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Quilters Connection 2009 show, II

Polansky, "Pastoral Disturbance"

Sue Polansky’s masterful, pictoral quilt had a somber theme — the Pennsylvanian Amish schoolhouse shootings of October, 2006.

Polansky, close up

The close up begins to give you a feel for the number of fabric pieces involved as well as her skillful selection.

Margaret Ryding, "Winter Light"

I liked the movement in Ryding’s quilt. The close up reveals beaded embellishments and a couple of the interesting prints — my photos do not do this quilt justice.

Ryding, close up

Beverly Fine’s horizontal piece, below, is a whole cloth quilt (with the exception of a strip of organza ribbon appliqued on). I don’t know how she obtained so much texture and depth with her surface treatment.

Beverly Fine, Crosswalk 1

Fine, close up

The next piece, by Christine Lacki, was needle felted and pieced, with couched fibers in the centers. It won Juror’s Choice at Quilts=Art=Quilts 2007.

Christine Lacki, "All Boxed In"

I have a few more pictures to share. This week saw me finishing the collage panels for the After Prom Party and starting two quilt commissions.

I just found a flickr account with all of last year’s QC quilts depicted!! Here it is — Quilter’s Connection flickr.

Quilting about the body

New Growth (i)

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Today it is supposed to stay in the 40’s and rain, but I will make a point of noticing the beautiful work of spring unfolding….

Mini-daffodils bloom near our crumbling front steps… I make a point of seeing the yellow trumpets!

This morning, the taxes are done, a big luncheon is over, and it is time to ‘get back to it’ in the studio… I have many things to finish and so, even though spring is so much about new growth, I vow to make this a week of finishing things that have already sprouted! Such as:

Worm Moon (last week’s Journal Quilt)
Zero Tolerance (yesterday’s Journal Quilt)
Gingko Ground
Adam & Eve IV
Global Warming IV
a pin cushion…

And that’s not even getting to the layers of stuff in the IN PROGRESS PILE!

The cleaning, also, must continue.

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studio-qtips-and-pets

sump-corner

the-mess

What you see above is only about 1/3 of my stash… the black board is a piece of 1/2″ insulation covered with black felt, which is WONDERFUL to use as a pin board… but is HUGE, because it is part of my booth.

Goals —

to redesign booth for shows so that we don’t have to cart around 8′ x 4′ pin boards
to redesign booth so that I could erect the damn thing by myself
to cut existing 8′ booth-boards into easily-moved pin boards for studio
to hammer triangular wedges on existing shelves, where boards can live while holding works-in-progress
to get rid of more fabric
to organize my patterns better

Victory list —

threw out at least 3 laundry bins full of fabric
instituted a 3-ring binder for holding ideas that I print off of computer (this is BIG!!)
a new table for cutting grid and rotary blade — it is low (the right height) and just needs light, now
felt all in one place
several boxes labeled ‘Precious Bits’ — for those chips of fabric I adore and will actually use
Christmas fabric and images and transfers are now congregating in ‘their area’!
sold my first quilt on etsy!! (more on that later in week)
convinced my guild to take my quilts into the May show even though I was a month late (more on that later, too)
finished Schedule C (who knew I was a fantasy writer?)
tomorrow will mark the completion of 14 days of ‘Awakening Prologue’ with Holosync… (more on that soon!)

Show is hung!

Piecing along…

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Piecing takes a long time, especially when every seam makes me rethink an entire area. The two layouts above and the one to the right are earlier versions, from last week. Today, I decided my polar bears will not be wandering around on ice, but swimming.

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Already, large and completed sections have flown off the table into two other separate quilts. The last large Global Warming Quilt that I made started out about this size and ended up as three smaller quilts. I am still hoping to integrate the bottom section with the polar section and to create a large-ish piece (3′ x 4′), although it is not yet clear that I’ll be able to make the hot and cool sections work together.

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Today was a good sewing day, with only one call to go out. I took Jack to Wellesley for errands. We shopped for apples, bird seed, and sand and salt. The walkways have thawed a little in the last day or so, but it is still pretty treacherous out there.

In spite of much effort, though, I did not progress very far on the quilt. This business of making the pieces, which become larger pieces, all work together, is not as easy as one might imagine. I have never done this process on the kitchen table before. As much as having my work upstairs (instead of down in the cellar/studio) gets aggravating on account of the mess, it is useful to be glancing at the design at different points of the day. A different part of the brain can get engaged. Also, I am happy to report that I woke from a nap today with a novel idea for how to attach the bears. Yet another part of the brain!

Changing viewing orientation or scale can be useful in design. If the colors and patterns are well laid out, they will work in any direction.

Pattern and Outrage : Dee Mallon

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