tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16532758338952971182024-03-07T00:45:49.872-08:00Elizabeth CreatesArt, Garden and Life.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.comBlogger579125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-36866653491516973082014-05-10T08:03:00.000-07:002014-05-10T08:03:16.546-07:00Beady Bliss: The Soup is Cooked<h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my second Bead Soup Blog Hop Reveal with Lori Anderson. Before I go any further and get carried away and forget, I must thank Lorie for her amazing efforts and her willingness to climb back into the depths of confusion and frustration that it always requires to pull off one of these events!! Lori , You are a WONDER!!! Thank you!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now without further ado, on to the show. My assigned partner was the awesome lamp work Bead artist and seed bead addict <a href="http://julsbeads.blogspot.com/">Ms. Juli Cannon</a> , of Juls Beads and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioJuls">StudioJuls</a>. I actually came to know of Juli and her glorious work during my first Bead Soup Blog Hop. Since then I have purchased some of her beads and kept them all to myself. Yes I keep them just as she sent them to me and take them out and stroke them and oogle them and put them away. I LOVE her beads but their beauty intimidates me!! So I did a major double take when I saw who my partner was and a let out a screech of joy!! then I started to fret and to sweat and to ponder and to fret some more. I am a "pleaser" sort of person and the last thing I wanted to do was disappoint Juli. Here is the soup that I received from Juli!! How beautiful is this??????</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then in the same package was this delectable mix of eye popping color.. This is obviously a mix that is a seed beader's dream, she even included the ultra suede for mounting the cabochon.!!! Juli is making some incredible cabs and selling them in her shop<a href="http://www.studiojuls.com/"> here.</a> They must be seen to be believed. The cab below is one of her tie Dyed series!! the colors are amazing and I cant wait for a small spot of time to work with this mix, hopefully sometime this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So back to the Primary Challenge Soup.! Those of you who know me, know that I am not afraid of color and that one of my favorite sources of inspiration is the ocean. At first glance this might not appear to be a challenge. But hold on, it SURE was a challenge!! I have never worked with such a large focal bead . It is so glorious and I was so afraid that I would fail to set it off in the manner that it needed to be presented. It took me awhile- the week before the reveal actually to get up the nerve to jump in!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As you can see from the soup Juli had included all sorts of fun colored beads to pair with the focal with the highlight beads and clasp being silver. I do love to use collage techniques in almost every media that I work with and so I went with the trend and dug through my own stash to see how I could complement the soup and add enough small bits to show off the larger ones. Now I feel that when it comes to beads , more is more better!! In fact many of my textile collage and felted works are not complete till beads are added!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is my collage piece surrounding<a href="http://studiojuls.indiemade.com/"> Juli Cannon's</a> glorious beads!! I do love it and I have gotten tons of complements on it, as I cannot resist wearing it. I am a tall person so the big necklace works well for me and it makes a statement and draws people in to look at all of the different components.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The colors of the focal are really magical. The overall color heads towards teal but I had to give you a close up so you could see all ot the different colors that dance in the glass sea that she has created!! I have never worked with such a glorious focal and I think I am well on my way to being comfortable with working with large focal beads.! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As far as what I added to this soup, not too much. I did add the silver matte finish seed beads, which I had just purchased. They are a bit more expensive than regular glass seed beads but well worth it and they worked here perfectly to help spread out the larger components without taking anything away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also added the ecru sand dollar bead that I had purchased<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/stargirljoolz"> here</a>, after the last bead soup I participated in. Yet again I was coveting this bead and was now ready to show it off as part of this collage piece! I also added the off white stone disk beads as a neutral component and the 8mm sea foam green rounds again as a complement to the wonderful turquoise and and silver and deep blue lamp work that Juli had provided. </span><br />
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Juli Cannon you are the BOMB!!!! I adore your work and want you to know that you are a major influence to me in my use of color and bead creation!! Love you Girl!!</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again , this has been an amazing experience for me and I know that I am not alone. I urge you to take some time and hop about to see what many of the other participants have been up to . You can find the entire list of beaders </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/2014/05/welcome-to-8th-bead-soup-blog-party.html">HERE!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You will find Juli Cannon's blog <a href="http://julsbeads.blogspot.com/">HERE</a> , so stop by Juli's blog to see what she has created with the soup that I sent along for her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And one more thing, <a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/">Lori Anderson</a>, you are an amazing and talented and caring woman!! Love you!! and thank you for all that you ahve done to make this yet another amazing experience!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So back in February I joined in on the latest Bead Soup Blog Party run by the most awesome and amazing Lori Anderson. I spent several days mixing and thinking and mixing some more to come up with a creative and colorful challenge for my bead Soup partner ... wait for it.... this is just too darn exciting.... Lamp Work Bead Artist Extraordinaire </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioJuls" style="font-size: x-large;">Ms. Juli Cannon</a><span style="font-size: large;">!!! I was agog and aghast that I had been paired up with one of my bead creating Goddesses!! I have purchased beads from Juli in the past having found her during the last bead Soup blog hop that I took part in. But never did I dream that I would be lucky enough to have such an awesome partner !!! So now the pressure was on WAY HIGH , cuz my Soup had to measure up for Ms Juls!