a path through anger

I have been working on this art quilt top all day. A path through anger.

Waldren Quilt

Here is an uncropped picture of the completed quilt.

I am going to mail it to the customer on Monday.

It is hanging up at my house to make sure it lay's flat on the wall. It does in all directions. She asked me to put pocket rods on all four sides!

I ended up using two colors of thread and stitched wavy lines all the way across, but didn't leave a space between the blue and red to allow for a "bubble" to accent the line.

I have another one going in a different color scheme Maybe the next piece I can try that on or maybe the next piece is going to finally be my wisteria! Ha that would be funny to accidentially back into it

with the negative image - I was trying before with the positive image

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Making this along with the conference last weekend has sparked a lot of new ideas of how to combine the positive and negative of my tree bark image.

This quilt is made with only the negative of the image.

I wondered what would it be like to use the negative image to create background and then use the positive image to create the composition...

This sort of feels like it might be a DUH moment but...

Lisa Kerpoe's cloth (remember at the Crane Old School building) with the line 24 " from the top got me thinking.

I have been sketching away and I am building up a couple of backgrounds to try these idea out.

Commission

Going to start machine quilting this piece of compositional cloth tomorrow.

Customer has seen it and approved. Spent some time this past week dying the back.

It is all basted and marked and ready to go in the machine the next block of time I have.

Woot Woot!

Small Art

I made close to 50 pieces of Small Art Postcards to go in a local shop.

Each has a loop on the back so they can be attached to a gift.

I also found some inexpensive business card holders so that they can be displayed on a shelf or desk. They will go into the local store by the end of this next week.

new studio coming

My new studio is coming along. Here are pictures of the front and side of the "old garage" with the new windows and one of the plywood floor underlay. Plus myhusband/builder mugging for the camera

Pieced Composition #2

I completed this tonight. It had been on the design wall for a long time basted and ready for quilting.

I had time over this Thanksgiving holiday to finally do the machine quilting.

I also submitted a bunch of stuff to the web designer to have her add to my website.

This feels really good and productive!

Ariell's quilt completed

Ariell's quilt is completed and ready to ship.

She wanted a purple piece. It measures 35" wide and 32.5" high.

These are shots of some of the details.

The background is hand dyed. Some of the circles are from hand dyed fabrics other are commercial cotton fabrics.