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.
November 21st, 2007
emmie
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..
November 3rd, 2007
lily
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.
October 7th, 2007
merrilee
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
September 26th, 2007
emmie
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.
September 23rd, 2007
emmie
A few pictures from the meeting,
Arleta Johnson with a twin size quilt made for a young man in college. On the back she has used his school colors and date of graduation.
Cathy Jeffery’s un-named “ORB” approx. 12″ x 18″
AEOLIAN approx 36″ x 48″ Merrilee Tieche
I hope she will post a detail of the eagle. The feathers are fantastic.
September 20th, 2007
emmie
Carol Bormann just sent me this photo of her granddaughter Keely, who also happens to be named for her “nana. ” Carol was inspired by the stripes and circles painted on the Keely’s bedroom walls and made the quilt for her using a combination of piecing and appliqué with machine embroidered butterflies. And this amazing photo was taken by Nick Bormann, hand-holding a camera above the scene using a wide-angle lens.
Sleeping on a quilt like this — we know Keely’s tiny head must be filled with happy dreams of color and art!
September 14th, 2007
pam
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!!
August 30th, 2007
pam
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
August 4th, 2007
emmie
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.
July 12th, 2007
emmie
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