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Above you can see the Soup that made the final cut! Ms Juls is a seed beader and adores her seed beads and I have recently become enthralled with all of the new shaped seed beads that are flooding the beady markets. So that is what I sent her. She got Rizo's, the top drilled rice shaped green ones and a metallic mix, and vintage metallic nail head beads, some vintage tube beads and some recycled glass beads in several colors that my brother purchased for me in Africa.( bottom)Alos tucked in there is some African turquoise and some wonderful little orange fringe or drop beads ( my fav seed beads as they wiggle and move !!) I found the focal at a bead show and was told that this particular kind of jasper is only found in one place and mined by one man near Perth Australia. So at least I knew that this soup was exotic to say the least!! Then i just went a bit nuts with color and texture cuz I love to share and I kept coming up with more things that worked together. Why the Heck Not!!???!! RIGHT???? Right!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So today my soup form Juli arrived. Oh my goodness was I overwhelmed!! What a generous and amazing soup!!!!. Soup is even too banal a word- how about Bouillabaisse or Bisque or some other uber elegant word ?? This is no mere soup- this is a Symphonic event!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As Juli stated in her blog post we , she and I ,are seed beaders at heart but for this event we do some stringing. So Juls sent me TWO, yes 2, soups . One for stringing, here in luscious blue green and turquoise ocean colors crafted by her very own hand( do you suppose she knows I love the sea?? Mais OUI!!!) So this will become my strung bead piece of the sea that Juli lives near and has shared with me!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Color Explosion #2 is for the seed beader in me and will be embroidered on suede and worn with total pride!! Just look at that focal cab!! I do believe that Juli has determined that I am a big bold color gal!! We go together like two peas, she and I!! How awesomely fantabulous is that!!!! Even the ultra suede is in a shade of my very favorite color- the woman reads minds, I tell you!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Juli has just started creating these amazing glass cabs and is selling them in her <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioJuls">shop</a>- so hustle on over and snag a few before they fly away!!! She is real busy so it might be a while before she can restock!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My mind is spinning !! I cannot wait to tuck in to this amazing collection of glorious artistry!! And now to create! Back in a bit with the reveal!!</span>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-56954275237435364652014-03-05T17:54:00.000-08:002014-03-05T17:54:01.177-08:00Have A Bit OF Snow ? Snow Dye Some Fabric!!!Here in Virginia we have had several rather major snow storms that have made us all rather weary of the winter. At least in Virginia this is not the usual winter weather!! Most recently, March 2-3 we had a good 10 inches on top of sleet. The snow was very dry and light , fortunately for those who did the shoveling!<br />
As soon as the snow had stopped falling I got my fabrics soaking in the soda ash solution and set things up for my second round of Snow Dyeing of the winter. <br />
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In the round bowl, propped up on a vegetable steamer base ( so the fabric does not sit in the melted snow /dye solution) is the soda ash treated fabric. I put in a small piece of Habatoi silk, and two pieces of vintage damask linen. In the box sits an old baking cooling rack with one piece of linen, one piece of silk and a white cotton sleeveless shirt that I picked up at Goodwill. In the back you can see my tub of snow.</div>
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Then I put on my dust mask and got out my MX Fiber Reactive dyes. These can be purchased many places that sell fabric dyes or directly from Pro Chem in Rhode Island. Using a teaspoon ( used only for dyeing fabrics) I sprinkled bits of dye powder over the snow. The bowl was sprinkled with colors Turkey Red, Cherry Blush, Sun Yellow and Grape. The box was sprinkled with Grape, Ice Blue, Ultra Marine and Dark Blue. then all there is to do is wait till the snow melts! So this morning I went down and found my dye covered fabric sitting above a puddle of melted snow and dye. After a good rinse out and a wash in the machine and a spin in the drier, here are my results.<br />
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Here are the silk pieces!!! Luscious and luminous!!! I will use these in my Collage Nuno felted wraps as merino wool fibers can penetrate the silk beautifully!<br />
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Here is the piece of vintage damask linen table cloth. LOVE!!! The dyes move so beautifully in this method as the solution is carried down and through the fabric by gravity. If there are folds and wrinkles in the fabric ( which there always are when one has wadded up the fabric) the dye will run down the fold till it gets to the lowest point where it will drip off into the reservoir at the bottom.<br />
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This smaller piece of linen was a hand towel with a ratty edge and a few holes in the fabric, The damask pattern is glorious - sorry that the pattern is hard to pick up in this photo.</div>
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If you are interested in a protocol to follow so you can have a go at your own Snow Dyeing , you can find one<a href="http://www.prochemical.com/directions/MX%20PDF/Snow%20Dyeing.pdf"> here</a>.!</div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-26125551236619148012014-03-04T07:53:00.000-08:002014-03-04T07:53:40.979-08:00The Need to Experiment<br />
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I have found that as I continue creating with whatever media I am obsessed with at the moment, that I have a true NEED to push it , to experiment and to follow the call of the What IF voices. . Blog hopping has led me on a very rewarding journey where i have met some amazingly talented and like minded artists. I have often struck up conversations with artists and have increased my desire to explore with my media exponentially.<br />
I find that I am always combining the things that I love to work with to create new pieces and lately that has resulted in felted pieces full of layers of texture and bead work and stitch.<br />
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Lately I am having a very rewarding experience doing hand work. perhaps this is because this hearkens back to my very first experiences with art. As a young child of 4, I was given large squared gingham and a not very sharp needle with embroidery floss to do cross stitch. All the women around me were constantly knitting and that soon became my focus with creating doll blankets. Then living on the ocean and collecting treasures was a passion and so the story goes.<br />
