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Working Away

Hello,

Mother Nature is starting to paint our trees with color around where.      I love  the daily changes even though I know that raking will soon be a big part of my days.

It has been a very quiet week  for me  with only the Textile Talk yesterday and the Pixie meeting.

Tomorrow I depart for a five day quilt retreat so I have put a lot of time into preparing for that event.

Progress Report: Rough Cut     This work is 40″ w X 37.5″ t.     All the scissors are cut form wool this time.

  Some have frayed out  more than others.  And several just felted when I washed them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tropical Floor    This work is 27.5″w X 21″t.   I sure had a good time building this  project.   The fish are all free motion thread drawings on roving done with neon threads.

 

 

I am sure I will do even more of this work in the future.

 

 

 

Lap # 4        I now have four of these done.   I want to do a couple more before I drop them off at a nursing home.   These are always play events for me.

 

 

 

 

 

Lap #5   Yesterday I pinned out  out these blocks as starting points for the next lap project.

 

 

 Drawing   Now that Susan has reminded me how much I like to draw I am   trying to put that idea back into my routine.

 

 

 

 

 

Line Shirt      I saw a shirt for $179.0 in a catalogue this week and I love it.    But not the price. So I decided to try something similar myself.  I had also come across a new technique were on stitched across a squire to give the stitch some texture. So I am trying that on this project too.

 

 

Cut and Print       I took the Gelli Prints form last week and printed  scissors on top .  Angela suggested that one could make stencils with Tyvek, so I tried that too.   I was trying to work out a new Scissors project -but the print that is pinned to the left just dose not work for me.     At m\least not with the prints.   So I will try to work the piece out at the retreat.

Roundies     I realized I had not done any hand applique in a while , so got busy and tried my hand at a little of it.  I am pleased with these little guys.   I will keep playing until I run out of gas on this  one.

 

 

Enjoy the changing season and keep Creating

Carol

Applique, Drawing, Fish, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, Rough Cut, Scissors, Scrap Happy Quilts

Cooler Days

Hello,

I am experiencing the cooler days and nights that come with fall.   It is raining here today too, so all I want to do is cruel up with a book.

It has been a quiet week.   Victoria, Liz and I did go to Angelia’s house a play in her studio one day.    We were doing a second day of Gelli Plate printing fun.  She showed us how she printed these  colorful cards. 

 

I spent the time printing on fabric for a new Scissors quilt.

 

I did the Textile Talk this  week and  Zoomed with the Pixies too.

Progress Report:  Scrap Happy   I finished this queen sized quilt for my daughter this week.   I still have enough squares to make a second so I did the row line up work for that  and I am working on a new backing.

Rough Cut  I am quilting away on this scissors piece now .  The wool is fraying out like I had hoped too.   I m sure I will finish it soon.

 

 

 

 

 

Tropical Floor   I can see the end of this project too.  I sure enjoyed doing the bead work here.   The piece has lots of textures  that I love.

 

 

 

 

 

Lap #4 series 2   I cut the 2.5″ and 4.5″ filler strips yesterday .  I will sew them together and then begin the building of this  project.

 

 

 

 

Drawings    I did a drawing of my last  Geranium blossoms this week .   I hope I can keep it going over the winter tis year.

 

 

 

Sometimes it is difficult to stop drawing when I get started.

Keep Creating

Carol

Drawing, Finger Lakes Fiber Artists, Fish, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, Rough Cut, Scissors, Scrap Happy Quilts, Stretched Works

Sky Light

  Hello,

We have a sky light in our bathroom  and this morning when I was there , I saw a squirrel  on  top of  the space.  He stopped to check his front paw and I admired at his soft white fur in contrast with his black feet.   He did not stay long and my eye then moved to the branches of the oak above.  It has grown from a small finger sized twig that we planted over thirty years ago to a wonderful tall full tree that nearly crossed that sky light that in near the center of the back of the house.    That thought lead me to think of the many trees that we have planted in our yard  over our long lives here.  We have so many now that a vegetable garden is impossible.  I did have one in the back for many years and the tomatoes were so plentiful, I had  to give them away to the neighbors.   Over time I have traded that for hours of shade and lots of raking.   I love the trees so I would not trade any of them and the squirrel that they attract.

