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Calm Winter Time

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Hello,

For me this week has been very calm.   I did do the Textile Talk on Wed and  zoomed with the Pixies, but beyond that I mostly caught up with myself.      A bit of a fallow time and one can always use that.

Progress Report: Scrap Happy   I did the quilting on this project this week and now it is complete.   This one had lots of leftover blocks  in it.

 

 

 

Valentines      I finished up all of these on Tue.  Now I am ready to add the address  and mail them.

 

 

 

 

 

Purple Jacket II    I am making slow progress on this piece.  the back of both sleeves as well as the jacket back need to be completed now.

 

 

 

California Burning: the Victorian    I finally got to the free motion stitching on this project this week.      I need to build the hedge and the background and it will be able to complete it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tide’s Out      The progress on this one is slow.  I feel good that I am now working  from the center towards the top edge  at this point.  So one is looking at it up side down at the moment.      I try to do a little on this every day.

Cut & Print  I was unhappy with the “film” on this project so I took it off.  Now I am ready to rebuild that so  I can connect the parts.

 

 

 

 

Collage/ Drawing   This first collage with a drawing on top is called  Teton’s Slopes.    I am learning a lot about how the types of papers I use effect the markers and colored pencils.    I also think I will take a photo of the collage before I start to draw on top  next week.

This second collage drawing is called Snake  River.   I am using a book of images from the Tetons as my starting place for the works.

 

 

 

 

Handwork   I did not spend as much time as usual watching TV this week, so not a lot of progress was made on this piece.  I am always glad to pick it up and stitch when the news is on.

 

I hope you are enjoying the joys of winter and staying warm when you are at ease.

Keep Creating

Carol

Applique, Balance, Birds, Collage, Collections II Grandmother Mc, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), IV, Lap Quilts, Perception, Persuasion, Pixies Group, Ravens, Rocky Shore, Scrap Happy Quilts, Spring Spin, Summer Family - Cardinals

Moving Forward

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Hello,

This is the time of year when it seems like I am just inching forward.  I keep being pulled in so many directions,    I’ll just load the dishwasher, and then go to the studio.  Or I open a drawer and decide it needs to be cleaned out, and then I’ll go to the studio.   So when I get to the studio I see  I need to put away the remainders from the last project and I need to write that Thank you note…   on and on it goes and the day it done and I have not done any real studio work.  I will admit that I did a trunk show for The Thumbstall Quilt Guild on Tuesday night and that did take a lot of prep time.   I related quilting like learning how to read.  You learn the letters( how to cut the shapes) then how to make words( making blocks).   The next step is reading books( like putting the quilt together).   Hopefully the Librarian shows one that there are   many different categories of books:  Like mysteries, romances, plays,  comedies,  poetry and nature text to mention a few.  I related the different types of books to  the many different techniques one can use to create  quilts.      I think they enjoyed the narrative as well as the work.     I still need to put the quilts away in there proper groupings so I can find them the next time I am called upon to do a quilt talk.    I also went to the Associated  Artists Group this week and made it to both FAD and Pixies.   In between that the battery in my car died so when I feel like I have done little or nothing this week, I need to remind myself that there were lots of distortions along with the laundry, shoveling  and …

One other little note, the purple  sweatshirt jacket that was too small for me fit Judy perfectly, so I set it home with her.

 

Progress Report: Scarp Happy I got this piece all put together this week.      The machine step of the binding is in process now too.   I’m working on the hand step of that process. Then  I will need to do additional quilting to complete the job.

Tide Pool   I attached the punch needle work and I am in the middle of adding the yarn  puffs now.   Still lots to do here, but I am enjoying the process.

 

 

 

 

Lap quilt  I started this new lap quilt this week.   When I look at this  I realized  the California fires are effecting me  subconsciously

 

 

 

 

   

New fire   I did indeed start a new fire piece  with one of my last pieces of Judy Roberts fabrics for my base.     It is basted now and I will start the fabric collage work on top this week.

 

Collage/Drawing        In my on line class, Cass challenged us to mix drawing with our collage work.   I can see it is a lot more challenging than I expected .  In my own analogous, I think I need to keep the collage a bit simpler.   But making mistakes is a part of the learning process.

