Empty Spools class with Hilde Morin #6 05-15-14

These are the last three students from Hilde Morin's class at Empty Spools Seminars.

 

For her inspiration Jan Archer brought photos of a ceramic frieze of houses. She didn't put them all up on her design board until the last day.

One house each day for four days. 

Randi Swindler was inspired by an ancient street in European.

This is where she was on the last day of class. 

 

Carole Rossi was working from a tiny picture of a village on a cliff side.

You can see the tiny picture at the top of this photo. 

This is where she was when the class finished.

 

It was a good class and Hilde is an able and attentive teacher.  I recommend her class.

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Empty Spools class with Hilde Morin #5 05-14-14

Sydney Moberg was diagonally across the room from me so I didn't see what she was doing.  And I didn't take many pictures of her work.

Her inspiration was the scenic place mat at the bottom of the photo.

 

By the last day of class she had created a row of ancient looking houses.

 

Kim Jacobs made house shapes with lots of windows and doors.

 

And she moved them around to accomplish the look she wanted.

 

 

Then she added roofs and stairs and a road.  This is where she was on the last day of class.

 

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Empty Spools class with Hilde Morin #4 05-12-14

One of the first things that Hilde had her students do was to put masking tape on their design board to define the size of their project.  Not that the work had to stay within those boundaries, just to help keep the scope of the building sizes balanced. 

 

Maggie Davis started out with a lovely blue door.

And had accomplished this much before the end of class.

 Kathy Hundhammer started out with a roof and the banister on a deck.

 

You can see her inspiration photo on the left.

She created a rhododendron bush with the Solvy lace technique

By the time the class ended she had created house and deck.

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Empty Spools class with Hilde Morin #3 05-11-14

Deb Powell started with this, continued to add and move things around.

 

Hilde wanted us to make each building as a block - complete.

 

The heads of Deb's pins are butterflies - cute.

Her inspiration photo has a boat with eyes painted on it.  Note her flowering tree made with the Solvy lace technique.  

 

Before the end of class Deb rearranged her buildings.

 

Virginia Richardson lives in Tucson which inspired her project.

She changed the angle of the background strips which greatly changes the effect of her piece, making it more "mountainous". 

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Empty Spools Class with Hilde Morin #2 05-09-14

Our class was in the Surf & Sand building which has three walls of windows.  The light is wonderful for working, but not so good for picture taking as the images are somewhat washed out.   

 

This project by Annie Tokarz is, I believe, Capitola, a colorful town on the California coast. Her inspiration photo is pinned below her work.

 

This is how much Annie was able to create in class - quite a lot, I think.

 



Janneke Van Der Ree used her  New Jersey home for her project.

Jeannie Spangler was inspired by the Monterey wharfs. 

 

  Becky Darden also did her childhood home.  Notice the hydrangea plant on the left, done with Solvy lace.

 

 

 

 

 

Empty Spools class with Hilde Morin 05-08-14

Here is a collage of all the pieces worked on in Hilde Morin's class - of course, they are not finished, but some are closer completion than others.  I will be posting some progress pictures for the next couple of days.  I think it is interesting to see how the work develops - especially since there were no patterns created, everything was based on looking at the inspiration photo and cutting/piecing.  There is no applique and no fusing in these projects.  Although, once the students have taken them home, who knows what will be added! 

 



Carol Esch did this fabulous window from a photo she had taken years ago. 

I think it amazing that she was able to make her work look so much like the photo.

 

Mary Kay Price did just a section of her inspiration photo - the upper right.

I don't know where this picture was taken - somewhere in southern Europe.

 

I took this picture from my hotel window in Denver.  I was struck by the crookedness of the floors and the fact that it is made from yellow brick.  I asked around and was told that this parking structure was built in the 1930s, but have no idea if that is true.   What a contrast to the high rises behind it.

In the early stages the windows were more accurately vertical, but that didn't seem to work, so I turned them horizontal.  And I chopped off one row of windows on the block on the left.  All along I kept auditioning fabrics for the foreground.  I didn't want to put the rain soaked flat roof there, so I turned it into a vacant lot. 

By the time the class was over it looked like this (and still does), but I hope to find some time this summer to work on it until it is finished.  I don't like the piece in the top center (under the sky piece) and will either delete it or replace it with something that seems to me to work better.  There is a lot of work to be done yet.  I used the photo for inspiration and had no intention of trying to make this project look like the photo. 

 

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