Friday Flowers - Bouquets! 10-31-14

Flowers are always so cheerful.  I used to have them in the house more frequently when I actually had a garden.  But even now I buy them once in a while at Trader Joe's.  

These are all bouquets some place else. 

A bouquet  on the refreshment table at Surfside Quilters Guild.  July 2012

A bouquet at Starbuck's sent to the staff by an appreciative customer.   2012

A bouquet at a vacation home in Puget Sound created by Suzanne.  August 2011

"Desert Wind" a quilt challenge 10-30-14

Visions Art Museum has member challenges every two or three months and the quilts are hung in the Visions Alcove Gallery where they can be purchased by visitors to the Museum.  There is always a theme, the latest is Weather Forecast.  And they changed the size - the pieces have always been 12" x 12", but now the size/shape changes with every challenge.  I (and a few others) misunderstood and created verticals instead of horizontals.  I need to pay better attention. 

I think  this would be more effective as a horizontal piece - mostly because of  the limited size of the 10" width.   But I suppose I was thinking of dust devils with are usually vertical. 

This leftover fabric was just about the right size.  I have forgotten what I used it in earlier!

Sort of a sloppy label, but all the information is there.  Why four birds instead of one?  I don't know..  because it was a wide space, perhaps!

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Wordless Wednesday 10-31-14

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More November Fest Auction Quilts 10-28-14

Here are a few more quilts that will be on the live auction at Surfside Quilters Guild November Fest on November 11th in San Clemente, CA.  You can see all the auction quilts at:

                  Nov Fest Auction Quilts 09-09-14 

and the raffle baskets at: Opportunity Baskets 2014

Made and donated by Seams Rite friendship group.

 Mary Freedman and Vickie Janis collaborated on this zebra quilt, starting with the four donated pieced blocks.

61"W x 61"L

"School Days"   Counted cross stitch by Kay Shoaff Dickman; assembled, quilted & donated by Victoria Crayne. 

 37"W x 15"L

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Last of pictures from Elizabeth Busch class 10-27-14

These are the last pictures from the class that I have permission to post.   I'll be eager to see the comparison between these projects and those that develop in Elizabeth Busch's class at Empty Spools/Asilomar in March.

Patricia Charity  There is good depth in this one. 

Andrea Bacal   She added some color to the black and white McIntosh rose fabric. 

Andrea Bacal Both depth and motion.  A good one!

Andrea Bacal  Nice bit of blue in background.

Andrea Bacal

Gail Sims  This shows an excellent use of commercial printed fabric with the fabric painted in class. 

Gail Sims  This one is haunting, isn't it? 

Gail Sims   Another good use of the commercial fabric/painted fabric combination.  Simplify!  

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Mini compositions from the Elizabeth Busch class 10-26-14

On the fourth day of class Elizabeth Busch had the class use black and white paper to make cut or torn composition samples.  These I posted on 10-16-14.  On the last day of class she had us create five composition samples using the fabric we painted in class, plus whatever commercial fabric we chose.  Everyone didn't do the exercise and some I was unable to photograph.  Here are those I did:

Del Thomas

Gail Sims (A)

Gail Sims (B)

Gail painted a large cut of black and white sunflower commercial print which yielded some great color variations. 

Tricia Charity

Laura Bisagna

Laura's minimalist designs really appeal to me.  Why can't I whip out something like these?

Carolyn Villars

Nadine Rutman

Unknown  (Anyone like to claim them?)

These may be from Susan Root who spent more time painting than sewing.

Andrea Bacal

Andrea incorporated curves and circles in her designs, the only adventuress in the class. 

Deb Mackay

Deb uses the same spontenaity that she uses in her marbling. 

It has been my observation that composition is just about the weakest part of the art quilt world.  Myself included!  Doing exercises like this and sharing them with others who are gifted in critique would bring a big improvement in that deficiency.

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