Category Archives: Pock Marked

Work Space

PoppyHello,

Summer is upon us now with all its wonders.  I love how fast a beautifully the flowers are opening and changing the landscape.   This Poppy is from Regina’s garden wereIMG_3762 I was visiting yesterday.    I enjoy her work an find her approach exciting.      One of the things she is working on is printing on fabric with a linoleum block and then quilting into the image.  She added the red thread to emphasize the blossoms.   She has asked a friend to enlarge the image and print it on the fabric for her so there will be even more of this image in her future work.      IMG_3760

I also spent time with Nancy this week doing some dye painting.  She could not find the color she wanted for one of her works and decided to paint to get what she wants.     I am proud of her.

 

IMG_3785  Through this door is the studio.  I think it is very important to have a place of your own to work.   I have a wonderful converted garage space for my studio.  I has had several lives before it became my space.  I served as a bedroom for two different  boarders, my daughter and  young  grand kids and then for  Eric and myself.      Now it is my refuge for creative work.  It has a wonderful bay window in the front and a door out side on the east wall. A long four foot deep closet in the back with book shelves is were I store most of my fabrics, yarns and papers as well as my felting machine.     I have filled the space with  my stuff and it suits me well.  Studio This first shot  is from the door looking toward the front of the house.       My desk/ sit down work space is a U in this far corner.  I enjoy using my Grandmother Ruth’s sewing table as a work space for my own machine.     That is one leg of the U and the desk its self is the other two sides.desk

I spend most of my time working in this area of the room..By walking strait across the room from the door and looking back this shot shows the view.form the door  Here is my cutting table with a small ironing board on the top at the far end.   The pin wall is also along that wall.  Next to that I have a book case that is full of projects in progress as I like to keep materials all together until I have completed an idea.  northeast cornerThis view is achieved when one walks diagonally  from the  point of view of the second shot into corner I just described  and  look back. ( the end of the sewing machine is on the lower right )  Here one can see the book shelves.  The have lots of quit books and reference materials as well as my tin container collection.  They serve as storage for sequins, oils sticks, markers,  special fabric bits and small items that I find inspirational.   In the corner the  plastic drawer unit  is full of beads, paints, buttons, lace trims and other attachments.   My guest chair, also shown,  often serves as a staging area for hand work that  will be done outside the studio.    I feel fournate to have such a wonderful work area and I enjoy it almost daily.

 Modeled surface Progress Report ;  Modeled Surface    I used lots of surface altering techniques on this work. This red purple section is from the Deconstructed Screen Printing class from the fall.

IMG_3773 The light blue is from some dyeing I did with the QuEGs  group last spring.  IMG_3780This dark blue is from a day I spent playing with paint in my own studio.  I was doing tape resist on the fabric and then running the roller over it. IMG_3775The left side of this images shows printing on an old table cloth and the right side is a double print of a silk screen.  It was a fun challenge to use only fabrics that I had altered myself.

Insect OlogyIMG_3769I am still working on the free motion part of this work.   I so liked the shapes of these leaves  that I used them several places in the quilt to fill in the sections.   I like finding inspiration from the fabric for my free motion work.

FlagFlag-Continue I only finished one flag this week.    This one is Susan’s design and her quote too.   I just added the flowers.   Now I only have five to finish before Tue next week so that project will get lots of my attention.

 

IMG_3758New Work  True to the way I work I have pulled out a new patch of fabric and pinned it to the wall.    I always like to audition  fabrics before I use them.

Label Block

IMG_3784  Two more are now completed.

Keep Creating

Carol

Travel Log

 

Barb's TulipsHello,

I am home from a wonderful trip and I still seem to be flying along with lots of new experiences.     Maine was/is beautiful as it too awakens to spring.    I enjoyed the tulips in Barb’s yard and took lots of pictures.   There are so many wonderful colors.  IMG_3703We visited two artists with studios on this trip.   The first was Elizabeth Busch’s place.   She is working on a new commission for  the state capital building in Augusta. IMG_3699 This is a shot of the models.    She is building in her wonderful weaving on bird netting.IMG_3680She carefully explained how she used her photos of different parts of Maine to build the landscape that she wanted for the project.  She refers to them often E- full wallas she works with the weaving to keep the colors close to the natural look she is building.  She has  a large collection of printed and painted strips of plastic to choose from when she is working.  Elizabeth IMG_3693 sometime weaves as many as four strips into one section to create theIMG_3692 color she wants for rocks, trees, water and other  natural elements.       She is working on all three panels at one time so they will flow into one another as they spin from the three eye beams in the lobby.    The job needs to be More weavingcompleted by September so she will have a busy summer.

The second Studio was that of Nanci  Kohn  She is a photographer and paper  Mache’ artist.   Nanci Kohn She too was very willing to talk about her process and work.      I really love this song bird that is covered in sheet music.

IMG_3734We then stopped and looked at a welded sculpture of an Osprey on a bridge on our way to Portland.     It was an enjoyable and stimulating trip as travel always seems to be for me.

IMG_3740   Tuesday the FAB group meant here.  Patti had nearly completed this   happy little wall hanging.  I like how she used buttons and beads for the eyes of the kittens.

Judy was busy working IMG_3742on a new sweater.  She is doing hand embroidery stitched flowers on it now to add more interest.  I like the soft colors she is using.

ConsiderationProgress Report:  Paper Quilt- Consideration

I am done working on the surface of this project.  I want to add a sleeve in a different manner than I have with previouse paper quilts,because it is so wide.  I want to make the slat removable for this one.     The papers that I started with were from a Gelli print play day last fall.   I have enjoyed doing all the  stitching on this one and adding textures

IMG_3747IMG_3750 I added painted and melted tyveck for that texture.  I used both sides so some areas have the bubble up and some have the bubble down.

IMG_3751.jpgHand Bag  I made a new hand bag out of some of the wonderful fabric that Regina gave me a few weeks ago.   It is time to switch to a summer color so I put the old one( it was browns and blacks) away.

Place Mats  When   I was sorting through the material for the hand bag I pulled fabric for place mats too.  These are the newly  finished  batch.  I have stacks  two more  sets setting on the cutting table.

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Pock Marked IMG_3757  I am working on the free motion portion of the quilting on this project.  It is going slowly as I am trying to find lines to follow for all the stitching and it is very complex in some areas.

Insect Ology   I am to the Insect Ologyfree motion quilting on this project too.  It is a much different process than Pock Marked- much more a reflective process.   It is good for me to switch from one type of free motion work to the other.

IMG_3755Flag – Rejoice   For the experiment on this  flag I drew on the surface with magic markers and then stayed it with rubbing Alcohol.  I hung it on the line so it would run down as it dried.   Not all the makers ran because they were different types of markers.     The “Sharpies” rand the most.   The quote is” Rejoice  in the common place.” from an unknown source.

Flag- Find Ecstasy  Rerjoice This flag does not have much in the way of experimentation.  But when I found this quote  l knew I had to use it.    It is from Emily Dickenson:  “Find ecstasy in life – the mere sense of living in joy is  enough.

IMG_3662More Minions  I  am now finished with the last four minions.  I will pass them along to friends who need a lift as I come across them.

I hope summer is on everyone’s door step.

Keep Creating

CarolTulips 2