Last Saturday was the Flinger Lakes Fiber Artist meeting and although we were a small group, folks had lots to share.

Victoria has finished her box project and it is wonderful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne is still   working with her challenge piece, and  making progress.

 

 

 

Maureen dusted off her  watercolor paintings shills .

 

 

 

And because it was there I had to take a third look at the wonderful show at the Schweinfurth.    It is so powerful!

There was the opening of the Assiated Artist show on Sunday and I was handed a nice prized along with the promise  of s solo show in June.

 

 

 Sharon, Victoria and I meant to do some planning for the La Moyne show  in Jan .      Sharon is working on this piece to be a part of that event.

 

 

 

 

The Sisterhood of the Scissors and  the Pixies had on line meetings as well.

Progress Report: Stream Bed     This piece is 24″ wild X 20″ t.  I finally decided what way was up  on this piece and added the wire to the back.     I sure enjoy ding these  hand pieces and  I pulled out the stuff to start another this morning.

 

 

These works really play to my strong interest in textures.

 

 

 

Rough Cut    I have moved on to the next scissors project.  I sure hope the wool frays a lot when I wash it so there is even more texture here.

 

 

Tropical Floor     I did the free motion drawing on the roving and Angelina to create the fish and stitched them down.   The sea weed is made from some of the dyed wipes I did earlier this year.

 

 

Scrap Happy    I am doing the hand stitching on the binding of this work now.  I am sure I will finish it  this week.

 

 

 

 

Lap quilt   I got this work all assembled this week and  I am working on the quilting here.

 

 

 

 

 

 Drawing     I did this  with ball point pen, my favorite  tool.     Susan of the Pixies challenged  us to draw plants.     Not sure what I will try next.

 

 

 

 

Take good care of yourself.

Carol

Drawing, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, Scissors, Scrap Happy Quilts, Short Cut

Full Week

Hello,

I am having a full life at the moment.  I started on Friday by going to meet with my fellow retired art teachers to the Everson for lunch and a view of the galleries.     Many of them are being set up for the next exhibition, but one of the  open ones  was loaded with  work from the perinate collection.  It was a joy to see some of the old pieces that I recall and some I had forgotten about.

There was a great ceramic show too and I loved this owl plate.

 

 

 

Then on Saturday I went off to contribute my work to the Associated Artist show  and  I  helped with the hanging.

 

 

 

This work is by my friend Adam Vural  and a part of the show.

 

 

 

Sense I seem to see owls everywhere, I took this photo of another of the artists work.

 

 

 

 

 

On Sunday I discovered that I had won the Best of Show  award for Tide Pool .  I was amazed.

On Tuesday, I went off to a play date with Angela’s.    She continues to create wonderful felted work  and she won a Purple ribbon at the State Fair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a good time playing with printing with  Gelli plates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angela also showed off her latest piece that  she did in memory of her dog, Jetta of 17 years who passed away .

 

 

 

My last adventure this week was a trip to the Syracuse University Art Gallery.  I was especially taken by this work of an Indian woman artist .  It is about how life for the women changes when she becomes a widow.

I did sneak a pixie meeting and my on line  class  in this week too.   It has been a bit crazy.

Progress Report:  Short Cut  This work is 35.5″ w X 46″ l.      The scissors them selves are cut form a metallic fabric .      The edges are zig zag appliqued down with a  yarn captured with the stitch.

 

 

I have several more ideas for this series.

 

 

 

 

Lap # 13    I am building away on this project.

 

 

 

 

 

Scrap  Happy   This Scrap Happy is for my daughter.  It is all assembled now and ready for  the extra  quilting.

 

 

 

 

Stitch Club     I worked on this bit of hand work this week .   Limiting the pallet to white is a difficult thing for me, but I sure like the texture challenge.

 

 

 

 

New Work    I got out more of the roving and  did  a bit more work capturing it under wash away and stitches.   It is ready for the water now.

 

 

 

 

Drawings   The pixies have a bit of a push toward drawing now.      I did these two this week.  Robert suggested storms so that is were this one came from.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laura, wanted to try scissors. drawing .

 

 

Hopefully this week will be a little bit calmer .

