tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20034195895856889892024-03-05T19:07:29.548-05:00artistic needleBlogging from my studio each Sunday Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-74282808980509914762015-09-20T00:00:00.000-04:002015-09-21T08:39:21.281-04:00EXPERIMENTATION: What the heck am I doing?<div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I ran away this </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">weekend to play and experiment. I started with fusible web, ink, a syringe, and some water. Guess what I am doing with these wet and wild creations....</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Stay tuned next week for the results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have a great week....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I often talk
about my Art Quilt Group and our monthly challenges. On our schedule
three times this year is incorporating a 'mystery material' provided by one of
the members. A couple of months ago our mystery material was these
vintage crocheted stars provided by Jackie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to rebel a little and make a<b><i> textile necklace </i></b>instead of an art quilt. One of my favorite things to 'pin' on Pinterest is textile jewelry. Click for my <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/artndl/fashion-textile-jewelry/" target="_blank">Fashion- Textile Jewelry</a> board. As I began to plan my necklace, I decided just a bit more rebellion was needed and dyed the stars to match the colors I wear most frequently. Here is the before and after:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used three strands of book binding waxed cord and sewed a zigzag stitch all of the way down to create the foundation cord. This is one of my favorite techniques! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To mark felted wool circles so the embroidery stitches were evenly spaced, I used appliqué pins as markers. </span></div>
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thin felted wool between the two stars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For the spacer beads, I used plastic pony beads and wrapped silk ribbon around them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Already I am
wearing this necklace LOTS! It is quickly becoming a favorite. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><u>Remnants:</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are looking for more inspiration for textile jewelry, there is a list on TAFA: <a href="http://www.tafalist.com/tafa-gift-guide-fiber-and-textile-jewelry/" target="_blank">TAFA Gift Guide: Fiber and Textile Jewelry </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> If you are unfamiliar with TAFA, it is <i>The Textile and Fiber Art List</i> is a membership association of
handmade traditional and contemporary textiles and fiber businesses.
TAFA’s members may exhibit, sell, and teach. Here is their homepage: <a href="http://www.tafalist.com/" target="_blank">TAFA</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For me, school starts tomorrow; I am looking forward to being back with the students.<i> Wish me luck!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The quarterly challenge that was due at the end of June for my 12x12 group was 'Leaves'. I was initially excited about it because I wanted to try a technique one of you members, Karrie, showed me. You take an Oliver Twist "One Off" and make a tree out of it . Here is a picture of a "<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/186736057/two-of-a-kind-no08-lagoon-hand-dyed?ref=shop_home_active_23" target="_blank">One Off</a>". You lay it out in tree form and stitch. (Side note- I also love, love, love the Oliver Twist thread shown in the photo. It quilts wonderfully.) Another note- I did not have a "One Off" in the color I needed, so I created my own from fibers in my stash. Last note, when I look back at Karrie's tree, I begin to see where I began to go off track; hers is free-flowing and artsy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I got to this point and my work just did not speak to me (in fact it was yelling some bad stuff at me). At this point, I was already late on the challenge, so I decided to experiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Next I used Tombow markers and drew around the trunk and branches and spray it with water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I made leaves out of used teabags and used a combo of Tombow markers and Dye-Na-Flow to color them. Still not loving it yet....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Finally, I painted polka-dots on the leaves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is now a piece I can live with- still not one of my favorites!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mt husband and I were recently visiting the Northern Michigan and its fabulous wineries. We stopped at a quilt shop (of course!) and hubby found this quilt stand for me to rotate my 12x12 quilts. Here is the website for it <a href="http://www.ackfeldwire.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ackfeldwire.com/</a>, it is called a <b><i>table stand.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last week I talked about an experimentation journal that I began. One of my first experiment was from an article called "Teabag Trail" and the photo in the article looked like teabags sewn together. Well, I didn't read the article, just set it aside and began collecting teabags; all winter long, when I drank a cup of tea I harvested the bag. The day I sat down to read the article, I realized it was about tea dyeing and not using the actual teabag. I was already invested in the teabags so I decided to play with the teabags and have not stopped; in fact, I ran out of teabags and went through my tea stash to create used teabags. Here is my monster load drying outside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I love giving a homemade card and I created many using the teabags.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">6. Adhere the teabag to unbleached muslin using misty fuse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">8. Spray teabag shapes with a sealing spray</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was reading one of my favorite magazines, <a href="http://www.moremags.com.au/textiles/dut" target="_blank">Down Under Textiles</a>, Issue 19, 2015, and it talked about Janice Appleton who was shocked when she read that the United Nations estimates there are <span style="color: magenta;"><i>117,000,000 girls missing</i></span> throughout the world with most of them from China and India. Janice jumped into action and is <span style="color: magenta;"><i>collecting one million teabag tags </i></span>to help visualize the enormity of the situation. She is going to create an art installation from these teabag tags to be displayed in 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is Janice's Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/117000000girlsgone?fref=photo" target="_blank">117,000,000 Girls Gone</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At work, both employees and students are encouraged to take Gallup's StrengthQuest If you are unfamiliar with StrengthQuest, it is an on-line assessment , when completed you'll receive a