Above you can see the third piece in my Tide Lines series of work titled Nantucket Sound. This began with my embellishing machine with bits of lace and yarn and gauze and hand dyed cheese cloth. All were combined with merino wool fibers and then wet felted to further connect the fibers and add dimensional texture through the fulling of the wool. Stitching through felted pieces is a joy as the needle glides through the fabric so easily. some evenings I can sit for a very long time creating oodles of French and<a href="http://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/stitch/knots/pekin-knot/"> Chinese knots</a><a href="http://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/stitch/knots/pekin-knot/"></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"> before i am ready to add the found treasures collected in my beach walks.</span><br />
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All of the found bits that were added as the last step were collected along a beach in Chatham MA, which is part of the area known as Nantucket Sound, hence the title. this piece will be framed in a shadow box for display.</div>
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I have also used my felting and beads combination of creating art in my most recent experiments. I have created Nuno felt- ( the combination of many different fibers and fabrics to create a NEW or Nuno piece of textile.) Merino wool fibers from <a href="http://www.opulentfibers.com/super-fine-merino-19/#.UxXun-NdV8E">Opulent Fibers- my favorite supplier</a>- has served as the glue for these pieces . Hand dyed silks, silk fibers, bits of lace and scrim and hand dyed cheese cloth has all been added to generate the texture and interest that I strive for in all of my pieces. All of these pieces were felted together around a heavy copper wire core. I was not at all sure this would work but there was nothing for it but to have a go! I followed the advice of the What IF? voices.</div>
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I did do my first experiments with this white, blue piece and then jumped in, with both feet, to create other colorways. At the ends of the felt work I wrapped and stitched a bit of turquoise silk gauze as the felting there was a bit thin. I like that finished look and it taught me to make the felt a more uniform thickness along the wire. Then I went to the bead stash having reached the stage for the FUN part, the Hand Work!!!</div>
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And here they are ready for display at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArtfulDimensions">Artful Dimensions Gallery</a> in all their texture filled and beaded softness.</div>
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She has embarked on starting yet another beady Blog Party while she is fighting a raging case of Lyme Disease!!! She is one tough cookie and so passionate about beads!<br />
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So as the Bead Soup Blog party gets started I thought I might catch you all up on what I have been doing with myself lately. Lots of projects, in a picture scroll format. Not too many words as I have to get back in the swing of things blog-wise very slowly. I have been so very busy with all sorts of life happenings that the blog has fallen off the edge of the plate. Don't want to shack you all with too much verbiage!! :)<br />
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Here goes: IF you have specific questions feel free to holler at me in the comments!!<br />
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Collage nuno felt wrap "Jack Frost Farewell" beaded and using my hand dyed vintage linens. ( This piece sold before I had it finished!! Love it when that happens!)<br />
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The Colors OF Happy- collaged felt beaded and embroidered collar.</div>
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We have had quite a winter this year with lots of ice and snow. I managed to get a few good garden ice pictures.<br />
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Flock of birds stitched from left over sun printed and felted bits.</div>
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As part of our Art Outreach at Artful Dimensions Gallery, I have been teaching a Journals From Junk class Just for Teens at a branch of our library!! It is all free to the kids and we have been having a great time playing and learning together. This will go on twice a month till May 2014.</div>
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The title of this felted and stitched piece is Nantucket Sound. Th is the third piece in a series that I have done with nuno felted backgrounds and found objects embroidery and beads.</div>
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I created this bracelet as a donation for a Silent Auction that was being held in town to benefit a fellow artist who is fighting a gallant battle with cancer. Fortunately he and his family have been able to take full advantage of the Affordable Care Act and have saved lots of money and stress!!<br />
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I took advantage of all of the snow and tried my hand at snow dying!!! Loved it and I think I will try it next with ice, from the ice machine. We don't want anymore snow!!!<br />
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I finally got around to creating a sign for my studio door at the gallery. BTW f you have not "Liked" us on Face Book ,please pop over and have a look!! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArtfulDimensions">(Artful Dimensions Gallery</a>) We are a non profit and we have found that the Face Book page is really helping us get the word out about all that we have to offer!</div>
