tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85371100132004619122024-02-02T13:12:01.256-05:00fiber art and craftSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comBlogger354125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-57433518499471298062018-05-30T11:25:00.000-04:002018-05-30T11:27:14.701-04:00I have a new blog and it's moving day.<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "raleway"; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px;">Hi, all. I've made a move to a new blog over <a href="https://www.susanfletcherconaway.com/blog/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. This</span><a href="https://fiberartalmosteveryday.blogspot.com/" style="color: #19577b; font-family: Raleway; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> old blog</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "raleway";"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px;"> will remain up and referenced in new posts on the </span></span><a href="https://www.susanfletcherconaway.com/blog/" style="color: #333333; font-family: Raleway; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px;" target="_blank">new blog</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "raleway";"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px;">. This place has become cumbersome and a source of frustration in getting things to post the way I wanted them to. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "raleway"; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px;">Looking forward to posting again with a tidy new mobile adaptable format over at the <a href="https://www.susanfletcherconaway.com/blog/" target="_blank">new blog</a>, so I hope you will visit me there.</span>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-16099282697377543672018-05-07T10:31:00.000-04:002018-05-07T13:58:34.701-04:00seeing stars<img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="1600" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznEMKxnn6fGDj_BW80G6utUwFpNwABFR14Oy6CKlbXmlGO0dVAX3qwyeCjv9UPiMIhOCfhqfLLsn_P4ZgCEfFylx-wrDvU6HkPukGFux-2MCx2M2hkEzyfk9tT0LoXBUJv8aCcCQ0tEU/s640/DSC_0790.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="640" /><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Roots, tendrils, and tangles often appear in my imagery and I render them literally. In more recent work, I couched bits of cloth and thread in stabilized twists and tangles. In this particular piece, they follow and wander against the outline of eight pointed stars.</span></div>
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I keep coming back to these stars. They are familiar imagery in the language of quilts and nature. Individually, each radiates and reaches outward - a familiar pattern of growth and bloom. Arranged next to each other, their points find, touch, and connect.<br />
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In a traditional side by side block arrangement, the star points reach outward from center and predictably find another. This is comforting. Repetitive pattern is visually comforting.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Working on talking about what I make. Writing everything down on the why and pulling out what makes sense is proving helpful and enlightening. I like to think I am a visual artist because I don’t know what to say, otherwise maybe I’d want to be a writer. But the act of writing it all out in words, also expands into more visual ideas. I feel encouraged.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">[ Detail photos of <i>I Felt A Connection</i>, on exhibition in the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://www.favagallery.org/aqm-artist-as-quiltmaker.html" target="_blank">Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.favagallery.org/aqm-artist-as-quiltmaker.html" target="_blank"> | 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts</a> at </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA)</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> Gallery in Oberlin, OH. May 12 - July 12, 2018. ]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is just a little directional encouragement away from</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(detail photos of recent works - </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I Felt a Connection</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dearest Spring</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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So, here they are as a little note to myself on materials and process - that crinkle of the crispest cottons after a wash and dry.<br />
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A whole new year is full of expectations, and making the first mark on a new canvas is always a little intimidating, but here we go. Hello, again.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-76553527272664568152017-07-14T11:56:00.000-04:002017-07-14T11:56:07.281-04:00State of Flux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">State of Flux is currently at the Indianapolis Art Center as part of the Curio Cabinet Exhibition until August 5. I found the theme behind Curio Cabinet so inspiring - "examining </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #353535; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the role of art in inspiring curiosity, mystery, intrigue and wonder".</span></div>
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I use flannel as batting. It is easy to find (thrifted) or old odds and ends at home. The texture also seems to help it "cling" to the quilt top, even with lots of transporting as with all my hand stitched projects. I still pin the layers, but minimally really. I do a lot of my hand stitching on just two layers, top and flannel. Then, I add the back layer and machine quilt the three layers together, hiding my hand stitching thread ends between them.<br />
