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Fall Retreat

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IMG_9193Hello,

I took this photo of the sun setting over the St Laurence  on Sat.   The FAB group had a weekend retreat at   Judy’s Camp last weekend.   Saturday we went out to dinner.   It was so enjoyable  to eat along the river and watch the many boats as they slipped by.

Patti worked away on her pillow case project.IMG_9206   She finished all but six of them.    Both Nancy and Judy worked on “Disappearing Nine Patch” projects.IMG_9208  This shot shows Nancy ready to do the first cut of her four patch.     We enjoyed our work time and in the evening we launched two paper lanterns IMG_9203over the lake.  They rose strait up until they reached the top of the ridge where the wind caught them and then they sailed north on a fast wind.  We all watched open  mouthed, until they  disappeared in the night.     It was a wonderful weekend and we all felt the it jump started us all for quilt work this fall.

Progress Report: Glyph II   This quilt is all done now .  It   is  the second one and where I really started the use of the negative space units that were cut from the back of the project.( the brow squared fabric)IMG_9223IMG_9224  I am enjoying this series.

 

Glyph IV   I continue to bead for an hour every day on this project.  It is coming along, but the progress is a slow one.

 

 

 

Glyph V     IMG_9220I am doing two different types of quilting on this project.   inside the green areas I am doing pebble quilting with green metallic thread.  In the blue, green and purple areas,  I am doing reflective quilting in a variegated thread.

IMG_9216Glyph VI  This quilt is all pinned in place and I am ready to start to quilt it.  I am however not sure about what style/type of quilting I want to use here.  I am just studying it now too.

Glyph  VII This is the project that I worked on at camp.  The four smaller glyph  patterns where designed to go together to create a four patch quilt.  I am now auditioning different layouts for this project.   I am not sure  if this is the final at this point,  but I feel it is the strongest so far.    I try one layout and live/look at it for a while and then take a photo and try another layout and repeat the process.   nothing is stitched down yet so I can make all sorts of changes.

IMG_9214Wind – Water  card   I am still trying to deal with my feelings about the newest hurricane- Irma.  Mother Nature sure has used her power of wind and water to remind us that  she still has the final say.

Creative assistants   I have now completed all the little fellows that have completed faces at this time.  I will now move back to the face creation step  in the process to move forward.

Capture scarvesIMG_9230   In cleaning up the studio space I opened a box that was full of these scarves.  All with out the fabric neck units on them.  Deciding I needed to finish the process I have done these black ones and red ones.  There are still a few to go so there will be more next time.   IMG_9232

Label Blocks

Only two more blocks and this step of this project will be completed.

Next week I will be in New York City for three days.  So there will be no Blog post until  Sept 24.

Keep Creating

Carol

Diva Meetings, Glyph II, Glyph III, Glyph IV with Beads, Glyph V, Label Blocks, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs), Time

Time out

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Again my mind is with the folks in the line of the new Hurricane.  The folks there have my thoughts and best wishes for a minimal impact and a easy recovery.   BA28Blackeyed-Susans   I have been thinking about time a lot this week.  It is such a forward moving event that effects each of us .  Time is used to label when events will happen like tomorrow, next week two weeks from now and years off.  It also can be a general time of day like meal times,  bed times work time and play time.  Time  can be used to demote an event time like  time  to get up, time to brush your teeth,   time to move, time to go to bed.  It can be used for the seasonal events like summer time,  winter time , fall and spring.  Or more specifically,   like a holiday time,   celebratory time,  or time to morn.  It can be used to describe moods like high time, good time troubled time,  or a disastrous time.  We try to control and use time to our best advantage by setting time limits or dead lines.     Time can have speeds  like  move at a snails pace,  it can inch forward,  drag, race, slip away,  and fly.   When I am creating in the studio I get lost in time and the clock  will indicate that four hours have past in what feels like the blink of an eye to me.    We can spend time, but we can not bye time unless you are talking about purchasing a time piece.   We mark time with seconds, minuets, hours, days. months, years, and centuries.    Our bodies  change with the passage of time and our memories fade and change too.    It is constantly with us and shapes our future.    We are effected by the times we are in and the history that came before.  It is a powerful force that is constantly with us.  I guess our best bet is to use our time wisely and enjoy the time we have together.

