AQS Quilt Expo 2008

Yay!!! Morgan was accepted for the AQS Quilt Expo in Des Moines in October. I am so pleased and excited. I let my online friends and my own children know as soon as I heard today. It was accepted into the fabric art division.

I do love this quilt!

I hope to get some feedback from those of you attending the show. I am going to try to get there. I have been busy with commissions and traveling. Not too much time spent blogging I am afraid. I will work on some images from my shibori class in New Mexico with Yosiko Endo. We had too much fun.

New work

I have been hard at work on several fiber collages. I finished The Perseid Meteor for a show called A Personal Landscape to be displayed in the Tyler Gallery at the State University of New York at Oswego College in August. It is based on a copyright free photo from NASA. It is created with hand dyed and commercial cottons, upholstery fabrics,chenille, velvet, tulle, silks, organza. It is 44x66 inches. this is larger than I usually work, but the finished quilt is spectacular , if I say so myself. Well, if we don't like our own work , who else will?

Spring

Spring has delivered the Quilting Arts Magazine with my article in it to some of my friends, but I am waiting for my own to arrive! If you are checking out my blog from that article, thank you. I will hopefully have a website by Holly Knott up and running this summer.

Both of my collages sold and were delivered for Virginia Spiegel's fiber art for the cause. I look forward to more of these events in the future. I have had some fun doing exchanges online, but am returning to work in the studio on some commissions and gallery work.

Thank you to everyone who sent me the lovely cat photos for the SPCA fund raiser. I will put them up here as well as at the group sites where my friends sent the photos.

Virgina Spiegel Fiber Art for the Cause

I am so happy that on day one of the online auction one of my pieces sold!! Hopefully the second will as well since it is such a good cause. There were many interesting collages available, and I enjoyed shopping through them.

Quilting Arts Magazine

I am truly honored to say that I was asked by Patricia Bolton to contribute some work for publication in the June July issue of Quilting Arts magazine. It is the only quilting magazine that I actually receive at home. I have learned so much from the contributing artists. I keep them all and refer to them constantly.

So keep an eye out for me next issue.

Trunk show SAQA NY

I had a fabulous first experience of a trunk show with 11 SAQA artists meeting in Ithaca,NY. I now have new friends and got to see some wonderful art. I am always amazed at the creativity that is within us. They had good solutions to a variety of questions about the artwork there. I will not hesitate to ask them when I need that kind help. I love meeting strong women who can laugh and appreciate each other. I look forward to more of the same type of get togethers. I know it helps to keep me inspired.

Pirates and Post Cards

I've been too busy working to post much. I finished a challenge piece for my fiber pirate group. It is called Beached. Done from an a assortment of stuff with no rules. I like that part. Challenges add such an element of fun. I guess I'll know what they think soon.

I also finished my first postcards based on a photograph of a rock. They are on a base of peach wool. I created fabric using fibers, silk ,wool, on soluble solvy in a hoop. It was cut to fit the image. I added handdyed yarns ans quilted it to tyvek. I hope my partners like them.

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I worked on postcards for tsukineko dye blending. These were made of two layers of white cotton PFD . The first was placed in a hoop the second placed loosely over with some shaped wool in between. Then, I embroidered around the shapes, with folds created with the extra fabric. Three of them had batting as well as another layer. Ink was then painted and blended using different brushes. After setting the ink with an iron, they were sewn to a paper backing.