customized report that lists your top five talent themes with suggestions how you can use your
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Learner. </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">People who have the <b>Learner </b>theme have a great desire to
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am definitely that <b>Learner</b>; I am always looking to explore and experiment with new techniques and I have PILES of things I want to delve deeper into. Below is a stack of magazine articles that I have saved of techniques that I want to learn more about. The problem is that I am not always willing to experiment on a larger piece of art; my schedule doesn't allow a lot of time for do-overs when experiment fails. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Going hand-in-hand with learning is my passion for creative magazines. Over the next few months, I will share some of my favorite magazines. One of my favorite magazines is <a href="http://www.thethreadstudio.com/catalogue/infusion/text.htm" target="_blank">In-fusion</a>, an e-mag from Dale Rollerson who owns <a href="http://www.thethreadstudio.com/" target="_blank">The Thread Studio </a>in Perth, Australia. I have learned a great deal from Dale and her magazine is the same. It is a quarterly magazine; each quarter there is a theme that ties the articles together, this quarter's theme is "Liquorice Allsorts Edition(and it is yummy). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can subscribe to her magazine from her website, <a href="http://thethreadstudio.com/" target="_blank">thethreadstudio.com</a>. She has a taster on her website that you can check out: <a href="http://www.thethreadstudio.com/catalogue/infusion/taster.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.thethreadstudio.com/catalogue/infusion/taster.pdf</a>. I encourage you to give it a try, it is well worth the money. Below are a few of my experiments inspired either by an article in In-fusion or an on-line class:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I talked last week about the collaboration quilt our art quilt group created of Bronson Park in Kalamazoo, MI. I mainly focused on the quilt as a whole last week; this week I want to focus on behind the scene of my piece and things to consider when creating collaborative art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I believe the 10 artists that created our collaboration are courageous, extraordinarily courageous. I do not think I am alone when I say, I jumped in with both feet and soon was flooded with the complexity of the photo coupled with how to execute it while keeping my own voice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was fortunate that my sister could enlarge and print it to the size of the finished piece (15" wide by 30" high). I used my light-box to trace the major shapes onto tracing paper. I also taped the enlarged photo to a window, overlayed it with muslin and traced the major lines (sidewalk, pond, building outline).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A very large part of this photo is the sidewalk; I did not want it to look like the typical grey concrete. It took two or three trials until I finally ended up with this look:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I used a course fabric, did three different layers of paint/speckles, and finally a pebble quilt stitch. In the end, I am pleased with the look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">An important part of my slice was "the guy"; other members shied away from him while I fell in love with him:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">His hair is made up of many, many little French knots. It was made as a separate wig and added to the man at the end. Here are close-ups of the shoes, briefcase, and bag of cans:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">His jeans are made from denim and his shoes and briefcase are made of leather. I think my favorite is the bag of cans; it is a 3-D object on the quilt. Each can started with a small segment of a wooden dowel then I painted rectangles of fabric with different flavored cans of soda. I glued and wrapped the fabric around the dowel and trimmed the top/bottom of each can with silver trim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Further in the background is the man with his lawn chair heading to a concert in park. I used wire for the frame and my quilt neighbor was fine that his chair lapped over to her slice.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Selecting Your Photo: </b>We were fortunate that Carolyn, our fearless leader, auditioned our photo with some of the group. When looking at the photo, it is important to have one item that is going through all of the slices. For our quilt, it was the sidewalk that unified us. Also, think about each individual slice and make sure there is something interesting for each artist. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Selecting the Artists.</b> Will it be open to anyone in your larger group or do you want to make it an invitational? When considering artists to invite, think about their work. Do they complete things that they start? Or are they always adding to their UFO stack? Do you like what they make? They do not have to match your style (actually a variety of styles is more fun), but you may want to consider their workmanship. How is their communication? Are they good at answering emails? And of course, can you get along with them (especially during stressful times). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Creating a Smooth Collaboration.</b> You may want to come up with an informal agreement how to handle things affiliated with the collaboration process. Things to think about: You may want to consider milestones for the completion of the quilt. Maybe planning during the first month, patterns made/fabric selected the second month and so on. Now the tough part, what are you going to do if someone is not meeting deadlines and/or stops communicating with the group? When the quilt is completed, what will you do with it? Will it be for sale? Is everyone good with it being donated or put on permanent loan? <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;">What kind of liberties can members take? Do you have to have everything that is in the picture on your quilt? Can you add things (i.e., flag poles, street signs, people)? And if you add things, do you have to let the group know? </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;">What are the important match-up points for two slices next to each other? </span></span> This informal agreement does not have to be a contract; I would recommend just getting together as group to come to a consensus how things will be handled. Have one person put it into an email and everyone just needs to reply with an "Agreed".</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Making Your Quilt.</b>
