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Putting Down Roots

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Today was a day that I have anticipated for some time. Kristin came calling with her two adorable children. I call myself her quilt mom. She has a wonderful real mom, but when I first met Kristin in an Art Quilt Tahoe class two years ago, I said, on my blog, that she was an quilt artist to be reckoned with. And I proclaimed myself her number one fan and cheer-leader.

Kristin’s other mom lives in Eugene and her MIL lives in Spokane so the family has been here for a couple of weeks and I got a day with them before they leave to go back to Germany tomorrow morning. I got so involved in the activities that I almost forgot to take photos. Terry came and Stephanie and M & M came. It was wonderful to see how the four kids enjoyed playing together.

Here is Kristin in my studio.

Many of you may know that she uses roots in her work. Her request was to make some thermofax screens of some root images. She brought this one with her; I think it is a drawing.

Then she created this one by blowing India ink with a straw. You can see the actual feat on Terry’s blog.

Here is a screened image from the above.

Here are other screenprints, drying.

Steph took a photo of the three bloggers:

This is Katja and Zavi. So cute and wonderful personalities.

The weather was not bad today. We had some sunbreaks and the temps were in the high 40’s so we took a nice trek to the Rhodie garden to feed the ducks and get some exercise and fresh air. Forgot the camera!!

Kristin brought us all German treats which were mostly consumed by the time the day was over. I saved some chocolates for my Twelve X Twelve research. I had found this at a local antique shop a while ago and had been saving it for Kristin’s fliegenpilz collection.

Terry gave us each one of her new birds that she has been making. Here is mine. I love it, of course.

It is so wonderful to have these generous and fun-loving friends.

Tomorrow, I am taking down the Christmas decorations. I left them up for Kristin. Amazingly, our tree is still not shedding. I am so ready to get back to normal activities and week-ends that do not go on forever. Enough is enough.

Posted in Quilting Friends, thermofax, Uncategorized | 7 Comments »

Happy Christmas and Other Good Stuff

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Yesterday, while I was at the Japanese Garden, the mail arrived. Mr C didn’t hear the mail carrier and so a slip of paper was left saying a package could not be delivered and could be picked up today at the post office. After a quick trip back to the Japanese Garden to take care of a couple of things, Mr C and I stopped to pick up the mysterious package which had come through customs.

I digress. I just want to say that the show at the Japanese Garden looks wonderful and the pavilion was full of folks when we got there. And a sale was in progress.

Back to the package. When I saw who it was from, I got really excited. Once home, I opened the package and found this lovely box.

Inside, wrapped in tissue was the soft sculpture creche set that Kristin made for me. I set them up on the mantle right away. I wanted to get out my whole collection so that they could meet each other and have an early Christmas party — even if it was almost 90° today.

Each piece is so exquisite, with wonderful fabrics and embroidered features. Here they all are; you can click on them to see them larger.

Now, I have to finish an Aspen quilt for her. I hope I can make something as lovely as this.

Oh! And there was fabric, too! I am so in love with the hand-dyed cheese cloth — I can hardly stand it!!

This afternoon I got back to work on the Journal Quilt. I am feeling less stressed and enjoying the process of putting this together, which is as it should be!!

I wasn’t happy with the other screen that I made and so I selected a different photo of the Seattle Library grids and fiddled with it in Photoshop.

Here are a couple of prints that I made using brass paint. The top is on a hand-dyed cotton and the bottom is on gold metal mesh. This photo is a little blurry, but you can see that it is a much better print.

I don’t know which will work in the jq.

Tomorrow is Columbia Stitchery Guild meeting. Larkin Van Horn is our guest speaker. I can’t wait to meet her.

Posted in Good mail, Holidays, My creations, Quilting Friends, Quilting Organizations, screenprinting, thermofax | 4 Comments »

Making Progress

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

I finally got the big Epson printer to work. This printer takes 7 ink cartridges. When I print on fabric, I like to use the matte black instead of the photo black. Sometimes, the printer does not get the message that I have made a change and that I wanted to make a change. It will not recognize the new cartridge and keeps telling me that I have to change the settings, which I have already done. It finally worked and then I didn’t like the result and had to start over.

I can not show you the final journal quilt, which has to be 17 X 22 inches. But I will show you the parts! The theme is architectural grids – particularly, Seattle. I am using this discharged fabric and the other fabric is a painted fabric.

