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Anastasie Ruin, Bacterial Bloom, Blooming Bacteria, Curvie Cuts, Egyptian Quilts, Eric's Thoth, Felt Work, Green Nebula, Landscapes, Sunny Crannies

July 11, 2013 Summer Days

July 11, 2013 admin

Hello,

I feel we have reached the slow days of summer when Mother Nature really does her magic. I have noticed on my walks changes especially in the trees. Hickories, pines and oaks all have immature versions of the seeds to come in fall. Because of all of the rain we have experienced here, I think the apples will be really big this year because the green ones on the trees now are already bigger then gulf balls. Nature provides me with a visual feast each day.

I am getting ready to attend the Quilting By the Lake conference. I so look forward to seeing my friends and to getting stimulated by lots of new ideas and thoughts about the art of quilting. In preparation for that work I had to do a bit of sorting. One thing lead to another and I ended up pulling all the fabric out of the closet and refolding and stacking it. This shot shows the job as it neared completion. As you can see I have lots of fabric. This activity not only cleaned up the shelves, and sorted out the material that I need for my projects, but it also made me realize I do not need to purchase anything new. I hope I can stay to that resolution over the next two weeks while I am there and tempted by the fabrics of the venders. I am doing two weeks of Independent study this year and I plan to keep working on the Rocks and Canyon series. I will allow my self to find other ideas as well. Please be aware that there will not be any posts for the two weeks of QBL. Then we plan on a little vacation so this will be the last post until Aug 8.

Anastasi Ruins 18" X 24" $ 110.00 — Anastazi Ruins
18″ X 24″
$ 110.00

Progress Report: Anastazi Ruins
This work is complete now. I have really enjoyed putting the silk paper into this work. It makes the feel of the flow of the rocks really work for me. I liked doing the free motion work to add texture to the surface too. The other thing I tried here and on the Sunny Crannies quilt was adding torn strips of satin to the surface. The strips were slender so they folded in on them selves and they flipped over that also added to the textural changes that were created.

I ended up not using the painted unit I posted last week on the ruins. It was just too much. But I did add nylon net to the top of the cave area to help with the darkness.

Sunny Crannies

This quilt is a part of the Rock Face series. I really seem to be fascinated by the surfaces of road cuts and cliffs. This one came from on of the photos that I took in Idaho a few weeks ago. Here I went back to the free cut method to put the work together. Rocks do not break in continual strait lines most of the time so the free cut is the only way to get the correct feel.

This shot shows that I also turned the brown commercial fabric over and use the “back” side to get another tone to the surface.

I used some of the fabric that Marty and I discharged in this quilt along with some slender torn gray jean fabric as well. I really like this plus the satin surfaces on the work. Finally I used more of the silk paper here too. This piece of silk paper has some glitter and gold added to the silk as well as the color. I look forward to teaching this technique with the Quilt Exploration Group in September.

Rounds

This project is moving along nicely for me. It is changing under my finger tips however, but one needs to be open to that as it happens. All the circles are stitch down now and it has been washed so there is fraying of the shapes. I plan to slice the top and invert one or more to the slices before I reassemble it. I also want to add so yarn appliqued to the surface to add more texture. I will then have to see what the quilt tells me to do.

Eric’s Thoth

Thoth is the Egyption god of writing. I intended to complete this quilt for my husbands birthday. That happens to be today so I will not make it. But I am sure he will accept it later. He is an English teacher and worked on his collage publication called ” Thoth” so this seems like a good idea to me. I made the stencils- Thoth, the Eye or Horis and the Eagle mouths ago, but never put them together until now.

The scarab stencil is even older. I added the scarab after the whole top was assembled as I discovered that the area needed an addition.

I enjoyed adding the Hiroglyphs to this project too although I did them before I assembled the top. I have had this set of stamps sense I taught school and I used them with the kids. Here I spelled out ” Eric the Teacher” using the Heiroglyph guild book.

Green Nebula

I keep working on the beading work on this quilt. I am just about ready to do the quilting now. About three more evening of watching TV should to the trick to finish the beading step. Then I will begin the hand quilting.

Blooming Bacteria

Here again I made my background using the free hand cut method. I did the cut and flip thing on this background too. The red circles are just pinned to the surface now . When I get the placement exactly were I want it I will satin stitch them down and begin hand work. I imagine it will be a while before this work reappears again, as the work I do at QBL will probably capture my attention for a while. I wanted to have this work started because I have made all the “add ons” and I do not want to forget the direction while I am away.