We all make quilts and know the size of it, but in this case you must
have an <i><b>exact </b></i>size for your quilt slice. Sounds easy, right? It is
tougher than it sounds. I would suggest as you make your slice, you
extend your work at least 1/2 inch all around edges. When you quilt the
quilt, it will shrink a bit; it is preferred to cut some finished work
off than be short. When you are finishing your quilt slice, if you bind
the quilt, you will probably extend the measurement each direction by
1/8 to 1/2 inch. Conversely, if you decide to turn your quilt, you could
lose the same amount of inches on each side. </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Whew! That is a lot to think about! Better to think before than after!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Have I scared you away? Or do you think that you would be interested in taking part in a collaboration quilt? Let me know if you enjoyed my description. If you have a question about the process or would like to add your thoughts about a slice quilt, please add comments to this blog post.</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And here is the shade above the closet:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I roll a small table over in front of the closet to hold my art work:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pull the shade down and place washers on it to keep it in place:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am very pleased with the outcome! I am no longing lugging backdrops around the house and if I am working in the studio, it takes less than a minute to set-up and the same to take down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><b>Do you have any secrets to taking good photos of your work? Post your suggestions as a comment to this blog.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><u><b>NEXT TIME:</b></u> </span>How do you handle all those magazine articles with things you want to try (but never seem to get around to it).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>Have a great week! Kathy</b></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-7427408939129171802015-07-26T00:00:00.000-04:002015-08-07T14:34:23.437-04:00CHALLENGE: Collaboration Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Carolyn, from my Art Quilt Group, organized a collaborative slice quilt for members of the group. Here is the panoramic photo that Carolyn took of Bronson Park; she sliced it into 10 pieces, we each picked a slice and our collaboration began. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I believe all (or most of us) started with such enthusiasm, but then we realized this was much more difficult than first glance. We began in the Fall of 2014, and played with it (except one member who finished hers within 30 days!). In February 2015, we received an invite to show our slice quilt at a gallery during our Kalamazoo's monthly Art Hop. We pulled together and created a work that we are all proud of as shown below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are the individual pieces (in order):</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Jackie S.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Jenny G.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Kathy Kerstetter</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Ann B.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Diane O.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Jean D.</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">We were honored when our local Public Radio station, WMUK, came and interviewed us, you can listen to it here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://wmuk.org/post/one-quilt-ten-unique-views-bronson-park" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">One Quilt Ten Unique Views of Bronson Park</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">We ended up with a wonderful Art Hop and all of us are very proud of the final product. Next week, I will show a close-up of my individual slice and some things to consider if you are going to enter into a collaborative quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">As you may or may not know, I teach at our local community college (and I LOVE my job). Winter term was probably one of the toughest terms in my ten years at the College. I had almost three new classes to prep and definitely had my hands full. I woke up most morning at 5:00 am to get a jump on the day and then work late into the evening (can you tell that my blog suffered during this time?). At the end of the semester, I was exhausted! I vowed that this summer I was going to take more time to read and create.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Mt favorite place to read at our home is a small balcony that is off of our bedroom; it is over three stories high. Here is my little heaven:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">And the view from above:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I love how peaceful this spot is and I feel like I am hiding from the world when I am there.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-90256855984622367292015-07-19T00:00:00.000-04:002015-07-23T20:44:44.133-04:00CHALLENGE: Erosion<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My 12x12 group had the challenge "Fear". I had to
think long and hard about fear; I finally decided to focus on erosion. Erosion can be applied to many areas of our
lives...erosion of the beach at Lake Michigan..erosion of your health as you
age...erosion of world-wide safety...so many things can gradually destruct
creating fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found this delightful sewing reality show on British
television called <b><i>The Great British Sewing Bee.</i></b> I watched the first season via
this link: <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x130bwl_s1e1-the-great-british-sewing-bee_lifestyle" target="_blank">Sewing Bee Season 1</a> . Season 2 and 3 can be found on YouTube.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I loved this show because of the people. I used to manage a plant in England and this
show brought back memories of the workers.
