Hello,

We are in Indian Summer now.  Many trees are changing color over the course of a single day.   My favorite time of year with its cold nights and worm days.    I have truly enjoyed my walks.  This week was a busy one.  My first adventure was a trip down to see the opening of the Rock Garden show.   I knew many artists in this one including Susan( pictured with her work), Carolyn and Cheri.  It was a strong show with lots of variety.

Then on the week end I took a class at the Schweinfurth entitled “ Surface Designs” with Pat Pauly.   I learned a lot about dyeing as I paid much more attention this time because I now have Ethel’s stash of dyes to play with.   This is my wall at the end of the first day.  I have lots of friends in this class and that made it epically wonderful.  This shot is of Regina pulling a print.

Susan was in the class and so was Victoria.    This shot is of her wall at noon on the second day.  

Annette and Regina were the first ones to sort there work out of the first days wash out  of the dyed fabric.   We all enjoyed our selves and

laughed a lot.

This is a shot of some of my fabric after my  the wash out when I got home.     I now  have a new stash of stuff to play with.

Then on Tuesday this week I had meetings of both the QuIG’s and the Diva groups.     I get a great deal of stimulation from both of those groups and find the hour drive back from Ithaca after 9:00  flies as I think about and process my day.

Progress Report:  Incisions   This quilt is based on a collage that I did in David’s class at QBL last summer.     It is 29 ” wide by 43″ long.    I ended up turning my quilt upside down to make it work for me- and there were lots of alterations on the design as I went along.  But I like the  process enough that I will use it again.This is the collage I started from.

  I quilted the cream areas in pebble patterns and in the browns I outlined the light areas.    I feel like this quilt was a real growth experience for me.     I got a lot of help form the QuIGS on how to make  the quilt lie flat.  They were very instructive at the Sept Meeting when I showed it.   I was so far off that I was ready to toss the whole thing.   Now I feel differently. 

Project 15    I have just started doing the hand quilting on this project.  I am going to mostly make that a reflective pattern of the pieces.

New Work  I am ready to begin a new rock based piece.  The photo is from a long ago trip to the California shore that I took with Eric.    I have again just selected a small portion of the photo for this quilt.   So I think I will do several based on the same image.

Label Block 22   The process goes on  for this project.  I realized this week I will need 120 blocks to have enough for a quilt so I will be at this  for over two year span….   I almost wish I had not figured that out.

Keep Being  Creative

Carol