Class Sample

I finished my class sample from Tuesday's guild workshop.

I did some outline quilting around the main elements and to eccentuate the scrunching. I tried K. Grace Knowles method of facing a quilt. It's an easy method and I'm very pleased with the result. Go to her blog for informative instructions www.barnyardchatter.wordpress.com .

Well, it's sooo nice outside today and will continue over the weekend, so I'm off to spring clean my gardens.

Shag Rag Workshop

Tuesday, my guild held a class with Patricia Rodgers. She was a National Educator for Sulky and has been on numerous television shows and produced several instructional videos.

I took this class to learn about different threads and ways to use them.
The class project was a "shag rag bag",

but I'm making a small wall hanging. Its still a work in progress, but here is a picture of it.

She demonstrated scrunching fabrics, "flash-trash"(little snippets of fabric fused to Steam-A-Seam2 and torn into pieces), hangy thread, quilt, applique and embellishing all at once with all different kinds of threads.

Everyone had different styles of fabrics, making each unique. Below are a few of the other students samples.

The class was fun, very informative and liberating, all rules of general quilting were ignored.

If you have a chance to take her class, go for it.

Quilt Exhibit

I belong to a small group called"Collaboration". We're going to be part of a show called "Triboro Animal Welfare at the Kinnelon Museum L'Ecole in Kinnelon, Nj on June 14th from 12 - 3PM.

This is a picture of the museum.


Today, fellow member Marie & I went to view the site and get our space requirements from the curator. There are seven of us in this group and we're all excited to be showing and selling our work. This will be our 1st time showing as a group.
Below are a couple of my quilts that will be for sale.

When our group meets next month I'll take some pictures of everyone elses work.

Just Started Blogging

I have fin--ally decided to blog. Hopt to keep your interest in how I work with photos and techniques.

I just got a letter in the mail from Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo, California that I've been accepted into their show. I'm soooo excited!!! This is my first time exhibiting in an Art Center. Before sending the quilt out, here is a picture and close up of the quilt "Hall's Pond".

I used various hand-dyed fabrics of my own to make the stones and reeds and fused them onto the pieced background of commerical batiks. Raw-edged applique was used as a quilting design. The piece is 12" X 12".