I believe you, also, will find these contestants every day, lovable
people with outstanding skills. I smiled
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-80955182827014911142015-02-22T18:00:00.001-05:002015-02-22T18:00:51.408-05:00ART QUILT GROUP: Complementary Color Challenge<div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">If you have been following my blog, you will remember that my Art Quilt Group had a crayon challenge last year where we would randomly select three crayons out of a box of 64 Crayolas and create a 12 x 12 art quilt using just these three colors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">This year we have chosen to diversify our monthly challenges; for the month of February, our challenge was to use complementary colors. Below are the results:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">First up is Diane being inspired from a class she took from Gwen Marston. I didn't get a get photo of it, but her binding is yellow halfway around and purple the rest of the way- it was very cool!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is Doha's; she is off to a great start, but tells us that a big knitting project has been the priority for her this month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jackie created this wonderful feather stamp from etching on a Styrofoam plate; I love the movement of the hand stitching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This piece was created by Jenny; this is her first attempt at beading and I must say she is definitely got the knack for it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">June has taken her hand-dyed indigo fabric and coupled it with burst of orange. Her binding is sari ribbon and yarn twisted then stitched on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mary also used a Styrofoam plate, but stamped with bleach to get the effect of a stone rubbing. It really stunning!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lastly, this is mine. I decided to do a modern quilt; I am pleased with the outcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In March, we are working with usual materials...the material we are using are netting bags that hold fruits and vegetables in the grocery store.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-85266261669405938242015-02-15T21:30:00.000-05:002015-02-15T21:30:15.252-05:00CHALLENGE: The Sea<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;">The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">~Anne Morrow Lindbergh</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My 12x12 group's last challenge was the sea, here is my piece:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> My piece for 'The Sea' is my interpretation of sea foam. I hooped water soluble stabilizer and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">heavily</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thread painted the large foamy pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And most important, Jack, my adviser and coach in everything I make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have new members and their work is FABULOUS! See all of "The Sea" challenges at: <a href="http://upforachallengeartquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://upforachallengeartquilts.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-90354971194821527722014-10-05T00:00:00.000-04:002014-10-05T19:39:10.363-04:00CHALLENGE: Structure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I went to Google, looking for structures and the photo below spoke to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below is a photo of my piece in process; it is tough to see all of the layers. I pieced fabric, sewed additional lines, rubbed metallic wax on it, covered it with tulle, and then added the two circular appliques. I knew I needed to add one more layer of stronger supports, but was not sure how I would layer them on. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I took a photo of the work-in-process and printed out six copies; I took a white colored pencil and began experimenting with how the final layer would look. Finally, I could add the velvet thread to finish it!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted this work to be dark and steely, but thought that one pop of color was needed, so a citrine colored velvet puff was added. Below is my finished piece, entitled, "<b>Industrial Pop</b>". Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below is the comment that was drawn out of the hat to win the hand-dyed fabric- Congratulations! Please email me your address (artndlfb@gmail.com) and I will mail you your goodies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><cite class="user"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01723002507793850669" rel="nofollow">ruebarb</a></cite><span class="icon user"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text"><a href="http://artndl.blogspot.com/2014/09/christmas-my-child-is-love-in-action.html?showComment=1410819978175#c762811418350478666" rel="nofollow">September 15, 2014 at 6:26 PM</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your
ornament tradition makes me smile. I am sure that there are many of us
who have tried this tradition and failed to keep it up as life changed
through the years. I made similar ornaments throughout the years for my
kids, and a few select others. I enjoyed the making as much, if not more
than, the recipients enjoyed the gift. My kids, now grown, have their
boxes of handmade ornaments from me, and some made by their own hands to
use on their own trees. Now, with a grandchild, I need to dust off the
old ideas, add some new one..........thanks for sharing your tradition.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-22600071112491481442014-09-15T11:05:00.001-04:002014-09-15T11:41:11.979-04:00DESIGN: Taking My Art with Me! and Giveaway<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love making art quilts, but what I love even more is using my art quilts in wearables. I have used two of my 12" x 12" art quilts to adorn my iPads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a challenge quilt for the theme incandescence. You can read about how I made it <a href="http://artndl.blogspot.com/2012/09/design-incandescence.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">This second challenge quilt is for the theme Celestial. You can read about how I made it </span><a href="http://artndl.blogspot.com/2013/11/challenge-celestial.