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I am going to try multiple flannel layers in some areas on this project, to add a bit more relief to the positive spaces. I have cut away the negative space flannel and now the back has a interesting look on its own, a bit of raw edge appliqué. I will add another layer of flannel, so positive areas will have two layers of the flannel rather than just one.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-29735941119553514952017-05-10T11:11:00.002-04:002017-05-11T07:53:31.903-04:00Go and see the flags...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">I am still stitching stars. These above are hand-embroidered on a pieced field of blue fabrics I inherited from my grandmothers as well as bits of clothing that my boys have outgrown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">I have been wanting to share a wonderful source of information I’ve found while researching flags</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">and hand-sewn</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">stars. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">When I started working on my current projects, I did an online</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">search</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">for “hand embroidered stars on flag”. The top result was a link to <a href="http://rareflags.com/">RareFlags.com</a>, a site</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">which</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">provides information and photos on a portion of Anthony Iasso’s collection of the</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">historic American</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">flag. I find something new and fascinating every time I visit. Many thanks to Anthony for sharing his</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">wonderful collection and knowledge on the history of the American flag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Anthony says, “Many people are both surprised and amazed when they discover that the American flag that they’ve known for most of their lives has such a varied and storied past. The American flag is a treasured icon, woven through our nation's history. Our national flag, in its many forms, has been present during all of our nation’s wars, national triumphs, national tragedies, and in our every day lives. Flags have been manufactured in factories and sewn in our homes. The number of stars has changed as the nation grew from the original 13 states to our modern union of 50 and the number of designs and patterns found on flags over our nation’s 235 year history are almost limitless.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Please go and have a look over there - </span><a href="http://rareflags.com/" style="font-size: 14px;">RareFlags.com</a><span style="font-size: 14px;">. Anthony welcomes comments in the </span><a href="http://rareflags.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: 14px;">Rare Flags guest book</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> or </span><a href="http://www.rareflags.com/RareFlags_Contact.htm" style="font-size: 14px;">contact him by email</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> with any questions about your own rare flags.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A few of my favorites on Anthony Iasso’s rareflags.com site are listed and linked below (though please don’t limit your visit to just these pages!). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rareflags.com/RareFlags_Collecting_TheSuffrageFlag.htm" target="_blank">The Suffrage Flag</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">The detail photos of these flags and the techniques used to make them are wonderful. I am finding the connection between national history and the history of handmade textiles so very inspiring. </span></div>
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Hello, I know it's been awhile! I am back to share a bit of what I am working on now - lots of five-pointed stars.<br />
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I thought I would quickly show how I am satin stitching my stars. To make your own stars you will need:<br />
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• fabric and some scrap fabric behind it to stabilize the embroidery (I used a blue bit of fabric and a scrap of flannel behind as the stabilizer)<br />
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• a permanent fabric safe marker to draw the stars on the fabric (I used a Pitt Pen with S tip)<br />
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1. Draw a five-pointed star on a piece of scrap cardstock or thin cardboard.<br />
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2. Carefully cut out the star with an exacto knife.<br />
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4. Trace the star onto the fabric.<br />
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5. Place a dot in the center and connect to the inside corners of the star to divide into five segments.<br />
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6. Use 2 strands of embroidery floss (knot in the end) and start from the back of the fabric, pushing the needle through on an inside corner. Take the needle front to back on the opposite inside corner. Repeat moving towards the center to cover the segment with satin stitch. I try to hist center of the drawn line with my stitching.<br />
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7. Repeat the satin stitch moving towards the center of the star.<br />
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8. Once you have stitched to the center of the star move to another inside corner and repeat the satin stitch towards the center on the next segment.<br />
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9. Repeat the satin stitch moving towards the center of the star.<br />
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10. Fill the inside portion of each segment with satin stitch so that the center of the star is completed. This stabilizes the center and overall shape of the star. If there's a lot of fabric showing through in the center of the star, a small X stitched over that area seems to tidy it up.<br />
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13. This just shows the stitch pattern I have been using on the points - the last stitch on the tip is a vertical on top of the smallest horizontal. This makes a nice little point.</div>