Keep Moving

Carol

Balance, Birds, Collage, Collections II Grandmother Mc, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), IV, Perception, Persuasion, Ravens, Rocky Shore, Scrap Happy Quilts, Spring Spin, Summer Family - Cardinals

New Year 2025

  Hello and Happy New year- 2025

I can’t believe we are starting the  second quarter of the 21 century. Time has a powerful way of constantly moving forward even if we are not paying attention.    Our worry about all the computers crashing  when Y2K hit seems so silly now.  I’m showing my age.  So many demands on all of us I guess.    I spent my morning closing my books on 2024 and setting up the book keeping for this year.  Doing that always make me take stock.

It has been a somewhat quiet week for me with  FAB  the Pixie meeting  and me stating a new class.    Making Connections with Cas Holms  is my new challenge for  this year.    I am looking forward to her approach to exploring what is close at hand.

 Progress Report:    My Year   I did finish   the quilting and stitching down the binding this week.  Now to get the sleeve added and labeled.

Collage     I did my usual two works this week.

I am trying to do more drawing a a part of the process .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scrap Happy    I am doing the binding on this queen sized quilt now.  Each side takes more than an hour so the process is slow.

 

 

 

 

 

Purple Jacket     In the  newest issue of Quilting Arts Magazine, there was a article about a using a sweatshirt for the base of a jacket.   So I thought I would try it.       This is my back.

Autumn Tide Pool       I am making progress on this project.   I sure seem to enjoy adding all the little buttons and beads to the surface.

Stay safe.

Carol

Balance, Carrol Iowa, Collections II Grandmother Mc, Daily Practice, Label Cards, Memory Map Quilts, Perception, Persuasion, Rocky Shore

Post 300

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Hello,

We have a house guest, our daughter’s dog Riley.  He is a good husky, but requires three walks a day.  That sure is eating into my work time.    I am enjoying myself .

I discovered this is my 300th post.    I never envisioned that I would still be writing and creating this work   this far into the future when I started it.   The first one was Sept. 1, 2011 and I have come a long way.   That first blog only had three pictures.   Now I see photos as one of the strongest parts of my posts. I was so tentative about   what to write in the beginning.  Now I am surprised and proud  of this work.  I look forward to the  postings and think about what I want to cover over the week.  It makes me pay more attention to my peers, what I am doing  and my environment.     I look forward to noting things every week.   I do not plan to end any time soon as I just renewed my domain name for the next three years.

Progress Report: Collection 2- Grandmother Mc    This work is 18” w X 31” l.  I started out with some lace that grandmother Ester had created and built up the surface with more items that where hers and represented her.

IMG_1181  She had button tin and I spent many hours stringing them for her.  Three  different ones from the collection are shown here.  IMG_1180

Perception IMG_1174  I am done adding the text  to the background with metallic threads  on this work.    Now I am doing reflective quilting around all the words.

IMG_1177Persuasion   I am still doing pebble quilting of the words for this quilt.   I seem to only  be able to quilt three words in an hour.      I have seven words remaining.

 

Rocky Shores    I am doing a Quilt University  class by Linda Schmidt.   The first lesson is on water.  I painted the sky and water and them I followed the instructions on how to make the  rocks and foam.   I am making up my own shore line.    It is all  pinned in place now and I will begin stitching next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mulberry Memories  This week I worked on the winter memories for this quilt.    Ice skating, and sledding were two of the things we did lots of those years.  Gene had a flexible  flyer and it was a wonderful sled.  We even built snow jumps for it.

 Old Barn    I just started this work based on a photo of the old barn on Dad’s farm.  It fell down before he moved from there and the lumber was burnt in the stove in that house.

 

 

Daily PracticeIMG_1184  I am now adding some lace flowers to the surface of this project.   I hand dyed the lace last summer with Liz.     This project continues my effort to use materials that I have altered with dye this year.

 

Card  It is hard some times to keep things balanced.  I often go to excess on some things.  I am trying to pay attention to this as I get older and think about the need to keep my many interests in line.

IMG_1167  I just could not seem to stop working on collage this week.   Collection,  sifting, placing  and creating a new image from scraps- it is a wonderful process in my eyes.

Keep Creating

Carol