Marty started us off with presenting each of us a Valentine! Actually, they are little cards that you scrap off the dark area to reveal color below...reminds us of Carol's work she did with painting areas black over color. Thanks, Marty!!
I just started to scrap some off of my card...it takes patience!
Marty wore a sweater vest that the added embellishments. She added ski's for the snowman and add'l embellishment for the sides. Nicely done!!!
She also shared a shibori piece hanging at a local Chinese Restaurant. I can see why Marty took a picture of it. How stunning!
Marty shared several story boards on her projects at St. Lukes. They are working with Detroit designer, Christina Liedtke , to create unique scarves. You can see some of the scarves on Christina's web site here.
The scarves they make at St. Luke's are 60" in length and the fabric is designed/provided by Christina. You can see some of the scarves the ladies made on the NoSoFaClub.com web site. Marty showed how she cuts the scrapes then sews them into triangles.
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| L-R: Fabric, Triangles, off center square |
Very interesting and we can see how Marty is being inspired to work some of her marbled fabric (far right off center square) into some designs with the scarf pieces!
Marty will also being doing a lecture at the Genesee Star Quilt Guild in November and is hoping to also do a marbling workshop as well next winter. We did discuss when our last MQAI exhibit was...2011! And our Encore Exhibit was in 2012! Hard to believe it's been that long!! Nice to reminisce!
Lois Ann is working on a small piece for her friend's 60th Birthday. Her friend is a Margarita gal so the quilt is representing Margaritaville! This is just an idea on what LA is looking to create.
And here are some of the elements she already has!
Isn't her bird beautiful!!!! We were all in awe at the way she created the wings! Just beautiful
I didn't get a picture of a small background piece Lois Ann already created ...but we know LA will hit a home run on this piece as she has in the past!! You go girl!!
Lois Ann is also going to make about 20 cell phone/purses. She and her sister went fabric shopping in Canada and found this fun fabric!
The lettering fabric will be the band/strap for hanging around your neck/shoulder.
And this is the fabric LA will cut up for making each little case! How cute are these!!!
Lois Ann is also working on a canvas piece, which she'll bring to next month's meeting. She's having some issues with the paint but has a work-a-round! Lois Ann has also donated her Butterfly painting she did for the White Lake Library Challenge this past fall. It's a beautiful piece and so generous for LA to donate this art work!
Also, Kara will be "defending" her thesis this coming August in Rhode Island for her PHd. We had a discussion of what "defending" actually meant..thank goodness Marty gave us some explanation! It appears she'll be asked questions on her work which she will have to 'defend'! Makes sense to us now! Good luck, Kara!
Carol showed a painting her sister did of their siblings! We were all so very impressed with her work. Carol is going to copy the picture and make cards up for her sister(s) for gifts.
And we all guessed which sister Carol was!
Carol is working on "directional drawing' in one of her online classes. Once again, we were all very impressed with her results. You can really see the definition in the picture on the right.
I had to crop and enlarge the girl on the right. These are so impressive!
Carol is 99% finished with her bird painting, which is fantastic! He's even more beautiful in person.
The background was created with watered acrylic paint which was allowed to flow down the canvas. Carol then stenciled areas on top of the paint. Very effective.
Here are closeups of the branch and bird. Just beautiful.
I presented Carol a little 'box' (it looks huge here!!!) for her 70th BD, which was last Tuesday! It was fun that Marty was here at this meeting, since Carol and I met at one of her quilting classes at Davison Fabrics - in their old building upstairs! 20 years ago!
The box opens up to show pictures and writing.
I'm about 75% finished with working on my beaded cardinal and I plan on not working on anything else until this piece is finished. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Well, maybe!
I'm just doing some stab stitching on the open areas. Not sure if I'll bind or just face the quilt.
I finished the tree fabric for the woodpecker piece as well as quilted a background for it. I have to make the branches yet but I'm putting this on the back burner until the cardinal is done.
I also showed two quilts I made years ago, which I donated to our library. They've been hanging at the Goodrich library for many years and needed a break to get refreshed...actually, the walls needed to be refreshed so I had some of my other pieces hung as replacements. These two will be going back to the library to be hung.
This one I made for a GSQ challenge, No Rhyme or Reason in 2001 (I took 2nd place!). It's about 20"x20"
I forgot how I made each of these little sections! The kids at the library have enjoyed it. Little ones would point to some of the characters when it was hung in their reading area.
This was another quilt I made in 2005 specifically for our library. When I got the quilt home this weekend, I noticed several areas, where I had phototransfered lettering, had faded. So, out came the Intense pencils and I recolored those areas. I did miss one area, which the group pointed out so I'll redo that this week. It's about 45"x45".
Some detail of the blocks...
I'm working with soy wax in Hilary's Online class, which I really enjoyed. These are a few pieces that were done creating your design on a screen then using thickened dyes, just like in screen printing, the design is transferred! And the soy wax design stays on your screen until you rinse it off in hot water! How cool is that.
We're also working on sorting our papers (not touching fabrics we've created yet) in the class. First sort by color; then by 'feature' (paper with focal point or whole piece you would sew) or background; then sort that same color by papers that 'may' need more work, e.g. stenciling, stamping, overdyeing, etc. Whew...took me hours to sort two colors..I have a ways to go!!!
Using some of our papers we are now working on creating small abstract pieces. This was one I did. It's small and I have it in my Octopus book.
And this is a Valentine fiber card I received from one of my friends from Florida. Beth did a very nice job!
These are two quilts Mary made for Quilts of Glory for veterans and service men/women. Mary has donated several blocks to this organization and is working with the group to finish quilt tops. These are wonderful!
Mary will add a border on this one. I think it's very striking!
The next two quilt tops were made from jelly rolls and are for the prayer quilt ministry at her church. The layout is really cool! Mary said she had to watch some YouTube videos to learn what to do with the jelly rolls. She had to add some of her own fabric. Mary may also be quilting these before handing them in.
What a fun and really great show and tell this week!!!! And lunch was pretty good at Bull Frogs (Marty, Carol and I - LA was going to drive to Ohio to visit with her friend). All in all we had a great exchange! See ya all next month!
