
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A New Book
Last year I received an email from Joen Wolfrom saying that she had seen two of my quilts on my website that she would like to include in her new book to be released in 2011. Was I interested? Of course I jumped at the chance, knowing that she is the author of twelve other quilts books, all of them excellent. My autographed copy came the other day and I was not disappointed. It is a beauty!

She uses 153 quilts made by quilters and fiber artists from around the world to demonstrate the Elements and Principals of design. You will recognize a lot of the names and I was honored to be in such illustrious company. Each quilt illustrates one or more of these Elements or Principals.

Joen also writes a fabulous blog, in which she recently went through the color wheel, illustrating each color with the most amazing nature photographs that she has taken. Scroll back a little to see them all. It's worth the effort.
To read a much more thorough and complete review of the book, please go to Dara Williamson's blog, See How We Sew.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Playing on the Surface
As promised, here are pictures of another show, this one by the Scrapbag Art Quilters. This is the small group, of which I am a member, that meets weekly at members' homes. Each year we have a challenge and the results are hung at the Booth Library in Newtown CT. This year the theme was Surface Design and we used the Surface Design Association's definition: "Any process that gives pattern or color to fiber and fabric. These include spinning, felting, papermaking, weaving, knotting, netting, looping, dyeing, painting, stitching, cutting, piecing, quilting, and embellishing."
The quilts were all approximately 25 inches square. The show will hang thru October 14. Please stop by if you are in the area. All pictures are clickable for a bigger view.





Nike Cutsumpas' Reticulation. Nike used pieces from an older quilt to make this new one and added lots of her signature hand stitching to add more depth and texture.





Tuesday, September 20, 2011
A Colorful Show, Part 2
Here are a few more of the quilts from the FANE show at the Mahopac Library, running though September 27, A Colorful Show.




Monday, September 19, 2011
A Colorful Show
On Saturday I went to the opening of the FANE show, A Colorful Show. I talked about it in my last post. I thought it was a wonderfully cohesive show, due to the theme and the mounting of the quilts on white canvases. All the monochromatic quilts were 9" x 20" and were mounted on 12" x 24" white canvases . The white just popped off of the camel colored cork walls and made every quilt look so special, which, of course, they were! Excellent lighting was a big help, too. I am not going to show you every quilt, first because I don't have the names for them all and second because I want you to go see them for yourself and have a few surprises when you get there. I will show you a few today and a few more tomorrow. All pictures are clickable for a bigger view.





Friday, September 16, 2011
I'm back.
My friend, Janet, says I am her most peripatetic friend. I do seem to be traveling a lot lately and that accounts for the dearth of posts. This time it was a two week long riverboat cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam with three extra days in Amsterdam. It was fabulous trip, in spite of the fact that I was pick-pocketed on my second day of the trip. Yup, wallet with three credit cards and some cash, gone from my zipped purse. Credit cards got cancelled and it was an inconvenience, but not the worst thing that could have happened in the overall scheme of things like lost luggage, serious injury, etc. Life goes on.
I've been so busy since I got back on Tuesday night. I took a lot of pictures, of course, and will post some of them when I get my life back on track.
The postcard is for a show I am in, opening tomorrow, put on by the FANE (Fiber Artists of the North East) group, of which I am a member. The theme this year was monochromatic and I chose green, since I had those forty yards I had dyed awhile back. That's a slice of my quilt in the middle of the card. Stop by if you're in the area of Mahopac, NY. I'll post some pix of the show soon.


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