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Daily's, Oak Leaves, Rounds

Halloween Oct 31, 2013

Nick Hello,

I have spent a lot of time this week preparing for Halloween and all the joys there of.  This first shot is of my grandson in his black crushed velvet cape that has a red lining of the same material.   Very dramatic to my eye and worm as well.   I did a second costume for the 10 year old grandson too, but as I have not seen him dressed in it, so I do not have a photo to share.  Let’s just say it is a very elaborate pirate costume, from a video game.     All the fun of seeing how kids portray themselves will come this eve and I do so enjoy them when they appear at my door.   It is good to try on different persona every now and then.Circeling

Because I spent so much time creating costumes I did not get a lot of quilt work done this week.  Progress Report: Rounds 

I am working on the quilting step of this work now.  I decided to emphasize the stamped circles and quilted around them all first.  I also filled in the rest of a circle if it was cut off in the stripping process.   Now the quilting is reflective of those first actions.   All the curves means I am moving very slowly because there is so much turning of the whole quilt as I stitch along.  I like the rail drops close up of circelingon a pool like images I am creating using this  technique.  

Oak Leaves  This work got some attention this week too.   I made a bunch more leaves and trimed them out for application to the surface.  Leaves The leaves are made of various shades of green Dupioni silk that is backed with green cotton.   I draw the vanes out in thread and then free hand cut the leave shapes, all the time referring to the actual leaves that I picked up last week.   I will pin them on the quilt and hand stitch them down  this week.    I seem to have lots more hand work than usual at the moment, but I enjoy that too.

 BlueYonderBlue Yonder

This work is fully assembled now.  I enjoyed the process and it did seem to change under my fingers as I worked on it.    I have created a back and will do the assemble process soon.   I am trying to clear things up from the pin wall so I can start on a new series of rock pieces.

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The Daily’s changed this week.  I did black circles and red rectangles this time.   I also watched a video on embroidery stitches on Wed and have a whole head full of stitches to try.  It is fun and a challenge- that is what I wanted so I feel very good about the process.

I hope you enjoy all the fun little visitors this evening.

Keep Creating

Carol

On the Road to Dry Falls, Pumpkin Lichens, Rounds

September 19, 2013 Harvest Moon

beadshow Hello,

Last evening the harvest moon rose round and orange as a giant pumpkin.  It was beautiful!  I tried to capture it with my camera- but I am not happy with any of the shots so I am going to leave the idea to you imagination.Barb creating  The Harvest moon is the last full moon before Autumnal Equinox.

This week has been a full one as they all seem to be.  I went to the Bead show here in town on Sunday and managed to keep from purchasing  too many new beads.

Friday was the Explores day to play with Fused Silk.  I think I can speak for everyone in declaring it a big success.    This top shot is of Barb spreading the GAC* out on her silk.

Liz-ans-Corriene  Liz and Corinne working on step one- spreading out the silk fibers.

 

sue ellenSue Ellen concentration on  her work.

We all had fun and Angela even go far enough along with her fibers to add them to a top.  I think we all took home at lease four pieces of fused silk.  Liz even experimented with fusing the silk directly to the fabric with the GAC and that seemed to work too.

fused Silk  I make mine very thin- only one layer of fibers to use with my rock wall stuff  in the future.   It was a fun day for all of us.

Progress Report:  Pumpkin Lichens

Pumpkin Lichens 36" X 40" $375.00
Pumpkin Lichens
36″ X 40″
$375.00


This work had given me fits when it comes to being square and it still looks off kilter to me.   The work measures true though.  I did have a good time using more of Randy’s wonderful fabric .    There is also a bit of the discharged fabric that I did with Marty this summer in this piece( the light orange cream in the middle)Punpkin lichens close up.   I used the  curves of Randy’s images to get me started with the quilting patterns too.  They were so organic and the lichens I used for part of the inspiration were also irregular like that.   Pumpkin Lichens Close up 1    This second close up show one of the areas where I started reflective quilting when I got away from the  “lichen ” centers.

 

On the Road to Dry Falls

I worked on this piece this week and all the fabric it attached.  I did not shoot it because it does not look any different than last week.

 

 limb  Oak Leaves   This is the same limb that I was working on last week from the other side.  It also shows the limb all frapped in a second layer of  black textured yarn.     I plan to get to the background work this week and start putting it all together soon.

 

Rounds     I started this work before QBL – eight weeks ago now.Rounds sliced Working through my stack of UFO’s it finally came to the top again.    I sliced the work vertically  into seven units.  Then I pulled out some solid blue fabric and stamped on it with one  of the stamps that I cut in my “one a day for Rounds blue insertscl230 day Challenge”.   I did the stamping in a purple/pink that works with some of the fabric in the circles.    I have ideas for more additions,but will wait to work on them until I have all the units added together.  Make the visual decision based on what I see.

 

New Worknew-work   This one got some hand work and some paint this week too.    The leaves are just pinned on- auditioning so to speak.  I like the idea of them, but feel they are not strong enough to work with all the little units of this piece.  I think I got a bit carried away with the paint step here.   But errors show growth is taking place.

Enjoy the wonders of the season

Keep Creating

Carol

* GAC is a Golden Product used to thin down acrylic paint.  GAC 900 is what we used and it is designed for fabric so you keep the soft hand.