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="text-align: left;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">For both of these art quilts, I created custom iPad skins for the outside from a photo of the quilt. I love how both the outer skin matches the wallpaper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: right;">With the same photo of the quilt, I went to Spoonflower and created custom fabric. If you have not read about Spoonflower, you can read more about it </span><a href="http://artndl.blogspot.com/2013/11/design-spoonflower-and-embroidery.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">. With my custom fabric, I made a heavily quilted mini quilt for the outer case and another mini quilt for the inside of the case. I adhered the two mini quilts together to create a strong and durable case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Below are the insides of the iPad cases. The key to making these tablet cases are two-fold:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When iPads first came out, I made a case for my first generation iPad , I still use it today and it has very little wear on it (the photos below were taken after I had been using the case for about two years); you can read about it <a href="http://artndl.blogspot.com/2013/12/inspiredipad-case.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks for reading my blog today. Leave me a comment and I will pick a person to win these three fat quarters that I hand-dyed (2- cotton, 1-velvet). Check my blog Tuesday at 5 pm (EST) for the winner!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of my life, I have had a love affair with homemade ornaments. I am the youngest of five children and when my older sisters and brothers began to have children, I began making ornaments annually for my nieces and nephew. I always gave the ornaments at Thanksgiving dinner, so I have vivid memories of racing around Thanksgiving morning, sewing, gluing, painting the last bits of the ornaments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have such wonderful memories scouring the newsstands every year looking for holiday issues of magazines to come out to find the perfect annual ornament. I still have these old magazines and look through them each year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I was in college, my creative skills and my pocketbook were very limited and <i>the ornaments showed these lackings</i>; often, I did not even have enough money to make an extra ornament for me to keep. Here are some of my early ornaments:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2002:</b> A conical Santa (it was tough getting the beard/face detail on camera)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2005:</b> A snowman made from vintage quilts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> 2006: </b>This ornament pattern was from an issue of Piecework magazine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The other part of my <i>homemade ornament love affair</i> are the ones that were made for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are some of the many homemade gifts that my college roommate (and still very dear friend), Maria, has made for me over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> One of my art doll friends made these Julie McCullough ornaments for a group of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is an oldie, but goodie; I received this clothespin soldier when I was in college during a secret Santa exchange. I treasure it every year when I put it on the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">As I look back on all of the ornaments that I made,<i> I am most proud that I created a tradition</i> that went on for over 30 years. Each of my nieces and </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">nephew received a box of 'Aunt Kathy' ornaments when they moved out of their parents' home; they talk about how much joy it brings when they decorate their trees annually.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for reading my blog today...I hope you enjoy Quilting Arts Holiday issue! Leave me a comment and I will pick a person to win these three fat quarters that I hand-dyed (2- cotton, 1-velvet). Check my blog Tuesday at 5 pm (EST) for the winner!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span class="bqQuoteLink" style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; text-align: left;">Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span class="bqQuoteLink" style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; text-align: left;">doesn't come from a store. </span></b></span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-align: right;">~Dr. Seuss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Grinch probably knew he could get tons of great ideas in the Quilting Arts 2014!</span></div>
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I will be part of <a href="http://www.interweavestore.com/quilting-arts-holiday-2014-grouped?utm_source=QDLL&utm_medium=BL&utm_campaign=QAHolidayHop" target="_blank">Quilting Arts Holiday</a>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friday, September 12</span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, <b>Vivika Hansen DeNegre</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><a href="http://quiltingdaily.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://quiltingdaily.com/</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saturday, September 13, </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Lyric Kinard</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://lyrickinard.com/blog/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://lyrickinard.com/blog/</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sunday, September 14,</span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>Claude Larson</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://randomactsofpiece.blogspot.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://randomactsofpiece.blogspot.com/</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Monday, September 15, </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Linda Laughlin</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://notesfromstudiob.blogspot.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://notesfromstudiob.blogspot.com/</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Kathy Kerstetter</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><a href="http://artndl.blogspot.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">http://artndl.blogspot.com</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tuesday, September 16, </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Lori Miller</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><a href="http://lorimillerdesigns.wordpress.