Weekly Journal Quilt Challenge

I have joined a weekly quilt challenge.  I have completed the first four.  This has been a good way to get ideas flowing.  I chose the the size 8 x 10 to work with.  There are 20 of us in this group.  Working in this small size is wonderful for trying out new ideas.

Katie Pasquini Masopust's New Book

I received my copy of Katie's new book.  My quilt named BrushStrokes is in Katie's book on page 46. I also quilted my cousins quilt on page 37 titled Shadows. Katie's techniques for producing original artwork is really great.  The techniques for constructiong the quilt produces a good likeness of the artwork.  I absolutely love the end product. Alot of my classmates have quilts in the book.

Surface Design

I am starting with a group to learn more about surface design.  This past meeting we were working on discharging color.  We started with one yard of hand dyed fabric,  We used bleach water in a spray bottle, bleach pens, toilet bowl cleaner for stamping, discharge paste for screen printing. All bleach products had to be neutralized with a vinegar water bath to rinse out and neutralize the bleach.  This is a work in progress, each month we will add new techniques to the fabric.  Next month is paint.

This month we used leaves as a mask and sprayed bleach water over the leaves.  We used foam snow flakes and sprayed the blach water over the shape then neutralized with a viegar water mixture.  We used apples and pears dipped in toilet bowl cleaner to stamp on the fabric, we also used bleach pens and drew on the fabric.  Some also used discharge paste to screen shapes onto the fabric.

SAQA Donation Quilt

This is my donation quilt for the SAQA annual auction.  If you are not familiar check out saqa.com and check out the quilts that will be available for auction.  Look at the tabs on the left hand side and click on benefit auction. Most quilts are 12"x12".

FiberWorks2011-Tulsa,OK

FiberWorks started on Friday June 3rd and will continue until June23,2011.  The show is juried by the piece.  I am thrilled to have 2 pieces in the show.  My quilt BrushStrokes was awarded Best in Quilting that was sponsored by the Edmond Quilt Guild.  I also have a smaller silk wallhanging (Sticks & Stones) in the show.  If you are in Tulsa the show is at Living Arts of Tulsa on Brady St.  There are many wonderful pieces in the show.  The show is comprised of the works of Oklahoma Artists. Our juror this year was Jane Dunnewold.  What a treat to work with Jane and others in the jury process for the show and to be a scribe for the critique.  What a learning experience. The show is arranged in the space very nicely.

Class at Empty Spools

Two weeks ago I took my first class at Asilomar with Empy Spools Seminars. What a great week. I made a new friend with my roommate Tanya from Fresno. My table mate in class was a delightful lady named Elaine from the UK. My class was with Sue Benner, I have wanted to take a class with Sue for several years. I was on a waiting list and got in the class. I learned alot about perspective in landscape quilts. I will post a photo of the first days little quilts and a picture or two of Asilomar. The picture on the left are the first 2 small quilts they are on the left, the photos for inspiration are on the right.

Fiber Collages

I took a class with Candace Kenyon a few months ago. She taught a fiber collage class. The pieces are covered with stabilizer and freemotion stitched down. I finally got them stretched on canvas. These pictures are the finished pieces. These were fun to make.

Green Country Quilt Guild Show

The Green Country Quilt Guild Show was this weekend. What a wonderful show. It was spacious and roomy. There was the best diverse collection of quilts, lots of original work. I have been to lots of quilt shows and this by far was the best. Kudos to the Quilt Show Committee and the sponsors of the show.

On a personal note I was excited to see my quilt "Woodstock Revisited" with a blue ribbon and a judges ribbon. My challenge quilt "Crazy Quilt" earned a second place, my red jacket "LadyBug" earned a third place, and my small quilt "My Pond earned a honorable mention.

Class with Grace Errea

I spent last week in Phoenix at Quilting in the Desert. I took classes all week with Grace Errea, what a great teacher. You can check out her website at amazingquiltsbygrace.com. The first day we spent making a color value chart, it was a great tool and was used all week while construcuting our projects. My project is Popsickle Sunset. I will post photos later.

Class in Hudson Valley

I just returned from a week long class in Greenville, NY at Hudson Valley Art Workshops. I took a class with Katie Pasquini Masopust. What a great class and teacher. We had a great group in the class and we all learned a great deal and came out of the class with several quilt possibilities.

We were led thru 2 days worth of creative exercises in which we all produced alot of artwork with possiblities.

Greenville is a very small charming community, and the leaves were at peak color, we had such a beautiful ride to Albany,NY to fly back home.

Innovations

I just found out that my Jacket Ladybug took 3rd place in Wearables.
The Innovations show is a Machine Quilting Show in Tacoma Washington.
Ladybug is the Red Jacket on this blog.

String Quilts by Elsie Campbell

If you get a chance to look at Elsie Campbell's new book String Quilts, check out the quilt gallery in the back of her book. I have two quilts in this book, I am honored to be asked to have them in her book.
The quilts are my Scrappy 1 and Scrappy 2. They also are named Reflections and Gradient Squares. These 2 quilts are at the bottom of this blog.

More on Fiberworks

I went to Fiberworks for the opening. There are alot of very good displays and alot of talent represented. This is the first year I have gone. The IAO Gallery is a nice venue, the display for Fiberworks was really nicely done. I was very happy to learn that the Juror gave me an Award of Merit for my quilt Gradient Squares.

Fiberworks 2009

Fiberworks 2009 is a juried show for Oklahoma Fiber Atrs. I am so excited to have 2 pieces juried in. The show will run for almost 3 weeks at IAO Gallery in Oklahoma City.

The two pieces selected are my quilt Gradient Squares and my jacket Tiddly Winks. I am going for the opening.

AQS-Knoxville

I found out Friday my quilt Reflections is juried in to the AQS show in Knoxville. This show is July 22-25. I will not get to go to this show. This quilt is one of my favorite quilts, the colors are so vibrant.

Woodstock Revisited

These are a couple of pictures of one of my latest quilts, the name of this quilt is Woodstock Revisited. The top of the quilt is a tie-dyed bedsheet. I purchased this sheet last May at a street festival in Tulsa,OKlahoma called Mayfest. There is a company called Crazy Hat that I purchased this sheet from. The minute I saw this sheet I could see it quilted, embroidered, and embellished. This Quilt has almost 100 embroidered peace signs and flowers, there are 1850 crystals, and 975 Holograms embellishing this quilt. On the back of the quilt I have added the names of about 20 of the artists that performed at Woodstock. This year is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. This quilt was alot of fun to make. The tie-dye is the prettiest I have ever seen, the colors are very vibrant.

Class with Elsie Campbell

I have spent the last 2 days in a class with Elsie Campbell, We learned alot of presicion sewing techniques. What a great class, if you get a chance to take a class with Elsie don't hesitate. I will post a picture of my project in process. When finished this will be a 24 x 24 wallhanging. It will be a star surrounded by embroidered flowers, with a mitered border. I will post more later.

Machine Quilters Expo(MQX)

I found out yesterday that my red jacket Ladybug took 2nd place in the jacket category at MQX, I am very excited about this. I wish I could have gone to see the show.

3 finished UFO's

I am finally starting to finish some UFOs, two of these are from a Stashbusters class at a local Quilt shop

small quilts

Here are a couple of small quilts, I am doing this alot lately. I guess I am wanting to experiment and try alot of what ifs lately. Here are a couple of small quilts that I have actually finished. The grapes are very deminsional, and the rock-n-roll quilt is a printed treasures print of the jukebox, and then it has been manipulated with paint, waster soluble wax pastels, and stitchind and embellishements were added