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100 day Challenge, Auction pieces 12 " X 12", Creative Assistants, Explorations, Into the Wool woods, Pixies Group, Purple Impinging, Quilt Surface Design Assassination, Understanding Orange, Wolf Mountain Petroglyphs

Movining into March

Hello,

We are in the middle of the wild weather part of March.  Winter does not seem to want to let go in our part of the world. It has been very cold and windy here of late.  I have mostly stayed inside.   No walking this week- too cold!  Only two zoom meetings this week the Retired Art Teachers( RATS) and Pixies.

The 100 days project is moving forward.   I did finish up my Year of the Rabbit piece for the SAQA auction in Sept.    It’s 12″X 12″.     There are some old printed fabrics in this too.

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Understanding Orange      This work is 34.5″ w X 40″ t.    I am enjoying mixing hand work with the machine quilting as I work on this series.

For this one I did the seed stitches in all the circles that were created when I extended the curve cut sections into the circular shapes.  Every time I came to the edge of one of the circles I changed the color of the thread I was using in the hand work.

 

Imagine Purple  This is the last in the monochromatic series.  I am just extending the metallic inserts that I did as my hand work this time.   Just using the running stitch.

 

100 Day Challenge # 4     I do not have a title for this one yet but it is going well.  It also has way out stretched the original intended boundaries.     I  added some older printed fabrics to this- the blue fern like stuff and the marbleized yellow.    Perhaps that is why it had become so large.   I only need to fill in the white section in the center and add to the bottom so it is even.

Into the Wool Woods   This project grew out of the SAQA lecture on Material Matters were the features artist talked of felting.  I sure had a good time getting the feltier out again and it is still on the desk.   The mushroom steams are stitched down but the caps are still free floating.  That is the next hand project.

Rework-  Blue Beach   I took the frapped flexable tubing off the surface of this work  in Dec.  The quilted  background had been setting on the shelf sense then.   After watching Experimental Surfaces on the Material Matters SAQA sight, I though  what can I paly with?   I had pinned up the painted and  melted tyvek  along the top of my pin wall a while back.  I was inspired to put these two ideas together.    Adding the buttons came later.  I am enjoying all the different textures here.

Wolf Mountain Petroglyph   I did the stamping of the figures in the center at the end of the 50 days for the SAQA  100 Day Challenge.   I use this fabric because it reminded me of a rock wall.   Then when it came to the quilting step I did a little research on petroglyphs and drawings  from my sketchbook.   I had drawn some circular patters several summers ago in a class with Rosalie Dace and thought   could use them here.   I  feel it is coming along nicely.

I did work on Creative Assistances too but did not take a photo this time.

Keep Creating

Carol

 

3X3, Auction pieces 12 " X 12", Label Cards, Mom VI, Puck, WAVE

Inching Toward Spring

Hello,

It has been a quiet week for me.   Sometimes we need fallow times to catch up with ones self.   I did spring clean out of the closets and that sort of thing with a big run to the Rescue Mission and I am feeling  being a little lighter.  The weather is improving too.   On my walk today I heard lots of different bird songs and noted four different flocks of Canadian Geese in migration flights north.   These things plus lengthening days of sun light mean spring is coming.

Progress Report: Shore Line This work is 16” w X 32” l.   I did a lot of hand work on this piece and it is my solution to Cris’s challenge.    The white is like the egg sack that we picked up on the beach that was the basis of the challenge.IMG_2963Then I added a little challenge for my self.  Angela gave me a box of items and I tried to use a lot of the trims and items from that box  on this piece .   The white bead like items came from her box as well as  the ribbons and shells.IMG_2964The starfish too.

Starfish II   This work is 12” X 12” and my entry for the  QSDA auction for next year.   IMG_2975I just seem to get going on theme and keep at it.IMG_2976   I used the  big  starfish that was too big for the fist work and added two smaller ones  on this piece.

 

6 X 6   These three works are my entry for the 6X6 fund raiser for the Rochester Arts Center.   I had fun playing with these small works and experimenting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 X 3 C-1   This blocks location is  the upper right hand corner  of the piece.   IMG_2993I am enjoying to process and it is going smoothly.

