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English

December 7, 2018 admin

Hello,

This is a bit different way to begin my post, but it is where I am so here goes. I did this card in response to the weekly card challenge and I was struck by how what a big part of the English language is mixed with body terms. When we usually hear someone say ” Body Language” we are talking about how our physical body can send signals of thought or actions, but there is another side too. We often use body terms to describe the world as well. One can use the face to raise and eyebrow, eye the competition, look through shuttered lids, roll the eye, give a fellow the evil eye or have looks that could kill. One can put their nose to the grindstone, or use a sharp wit, be a loud mouth, have a sharp thong , voice an anger, or say or do something that is jaw dropping. One can shrug things off, or carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. One uses the gray matter, or brain power, can have a pea brain, be scattered brained or hair brained. A person can laugh things off, but heads with a fellow , be tickled in the funny bone , nod off or have a stiff spine, stiff upper lip and some times get kicked in the seat of the pants. A person can get side swiped, man handled , and piss his fellows off. Or you can give your right arm, put you toe in, split a hair, have spring in your step or a belly laugh, get hip checked, or even hop to work. My mind is reeling with the whole idea. It is a pleasant activity to think on and I am sure you will come up with things I forgot.

The first Tues of the month was this week so I had my meetings with QuEGs and Divas. Corrine shared her leather work. Dori showed us her new raw edged applique quilt. Shabby sheek is my style she told us.

Angela has been busy too. This project from childhood made us all smile.

She is doing hand work on her deconstructed piece from two summers ago. I like the colors she used. Then I went off to Divas.

This is Regina’s newest thing. She does love that Indigo- even her shirt is dyed.

I also meant with my friend Tanya this week. She makes silk scarves to sell and this is just one of her new beauties. She had about six that were natural elements works too. All were beautiful.

Progress Report: Southern Crows This work is 45”w X 56” l. I did the stenciling with Susan in March. I finally put it together and did the quilting.I did reflective quilting around the birds and leaves and then did parallel quilting on the rest of the work.

Two Chickadees This work is 12”X 12” square. I did the birds on wash away with machine drawing. Then I added them to the surface with machine stitching. I am enjoying exploring this technique and have learned a lot about bird plumage in the process.

Creative Assistants I continue to build faces with found objects and make up these little guys. It is fun for me.

Cockle Burs All the cockle bur( Noogoora) heads are all done now and they have padding behind them. I am ready to build the branch to cross the surface and begin adding the burs now.

Felting: I’ve spent a lot of time using the felting machine this week. Built several backgrounds with little direction of where I want to go with them. This is one is an example of this. I believe I can find more birds that I would like to explore and this with work may be the answer. These Dickcissels for example. They are ready to be washed out now.

I built this felted piece with a Blue Jay in mind. I have only just started with the machine drawing here.

Sisterhood Challenge: Totem Fox I have cut out the pieces and they are required to the background fabric. ( a Judy Roberts piece) I am ready to zig-zag around all the parts at this point.

Sisterhood Challenge: Nine Patch This challenge has proved to be a difficult one for me. But after several weeks to struggling I have devised a way to go forward, The challenge is to make nine units that go together and are independently created. This collage of Mentos will be my soft guide for how to build my units. The block are all 18” square in my case, and they all must have back and white somewhere in the square. I have cut by bases ( the blue)and decided to use this black and white print as my unifying unit. I also pulled two other pieces of fabric that I want to use on more than one square. It’s a good challenge for me as I am in uncharted ground as far as I am concerned. A good stretch and that is what challenges are suppose to do.

Card Closed MindsIt is good to be reminded to keep the mind open – no matter where one is.

Keep Creating

Carol

Creative Assistants, Daily Practice, Experiments, Felt Work, Fundations XIX Mossy Stone, Label Cards, Rain Puddle, Southern Crows

Winter Whites

November 29, 2018 admin

Hello,

After three days of wet snow, I have been thinking a lot about white. In this photo the door that is painted white and that is different then the white siding and the snow created a third white. Snow quickly becomes a dirty white with age and light can also effect snow making it appear blue at times. This is a good time of year to look closely at this color.

