Hello,

I hope this day is full of delight for everyone.  We will have family over for a cook out this eve and later enjoy our local fire works.   This week was a full as they all seem to be at this time of year.  Starting a new mouth always means meetings for me.  The Quilt Exploration Group meant and was lively as ever.    Angela continues to work on her Ta-pa Cloths series.  She prints the fabric in neutral colors and then embroiders another ta-pa pattern on top.    The dark brown image is done in  French Knots.  Sally really has gotten to know her new embroidery machine  this year.  She has been creating feathered star patterns in fabric and thread all winter.  The fabric is yellow and the dark blue in this star- the rest is all created with thread!   Even those many points.  There are 36 stars on this quilt and I just kept looking and looking.  It is so awesome.  Not only were the stars powerful so too was the quilting in the white area.  Sally did an excellent job putting it together too.

 

 

I am regretful that this shot is so poor- but the colors  in Noel’s silk circles are so powerful that I had to present it non the less.  Hopefully I will learn to check the image after the shot instead of assuming it is OK.

 

The Diva meeting was full of new ideas too.  Susan is collaging/painting pictures of some of her puppets.  She wants to create depth with organza as well as paint.     I am sorry that the photo does not show the fact that the arm of the puppet on the right is made of tin and sticks out from the surface.  And All the suttelness of the organza is lost in the photo.

Alice is working on a paper construction for a recycle show that she wants to be  part of.   She has created this ” water unit” all out of privacy envelopes.   The paper is surprisingly strong when it is stitched together even though she still has only one layer.  She held up  envelopes with  green and  some with black images on them for use as trees and rocks.  I hope we get to see the finished work.

  Sharon  grabbed my camera and took this  shot of me holding up my Fossil Bed quilt.

One of my followers asked if I was worried about copy wright of my images.  That  topic  also came up in the June/July  issue of Quilting Arts and  Jane Da’vila provided a little section about water marks  on page 72. ( There is a survive at Digimarc.com if you are interested)   Taking that action would protect one’s work.    I am always very careful to ask permission about shooting the work of my fellow artists and there are times when they do say “No”, witch is  there right.  But my feeling about my images is a little more open.  I do not feel anyone can really copy my work  and if they are so in need of my material, that they steal it –  I hope it serves them well.  That is not to say that I do not value my work- I do.  But I just do not choose to spend my energy in that fashion.   I prefer to keep creating new things and for the most part I have enough.  For that I am truly Thankful!   I hope this source helps anyone who needs it.

Progress Report:   Rock Face  This first shot is a close up of the quilt work.  I am using the silk paper I created with Ethel to add texture and color to the surface.  This image also shows the rust dyed fabric in the background  and the torn silk I stitched on top for additional texture.  I used some of the fabric from our discharged day with Marty in this work too.  It took me a long time to decide how to go about quilting this work.  But I am quite excited about working on it now.

 

 

 

Anastasie Ruin    This work got attention this week too.  I tried painting the actual ruin on organza- and I am not sure it works.   The scale is off some how.  I plan to make a second organza unit and add it on top of the  work.  I am going to embellish with the silk paper an strips of fabric here too.  Again I am filled with doubt about where to go with the quilt step of the work.   But I think  that if I get the dwellings defined then the rest will take care of its’ self.

 

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Noel’s quilt from the QEG’s meeting just would not leave me mind so I decided that I needed  to play with circles too.  I though I might mix them with the raw edgue  idea I was playing with a few weeks ago. ( that work , although not tossed yet – is still in a questionable state)  I also played with several different textures here- silk , velvet and  cotton.  I hope I am not falling into one of my typical patterns of trying to do too much in one work….. but I guess only time will answer that.  I though I was making a back ground for all the black and red fiber rings I have been creating- but this is not the home for those creations.

Star Wars Quilt   I did finish a little practical work this week as well.  The Star Wars quilt is twin size and for my grandson.  He picked out all the fabrics and although I think it is busier than I would have selected, he is delighted.

I hope the holiday creats delightful memories for all.

Keep Creating