I am sorry I have not been able to blog while at Empty Spools. Trouble with my cell phone and with my laptop, along with exhaustion every night! And now, even at home, I cannot change the margins on this paragraph. Computing doesn't seem to be my thing anymore. Anyway, I will blog pictures from my class until I run out, maybe be the end of this week.
I can't find words to say how FABULOUS it was to be back at Empty Spools. I felt like I was home after a long trip away. Some students I knew from the previous 29 years, but there were new people to meet and a couple new teachers. Of course, Suzanne and Gayle, the owners of this seminar event were there and Carolee with her shop in the back of Merrill Hall. I did visit all the classrooms on the walk-about on Thursday after class and attended all the evening programs. This time I had two friends riding along with me, Andrea Bacal and Judy Warren-Tippets, from San Diego. Andrea and I roomed together and our room in Surf was only four doors from our classroom in Surf and Sand. Very convenient.
The building is the furtherest west on the campus and this is the view out the sliders. On the far left is Sunset Road that goes along the Bay and in the dip in the right middle is a view of the waves in the Bay. Those spikes at the top are the ends of the rafters that extend the roof over the little deck outside the back of the room. We had four beds - a double and three twins. Lots of room to spread our our stuff and, by choice, no maid service so we never had to tidy up.
The classroom has great light since it is just floor to ceiling windows on three sides, but it is a little small for twenty students, each with their own table and all their piles of fabric and equipment. The noise level can be dithering. But we managed as has every class that has been in this location. I took this picture while standing in the door, pretty much shows how together we were. The class was all about ABSTRACTION.
Our first assignment was to take the picture Sue Benner gave to each of us and abstract it into a 12X12 fused fiber image using five preselected 20" square fabrics. The original timing was 20 minutes, but we managed to stretch it to more like 40! We then pinned them up on design boards and critiqued. The smaller images are the original pictures.
The picture Sue gave me is an aerial shot of tundra with trees. And this is what I did with it.
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Oh, how I miss Empty Spools! Thanks for taking us along. Dottie
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