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Yesterday, Mr C and I drove 4 hours over to the Coos Bay on the Oregon coast so that I could attend the opening reception of the In Stitches, Not Your Grandmother’s Quilts exhibit at the Pacific Park Gallery. The gallery is a big open space in quite new dental office.
The gallery is a lovely space, but not lighted that well. Quilts were hung on both floors. The women involved in putting this on were very gracious and welcoming.
My Pick Up Sticks was on the landing of the stairs to the upper level. It looked great all by itself.
My other quilt, Taking Leaf of My Seasons was on the long hallway.
This is Tina McCann from Depot Bay who won Judges Choice for best freeform art quilt. It is titled Saturday Market Baskets. I met Tina at Cynthia Corbin’s workshop last summer. It was nice to see her again.
Paulette Landers, who is a member of SAQA, and an incredible artist won Best of Show with this piece; and it was well deserved.
She was not at the reception even though she lives in the area. The quilting on this is exquisite.
There was also a traditional quilt category. No photos of those.
Now here is what took me aback about this exhibit. The jurors got to speak and give out the awards. They were both very much in the traditional quilting wheel house. They actually judged the quilts as in a quilt show. They talked about taking off points for this and that to reach their awards. There was nothing in the prospective that would have given a clue that this was going to happen. I did not expect an award. I am very happy with my two pieces and think as far as “art” goes they were in a small minority in this exhibit. I do not enter my quilts in judged shows. I enter them in juried shows which I thought this was. I will not enter it again. I think some people I know did not enter this year for that reason. It is too bad because this is a lovely venue and would make a great space for a real art quilt exhibit juried by artists not quilt police.
Mr C and I stayed overnight and drove back this morning. Even though it was cloudy and rainy, it was a beautiful drive and the fall colors were still quite vibrant.
I needed one – a time out that is. After being sick for a week and rushing to get some work done to submit for a SAQA show, I just crashed. About all I did in October was my SDA work and fulfilling a few obligations. I am now trying to get back on track. Above is a photo of a sunrise we could see from the condo a couple of weeks ago. We had a nice Indian Summer and now it is quite cool and rainy off and on.
We took care of Wilfredo for Lisa and Clay while they traveled in Portugal and Spain. Sometimes, I had to walk both dogs which was a bit challenging. Here we are in the elevator heading down for our walk.
When the girls came back, they gave me this wonderful necklace which they found at a shop in Porto.
Here is a link to information about the artists – all work is handmade and have bits of crocheted beads among other fiber frippery. I love the colors. perdi o fio à meada
I took lots of walks with Mr C and the dogs and photographed the beautiful fall colors.
This is a view of fall from the condo gym.
I prepared 4 older quilts of mine to travel to Brazil where they will be displayed in the annual Patchwork Design exposition with other members of the High Fiber Diet group. It is nice to have some older work get out there.
I also shipped two quilts to Coos Bay for the In Stitches exhibit at the Pacific Park Gallery. Mr C and I are going to drive down for the opening reception and spend the night on Sunday, Nov 15th.
Our local SAQA group met in the Oregon College of Art and Craft dye studio last month. One member led a group in immersion dyeing and I gave a brief demonstration on discharging fabric and then let people play.
I showed them the different results that you can get with different agents.
The fabric is the same black. On the left, I used soft scrub cleanser with bleach, the middle leaf was with Jacquard discharge paste and the one on the right was clear DeColourant. The green in the front was the result of discharging a piece of navy blue cotton.
Terry Grant played with drawing with soft scrub.
Mary Arnold used some stencils and got these great results.
I did a test on snow dyed fabric with lots of dye colors in it.
I am also making progress on this little red sweater. I just have one more sleeve to do.
My project this week is to clean, declutter and reorganize the multipurpose room here in the condo. I bought these modular storage units which I finally got into the room yesterday and started putting stuff in the drawers.
Today, I hauled everything out of the storage closet and rearranged it.
I had the hanging thread storage and the drawers with thread on the other side of the closet and they were harder to get to with my sewing table right in front. My goal is to make the whole room function better because I do so many different things here.
Finally, here are some photos of my grands. They are growing up so fast.
Paige and her parents are coming for Thanksgiving – can not wait!!
