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Sunday, July 17, 2011
SAQA Auction Quilt
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Got home from my adventure to New York for Quilts=Art=Quilts and went to see the Chandler "Art Quilts XIV" with friend Sandy Branjord. We each got juried in. She got in with "Poemfish", which shows her flair for mixed media collage. This was an early art quilt for her. She has since really grown as an art quilter. Here is her piece:
This is my piece "Anticipation". It was made with Caryl Bryer Fallert's delicious fabrics and has been one of my favorite pieces.
It was made when I was beginning to teach art quilting as an example for a class, as many of my early pieces were. I am now playing with previous paintings as bases for quilting and I've started a new series called Barcodes. This is my newest Barcode piece called Prompts.
Each of the strips in the barcode are "prompts" for "blank canvas syndrome" which all artists, quilt or otherwise run into at some time. Prompts such as "dark", "skinny", "texture" are all suggestions for something to "throw at it"!
One of my acrylic paintings, which screamed to become a quilt, was juried into the SAQA call "Sense of Adventure". It started as a painting. I added lots of organza, satin, and dupioni silk as appliques, glued on with gel medium, and then quilted it.
We are going to go to Houston to see our quilts. How much fun will that be!
Well, I figured out how to add pictures. Enough for now. I have to go get supplies ready for tomorrow's Art Quilt Camp. I am teaching surface design for 3 days. We are going to create amazing things! That's it for now. I will now send this out into the black beyond. If you comment, I will try to figure out how to respond!
Well, I intended to regularly post.....Every year seems to be what I manage. I did travel to New York for the opening of Quilts=Art=Quilts last fall. The class I took with Terry Jarrard-Dimond was as exciting as I hoped it would be. And the quilt show was amazing. I met quilters I have always admired and was thrilled to be included in a show with them. On Sunday I had the privilege of talking to the gallery about my "Thistle" and had so much fun!
I mentioned in my last post that I was making a piece for their silent auction. I ended up making a dyptich called "Celebration and Promise". They were constructed from a previously painted acrylic painting that I "deconstructed", appliqued with other deconstructed pieces and then quilted. All of our donated pieces were hung in a hallway and mine were lucky to be the last in the row on the way to the rest rooms!
I remember why I hated this process. Apparently I need a tutorial. I can't add photos without swearing, and my mother wouldn't approve at all. I am going to post this and then post again with new pictures. Comment if you wish. I love comments!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Scottish Thistle
This is the revised edition of "Scottish Thistle". It hung in the Chandler Art Quilts XIV last fall and when I looked at it in the gallery, I felt the composition wasn't strong enough so I added more paint and more mulberry paper to it. This is the piece that is going to Quilts=Art=Quilts at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, NY.
I'm going to the show and will be taking a class from Terry Jarrard-Dimond the 3 days surrounding the opening. It's going to be a great experience. I've appreciated her strong compositions and great use of color since I saw her "The Big Red Dog". You can learn about her on her wonderful blog "Terry Jarrard-Dimond Studio 24/7".
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Well, I haven't posted anything since last year when my techie Granddaughter helped me set up my blog. I'm anxious to start sharing struggles, successes and new quilting experiences with anyone interested… I've had an amazing month entering quilt shows and getting back my accept/decline letters. I entered 5 pieces in 4 shows and have received 4 "accept" letters. I'm still waiting for one to come back. It's a BIG one so don't have expectations of good news, but you never know.
Entering shows is a way of pushing myself to do as well on a piece as I can. If I'm going to enter a piece in a show it has to meet my own criteria first, and then I hope the judge's as well. The information coming back from the show is really helpful. The judges at quilt shows write short critiques, stating good things and bad things about the piece. They are usually trained in judging, although some of the shows use the teachers as judges. Whichever is the case, the information can be helpful. One piece I entered came back with a common "thread issues on the back" comment. They were right. I may have had some thread incompatability and the top tension may have been a little off. Unfortunately, you can't see what Is happening as you are stitching! I always do a test piece of the exact fabric/batting sandwich and thread, quilting as I will on the piece. It's a great way to get the free motion part of my brain activated and ready to play. If the tension is okay I proceed with quilting. If not I make adjustments to the top tension until it is right. Well, in the case of the one that came back with the "tension issues" comment, I planned to enter it in another show so I painted the back with acrylic paint! No more thread issues and it won my first national ribbon!
I'm going to make a small quilt in the next couple of days to send to the Quilts=Art=Quilts Small Quilts Raffle to be held in conjunction with the show Oct. 30 thru Jan.9 in Auburn NY. One of my "accept" letters informed me my piece "Scottish Thistle" is being included in the show. I can't tell you how excited I was to get that letter! I'll show you my progress on the small piece and the final piece before I send it out next week.
I'm off to teach Jigsaw Puzzle Landscape this afternoon…
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