Last two spreads

Here are the last two spreads

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Just in case it escaped your notice, I am not really doing much surface design on fabric or sewing outside this quilt. I have just embarked on a 3 month long art study course that is taking A LOT of my time. I am sort of switching the emphasis of my work from fiber to painting and mixed media work. 

Please bear with my over the next three months. I'm sure I will have some fiber work stuck in there because it is my first love but I am getting old and finding I MUST paint before it is too late. Hang on, stick with me and who knows, it might even be interesting to see where I go with this.

Back to the sister quilt

Here are Susan's latest blocks:

And here are mine:

The my favorite spread in the concertina sketchbook

I call it black, white and red. Here is it:

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As a matter of fact I have a section of this spread as the screen saver on my phone.

Sister quilt

My sister Susan and I have been very busy working on the quilts. I decided I am going to auction mine off to the highest bidder with ALL the money going to "Pay it forward for kids", a local non-profit that pays childrens lunch fees. Our state has a LOT of food insecurity especially amongst children.

Here are some blocks

These four blocks are from another farm girl book. I substituted these four for four that I didn't like from the farm girl 2 book. Have I totally confused you yet?

I will embroider the dog's face details after the quilting is done

These are my sister's blocks.

Second side of Concertina sketchbook

I haven't been doing much fiber work outside of the sister quilt. I know I showed the first spread on the second of the concertina sketchbook and the first layer of scraped paint on th next section. Here is the finished second spread:

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I used every white material I own on this including white iridescent paint, gesso, tulip dimensional paint, inktense block, correction fluid, posca pen, white china marker, white chalk, oil pastel, and tempera paint stick. 

This was a lot of fun just trying different marks and mark making products.

70 page concertina sketchbook side one finished

The 70 page concertina sketchbook closed after finishing one side (35 pages)

Opened

Book flipped over with 35 more clean white pages to work in.

First 8 page spread with first layer of marks using 7 different materials

Spread finished using about 10 more products

Full spread of first 8 pages on the second side

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Scraped paint

first layer on second 8 page spread

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Instead of washing all the unused paint away, I applied it to newspaper and an open spread in my daily sketchbook

Scraped Paint

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Sister Quilt 2

At first I was determined to make the quilt exactly as it was meant to be. After a few hours, yes, hours, I decided to make some of the 12" blocks 6 " and some of the 6" blocks as 12". There was one block I was NOT going to make and that was the beehive. A spoiler alert, Susan and I aren't necessarily making the same blocks at the same time.

My Dahlia above and her's below

Susan's beehive

My cat that was supposed to be a 12 but is a 6