I took a photo of the skyline of Seattle from the ferry which I played with in Photoshop and printed on fabric. The first print was too washed out so I printed it again on a tighter weave cotton and pumped up the color saturation.

I had a photo of the space needle reflected in a high rise which I took on our trip last summer. I played with the color of this and printed it on organza.

Last summer when we were in Seattle, we toured the new library. I love the grids in the architecture and took some photos with plans to create some thermofax screens. Here is the original photo.

I made a screen of this and I am not totally happy with it. Maybe because of my attempt to screen on copper mesh!

Well, that is all I can share with you. I had to take some time out today to run down to Trinity with some tablecloths and stuff to set up the Arts Commission tables for sampler Sunday, tomorrow. I might get a little bit of work time tomorrow, but I have a few things to finish for the Japanese Garden show. Then I have to get everything ready to take up to the Garden for set up on Monday morning. Then it is back home to get ready for our EFM group to come for a dinner get-together to kick off our fall season.

Today, I remembered to take my camera when I took Maggie for a walk. These were taken on the Reed College campus. This is an installation with large hot pin letters on the front lawn.

This is the second time and the second place that I have seen this bunny — wonder what this is about?

Posted in Just for Fun, My creations, photo transfers, screenprinting, Surface Design Techniques, thermofax | 8 Comments »

Salad Days

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I love my fruits and vegetables, and some times, I like them together. Yesterday, the family came over for a barbecue and I made Judy’s edamame and orange salad. Today, I had it with some teriyaki chicken, yum!

Last night, we had Hermiston seedless watermelon for dessert. I know that I have had a watermelon salad someplace this summer and it was good. So, I surfed through web looking for some recipes.

Using what I had on hand, here is my recipe. Seedless watermelon, chiffonade of basil, thinly sliced red onion, arugula, feta cheese, lemon juice, lime juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. It was delicious. Very fitting for a warm last day of summer.

Today, I tried to get some work done for my journal quilt which needs to be shipped to Houston, soon. I have the plan in my brain. I need to do at east 3 techniques from the Journal Quilt book. I am using some of my discharged fabric. I also want to print a photo on fabric and I will make a new thermofax screen for screening a design. I needed to print with my large Epson that prints extra large stuff. I needed to replace one of the 7 ink cartridges. The store where I have purchased them near me has closed. So after some phone calls, I found them at Compusa over in Tigard.

Mr C volunteered to come with me. We stopped and gassed up the car and ran it thorough a car wash. The headed across the river. I did not bring any directions with me. I just had an idea where the store was. Mr C calls this driving by feel — it makes him nuts!! But, my intuition worked and there it was!!

Anyway, I spent the rest of the afternoon working on printing something on paper that would be the right size and color for my piece. I did not have a lot of success. Now, I have to wait until we get back from our trip. I may have to go to idea # 2.

We are leaving in the morning for Woodinville, WA. I don’t know if I will have Internet access, but I will remember my camera. We expect to enjoy some great food, do some wine tasting and get in lots of walking. We will have rain for our drive tomorrow, but it looks like it will clear up for the rest of our time.

Posted in Cooking and Recipes, My creations, thermofax, Travels | 6 Comments »

Winter in July

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

At the High Fiber Diet meeting last week, while discussing Wabi Sabi, it was brought up that Wabi Sabi encompasses Fall and Winter. After meeting with the Japanese Garden Cultural Coordinator, we have changed our theme to “Rustic Elegance” as she felt it was not possible to use Wabi Sabi as our theme. However, I got this winter thing in my head and I decided that I just have to do a winter bamboo fence piece. I will probably do a fall piece. too.

Today, I made another bamboo screen to use as a back ground. I screened it on hand-dyed cotton with black and silver textile paint.

This piece will be done in greys, black and white with some touches of red. Here is a bamboo fence that I screened on gray organza. I am going to print a black fence on white organza.

Here is the other fence printed on silk with some vintage Japanese fabrics that I am auditioning. I am also painting the bamboo to look aged and white.

We are having strange weather — sort of humid and overcast. I think we are going to have lots of rain tomorrow. Good weather for playing in the studio.

Posted in My creations, screenprinting, Surface Design Techniques, thermofax | 4 Comments »

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