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14. A finished five-point star, like the ones on a United States flag, except these are stitched by hand and each one is a little different.</div>
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I started stitching stars because I decided to make a United States flag with some of my grandmothers' fabrics and clothing that my boys have outgrown. I started with piecing the blue field and stitching the white stars, the white stars on the blue slowly blooming in a familiar a pattern. Working on that led to an idea for another project and so now I am stitching gold stars for a different kind of flag. The gold stars are about 1.25" point to point. I am almost halfway to 50 stars on the gold ones. Almost.</div>
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There's something very satisfying about working out the same shape over and over, all different and all the same, the soothing texture of repetition. There's a familiar rhythm to the star pattern, no matter the color of the stars.</div>
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A deadline is often the thing that brings be back to sewing when other things have prevented me from giving it the time I would like. I have been posting a bit of progress on this one on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fiberartandcraft/">Instagram</a>. The ease of process in posting a photo or two over there is working well with our all over the place summer schedule.<br />
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This recent cloth is a table runner - roughly 14" X 90", made with vintage and repurposed fabrics. The blue fabric is from a little indigo dye session last summer, just a quick dip in a weakening pot.<br />
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The back is a thrifted canvas drop cloth. It gives a wonderful weight to the runner, enough relief for a nice crinkle after the wash, and a lovely fringe on a raw edge. Just the quilt top and the drop cloth are a manageable thickness for both hand-stitching and machine-stitching. I really love the weight of this combination.<br />
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That's a Buttonbush branch above, my inspiration for the leaves and circle blooms. I am eager to get another portable project ready to roll. Our summer has been full of bike races and although this runner project was portable during the appliqué and hand-stitching stages, for the most part it was made at home.<br />
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Because, sometimes a bike race looks like this. Maybe time to start a little mud cloth.</div>
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I started working on this post when the title would have been "...into April" and then lost my hold on that whole month.<br />
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January is gone! I started this in November right around Thanksgiving. A day spent in the creek at my parents' house started the fossils. Then a tangle of things after that.<br />
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I was inspired to work on a sort of journal kind of stitching after following the last few months of <a href="http://www.dreamstate.to/harrigan/index.htm" style="background-color: white;">Lynn Harrigan's</a> daily calendar project on<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/obliquepoet/"> Instagram</a></span>.</span> For one year, Lynn beautifully documented the weather and experiences of each day in thread.<br />
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This project of mine grows by week rather than by day. I really wanted to work on something about process. No pulling threads out or worrying too much about how it turns out, I will just keep drawing and stitching.<br />
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I wanted to put things I might put in a sketchbook directly onto the cloth and then stitch them into it. I have been using a bit of walnut ink saved from fall for the occasional shading.<br />
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My firstborn had his 12th birthday last week and on we go. I thought I would say a lot more about all the imagery, but I don't really need to now. January is gone and it's all I can do to keep up. It's all in the threads and that's the point.<br />
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Maybe just a bit about the most recent stitches...a memory of last weekend's walk by moonlight through the pasture and woods. An idea of my wonderful park ranger at heart husband. We had friends, kids, and dogs along with us and could see well enough with the moonlight reflected off the snow. </div>
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This is the most recent quilt I have made - finished and photographed about a month ago. Those green leaves in the background are long gone.<br />
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The fabrics are a mix of cottons, including repurposed clothing and some indigo bits. The denim above was from a pair of outgrown jeans once worn by both of my boys. I thought about making this quilt for awhile and then it rather quickly came together with a few late nights spent cutting and then machine piecing.<br />
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I drew and then hand stitched goldenrod plants with wasps, bees and beetles along the bottom edge. I used a piece of flannel as stabilizer for the hand stitches. When I attached the back panel the flannel also became the batting.<br />
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This quilt is for the buzzing little lives of our late summer garden. The warm, welcoming golds and yellows of the goldenrod would draw you in for a closer look. We put our faces so so close to the starry structure of the blooms. Each bloom head was crawling and buzzing with pollinators too busy with their task to even notice us. This quilt will be our winter buzz.</div>
