Hello,

It was the first day of school for students here in central New York.  When I went out for my walk this morning there were two boys waiting for the bus on the corner.  The same place that my daughter waited for the bus many years ago.  I passed others on  my trek and thought that this is a sure sign that fall has begun.   
This week was the first Tuesday of the mouth and so I went off to my DIVA group meeting on Tuesday.  I had missed the mouth before so I was very excited about seeing what others were doing and I was not disappointed! Liese had been doing a lot of marbling on paper .  She created two books.  I really like the one with the  quotes and her second one was an accordion book with wonderful creatures that she saw in the marbling.

She said that she learned that the newsprint paper worked the best for this job.

Susan is doing some great exploration based on sleep.  She is printing on fabric with old stencils and writing her quotes in water soluble graphic pencils.

She has a wild collection of stencils and is trying not to cut any new ones for this project.   I really like the long line of people she repeated in this second print.

She is also  dealing with the inside of things- including people.  The rib cage is made with painted canvas suspended in the opening.   I can hardly wait to see how this develops.  She always looks at things with such a unique eye.

Sally brought a problem to the group for suggestions.  She is getting ready for the Art Trail in the Ithaca area and one of her practices is to have each of her visitors add a piece of fabric to a background that she has selected.  Then the sews them down were they are placed.  Every five years she take the panels and puts them together in some fashion.  She was after suggestions.   We brainstormed and gave her several ideas- I can hardly wait to see what she finally does.  I really get a lot out of this group for the support as well as the many skills and ideas that each person brings to the setting.

Progress Report: Occasions     This quilt is one more of the ones that I started at Quilting by the Lake, the second week.   I had purchased some deconstructed fabric( the light blue) from her the first week of the conference and used it as my starting place for this piece.  This fist close up show the wonderful texture she had created with lines that attracted me to it.  I pulled the rest of the materials from my stash and supplemented with a few new pieces that I purchased from the venders there.       I enjoyed doing the circular quilting on this piece and feel it is just what the  quilt needed to pull all the sections together.     The gals at the Diva meeting really liked this work too and had lots of kind word about this work.

I enjoyed working on this one.

East Wall  – Rock Series
This work got lots of additional machine drawing added this last week.   There is so much texture now that I feel it is pulling together a bit better.

Pumpkin Lichens :  I am to the quilting stage on this quilt.  It too has some of Randy’s wonderful decomposing screen fabric as it start-  The orange with the the dark circles on it.   The colors of the  trip to southwest really have had a long time effect on me if the work shown here is any indication.

New Work       Here is some more of the curved piecing work I am trying to conquer.   I am ready to start  the  placement of the  fused silk paper on this top to add texture and unity to it.   There are two pieces sort of pinned in place.  I think more will help as well as some of the painted wonder under.

Keep Creating

Carol