Coupeville, continued

Day 3 and the dyes are out and we are making deconstructed screens.... Printing this afternoon, we hope, if they dry.... Weather has changed to rain or light drizzle so no outside drying takes a little longer...
Some amazing pieces/samples coming

Coupeville, Wa

Hi Ladies
Sharon, Jill and I are attending a fibre workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School..

If the laptop is functional will add pictures during the 5 days - if not you'll be able to see some of the days when I get home and get back online... Already have a fab sunrise from the front deck of the vacation rental we have....

take care
Sybil

Finishing Number 14!

Judy:  Finished this today, #14 in the Improvisational Quilt Series, called 'Sundown'.  It's 44x60 inches.

And #15 is already up on the design wall.  It's called 'What About the Parrot?'

Also, for our quilt show/sale down here this weekend, I've made almost a dozen flower pins.  They're pretty cute.  They're each about 5 inches across with free motion quilted centers.

Quilt Show

My Point Roberts Quilt Group is having a quilt show on Saturday, September 3, 10-2.  The only place to have a quilt show here is the Community Center, which has two rooms and a hallway where we can hang quilts.  Although those rooms are already kind of filled up with furniture of one sort or another.  So it's something of a challenge.

It's hard to know whether we will have too many quilts or not enough quilts when you have a small space but have only 14 or so members, not all of whom quilt.  And we will have a little sale of quilted goods as well.  Fortunately, I have these 14 quilts of the 'Improvised Quilt" series to use as the backbone, so we can use all of them or fewer of them if that is necessary.  But it still makes for a nervous approach to the show.

I've been making flower pins for the sale part and some of the other members will do quilted baskets, and there will be purses, pillowcases, covered books, and all that stuff.  Wish us well!

Meeting

Loved today's meeting. There is nothing better than good friends, beautiful quilts and delicious food!

Quilting in Spain

I've been emailing some with a Spanish quilter named Lola Ruiz whom I came across on flickr. She has a website with some great quilt photos, some hers and some other peoples', as well as some interesting posts on how she quilts. Some of the blog is in English and some is in Spanish, but the pictures speak a universal language, so look at the galleries and check her links as well. Very nice stuff! Inspiring. I wish i spoke Spanish well enough even to know how to say inspiring.


If the link above doesn't work, go to

http://quiltsimprovisados.blogspot.com


--Judy

Another Quilted Basket

I tried using the customary linen scraps with intense free motion in this one and was pretty pleased with the results.

This is what the 13" square fabric looked like when I was finished with it.  Then I cut it into four pieces and repieced it and by then it looked like this:

Lighting a little different; the color in the first picture is more accurate..in the finished basket, the color got too blued.  need to work on it.

Judy