Hello,

As fall approaches I feel the need to “tidy the nest”  a bit.  As a result of that feeling, I have been sorting out old works and finding new homes for them.      So I took along this quilt when I went to the Dentist and it is now hanging in his office.  It took a min. before he saw the tooth brushes.   He was delighted and so was I as the work was only setting in a dark closet before and I think art should be out in the world.     I feel so fortunate that I can share in this fashion.

This week the FAB group went on a field trip too.    We visited the home studio of Ginny Spina  to see her silk /Komona collection.   It was wonderful.    Her home is beautiful and so are her gardens.    She sells on etsy at  www.silkhouse.etsy.com.    We got to see and handle the silk.  Nancy even tried on one of the Kimono’s that had arrived in the mail that morning.    Victoria and I  both purchased some of her scarps and now I have a new pile of fabrics and the  ideas are flowing.  Nancy purchased on of Ginny’s scarves and her custom designed pins that day as well.     We all had lots of fun and made new connections.

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Ju Ju June

  As I predicted this quilt is now complete.   There is lots of experimentation in this piece.  This is my first attempt at using only canvas as the fabric base.  I also had full control of the colors and patters on that base and although I really enjoyed that aspect I do not feel like I explored it fully.  So I need to keep putting myself in that position and dealing with that challenge.   I also feel I need to do a similar project  again because the process is still very much a mimic of Katie Pasquini’s process.    I did enjoy mixing the metal with the gathered ribbon “flower” shapes and the beads.     

 

 

 

 Rafter Room This quilt is now hanging over  the door to the rafter room were it will remain for it’s life time.   Because it is summer I am not aware of how many drafts it is stopping, but I imagine it will do the job in the fall and winter.    I really enjoyed  doing the free motion work on this project.     It was not only fun to trace the shapes printed on the mud cloth it was fun to extend them out into the blank areas.   Then I went forward  to drawing and filling in the blank areas as well.   I think  that I will look at pattern with a little bit of a different eye- and notice more details as a result of this  project.

I got to use up the end of one of the fabrics that I had created in Judy Langele’s class at QBL 2  three years ago too.( It is the bottom of this work with the blue gears and dark violet in it)

 

 

 

The Road Less Traveled    I am still doing the free motion work on this piece.   I am  trying to sort of soften the hard seam lines with the machine work.   I will add hand work as well.

 

 

 

Foundations XXI- Elise’s Rock/ A Cape Cod Stone   This is a rock that  Elsie Dents gave me.   She has moved to Pennsylvania and we will miss her strong graphic bird based  work in the DIVA group.  She was cleaning and found this stone that she had collected on the beach at Cape  Cod and thought of me.  So she brought to me at the last meeting that she attended.  I like the strong lines across the  stained quarts  so I am using it as  my jumping off point for the next Foundations work.  I am still working with the out side shape of this quilt part as well as the light and dark on the surface.

Daily News   The news goes on and on.  I am enjoying the playing part of the process now.  I thank Barb every time I finish a block because her way of completing the process is so much faster than mine.

Keep Creating

Carol