This is the second snow with more than 4 “ so I snow dyed again this morning. This shot of the pot makes it look like it is red and black- but the dark color is labeled navy blue……. only time will tell what I get. This shot is of the first snow dye that I did two weeks ago with yellow and blue. I have been home a lot between events the last two weeks and I have worked away in the studio. There is a lot to show for that effort.

Progress Report: Rain Puddle This work is 18” X 24” stretched. It is a rework piece. I started with this Mossy Rock that I created in my Foundations series. I did 27 of those and very few are of any interest to anyone but me. So in recalling what my good friend Ethel said “Carol, you make good backgrounds” I thought what a better background then a rock for a puddle. So I looked at puddles on my walks and noted how they appeared to darken the leaves and thought I could use organza and nylon net to create that depth. I also noticed how the oak leaves were all so uniformly cream and brown so I used them as my subjects for this work.

Daily Practice V This work is also 18” X 24” . It takes about 7 weeks for me to complete one of these works. I enjoy all the hand work that is a part of the process. This one also used a great hand dyed that I did last year with a piece of upholstery fabric that Regina gave me. This is the last one this series as I have a new challenge to do for my daily work that involves a lot of hand work.

Scrap Happy This is a queen sized quilt that I created for my granddaughter Alexis for Christmas. It is made from the box of scraps from Ethel. This is the fifth one using up her scraps.Many of the little units were created by her.

Southern Crows I am to the quilting stage on this work now . I am doing reflective work around the bird square and just building around the squares out side of that.

Butterfly Wing This work is nearly done and I really like some parts of this experiment. Others – not so much. I may just cut this up and use sections separately as it is a bit much all together. Little areas work so much better.

Earth – Waterfall This work is building up. I built this tree( on the left) and then added foliage to create the crown. I am ready to build up the stones and add the water now.

Noogoora Pods I just finished quilting stitch in the ditch on this piece. I am now ready to build the steams and add the pods to the surface. Hopefully it will not need additional quilting after that point.

Felts 1 I am building backgrounds for the machine drawn birds that I have been creating. This is an early stage but a start

Felt- 2 Because I have to give up part of my desk when I use the felting machine I like to build more than one background at a time. This is the second and it is even rougher than the first.

Felt-3 This one is hardly tacked at all. I have only layer in the base and will build color over the top before I do much felting on this one.

Creative Assistants I have watched some sports on TV lately so I am creating little faces on my assistants. I just packed away 30 of them that were totally done on Tue and did not pull them out for a photo.

Totem – Fox The Sisterhood of the Scissors has a challenge. It is to create ones totem and this is my enlarged sketch for that project. I plan not to use the traditional color scheme, but limit it none the less.

Label Cards: Marriage As a part of my thinking about what I was thankful for over the last holiday I realized how very important my marriage is to me. So I made this card.

Saving. At the other end of what is happening is all the pressure to Shop! Black Friday , Small Business Saturdays, Cyber Monday…….. and for what? Do we really need more things? I going to give experiences, Theater tickets, and trips to the Zoo. That way I can save MEMORIEs instead of spend money of things that really do not matter.

Keep Creating,

Carol

Birds, Daily Practice, Deep Jellies, FOX, Label Cards, Scrap Happy Quilts, Sisterhood of the Scissors, Southern Crows, Word Forms

Fall Retreat 2018

November 16, 2018 admin

Hello,

The Schweinfurth Fall Retreat was last week end. I had a good time and got a bit of work done along with lots of old friends. Janice, a friend I made at the fall retreat two years ago, made and appearance and worked on this baby quilts. Her child is due in April. Sally finished up this top. One of her children gave it to her.

Victoria returned to work on this piece that has some hand dyed stuff in it that she created in the wet studio last fall.

Susan made three Christmas stockings( yes, that is an opossum on the one above her head ) and quilted on a piece that she started at QBL two summers ago.

Sally F worked on this wonderful soft colored piece that is a jump off from a Kay Facet design.

Randy quilted with the quilting machine in the front of the class room and made progress on this quilt.

Janet worked on creating these diamonds in Cherry wood strips and she got all the blocks done this weekend.

Liz worked away on this piece using some of her hand dyed fabric.