I will look forward to posting again Aug 8.

Keep Creating

Carol

Anastasie Ruin, Landscapes, Rock Face, Uncategorized

July 4 2013 Happy Birthday United States

July 4, 2013 admin

Hello,

I hope this day is full of delight for everyone. We will have family over for a cook out this eve and later enjoy our local fire works. This week was a full as they all seem to be at this time of year. Starting a new mouth always means meetings for me. The Quilt Exploration Group meant and was lively as ever. Angela continues to work on her Ta-pa Cloths series. She prints the fabric in neutral colors and then embroiders another ta-pa pattern on top. The dark brown image is done in French Knots. Sally really has gotten to know her new embroidery machine this year. She has been creating feathered star patterns in fabric and thread all winter. The fabric is yellow and the dark blue in this star- the rest is all created with thread! Even those many points. There are 36 stars on this quilt and I just kept looking and looking. It is so awesome. Not only were the stars powerful so too was the quilting in the white area. Sally did an excellent job putting it together too.

I am regretful that this shot is so poor- but the colors in Noel’s silk circles are so powerful that I had to present it non the less. Hopefully I will learn to check the image after the shot instead of assuming it is OK.

The Diva meeting was full of new ideas too. Susan is collaging/painting pictures of some of her puppets. She wants to create depth with organza as well as paint. I am sorry that the photo does not show the fact that the arm of the puppet on the right is made of tin and sticks out from the surface. And All the suttelness of the organza is lost in the photo.

Alice is working on a paper construction for a recycle show that she wants to be part of. She has created this ” water unit” all out of privacy envelopes. The paper is surprisingly strong when it is stitched together even though she still has only one layer. She held up envelopes with green and some with black images on them for use as trees and rocks. I hope we get to see the finished work.

Sharon grabbed my camera and took this shot of me holding up my Fossil Bed quilt.

One of my followers asked if I was worried about copy wright of my images. That topic also came up in the June/July issue of Quilting Arts and Jane Da’vila provided a little section about water marks on page 72. ( There is a survive at Digimarc.com if you are interested) Taking that action would protect one’s work. I am always very careful to ask permission about shooting the work of my fellow artists and there are times when they do say “No”, witch is there right. But my feeling about my images is a little more open. I do not feel anyone can really copy my work and if they are so in need of my material, that they steal it – I hope it serves them well. That is not to say that I do not value my work- I do. But I just do not choose to spend my energy in that fashion. I prefer to keep creating new things and for the most part I have enough. For that I am truly Thankful! I hope this source helps anyone who needs it.

Progress Report: Rock Face This first shot is a close up of the quilt work. I am using the silk paper I created with Ethel to add texture and color to the surface. This image also shows the rust dyed fabric in the background and the torn silk I stitched on top for additional texture. I used some of the fabric from our discharged day with Marty in this work too. It took me a long time to decide how to go about quilting this work. But I am quite excited about working on it now.

Anastasie Ruin This work got attention this week too. I tried painting the actual ruin on organza- and I am not sure it works. The scale is off some how. I plan to make a second organza unit and add it on top of the work. I am going to embellish with the silk paper an strips of fabric here too. Again I am filled with doubt about where to go with the quilt step of the work. But I think that if I get the dwellings defined then the rest will take care of its’ self.

Untitled
Noel’s quilt from the QEG’s meeting just would not leave me mind so I decided that I needed to play with circles too. I though I might mix them with the raw edgue idea I was playing with a few weeks ago. ( that work , although not tossed yet – is still in a questionable state) I also played with several different textures here- silk , velvet and cotton. I hope I am not falling into one of my typical patterns of trying to do too much in one work….. but I guess only time will answer that. I though I was making a back ground for all the black and red fiber rings I have been creating- but this is not the home for those creations.

Star Wars Quilt I did finish a little practical work this week as well. The Star Wars quilt is twin size and for my grandson. He picked out all the fabrics and although I think it is busier than I would have selected, he is delighted.

I hope the holiday creats delightful memories for all.

Keep Creating

Carol

Before the Bud, Canyon De Chelly- Mummy Cave ruin, From the Pavement, Greek Butterflies, Landscapes, Machine Drawing, Mapping the Ruins, Natural Elements, Urbam Beauty

May 23 2013, Spring Walks

May 23, 2013 admin

Hello Friends,

I have been out doing my walking in the early morning to make sure I really follow through. It seems so easy to put it off and then get

involved in other things. So I was not walking in the afternoon at all. Much better to start the day with the walk and it will soon be hot in the afternoons as well. Anyway it has been a glorious feast for the nose of late. What with blooming Honeysuckle, Lilac and a beautiful Dog Wood to mention a few I have really enjoyed starting my days with a walk. I seem to be more aware of the world in the morning as well so I am very glad that I have made this switch.