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://lorimillerdesigns.wordpress.com/</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wednesday, September 17, </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Melanie Testa</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://melanietesta.com/blog/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://melanietesta.com/blog/</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, and </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Liz Kettle</b>,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.textileevolution.com/index.php/our-journey" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.textileevolution.com/index.php/our-journey</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thursday, September 18,<b> </b></span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Susan Brubaker Knapp</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><a href="http://wwwbluemoonriver.blogspot.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://wwwbluemoonriver.blogspot.com/</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friday, September 19, </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Lisa Chin</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><a href="http://somethingcleveraboutnothing.blogspot.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://somethingcleveraboutnothing.blogspot.com/</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saturday, September 20,<b> </b></span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Sarah Ann Smith</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.sarahannsmith.com/weblog" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.sarahannsmith.com/weblog</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sunday, September 21,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Catherine Redford</b></span></span>, </span><a href="http://catherineredford.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://catherineredford.com/</a></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-82606335118152980182014-09-07T00:00:00.000-04:002014-09-13T13:57:02.279-04:00DESIGN: When in Doubt, Dip it in Dye<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: 15.5555562973022px;"><b>See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.5555562973022px;">Last fall when I was on our annual quilt guild's retreat, I bought a couple 'jelly rolls' of fabric. Excited to have cut fabric, I got home and put together a sweatshirt jacket (my favorite things to wear!) Once it was pieced and quilted, I just did not care for how it looked. What to do? What to do? This is what the fabric looked like:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.5555562973022px;">I took the plunge (literally) and threw it in a bucket of red dye. When I pulled it out- I liked it- I really liked it! I decided to add purple cuffs (also dipped in the red dye) and topped it off with a couple of Dorset buttons. And presto-chango...I have a new fashion favorite! What do you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.5555562973022px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: georgia;">Have you ever finished something that you did not like the finished product? What did you do?</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-31946216515047744232014-08-31T00:00:00.000-04:002014-09-01T21:06:01.915-04:00ART QUILT GROUP: Surface Design<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">In volume 8 of Quilting Arts' e-mag, 'In Stitches', there is a fun article, 'A Collaborative Collaboration'.</span></span><br />
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Essentially six different artists conducted a surface design round robin. My Art Quilt Group talked about it and four members decided to partake. </div>
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Here are the rules from the original group:<br />
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<li>Each of us started with a plain white fat quarter. </li>
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layer of surface design to each fat quarter, using a variety of
techniques. </li>
<li>We limited our techniques to surface design methods, so
embellishing, cutting, sewing, and collaging were not permitted. </li>
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design covers such a wide array of techniques that there seemed little
danger in running out of new things to try. </li>
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printing, discharging- and other techniques- were used by the
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So for our group, we each needed 4
fat quarters and performed the smae suface treatment on all four pieces. The next month, these four pieces were given to the next person for them to add another type of surface design. After four rounds, we each ended up with four different fat quarters.</div>
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As the round robin progressed, it became stressful to add an additional surface treatment. We asked ourselves, "What if after three rounds, I ruin the piece?" We all agreed that the experimentation was worth the risk.</div>
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Here are our results:</div>
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1. Fabric Painting: Setacolor transparent- Ultramarine Blue</div>
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2. Resist Dyeing: Flag folded with popsicle stick resist- Dharma's #15Magenta Dye</div>
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3. Fabric Painting: Applied with texture roller- Jacquard Textile Color, #110 violet and #123 white</div>
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4. Stamping: Applied with circular daubers- Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow, 822 Sulfur green, Jacquard Textile paint, 123 White, and 568 Pearl</div>
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<b>Techniques for above piece:</b></div>
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1. Hand-dyed with Dye Magnet: Dharma #61 Ice Blue</div>
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2. Over-dyed with flour paste resist: Procion Mx #086 Forest Green</div>
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3. Printed:Printed with cut leaf shapes from plastic plates</div>
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4. Sponge print: Olive green acrylic</div>
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<b>Techniques for above piece:</b></div>
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1. Hand-dyed: Navy Procion, double strength</div>
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2. Paint: Yellow acrylic paint</div>
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3. Foil: red foil with steam-a-sem</div>
