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