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So what have you all been up to lately!! I have really missed visiting everyone and will be making great efforts to pop in for a quick visit in the next couple of days!! Now I am off to make supper!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the midst of getting work done for my Colors of Happy Show , I created some little projects to distract myself from the stress of show prep. Two of my very dear friends at <a href="http://artfuldimensionsgallery.com/">Artful Dimensions Gallery</a> were in need of special journals for various uses. I really had no business taking on new projects but it felt really good to do so and to allow myself to work freely for no other reason than it was what I wanted to do at that very moment. My wonderful friend Barbara was about to embark on a two week long trip to Rome with her husband and her brother and sister in law. She was so excited and would be in Rome over her birthday. I wanted her to have a special journal so she could make notes store bits and pieces of ephemera from her trip and do some sketching if she felt like it. I wanted her to be able to relive the trip once she got home with as much delight as possible and the journal would allow her to do just that. Barb and her husband Bobby have been studying Italian with a native speaker for about two years and she has been sharing her lessons with us in the Gallery. I used fabrics with the colors of the Italian fag for the cover and red happens to be one of Barb's favorite colors. I practiced my free motion stitching skills in green thread to spell out various words along with the date of the trip and the city. Above you can see the cover that is held closed by a hand made bit of cording made from various yarns and fabrics wrapped around a vintage deep red button. ( My journal design is based roughly off a design shared in a class taught by the amazing and wondrous <a href="http://www.dispatchfromla.com/dispatch_from_la/online-classes.html">Mary Ann Moss!</a> Mary Ann has several delightful one line classes in journal making that I cannot recommend highly enough!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inside front cover with fabric paper pocket on left hand side. September is significant as it is the month of Barb's birthday and also the month of her fabulous trip!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At a library used book sale I had purchased an adorable little Italian cook book that was full of three color wood cuts. I now had the perfect excuse for using the images!! Above you see one of them.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">The whole cover spread out . I used a vintage dishcloth with the red single petaled roses for the majority of the cover: and true to form, I misspelled one of the words. If I had listened to the nagging voice at the back of my mind and done a bit of research, had I the time, I would have know that the phonetic spelling of Si Certo is not correct as I spelled it!!! ( Si Cierto is incorrect!!) As it turned out I finished this project at 9 pm on the evening before the departure for the trip and I ended up delivering it at 10 pm!! Done in time but just barely!!</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each signature cover sheet was made with hand painted papers that I happened to have in my stash. These pages had been lazer copied as I was so fond of the colors and collage techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used a special vintage linen piece with a pansy embroidered on it to create a special back pocket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This return to journal making has inspired me to create some more special books with my sun prints as covers. I will share these pieces with you as soon as I finish a bunch of them! Thanks for visiting !!</span>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-66822622791614165412013-09-30T05:19:00.001-07:002013-09-30T05:19:11.167-07:00Dragonfly Hour- My latest Collage Bead Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Last week, after teaching a good friend to create a beaded collage cuff, I was inspired to try my hand at a Steam punk version of my own. As readers of this blog you know that I favor Ocean color palettes and more recently I am working in many bright or Happy Colors. I love vintage bits and I have come to love matte finish Czech beads that have been made available lately. The matte finish complements the metallic bits and the zipper that I have chosen for this piece. I am continuing to push myself in new areas and I am very pleased with the results of this little exercise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used a very old cut metal button, I believe it is Victorian and two reproduction typewriter keys to spell BE. The repro keys are actually from the scrapbooking section of the crafts store. One never knows where one will find the perfect elements for a collage piece like this!!!</span>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-40505709362846853182013-09-23T18:58:00.000-07:002013-09-23T18:58:38.814-07:00My First Solo Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you all feel abandoned ?? Well it is my fault if you do, as I have been very absent from Blogland, all summer. I have been working at a frenzied pace to create a body of work for my first solo show. The show opened last Friday night at<a href="http://artfuldimensionsgallery.com/"> Artful Dimensions Gallery</a> in Fredericksburg, VA.I am going to post a bunch of pictures of the pieces in my show and try to keep the words to a minimum. Of course if you have any questions please do let me know!! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful summer! I for one am really looking forward to our wonderful Virginia fall season!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made little scrap quilt legend surrounds for each of the large wall pieces and the collage necklaces. I wanted the titles to stand out and be something very different from the usual gallery tagging system. Here you can see <b>Hydrangea</b>- done with my sun prints and hand dyed fabrics. Free motion machine embroidery followed by some subtle beading finished off this piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The piece on the left is titled <b>Purple Ferns</b> and is also done with my own sun prints and hand dyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The top piece in this picture is titled <b>Cape Sunset</b> and it was done using my embellishing machine and then wet felted. I used merino roving and silk waste and then added 5 tiny little shells and some free motion embroidery to bump up the texture and add a bit more interest. I backed the piece with a glorious bit of deep purple silk velvet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The piece at the bottom is titled <b>Tide Pool I</b> and is a quilted piece that was mounted on wood bricks and embellished with beads stones , lace, embroidery and found objects. This piece can be wall mounted or sit on a table top as I affixed chunky rubber feet to the bottom of the wood tray. When siting horizontally one gets a completely different view of the details that are not visible when it hangs on a wall. Kind of like two pieces of quilt sculpture in one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The top piece is titled </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Poppy Fields (</b>SOLD<b style="font-size: x-large;">)</b><span style="font-size: large;"> and was needle felted with many different fibers and textiles, then free motion embroidered and beaded. All along the bottom of the piece I added drizzle stitch grass to add a very realistic look to the piece. I mounted (stitched) the piece on a lovely soft green linen fabric. ( This was the first piece to sell on Friday night!! :)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The lower piece is called <b>Energy</b>. I created it using my Embellisher and then did some wet felting as well, combining wool roving, silk fabrics and silk roving. I further embellished the piece with hand stitching and bead work. This piece is put together in the same fashion as <b>Tide Pool I</b>, each mini quilt mounted on wood blocks of different sizes and thicknesses. It can also sit horizontally on a table top or shelf .</span><br />