Friday last week I went to the Turquoise Street Studio and meant with some of the gals from the painting class from the weekend before. Deb had gone back in and did additional work on this painting of limes. I really think it works. This picture is of a new painting Deb did based on the class work too. The class effected all of us. This next images is of Beth doing a value sketch in preparation for a new pastel. The teacher had suggested using a gray paper sketch book so one only needed to do the tonal work by drawing in black and white. Beth is doing just that. I did hand work as I seem to take longer to digest the Value idea into my work. Yesterday I went to Ethel’s house to spend a day playing with silk paper. This photo is of Ethel mixing dye in preparation to the silk. Pam was also there and she did some fine silk paper too It was great fun and I created four different new sheets to use. I went with an eye to make the paper for a specific task and the results were great.

The gold sheet and perhaps the cream one as well are destine for one of the canyon painted surfaces I painted last week. The blue and purple paper I created because I wanted to see if one could add bits of yarn to the surface too. I think it will work well in a meadow idea I have in my head. It is always so much fun to work with others I always feel like I get so much more from these events then I contribute to them.

Before the Bud 17" X 26" $110.00 — Before the Bud
17″ X 26″
$110.00

Progress Report: Before The Bud

This quilt is completed now. I really enjoyed doing all the free motion work here. The colors really work for me as well. With this quilt I am changing my policy a bit. I am adding the price of the work to the image. After reading a third article were a buyer stated that she did not like having to contact the artist to find out about the price of work I decided to include that info in the image. Selling my work in not my goal, but I need the space so I will gladly do so. Besides for me, the act of creating is the most important part of the process. The Problem solving if you will.

Excavating the Ruins 21.5" X 31" $168.00 — Excavating the Ruins
21.5″ X 31″
$168.00

Excavating the Ruins
I have enjoyed working on this project due to all the great textures. I really like all the wholes here and that contrast adds a lot of interest to my eye. The map in white organza is of one of the cliff dwellings in Canyon de Chelly National Monument. In looking over it I though it needed a little more punch so I added a little petroglyph form the canyon for further interest. I found this little figure very fascinating.

Greek Butterflies 17.5 " X 25" $ 105.00 — Greek Butterflies
17.5 ” X 25″
$ 105.00

Greek Butterflies
I am very happy with how this quilt finally resolved its self. The lesson on Value came to play here when I took a second look at the distribution of darks on the week end. I had to take out some of the piecing and insert some more dark near the bottom before I was happy with it. I also realized I need to add something to the light block in the center of the quilt. So I drew in a butterfly of my own using the photos as direction. I added color after I had out lined the image. I was concerned with how to quilt this work. I knew I wanted to out line the butterflies but had no idea beyond that. I toyed with the idea of making the rest of the quilting a reflective of that outline pattern, but was not sure. So I then it hung on the wall for several days before I saw a photo of moth trails in Pinterest. Then I knew that was what the quilting patterns should be. I find this quilt to be very up lifting and the quilting pattern adds to that idea in my mind.

Mummy Cave Ruins
This shot shows a possible layout for the additions that I am planning on adding to this painted top that I started last week. On the far left is some of the wonderful silk paper that I created yesterday. In my origional photo there is a wall of stone that is in the foreground and I wanted to capture that feeling to some what frame the ruins. Hanging on the right is some painted inner facing that I may add to make the rocks a bit more colorful. Again I have added the oil stick stencil drawings to this work surface. I need to do some free motion work on the parts I am sure of before I know what will go where and if the places where they are pinned at the moment is the final location for them. Make visual decisions – Visually.

Urban Beauty – From the Pavement I was doing hand work on this at the Turquoise Street Studio last week. I am enjoying building up textures on this surface. The base units are lutador that has been painted with Lumiar paints and the white is gesso. ( lutador is a type of spun ground cloth that can be found at some hardware stores this time of year) I then melted it a bit with the heat gun to melt and distort the surface. I have done free motion drawing and the hand stitching to add to the complexity of the surface. I am not sure of were the work is leading me so I hang it often an look at the progress to know what I want to do next. This makes the process very slow, but worth it I think.

