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Quilting by the Lake 2017

August 4, 2017 admin

Hello,

I can not believe that this is how the gym at Onondaga Community Collage looked on Friday July 14 the day after my last post and the day we started preparing for Quilting by the Lake for this year. This post will be full of photos and snippets of what happened in those glorious days plus a bit of what has happened this week too.

So by the end of the day we had filled the gym with all the quilts that we had received at that time. It was not ready for guests as more work

came in on Saturday, but we did a lot.

I spent my Saturday helping my friend Sharron move into her dorm room and decorate for Christmas in July. We had fun, but more about that later.

There were four special shows within the quilt show at QBL this year. One was five Dear Jane Quilts by Sharron.

She talked about her journey with the development of this project one afternoon after class. I have watched her work away on the blocks doing all the color variations at the same time for each of the 350 blocks. It has taken her six plus years to complete this master body of work. It looks great. Marcia De Camp had a solo show as well. Non on my photos of that are strong enough to be included here, but believe me when I say it was powerful too.

The Finger Lakes Fiber Artists had a great display . These two works are from that section. The top Quilt is by Sharon Souva. The bottom one is by Cheri Sheridan.

This quilt is by Liz Anderson, she is also a part of the Finger Lakes Fiber Artist’s group. The little girl on the far right is Liz at the age of six.

Noel Keith also had a solo show and talk the second week . Some of her works have been included in the Quilts=Art=Quilts shows in the past. She works with silks that she has hand dyed herself and that adds a wonderful layer of excitement to her work.

Sister Sew and Sew made an appearance at the quilt show. She had lots of tips and bits of knowledge that she shared with us as well.

This shot is of Sister checking the length of this woman’s hem from the floor. An item that my Catholic friends assure me was common in their pasts.

My class week one was with Cynthia Corbin. I am going to post a few of the solutions that folks created in class.This is a shot of Annette’s project in the middle of the week. It changes as she assembled it. I really like the quiet colors.

This work is by Diane. Her first work with all solids she tells me. This shot is of my table partner Robin and her work as we did our Mimi talks about our work for the week on Friday afternoon.

We were Cynthia’s last topic class and so we gave her flowers as a thank you for her kind support and help.

Friday night at the end of the first week of QBL we have show and tell where each class with their teacher get up on the stage and show what they worked on. This is a shot of Alice with her project from Studio class.

One class- on the use of wedges- just moved there boards with their work into the auditorium and display them. Nice touch.

Another event at the end of the week is the action of TOTE Bags to raise money for the Scholarship Fund. This is Rosalie Dace with her “Chicken bag” .

Week two I had a class called “One Theme – Many Variations” with Kerr Garbowski.

We started each morning with some drawing. This shot is of Cherri doing a blind contour.of onions- her subject.

We worked with colored pencils, chalk and paint blocks too. This is Cherri’s experiment using those things on a silk screen. With each pass she added more color so the image changed with each print.

Lots of my friends where in this class and we all had great fun. We did lots of deconstructed screen work. Cris and Ann were in front of me. Both worked hard. Robin sat next to me again and did some strong work.

Gerri really did some big works with her little screens. I have been dyeing with Liz on most Mondays this summer and her big strong gestural work is so inspiriting. These two works from class confirm this feeling.

Angela was also in this class and she did this wonderful series using a glue line print of her husband’s saxophone keys. She too changed the background color with each pull.

These are some of my fabrics from class.

Quilters are a divers group. One of my friends, Emily has done a lot of beading in the form of bracelets this year. She shared them with us. They are wonderful!

Week II of QBL also brought our Christmas in July celebration.

We played games based on carols. We pulled poppers. We drank eggnog, we had a garb bag gift exchange and laughed a lot. Sharron dressed in red and was our master of ceremonies. It was great fun.

The second week ended with show and tell like the first. Debbie had completed this quilt.

This shot is of Linda with one of the works she did in class. And another class project.

The week ended with the tote auction and Cynthia’s tote sold for $1,350.00 – the highest price paid for any work that was going to the scholarship fund. Cynthia sweetened the pop of her tote by adding some of her own hand dyed materials to the collection. This is a shot of the bag after the sale. Nice way to close QBL for 2017.

