Category Archives: Three Grand Sons

Summer Days

 

Bubbles at the lakeHello,

Its summer here and I am enjoying the weather.  I spent a day on the lake with my art friends and enjoyed myself toughly.  As the pictures shows we played with bubbles and it was great fun.  I especially like how the bubbles still floating in the air are lightly reflated in the water.

The first TuesdayLinda's work of the month was this week so I had meetings.   First I went to the QuEGs meeting.   Linda is making great progress and quilting on her quilt.    She will be teaching this construction method at her quilt guild next month.   007 Barb was on a completion of work push last month and she showed us four works.  I like this one with all its texture.

009Liz did a shop hop and got into the Row by Row  game along with the shop license plate thing.     She will be busy at the machine for a while now.

Then I went off to theSharon's pannelDiva meeting.   Sharon got things started with her wonderful hand printed  screen.  There is a layer of organza on top with light green leaves printed on it too.

Lori's workLori  was  also on a finish up mission this month.  She completed three of her little works.   This one features a hand made button o the left.   I love how she builds up so many layers of stitching in her work.

Susan 035037  is looking and then working on old work with a new eye.    The dolls were started long ago and the wood cuts were as well.    It is always a challenge to return to unfinished business after time.  Her life style of living six months in Florida  and six months in New York means she does this all the time.   Quite a challenge in its self.

Anne  Anne is doing a powerful job with this work on grasslands and concrete.  I love how the roads add to the broken feeling of the trees.

Alice is working of getting041 ready for

the Art Trail.  I like this happy little fox work the best this time.

We had three visitors from the PEEPs group at this meeting.  They Pirscilla's workkindly showed us their work too.  Perscilla  is working on this great quilt using some of the Mola’s she has collected over the years.  I really like how she put space between each panel  and the red and green patchwork boarder is a strong addition too.

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used in this piece.   I admire how she used the blue and orange together.

MarciaMarcia explained her  personal challenge for this quilt.   I like how she created great depth with all her own hand dyed fabric.

 

 

Progress Report: Relinquished Relinquiated RegionRegion    After the Diva meeting I felt I had to change the title of  this work.   Formerly it was called By the Shore.    This new title helps give more of a feel for the location.   I really enjoyed working on this project.  Some areas must have eight or nine layers of fabric work087088

with lots of stitches on the surface.   I so wanted the long vertical to be dark- but not black.  Building that area was a great challenge to me.    There are a wide variety of fabrics and yarns in this work: Silk paper, silk  organza, velvet, wool, close up valor, yarn, netting, upholstery fabric, rust dyed cotton and burlap.   If it was the write color –I used it.  Some areas took up to six hours to complete.

 

Working in a man's worldWorking in a Man’s World   Not until I took this to the QuEGs meeting did I see how a turn of 90 degrees could save this work.   I was just about ready to call it a lost cause when some one suggested I rotate it.

   081 The difference was amazing.   This only  reinforces how important having a support group is to me.       083Working

The hand work also adds to the work.

 

075   Name Game IV- Three Grandsons  This quilt also got finished this week.     Each of the boys is done in a different color.  It makes for a nice overall movement.077  I like too, how some of the lines meet across the seam lines. 078

 

Label Block       This block is number 15 in the series.  My pile is building ever so slowly.074_thumb.jpg

Keep enjoying summer and Creating too.

Hugs

Carol

 

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Visits

 

Unbroken Circle
Unbroken Circle

Hello,

This quilt-” Unbroken Circle”  is by my friend Sally Dutko.  I purchased it from her before I went to Indiana and I am enjoying it a great deal.   I think I can learn from  looking at the details of  this work.   I made the trip to Sally Dutko’s studio sale before I went off to Indiana.  She has a wonderful space with lots of display areas.   She is an artist I have long admired and I was fortunateSally to purchase one of her works for my self.  I will be very sorry when she makes her final move from this area.   She has given me great advice about my work in the past.

Indiana 15 057I had a wonderful time on my trip to Indiana.  Barbie is a wonderful hostess and we  did a lot during my stay.   We went to a visitors center in Nashville IN and looked at this wonderful Chihuly  among other things.   Indiana-15-013.jpg

This work, “Family Life”  by Susan Else, was a part of a wonderful show at the  Carnegie Center for  Arts and History in New Albany IN.   The works were  all excellent and we enjoyed ourselves.     Got me to thinking about some new approaches too.    Making our viewers choice created lots of discussion among the four of us.

We spent two days in Barbie’s  studio doing silk painting.  Indiana 15 063Indiana 15 076This strong scarf is her work.   Her work is wonderfully complex and she sells them at the Holiday event in town.   My work on the other hand is quite simple.   Barbie has developed this  wonderful stretch technique with pipes, rubber bands, rings and clips.  It is so very flexible that she can adapt it most sizes of silk that she wants to use just by moving the parts around.    The process of adding the guta was was easy and clean.       I have not done this type of thing in a long time and it dose require skill.my silk work

This top one came home with me as we got some work steam set on Sunday .  The second one is still in  Indiana with Barbie.  She will mail Indiana-15-074_thumb.jpgit to me when it is steamed too.