New Work
This is an attempt at a new direction. Sense I seem to keep getting hit over the head with this Values idea( even read about it in a book this week) – I thought I better pay attention. So I designed a block ( Check the light blue section in the lower right) . I tried to keep light med and dark in the same area- and did three different size variations on the block – small ( lower write) a little bigger ( lower left- this one is also turned 45 degrees) and large( look at the turquoise section) This is all new territory for me when it comes to designing and I am not sure it will or does work at all. But I want to stay sharp and open to new “roads” so I will keep playing- the challenge is the thing.

Enjoy the wonders of the season.

Hugs

Carol

Canyon De Chelly- Mummy Cave ruin, Chanyon De Chelly- Desert Vanish, Landscapes, Mapping the Ruins

May 16, 2013 Painting

May 16, 2013 admin

Dear Friends,

I feel very light hearted today because I spent most of my morning out doors. I took a painting workshop this weekend along with all my pastel pals. We were all looking to stretch a bit. The workshop was taught by Patti Mollica and was called ” Painting- Fast and Loose.” This fist shot is over Barbara’ shoulder of the first assignment. We were working on showing lights, mediums, and darks, in our work. The teacher gave us all a few photos to work from.This second shot is of my pears. The second painting we tried. I am not real happy with it, but I think I got the concept. Then on the second day we did more painting and she was pushing the fast and loose working part. We did five paintings that day. The first in the morning to worm up and then one forty five minute one. Followed by a half hour one and last we did two fifteen min works. That sure put us into the fast and loose part. The pomegranate is my favorite. The whole thing was fun and got me going with the painting again. Hence my happy feeling as I painted out doors this morning. I raised the level of my plastic table by setting the legs on four up turned flower pots so I could stand up and work. I painted fabric as starts for two more works based on the trip last June to Canyon De Chelly Nation Monument. This first shot is of the White House Ruin. I have rough out the color bases and will add layers on top with pastels, crayons and fabric pieces. I want to show the Desert Varnish on the walls of the canyon in this one. The second one is also from a picture I took on that trip. It is of the Mummy Cave Ruin. This time I want to work on showing the depth of the rock pocket of the canyon wall and how much color there was in the stone. There is lots of work to do here, but I am excited about it.

Progress Report: Mapping the Ruins

The Canyon trip really was on my mind this week and this work also has the influence of that trip in it. This piece has a traditional pieced fabric base in pinks and white. I am sorry I did not take a photo of this step before I went forward. Then I pinned tyvek that had been painted on both side with acrylic paint to the surface. I quilted through all the layers in a pattern that I had made. The pattern for the quilting was based on a map of the ruins of one to the pueblos in the cliff face of Canyon De Chelly. I had drawn that map last year in July for the class I took with Valerie Goodwin at Quilting By the Lake. I did not use the map in the work because it made the work too busy for my final piece. ( Check last week for the shot of White Tower in the Kendall Show- it’s intended home) This morning I took the heat gun to the tyvek and melted away some of the surface. I love the wholes in the surface that add to the idea of decay and deterioration. My next step will be to add the map that I have created on two layers of organza on top of the quilt. I will be trimming it down and stitching this map on top of the fabric and the tyvek to add yet another layer of depth to the work. That is the plan at this time any way.

Greek Butterflies This is a new top that grew our of some very old material. I took a class six years ago were we learned how to transfer photographic images to fabric. I fist mixed the side of a shingled building ( the gray)with a wonderful butterfly image that I had taken when I went to Greece. I printed the image on fabric in class. Then the fabric just kept shuffling around from one pile to another. Thinking on the painting class were our teacher Patti Mollica, spent a whole day on Light-Medium-Dark, I though I would try to use that idea. I had a good time and found out what many quilters know about there stashes – we have lots of mediums and not many lights or darks. Now I need to move forward on this piece- like how to quilt it…..

I hope spring and all it’s joys are filling you with creative juices and thoughts.

Hugs

Carol

Baby Quilts, Far Horizons, Landscapes

March 21, 2013 Shaving Cream Printing

March 21, 2013 admin

Dear Readers,

We may have passes the Vernal Equinox yesterday and the days may include more sunlight , but here in up state New York it is still very cold. I will really bundle up when I go for my walk today as it is still only 20 degrees in the sun shine. I have been staying indoors a lot and working in the studio although I do not have a lot of completed work to show. I have been playing with my thermofax screens. Again my connections with other quilts- specially members of QuEG’s has born fruit. At the March meeting Angela talked about using shaving cream as a carrier for ink with her screens. I have been playing with that too. What fun! I spent two days this week playing with this idea. One day was with my friend Ethel.