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4. Discharge: Bleach pen on back side </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBS-ajN31W_K08QoYxXRCxljwhSMfTqwqxdmwukaRJKcYNjOyDYb6JuVwC4_T_qOv0Er6XEBdXwTDeHYhHBWJcXjMg9tWrswvRLtqdyHlsOwM6F0CLQWw8avZNldoz_Wk2uEa_bOmofU/s1600/IMG_1041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBS-ajN31W_K08QoYxXRCxljwhSMfTqwqxdmwukaRJKcYNjOyDYb6JuVwC4_T_qOv0Er6XEBdXwTDeHYhHBWJcXjMg9tWrswvRLtqdyHlsOwM6F0CLQWw8avZNldoz_Wk2uEa_bOmofU/s1600/IMG_1041.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></div>
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<b>Techniques for above piece:</b></div>
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1. Hand-dyed: Procion, 072 Medium Blue and 192 Lilac</div>
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2. Printed with Bubble-wrap: Mix of Luminiere Pearl White and Dye-Na-Flow Violet. Applied with a brayer</div>
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3. Stencil: Freezer paper stencils (used 16 times!)</div>
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4. Rubbings: Paintstiks rubbed over a rubber-stamp</div>
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We enjoyed this round robin so much we are talking about starting another one next month! Until then, the challenge is to see who uses one of their fat quarters first!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-31865077653768347572014-08-24T00:00:00.000-04:002014-09-01T21:05:29.619-04:00DESIGN: What a Summer! & Kantha Vest<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Art is the only way to run away <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">without leaving home </span><i>~Twyla Tharp</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My poor blog! It has become so neglected this summer, but it has been an unexpectedly busy summer revolving around my dear family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First, my niece that lives in Phoenix acquired Guillain-Barré syndrome which is a serious disorder that occurs when the body's defense (immune) system mistakenly attacks part of the nervous system. This leads to nerve inflammation that causes muscle weakness and other symptoms. My niece is paralyzed from the chest down with very limited use of her arms. My sister (my niece's mom) and I have traveled to Phoenix four times this summer. We leave again tomorrow to move my niece and her two children to Michigan. Here is a photo of my great niece and great nephew- they have stolen my heart this summer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second thing that took some time was helping my other sister with her wedding business; she decorates wedding and reception venues. Obviously, this has been a busy time of the year, so I have been lending a helping hand. Here are some photos of what they do:</span><br />
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week I am running away to India; I love Kantha! Kantha is a type of embroidery
popular in eastern South Asia, especially Bangladesh and the Indian. Kantha stitching
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My dilemma was how to make sure that my stitching lines were straight and evenly apart. I considered marking tools, but felt this would be tough because most marking tools wear off as you work the piece AND I really could not mark the sections on a plane. I finally decided that I would baste the lines in place; it worked like a charm! I could easily remove the basting thread as I began stitching a row, in fact, there were needle holes left from the basting making it easy to space the stitches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We had an opening on June 8 and below are photos from the reception. I am so lucky to be part of this creative group of women!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to mount this piece on a frame, but the issue became that the denim was not large enough to cover the sides. I chose to add cotton fabric to the sides and am more delighted than if the denim had covered it. Happy mistakes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found this delightful sewing reality show on British television called <span style="color: magenta;"><b><i>The Great British Sewing Bee</i></b></span>. The show just finished its second season in Britain, but you can view the first season via the link below:</span><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x130bwl_s1e1-the-great-british-sewing-bee_lifestyle" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x130bwl_s1e1-the-great-british-sewing-bee_lifestyle</a></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I loved this show because of the people. I used manage a plant in England and this show brought back memories of the workers. I believe you, also, will find these contestants every day, lovable people with outstanding skills. I smiled through much of this first season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The last challenge for my 12 x 12 group was about using words on our art quilts. You can read about our 12 x 12 Challenge group <a href="http://upforachallengeartquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>. I chose my favorite quote is from Eleanor Roosevelt, "A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water". </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I began with white fabric that I used Jacquard's color magnet on by making a dot pattern with the pen. When I dyed the fabric with periwinkle dye, the dots become darker than the rest of the fabric. When you look at the piece about, you can see dime-sized dots throughout the background fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hand embroidered the outlines of the letters for the quote. My teacup and its flowers are machine appliquéd with some puff-paint accents. A fine China teacup usually is gold rimmed, so I thought it fitting, I trimmed the entire teacup, saucer, and handle with gold paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally outside of the quote's circle, I did a pattern of French knots. Inside of the circle I did a diamond hand-quilting pattern. One of the niftiest parts of this 12" x 12" quilt is the binding, it's the first binding I ever did that was entirely machine sewn with no handstitching needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When school ended for the summer, I had such high hopes of catching up on my blog and my art in general...best laid plans...The first 10 days of summer vacation was spent in Phoenix helping my sister care-giving my dear niece. Sis and I are leaving this weekend for a second trip. I decided that I would make a series of prayer flags for my niece that she could hang in her room. This coupled with a friend going through a stem cell transplant put me into the pray flag making mode. Below is the first prayer flag:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kathy</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06552300647433004433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2003419589585688989.post-854648102506255232014-04-13T00:00:00.000-04:002014-04-13T16:37:27.057-04:00CHALLENGE: Kathy's March Crayola Challenge<span class="bqQuoteLink" style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 26px;"><b>If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My, oh my, has life gotten in the way of creating. The last couple of months has been challenging with every minute of every waking hour consumed. