I have been madly trying to get three quilts done to submit to the Studio Art Quilt Associations Ohio regional show...and quite frankly, have been too tuckered out to write! As I just got two of them pinned to the carpet and blocked, I'm going to take a little break and post this. :)
One of the things I think which was difficult for our little art Quilt group is to figure out how much or how little to make our blanks.
Compare Ruth Treon's branches which flow off the space, with Gwen's (
Here on Feb. 1)which were well.....truncated!
Ruth also packed her quilt bits in a shoe box to pass around.
Remember, the originator didn't get to see these until the reveal. Here you see Ruth's surprise as Loraine looks on.
As I mentioned, Susan Pickrell decided that the boxes needed embellishment....and she really had a heyday with Ruth's box. The cover was covered with some trapunto quilting. Inside, Susan made a yarn cover (I don't know if she knitted it or crocheted it) for her camera and stuck in some other interesting things in case someone wanted to use them on Ruth's work.
Here's Ruth's finished piece. Susan did the first thing which was to work with a word (the assignment from the Art Quilt Workbook which was applied on her turn). Her word was "shadow." Susan wrote "shadow" repeatedly on her sewing machine over net stabilized with water soluble stabilizer. This became the tree's shadow.
I think, but I'm not sure, that Linnette Vagedes added the pieced quilt...Becky Goodwin added the angelina frost which I think turned out great, Gwen Brown the painted area in the sky, and Jo Heffner made the rabbit and the rabbit footprints.
Here you can see more closely the really cool bird that Loraine Smith added...it has a real feather tail, and it is really tiny. The over all size of this piece is about 14" tall.....so the bird is about 1/2" long.
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