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IMG_5395Hello,

It is really spring when the dandelions begin to bloom.   I see more and more every day.    Sue Ellen's spring  I have enjoyed my last two weeks and my mind is full of all sorts of ideas and happy memories.    On the Tuesday before I left I went to a FAB meeting at Judy’s house.   Everyone was full of news and even though there were no new projects we had a good time.  Then that same day I ran off to a QuIG’s meeting in Sue Ellen’s studio.      Sue Ellen is still working on her tree theme series.    I really like all the hand work she put into this work.     Linda is experimenting with Yupo Paper and IMG_5404ink.   She sure got  some fine results.    I think I purchased some of this stuff a while back, I wonder what I did with it. IMG_5406.jpg  Sally took a class from Noel were she made this wonderful rose and then built a great evening bag with the knowledge.   We had a good time.

Then on Wed.  I flew off to Chicago to see my friend Sharron and go to the Quilt Festival.  IMG_5407  She picked me up and we drove around the city in her wonderful new  2015 Mustang.  I was stopped cold when I opened the door and this logo appeared at my feet.  Techknowledgy is every where.    The Festival was wonderful.  The quilts were amazing.   Such strong use of color IMG_5482.jpgand texture as well as wonderful patterning and breath taking images.    I do not feel like I can post any of them on this sight –just believe me.  We did go to the dedication and delivery of Quilts of Valor.  It was so moving I found myself with tears running down my cheeks.  Later Sharron and I spent time at that booth working on blocks and we both finished six for some future Veteran’s quilt.     We came home with tired feet and a pile of goodies. IMG_5468This is only my pile.  Sharron had one as big.     She has a wonderful studio with a full wall of fabric.  Her own Quilt store  I would say.  IMG_5408.jpg She is still working away on her six  “ Dear Jane “ quilts.    She has all the centers doneand is a little beyond a third of the way around all six with the triangles  in the boarders.     I am sure she will finish this year and they will be amazing!  Again I am not going to show them here as she has a show in mind that IMG_5505.jpgneeds to keep the images off the net until they are shown there.   Sharron also has a second passion and that is her Christmas Village.  It is set up in a space that was once a dinning room.  It is electrified and has a train that moves through the display.   Most of the building have lights inside as well.  I just kept looking and looking .IMG_5506She told me she has been collecting parts for over 30 years.     I sure can believe that .  What a delight for the kid in all of us.IMG_5517.jpg

 

IMG_5525On Monday I went to Ithaca and took down my solo show at the Briar Patch.   The staff did not want to see it go, but all things must end .  Anne has someone else lined up for the next two months now.

Progress Report:   Ethel’s Quilt Ethel's Quilt   This quilt was designed cut and partially assembled by my quilting buddy Ethel Whittamore.    She asked me to finish it and then pass it on to Quilting By The Lake for there raffle in July.  The Raffle money goes to the scholarship fund for the   classes at QBL the following summer.     I did finish the assembly and started doing the hand quilting like Ethel always did on her quilts.  But I was unsatisfied with my work soIMG_5537 I sent it off to an Amish woman I know who does beautiful   handwork.  The results came back and I was delight and she got the cash for a new calf.      I was so excited when it came home that I took it to a Diva meeting  were Cheri asked if she could take it to be shown at the YMCA Central New York Quilt show April 8 /9. IMG_5541   I said yes and now it it home with me in all its glory.  I will enjoy it for a few months before it goes off to QBL and its new home.

Riverwood RiverwoodThis work is 31” X 49”.   It meets all three of my monthly challenges. The orange and yellow fabric is some I hand dyed in a class last fall.   The silk and the browns are from Ethel’s stash.   The design is based on a collage I created.    There are always alterations when one  goes IMG_5554

from 3” x5” to a larger from. IMG_5557  I liked  using a limited pallet  working with a the bold print against a smaller scaled area. IMG_5558  I am also enjoying using the faced shapes to add another detention to the surface.