3 X 3 B-1 This is the next block in the series.  It is the for the center of the top row.     I am enjoying this daily practice project.

IMG_2989 Here is  a shot of all of the blocks so far.   There are two blocks that have not even been started.   They are the top and middle block of the far left row.( white here)

 Wave    This is the new background for the wave word.    The contrast is much better.   Here is a shot of the old background. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Icarus Because I cannot waste  a single thing- the old background for wave  will become the background for my   Icarus quilt.  I am taking the Aloft challenge   from QSDA and this is what I want to play with.   I am working on a drawing for the figure at this time.

IMG_2974Collection VI Mom  I was pawing through  my tins when I was looking for stuff for the 6X6 cards and came across  items that my Mon had   made and given me.   The little dog and sail boat were the bib parts on some rompers that I wore as a toddler.   So I am honoring her with this collection piece.

Puck IMG_2967   I also came across this piece and due to some more recent purchases of roving I had the colors I needed to finish up the felting step of this piece.   I intend to add some stitches to it to add detail.

Cards  The Brain I have been thinking

about the brain and how it functions of late.  Sometimes my thoughts seem as confused as this image and other times it is like one picture laid over another with no real connection.  It is  really a complex item!

IMG_2998  This card is the representation of the scattered  working of ones mind.

I will be away for the next two weeks so the next post will be  April 4.

Keep creating,

Carol

3X3, Auction pieces 12 " X 12", Label Cards, Quilt Surface Design Assassination, Shore Lines

Winter Week

A A SatHello,

This week was a quiet one for the most part.   I did go to the Associated Artists meeting on Saturday and  enjoyed Julia’s talk about her collage technique.   She mostly paints textured papers and uses them to create her her work.   Her talk was informative.

IMG_2812We had a snow storm  this week so I did snow dye.   IMG_2816It was not  a real successful.  The yellow was power as I have used in the past.  The other colors were mixed liquids  and they did not take so well.   Too much dilution after soaking through the snow  I think.   I always think experimenting is worth while  however,   one always learns something- even learning what does not work, increases one’s knowledge. Tanya's Paintings

I had lunch with Tanya this week and she is working on Yupo paper with inks.   It sure make a bright splash of color in this dark time of year.

Progress Report:   Starfish  This little work is 12” X 12” and is what I want to send off to the QSDS  auction this year. IMG_2839  I added the French Knots on the starfish  to give it the texture  I was after  and add color.    IMG_2841

This work spawned another in the same vain.   I enjoyed doing the starfish so much I started a second. IMG_2827I see now that the starfish is too big for the background so it will have to find another home and I will have to build a different one for this project.

Scrap Happy  I did finish up the  quilt  that I was doing for  the Bed for Kids project and I passed it on to them on Tues.  In doing the back for that project I discovered  that I had a lot of material for making backs and so I decided to make another top to use up some of those pieces.   Angela had given me a box of fabric that she no longer felt she would use.    I pawed around in that box and came up with two fabrics that I though would make nice center blocks for this project.   I like the fruit ladies print  and the green batik she gave to me.

Shore Lines  Last March when I visited Cris we took a walk along the shore  and saw an egg sack of some sort and created a little challenge.  I am starting to respond to that challenge now.   The egg sack looked a little like the white unit on this piece.

3 X 3  C-3  This block is at a good stopping point for now.   Working in this segmented fashion   is difficult for me.   I find that I want the units to interact with one another and the whole and so I decided this one was complete for now.  When I get them all done I will look at the whole and make decisions about what if anything is needed to complete the project.

A-3  This is black 3 in column A.  It does not touch the other block pictured so it is difficult to see how they relate to one another.  That is part of the difficulty/challenge of working this way.   The process is   good for me I think and I am working excitedly on it

IMG_2836Label Card  Live Now    I think this message is good for all of us.   Life is short so do not put things off.

Keep Creating

Carol

PS   the post next week will be on Friday as  I will be away on Thursday  – weather permitting.