 

Hand work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report:   Hand Work   I  felt I needed to take some hand work with me to Indiana so I started this piece.    The base is a silk screen  I did a while ago.  I did a lot of couching on the surface and then added some of the slices from the jelly roll felting that I did last fall at Cheri’s Blue Moon studio.  I am enjoying the process.

Three Grand sons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Name Game- Three Grand Sons

I worked on this one before I left and again when I got  home.   I  have cut the three names into 4.5” squares and I am in the process of moving and playing with placement now.  When I am happy with that I will stitch them all together.

002_thumb.jpgCurvy Cuts – New Project    I got such positive feed on my work on “Encounters” that I had to go looking through my stash of fabric and make a second starter for a similar project.    I do enjoy cutting the curves more  every time I do it.    I have the other hand work project too so this one will not be seen again for a while.

 

Van Goth    When I went to Van gothMaine  in April I purchased a panel print of Van Goth’s Iris’s.  I though it would be a  good place for me to practice free motion work.  I tend to get excited and my stitches are not uniform in size.    So I have been doing little bits of this picture to help me build some uniformity .

Near the Shore   I am working away on this  piece.  There are lots of Near the Shorebits of different colored fabrics and yarns  building up on top of one another with this one.  I am building  rich color layers like a painter.

 

Spray Paint    When we went to visit Elizabeth she showed us her spray painted works.  They were amazing. 008.jpg  Marty and I tried it when we got home.  Control was much more difficult then we both expected- but we had fun.  I have tried to build a work using some of that material.   At this point I do not feel it is at all successful.  Even adding hand work did not seem to pull the piece together or give it the focus I think it needs.    Perhaps so input from my Diva and QuEG’s friends will help save this.   I am willing to just say it was a learning experience too.

005_thumb.jpgLabel Blocks    I have two blocks this time as two weeks have passed by.

Keep Creating

Carol

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More on Lines

Summer flowersHello-

I just had to post these flowers today.  I love both the color and the contrast in textures.        I have not been very good about

Street linesconcentrating on lines as I intended to be this year.  But I took a renewed look this week.     I was caught by the lines on the street and thought the are indeed one type of line- strait.  They are a lines of direction and ones of illusion.  They create a feeling of depth on a flat surface and lead the eye back in space.    Most art is an illusion and a  bit of magic.  I say magic  because  if one looks at the materials ( paint, pastels, fabrics and yarns) that an  artists starts with-it is nothing but magic when one looks at the end result.

Encounters 26" X 25"
Encounters
26″ X 25″

Progress Report:  Encounters This is my newest completed hand embellished work.  I put a postage stamp on the lower left to help with scale.  It is a standard size- but I am not happy with it.  So I will keep looking for an item to add along the side to help give the viewer a clue as to the size of the piece.

104 - CopyThis work has more of the fabric form the discharge screen printing class in it.  The  dark fabric is a Judy Roberts piece form her monthly mailing.   It came in January and I just knew I had to use it with the white material.   I think they play well together. 105 - Copy106 - CopyI have enjoyed doing the various stitches on the surface of this piece.  I only did machine work as stitch in the ditch on some of the seams  to hold it together. 107 - Copy

  By the ShoreBy the shore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am ready to start to build up the dark sections of this work.  I want it to feel deep – not just black so I am going slowly.     I like all the textures too

Name Game- Three Grand Sons    This is the next one in the series. Stage one here with Nick and Ben.  Both positive and negative shapes are shown here.

090091094 Gavin shows the second cut of the fabric.   It is already getting difficult to read the name.   I will slice all three  of the names into 4.5″ blocks and shuffle them next and put them all together for the top of this quilt.

New Work  New workThis top is all put together now.  It seems quite weak to me so I will have to do some wild machine work on top to  pull it into a work of some interest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scrap Happy 108  Sense I sold one more of my Scrap Happies to Beth  and there is a wedding for  Barb’s son coming up I started more work on these types of quilts.  The one with the red and black centers  is all setScrap II in rows. This shot is only three rows.

This second with three shades of blue as it’s centers   is not as far along When the rows are all assembled .  I will make scarp backs for the two of them.   They are always fun.

 

 

New Hand Work   Becausehand work I always want to have some hand work to do I laid out and pinned up this new start for my next hand challenge.  The white base has a bit of screen printing in pink on it.  I added some organza, yarn, silk paper and some of the felt slices  I made as a part of a play day with Cheri  had last fall.     I will be using mostly the same colors of yarn and floss as I did  for “ Encounters”. 

 

 

 

 

 

Spray paintedSpray Painted    I plunged in and started the quilting on this one this week.     I am outlining the reds and purples and then inventing the areas on the solid units on this top.   I am enjoying the process, but I am not sure about what I am doing.

 

 

092Label Block   I just keep working away on these little fellows.

I will be away next week so there will be no post again until July 2.

Keep Creating

Carol