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More Fall

leafHello,

I could not resist this oak leaf with its rain spots this morning.  They look so like glass beads. I am so influenced by the natural elements around me that I am not even aware of it.    ThisFall tree is photo of fruit on a limb that I took yesterday  when I went for my morning walk was not on the top of my mind at 3:30 when I  painted tyveck  for an unknown  project-( I wanted to have a bit of the texture that tyveckironed tyveck creates for some use)  but  the colors came out anyway. The Diva’s did a Trunk Show at the Schweinfurth Art Center on Sunday in conjunction with their Quilts= Art= Quilts show that is currently hanging in their galleries.  Eight of the members Cheri's-2showed off her  works and talk about their personal  influences.   The presentation was well received and and there where about 45 people who attended.     There were lots of positive comments from the viewers after the talk.   Sharon Bottle Souva sold two pieces!  I tend to forget how strong and unique each of the gals in the group are until I see a group presentation like this one.   I feel so

Nancy's-workprivileged to be a part of such a strong group of supportive and creative  fiber artists.

I went to Nancy’s this week and we talked about her possible next steps for her summer quilt.Nancys-close-up This photo is of the center section.  She plans to add butterflies on the surface and to machine draw/quilt  in two trees to represent  Bret and herself .    Nancy always finds a way to take a simple idea and build on it to create a very complex work- I love it!

Wedding-quiltProgress Report:  Donna’s Wedding Quilt  I am still quilting away on this work.   At this point I am just a little beyond half way  with the center section.   I find that I can only work for about an hour on this before I begin to get  tired and must stop.  Broadcasting


Broadcasting  I am continueing to add more instrument pads  to the surface  of this quilt.   It is starting to get the feel I want.  I am going very slowly and pinning the work up every evening after I have added more to the surface. Then I study before I make new additions.  

 

YellowstoneMemory Map- Yellowstone  I am playing with paper patterns of the objects/ parts I want to add to the surface of this project.    Sally reminded me  that one does not need nor should they try to include everything  in the work.   I am struggling with that part of the process so it too is going slowly.

 

New  Stone Work   I started a new stonenew  rock piece this week.  I am working from a black and white photograph so I am choosing the colors  that are the tones and shades like the ones in the image.   I used corduroy,  hand dyed  silk and organza in this work as well as yarns and silk paper.    I love all the textures.

 

New Work    I started this work BN13-no-nameabout a month ago.  I did not know where I was going with it at the time and I am still not sure.  But I am pushing forward none the less.  I have added some vertical units and I am doing hand stitching on the surface to add more texture.  This is a pure experimental thing.

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Keep Creating

Carol

Donna's Wedding Dress II, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs), Wedding quilts

Full Moon

-treesHello,

The Moon is full and I love to see how the moon light makes the branches have little sliver out lines.  The shadows are wonderful too.  I am so glad it was clear and warm last night so I  could enjoy the evening.   It is cold today however.

I did a little walking in the woods this week and enjoyed the sounds of the leaves under foot as the trees are mostly stripped now.  It was a gray day when I made this excursion, but  I still enjoyed the  sounds and this  tree bark bark.

This week there were QuEG’s and FAB meetings.     The Diva group is doing a trunk show at the SchweinfurthBN6Sally on Sunday so they did not meet.  The QuEG’s gals had lots to share.   Sally did this fun little landscape to give to a friend who let her stay on the lake this summer.  There is lots of machine    Sue-Ellenwork here as she always applies a lot of that.

Sue Ellen is busy thinking ofAngela's Monet Christmas too and creating little machine drawn mini images 6″ X 8″ in the seasonal vain.

Angela has been experimenting with her felter and she was trying with this copy to see how effective she could be with  a pre-felted  surface that  she felted into.   Looks Janes's-workgood to me.

Jane is doing her amazing wool  embroidery  as usual.    She had several pieces this time.

 

There were four of us from the QuEGs group who were in Kerr Groboski’s  Deconstructed class last week,Linda's--work so there were lots of wonderful dyed works to share too!      This shot of one of Linda’s fabrics shows how the print paste breaks down one the screen with each print.    Seeing all our BN6workshop-stuff1works together sure made me aware of how we all have our own unique color sense as well as style.   I hope we do some more of this technique because I was so happy with the color that I achieved worhshop-2in this workshop.    Now the real work begins when one uses the fabric as a start or works back into it……..    I think they will need to hang in my line of sight for a while before I know what to do.

 

 

 

Progress Report : New new-workWork     I still have not come up with a title for this work.  I have started to stitch down the key pads however.   It is  a fun and very slow process.     I will work on that this week.

 

 

Donna’s Second Wedding Dress Quilt    This is the second commission for myWedding-quilt friend Donna.   I am to the free motion quilting step now after spending over two hours crawling around on the floor pin basting it on Monday.  I wore my knee pads but the knees still hurt.     I am following the strong lines in the print  for the quilting design . This shot shows the top( green, gold white and red) with the back folded over so one can also see how the quilting pattern is coming along.

Keep Creating

Carol