great fibers show

I hope to see everyone at this opening.  My friend Anna Keck is displaying her thesis work in the gallery space of SCAD’s Alexander Hall
Her work is extraordinary and a must see!

I have been making coffee cup sleeves for a friend who is planning on giving them away as holliday gifts and just finished them yesterday.  I wanted to take a couple pictures of them with our new camera since the whole lot of them looked so pretty together.   I love this new camera!

These two quilts are part of a series and were in the show ‘Pattern of making’ a mixed media fibers show at truspace gallery here in Savannah.   This series has also been juried into the American Craft Council Show Baltimore at the end of February.  So come and see us in a few months!!!

redo

I revisited a mini quilt I did from the “quilts for sleep” series. This one is more than twice the originals size and I hand painted it with fabric dyes. 15×14″; Raw silk, Wool, cotton , dyes, ink and a variety of threads.

I am working on finishing up a series of all tonal white quilts heres a shot of some of them waiting to be worked on.

“blankets for the american people during terror”

these quilts I made in the colors of the “national terror alert system” which is supposed to help us understand the state of risk we are in. to me this was the most ridiculous thing I had heard. I made these awkward sized quilts of different weight fabrics and batting equipped with different supplies one might need during the appropriate color of terror.

process.

Here are some photos of the embroidery process I used to create the fleas.   I am changing the way I do this because I feel that these lose the feeling of hand made with how sewn they are. its very difficult to see the stitches in photo but its also difficult to see them in life since they are pretty dense, the next batch will be looser and have more of a hand quality.

my new friend

I have been on the hunt for a small “portable” or table top loom ever since I took a weaving class several months ago. I really enjoyed weaving and think about it all the time but with little knowledge of looms and of weaving itself I didnt feel comfortable buying a new fancy loom. I had been searching craigs list and newspapers online with no luck. Well the other day I bumped into a woman who I have taken some fibers classes with a few years ago and mentioned to her that I was searching for an affordable table loom. she put me in touch with a good friend of hers who just so happened to have a Leclerc table loom in her garage that was lonely. This woman was so friendly and welcoming to me. She told me that she would be happy to loan this old loom to me so that I may become familiar with weaving and was just happy to have someone to love it again. She invited me to her home to pick it up and she talked to me about weaving and helped me to remember how to dress the loom, she is absolutely the nicest person I have met in years! The kind of person that makes you happy for days. So thank you Phillippa for being so generous, trusting and wonderful!!!! here are some photos of my new friend, I havent yet had the chance to dress him (Mr. Leclerc) but am hoping to do so next week or this weekend after the craft fair. I am so excited to start playing I just cant wait!!

question for everyone.

I have been going through all of my clothing and with a new sense of strength I am letting go of very loved worn out clothing as well as things that I have “out grown”. Some of the items have found homes with friends and others have gone to a charity but what about the stuff that is too worn out or all my old undies? (I worked at Victoria’s secret for many years and have hundreds of undies that we will say I “out grew.”) so where does this stuff go. I have plenty of rags and I already have a huge HUGE bag of sewing scraps I use for stuffing. so where does this leave all much loved clothing? I cant find anything online about garment recycling so if any of you have an idea or need lots of fabric for scrap let me know!!!! I need HELP

Here are some coffee cup sleeves that will be for sale at the trustees garden market on the third and at the junk in the trunk show on the thirteenth. I am also going to have a couple quilts on display.

these sleeves are made from all recycled fabric.

painting

I have been working on some new techniques.  The last post of my work I showed some drawings that I had been working on using different types of inks and application techniques.  I incorporated that into quilting.  The first image is of a quilt made of cotton papers, it is hand sewn and has cotton batting in between the layers of paper.

These next few images are of a series I am now getting into which is the same “ink” process but on fabric.  I have been working on ways to achieve the same outcome as the paper paintings/drawings.

machine embroidered on printed cotton

the next is on raw silk.  (in progress-front)

and the reverse side (in progress)

I have several more hours of embroidery left and I need to think more about display issues.  but I would love to hear some feedback.  I will be working on other harbingers of disease in the coming weeks.