Friday Feet - Mary Lou Weidman 04-20-18

Mary Lou Weidman had a new pair of shoes in March.  Don't they just look like what she would wear.  Bet the sales clerk saw her coming! 

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Sue Benner's "Flowers" class at Empty Spools Page Two 03-12-18

My brain wasn't "online" when I was taking pictures in the classroom, so they are all mixed up and require lots of searching and moving images around.  Guess I'm getting old, it isn't as easy as it once was!  Hope these make sense to you. 

These are my cut blocks before "mix and match".  With more experience I believe one could determine which rings work best and which need to be wider or thinner.  Many of us found that we were cutting too many rings that were the same circumference and didn't play well with others. 

Here are the circles the way I mixed them up. 

These are the scissors that Sue recommends and that students found very useful. 

This is Mary Lou Weidman's table.  Several students used polka dots which worked very well, giving a sort of "happy" sense to the blocks.   Mary Lou also used some plaids and checks.  

 Michelle Joanou  took the class about seven years ago and brought her finished work to show and tell.   I think this is 16 blocks. 

Another piece by Michelle Joanou   Ten blocks?

Molly Evangelish'a blocks laid out on the table with the dark background showing. 

Molly Evangelish's blocks pinned side by side - they look so different. 

Suzie Costantino worked with one type of flower and we could name it.  

It is the passion flower. 

Joanne Hinkel's eleven blocks and her first project. 

Andrea Bair's twelve blocks spread on her table. 

Andrea Bair's 1st project plus the "reject" block which she has quartered and reassembled. 

More tomorrow if I can get them sorted.  

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Workshop with Mary Lou Weidman 04-16-15

A terrific workshop with Mary Lou Weidman yesterday.  She had been the speaker at the Surfside QGuild meeting the day before and had a full workshop with a waiting list.  She is a good teacher, well prepared and attentive to her students. 

 

Mary Lou and Del in front of "Asilomar/Pacific Grove", the Mary Lou quilt that is part of the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.  We hung it at the workshop so everyone could get a good look.

This is part of another quilt that Mary Lou showed and I was taken with the flower on the right.

 

Here is my version sans stem and birdie.  I want to  put some leaves on the stem and ran out of time in the workshop.

 

This was the first project to learn the Hoochy Momma style of piecing that Mary Lou uses. 

 

 

Then we did a tulip in a pot.  And went on to try other flower blocks.  You can see how large the flowers are in the picture below.

 

Standing: Kathy Bellamy, Pam Herrington, Patty Seebold, Katy Lillie, Nancy Northrup, Wendy McCalley, Mary Lou Weidman,     , Linda Rigdon, Barbara  Seidel, Maxine Fries,    , Victoria Crayne  Seated: Vivien Hawker, Janis Schonfeld, Jan Hirth, Marjie Butterworth, Del Thomas, Vickie Janis.

 

Here is the whole class with at least one of their blocks with Mary Lou in the center back.

Looks like I was taking a nap!

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Mary Lou Weidman 04-14-15

Mary Lou Weidman presented the program at Surfside Quilters Guild in San Clemente, CA, today.  She is a dynamic and humorous speaker who I highly recommend for any guild - traditional or art. She speaks extemporaneously and does a trunk show of some of her quilts.  I'm taking her workshop tomorrow. 

This quilt is a sampler for her "Flower Power" workshop, the one she will teach tomorrow.



Many of her quilts have "critters" in them - like this crazy chicken.

 

Thia is "Duck, Duck, Moose" one of the new patterns in her latest book.

 

And here is an entire town of houses done as part of a group who exchanged house and tree blocks.

 

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Monday Browsing 05-19-14

For anyone who holds pins in their mouth (including me): http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jul/13/experience-inhaled-pin-into-lung

An amazing quilt commission by Ree Nancarrow:
http://www.reenancarrow.com/gallery9.html

Fascinating pictures of Russia before the Revolution.  The text is terrible. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572671/Photos-vault-Amazing-colour-images-pre-revolutionary-Russia.html

Warning lights on your dashboard. Also, in my car the image of the front of a car with snakes underneath it means that the car is hydroplaning.  I learned that during my tornado experience last May.  http://autos.aol.com/gallery/car-warning-lights-meaning/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl6%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D476652#!slide=2606130

For those of you who have not followed Mary Lou Weidman’s posts – her husband died a week ago.  She still has medical and funeral expenses to pay. To make a donation http://www.gofundme.com/7z9m5o    Look at her blog for an update on how she is doing.  http://marylouweidman-marylou.blogspot.com/

Help a quilting friend

There is a crowd funding site to help Mary Lou Weidman and her husband Mark with his medical expenses. He has a terminal brain tumor and not much time left. Every donation helps. http://www.gofundme.com/7z9m5o

Alliance Auction Quilts 12-13-07

"Cat House" Mary Lou Weidman 2006 14.5" x 20.5"

This quilt is machine pieced, appliqued and quilted. It is embellished with buttons, rickrack and fancy trim. The back is a solid blue fabric. It is very typical of Mary Lou's work.

"Under One Roof" Yvonne Porcella 2006 15" x 19.5"

Machine pieced, hand appliqued, hand quilted.

This is very different than any Yvonne quilt I have seen previously and unlike any other quilt in my collections. However, I find it very appealing - soft and peaceful. If you are familiar with Yvonne's work you know that she likes bright colors, so I am showing you the back of the quilt....

...where she has indulged her taste for bright fabrics. Cute, eh?

I am very pleased that my bids on these quilts were successful, everything else I bid on was out of my budget range long before the bidding was over.

The Alliance made $10,429.91 on the auction of the quilts. The highest price was the $1525.00 for Pam Allen's "Icon - Domestic Goddess". My "Tree House" sold for $710.00.