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Just over three months have gone by since I posted here last, and wow it went so fast. I have been watching the garden grow and my boys too - trying to keep up with all of them - the boys and the garden. </div>
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The late season bloomers in our yard are gearing up for their show. We have several varieties of native goldenrod, most abundantly - Solidago rigida. It's not at all picky about soil or light or anything so has been a prolific self-seeder, so it seems the perfect choice for dyeing.</div>
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So far I have only used the stems and leaves with cottons and raw silk fabrics. No luck with the cotton, which was not surprising. The raw silk has been wonderful - celery green, pale yellow and most recently gold.<br />
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I tried painting with a bit of likely tannin-rich mud from our pond. It didn't affect the dye so much as just make a mud stain, but I like it. Like everything else, the mud preferred the silk. I am excited to work more with the mud. I love the raw nature in this process - making marks with wet dirt. On the silk it's kind of amazing really, and these are shown already machine washed and dried.<br />
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This one's done, washed and dried, crinkle and all. I learned a lot. This was a kind of test for a few construction issues before working towards something much bigger.<br />
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The biggest leaf is just barely attached to the whole.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">I started this little tablequilt inspired by a few large Bur oak leaves I had</span> pressed from last season. Spring arrived as I worked on it and I decided to show the way the leaves grow as they emerge. All of the leaves are from a tree in our yard that my husband started from an acorn five years ago. The acorn was dropped by gigantic and ancient Bur oaks that stands at the edge of a favorite park in our town. Now our little tree has already set acorns and is well over six feet tall.</div>
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We really are so impressed with this little tree - proves it is well worth it to plant an acorn or two in a special spot and see what happens. The squirrels took all of the acorns last year but more are on the way.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-65928085876909271232015-04-29T08:23:00.000-04:002015-04-29T08:23:03.869-04:00the color journal quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This quilt was a bit of a test on construction. I had stitched the diamond pattern running stitch on each individual block with just a light piece of fabric on the backside to support the stitches. I used a flannel sheet as batting and cotton as the back and quilted the large diagonal lines to hold all of the layers together in the end. I was so happy to pull the quilt out after washing and drying and see no distortion between the unstitched and heavily stitched areas on the front. With not a lot of quilting through all the layers it has more of a comforter feel and the weight of it is really nice. Creating dense areas of stitch on each block as I go along adds texture and pattern with not a lot of bulk to stitch through. This frees me up to quilt the layers together in more of an open pattern for the comforter feel in the end construction. </div>
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This is one of many funny attempts to photograph the quilt outside by myself using the timer. I just had to show the redbud trees. I met someone recently who had moved here from the west and didn't know about the redbuds. They are a favorite of mine.</div>
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On Sunday I attended <a href="http://mycopigments.com/">Alissa Allen's Mycopigments</a> workshop in Bloomington. The beautiful colors shown above are Alissa's dye results made during the Sunday workshop using ethically harvested mushrooms and lichen. The workshop was lots of fun and so informative. More info on Alissa and Mycopigments can be found at <a href="http://mycopigments.com/">Mycopigments.com</a>. You can also find workshop offerings on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mycopigments?fref=ts">Mycopigments Facebook page.</a><br />
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The workshop took place in the <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~textile/index.html">Indiana University School of Fine Art Textiles Area</a>. Dye color samples lined the walls of the room and students were coming and going working on projects. It was wonderful to be in the midst of all the learning and doing - the humm of it all. I met some great people from Bloomington and IU Textiles. It was all pretty great. Did I say it was great? Thanks <a href="http://mycopigments.com/alissa-allen/">Alissa</a> and <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~textile/">IU Textiles</a>. A walk in the woods will never be the same.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-57954772685415667402015-04-24T16:33:00.001-04:002015-04-24T16:33:23.752-04:00these live with us now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tidying my studio is on pause. I am sewing some of the cloth I have found again into some things that can live out in the open with us now. The lighter side of the log cabin block is indigo from an online class with Glennis Dolce at <a href="http://shiborigirl.bigcartel.com/product/indigo-workshop">ShiboriGirl</a>. The indigo star in the center was also made during that class. The block on the right was made during one of <a href="http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth/">Jude's</a> Contemporary Boro classes. It seems like both of these learning experiences took place about 3 years ago, which is hard to believe. It makes me hesitant to put any of my favorite pieces of cloth back on a shelf or into the cupboard. Better to get them all out among the living I think.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-47206896233287957512015-04-20T12:41:00.000-04:002015-04-29T07:42:29.334-04:00color journal II :: a few blocks into April<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These are the blocks I have so far - a seasonal gradation. </div>