Pictured here are the tools, a plastic containor, spoons, the screen and fabric.The second shot shows the shaving cream( I got it at the dollar store) mixed up in smaller containers. The mixture is them spread on the top of the screen and using the edge of credit card one draws ink mixed in the shaving cream across the screen forcing the ink and shaving cream through the screen.

This shot shows the images printed on the fabric. It drys so fast that one can print a second color on top with out much time passing. Ethel and I tried also mixing dye with shaving cream and printing it too. It seemed to work as well, but the dye caused the shaving cream to break down quickly and them it runs and bleeds. That fabric is still batching so I do not have a shot of it yet as I have not washed it out.

Progress Report: Speculations on Value I have now finished this quilt. I really did enjoy the Mac Tavishim quilting patterns and went back and fixed the messy ones from last week. I am sure I will use this style again on a future work.

This close up also shows some old silk screen work on the white area pictured here.

Window Work I also put together this simple quilt to serve as a window cover in the west window of our bed room. It is made from navy blue fabric and leftovers from a “Scrap Happy” project from the fall. This is ready for quilting now and I will add those things plus a sleeve. Then it will go up in the bed room. I need to replace the cover on the east window too so that will be a second piece using even more of the leftovers.

Baby Quilt I am making this quit for the first grandchild of one of my good friends, Beth. The nursery theme is the jungle so that is how I got started. I have cut and pinned the giraffe, elephant,zebra and lion. The Kola, gazelle ,monkey and at the bottom, lizard remain in the paper pattern stage. I am a bit frustrated as the big sewing machine is not working correctly, but I will pull out the trusted Bernina 1008 and do the zig -zag applique when all the parts are cut.

Far Horizons This work is coming along. I am only showing a close up this week as it does not look much different than last. I have been doing all the quilting from the back side because I am using very heavy silk thread and do not have any needles for the machine with big enough eyes to do the job any other way. The thread was a gift from my friend Judy. Her grandfather was a tailor in NYC years ago and it was left over from his shop. I have had it for several years and I am delighted to finally be using this wonderful thread.

I am hoping for some warmer weather by next week.

Keep Creating

Carol

Adventure Challenge 2013, Far Horizons, Felt Work, Landscapes, Purple Trees, Stump Men

March 14, 2013 Day Light Savings Time

March 14, 2013 admin 5 Comments

Hello,

As I set here at the computer I feel like I am running behind. The clock has been set forward for Day Light Savings Time, but my body is not making the adjustment. I wake up, and can not believe that it is so late. And that in turn makes me feel like I am behind all day long. I am sure that the fact that my husband is on spring break and we are not setting the alarm also adds to my slow adjustment. Mother Nature is not helping either. I am rearing to go when it is sunny and nice- It got up to60 degrees one day, but days like today when the snow is flying again make me want to stay in the winter cocoon -I call bed. I the fact that I forgot my camera, and left projects behind twice this week also add to my feeling of out of balance. Hopefully I will adjust soon and get into “normal” rhythm with the universe and myself.

Progress Report: Speculations on Value I have spent most of my efforts this week working on this piece. It is nearly complete and the two long light blue strips are facings that need to be flipped to the back and stitched down. The fabrics in this quilt have been piled up together for a long time and it felt good to finally assemble them. I tried a new quilting pattern on this work too. Sue Ellen introduced the QuEGs group to a pattern she called Mac Tavishim quilting at the February meeting. In looking over my notes I saw the drawing and thought this would be a good time to try it. The stitching pattern means one starts and curves out to a comfortable point and then returns in a somewhat reflective pattern to the starting point, to then one swings out again to the opposite end again. This process is repeated as many times as you feel comfortable or until the space is full, then you start a second. As this example shows I need to keep practicing, but I do like the process and think I can really use it in the future.

Far Horizons This very simple at this point. I cut the original curved horizontal piece into three sections, shuffled and flipped one unit, then re- assembled the group. Now I will begin to add lines and stitches as well as small objects on to the surface as embellishment. It will be a textural play surface for ” add-ons ” and more hand stitch explorations.

Purple Trees: This work continues to move along very slowly. I like how the trees are shaping up. The new problem is how to bring the three units plus their grounds together into a final grouping. I am inching forward as I do not know what I am doing when it comes to how to assemble this work.

South West Voices: This work got buried in the fall in one of my cleaning frenzies. It just surfaced again this week and I am now quilting away on it. The quilting here is zig-zag and some what reflective of the patterns in the multi colored fabric.