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Detail shot of "the butter dish"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I created some of the sea life for my Tide Pool pieces using recycled glass beads from Africa that my brother sent to me , and some seed beads. I stitched the seed beads thru the large holes in the glass beads and into a very small square of ultra suede. then I was able to stitch the ultra suede wherever I needed to put it on the quilted sculpture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">more detail shots of portions of the Tide Pool sculptures</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I created two purses for the show in very different styles and using very different methods but always using very Happy colors! the shoulder bag above is fully lined with two pockets, hand made cording that was braided and then stitched to some hand dyed cotton. the straps are held on with covered buttons that have felted and beaded tops. The collage felting was done with silk fabrics, wool roving , silk waste and vintage hand dyed doilies that i dyed myself. It is embellished with hand stitch and beading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This purse is call the <b>Colors of Happy Purse</b>(</span>SOLD<span style="font-size: large;">)and is a stitched collage of my sun prints and hand dyes. I added hand made fabric paper beads that are resin coated and hand made cording that was then braided. Again the strap is attached to the purse with covered buttons. It is lined with several sun prints and has two pockets inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This collage necklace is titled<b> Jubilation. </b>The chain is various styles of copper links and the majority of the beads are fabric embellished with seed beads as well as fabric paper with resin coating. The heart at the bottom is a resin collage piece with a rhinestone and the leaf shaped piece is a resin coated piece of my sun printed fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are my Sun Print Spinner quilts. Each segment is double sided, hand stitched with metallic thread or beaded with glittery beads. The intent is for the thread and beads to sparkle as they catch the light as the quilts spin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Smiling Faces</b> is a woven quilt that is heavily embellished with hand stitch and beads. I painted the focal image of the pansies using water color pencils.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now I am working on my next show which is due to be hung in mid October at a local branch of the area library. The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/crrlnews/sets/72157625261700468/show/">England Run </a>Library is brand new and is a glorious ,certified Green building. It is a real treat to be invited to show my work there. I have several more large wall pieces to create between now and then to fill the space. So back to the sun prints and hand dyes with a few beads thrown in, of course!!!! </span></div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-57724703854131712902013-06-03T15:19:00.000-07:002013-06-03T15:19:26.210-07:00Busy, Busy, Busy!!!!!!!!Some things tend to get pushed off the plate when one gets super busy and I have found that computer time and writing blog posts and visiting all of my glorious friends blogs has been one f those things!! I have truly missed the blog hopping and visiting and as I sat down today to finally write a new post I was a bit shocked to see that I have not updated you since April 6!! That is inexcusable!!<br />
So as evidence to show that I have been truly busy I am going to share a quick photo tour of what I have been doing art wise. Of course there has also been family stuff, house stuff, the garden, taking care of all the PR for our gallery- <a href="http://www.artfuldimensionsgallery.com/">Artful Dimensions.</a> BTW we would love it if you would check out the gallery on FB and "Friend us" if you are so inclined!! Here is the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArtfulDimensions?fref=ts"><b>link</b></a>.<br />
As many of you know I have been experimenting with felting and combining harvested silk gauze and wool roving to make unique wraps of wearable art. Here are a few of my latest creations!!<br />
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This is my latest piece. I am calling this wrap Peaches and Cream. I put it all together using ultra soft merino top roving , silk fibers, and some Rusty Nail Angelina fibers sprinkled in for a bit of sparkle.<br />
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As part of the felting process I have added in clusters of silk flower "blossoms", made from some of the fabric and rolled and attached solely through the magic of the wool fibers.</div>
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Some of the silk fabrics have shots of metallic gold threads running through them, perhaps you can see the shimmer in the upper left. This will be on display and for sale at Artful Dimensions Gallery of Art and Fine Craft.<br />
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I have finished a new free form beaded collage bracelet as a commission for a good friend who owns a wonderful knitting shop on Cape Cod. ( If any of you vacation on the Cape and are out on the Outer Cape- Orleans area- plan on stopping by and checking out the wonderful offerings of yarn and great hospitality at <a href="http://www.astitchinthyme.com/"><b>A Stitch In Thyme.)</b></a><br />
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My friend wears lots of soft blues and green tones, quiet earth tones you might say. So I had a grand time sorting through my bead stash to find the perfect beads for her bracelet. the closure is made using a loop of seed beads and a vintage mother of pearl button.<br />
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In this bead soup you can see beads made from porcelain, some Picasso Jasper dagger shaped beads ( a bit left of center with the brown veins), a glass face bead, several recycled glass beads from Tanzania, and lots of different seed beads.<br />
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Here are some other felting projects that are on their way to becoming pillows. Each will have a flange around the outside- kind of like a ruffle but NOT ruffled, so as not to loose the wonderful organic edge of each piece.</div>
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After taking a wonderful class with the AMAZING <b><a href="http://hermajestymargo.blogspot.com/">Margo Duke</a></b>, I learned how to add fabric roses, ruffled and pleated silks and gauze fabrics and how to incorporate some of my hand dyed vintage crochet pieces into the felt work.<br />
