Quilting by the Lake 2012

 The two weeks at Quilting by the Lake are over.  I took two classes with the wonderful Philippa Naylor...one week of techniques and studio the second week.  I have been really annoyed the last couple of years about the ban on photo taking.  The second week during studio I started a small quilt using Judy Robertson's gorgeous hand dyed sateen.  It wasn't big enough so  here I was auditioning a couple of other fabrics to add. 

The circles all moved during the transit home and need re'adjusting.  The colors don't photograph all that well and the fabric has a nice sheen which is also lost in the photo.   My main problem now is finding the appropriate fabric for the figures.  Otherwise I like it.

Quilting By the Lake-Week 2

The second week's class (not with Katie) was supposed to be an abstract design using lights, mediums and darks which we were going to construct in a series of fabrics. Instead we were given this block to construct again and again all week. My first version which I thought was boring.

So I changed my color combination

And decided to do it on a pinwheel.

I will change a couple of pieces , then put triangles on the sides to make it a square. I was disappointed in this class.

Quilting by the Lake- Week 1, Katie Masopust

Quilting by the Lake, Week 1. I took a wonderful class (yet again) with Katie Masopust. She is always a fabulous teacher and I learn a lot.

This was painting with acrylic on canvas. The point was to make a few then mix them up.

I chose to make them all in one colorway.

We also added bits of fabric here and there.

Here I have started exchanging circles among the canvases.

There is a lot more cutting and replacing needed for a few final pieces are completed. Then I can either frame them or incorporate them in quilts.

QBL, Quilting by the Lake Week 2

During Week 2 I took a 2 day and then a three day class with Lesley Riley, famous for her work in mixed media. In the first class we worked with paint and dye and resist.

More paint and dye work. I particularly liked using Elmer's School Glue (blue) as a resist.

Day 3 we began a three day class called "Sew What". We began by painting some watercolor paper with the goal of making a five page book and doing some transfers.

Since I found I had already done this as a one day class in Houston (and since I didn't need another book) on day 2 of the class I opted to switch to composing a collage of photos from Nepal using TAP Transfer paper which I like very much. The brown background is handmade paper from Nepal as is the purple behind the photos (which is much brighter in person. The piece needs a bit more color (and the colors look faded here).....perhaps a bit of red. There will be more photos as well.

QBL--Quilting by the Lake - Week One

I took a class with Rosalie Dace based on circles. I was making three 24" quilts for a challenge organized by Pat Pauly. Here are two of them since all three didn't fit on my design board.

Unfortunately (at least I think so) QBL has a new policy of no photos anywhere...not at the Quilt Show and not in class. You can take photos of others work in class --with their permission of course--but you may not post them on your blog or anywhere else. So this is it for week one. Sorry.

Clean Up Day after QBL

Today was clean up day after QBL. My garments and class supplies are littering the downstairs.

Its pouring rain and miserable outside and the cat is upset as this way no birds or other cats wander by for her to try and harass. Its a good day for putting stuff away.

The cutting table in my main sewing room is piled high as usual and needs a bit of tidying up as well.

Ah....that's better. Now I can work on one of the UFO's from class last week.

Quilting by the Lake, Week 2, Day 5

It was closing day after a wonderful two weeks at Quilting by the Lake in its great new location in Syracuse. By mid day most of the students fabulous work was coming down off the walls but I managed to get a photo of a few class samples from Dorothy Caldwell's class. In Elizabeth Barton's class, which I was a part of, we spent a very productive afternoon going over our series beginnings, and then discussing lots of issues regarding construction as well as marketing. When we finished the workmen were at the door waiting to take down the room Fun time is over.

Quilting by the Lake, Week 2, Day 4, QBL

Today was tour day and this is Janet Root's samples from Bob Adams class on quilting stitches, or rather, machine quilting. Caren Betlinski's samples from the same class.

Some of Bob Adams quilts. I am not sure if I have them right side up. The stitching is fantastic.

Back in the Quilt show, a beautiful quilt by Judy Blaydon

And Dorothy Caldwell.

And last but not least, Sally Fellows. This is the last of the Quilt show as it closed this evening.

Quilting by the Lake, QBL, Week 2, Day 2

My class is still in the design stage, so it was back to the show to take more photos. This beauty is by Rosalie Dace who teaches here almost every year. A number by Jeanette Meyer

And Elizabeth Busch

And Katie Pasquini Masopust of course. She taught here last week.

Lura Schwartz Smith who will be here next year.

I loved this juke box by Cynthia Souter

A beauty by Cricket Sweet.

Quilting by the Lake, Day 5, QBL,

My piece so far with the grid overlay. Without the grid overlay. It needs to have the bottom half finished, lots more shading in the top half, then tons of stitching and possibly embellishment, to say nothing of the background.

Caren Betlinski's fabulous piece.

Quilting by the Lake, QBL, Day Four

Today was "Official Visitor" Day at QBL when they host tour groups through the facility. I took the opportunity to look around a bit at what other classes were doing. This is from Rosalie Dace's Fire and Ice Class.

This is a gorgeous piece of fabric which the quilter is embellishing in Rosalie's Class.

From a class called "Making Mud Pies" Obviously alternate materials.

And the piece I am working on based on the statue of an Assyrian King in the British Museum. I can see where I need to make a few changes after looking at the photo.

Quilting by the Lake, QBL, Day 3

Two more great quilts in the show. These are by Elizabeth Barton.

I had three garments in the show. A lace coat called "Its not my grandmother's lace"

The garment I entered in the 2006 Bernina Fashion Show. Called "Thanks Kaffe" and contains 135 Kaffe Fassett fabrics

My turquoise coat called "Just Your Basic Turquoise Coat" made of crinkled and stitched batik and bordered with a ribbon band made on a hairpin lace loom by machine.

A SAQA exhibit. My quilt is the second from the left on the second row.

The rest of the SAQA exhibit.

The quilt of the statue I am making in class. I finished the head day one. Its looking a little bug eyed before a bit of paint and stitching.