Wordless Wednesday 06-24=20

Quilt storage 06-23-20

Today my friend Liz Williams came over to help me re-package and store the TCQC quilts that were on exhibit at Back Porch Fabrics in Pacific Grove.  I brought them home the end of last month, but we couldn't get together to work with them due to the virus.  There isn't room for me to roll each quilt separately for storage, so we package several by the same artist and divide others by size to roll quilts by several different artists together.  Each roll has a tag on the outside listing the quilts, so we can find anything we look for.  

On shelves in closet.

On the guest bed.

On top of the fabric storage shelves. 

On the high shelf in guest room closet. 

We didn't count how many rolls there are, must be about fifty, I think.  I really must stop buying quilts!! 

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Addition to TCQC 06-21-20

I have not been adding many quilts to the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collectiom over the past year; some from the SAQA online auction and a few from individual artists.  Last week I purchased "Ellys in Malawi" by Pamela Allen, who is well represented in the Collection.  Inspired by her experiences teaching last year in Africa, Pamela created a number of small and large quilts that show the places and people she saw there.  Her quilts are available on her website  www.pamelart.com  and at www.artfullhome.com

I always prefer to purchase directly from the artist and have always been happy with the transactions. 

Ellys in Malawi   Pamela Allen  2019

43" W X 29" L  Hand and machine pieced and appliqued.  Commercial cotton prints, vintage cotton prints, hand dyes, batiks.

The rows of gold colored dots are French knots, as are the red dots on the background among the FMQ twigs with leaves.

Pamela doesn't worry about matching the background color, it is the leaves that show.  More hand zig zag - sort of connect the dots - and one of many little FMQ birds that are sprinkled throughout the quilt.

Sky is roughly cut pieces of hand dye heavily hand stitched with running stitch.  Machine stitched circles using coral thread on white background on the right.

All these zig zags are hand stitched with embroidery floss or perle cotton.  Ladder stitch around the ear and as grass on the ground.  FMQ grass and vines.

A bright solid red for the back showing knots from the hand stitching, machine quilting around the trees, and two more FMQ birds.

Friday Food 06-18-20

Eight years ago this week I was in Kalispell, Montana, taking the last class that Ruth B. McDowell was ever to teach.  It was a great trip and a fantastic class.  I had stopped in Las Vegas to pick up a friend who flew in from Kansas and we stopped three nights along the way to Kalispell.  While we were there we had some great meals, saw wonderful spring flowers, toured Glacier National Park, and, of course, enjoyed our class with Ruth.   Since then Google took over Picasa and erased all my captions, so I'm not sure what the pictures show.  But trusting my memory... 

This was salmon patties with asparagus and other veggies, at a great restaurant that required reservations.  I think it was the best meal of the trip. 

This was one of the lesser meals, the first night in town we ate in our room from our food box - fruit salad, crackers, cheese, and hot tea.   We were tired and it wasn't bad. 

Glorius geraniums. 

Delicate columbine. 

 A glorious blue iris growing in an alley with the trash cans!

Lovely memories make me yearn for the road. 

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Looking back 06-18-20

In June 2009 I took a class in deconstructed screen printing with Rayna Gilman.  What an eye opener that was.  Some of my experiments were dreadful, but I had a couple that turned out very well and I was surprised!  I have only done the technique once since then; I had a specific look in mind and was successful with that.  

This is one of four that I did in class off of the same screen.  There is a lot of paint on the screen so one can just keep moving the screen to a fresh piece of fabric  and squeegy-ing until there isn't enough paint left to print.   This was about the middle run.  To make the impression I used net, plastic scraps, sequin waste, and shredded bark from a crepe myrtle tree.  I like it so much that I fear that if I do something with it I will ruin it!  Someday....

Rayna and I in the classroom.  One thing this brings home is how much I have aged in eleven years.  I was only 70 then, now I am 81.  Still wearing the same hat, scarf, and earrings.

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Wordless Wednesday 06-17-20

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Another KoKo post 06-15-20

Blogger seems to be getting worse and worse.  They keep telling me to try the NEW Blogger because it will be in operation by the end of June.  But I can't figure out how to post on the NEW Blogger, so am still on the old.  Tonight it won't let me post any pictures. Turned it off.  Turned off laptop.  Restarted everything.  No luck.  I will try again.  

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 16th from 7pm to 8pm (Pacific Daylight Saving Time), Oceanside Museum of Art is featuring a tour of Charlotte Bird's studio in San Diego.  Charlotte has been creating for a lot of years and does many different techniques, including dyeing, painting, stitching, quilting, etc..  There are several of her pieces in the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection as well as in collections all over the country.  Check it out. 

Oceansidemuseumofart.org

12:10am..   Finally am able to post pictures after going off and on twice.  I really need the Geek Squad. . 

KoKo and Froggy are still the best of buddies.  Froggy is very durable and with his regular surgeries he keeps going... and going... ad going! 

This is the OTHER side of KoKo.  He is upside down in my lap (you can see my foot in the top left corner of the image).  Only his back is black, the rest is all tan, now with a little grey. 

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