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After the felting process comes the even more fun part, the beading and hand stitch work!!!<br />
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This purple piece is on it's way to becoming a very special pillow for a special friend. The others will become part of my first ever Featured Artist Show to be held during the month of September at Artful Dimensions.</div>
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I made this quick little bracelet for a special visitor who will be coming very soon!!! This specific pattern is called Tapestry and was created by the amazing Carol Cavanaugh of <a href="http://www.beadparade.com/">Beads On Parade</a> a wonderful bead store in Fredericksburg, VA. The pattern calls for using two different colors in several sizes of beads but, as you can see, I modified it just a bit!!</div>
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I have also been working on curriculum development for a new Class that we are offering as a camp this summer at ADG. (Artful Dimensions Gallery) A good friend Barb Posey, and I are offering a Fairy and Troll camp for all ages 10 and up. We will be creating our own fairies and trolls and then working with found and natural objects to make environments for those little people to live in. We are very excited about it and I have really gotten into making little accouterments for the fairies!<br />
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This little baby fairy is based on instructions offered in a wonderful book by artist<b><a href="http://weefolkstudio.com/"> Sally Mayvor</a></b>. I discovered Sally's wonderful work from a listing on Pinterest. I have since learned that she lives on Cape Cod- where I used to live and where I still have family. She is a very gifted artist and shares all of her techniques. If you are at all interested in crafting your won fairies with very simple supplies check out her book <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1571201939">Felted Wee Folk</a></b>.<br />
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Here is the little guy hanging out with his new pal Mr. Cicada. We are currently in the midst of a 17 year swarm hatch and the buggers are everywhere!!<br />
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This is our sample of a troll for those who do not wish to create fairies.<br />
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Here is baby fairy with his Momma seated in their little moss and bark floored environment, in front of her mosaic table and serving up a polymer clay strawberry cream cake and tea in blue ceramic mugs!!<br />
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A better shot f Mr. Troll with his bones and his fish bone stool. I\did his dreads ( hair do) with brown wool roving and twisted it quite a bit to get the right look.</div>
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Here is a detail shot of the mosaic table- I used molding paste and little broken shell bits to craft the table and polymer clay for the other bits!!<br />
We have had quite a few adults inquire about the camp and we have decided to offer some classes for adults as well. We had a nice write up in the local paper last week about our classes so hopefully folks will really follow through and sign up!!<br />
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So as you can see I have been working very hard and I will try more diligently to keep you up to date on my creative projects in a more timely manner! I hope that wherever you are the cicadas are not driving you nuts, the tornadoes have avoided you and you can find cool or warm place to create beautiful works of art of whatever type you choose!! ART ON!!!<br />
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I have been felling a real Need to Bead lately, so I have been feeding the need. Here you can see my first go at a Cellini Spiral. This is a tubular spiral peyote stitch design. I have been interested in working on this spiral for a long time and I am planning to create a short choker style necklace with this pattern. The purple beads on the outside of this spiral are a size 8 and the inner spiral beads in black and white are a size 15- teeny tiny! By working from very small to quite large one can achieve the undulating spiral shape.</div>
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although it looks a bit complex it is actually quite simple once you get going.</div>
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These next two pieces are now for sale at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ArtfulDimensions?fref=ts">Artful Dimensions Gallery </a>in Fredericksburg, VA. This first piece is a bracelet that I have titled Sea Spray and again, despite its complex shape, it is very easy to achieve using extreme increases in each row of beading to achieve the wonderful ruffly effect.<br />
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This bracelet is titled Cherry Blossom Fizz.</div>
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This next piece is the beginnings of a felted picture collage for my upcoming show in September. This is the piece so far after the wet felting step. It is a beach scene from Cape Cod . It will have lots of stitching and details added with machine and hand stitch and probably some beads.</div>
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It is done entirely with my hand dyed fabrics and I added quite a bit of thread painting to the cone flowers and to put an edge on the table cloth.</div>
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I am in the process of adding beads to the centers of the flowers and some sparkle to the bits of green wool curls. I have several more pieces like this one planned so I must get going to get them ready to roll! Till next time....................Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-958913813021146102013-03-28T14:36:00.000-07:002013-03-28T14:36:05.052-07:00Ruffles and Flounces with Her Majesty Margo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let me start by saying that if you have any interest in felting, fibers, Textile collage or texture and you get the opportunity to take a workshop with <a href="http://hermajestymargo.blogspot.com/">Margo Duke</a> JUMP AT THE CHANCE!!!! She has earned her Title of Her Majesty!! Her work is stunning and innovative and luxurious and she loves to share all of her tips and tricks as she is secure in the Knowledge that no one can collage fibers and fabrics exactly like another person. She is a total delight. Ruffles and Flounces was my fourth workshop with Margo and this class was held at the fabulous space and shop for Altered art and Fabulous batik fabric, <a href="http://www.artisticartifacts.com/">Artistic Artifacts.</a></div>