IMG_5530.jpgOut My Window  This quilt is 38” X 41”.  I hand painted the big white sections.      They are all views of things that I saw out  different  windows in my life time.   This shot is of the barnIMG_5532 yard I could see from my bed room in Iowa.   All the dark purple blocks are machine drawn trees and most of the other areas are leaves or clouds.IMG_5533

IMG_5545.jpgNew Work -Ice on Vincent     As I mentioned before the quilt show was inspiring and  so I started this work  based on a photo I took earlier this spring of ice along Vincent St.chaudieredianemarie_winterslace Ice  It is a close up and I have already done some major altering of it as I have put down the fabrics.

IMG_5543New Work   This is an early shot of the beginning of a new piece.  I want to do another stretched work, so this  piece is 26” X 50” .   It is based on a shot I took in Washington State on a trip with Marty.  IMG_5547  I am doing it all in shades of blue instead of gray.

2 label BlocksLabel Blocks # 46 and # 47

Two weeks- two blocks.  I did a lot of the work in the airport waiting for the plane.   The beat goes on….

Keep Creating

Carol

February 20, 2014

Hello,

It is thawing here and the sound of  dripping water from melting snow  has been going on all day.  The street is running water and directing it toward the storm drains.   I find it is cheering as though Spring may in fact come.  The fact that I herd song birds this morning helps with that feeling too.   I have worked in the studio  a lot this week.

Blooming Bacteria 24" X 38" $320.00
Blooming Bacteria
24″ X 38″
$320.00

Progress  Report : Blooming Bacteria This quilt is based on an image from an electron miscrope of bacteria- that is were the name came from. It   has taken me a long time to complete as I had to make each one of the black button whole circles by hand with a small crochet hook.  I know I started it last fallBlooming Bacteria close up 1 when I was taking my  grand son to Physical Therapy.  I then  stitched the units down to the surface.    The free motion work in the red is called pebble quilting and it really unified the quilt.  I did reflecting quilting around the outside of the circles.  This quilt also has a Bacteria Blooming close up 2background  that is curved pieced .   The red is a hand dyed piece that I received from a fellow quilter.    It was only a fat quarter and I used every bit of it that I could in this work.Bacteria Blooming Close up 3

 

 

 

Foundations IX Spring Moss 19.5 " X 26 " $ 180.00
Foundations IX Spring Moss
19.5 ” X 26 “
$ 180.00

Foundations IX Spring Moss  This work in the foundations series, was influenced by that spring desire I felt last week too.  It is also loosely based on  a shot I took of some Granite a few years ago.    Like most of the works I have been doing in this series there are lots of raw edges and a tron fabrics here.  The dark green is Dupni Silk.  It frays so  much that I saved all the threads and applied them to the surface as well.   I continue to use the silk paper I created last fall.  I am looking forward to warm weather whenFoundation X--cl-1 BF20-X-Closeup-4 I can go out doors and create more- it is too messy  do inside in my dry studio.   I used lots of different colored thread when I was doing the free motion work on this work.  Some apple green, yellow green, yellow and pink to get the effect I wanted for this piece.  Foundations X-close up 2

 

 

 

Foundations X   When I could see that I would soon finish with Foundations XI - Foundations IX- I started thinking about the next one in this series.   I was trying to make the top section of this work lighter than the bottom, but still have shadows near the top.  I am  not happy with the solid unit on the bottom right- but I have enough to begin work.  I want to bring in more of the rusty coloring into this work.

FoundationsXIIFoundations XI  I pinned up this new top this morning.  I have been experimenting with long stitches in yarn on nylon netting.  I was trying to create another texture that I could use in my work.  The  four pieces are  on the surface and may  or  may not stay as I go along.  This is a pure experiment, but then not knowing how something will work out never stopped me before.  I will keep you posted.

Scrap Happy  I am workingScrap-Happy on the scarp box and I decided to start a quilt using what I have.    This is a good thing too as this morning I had a call from our local public TV station and they want a quilt for their auction.    This shot shows the  red and earth toned  centered blocks as they look when they are assembeled.

Daily 's Daily’s    I am reaching the  end of this style of  block.  There are only three  left that have the half red circle and two lines.   So next week  there will be a new layout.

Keep Creating

Carol