What do you get when you add a beautiful setting, great friends, and time to make quilts? Well, fun productivity, of course! At a recent SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) retreat I took my portable design wall, my easel, and ALL of my hand dyed fabrics. I didn’t have an idea when I left home,…
My friend, Marilyn, taught our fiber art group how to make fabric books. Hers were lovely, with pale pages, lots of embellishments, and amazing contents. I had just whacked off a good bit of an already quilted quilt and thought that piece would make a good start for the cover. This is what it looked…
Well, after LOTS of trial and error, trouble shooting, and rearranging, I finally finished my latest abstract piece, When Fuchsia Came to Play. A detail shot of the fabrics – most of them dyed by me. I showed you my plans for rearranging in an earlier post. As part of that, I whacked 7+” off the…
The retreat I attended recently had a very interesting and fun ice breaker activity. Karol Kusmaul led us on a HIGH SPEED collaborative portrait making exercise. Since she works exclusively with recycled clothing that’s what she provided for us. Each table of about 8 people had a bag on monochromatic selections, with buttons, cuffs, etc….
Whoo-boy, the quilt of my brothers ended up taking quite a bit longer than I anticipated, but I’m very happy with the finished result. I got to show it to my family in the almost-complete stage, and they LOVED it. That was very gratifying. Here are few detail shots. My brother Ricky. My brother Todd….
I’m FINALLY winding down on the quilt featuring my brothers. It’s not ready for a full photograph yet, but here are the two faces. I spent A LOT of time on these and I’m happy with them. I plan to show the quilt to some of my family members this week. I know they’ll…
Woohoo, the background of my current quilt is finally complete! Composed and glued and ready for stitching, (but without the green hexie in the center of the photo.) In the photo above, I was considering adding some hexies to the background. Just because I’ve been making a lot of them and to give a nod…
I own 750 pins: 3 boxes of 250 each. But, that wasn’t enough to compose my current quilt! I use A LOT of smallish pieces of fabrics, so that’s why I use so many pins. See what I mean? Still, I’m very happy with the barns and trees I recently created. I’m especially pleased with…
After separately creating the two men for my “brothers quilt,” it was time to work on the background. I finished up the rough draft of the sky and added the far tree line, (with a piece of blue fabric marking a future silo.). Next it was on to the corn field in the foreground. Since…
I’ve been thinking about making a quilt inspired by this photo (composite) of my two brothers. I took quite a few photos that day and loosely merged 3 to get this composite. In the quilt I’ll leave out the extra arm and the clay pigeon thrower. This will be a special quilt for several reasons. –…