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Whenever we gather with Margo, she brings out her glorious samples and inevitably we all get caught up in asking how and what and exclaiming and drooling over each piece. This little tease of a trunk show is well worth the cost of the workshop, but wait there is more!!! Then we see garments and my friend Chris is asked to model the garments so we can see the fit of each!! Then the pieces are passed around and finally they are counted to make sure they have not sprouted little furry feet. ( just kidding about the last bit)</div>
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I took several photos fo a couple of her samples . These pieces are done with wool roving and collaged with silk fabrics, lace doilies, yarns and other fibers. All of the work that you will see here are achieved using water, a bit of soap and woman power. No stitches were taken to create these pieces!!!!<br />
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The Texture is totally breathtaking!! The little red berry like bits are called wool nepps. They are a bi- product of not good shearing. The bits from bad shearing practice are called second cuts, by spinners. This happens when the shearer does not get as close to the skin and therefore the longest fiber form the animal and has to return to make a Second Cut to even out the sheep's wool appearance. this second cut ends up as lost part of the best part of the fleece, at least it was till some bright person figured out how to make these Nepps. They can be dyed any color and they give wonderful texture , as you can see!<br />
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The first garment that Chris modeled was this wonderful vest.</div>
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Margo explained how she makes her collaged felt two sided so the garments can have interest on the inside as well as the outside. FABULOUS!!</div>
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This back view gives a great idea of how collaged Margo's pieces are- remember this is all done with water, a bit of soap and lots of hand manipulation. Then the pieces of felt collage are stitched together to make the garment.<br />
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I started out my project with a piece of green silk gauze with pink roses on it and a piece of tan cotton gauze that had red and blue floral print. These remnants were topped by a large piece of chartreuse green pre-felt. you can see the pre-felt in the picture above along the bottom edge. I then layered the green pre-felt with hand dyed vintage cotton doilies, silk hankies, silk fibers and silk gauze fabrics, sari silk ribbons and fun yarns. Some of the silk gauze was rolled into 3-d rose shapes. You can see the rose shapes in the center left of the above picture and in the middle of the picture below.<br />
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These two pictures were taken before the piece was wet down with soapy water and rolled and rolled and rolled some more!!!<br />
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This is a picture of the fully felted and fulled collage! It shrank by 30%. Along the bottom edge you can see the silk ruffle that was created by capturing one edge of a long piece of silk gauze ( cut from a thrift store skirt) . As the wool shrinks that has penetrated the silk fabric, the silk gets carried along with the wool, resulting in wonderful ruffles and flounces.<br />
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At the top of this picture you can see the felted in cotton doily- look at the wonderful texture- I do so love it!!! The base of the silk roses have been captured by the wool and drawn in more tightly and are secured.<br />
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Here is a shot of the almost finished collage piece. Just below the green pre-flet area you can see a piece of bright blue silk with a beaded motif on it. This bit was cut from a silk beaded blouse, again from a thrift store.</div>
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now here is the same area once the felting and fulling is complete. the beading is there along with the wonderfully puckered blue silk fabric. So fabrics that have been beaded and sequined can be used to add yet another element to the felted collaged piece. No needle and thread required!!!<br />
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Here you can see the back of half of the piece, the half with the green silk gauze. You can see how the green pre-felt fibers have penetrated the silk gauze.</div>
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This is the other side of the back , the half with the tan floral cotton gauze. I love all of that texture!!!!<br />
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So if you ever see classes, workshops or lectures offered by Her Majesty Margo Duke, DO NOT HESITATE TO SIGN UP AND DIVE IN!!!<br />
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<br />Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-18792325542792098882013-03-17T09:26:00.000-07:002013-03-17T09:26:50.438-07:00No Rules- Crazy Quilting!!Over the past year or so I have been developing a class called Let's Go Crazy (er) - The Rules of NO RULES Crazy Quilting!! I have asked the amazingly talented and generous quilt/textile artist<a href="http://alliesinstitches.blogspot.com/"> Allison Aller</a>, if I may use her fabulous book as a reference and she has given me the green light. You can see and read about here fabulous book<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Allie-Allers-Crazy-Quilting-Embellishing/dp/1607051737/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289253160&sr=8-1"> here</a>! If you have any interest in textile collage, this is a Must Have book!<br />
This past week I taught my first sessions of this class at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ArtfulDimensions?fref=ts">Artful Dimensions Gallery</a> in Fredericksburg, VA. We have a great <a href="http://www.artfuldimensionsgallery.com/BrochureWeb.Winter2013.pdf">roster of classes</a> at the Gallery and we teach whenever it is convenient for the student, that is why you will not see times and dates on the schedule!!<br />
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My dear friend <a href="http://www.brierdesignstudio.blogspot.com/">Leslie Brier</a> and her wonderful mom came in to learn how to piece a Crazy Quilt Block and then how to embellish their newly created textile canvas. We had a wonderful time and we could have worked through the day!! This class has been designed to allow students to express their personal artistic style in their textile collage- crazy quilt art form. We want to throw open all the doors and windows and allow all the rules about crazy quilting to flow out and make everyone comfortable with asking themselves those wonderful "What IF" questions that lead to personal works of exuberant textile collage!!<br />
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During our first session we covered the Flip and Stitch method for piecing a quilt block. Then I shared a wonderful method for collaging fabric scraps on Steam a Seam 2 fusible web to create a very crazy collage, Such fun!!
