Hello,
I can not believe that this is how the gym at Onondaga Community Collage looked on Friday July 14 the day after my last post and the day we started preparing for Quilting by the Lake for this year. This post will be full of photos and snippets of what happened in those glorious days plus a bit of what has happened this week too.
So by the end of the day we had filled the gym with all the quilts that we had received at that time. It was not ready for guests as more work
came in on Saturday,
but we did a lot.
I spent my Saturday helping my friend Sharron move into her dorm room and decorate for Christmas in July. We had fun, but more about that later.
There were four special shows within the quilt show at QBL this year. One was five Dear Jane Quilts by Sharron.
She talked about her journey with the development of this project one afternoon after class. 
I have watched her work away on the blocks doing all the color variations at the same time for each of the 350 blocks. It has taken her six plus years to complete this master body of work. It looks great. Marcia De Camp had a solo show as well. Non on my photos of that are strong enough to be included here, but believe me when I say it was powerful too.
The Finger Lakes Fiber Artists had a great display . 
These two works are from that section. The top Quilt is by Sharon Souva. The bottom one is by Cheri Sheridan. 
This quilt is by Liz Anderson, she is also a part of the Finger Lakes Fiber Artist’s group. The little girl on the far right is Liz at the age of six.
Noel Keith also had a solo show and talk the second week . Some of her works have been included in the Quilts=Art=Quilts shows in the past. 
She works with silks that she has hand dyed herself and that adds a wonderful layer of excitement to her work.
Sister Sew and Sew made an appearance at the quilt show. She had lots of tips and bits of knowledge that she shared with us as well.
This shot is of Sister checking the length of this woman’s hem from the floor. An item that my Catholic friends assure me was common in their pasts.
My class week one was with Cynthia Corbin. I am going to post a few of the solutions that folks created in class.
This is a shot of Annette’s project in the middle of the week. It changes as she assembled it. I really like the quiet colors.
This work is by Diane. Her first work with all solids she tells me. 
This shot is of my table partner Robin and her work as we did our Mimi talks about our work for the week on Friday afternoon.
We were Cynthia’s last topic class and so we gave her flowers as a thank you for her kind support and help.
Friday night at the end of the first week of QBL we have show and tell where each class with their teacher get up on the stage and show what they worked on. This is a shot of Alice with her project from Studio class.
One class- on the use of wedges- just moved there boards with their work into the auditorium and display them. Nice touch.
Another event at the end of the week is the action of TOTE Bags to raise money for the Scholarship 
Fund. This is Rosalie Dace with her “Chicken bag” .
Week two I had a class called “One Theme – Many Variations” with Kerr Garbowski. 
We started each morning with some drawing. This shot is of Cherri doing a blind contour.
of onions- her subject.
We worked with colored pencils, chalk and paint blocks too. This is Cherri’s experiment using those things on a silk screen. 
With each pass she added more color so the image changed with each print.
Lots of my friends where in this class and we all had great fun. We did lots of deconstructed screen work. 
Cris and Ann were in front of me. Both worked hard. 
Robin sat next to me again and did some strong work.
Gerri really did some big works with her little screens.
I have been dyeing with Liz on most Mondays this summer and her big strong gestural work is so inspiriting. These two works from class confirm this feeling.
Angela was also in this class and she did this wonderful series using a glue line print of her husband’s saxophone keys. She too changed the background color with each pull.
These are 
some of my fabrics from class.
Quilters are a divers group. One of my friends,
Emily has done a lot of beading in the form of bracelets this year. She shared them with us. They are wonderful!
Week II of QBL also brought our Christmas in July celebration.
We played games based on carols.
We pulled poppers. We drank eggnog, we had a garb bag gift exchange and laughed a lot. 
Sharron dressed in red and was our master of ceremonies.
It was great fun.
The second week ended with show and tell like the first. Debbie had completed this quilt.
This shot is of Linda with one of the works she did in class. 
And another class project.
The week ended with the tote auction and Cynthia’s tote sold for $1,350.00 – the highest price paid for any work that was going to the scholarship fund. 
Cynthia sweetened the pop of her tote by adding some of her own hand dyed materials to the collection.
This is a shot of the bag after the sale. Nice way to close QBL for 2017.
Saturday I went downtown to the Art’s and Crafts fair where I saw several artists friends and watch the native American dancers. They really moved and I enjoyed all the action.