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I have been painting one 7" block each day since April 6 with an end goal of 100 total blocks. (Read more about the 100 Day Project <a href="https://thegreatdiscontent.com/100days">here</a>.) I am using Pebeo Setacolor transparent fabric paint and sometimes a Pitt pen here and there. The first block is painted in Pebeo "indigo" colored paint (which I almost immediately realized I didn't have as much of as I thought and could no longer order) and all other blocks are painted with "cobalt". Oh well, I like the cobalt color more anyway. These are my first ten blocks. The first 25 will make one big 5 x 5 block and so on until I have four big blocks to sew together at the end. I like the idea of keeping them in quadrants of time - to really see what if anything might have changed along the way. </div>
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They have settled into a negative then positive space rhythm that I enjoy working out along with whatever has come to mind to paint. </div>
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I have found myself looking forward to sitting down to work on these each day, even at the very end of the day. The very quiet and centered blocks are my favorites so far.</div>
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I will post a new block each day over at <a href="https://instagram.com/fiberartandcraft/">my Instagram page</a> if you care to follow along over there. No pressure though, because I have plenty more to talk about at this place too. </div>
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As always thanks to all who visit. I have had a bit of a lull in posting as I try to catch up with Spring, but will be back to stitching soon. I find all my time spent with hands too busy to stitch leads to more daydreams of all the things I will stitch when I can.</div>
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The forsythia just off our front porch is in full bloom.</div>
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The daffodils are going all out too.<br />
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I have been busy indoors with some serious spring cleaning. Hoping to wrap it up soon and get back to more stitching as there are so many unfinished projects being unearthed as I tidy.<br />
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I <i>have</i> managed to find time to paint one fabric block a day along with <a href="https://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/elle-luna-100-day-project">The 100 Day Project</a> (began April 6) and have been posting these over at <a href="https://instagram.com/fiberartandcraft/">my Instagram page</a>. It's been great fun and I hope to say a bit more about that soon.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-9801570118182968452015-03-23T16:24:00.000-04:002015-03-23T16:24:44.538-04:00color journal II :: another one for March<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's sleeting outside every few minutes as I type but this past weekend was beautiful. I have stitched a block inspired by colors I found on Sunday morning.<br />
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British Soldiers lichen. Lipstick lichen. Matchstick moss/lichen.<br />
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A miniature fairytale landscape.</div>
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It snowed about 9 inches on the first day of March. Then, it all melted away under bluebird skies and a few warm days. Thank goodness for the blue in the sky...<br />
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because now we have some serious mud. I love this lone purple crocus in the middle of all the mud. It's kind of funny to post photos of mud, but this is how it is.<br />
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I am cutting squares of all the green I can find. I would like to make one more block for March and I would love for it to be made entirely of green and maybe a bit of blue sky.<br />
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Linda at <a href="https://looktothisday.wordpress.com/">Looktothisday</a> is also working on color blocks by month. You can see her lovely <a href="https://looktothisday.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/seeing-march-in-little-cloth-squares/">March blocks here.</a>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-73057714048447635842015-03-16T16:17:00.000-04:002015-03-16T16:17:41.621-04:00the middle of March<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had been planning to start working with larger scale but got sidetracked with these little oak leaves. I made them specifically for this little basket...<br />
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which holds this little doll. I am sending them to my youngest niece for her birthday. My grandma gave the doll to me forever ago when I was already a bit too old for dolls. She had one similar that she used to let my sister and I play with when we were visiting. My mom gave it back to me a few years ago. I packed it away and it recently resurfaced. I want to pass it on to someone who will enjoy it now. The little quilts add some softness and spring is so near the leaves just had to be green. It was pretty gray out when I started them.<br />
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It's absolutely beautiful today. 72˙ as I type this around 4pm. This afternoon, just a few minutes before I photographed the quilted leaves…<br />
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the sandhill cranes flew over. I heard them calling from way up, through the open windows.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-91293205410071462712015-02-28T12:50:00.002-05:002015-02-28T12:50:46.639-05:00color journal II :: February blocks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh well, I will tidy tomorrow. I decided to start this before February ends. White snow, gray shadows, blue skies and brown remains of the plants.</div>
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