I started playing with some trapped cut yarns just to see what would happen. Then I also started to assemble a top using the crows I printed at Susan’s in Florida in March. Everyone had fun and made progress. There was so much going on it was rather exciting.

Sisterhood of the Scissors meant at the Schweinfurth today and looked at the the Q=A=Q show. We decided to use this nine patch quilt as the basis for our next challenge. The wild piecing and applique work appealed to us. Not sure about he rules- but I think it will push folks to some unique work.

After checking out the Q=A=Q show the group went upstairs to view the Members Show. This is my piece, Deep Jellies that is in the show.

Lots of my friends are in this one too. There is work by Victoria . I know she dyed this in a workshop with Pat Pauly.

Lori’s piece from Danalia was displayed.

Angela’s felt work was shown too. I regret to say that my shot of The Crows Of Auburn, by Regina , is too fuzzy to post- but it was there as well. NOel had a ceramic piece too. It is a strong show with lots of variety and very enjoyable.

Progress Report: Purple Study I enjoyed building this little 11” X 11” piece. The hand work class is still resonating with me.

JacketAs further proof of that the handwork classes influence, I started altering this linen jacket this week. I took out the shoulder pads and added a few patches of color. I have even done a little hand stitching here as well. I can see this is a long term project.

Black Capped Chickadee I did some tread painting of Chickadees this week as I want to keep building the free motion skills.

Earth – Waterfall I have not touched this piece in awhile but I got back to it this week. I am building in the trees at this point. The water over the rocks will come later.

Scrap Happy I am assembling the rows through the backing and batting in a sew and flip fashion. I will quilt over all of it later to add strength.

Rework FOX I thought I was finished with this work a few weeks ago. When I took it to the QuEGs meeting folks like the colors and the layout- but said it needed more quilting. This is a case where in my rush to finish I did not really look at the work to see it’s flaws. It is easy to repair this one- I merely took off the sleeve and labels and pealed back the facings so I could add more machine quilting. I am building up the new quilting in a diagonal pattern.

Daily Practice The hand work continuers to fill in on this work. I need to finish that step and then live with it a while to see if it needs any additional embellishment. I am trying to allow for the looking stage.

Southern Crows The top I stared at the the retreat is all assembled now. Pressing and basting need to come next so I can begin to quilt it.

Shredded Color This is a close up of the other piece that I started at the retreat. I have plastic bags of shredded yarn in color groups that I capture between the felted background and various colors of nylon net with free motions stitching. It is an experiment and I am leaning lots. I may or may not keep the piece as a whole unit. Got to do the careful looking and living with it – but first I need to finish the work.

Label Card: Beyond In this crazy fast pasted world, it is difficult to look beyond our next step or the next day. I fear we are losing lots of joy and wisdom by not looking a little bit beyond the immediate events. So this card is to remind me to slow down and think about the future as well as the past.

Next Thursday is Thanksgiving so there will not be a post next week. Enjoy your blessings.

Keep Creating,

Carol

Cedar Wax Wings, Daily Practice, Diva Meetings, Finger Lakes Fiber Artists, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Re Work

Busy Week

November 8, 2018 admin

Hello,

This week was full of fiber art meetings. Saturday was the FLFA meeting at the Schweinfurth.

Pat shared her latest work with us at the Finger Lakes Fiber Artist meeting on Sat. She hand dyed all the fabric in this work. There where lots of folks present as we had to cancel the Sept meeting. These works are by Joyce. She really puts a lot of motion in her work.

Marcia shared this dynamic piece with us. She creates movement in a different way.

Bev is working in a much quieter pallet than Pat and Marcia. I like the irregular bottom edge too.

Sharon had a whole pile of little works that she is going to sell at the 12X12 show at the Broad Street Gallery in Hamilton. This one was my favorite.

Angela is still exploring with Polynesian tapa cloth symbols. She made the screens and printed all of these by hand. Julia is exploring in a new direction too. I really like the text like shapes she is using. Liz went off to the Barn and took a class with Clair Bends and this is just one of the dye pieces that she created. He is fun.

The QuEG’s also meant this week. Liz shared these three pieces again from Clair’s class.