Saturday I went downtown to the Art’s and Crafts fair where I saw several artists friends and watch the native American dancers. They really moved and I enjoyed all the action.

My daughter’s company had a booth there too and this shot is of her and several of her fellow workers. Wendy is the one in the middle.

I also had QuEG’s and Diva meetings this week. At QuEG’s we looked at many projects folks worked on at QBL.This is the piece that Linda was working on in Independent Studio.

This piece is what Liz worked on in Rosalie’s class week one at QBL.

This is another 3-D work by Sally. The whole section at the bottom is all made with thread- except the door. The light house had a lite in the top too. She does amazing work with her embroidery machine.This is another bit of jewelry by my quilting friend Corrine.

The Diva gals had lots of wonderful work too. Lori showed off her knitting with these hand warmers that she made on her curse to keep her hands warm. She also showed off her stitch work.

Sandy proudly displayed her work just home from a quilt show.

Noel showed off her newest work where she was mixing black and white with solid colors.

Sally displayed her second quilt showing off her morning walks. The quilt shows a map of the rout in red and the photos are some of the items she sees.

Ruth is actively working away on her dinosaur track quilt. These first layers are ready for the mud layer now.

Maureen is working away on layers of dye for her new projects. This is lovely.

Susan is still doing little units of work on Pellon. These are memory pieces of her experience in Mexico. As I have said many times I am so very fortunate to have so many stimulating and creative friends.

Progress Report: Owl project

The first week I took a class with Cynthia Corbin called The ABC’s of Composition. In this class we design blocks using letter forms as the basis of the blocks.This is the black fabric patters for my blocks. We then interpreted the patters in color and built the quilt around them. I stayed with this word all week and went from this first start to a “glyph” using the word owl.

I have always been fascinated by the positive and negative spaces in art and this project played into and developed several more pieces in this vain.

At this point I wondered about a size variation with the glyph. I did a shrink and an enlargement. I have not done any work with the smaller ones even though I have several ideas.

The larger one however has become two pinned works. Watch for upcoming developments.

Label Blocks More blocks is getting smaller and the end of this step is insight.

It has been a busy few weeks and my mind is full of ideas. Now I need to slow down and get some work done.

Keep Creating.

Carol

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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

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After QBL 2015

August 6, 2015 admin 2 Comments

Hello,

I am still feeling the effects of Quilting By the Lake and I am almost a week away from the event. I helped hang the quilt show that is part of QBL. (that was four weeks ago now) It is always great as one gets to look closely all the work. This piece is by my friend Randy Keenan. This shot of her is in the dorm lounging after a hard day.

The first night we had a great lecture and trunk show by Katie Pasquini Masopust. She was very excited about her log cabin work and it was very enjoyable.

Seeing old friends is always a big part of QBL for me. This hand work is by my friend Sharron Evens . She was in Independent Studio class with me all week although she was in the other room. She is still working on her “Dear Jane” quilts, but she is now doing the boarder triangles. She is doing seven variations on this quilt all by machine and all at the same time.There is one for each of her children. Each is different color pallet with a different special effect. Over the two weeks of QBL she finished seven of the triangle units for all seven of the quilts. ( see some in the background of the second shot) She assures me she will be done with all of them by QBL time next year so she can take a class. It has taken four years to complete this task. This shot of her on the floor is when she was getting ready to insert the center of this quilt on point. She has written a note book to go along with the project too. It is quite a task.

The really great thing about Independent Studio is how much is going on. Trina and Leona were working on two quilts based on the same photo of a Chinese Garden. It was fun to watch it change over the course of the week and to hear them talk- sort of a peek into the two different ways their brains worked on the same problems. I worked on a new rock /foundation piece. I did take a photo every day this is day 2. The second is day 5.

The other wonderful thing about studio is we can do just what we want and on Thursday afternoon I taught a mini lesson in how to make silk paper in the women’s bathroom( it was too windy to work out of doors). It was fun and everyone who did it walked away with a little bit of silk paper to use .