My daughter’s company had a booth there too and this shot is of her and several of her fellow workers. 
Wendy is the one in the middle.
I also had QuEG’s and Diva meetings this week. At QuEG’s we looked at many projects folks worked on at QBL.
This is the piece that Linda was working on in Independent Studio.
This piece is what Liz worked on in Rosalie’s class week one at QBL.
This is another 3-D work by Sally. The whole section at the bottom is all made with thread- except the door. The light house had a lite in the top too. She does amazing work with her embroidery machine.
This is another bit of jewelry by my quilting friend Corrine.
The Diva gals had lots of wonderful work too. 
Lori showed off her knitting with these hand warmers that she made on her curse to keep her hands warm. She also showed off her stitch work.
Sandy proudly displayed her work just home from a quilt show.
Noel showed off her newest work where she was mixing black and white with solid colors.
Sally displayed her second quilt showing off her morning walks. The quilt shows a map of the rout in red and the photos are some of the items she sees.
Ruth is actively working away on her dinosaur track quilt. These first layers are ready for the mud layer now. 
Maureen is working away on layers of dye for her new projects. This is lovely.
Susan is still doing little units of work on Pellon. These are memory pieces of her experience in Mexico. As I have said many times I am so very fortunate to have so many stimulating and creative friends.
Progress Report: Owl project
The first week I took a class with Cynthia Corbin called The ABC’s of Composition. In this class we design blocks using letter forms as the basis of the blocks.
This is the black fabric patters for my blocks. We then interpreted the patters in color and built the quilt around them. I stayed with this word all week and went from this first start to a “glyph” using the word owl.
I have always been fascinated by the positive and negative spaces in art and this project played into and developed several more pieces in this vain.
At this point I wondered about a size variation with the glyph. I did a shrink and an enlargement.
I have not done any work with the smaller ones even though I have several ideas.
The larger one however has become two pinned works. Watch for upcoming developments.
Label Blocks More blocks is getting smaller and the end of this step is insight.
It has been a busy few weeks and my mind is full of ideas. Now I need to slow down and get some work done.
Keep Creating.
Carol
Hello,
This week was the first Tuesday of the month so I had meetings. QuEGs meant at Angela’s house this time and we had a lot to share. 
Sue Ellen is making twin bed quilts for her nieces and nephews. This one is for the six year old and I think he will like the bright colors.
Corrine is doing leather notebooks now and this is just one of five that she shared. They are beautiful I think.
Sally is doing a wonderful flower series and she had four of them to share with us. Her hand work is beautiful!
This shot is one of her fabric collages. She said sometimes it takes an hour to find and eyebrow for a piece. What a challenge.
It is good to have a reference points for further work.
Regina took two felting workshops this month and did great projects. As is her style she jumps into things with both feet. I think this shawl is beautiful.
In workshop 2 she learned how to create a bag. This is her design and it hast two pockets in it. One on the inside and one on the back. She felted the handle too I sure am lucky to have such talented and stimulating friends.
Progress Report: Asters
I painted the street map and the outside of the house on organza this week for this project. Now I need to work on the other parts and add them too. I will not stitch anything down to the base until I have them all in place so I can shuffle them if I need to.
Fiddle Head Ferns This project is creeping along. I got the idea to feature the Fiddle Head Ferns last week at the Social Art meeting when one of the women though my Indian Pipes were the ferns. So I did a bit of research and they are a similar shape although quite a different color. I dyed the white pipe cleaners green and wrapped them part way up with a green fabric to create the young ferns. I think it will work when I build up the background a bit more and add mature ferns too.
This work is nearly complete. I seem to be at a sort of at a stand still on this one. So I will pin it to the stretcher bars before I stop work to see how it appears. I hope that action will tell me what needs more attention.
Parts I am still building little units for this project.
W Block This block is for a group project were each block is to have a W in it. It for a friend who is battling cancer and the W is to represent wellness. I plan to free motion write lots of word of encouragement around the letter.
I just keep working on on collages and sorting my paper collection.
I got a little carried away this week. I was still so full of adrenalin when we got home from the falls visit that I made this card in no time. One can never tell just what will inspire one.
I then rushed forward and did Perhaps followed by Extraordinary. 
Sometimes one just is just the conduit for the art action.
