Christmas stockings

Our Christmas Project was a success. The stockings arrived December 23. All the guys send a big THANK YOU! Here is a photo with some of the platoon holding their stockings.

4 comments December 27th, 2007

Our Christmas Project

In response to an e-mail from our friend and fellow UT member, Christine Marcum, earlier this month several of us made and filled Christmas stockings for Christine’s son, Kyle, and his platoon who are in Afghanistan.  We wish them all a safe and speedy return home.   

1 comment December 22nd, 2007

PaMdora

Everyone please be sure to get this months copy of QuiltingArts!  QuiltingArts has done a fabulous article about “Our Pam” including lots of photos of her work and a totally cute photo of PaMdora herself!  We are all so very proud of you Pam!  XOXO

Donna

1 comment November 26th, 2007

Nov. 2007 meeting

This meeting was mostly about photographing art quilts, some old and some new, that might be used on the invitation for our upcoming exhibit at Waverly House, Feb. 1-29, 2008.

Carol Borman Route 66

Cathy Jeffery Southwestern Night

Christine Marcum Fractured Aspens

Christine Marcum work in progress

Dianna Challahan Night of Many Moons

Lucy Sillman A River Runs Through

Lucy Sillman Sentinal

Maureen Ashlock Art Speak

Susan Leslie Lumsden back of work in progress

I’m don’t have a photo of the front of Susan’s piece. There were a couple of corrupted files on my camera. You can see how I think I’ve resolved the problem on my blog. Go to Susan’s blog to see the front and all four panels as she works on them. Because of the camera, I also missed Arleta’s piece, so we’ll get it next month, along with more work to be photographed.

7 comments November 21st, 2007

2007 Journal Quilt, Lily Kerns

I’m one of those that ran out of time for photography, but this is the central portion of my 2007 journal quilt.  It is printed on a prepared fabric with pigment ink.  I had prepared printed borders to go with it around a small accent border, but when I got ready to sew it together, the quilt simply refused to have them next to it.   Sounds weird I know, but I learned long ago to listen to  a quilt when it becomed adamant about something….

It is quilted fairly simply to accent the shapes, with a bit of gold foil added.

The design is computer generated from a photograph of nuts and pinecones and is only one of many possibilities I had to choose from from that photograph.  The border pattern is a related image and was modified and reflected in PhotoShop to create a border.  I loved it on the computer, but not on the quilt..

7 comments November 3rd, 2007

Feathers

Emmie asked for close ups of the feathers on Aeolian Warrior.  Each feather was cut individually, which sounds like way too much work.  Actually it was a challenge to find just the right fabric or overlay to achieve the right look.  Some are cotton, some velvet or duppioni silk, and a couple are upholstery samples. 

1 comment October 7th, 2007

Remember Me

Lettie Blackburn sent the following pictures of a quilt block and a description/explanation of it creation.

My Mom lives in an assisted living place here in my home town of Walker, MN, about 14 miles from our cabin. The place where she lives, May Creek Lodge, is planning on building an Alzheimer’s unit next year and naming it the Memory Cottage. The owner asked the residents and staff of May Creek Lodge to participate in making 10″ quilt blocks for an Alzheimer’s memory quilt which will hang in the new building. My Mom has made about six blocks, all embroidered with cute things, (not an easy task for someone who is paralyzed on one side)..anyway, Mom was after me to make a block…embroidery is not my thing…so she said, “just make one like you make your art quilts.” YA!

After a couple of weeks of procrastination and pondering, I decided to make a scene with trees and a moon reflecting on the water. I wanted it to also reflect the Alzheimer’s message, so I chose the phrase, “remember me,” which I feel has so many levels of meaning for the victims of that terrible disease and their loved ones. I fused the pieces of the block and started free motion stitching the phrase, “Remember Me,” all over it; readable, and not, right side up, upside down, and backwards. Finally I took some metallic thread and wrote the phrase, smaller and more legibly several times over that, as the symbol of hope.

Backside detail

Rightside detail

2 comments September 26th, 2007

Wickman Gardens

During the first weekend of September, Wickman Gardens, a nursery in Springfield, MO, holds a Harvest Festival and invites artists and craftsmen to exhibit there arts. Arleta Johnson arranged for us to participate and Marlene Ashlock took pictures of our tent. The people who volunteered on Saturday, sat through rain and stood on a spongy ground; fortunately the sun came out on Sunday. The Saturday people are truly commendable as is Arleta for organizing it all.

Add comment September 23rd, 2007

Retreat 2007

Our retreat, attended by about 12 or 13, was fun and refreshing. Even if nothing was “created” it was good to be together to exchange ideas.

The following pictures are some of this year’s challenges - Luminosity. Or - Light and Shadow. There seemed to be some confusion.

I didn’t get the names of the pieces nor the dimentions of most of the work.

Dianna Callahan

Sol y Sombra Uno 24″ x 18″

Dianna Callahan

Sol Sombra Dos 24″ x 18″

Carol Borman

Donna Olson

Merrilee Tieche

Christine Marcum

3 comments August 4th, 2007

Low Summer Creativity Level

In answer to Alison’s comment/question, the group seems to be going in all directions during the summer except for creating art quilts.

But - stay tuned. After our retreat, the end of July, we should have lots and lots of pictures.

Add comment July 12th, 2007