World Quilt Show NH

Okay I’m still dinkin’ around with my digital camera – learning how to take better pics - getting things in my picture files – loading stuff on CD’s – slideshows – and now I’d like to get this as a slideshow onto my blog – Yeah –yeah- yeah –You think this is easy?????  Here goes …

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Not exactly what I wanted will try again tomorrow – I need to go quilt!!!

League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair

This is the quilt that I collaborated on with my friend Linda Dunning. It looks so good in this dining room setting, surrounded by beautifully hand crafted furniture & accessories

OCEAN

30”x90” Hand dyed cottons-hand painted silks –fused,machine pieced,machine quilted

If anyone is in New Hampshire this weekend you really should go to the Fair - Aug 1-9- This is one of the oldest crafts fairs in the country ( 76 years!!!). -350+ juried craftspeople –really extraordinary exhibits.

It’s located at Mt Sunapee in Newbury, NH. Music,workshops,demos,food,scenic chairlift rides & of course you can see our quilt in all it’s glory in the Living With Crafts exhibit in the Lodge. www.nhcrafts.org

Stamping, etc.

This is what I’ve been doing lately-

I’ve been dyeing, stamping, printing, monoprinting, and painting fabrics for a series of art quilts. As you can see, I like lizards – I have no idea why- I just like the way they look. Through the years I’ve made quite a few lizard quilts. I make my own stamps – lizards - I batik, yup, lizards –fusible appliqué, you guessed it – lizards. I’ve never owned a lizard –or ever even met one up close & personal (unless,of course, you consider a few guys I’ve met in bars –I used to be a bartender) Well I do make some things other than lizards.

  

   

I just put this design wall up in my dining room ( I use that term loosely –there is never any dining in the dining room – the table is always piled high with projects –I know you can relate to that!)  It’s just some of that pink foam insulation stuff from Home Depot that I covered with some batting. I love it – now I want one in every room. There’s just something about being able to see everything from a few feet away- very clarifying. Now I need one to use for a backdrop for taking photographs of my work for the blog. And I need another one for laying out & previewing the quilt as I assemble it.
Well, if I’m going to get any work done today I’d better get going – I am still muddling through this blogging process – downloading the pics, formatting,figuring out all this stuff as I go along –& I don’t know how to type – yikes ( I know Mom, I should have listened to you in high school). But learning every day – I love to learn new things.

I’m Back

 After finally getting my blog going I got so busy with other stuff that I sorta dropped the ball – I just got back from a family picnic in CT- with all my sisters, cousins, my aunt and their families – I have the best family on the planet- I am so so lucky!!
 I have been working on a collaborative fiber art piece, with my friend Linda, for the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair. http://www.nhcrafts.org/craftsmens_fair/fair_home.html   We decided to do it last November and submitted our proposal in February. We first did a smaller prototype for our submission application & since then we have been dyeing cottons, painting silks … and just last week we finished assembling the top. Now it’s back with me for machine quilting. The pressure is on! We only get together a few times a month so it’s been slow going –but we have a well organized work plan & homework assignments so we are right on schedule.

 Sorry no pics til our unveiling at the Fair in August. –    So here’s a pic for you of an older work that I did for a challenge for a small fiber art group I belonged to –

It doesn’t seem very clear –but hopefully I will improve my computer & blogging skills more and more as I go on.

WooHooo I’m blogging

This has been on my to do list forever –Finally I’m a blogger –Now What??

I’m learning as I go along & it is taking forever! Just figured out how to get this pic here & tweaked the brightness by using Windows Live Writer –pretty cool huh? Well it’s taken me all morning to just do this – so time to go and  actually make stuff.