Category Archives: Ju Ju June

Sharing August 21, 2014

Good Habits  21" 32"
Good Habits
21″ 32″

Hello,

As fall approaches I feel the need to “tidy the nest”  a bit.  As a result of that feeling, I have been sorting out old works and finding new homes for them.      So I took along this quilt when I went to the Dentist and it is now hanging in his office.  It took a min. before he saw the tooth brushes.   He was delighted and so was I as the work was only setting in a dark closet before and I think art should be out in the world.     I feel so fortunate that I can share in this fashion.

This week the FAB group BA21Nancy-Komonawent on a field trip too.    We visited the home studio of Ginny Spina  to see her silk /Komona collection.   It was wonderful.    Her home is beautiful and so are her gardens.    She sells on etsy at  www.silkhouse.etsy.com.    We got to see and handle the silk.  Nancy even tried on one of the Kimono’s that had arrived in the mail that morning.    Victoria and I  both purchased some of her scarps and now I have a new pile of fabrics and the  ideas are flowing.  Nancy purchased on of Ginny’s scarves BA21-Nancy-+-scarfand her custom designed pins that day as well.     We all had lots of fun and made new connections.silks

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Ju Ju June

Ju Ju June  !8" X 30"  $190.oo
Ju Ju June
!8″ X 30″
$190.00

  As I predicted this quilt is now complete.   There is lots of experimentation in this piece.  This is my first attempt at using only canvas as the fabric base.  I also had full control of the colors and patters on that base and although I really enjoyed that aspect I do not feel like I explored it fully.  So I need to keep putting myself in that position and dealing with that challenge.   I also feel I need to do a similar project  again because the process is still very much a mimic of Katie Pasquini’s process.    I did enjoy mixing the metal with the gathered ribbon “flower” shapes and the beads.     BA21JuJuJune-cl1

 

 

 

 Rafter Room This quilt is now hanging overRafter-Room  the door to the rafter room were it will remain for it’s life time.   Because it is summer I am not aware of how many drafts it is stopping, but I imagine it will do the job in the fall and winter.    I really enjoyed  doing the free motion work on this project.     It was not only fun to trace the Rafter-Room-cl2shapes printed on the mud cloth it was fun to extend them out into the blank areas.   Then I went forward  to drawing and filling in the blank areas as well. Rafter-Room-cl1  I think  that I will look at pattern with a little bit of a different eye- and notice more details as a result of this  project.

I got to use up the end of one of the fabrics that I had created in Judy Langele’s class at QBL 2  three years ago too.( It is the bottom of this work with the blue gears and dark violet in it)

 

 

 

the road less-traveledThe Road Less Traveled    I am still doing the free motion work on this piece.   I am  trying to sort of soften the hard seam lines with the machine work.   I will add hand work as well.

 

 

 

Foundations XXI- Elise’s Rock/rock A Cape Cod Stone   This is a rock that  Elsie Dents gave me.   She has moved to Pennsylvania and we will miss her strong graphic bird based  work in the DIVA group.  She was cleaning and found this stone that she had collected on the beach at Cape  Cod and BA21Elsies-rock-qthought of me.  So she brought to me at the last meeting that she attended.  I like the strong lines across the  stained quarts  so I am using it as  my jumping off point for the next Foundations work.  I am still working with the out side shape of this quilt part as well as the light and dark on the surface.

Daily News  daily8 BA7daily-10 BA7ddaily9 The news goes on and on.  I am enjoying the playing part of the process now.  I thank Barb every time I finish a block because her way of completing the process is so much faster than mine.

Keep Creating

Carol

Back in Balance August 14, 2014

PopularHello,

I have been on the go a lot of late and this morning I was feeling a bit out of balance.    There were lots of tasks I need to do, but I decided to treat myself to a walk.  When I go  I do not take my phone or any electric devices to distract me.    I use the time to pay attentions to the physical world I live in.  I noted the sunshine,  the many bird songs,  and found the visual surprise of that the Maple-seeds-2 Popular tree is already  shedding golden leaves.  As I walked along the street I noticed that the fallen maple seeds looked like the  birds in flight.  I felt  thankful that my legs were still able to carry me along at the pace that I wanted and returned home with a hand full of weed pods to draw later and a positive  feeling of  confidence about taking on all the little tasks that I needed to do.   I also realized how much I need that bit of physical exercise for balance in my life.

BA14CheriThe  Diva’s had a play day last week and there was a lot going on.  Cheri was marbleizing in one section of the room.  I was do that as well although I was using a different method.marblising

My work was pale because I was using ink on water and Cheri was using paint on a gel base.

There was lots of laughter,  talk BA14consulationsand sharing of ideas.   Sally, Ruth and Susan  did  consolations as well.       Everyone got a lot done and we all went happy  home having made progress at our various projects.  Unstructured days of work with fellow artists is a wonderful thing.

 

 

Victoria's-workThere was also a FAB meeting this week.  Again lots of sharing and words of encouragement.     Victoria shared the top she started in Rosalie’s class with us.   The colors are based on a photo close up  of a tulip.  One of our challenges was to work with a color that we did not normally use.   She chose the bright pink.

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Progress Report:   Ju Ju June    I am to the quilting stage on this work.    The free motion step is fun and  enjoyable for red-canvusme.     I will finish the quilting and do the binding this week and then post the final next time.

 

 

Rafter Room Project   This project too is left over from before QBL.  rafter room finalIt is to be a cover over the door to the rafter room from  the bed room.  I think it will stop the draft that I feel in the winter.  Again I am  to the fun part of drawing in the images in free motion.      I like that fact that I not only get to complete the figures that I cut up from the mud cloth,  BA14Rafter-roomclbut I also get create some new ones  to fill the spaces between the printed fabric.    This example shows the outlining and the filling in  of those drawings  on the surface.     I am about two thirds done at this time.

 

 The Road Less Traveled Raod-less-traveled I have now completed the assembly of my top from Rosalie’s color class.    The color that I seldom use is the green brown color in this quilt.    It is a good challenge I think and it did make me streach- one of my personal goals for this class.    I am almost ready to start adding hand work and machine drawing on the surface of this piece.

 

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This project continue to move forward.   I ran out of velco for the connections so I am at a bit of a stand still.  I have ordered more and now I just wait for it’s arrival.

Please send a comment and let me know what you think about what I am doing.

Keep Creating

Carol