It is begining to look like Welding weather

Interview and Spring cleaning,

http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/creativity-sparks-art/article_4bd5cc44-5130-11e1-b049-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=story

The Local paper came out last week to the "Story next door", it was fun and a bonus was doing a little bit of pre-spring cleaning , I had to get the shop semi presentable. Cleaning is the best for getting Creative juices back up and running after a nice January break playing with my other new albeit short lived pastime,

Click here, to see Snow Dyeing.

Fisherman and Cottage

Small Flower with 1inch washers

I am brimming with some Ideas for two new benches to get started on this Spring , this is the bench from last Fall , Stay tuned to see my new Ideas...

                               Now,  I am not much of a "Sketch Ideas ahead" of time type of Artist, but sometimes you got to get an idea down on paper before other ideas crowd them out , we will see how these sketch's compare to the final products.

 

Check out all the winners!

 

Update on a House in Harlan, It is now in the hands of the curator of the Rust-Tex collection! That’s right I was juried in to the show; I had the privilege of being one of the 24 picked from among 118 awesome quilts. I was not nervous about entering the challenge until I was picked to send off my Quilt, then all kinds of thoughts run thru your mind, will they like it in person? will it get there in one piece, clean and dry? Ahhh the stress! Well UPS did delivered it in one piece, to Lois Jarvis last Friday, it was well received; she said it was even better in person that the pictures could show… whew what a relief.

 Lois is planning on posting a blog entery about each artist that will be in the show so check them out here 

(I will let you all know when she post my info)

Here are the venues that are currently scheduled …

The Rust-Tex Collection, will premier at Spring International Quilt Festival in Chicago April 16-18, 2010. It will also be displayed at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England August 20-23, 2010. Other venues to be announced as arranged.

Rust Quilt Entry

A House In Harlan

  

I have been making Rusted cloth for a couple of years now, and this "call for entry" came from Rust-Tex, the sponsors of the exhibit, a group of ladies that I know challenged each other to enter with some rust dyed cloth that we had created during a summer workshop,

This is the first Juried Show, I have ever entered (or any quilt show for that matter). I don't know how I will do, but it was no pressure, my Goal was to get them finished and entered which was a Big step for this procrastinator! I have about three other Rust Quilts in the works but I feel very good about finishing these  and getting them entered .

This Quilt - A House in Harlan is a very personal quilt made with old family photos, from my Dad's Mothers Family, The pictures date from the 1930's.

  A Rusted Family Tree

 this small quilt includes pictures from my Mothers, Grandmothers Family, Each leaf is constucted of a photo transfer, and layered with quilt material.