Corinne had been to the Red Thread workshop and shared this wonderful book that she made. It is full of different types of experimenting that they did. This photo shows work with a copper plate and a Gellie plate print.

Sue Ellen made a top using a cool Cat Pannell that she had purchased. She is planning on giving it to the service project at Tow Path. I think that is very kind of her.

After four I went south with Noel to go to the Diva meeting. Cindy shared this beautiful work with us.

This quilt will be a part of the Diva show Earth Song, at the Unitarian Church in Ithaca from Nov 30 to Jan 10.

It has been a full week and I am excited about moving forward.

Progress Report: Cedar Wax Wings This work is 12” X 12”. It is my entry for the Off the Wall Show/Sale for Associated Artist in the Manlius Library. It opens on Sunday. I am so enjoying doing thread painting that I can add on top of the felt.

Black Capped Chickadee n the same vain as the Cedar Wax Wings, I am doing a Chickadee.I built this background in felt. I drew my birds and I have just started to do the free motion work here.

Consider This is a rework of an old quilt that I cut up and used as a base for some hand work.

Noogoora I am doing the hand work on my seed heads now. The white side shows the my out lines that I am attempting to stay within with my stitches.

Experiments: I try to use the books and magazines I have on my shelves and this little experiment grew out of one of them. I had tried tacking yarn down on top of felt like suggested earlier. This process is done under wash away and is suggested in …………..msdmf I moved on. I have a great photo close up of a butterfly wing showing all the little “scales” of color. I wanted to try adding bits of color – fabric or yarn in little pieces to get this type of effect. I thought that if I scattered the bits on felt- then might stick enough to remain on the surface until I could stitch them down. That did not work. But adding a bit of nylon netting over the top did. Now I want to try that idea on a bigger scale. In the book Layers of Stitch by by Valerie Campbell-Harding and Maggie Gray in chapter 6 Cutting out the Patch talk about stitching on felt and cutting it away. My mind jumped to the wash away and I built my net using that instead. ( I never could follow directions) Not sure where any of these ideas will go, but I really am not to worried about that part.

Rework- new I decided I would take a second look at the old rock pieces. I did them just for myself and some are a lot stronger than others. I was talking with Liz about this and she suggested that I build a new ice piece over the rock surface. I like that idea and I will try that as well. I cut this piece so a near square piece so I can stretch it when I am done. When I was on my walk I noticed how the leaves were floating in little pools and I thought I could do that on the rocks too. This is my first attempt. I picked up some oak and Gingko leaves on that walk and I made stencils out of my tracings of the leaves. I will add paint to some fabric using the stencils and add them on top of the rock.

Daily Practice I just keep stitching away on this piece. It is very calming work.

Keep Creating

Carol

Blue Jays, Collage, Daily Practice, Killdeer, Scrap Happy Quilts, Shows

Opening of Quilts=Art =Quilts

November 1, 2018 admin

Hello

Color is filling the leaves of our area now. Lots of gold and red around here. This week has been a full one for me. The QAQ show opened on Sat at the Schweinfurth and I got to see my quilt in all its glory. Julia was one of the folks in this show too. She also came to the opening. I made a connection with a quilter from California- Viviana Lombrozo . Her work was in the same gallery as mine and we went to the banquet together and had a grand time talking and sharing ideas. Then we meant again at the Gallery Walk About on Sunday afternoon. I am still flying high from the experience.

Over this same weekend I was taking a class called Mindful Stitching Practice with Christine Mauersberger. She is a great teacher with lots to share. She gave us various prompts to stitch. This is my piece from day one showing circles and my breath patterns. We did responses to music and other prompts on Sat. There were so many directions that I did not get to all of them. This is my response to taking a walk with my thread. There were 13 other gals in the class responding to her guidance too. Lots f different solution to all the different ideas that were offered up. And down stairs they where doing Indigo dye work. This is a shot of two of Regina’s pieces from that class. There was so much going on that I still have not processes it all.

Progress Report: Blue Jays I finally got going on the 12”X12” pieces for the next show at the Broad Street Gallery in Hamilton. The Blue Jays were fun to do and putting on the stretch felt really was enjoyable too.I think I will do more jays a s they are so active in this area.

