August Meeting

Some photos from the Uncommon Threads’ August meeting: Carol Borman showed lots of stages of experimentation with a cropped photo from the summer retreat. This variation is made of cut out solid-colored fabrics fused to a black background.

Diana Callahan shared several framed pieces that she will be exhibiting at the Waverly House this fall.

This powerful eagle is a work-in-progress by Merrilee Tieche, inspired by a photo she took with abstracted trees in the background.

Another wowser by Diana Steffen — fuschia flowers. We made her turn it upside-down just for the heck of it and to satisfy the non-gardners in the group. But it wasn’t the same!

And Lucy Silliman show several new pieces where she’s been experimenting with the Line as a core element….inspired maybe by the upcoming 2008 show that will be hosted by Uncommon Threads called “ThreadLines.” More on that soon!!

Add comment August 30th, 2007

“Lola’s” Quilt

The very beginning of this quilt appeared much earlier in this blog, so I thought you might enjoy seeing the finished top.  The quilting will come later.  My daughter Alison is expecting a baby girl the end of May; my first grandchild.  I have named her “Lola” until she arrives and her parents tell us her given name.  Alison and I live in different parts of the country, so we shopped for some of the fabric together via e-quilter.com.  The fabric arrived and the print was a little bigger than I was expecting, so I incorporated it into the quilt in the wide borders.  I wonder if a child can develop attention deficit disorder from being exposed to too much color?  Even the cat was on top of it, pawing at some of the patterns.

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