Yesterday was my favorite kind of day. Other than the obligatory walk (a whole three buildings away) to get the required celebratory Blizzard (LOL! Of course, it goes without saying that finding out that both “Windblown” and “Embrace 1″ were accepted into the Houston show definitely added to it being a favorite kind of day ), I was able to stay at home, in the house, the whole day! That’s a pretty big deal for hermit-type personalities. But even more importantly, it meant I was finally able to put on both [ ... ]
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Jul 20
2011
Yesterday was my favorite kind of day. Other than the obligatory walk (a whole three buildings away) to get the required celebratory Blizzard (LOL! Of course, it goes without saying that finding out that both “Windblown” and “Embrace 1″ were accepted into the Houston show definitely added to it being a favorite kind of day ), I was able to stay at home, in the house, the whole day! That’s a pretty big deal for hermit-type personalities. But even more importantly, it meant I was finally able to put on both [ ... ]
Category: Embrace, Windblown
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Jul 19
2011
Woohoo! Today is a happy day! I just received notification that “Windblown” and “Embrace 1″ have been selected as finalists for the 2011 International Quilt Festival in Houston. If I do nothing else during the year, this is the one show I always try to enter, so I’m very excited about this!
This is the first time that IQA has used email to notify finalists. Seems like a great idea! Congratulations to all of the other finalists.
Looking at these two quilts side by side, I think it’s pretty [ ... ]
Category: Embrace, quilt shows, Windblown
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Jun 10
2011
I just finished updating my gallery page so it now features Windblown and Embrace 1. Writing artist’s statements is definitely not my strength, so if you have questions about either of these pieces, or if you have ideas of what other information should be included, please feel free to let me know.
Jun 02
2011
I’ve been so busy working on “Windblown” that I haven’t said much about “Embrace 1″ which is the other quilt I just finished. It is a interpretation of three woodblock prints that I did during college. I’ve always liked the sketch-like quality of the image, and I wanted to try to capture the same feeling in fabric.
I started with a black and white version last October. In November I decided to play with colors that I wouldn’t normally use like lime green, lemon yellow, and orange. From there I decided to play with some [ ... ]
Category: completed!, Embrace
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Nov 03
2010
We just got back from a little get-away. Mostly we just wanted an excuse to use the RV one more time before DH winterizes it. We went to our favorite park which is less than 15 miles from home. It gives a chance to get away from normal everyday responsibilities and distractions. We go with our projects and a stack of DVDs from the library and just relax. We splurge by going out to dinner and bringing ice cream back to the RV.
So what did I get done? I worked some more on my experiments with the Embrace image. [ ... ]
Category: Embrace, family
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Oct 30
2010
I was blessed to have time in my studio again today. Okay, it’s my fault that this week was so busy. I insisted on not one, but two trips to Ikea. Poor hubby. He spoils me and I like it!
Anyway, I spent more time replacing colors. Considering the fact that I never work in this color range (yellow-green, yellow, yellow-orange), I am actually having fun playing with such strong colors. I find it really helps to stop periodically and take pictures. It sometimes makes it easier to see problem areas. I see a few places now that I am going [ ... ]
Category: Embrace, work in progress
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Oct 27
2010
Last night I cleared off my work table and began reworking “Embrace.” This time I started with yellow-oranges on the right and I plan on loosely gradating the colors to yellow-greens on the left. I didn’t get quite finished, but I think I’m liking this direction much more that the hand-dyed version.
But it will have to wait. Today I decided we had to go to Ikea. I really wanted to get some of these cute fabric vegetables. Sadly, they were completely out of stock. I did get the fabric fruit but now I’m going to [ ... ]
Category: Embrace, studio, work in progress
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Oct 26
2010
Today is a blustery day. Weather.com said winds were up to 35 mph, although I heard up to 50 mph on the news. When we went on our hour-long walk this morning, there were no other walkers on the path. I wanted to go to Ikea today, but decided to postpone it. DH was all for it, but I don’t particularly like the idea of driving for nearly an hour each way during a tornado watch.
So now I’m in the studio. I probably should get something done, so I decided to visit the green and yellow corner of my [ ... ]
Category: Embrace, portraits, work in progress
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Oct 22
2010
I’m not so sure I like working in black and white alone, so I decided to put the first version of Embrace up on the design wall so I could look at it a while.
Back to my fabric stash. This time I pulled out a generous stack hand-dyed fabric. It was pretty much my main attempt at hand dyeing fabric. I used directions frome an American Quilter magazine article which taught how to dye the color wheel in 24 pint-size canning jars. Because this is about the only fabric I’ve dyed, I always treated them as precious. In 1998, [ ... ]
Category: Embrace, work in progress
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Oct 21
2010
Today was all about auditioning fabrics. I made some guesses and filled in all my shapes, but I definitely think I’ll need to do some editing. Some areas seem too dark. In some areas I think two fabrics visually merge together, which I think I want to avoid.
I was thinking about how much I enjoyed the original sketch and the overlapping lines, so I thought I would see what it looked like to overlay thin strips of fabric to mimic that feeling. Generally I think I like this sketchy effect, but I think tomorrow I’ll try a couple different shades.
Category: Embrace, work in progress
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