Category Archives: One for Me

Spring Changes

IMG_5644Hello,

This week has been a quiet one with not a lot of activates.  I have done a lot of work on the computer and getting ready for shows and such and put in alot of time in the studio.  But beyond on that I have mostly enjoyed the rapid transformation that Mother Nature is doing to the plants.  The grass is so much greener.    As the leaves unfurl the long views of the neighborhood are cutting down. IMG_5646.jpgThere is a wonderful feeling of being surrounded/ hugged by the natural world around me.  Every day there are more buds opening and green things sprouting.  I love it.

Progress Report:  Two for You, One fore Me

Two for You,One for MeI pulled out this work started by Ethel and worked away on it this week.  The two trees; center and right were created by Ethel and I added the one on the left for balance. IMG_5641 They were all bare trees at the beginning of the week and as the outside world added foliage so too did I.   IMG_5642

 

Ice in VincentIce on Vincent   I put in a lot of time on this work this week.   Thread painting is a very slow process but I so like how it looks.   IMG_5627  It is another form of texture to me.  I only started adding the ice yesterday.   Fortunately I have several types of organza to build with so I can make the surface look similar to the photo I am working from.

 

Blue Stone

Blue Stone     This work also involves lots of thread work so it too is still  in the building stage.     Again I am adding lots of ribbon, nylon netting, organza and  thread texture to the surface of the piece.IMG_5630

 

 

Memory Map Columbus JunjctionMemory Map: Columbus Junction   This work also got attention this week.  It is also a slow process as I do the machine drawing of specific events and things on this project.  I tried drawing myself as a six year old on tissue paper and then following that lines on the sewing machine.   It took several tries to get a image I am half way happy with.   IMG_5635   I added the nylon netting on the ballet skirt because I remember how very scratchy  it was.  The little matching skirt on my doll is lost in all the netting though.     I had better  luck drawing directly on the organza and then stitching on the lines like on the child climbing the slide.IMG_5636  This morning I did drawing and painting on the organza to create the wild flowers I remember being so abundant  around that house.    Plants I will stitch them down using black thread and they will be a lot easier to see I think.    I am sure I am not the first to try to adding  this type of detail to my work.  I just am inventing as I do not know of any other way to find out what works.

IMG_5640  Scrap Happy   I did work on  this project to balance out the careful intense work of the first three mentioned here.   I have made so many  of these quilts that I do not even need to think much when I am working on them.    Some times I need that type of work.

 

 

Along the Shore       When I finished the tree project I went back into the UFO Ethel box and pulled out this  photo she had transferred to fabric.  The I read an article in the April May issue of Quilting Arts about a way to Make a Mixed-Media Landscape , and thought I would try that technique with the photo.IMG_5633This is what I have so far.  I need  to do some hand work on the surface now.

New Project    A possible title  for this work is Wine and Cheese as the colors suggest that to me.  IMG_5625  It is in the very early stage.  Again it is a process that I know well  and I needed to begin this  to help balance off all the machine drawing that   Ice and Blue Stone require.

Label Block # 49Label Block #49     They just seem to keep getting there little bits of attention and in doing so get completed.

Keep Creating

Carol

 

One last spring thing.   May ApplesIMG_5647.jpg