Stump Men: I just keep working on the felting of this project. This shot is of one of the roots. I think I am nearing the completion of this project and now need to do lots of looking and thinking about what touches it needs to be complete.

I am looking forward to true spring and not needing gloves and boots when I go for my walks. Those types of walks are always inspiring to me.

Keep Creating

Carol

Adventure Challenge 2013, Far Horizons, Landscapes, Purple Trees, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs), Scrap Happy Quilts

March 7, 2013 Meetings

March 7, 2013 admin

Hello Friends,

This week has been a very busy one for me. I have had an event of some sort every day this last week. That started out with QuEG’s play day were we all worked with Gelli plates.. ( From Gelli Arts)The smiles should indicate how much we all enjoyed the process. We worked and printed only on paper because we did not know what we were doing. The paint was flying onto the surfaces as we all explored the mixing and mark making fun of working this way. Linda explored with Saren Wrap and got some wonderful results that I want to try.I really liked working with the styrofoam plates and printing on top of collaged papers. I can see the potential for use on fabric as well. We all went home with stacks of paper with a wide variety of images on them. There is lots more exploitation necessary I think. Then I went off to Ethel’s and we did more discharge work and wax painting with her new jaunting tool.( at the bottom of the photo) On Friday I went off to the Turquoise Street Studio again and did even more stamping. My goal is to print with all the stamps I have created. I worked all day and I still have a bag full. I am sorting and tossing out some that are weak as I go along. I will need to spend another day at that at least- but I think I will not work on that when I go the next time. I want to do more Gelli play first.

Progress Report : Tropical Day Dreaming

I had a lot of fun laying out and assembling this bright quilt. This project uses the gessoed fabric like Gearing Up, except this time I made it all. The gesso is painted on turquoise felt with two different stencil patterns. I used the textured gesso on plain white fabric- again with a stencil and then painted the fabric with turquoise and blue paint. The textured gesso can be seen in the close up. I free motion quilted a tile pattern all over this quilt. I do not recommend the texture gesso however as the machine does not like stitching through it. I even tried a leather needle, but the thread kept breaking .

Another Choice

I challenged myself to use paper applique on this top. I had done some wax resist on paper and then dyed it. ( the white lines in loops were the wax and the blue is the dye.) I found I could not use the paper as I intended because it would not stick to any thing with the wax finish so it was shuffled around for at least four years.

When I was looking for paper to use with the Gelli printing it came to the top again. So I decided to use it. First I cut the wax covered paper into triangles. Then I zig-zagged them down to blue felt. I played with several layout locations, never really finding anything I was happy with. Finally on Sat I saw the cut away triangles from my last paper quilt and added them to the mix. I was satisfied. The size if the quilt holds the many parts and I am very pleased with the results.

Purple Trees This project continues to move forward ever so slowly. I would enjoy a row of days without any commitments- then I think it would come thought. But I do not see that in the near future so I will just have to limp along on this project.

Experiment: Far Horizons. This is an experiment as the heading suggests. I am still working with the wiggle cutting and trying to get it to lie flat. Now that I am at this point I want to make several vertical cuts and then rearrange the parts. I am not at all sure how this will work, but I saw a quilt that I think was created this way and I wanted to play with the idea.

Scrap Happy . I am still working away on the scrap happy quilt. This first shot show two rows that are ready to be sewn. The second show shows the same area open up.I only have three more ten block rows to add and the top will be assembled. After that point it usually takes me about four more hours to complete the quilt.

New Top This top is my newest beginning. No name yet but I am working on it. The commercial fabric with the strong strip pattern is the unifying part of this one. I silk screened the pale blue pattern on the white fabric with dye. I like the pattern but was disappointed by how pale the color turned out to be. I will screen some more fabric in a darker color in the future.

Color Challenge These fabrics will be the start of a new piece this week. I was reading an old article on color and one of the things the author was pushing was using analogous colors and then adding the compliment for punch. I realized that I had never consciously tried this color combination. I may still add some neutral to this mix, but for the most part this will be the color combo I think.

I am happily playing in the studio as much as I can and I hope the same for you.

Keep Creating

Carol

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Category Archives: Landscapes

July 11, 2013 Summer Days

July 4 2013 Happy Birthday United States

May 23 2013, Spring Walks

May 16, 2013 Painting

March 21, 2013 Shaving Cream Printing

March 14, 2013 Day Light Savings Time

March 7, 2013 Meetings

Creative Fiber Collage Artist Carol Boyer