Hello,

Summer is proving to be hot and dry here in central New York.    I am still washing out fabrics form Carol’s class at QBL.      The top half of this photo is stuff from the class.    The bight bottom half is what I did at the play day  meeting of the Mixed group on Sat.  We did discharge work and paint printing due to the water shortage.   The day started out with Pat showing us the simple process of using watered down bleach to remove color.  We watched and then went to work applying the knowledge.

 

This shot is of Anne and Anne working out in the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The drying lines quickly filled with beautiful fabrics.

Not all of us worked out side.

 

 

Pricilla and I both  work away in the barn with  paint  and acrylic ink.     I did my printing with shaving cream and inks.   I tried using shaving cream and water color too- but it ran when I heat set it as I sprits it with water. The yellow is ink and the red is water color and it ran.   I was experimenting and when one does that there are no guarantees.

 

   I was very successful with the other pieces  however.          The fabric was beautiful and   we had fun.

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday  I went off to Susan’s and played.    She was busy cutting stencils and working on a big layered project.

 

 

 

Sally was there as well doing paper clay figures.     She is marring the paper lay with drift wood to create her figures.

 

Regina was doing hand work on her projects that are due for a show by the 29th.  I did hand work on my Deep Jellies quilt.  We talked and worked all day and everyone made progress on there various projects.    It is good to work with others some times.

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report:   Deep Jellies I did a lot of quilting on this on Wed.  and I tacked down the fuzzy orange around the big jelly fish.    I made an assignment for myself  to do and hour on this every day for the next few weeks.

Class project    This project  along with three others also need hand work attention so that is part of the reason I though I should start to dedicate an hour a day to hand work.

Felted Wool works   I keep moving forward on these projects.   The gold one is ready for stretching.  This close up is just one small section of it.

 

Going Deep  This blue wool one is almost done too.  I discovered that it is longer then my stretchers so I will lose about six inches of it.  Again I am learning.      I do not know how much the wool with shrink when I do the machine work  because this green one will not fit the stretchers already and I have just started the machine work on it.

 

 

 

 

 

New work  This is my new three challenge piece.  I  have barely started it  so there is not much to see yet.  I do like using the collage as my starting place for work.  Looking with more intensity seems to stretch me more then my typical approach of responding to what is on the pin wall all the time.

Label Block 72  And the beat goes on with this project.

Keep Creating

Carol