Killdeer This too will be part of the Broad Street Gallery show. Their distinctive calls have made these birds a long time favorite of mine.

Cedar Wax Wings I have three of these little fellows done now and I will build a background to use them on next. I enjoy the thread painting and I have ideas for some butterflies as well as more weeds too.

Daily Practice I am doing the button whole stitch alone the chain work now and I am about half way done with that process.

New work- Noogoora/cocklebur This shot shows the fusible inner facing that is on the back of the fabric to make it more stable for hand stitching . I can also draw the shape of the prickly seed heads on the back so I can see what shape I am going for with the stitching. The seed is enlarged about 500 times . I hope this works.

New WorkI am auditioning fabrics for my next piece. It is to be an earth piece in the elements series. I am trying to decide if I will build on browns greens or grays.

Label card- Include All In this time of conflict I wanted to think beyond the division and remind us all that there is only one world and we need to be inclusive not exclusive with it!

Keep Creating

Carol

Collections, Daily Practice, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Friends, Scrap Happy Quilts, Wildfire

Fall Color

October 25, 2018 admin

Hello,

Fall is all around me here in central NY. I love all the color although it has been very rainy so leaves are being pulled off the trees and there is little full color display here. One needs to enjoy what is available.

FAB meant on Friday last week and Sharon shared her completed commissions. She sure can build a great depth in her work and all the seasons are represented.

This week I went with the Associated Artists to visit an artists studio. Chris Baker ( his work is in the photo) was very open and gracious to us answering question after question. It was a good learning experience.

Progress Report: Wildfire This work is 33” w X 34” l. I have so enjoyed working on this project. I used a lot of the information that I learned in the transparence class at QBL last summer . I also used some silk paper that I had created to build up the color. Everything is sewn and quilted together with free motion work. I enjoyed working on this one.

Friends- collections 3 This work is 16” w X 24”l. There are so many little memories for me in this work. Many of the objects are gifts from friends. the Artists trading card here is form my friend Sharron and the black glass button came from Jenny’s button box.

Machine drawing I did a lot of machine drawing of birds this week. Two Blue Jays, two Killdeer and three Cedar Waxwings make up my efforts. The last Waxwing is about half done. I want to add them to the felting that I did last week. Hopefully they will be a part of the 12X12 show at the Broad Street gallery in Dec/Jan.

Scarp Happy workThese are three of the panels that I am building for the back of the scarp happy quilt. I tried to limit the pallet so it hold together visually.

Halloween Cards It is the season and I had a good time playing with paint and stickers one day this week.

New work The base is all done for this new project. I want to build some burrs to add on top of this base.

Dyeing and Indigo Last Thursday I went to Regina’s and she encouraged me to use her Indigo dye pot. I did these four pieces at that time. I think there is a lot of white because I am not sure I soaked them in water before I dipped them. Mistakes are often made when one is learning. Part of that learning included the fact that I stitched and wrapped some fabric before I went to Regina’s. But it was soda soaked and one dose not need to have soda soaked fabric for indigo. So this week I used some premixed dyes from Ethel’ stash on this fabric. It came out pale again because I did not know what I was doing.

Daily Practice I keep working away on this project. I feel I am almost most done with the flow lines around the outside of the fabric shapes.

Keep Creating

Carol

Birds, Creative Assistants, Crow Calls, Daily Practice, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Feed you soul, Felt Work, FOX, Label Cards, Sisterhood of the Scissors, Thousand words, Wildfire, Word Forms

Good News

October 19, 2018 admin

Hello,

This work is in the Quilts unlimited Show in Old Forge NY. I got a letter in the mail this week that told me this work won a Judges Choice award. I am delighted.

Other events happened this week as well. Tanya came to visit and we talked of dyeing. She is working with silk and experimentally dyeing with different materials. I love the colors she The big event was yesterday and it was my first meeting with the Sisterhood of the Scissors. It was a play day at Regina’s house. Everyone just did their own thing.

Wendy spent her time at the meeting working on shome stitchery. Several gals worked on their weaving.

They both had handmade looms.

one can see the image of her dog under this weaving. It will be great.

