the wind- my world is awash with wonderful sensations. I am enjoying spring.

I did a little ice cube dyeing this week. I wanted to play with some oranges and that is a color I do not seem to have a lot of in my stash.

Progress Report: Blue Stone This work is on stretcher bars and is 24” X 36”. It is based on a photo of a rock face that I took a few years ago in Washington State. I enjoyed working up the color changes with yarn and threads on top of the scrunched fabric pieces. There is nylon netting, taffeta and silk paper in this work as well as a bit of flannel. I sure like mixing my textures.

Along the Shore This work is 20” X 15”. It started with the photo image that Ethel had transferred on to fabric. Not knowing anything about the setting I got to invent it to suit myself. I painted the edges of the photo on the fabric so it would have a softer edge and stitched across the edge as well to make it blend into the top.

The quote is from Vincent Van Goth. I find it to be very true for my life. Creating the pine tree branches was an enjoyable process for me as I have always been attracted to them.

Memory Map- Columbus Junction I am working on the details of this piece now.Adding the plants in the garden is just one part of this process. I am considering adding a bit of text to this work.

Purple Pleasures I am to the quilting stage on this work now. Deciding to quilt triangles was a good idea, but it is very slow work with lots of stops, turns and starts. I am trying to use the triangles in the piecing as my guides, but sometimes I am just filling in with that same shape pattern.

Lion King-Coming Home I have added the masks to the bottom of this work. Then I put the stamped lions on under that boarder. I think I am now ready to begin quilting on this work.

New Work I want to do a entry for the Layered Voices Challenge for SAQA. This is my base, using Valerie Goodwin’s base construction method. I am now ready to tack down the open edges by hand. I am also gathering images of my mom and my grandmothers to use as a part of this work.

Deep Jellies I saw a beautiful image of Jellyfish on the web and I was captivated by it . I started a piece based on the wonderful use of color and texture from this image.

Label Block #58 Working away on these little blocks sure reinforces the idea that the whole is bigger then the sum of its parts.

Keep Creating

Carol

Along the Shore, Blue Stone, Columbus Junction, Ice on Vincent, Label Blocks, Lion King- Cherrywood Challenge, Memory Map Quilts

New Growth

May 12, 2016 admin

Hello-

I am delighted by the amazingly fast changes I see in nature every day. A leaf may be two inches across on Tuesday and by Wed morning it is doubled. They all look so transparent too. It is wonderful!

This week has been a quiet one, with only a few events and most not related to quilting. I spent a rainy Friday afternoon planting trees with the Cornell extension and neighborhood association . One even got planted across the street and I can view it outside my studio window.

Progress Report: Ice on Vincent After a lot of steaming and pressing this quilt is finally flat and finished. I really enjoyed working away on this piece. This time in addition to adding a sleeve to the back I have added a pocket with a copy of the images that it is inspired from on it. After Sharon came and took pictures of my work and the inspirations for a talk she was giving I thought it might not be a bad idea to keep all that stuff together.

I used lots of different colored threads build up the texture of the areas in this work. There is also a lot of thread painting to make areas work too.I liked working with the organza’s for the ice although it does fray a lot.

Blue Stone This work is now ready for stretching. It is the biggest one I have done that to. It will be a 24” X 36” surface with a inch and a half deep warp around the edge when it is done.

Wine and Cheese This piece is finally done as far as stitch in the ditch is concerned. Now I am going to do some free motion drawing in the form of wine bottles and glasses as well as cheese in the larger areas to make it complete. The white is paper patters that I will use to do this task.

Lion King- Coming Home It has taken me longer to do the hand work on this project then I expected. I discovered that the head needed a stuffing all it’s own so I had to remove it and a take out the embroidery and do it a second time to get the effect I wanted.

Memory Map; Columbus Junction I added lots of details on this piece this week. This shot is of the little dressing table that I had and a little cabinet that my grandfather Howard built for me. This section is of the memory I have of Grandfather Howard reading Alice in Wonderland to me every day after lunch before I walked back to school. He was helping Mon work on the house at that time.

Label Blocks # 56 and # 57 Due to some miss counting no my part I discovered that I had five more blocks then I thought. Good news in my book. I also got busy- spring energy- and finished two this week.

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Creative Fiber Collage Artist Carol Boyer