Category Archives: Bird Land

Bird Land, Diva Meetings, Fabric Collage Constructions, Fall Fires, Felt Work, Label Blocks, Natural Elements, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs)

Deep in Fall

 

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I am finding the fall color all around me now.   And there is a lot on the ground.  I raked big piles to the street yesterday.  The leaf piles are deep .     This week was the beginning  of the month and so I had meetings with both QuEGs and Divas on Tuesday.   IMG_6759Sally started us off with a warm and fuzzy baby quilt for her grand child.    Linda  showed

IMG_6766.jpgus the project she had completed from her class at QBL this summer.    Liz was just home from Nancy Crow’s  Barn and she had some great work to share too.  She is mixing her drawing skills with her fabric work.

IMG_6767Sue Ellen is playing with line.   It was a good meeting.  The I went off to the Diva meeting in the evening.  There again folks have been busy with projects and events. Regin's work

Regina is doing great free motion machine  drawing.  I like her use of layers of fabric for this too.  Anne and Ruth both took a Shobori class at the Schweinfurth  and the results are wonderful.IMG_6787  I look forward to seeing these wonderful fabrics in new works.

MaureenMaureen showed her finished Shobori quilt.  She will be teaching these techniques in the spring.

Maureen also shared some antique quilt blocks she picked up on her trip to Maine.    I really like the wonderful stitches.IMG_6783

Alice's workAlice showed us the progress she is making on “The Bed” quilt.  She had such a strong style!

IMG_6776Lliesa  has finished her  village piece.  “The Tracks Divide Us” the title.

IMG_6801.jpgProgress Report: Bird Land   This quilt is 50” lone and 49” wide.  I started this quilt in Class with Rosalie Dace and the assignment  was to choose a shape and repeat it against a  patterned background.  I also added to the challenge by using the negative space too. IMG_6803  I did reflective quilting on this surface to fill it in. IMG_6807

Fall Fires IMG_6795.jpg  This stretch work is 30” X 22”.      This work is my second attempt to use my collage build up technique and try to pull away from the  “rock” imagery that is where I usually go.   IMG_6796  I enjoyed mixing the wool, organza and silks to build up this work.IMG_6798

New work  1, 2, 3    #2When I finish a work I usually get going on  a new piece.  I have drawn out three new layouts for work that use the collage build up technique.     This one  had the felt base built in.IMG_6788 With this one I a building up with bits and scraps of fabric fist.    There is a third but it  is  just lines on the black wool.

Self Challenge self challenge   I stated this self challenge this week too.  I want to do seven little works that are all the same size using a strip section and a circle cut from that strip unit.   I did not know how to cut away the circle and maintain the strip unit so I could rotate the circle and re insert it.  But the folks at the Diva meeting gave me two possible ways to do that.  I think I am ready to go forward now.

IMG_6813.jpgLabel Blocks # 90 & 91   I continue to do the work.  I am going to hunt up a stitch book this week to make some more exciting stitches though.

Keep Crating

Carol

Bird Land, Curvie Cuts, Fall Fires, Felt Work, Label Blocks, Leaving the Land, Natural Elements

Time

 

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This week has been the usual one full of events and I did not get as much time in the studio as I usually do.   That realization has made me think about how I am not guarding my time as I really should.  I need to say “No Thank you” to protect that studio time.    Not and easy task as I so enjoy the company of others.  But as I grow older I realize there is not an infinite amount of time and one must choose how it is spent.    IMG_6722

This shot is of Patti teaching Nancy how to use the loom.   We all did a little weaving at the FAB meeting this week.  It was fun  and now I have a new “Mug Rug” as Patti calls it.IMG_6748_thumb.jpg

Leaving the Land

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report:   Leaving the Land This work is  20”l X 26” w, got it stretched this week.  When I showed it to my friend Diane she said it looked like an air view of  lakes and  mountains.  So I knew I was successful in what I was shooting for.   IMG_6754  I do enjoy working with the fleece and  silk paper in combinations with yarns and threads to build up the surface.   IMG_6755 The surfaces become so very deep and rich.   IMG_6753

 

 

Bird Land  Bird Land I am to the machine quilting stage with this work now.   It is going smoothly and I am a little beyond half way done at this point.   It is enjoyable.

 

Fall FiresFall Fires   This work is ready for stretching at this point.   Hopfully the ripples will pull out when that is done.       I had to make a run to the Art Store to purchase additional stretchers.  I could have used what I had and lost a lot of the surface, but I decided that this piece deserved as much of the surface showing as possible.  I have to keep telling myself I will not do this again and there fore it is worth the effort to do the job properly.

New Work IMG_6746The curvy  cut work I started last week got some hand work attention this week.  I pulled out all the fibers and threads that I thought might work on the surface and started working.  The big size of this piece means I will be at it a long while.

IMG_6741.jpg Label Blocks  # 88 and # 89  Two more done.     This new effort to do two a week is good as I see the  pile building.

Keep Creating

Carol

Bird Land, Curvie Cuts, Fall Fires, Label Blocks, Leaving the Land, Queen Anne's Lace

Fall Color

 

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On my walks this week I have been enjoying the fall colors.  There is such a wide range.   I love the oranges and reds as they contrast with  the greens, but the browns and rusts have a beauty of their own.IMG_6632  I was stopped by the  deep Purple leavespurple\ blue  I found on the ground here.   So many colors!   There are also lots of mushrooms in various colors out now as well.     I have taken a lot of  photos of the IMG_6681 trees and bark too.  I am sure I will have a good supply to begin some new work with.  So keep your eyes open and while you are enjoying the season and perhaps you too may become inspired to start a new project.Under tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethel's Nine PatchProgress Report:  Ethel’s Nine Patch   I

 

 

finished the double bed quilt this week.  I sure enjoyed working on this project and thought of Ethel every step along the way.    The back is all done in her black and white scraps too and the quilt is reversiable.Back of Ethel's nine Patch I think this side will be the winter side.

 

 

 

Queen Anne's LaceQueen Anne’s Lace This quilt is

26” l X 18” wide.   It is one of my works that is built on the curvy cut system.   I quilted in lines of the wind with  the same curvy feel.IMG_6709I enjoy the hand work that I put into the surface of this work.   IMG_6711

 

 

Fall FiresFall Fires  I am still working away on this piece.   I am just about ready to begin to build in the smoke around the flames.   The bottom area is not done either.

 

 

 

 

 

Leaving the LandLeaving the Land  I put in time on this felt based work this week too.  It is much closer to being complete then Fall Fires.   There are only islands of spaces were I need to do the free motion work.   The dark area on the far left about half way up is an example of a space where I need to add stitching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bird landBird Land  I have assembled the top for this work at this time.   It sort of got out of my control as far as size is concerned.   I do not usually work quite this big on art quilts.    I will do a little drawing of possible  free motion quilt patterns  that have a bird motif this week before I begin that step.

 

 

 

Curvy CutIMG_6694 As I finished the last curvy cut piece, Queen Anne’s Lace, I thought I should begin a new work in that vain.  Again I used Randy’s deconstructed screen printed fabric as my starting place.    It is about 41”  l X 37” w   a little big for this type of project.( Is there a theme here?) IMG_6697I have pulled a  pile of fibers and threads  that I might  use to embellish this project.

 

 

Label Block # 86 #87  Label Blocks #  86 #87

I am working away on this project too.    Only 69 more blocks to go.

Keep your eyes open in this time of wonderful fall color and enjoy creating

Carol