Sewing Day at Marcia's Studio

Thursday we spent another great day at Marcia's Studio, going over Project Iron Quilter and of course, doing some sewing.

The blue quilt is coming along with a little progress on veins.

Beth is still working on the beautiful turquoise jacket.

And made some progress on the fronts.

Jeanne Simpson joined us to work on a couple of quilts.

My Quilt is in the Parallax Show in Rochester

The Vegetable Man Quilt

I am just finishing work on what I am calling "The Vegetable Man" Quilt. He is made from a gorgeous hand embroidery which I purchased in Hanoi, Vietnam a few years ago. I have purchased hundreds of these over the past ten years to sell or keep and have never found another one quite as wonderful as this one. I tried to keep the quilt simple by adding a seminole strip and some half squares and adding a border. I figured the embroidery made enough of a statement. If you click on the photo of the quilt you can see more detail.
The original painting...of Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary and Archduke of Austria was painted by Guiseppe Arcimboldo in 1591 and called "Vertumnus, God of the Seasons.

Marcia's Studio Day Two

I bit the bullet and trimmed the slanted edges off this quilt and now have to quilt it. And am finally getting serious about using one of the Flower Collars from Southwest China in a jacket. I will probably start with the orange one on the left and have made a couple of strips of hand dyed fabric to coordinate with it.

Marcia worked on a kimono jacket made from a knit purchased in Turkey.Her orange jacket is behind her.

And Nancy made a lot of progress on her Tiger jacket.

Another Wonderful Day at Marcia De Camp's Studio

Marcia had this terrific piece from her last two weeks at Nancy Crow's Barn. I love the color combination.
I worked a bit on these wonky squares from fabric left over from another quilt. I am adding purple and lime squares to the mix.

And I worked a bit on adding black sashing and red crazypieced sashing to these three molas for a wall hanging.

Marcia spent a greater part of the day working on this colorful piece...also from Nancy Crow's.

And we were treated to look at yet another piece, which looks better in the horizontal than the vertical.

Inspector Suki thought Beth's drawing of a flower needed extra inspection.

And gave the tissue pattern which went with it some serious inspection.

Fuchsia-Lime Quilt - Scrapcraft

A few months ago I made the Koos style jacket from silks and cottons. From the scraps of that project I started a vest .

From the leftover scraps a small quilt emerged which I closely quilted.

Added a lime batik border and a few beads and another UFO bites the dust. Now I have to go back and finish the vest.

Bugs in my Belfry and Spring

I began this quilt which I am calling "Bugs in my Belfry" in a class with Jane Sassaman at QSDS during June, 2008. The bugs are fused. The edge is really a fairly bright lime green. I only need to line and bind it and another UFO bites the dust. In the meantime Spring has finally settled in and my cat is happy now that the dining room screen door is open for her outside perusal.

And the bulbs in the front yard all seem to have come up and bloomed.

Orange Quilt

Yesterday evening was spent quilting this piece I made during "down time" at Quilting in the Desert in January. It is mainly composed of pieces left over from a quilt I made during Spring Fling at Genesee Valley Quilt Guild in the Spring of 2008. I quilted it with invisible thread. One more UFO bites the dust.

Another Sewing Day at Marcia's Studio Tuesday

Inspector Suki took time out of her busy schedule (of going in and out the door for outside inspections) to check out my new art quilt before I began trimming it. This quilt is composed mostly of strips, blocks and pieces left over from a previous quilt. I worked on it in my hotel during a two day break at Quilting in the Desert in Phoenix. Beth was working on her draft of a new flowered quilt on the left.

And Marcia was finishing up the quilting on a quilt for charity.

My new quilt is almost finished. I will add a diagonal green strip before adding the borders...a tiny strip of black, then a bit wider strip of black and white...and a sort of matching Ricky Tims hand dyed fabric on the outside.

It's a Quilt Top...More or Less

The quilt top I began at Spring Fling last weekend is finished...more or less. Now I just have to figure out batting and a backing and pin/baste it together. I'll probably quilt in the ditch with invisible thread.