Keep Creating  my friends

Carol

 

 

 

 

Applique, Cut Up, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, Scissors, Textile Artist Stitch Club

Fall is Approaching

Hello,

I have had a busy week.   Last Saturday I went off to the Schweinfurth Art Center to their new show opening, Beyond the Surface: Contemporary  Artists ad Printed Textiles. I was lucky to attuned the Artist talk beforehand as well.  It sure enriched my viewing of the work.    One of the artist, Krystile Lemonias ,  mixed wood cuts with her quilting process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another artist, Sarah Fairchild,  mixed foil and flocking  with her printing on fabric.

 

 

 

A third   artist, Gerri  Spika,  used deconstructed screen printing with her work  fiber work.  I know how to do all three of these techniques.  The show has made me rethink things a bit.   These are only small examples of the eight  artists in the show.     I highly recommend a trip  if you can make it.

The  Pixies meant as did the QuEGs.    It was all stimulating.   I also listened to the  Textile Talk this week that was about the  Beyond the Surface show.

Progress Report:  Lap Quilt    This really is the last of the blocks from my friend Ethel.     I had to make some solid ones to fill this project out.

New Lap  I can’t let these projects go, so I pulled fabric for the next one yesterday.   It is such free play for me and they go to a worthy cause.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Lichens  This work is 18 ‘ w X 24″ l.     It is the next one in the stitch work series that resulted from my Joyous Embroidery  class.   I did have a good time as usual in the process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cut Up    Only one more pair of scissors to cut out a apply and then I can move on to the next step.     I am having so much fun exploring this shape that I already have ideas for at least two more of them.

 

 

Stitch Club    I got and email form Stitch Club offering a free class so I took advantage of the process.  Lots of new ides here.

 

 

 

 

New Roving    In searching for some fabric I came across some  roving and Angelina that I had set aside for a new project.     So I am off on a  further exploration of this process from two  summers  ago.

 

 

 

Repair    My grandson drought me some of his clothing that needed repair.  I am epically prod of the patch I put on his Lakers shorts.

 

6X6 I came  across this mammoth  that Mom had made for a museum project in the bottom of a drawer.   Such a shame for  it to be in a dark, so I decided to feature it in one of my entries for the Rochester  Art Center fund raiser for the spring.

I hope you are enjoying the season and  creating a bit too.

 

Carol

 

 

Applique, Hand work, Lap Quilts, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Scissors, Scrap Happy Quilts

Summer Days

Hello,

I feel summer ending.   The season is still here, but I still see Labor Day as the end even though I  have not started the new school year  at that time in years.     My husband and I took a little field trip to drop off books at the library for their sale and then drove on to Chittango Falls for a short walk.  I so love the sound of moving water and this was powerful.    The plants are aware of the shorting days too.    I am seeing puff balls that appear over night in my  yard.  The squirrels  had to take a little taste out of this one like how they have to taste test my tomatoes.

Not a lot  of meetings this week and the Pixie meeting was canceled due to storms in Florida.

 

Progress Report:    Cut Up  I completed this project this week.  It is  43″w X 36″ t.     This work has reflective quilting.     There are nine scissors here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Bunny   I got busy and used the back legs I had created in my  class with Paul Kavark at QBL this summer and made this rabbit with them.   And he does have a puffy tail.

Scrap Happy Back   I put together four of the units I had made  to create a back big enough for a queen sized quilt.

Now to layer and add the strips together on top.

 

 

 

 

 

Handwork   I took a second look at this and decided to stitch it to a back and add  a boarder and sleeve.

New Lap    I was sorting through a box and discovered  some additional Ethel Blocks  so I used some to make a new lap top.    With a little work I see yet another lap quilt with the few leftover ones.

 

 

 

 

New Scissors project      I thought I was done with the scissors series until I talked to my hair dresser while getting a hair cut.  She suggested several new titles for me and  that in turn, got my brain going.     I am now off and running with  new work in the future.

 

 

 

Green Lichens   I keep putting in time on this project.

 

 

Keep enjoying the bounty of the season and keep Creating too.

