Hello,
It has been a somewhat quiet week here. I only had one Zoom meeting and with the Pixies. We always enjoy sharing our work and catching up. Susan , who edits my Childhood postings is having trouble with her sending email. We had a power outage and I lost my copy of Childhood too so it looks like there will be no posting of that this week. Hopefully things will be back to normal next week.
This beautiful orange Peony was on Liz’s table. I had to touch it to assure myself it was not silk. I had lunch with Liz and Joyce and that was enjoyable too.
Progress Report Horsetails – reworked. This project is 30.5″ w X 40.5″ l. After showing it to the FAB group last week and getting some constructive feed back, I reworked it.
This is much stronger. Sometimes we don’t hit the mark on the first or even second try.
Lap Quilt # 13 This work is 39″ w X 53″ l. I used a lot of my altered fabrics on this one. There are enamels of printed stencils and hand dyed fabrics here.
Lap # 12 This work is all pin basted and ready for quilting. Again I am playing with my altered fabrics.
Lap # 14 I am still in the assemble process on this one. I sure like working in this smaller format.
Green Base This base unit is all stitch in the ditch quilted at this point. I am trying to do some leaves were I do the cut away technique on them. Again I do not know what I am doing as this is new to me- so it is mostly a case of trial and error.
Crow Calling is all pin based now too. I am ready to do the stitch in the ditch step and then do some free motion drawing to add interest.
Daily Project I finished the long strip and have moved onto a new bit of fabric.
Dark Side of the Moon I am hand quilting around the woven images of the flowers on this project. Then I am outlining some of the petals.
Poppy Fields This week I built some new poppies to add to the field. But apone putting them on the work I discovered that they are too orange and do not give the effect I want. So I will scarp these and try again with a mix of the orange wool and the red to make the new blossoms
100 Days Project Quilt Surface Design Association put out a calling to do a bit of work every day for 100 days. This is there second run of this challenge. I missed the first. I decided to do 4.5″ X 6.5″ blocks in black and white. I recall an image in he Saturday Evening Post from my childhood were the photographer had reduced his images of people to black and white and then put lots of them together to create an image. My memory is foggy- but it has stuck with me somehow and so I though this would be a great opportunity to try something similar.
I am using figures from the sports pages and some of my figures are based on dancers. My friend Noel suggested them after I told her what I was doing. In the 10 days of the process I have made some discoveries. I have learned that I want to cut the black fabric for my pieces and I want do the stitch outline in black too.
The thing I discovered yesterday was I want to make all my figures big enough that the extend off the frame at least once in each case. I am still playing with possibilities here.
Drawings
Keep Creating
Carol