Weekly Art Project.  Week 3

This is another interpretation of the same photo.  As the leaves on one of the trees I can see from my kitchen window changed colour they formed an arch against the trees behind them which were still green.  I found it hard to avoid making my piece releastic.  I kept wanting to add leaves instead of concentrating on the arch shape.  I will be interested to hear what you think.

Fall Colours 2.  Applique.

Hand painted and commercial fabric, coloured pencil (to make the sky blue so it would read as sky) machine quilted,  I added a few hand stitches to give more texture accross the lower front piece.  

Weekly art project

I have been inspired by Brenda Gail Smith's post about making a 6 inch quilt weekly as a creative exercise and to have fun. It is to be inspired by ones surroundings.  Here is my first effort for week 2.  It is inspired by the colours outside my kitchen window.  I live in Alberta, Canada.

Fall Colours 1 - Embellishment.

I used a small painted piece of fabric which was a test of Setacolour Paint on cotton poly fabric.  It was paler than on cotton but worked.  As well I used painted cheese cloth and embellishment.by hand and machine.

Summer Inchies

I am working with Inchies again.  Summer Inchies is going to EDQG for the brown bag raffle at the June Banquet.  This event is a fund raiser for the endowment fund at the U of A.

I was very pleased to recieve a third place for Earth; Home of my Homes at the 2016 Focus on Fiber Art Show, My Heritage 

All the firer art pieces are on display at the Enterprisr Square gallery until the end of |June.

I recently took a class at SPQG from Wayne Kollinger of Tuxedo Designs.  Really enjoyed the class.  It was about using traditional blocks made on a 9 patch grid to design other blocks.  It was especially interesting when we combined different blocks.  Here is my favourite design from the 4 blocks I made for the class.  Our first step was to cut our original blocks into 4.  I seem to remember that my original was called Calico Puzzle.

I had an enjoyable day yesterday teaching quilters at Sew Devine how to make inchies.  I love the way people get ideas for more that theycan do with them once they start making these little works of art.
i made a new piece as a sample for this class.

TAST

Hi Everyone,
Currently I am enjoying TAST, Take A Stitch Tuesday.  (http://pintangle.com/)  It is a group for people who are interested in embellishing their quilts, particularly crazy quilts, with stitches.  Sharon B lets us know each week what the stitch of the week is and directs us to her tutorial on the stitch.  And then as members stitch they share in the Face Book group or post a link to where ever else they are sharing their work.  This is where we all learn how far a stitch can be pushed.  There are over 100 stitches and we are currently up to stitch 9, couching.  Who knew their could be so many variations of one stitch.
Here are some pictures of my couching and some of the previous stitches.  I am planning on using this fat quarter to make a pouch for my current hand stitching project.

The picture on the right shows couching of twisted knitting yarns couched with pink thread and the thicker clump of yarns couched in place with green herringbone stitch.

The picture of the tree on the left has yarns couched in place with detached chain stitch in green.  The tree is herringbone and detached chain.  

The piece on the right is machine couching and some decorative machine stitching.  I will add hand stitching and maybe some beads and use it for a book cover.

Bernie's Bounty.

 I would like to share one of my embellished quilts.  It is called Bernie's Bounty as a tribute to the mother of one of my friends at Sherwood Park Quilt Guild.  My friend shared her mothers jewellery with me and many of the beads on this quilt are from this generous gift.

The background is a fat quarter.  I started this piece on the drive from Edmonton, Alberta to Pentiction, British Columbia for Quilt Canada in 2013.  My friends did all the driving so I was just a passenger and thought I needed something to do on the way.

It was one of my entries to the Focus on Fibre Art show Prarie in 2014.   Here is the link to the gallery where you can see all the pieces in that show.

http://www.focusonfibrearts.org/gallery/2014-gallery