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel...winter semester of the school year ends in TWO WEEKS! Yesterday, I could not contain my excitement and made my list of what I want to accomplish this summer; it will only take 58 hours of work per week...OK, maybe I need to trim somewhere!</span><br />
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As I talked in my last post, the March meeting of my Art Quilt Group meeting brought so many wonderful pieces (you can read about it <a href="http://artndl.blogspot.com/2014/04/art-quilt-group-life-is-like-box-of.html" target="_blank">here</a>). The March colors were Indigo,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;">Since I began dyeing a couple of years ago, I have been most excited about dyeing velvet for projects. I have a dream of a velvet swing coat...but that will be another day. I decided that the March challenge </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">would be a great month to play with velvet. Luckily, I had the three Crayola colors readily available in dyes. I began with prepared for dyeing velvet and painted areas of each color around the piece. I sprinkled salt crystals on the (it is supposed to created star-bursts) and dampened the entire piece with a water spray bottle to get the dye flowing. I was not impressed with the salt effects, but the rest was just what I needed.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> I drew a fleur-de-lis inspired pattern on the piece. I created a quilt sandwich using double thickness of a high loft batting, the velvet top, and muslin bottom. Yes, I said, double thickness of high loft batting and yes, it was VERY thick going under the machine for the first time. I sewed the outline of the pattern and then I thread painted to my heart's content.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;">As you can see below, I completed a very dense machine thread painting using the three Crayola colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are so many fun and helpful bits that I would like to share, I am creating this last bit of my blog each week, My hubby, Mark, came up the the name of this section, <u><b><i><span style="color: magenta;">Remnants</span></i></b></u>, so named perfectly as its definition is: </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My first remnant is the announcement that Pokey (Patricia)
Bolton has decided to leave Quilts, Inc! and as she states, "I am ready for a break after a lot of change in my life the past few years." A you probably know, Pokey is the founder/creator of Quilting Arts and Cloth, Paper Scissors among others. She has inspired so many of us in our quilting and mixed media journeys. I wish her the best!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can read more about Pokey's bucket list for the next phase of her life here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our March meeting of my Art Quilt Group meeting with crayon challenge brought so many wonderful pieces. The March colors were Indigo, Red, Red Orange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below is the rundown of what everyone made. First is Anna Mae's piece; it reminds me of a sparkly diamond ring!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is Diane's (and sorry, my camera did not capture the color well here). She was inspired by the artist Charley Harper and his cardinals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is Evey's; I believe we all agreed that this reminded us of a campfire with sparks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jackie did some indigo dyeing with Shibori; she is continuing to complete the piece with sashiko stitching The beauty of this piece in person is phenomenal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">June used hand dyed fabrics and couching of fibers; she finished with circle quilting (her specialty).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you ever thought that maybe the universe is trying to send you a message? The last couple of months, I have been thinking that someone is trying to tell me that I should be keeping a daily sketchbook journal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have taken a few drawing/sketchbook classes, but it is something that does not ever quite stick with me. Sure, when I am ready to create something, I sketch what I am going to do. I keep encountering lately is keeping a sketchbook of places/things encountered in everyday life; when you are ready to create, go to your sketchbook for inspiration (What! I wouldn't be going to Pinterest anymore!?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Besides the blogs that I follow, the first encounter of this was while I was watching Jean Littlejohn and Jan Beaney's video, <b><i>In Stitches.</i></b> In this video, Jean and Jan show many lovely sketches from their travel journals and how they transform them into <i>unbelievable </i>embroideries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second encounter was found while I was reading the <b><i>New Zealand Herald</i></b> and found an article about British Fashion Designer, Zandra Rhodes. Below are two videos from Zandra Rhodes. The first is all about her journals; it is interesting that she </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> uses rice paper because it is easier for her pens to flow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second video shows how her sketches become reality in her clothing. I love the the New York skyscraper that became the pattern of a dress in her Beaded Collection from the 1980's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am sure this method works and would help push my work to another level, but where do these people find the time to sketch? I think may plate is already pretty full. Secondly, I am not a proficient sketcher (yes, I know, practice makes perfect). Here are some samples from my sketchbook:</span><br />
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