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