Wool Roving Heaven

I "met" Pam from sunny SW Florida on the SAQA Yahoo group and she was selling her stash of wool roving. I decided it was a great deal and bought it all. She threw in her silk roving and hemp too. Here is are pics of my new treasures.

Pebbles in the Stream

This is my newest 2D quilt and a very bad photo at that. I quickly snapped this as I rushed it out of the house and into the Pearson Legacy Gallery in Deer Isle, Maine on Tuesday. Hopefully I won't get it back because it will have sold but if it doesn't, I'll get better photos and a detail shot when the show is over. I used a new hanging system I saw on someones blog. I also bought professional silver umbrellas on pivoting stands with huge lights so I don't have to wait for the perfect time on a sunny day and pray for the best. The photos can't be worse than what I'm doing now.

Monoprinting and bead making playdate

Here are some of the monoprints we did at the monthly meeting of the FIVE. I only have about half of the photos and Judith has the other half so check the set it on fire blob. Here are the pictures I took of my work

Here is the photo of ONE of Judith's amazing SERIES of monoprints.

And here are the photos of Charlene's pieces. She was an art teacher her entire professional life and a wonderful surface designer. She is also NOT a computer person so I am posting her pieces.
I will also start with a series of photos that how her making a print.

And these are SOME of the beads I made and the beads on the knitting needles which really didn't come out very clearly - bad lighting and bad focus.

Changed my mind

I decided to remove most of the purple roving from this piece and replaced it with stitches and beading. The frame is in the way of the photograph but it's a passable photo.

Oops. It's sideways.

Color not quite as good and below is a piece I did for an art show called BLUE in Blue Hill, Maine .

"Connections"

Rephotographed

I was so unhappy with the color and resolution of my new series that I decided to try a different camera - my purse camera. Here are the results. Much happier.

 

Becoming #1

  Chrysalis back

Chrysalis front

SAQA Auction piece

This is my 12X12 piece for the SAQA auction. It is silk charmeuse and the processes I used were batik with soy wax with dye in it and thickened dye. Hand stitching is with gold metallic thread. The sandwich is made with pink felt (all I had at the time) and backed with white silk haboti. 2" sleeve. I really love this piece of fabric.

A silk screened image

Here is an easy way to use a silk screen. I printed a picture of a crow from my computer onto copy paper and cut out the image. I placed a piece of previously hand dyed fabric down, put the paper (cut out) image on top, laid the silk screen down on top of everything and screened the image with thickened dyes. I covered with plastic, rolled it up and batched. This image was done on plain white fabric. OK so I'm not a great documenter.

Later I used fabric paint in a plastic applicator to “attempt to” draw another crow next to the screened crow image after the fabric had been washed and dried. The lines came out too thickly for my taste so I stopped and used free motion to finish the “sketch”. I also free motioned details on to first screened image. I added some text and quilted.

 This could be used as a gift idea to make a "silhouette" of a pet or grandchild and stitch details and use text to personalize