There was a new feature this year at QBL- it was a lecture/or trunk show every afternoon after class. The topics ranged from “How to care for your Quilts” by a textile conservator, a talk by Donna Lamb on “Future planning for QBL” to trunks shows. Week one I made it to two of the trunk shows. One by Julia Graziano and a second by Nancy Breland. Week two I went to Marcia De Camps’s trunk show. She showed forty works in forty min.

A second event that took place both weeks was a mini mall were participants and a few outsiders came and sold there wears at the quilt show. There was also a raffle in conjunction with that event

and I won a prize.

There was an special show / event at the Schweinfurth both weeks as well and I found it to be really fun and exciting. All the work was done with recycled materials. I encourage any one to go and see it.

In between weeks one and two of QLB I went home and did laundry and switched gears as I went off to a new class. On Sunday on my way back to QBL I stopped and visited the Syracuse Arts and Crafts fair. My friend Sharon Souva won a first place ribbon in the show. It does look good.

Donna and Stephany were there to greet everyone when we returned. I took a class with David Hornung week two- Color/Collage.

This shot is of my work table day two in the morning before I got started.

It is still sort of tidy- but things went down hill from there. Marcia worked next to me and I really enjoyed watching her build her projects. Her style is so clean and beautiful. Linda was across the room and this shot is of one of Linda’s more lyrical projects.

Angela was in the class too and she ended up doing lots of Gelli plate printing of her backgrounds instead of painting them. She even demonstrated for David and other interested folks how the process works. I think David is hooked and will try this technique.

The last night of QBL is always a mixture of excitement and sadness. We have a class show and tell for all the classes. This shot is of the folks in Sherri Lyn Woods class. This year was the final teacher apron auction for the scholarship fund. I really liked Judy Bliden’s “eat out” apron .

I went back to the dorm for one last bit of talk and parting. Sharron made am a root beer float and it was wonderful way to end a great week of QBL activites .

Then there was the AQS Quilt Week going on down town too.

Saturday morning I went down and meant Cheri and her mom to check out the show at the On Center . The quilt show was a good one and I had a hard time choosing my favorite. Marcia’s quilt was among the quilts of friends that I spotted at the show.

I enjoyed the SAQA section of the show too. Most of the quilts in that part were from Europe. I really liked this wonderful piece with all the different textures the most.

Things did not stop with the second show for me either. The first Tuesday of the mount was this week so I had QuIG’s and Diva meetings too. So many folks were also QBL partisipants that we spent a lot of time talking about what folks did.

Several folks- Liz, Linda C, Linda H and Angela were all in a Cantha class together.

The hand work is wonderful. Angela has already started two shawls with this type of stitching in mind. It will be a while until it is done- but I really like the start of this one.

Linda H is taking an on line class with Elizabeth Barton. This is her solution to the problem for the July Challenge. What great movement. Linda C has finished the work she showed us last month. I really like what she does with small inserted lines.

Angela is taking an on line class too and this is her felted interpretation of one of her drawings.

Sally did this work about Dr. Who for her daughter who is crazy about the story.

She was busy with her embroidery too and getting ready for Christmas. This is a part of a Christmas tree skirt.

Sue Ellen is working away on her tree series and this is the newest one. She also took a class at QBL with Cynthia Corbin and did a lot of work with purples. This shot also shows the inspiration for the piece she did in this class.

Liz is making progress on her Row by Row work . It will make a great summer quilt when she is done.

Victoria was in Judy Bliden’s class and here is her final sketch for the next quilt she will be working on.

Julia was asked to be a part of Nancy Crow’s Circles Show and this is her entry. It is wonderful.

Sally is moving so we made a little box full of little quilts form all of us. She is holding up Alice’s work here. This second is Susan’s piece for Sally.

Anne is working away on finishing this piece for a show. I really like the interesting machine quilting she is doing with her work.

Noel took a painting class at QBL and she learned how to paint sea shells among other things. This work will be fun to watch grow.

Ruth purchased this piece from the AQS show. It is on of the Egyptian tent works that they were featuring and selling. I like all the wonderful color and usage of traditional Egyptian patterns.

I have not done any work out side of QBL but I am very full of ideas.

Keep Creating

Carol

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