The fist Tuesday  of the month came this last week an so I had meetings with both QuEG’s and Diva gals.   This is Sue Ellen’s latest garden quilt.   Lynn showed us this vegetable garden quilt for her nephew.   Lots of color in this one.IMG_9144Liz took a water color class and she shared her  exercises with us. IMG_9149  Angela showed us her works from Kerr’s class.  Nice strong prints.

The Diva gals  shared lots of work too.  This is Regina’s wall of completed projects.  The one on the upper left was what she started in Cynthia’s class.  Her word is love.   IMG_9157  Ruth is nearly done with her “ foot print” project.  It looks good to me.IMG_9162Anne is madly quilting away on this piece.  Blind Justice is spelled out in Braille  here.   It is always so inspiring and enjoyable  to meet with these women.

Progress Report:     Glyph III This work is 28” w X 41” l.    The word owl is still the base of the glyph and it really grew out of the cut away from Glyph IV.     IMG_9185 I pebble quilted in the yellow area of the actual glyph and reflective line quilted the orange area.  The bottomIMG_9187  was line quilted.

Glyph II   This work also came as a  result of the work before it.  The cut aways from  Glyph I were added to the surface of this cloth  construction  and then Zig-Zagged down.     I only need to decide how I want to quilt the purple area and  I will be ready to finish this piece.IMG_9190

Glyph IV IMG_9174  This work came out of the cut away from Glyph III.  I am beading on all of the orange from that work.

Glyph V    I was still in love with the complex shapes of the glyph- but I was ready to branch off for this one.    The parts are there but scrambled  and there are additions.   I have started to pebble quilt in the green areas on this peoject.

IMG_9168New work  Glyph VI    And here we have the leftovers from  # V.   I feel the from has changed enough that I may drop the glyph reference.   I have only tacked the piece on top of the cream and green background.  Those colored sections will be cut away from the bach and be a part of the jump off for the next piece.

 

Time Card  I continue to do the cards for Susan’s challenge.  This is my entry for this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creative Assistants   Football season has begun and my work on  these little fellow has started too.  Debbie sent me a great box of trims and yarn  bits.  These guys all show some of  that influence.

Label Block IMG_9178  I am excited  as I see there are only three more black square in the basket.   I am pondering what I will tackle next too.      I need to brain storm a bit on that topic.

Keep Creating

Carol

Considered, Glyph II, Glyph III, Glyph IV with Beads, Glyph V, Green s=Soul, Jazzed Lines, Label Blocks, Scrap Happy Quilts

Hurricane Harvey

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The hurricane is on my mind this week.  I have spent a lot of time listening and thinking about how much the people of Texas have lost.    I fear I can not really comprehend it.    My heart goes out to them.

Progress Report: Jazzed Lines   This work is 37″ wX 51″ l.      Due to the fact that I spent so much time in the studio this week I got a lot done.  This is a project that  I started before QBL.  I added some lines in black felt and ribbon that I had noted from an image of some of Picasso’s drawings that were in an old sketchbook.    My tip is keep a sketchbook and fill it with what interests you.

And be sure to occasionally  look through the older ones to refresh your mind.

 

The black images add another layer of interest to a somewhat dull piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Considered   This 12″ X 12″ stretched piece is one of the  three   felted  wool pieces that got started before QBL too.     It is based on a rock with a fossil in it.  The sea shell is in the lower left is the fossil and it is hidden on purpose as it is in the rock.

 

 

 

 

 Scrap Happy- Ethel ‘s Scraps #5    This is the newest queen sized scrap happy work built with Ethel scraps.     The solid blocks are from the samplers she had purchased.   The striped blocks are ones she started and then did not use for some reason.  I believe there are at least two more quilts in that scrap box.

 

 

 

 

 Lettres ( owl)  This work is 22″ w X 43″ l.   It is based on three blocks  that spell the word owl.  But I have turned the work on its side as  I think it works better in this direction.

I used some old fabric that I had printed  text on a few years ago.  It is the gold here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Glyph II    This top grew out of the first glyph quilt as  the text ( the orange and purple shapes) were cut from the back of the first Glyph  quilt.  I have zig -zagged around the shape and I am now quilting down the background units.

 Glyph III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This glyph is based on the same paper pattern that I developed and interpreted in different colors.   I am pebble quilting in the light shape now and will do the background in strati line quilting.

 

Glyph IV- beaded   This glyph came out to  number 3 and the orange is the cut away of the text shape applied to a dark background of hand dyed.     I continue to bead the glyph and it is filling in.   The back ground it strait line quilting.