Regina is mixing her indigo dyed doily and a rust dyed one.I dyed with shaving cream and put a few items into Regina’s Dye pot. We had a good time and d to the next meeting.

Progress Report: FOX This work is 25.5” w X 4hhh. I am finally finished with this work. I used some of my hand dyed.

The modeled orange red here is that fabric. The background with the greens is one of the fabrics I inherited from Ethel. Her influence just keeps going in my life.

Wildfire- I am now done with the free motion quilting on this piece. It sure seems to give the work more of a flow pattern across the surface.

Friends I am done with the hand applique and directive stitch work on this piece now. The glasses are from my friend Mary and the copper belt buckle is from my mom. I now need to purchase some additional stretcher bars as I did not mark the outer edge of the size and I filled the space allotted. So I will purchase some 16” bars and finish this work.The wool is from Tanya and the leaves from Pam. I got the buttons from a big tin from my friend Sally. Folks are so very generous.

Daily Practice All the fabric pieces are attached now and I am working on stitching to pull them together.

Felting I went a little crazy when I got the felting machine out and did four bases. Then I ordered more roving as I did not have as much blue as I wanted.

Birds The felting lead me to do some machine drawing and the Blue Jay and the Killdeer are the result. I will build a few more birds to

apply to the backgrounds.

New Work I started a new background using lots of my hand dyed stuff .

Creative Assistants I watched a little football this week and built a few faces along the way.

Label Cards Thousand Words I think this is a true and powerful statement. Feed Your Soul For each and everyone of us that idea is unique. Color, texture and exercise are some of the things that feed my soul- but I am sure that is not true of everyone.

Keep Creating

Carol

Collections, Curvie Cuts, Differences, Dramatic Episodes, FOX, Friends, Natural Elements, Scrap Happy Quilts, Wildfire, Word Forms

Fall presence

October 11, 2018 admin

Hello

One of the sure signs of fall for me is the appearance of small mushrooms in my yard. These golden ones looked like little coins scattered across the lawn. Marty and I made a quick trip to Maine last week to see Elizabeth and Barbara. We stopped at our favorite bit of geology wonder on the way home. We had never been there in the morning when the rock was in shadow. It changes the color a bit I think.

Progress Report: Scrap Happy Being away for five days meant I did not get as much work done as usual. I am assembling the squares for for this project now. I am a little beyond the half way point with that step. I always love how chance plays a part in this process.

Wild Fires I am in the free motion stitching process on this project now. The trees are all done and I am working on the fire parts now.

Friends – collection This work is moving along. I have most of the big parts attached and I am working on details now. This embossed copper piece was a project from my teaching days. The students made jewelry with this process.

FOX I just finished all the reflective quilting on this project. Now I will bind and finish it.

New work- Curvie cuts I made this ripple cut background with the intention of applying all the “cut aways” from the last few text pieces. When I tried that I realized it is too strong to support the little pieces. I have no idea for it’s future now so I will live with it until inspiration hits. As to the leftovers- well perhaps l will try a quieter base for them.

Label Collages: Differences I hope we can all be open to the uniqueness of each of the person we meet.

Dramatic Episodes Everyone experience episodes of profound emotion it their lives. Hopefully the sad ones do not last too long.

Keep Creating

Carol

Collections, Creative Assistants, Daily Practice, Dance, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), FOX, Friends, Label Cards, Natural Elements, Wildfire, Word Forms

Dye Class

September 27, 2018 admin

Hello,

I took a dyeing workshop at the Schweinfurth for three days last week. Pat Pauly was the teacher. This was my second experience with this teacher doing a similar class and I learned a lot. My first class was shortly after I had inherited powered dyes form my friend Ethel. It was also my first time dyeing where I had to mix the dye. When I dyed with Ethel, I would show up and we would play. She had done all the prep work

before I arrived on the scene. So I learned a lot that first time about those steps in the process- But not a lot of what the teacher was trying to impart to us about application and techniques of using the dyes effectively. This time I feel I got what she wanted us to learn. There was lots of variety in what folks did in class as this shot of Jacquelyn with her work behind her shows.

Up stairs at the Schweinfurth there is a great show of stitchery and weaving by a Mayan family. It is beautiful and I would encourage any one at all interested in visiting.

