What a fun game to watch!!!!!!!!!!! Packers 45 - Patriots 27.....
These guys top the list of heroes......Watson and Golden celebrating their athletic abilities all game, leaving our eyes popping out of our heads! It would be an understatement just to say we are loving LOVE for his poise and tremendous skills as well. GO PACK GO!!!!!!!!!!
It's interesting how simply glancing and admiring the view of a glowing early morning moon can inspire am art quilt. Ideas come easily to me and I embrace them where it's visual, color, or subject.
The drive to Utilize my hand indigo and ice-dyed fabrics spurs those inspirations into art quilts. Here's the latest.
MOONLIT MARSH SENTINEL - 15” x ”23
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Artist’s hand-dyed indigo & ice-dyed cottons, batiks,
Ultra-suede, & felted wool. Techniques: Appliqué, thread sketching,
fabric crayons & metallic acrylic, machine quilted,
faced edges.
The finishing touches........The full moon now radiates with a warm golden glow after the addition of oil pastels and metallic paint over the indigo dyed cotton fabric background.
A photo posted of on our community Facebook page by Marcy Davidson was the inspiration for this piece. The foreground was replaced with a serene vision of a heron standing watch in a marsh.
Okay, a small misstep is now in the past after some thread sketching added texture & motion to the sky area while the impression of grassy clumps appear in the lower section. The appliqué motifs are the theme, thread painting merely adds to it. Since this is an art quilt, machine quilting through three layers, top, batting, backing will complete the project.
Gosh, and I was making such good progress...... The top is pieced and as usual I tend to add texture and movement by stitching through the pieced top and its stabilizer before many of the foreground motifs are placed.
Normally there aren't many lulls in my creative process........life has kinda gotten in my way lately. It happens!!
Often I begin with only a vague design idea............declaimer, unlike many who claim their designs come from dreams, my projects DO NOT COME FROM DREAMS. Frankly, I have to work harder than that!! This idea has been in the back of my mind (I call that passive designing) for several months.
Take a look at the progress so far. My goal was to feature some of my indigo dyed and Ice dyed fabrics. Piecing is not my usual approach for the background of art quilts, but in this case it worked well to utilize the colors and textures of these hand dyed fabrics.
It's always so very flattering to be asked to create a commission (slightly nerve wracking too!) Normally I don't do small personalized pieces, but who can resist creating a holiday theme?
It begins by pulling potential fabric choices. (Photo #1)
And since black labs are near and dear to my heart, ideas came quickly and with a couple of days in my studio, it's ready for my customer. I hope you enjoy this sneak peak. (Photo #2)
JOYFUL SLEDDING
12” x 12”
Original design - made by Mary Stori - Roseville, CA
Commercial & gelli printed cottons, Ultra-suede, gelli printing, raw edge
machine appliquéd. Secured on a canvas wrapped wood frame.
The Heritage Placer Vineyards community has outdone themselves again. Our Fall Artisan Faire was bigger and better than ever!!! The location changed to the new clubhouse facilities right across the street from our home. No packing or unpacking a car, plus having an indoor space was super. A friend (thank you Teddy) and I rolled my large cart to my space in about 5 minutes.
My set up with new display equipment is shown below. Many thanks to the supportive residents who purchased all but one of the many art quilts that were sold. The other one was claimed by another vendor...which is always flattering!
Naturally, quilt sales & shipping (if you aren't local), can be arranged directly with me. Visit my online gallery - link on right side bar for available pieces.
It's been fun getting to know other quilters who live in this development.....7 of us now meet monthly. The focus of this little group is not 'play dates' to learn and experiment with surface design techniques as my group of 6 in NC did. Instead, we participated in a quilt "challenge".
Teddy suggested we create a 12" square block/small art quilt inspired by a picture/photograph. We gave ourselves 2 months to complete one.
When we first moved to the mountains of NC, we took lots of walks into the vast vacant rural areas surrounding us. Documenting the treasures we found became a habit for me. So I chose one of my photos #1 as my inspiration.
Photo #2. OLD BARN WINDOW - Barn wood printed cotton, designed by Mary Stori for Kona Bay Fabrics, artist ice-dyed & gelli printed cottons, & screen material. Pieced, appliquéd, thread & acrylic painted. Secured in a wood frame without glass.
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