 

 

 

 

 

Glyph V    This is a close up of the next one in the series.   It is cut from some of the scraps and another fabric that I added to the mix. More  pebble quilting with green metallic thread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10″X10″  Banquet –  Petroglyph    The Schweinfurth Art center had called for art work to be donated for an auction later this fall.  The work can be any media and I have selected fabric here. These two  works will be on sale at that time with all the funds raised going to support their cause.

 

Card Green Soul   My card for this week celebrates the wonders of summer and  notes that Autumn will soon be upon us.

 

 

 

 

Label Blocks    Another block got completed this week.  I also found a lost one under my chair so now there really are only four more to finish.

Keep Creating

Carol

Activities, Creative Assistants, Ethel's Nine Patch, Glyph I, Glyph II, Glyph Series, Label Blocks, Label Cards, Pond Water

Two Trips

IMG_9045.jpgHello,

The past two weeks have been ones of travel for me.  Last week at this time I was on my way to the the Dairy Barn in Athens Ohio.  Liz and I were visiting Quilt National.   They have changed the entrance and it looks great.  No photos are allowed in this show, but my memories are rich.  I was epically taken by  Natalya Aiken’s Iron Spine work and then saw that she was the feathered artist in  the QSDA magazine that came this week.     I also like Colleen Anbaugh’s Hot Sugar Cell piece.  Lots of glitz and Liz said it was like my work in some ways.   Liz and I were both excited by the many techniques we had just explored in Kerr’s class at QBL two weeks before  and noticed several of them in the quilts on display at this show.  IMG_9057.jpg   This fact will  pushed me to do more exploration.     The next day we drove north to Zanesville to check out their museum and see another quilt show.    Liz has been in class with this woman at Nancy Crow’s barn.  We both noted Nancy’s influence here.    The museum was a bit of a work it’s self and I took lots of inspirational pictures  of the stairs and shadows.IMG_9062I can see works coming from these images.

IMG_9075.jpgThen yesterday Eric and I went for a road trip to Corning New York to the glass museum there.  We watched five demonstrations and learned a lot.  The artists made it look easy, but I know from my one experience blowing glass it is far from simple. IMG_9078    I also enjoyed the Tiffany exhibit.  Mosaics are always  fascinating and these were amazing.   This clock really blew me away.Tiffany glass clock  Tiffany’s many recipes for the  colors of glass were a real game changer for his work as well as the glass industry.     It was a great day.

Glyph I

 

 

 

Progress Report: Glyph I   This work is 26.5” w X 41”l.    I started the series in Cynthia Corbin’s class at QBL this summer.  The Glyph is based on the word OWL.  IMG_9098  I used simple  outline quilting because the shapes and the colors in the fabrics( by Judy Roberts)  did so much of the work for this piece.IMG_9099

 

Glyph II IMG_9094.jpg This is the second in the series.  I have pin based it down and I am now zig zag appliqueing down the  glyph.  I will make a second run around the out sides with more zig zag to make it smooth and solid.

 

 

 

Glyph IVGlyph IV    The bead work goes on for this project.   I am stitching it down with beading thread and back stitching every fifth bead to make a strong connection.

 

Pond Water IMG_9103  This work continues to get attention .     I did bead work here this week too.

Ethel's scrap happyEthel’s Scarp Happy   I finished the assembly added the boarder and binding on this piece this week.  I only need to do the diagonal quilting and the project will be complete

   Creative Assistants  IMG_9105  As fall approaches I start  thinking about doing these little guys.  I pulled out the box of trims that Debbie sent me this summer and  added a  row of trim to 100 bodies.  The last eve I did four faces.  One small step.

Cards  Ever sense I visited Susan in March I have been participating in a weekly collage card creating challenge with several other artists.    It began loosely based on Tarot cards but with time we have pulled away from that.    This is my card for this week titled Activities  and the accompanying  text.  IMG_9090

Activities: 
 Over the course of a day we demand many little task of our selves-One walks, 
talks , comb hair, opens doors, turns on and off lights, reads, checks the 
weather, brushes teeth,  drinks tea, washes hands, sets, collects and opens 
mail, takes pills, writes, climbs stairs, prepares and eats food, ties shoes, 
uses zippers and buttons, looks at the sky, does dishes, changes cloths, checks  
e-mail, and creates something.  It's a complex life.

Label BlocksIMG_9100.jpg   I finished these two  blocks this week.   I only  have four more  to finish and the job will be done.    I need to start to think about another hand weekly project.

Keep Creating

Carol