Sewing day

Beth has progressed beyond the background fabrics for her Lions composition, and you can see the beginnings of the lions taking shape.   There's still a lot of intricate piecing on her agenda! 

Priscilla (who is hiding under her quilt....)  has moved into the quilting phase with her Leaves composition, and is using "invisible" thread on her leaves of many colors. 

Priscilla is working to get the quilting done on this piece for an upcoming show.  We keep telling her that she can no longer claim that she's not a quilter.... :-)  That title is now added to her other titles which include Wearable Artist and World Traveler.

Suki makes sure that she helps all studio visitors feel at home -- by taking naps on their chairs when she's not asking them to let her in and out of the studio door.

More quilts for Colorado

"Doormats I"    (2010  49h X 67w)


My three entries to the 29th Annual Fabric of Legacies International Art Quilt Exhibition in Fort Collins, CO, were all accepted!

A major renovation of the Lincoln Center, including a brand new art gallery, is still underway.  The exhibition has been moved from this summer to October 7 - November 13.

 

"Yellow Brick Road"    (2009   54h X 50w)

 

 

"Black and Blue Moons"   (2009  67h X 56w)

Quilts for Colorado

The Denver National Quilt Festival VI will be held April 28 - May 1.  Two of my quilts were selected to be in the show in Denver, CO.

"Jet Trails #8"    (2009  47 x 47)




And  "Five Squares"   (2009  52 x 52)

Sewing days

Over the weekend, a student from Priscilla's last jacket class stopped in for a little consultation and fitting help.











She did a great job with her fabric choices and design!

(...and she brought wonderful cookies to share with us!!!)

















Priscilla is finishing up the design phase for the top of her quilt, and is adding a bit of heat to fuse the fabrics in place.










Beth is finishing the background sections for her "lions."

A quick visit

Our friend, Marcia Murphy, made a stopover to see us on her way home to Long Island.


 Our time with her was much too short, but we were able to work in a visit to Pat's studio along with some other friends.

 Pat showed Nancy and Marcia a quilt she made that included some of Marcia's hand-dyed and discharged fabrics.









 Next, Marcia got a chance to see some of the shirbori dyed fabrics that Pat is making to sell at her booth at the upcoming Genesee Valley Quilt Club Show in Rochester the first weekend in June.













Priscilla is checking out Pat's sewing area.

Studio visitors

Jeanne has been working on this piece, using fabric she discharged.  It seems to have an urban, manhole-cover type of motif.












Graffiti has been added in the second phase, and a third phase will be added soon.

















Mary Wieser brought this just-completed quilt to the studio so Beth could take photos of it for her for a quilt show entry.

Mary recently finished this beauty, which she hand quilted.

Another jacket

Last summer and this winter Priscilla visited India and brought back wonderful sari fabrics -- two layers that are sewn together with rows of hand stitching.

 Priscilla selected one to make a jacket from for herself, and started by adding some colorful fabric strips.

 I forgot to take a picture of my fabrics before I started, but found a woven black fabric in my stash of fabrics from Priscilla's other trips, along with a couple of thin green and red strips, to use with my sari fabric.

The jacket isn't lined, but needed shoulder pads, which Priscilla pinned into place. The front band is a soft black corduroy fabric.

A scrappy jacket

But these aren't just any scraps!

These are special dyed silk fabric scraps done by Doshi and gifted from friend Marcia Murphy's stash.

The first task was to decide which pieces to use.

On the right is the back of the jacket, and the beginnings of the front panels are on the left.

With Prisiclla's construction advice/assistance and a piece of her pretty blue velvateen for the band, the jacket is completed.

The stash in the closet just happened to have the perfect color-coordinated fabric for the lining.

Now we just need a special event to wear it to!!

Sewing Day

Priscilla returned from a weekend quilt retreat with the Tompkins County Quilt Guild where she had put together this beautiful top that she made using Kaffe Fassett fabrics.

She plans to add some lime green and purple borders so the final quilt top will be a bit larger.













Priscilla is also making great progress on the background for her leaf composition and in adding definition to the leaves.















Beth has progressed to the sewing phase on her lions quilt.














Here's her pattern with the first couple of sections filled in.

A new quilt

This is the start of my newest quilt, that is now quilted, faced, and just waiting for a sleeve and label.


It started with strips of fabric, some skinny and some very wide, that were sewn into squares that were about 40" on each side




I don't have pictures of the squares at that point, but the next step was to stack and slice through the squares, and then shuffle and reassemble all the pieces.





The squares were then stacked and the slice - shuffle - and reassemble process was repeated.


With four sewn-together squares on the design wall, it was fun to rotate them and study the design possibilities.











Here's the final composition after being quilted on the long-arm machine.

"Whirlpool" is 70" high X 73" wide.

Studio Visitors

Nancy, Priscilla, Bev and Jeanne are checking out the start of some new work that Pat brought in.

Pat also showed us some new surface design work that she's been doing.

Bev showed us her current composition that she has pin basted and has made a start on the quilting.

 

Suki is very happy that we now have a flat screen TV in the studio, since it gives her access to perch on the cable box -- where it's warm and she's partially hidden behind the TV.

Sewing Day

Priscilla, Beth, and Jeanne ventured to the studio on Sunday for some serious sewing time.

Jeanne worked on the piece on the far design wall, inspired by a fence in a park near her home.











Priscilla is working on the psychedelic side of her leaf composition.

The green/brown fabrics on the wall and cutting table are destined for Beth's "lions" composition.











Jeanne has the start of a composition with a nine-patch format uisng some of her discharged fabrics. 

Her beautiful blue shibori-dyed piece is being considered for another composition.







Jeanne also showed us some commercial fabrics that were made with some wonderful gradations.