On our way home Liz and I stopped and took a bunch of photos of this beautiful old barn. I hope to use it as a jumping off point for a new piece.

I have washed out some of the fabric- 30 pieces so far. I am quiet pleased at the colors and textures that I got from the class. I feel that because I had class with Pat before that I managed to put my own stamp on the work I created and did not just mimic Pat’s techniques.

FAB meant here yesterday. It was good to see everyone again. Sharon shared this nearly completed quilt that is part of a triptych that she is making for a friend. I lone how she added just a small amount of snow on the branches.

Progress Report: Wildfire This work is going forward. I feel I am ready to now add batting and backing and begin to add the free motion stitching to give detail to the work.

FOX All the parts are now stitched down with nylon thread. It is pin basted and ready for the satin stitch work to unite all the parts and move toward finishing the work.

Collections- Friends I am adding the individual parts to the surface of this work now. I called this work Friends because I am putting little gems that friends have given me together in this work. This trading card is from my friend Sharron.

Daily Practice I m still adding the satin circles to the surface of this piece.

Creative Assistants It is football season so I am working on Creative Assistants. These are ready for pin backs and squeezie paint embellishments.

New work I am ready to start a new piece and I have pulled these fabrics to cut and sew together to be my new base. I want to use the cutaways from several of my text pieces in this work.

Label Cards

Dance – Life is movement so thinking of it as a dance is a normal reaction. Sometimes we forget there is no real pattern that fits everyone. This is a reminder that we need to relax and go with in our personal direction listening to our unique theme.

Dream Dreams change as we grow and change with the events that shape our lives. We need to keep revising and believing in our dreams.

Keep Creating,

Carol

PS- I will be traveling next week so there will not be any Blog for Oct 4.

Daily Practice, FOX, Journeys, Label Blocks, Memory Map Quilts, Mulberry Memories, Wildfire, Word Forms

First Opening

September 20, 2018 admin

Hello,

The fall is a beautiful time and I am enjoying it. I went to visit with my friend Chris who has a camp on Kuaka Lake this week. This wall work is by her late husband and one of the new items she has placed in her cabin.

This week was also the opening of the Broad Street Galley show. This is a shot is of two of my smaller works along with other gallery work. Sharon and I shared a pleasant evening talking to folks.

On Friday Liz and I spent the day painting on fabric. It was a new experience for Liz and she did lots of experimenting. I painted organza for use in my Wildfire piece.

We had fun.

I am off to a three day workshop at the Schweinfurth Art center with Pat Pally on dyeing, tomorrow and so I have been packing. I hope all this stuff fits into Liz’s car along with her collection too.

Progress Report: Label Block When you are a part of the Quilts =Art = Quilts show one is often asked to contribute a small work to be sold to raise funds for the gallery. This is my contribution for that cause.

Mulberry Memories

This work is 38″ w X 23″ t. It is part of the memorrie map series about my childhood. The town represented is Carroll Iowa and we lived in this town for 5 years.

Playing marbles and learning to ride a bike were important events in those years. Gene and I also spent a lot of time climbing the mulberry tree in the front yard.

FOX At this point I am attaching the words to the background with invisible thread. I plan to cut away the back and then I will be ready to applique the words down and quilt the piece.

Wildfire This work is shaping up now. I used some of the organza that I painted on Friday in this piece and I added some silk paper from my stash too. I need to build a foreground now and then I will be ready to stitch the work together.

Scottie block Lori’s new granddaughter has an eye disability and she asked us to make a square with lots of texture for her. This is my Scottie that I made with a soft velvet and an old towel for the grass. I want to add a eye made with a doll eye to give another texture too.

Collection III- Friends I have been working away on collecting more elements to add to this work and doing a little stitching too. I feel like there are enough items on the surface now and so I will concentrate on the handwork from now on.

Daily Practice This work is moving forward. I only have a few more circles to add to the surface and then I will be able to go forward with stitching designs.

Label Cards:This card is obviously a travel card and it is nice to go on journeys. But there are lots of potential trips just outside one’s own door that are journeys too. Be open to adventure.

And this adventure is one of the immigration.

Enjoy

Carol

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