 

Carol

 

Cut It Out, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Scissors

Off to Quilting by the Lake

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Hello,

This week has been a full one for me.   I am of course packing for my two week at Quilting by the Lake.  I will have lots of new stuff to share  on Aug 1, the next time I post.

Summer walks continue to be full of new sights as well, such as these Indian pipes.

   I did go off to the    Opening of   the Rock  Garden Show on  Friday.  It is always a divers and interesting show.    I knew four artists this time.

Terri had this wonderful bed sized work in that show.   She has been working n it for years.

 

 

 

Barbara shared some of her quilts and  her paintings too.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheri showed off her print works.

 

 

 

 

 

Denise had four of her powerful felted works  on display.   The show is in Homer at the Art Center and will be up until  the end of Aug.

I attended the  Lavender Festival in Red Creek  with my grandson on Saturday and  zoomed with the Pixies as well.     I am blessed with a full life.

 

 

Progress Report:  Cut It Out      This work is 45.5″ X 28″.     it proved to be a challenge as giving the view in x-ray vision  meant I really had to watch what I was doing.    My pile of miss cuts was a big one.

 

I zig -zagged the edges and appliqued down textured yarn at the same time.

 

 

 Big and Small    I decided to take the Big and Small challenge.  This is my 12″ square that is the start of the  Small .    Some of the miscuts are used in this piece.  Now to do some embellishment work with thread.

 

 

 

Ties   I made more square for this project and I am all done creating them now.   I plan to start assembling  blocks later today.

 

 

 

 

 

Lap #12   I am working on the hand step of binding   this work now.    I want it done before I depart on Sunday.

 

 

 

Handwork     I did a little handwork this week.  I sure made a lot of blocks for the Joyous Embroidery class- still some left to complete.

 

New Cuts      I have new ideas for a scissors themed  project.  So I  though I would try a different approach this time and make  a paper pattern that I could trace and move  around  on a background.    Here is my new pattern in a heavy paper.    I will let you know how this works in the future.

Enjoy summer and keep creating’.

Carol

 

 

Diva Meetings, Fabric Flowers, Hand work, Lap Quilts

July Days

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Hello,

I hope you enjoyed your 4th in what ever fashion you celebrated  it.

I picked a few  wild black berry’s from the bashes we pass on our walk this week.  They are sweet even in small doses.    I had a Diva meeting this week and it was quit enjoyable.                                                                Anne shared her piece from the Iron Quilter experience on Sat.   I think this is an amazing amount of work for less than 4 hours.

 

 

 

Lori shared her shadow prints.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 She also had some of her  beautiful hand work to share with us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victoria, Liz  and went to Angela’s for a summer lunch this week too.   Angelia  dose such  beautiful felt work.   I really love the rounded container!

 

 

 

 

Then Wednesday, I went with Wendy to the Botanical Gardens in Buffalo for even more inspiration.     The plants were amazing.

 

 

 

 

Progress Report:   Dragonfly Days   This work is 46.5″ w X 44″ t.     I had a good time working on this project and I am sure I will do another similar piece.   I did it to celebrate the things I learned in class last summer.

The dragonfly wings are a cut up  ribbon and the body is beaded .

 

 

The flowers are a combination of roving and Angelina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scissors   I am making slow progress on this work.  the overlapping is proving to be a bit more difficult than I thought it would be.      I will try it again and approach it a bit differently.

 Lap #12   I still need to layer and quilt this top.   I like it none the less.

 

 

 

 

 

Tie Blocks   I took the blocks up and tried them on my bed to see how many I would need and mixed up the order so I am not sure if these are new or not.   I need  14 more to finish this project.

 

 

Handwork.   I am still finishing up blocks from the   Joyous Embroidery class .    Three more complete.

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you are enjoying the summer and that good times are filling your days.

Keep Creating

Carol

On last blossom

Applique, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Flag Challenge, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, Scissors

Berry Season

Hello,

As I plucked a ripe  berry form the Mulberry Tree  on our walk, I was  reminded that when I was in Kindergarten I learned that there were 4 seasons.  So when summer came and there was Cherry season, and Strawberry season, followed by Raspberry season, I was a little confused and wondered why they were so short.   My Dad explained that the fruit seasons were just labels for what was ripe and a joy to eat at times of the year, while the four seasons represented the leant of day light and weather.   My childhood mind still though it was a bit unfair that the berry seasons were so short.   I am  now enjoying watching the  blue berry plants grow large wonderful large green berries in Rachel’s  yard,  and paying attention to the first ripening  wild  black berries  along our path.    I love berry seasons, perhaps that is due to how brief they all are.     My other big delight this week was to discover a young opossum in my hedge when I was watering my plants .    Then there were all the firefly’s  in my back yard last night .   Nature is constantly surprising me.

My only quilting events this week were  a  FAD meeting and a Pixie Zoom meeting.

Progress Report:   Lap 11   I really enjoyed this project this week.  It is so very cheerful.

 

 

 

 

 

Lap 12     I can’t let things go so I started a new one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field of Flowers    I try to work on this every day  so I am making progress  on it.   I think I only need to add the last of the free motion,  Angela, and  roving flowers I did to start this idea .

  Tie Quilt   In my efforts to clear away and finish up things I came across a box full of ties that a friend has sent me.   I decided to tackle building some blocks for a bed quilt with them.

 

 

Scissors Quilt  Marty sent me this little image of a painting made with scissors.  The water color artist had allowed himself to have X-ray vision with the work.  Seeing that was all it took for my imagination to go flying.     So I arranged my scissors and did a drawing.  This full sized drawing is the result.   I have pin based a base  and I am ready to start cutting pieces to fuse down and stitch now.

 

 

Glove Block # 5      This is my handwork for the evenings at the moment.      I am now ready to move on to the next block.

 

 

 

 

Flag for Susan     I came across this perfect piece of handwork by my Aunt May and though of Susan’s flag project.   I will mail it this week.

 

I hope folks are enjoying the wonders of summer.     Due to the fact that next Thursday is the 4th of July ,  I will not publish until Friday next week.

Stay Safe

Carol

 

 

Hand work, Lap Quilts, Nine Play, Pixies Group, Stencels

Summer Solstice

Hello,

We are to the longest day of the year today .    It is also very hot in this part of the world.   It will be  a while before I really notice the shorting days.   I do enjoy the sunlight though. We also have the Strawberry Moon this evening. I hope it stays clear and I get to view it.

This week was a  busy one for me.   Friday,  Liz and I went to Marcia’s for a sewing day.    Joyce worked on her Bog Coat as did I.

 

They help on hemming was what I needed  and mine is finished now.

 

 

 

 

 

Deb enjoyed Zoie.

 

 

 

Marcia showed off one of her jackets.

We had a good productive time.

I had a Sisterhood Zoom meeting and the Pixies meant too.

 

 

 

 

The Naturally Inspired class got my attention as I did a group of Gelli prints for that class.

 

 

 

The teacher also suggested that one cut their stencil shapes from Yupo paper.  It really works well and  holds up nicely.    I  will use it in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Swoop II This work is 37″ w X 46″ l.    It is made from leftover blocks from the first Swoop piece.

 

 

I had more fun with the quilting on this one than the first.

 

 

 

 

Lavender Floor   This work is 31″ X 24″.  I was playing with the free motion work and the roving again here.    The fish and the starfish both have this technique  as a part of them.

 

The sea grass is made from nylon netting and two different ribbons that I gathered to get the ripple effect.

 

 

 

 

Lap 10   The top is all pieced together  and it is pin based now.  I will  move forward on it this week.

 

 

 

 

 

Glove Blocks I have just pinned this piece together and started to stitch the handkerchief down.    In my sorting this week I found some more of aunt Shirley’s and grandmothers handkerchiefs too.  The gloves here are from Liz.,

Floral Garden   I have stitched down all the sunflowers and most of the leaves on this project.   I am just about ready to add more blossoms.   These flowers and the one I plan to add are made with the roving and free motion  technique that I learned in the QBL class last summer.

9X9X9  I added a boarder to this work and it is pin based.    Now I need to wait for the last portrait before I can go forward.

 

 

 

Envelopes  I always save my papers from painting and turn them into envelopes.  I realized that there were quit a few of them rolled up in the corner so I pulled them out and made a new batch of envelopes.     It is my personal way of recycling.

 

 

Please stay safe and cool as you can at this time.

Carol