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Here are the first blocks that my students created! I enticed them to jump in with some wonderful focal images that had been printed on fabric. Each lady was delighted with the selection of printed images- they were perfect for their respective personalities!!<br />
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After our first class, Leslie and her Mom left and with homework to practice piecing and to return with several blocks that they had created on their home! Here you see a very simple block that Paula created. We worked on how to start the embellishing process and things to think about and now Paula is itching to get to the FUN part!! (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607051737/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1DJEQ82P5TPQJT51CRET&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_i=507846"> <span id="goog_963777904"></span>Aller's Book</a><span id="goog_963777905"></span> does a fabulous job with inspiring ideas and directions for this stage of the CQ ( Crazy Quilt) process!!)<br />
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Paula went ahead and created several Christmas themed blocks as her practice pieces! For a gal who is not yet good friends with her sewing machine, she did a great job!! we worked on some parts that she was struggling with in her relationship with her machine and things seem to be getting Much better!! It is so nice to be able to ease the frustration of a seamstress so they can get past the anger stage when learning to use their machine!!!</div>
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Her you can see one of Leslie's amazing practice blocks. Leslie and I have both found our local Goodwill shops to be a great resource for fabric finds. The black lace swatches that you see in this block was salvaged from a dress that Leslie found at Goodwill by the Pound!! ( Locally , we have an outlet where Goodwill takes their older donations and makes them available to the public for a "By the Pound' price!)I really love how Leslie has crafted this wonderful selection of black and white patterned fabrics!<br />
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Here is Leslie's block from our first session. Leslie has started on her embellishment journey and has added this wonderful flower trim to bring some more color closer to the gorgeous lady in the center of the block.<br />
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Here is another practice block by Leslie!! I love seeing how an individual artists personality is expressed in their work! With the black and white block and this numbers block above you can see the "Steampunker" part of Leslie emerge!! I can't wait to see how Leslie embellishes this amazing block. we will have to wait till our next class and AI will be sure to share pictures with you here!!<br />
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For another peek at Leslie's artistic personality you see this third practice block above!! I know just how Leslie thinks as I myself often go to opposite ends of my artistic expression meter to create very different pieces of artwork!! This only serves to keep us interested and inspired and excited about all of the wonderful possibilities available to us!!</div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-62105390548643921512013-03-06T16:16:00.000-08:002013-03-06T16:16:13.972-08:00My First Series!I am almost done with my first series, art work series to be precise. This is something that I have been trying to get myself to do for a long time. This series began as a long single wall piece and I decided to make it into three separate, though very related single pieces.<br />
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The title of the series is <b>Love It Forward.</b> I have used many of my own hand dyed fabrics and sun printed fabrics and stitched the majority of the pieces by hand. all of the embellishing has been done by hand.<br />
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This is<b> Love It Forward I</b> and it is currently hanging on my studio door at <a href="http://www.artfuldimensionsgallery.com/">Artful Dimensions Gallery</a> in Fredericksburg.<br />
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In the pictures that follow you can see some detail shots of the hand stitch work on the various pieces.<br />
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When I stitched on the backing I also added a few bits of Free motion Embroidery work on the machine. You can also see the beading that i added to the sun prints. these sun prints were done with a wonderful old plastic place mat.<br />
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I really had a a great deal of fun stitching and adding beaded details to these pieces and hopefully someone who visits the gallery will want to take one or all of them home! Why not think big!! As the first Love It Forward was hanging during our March First Friday event , i have gotten a lot of very positive feed back about the piece and folks are anxiously awaiting the second and third installments!! Off to stitch!Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-59951309603306243152013-02-25T12:02:00.000-08:002013-02-25T12:02:01.729-08:00The Art Of the BookRecently, actually this past month, the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (FCCA) had a Regional Exhibit called the Art of Books and Word. If you click <a href="http://www.beeversden.com/Feb%202013%20Slide%20Show/index.htm">here</a> you can see a slideshow of all of the pieces that were in the show! I submitted two pieces and both were in the show! I was pleased!
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This is my Sun Print Journal that I created using all of my own fabrics. All of these pieces were sun printed using Setacolor Transparent paints, purchased from Dharma Trading Co.<br />
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Below is my second entry titled Manual of Gardening. I always have a hard time naming pieces but this time I looked carefully at the pages and papers that I used and found the title of one of the deconstructed books in the top left hand corner. </div>
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This collage is made completely from book bits. All of the books that I use have been purchased at library book sales, so I am rescuing them from the dump. I am honoring them by creating art with their contents. Several years ago I took a fabulous class with the wonderful <a href="http://ctaylorart.com/">Cathy Taylor</a> of Ashville North Carolina. She led us through the deconstruction of books and all of the available bits and then on to using the parts as design elements We had such fun in that class and I took a shine to looking for the crustiest mustiest books out there- that is where many treasures lie! The focal image of this piece is one of my own photographs that I printed on muslin and then collaged to the embossed vintage book cover.</div>
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This piece grew very organically and I used many things that I have been collecting and holding on to for a very long time! I will be making more pieces like this!!</div>
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This exhibit ran concurrently with an invitational exhibit at the University of Mary Washington here in Fredericksburg. Having these exhibits running at the same time was terrific for raising the awareness about hand crafted books as art and art crafted using book bits!! I will be keeping my eyes open for future opportunities to exhibit my book work!</div>
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-57076364006857831592013-02-24T07:18:00.002-08:002013-02-24T07:18:40.533-08:00Lots to ShareWhat has happened to February?????? Granted it is the shortest month in the year but I feel like it has past in a mere blink, a mili-second, a puff of air!!! I have been very busy working on art and chores and family stuff. I also took a very quick trip to the west coast, Seattle actually, for a Memorial Service for a wonderful Aunt. <br />
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My wonderful Aunt Barbara. This picture was taken at Christmas in 2012. She was an incredible mother, dear friend and a terrific Aunt. You will be missed Barb, we love you.<br />
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The trip was very important as it forced me to get back in touch with my wonderful west coast family, on my father's side. It is very hard to live so very far away from wonderful family but that is the way it is. My Uncle and I grabbed the opportunity to go down to the shore at Edmonds when the sun made a long overdue appearance. We had a glorious afternoon watching dogs frolic at the waterside dog park and kids build forts with all of the fabulous driftwood on the beach. There is something so pure and delightful about watching dogs romp in the waves after sticks thrown for them to fetch and kids using their imaginations to build wonderful structures that can put so very much in perspective and , if just for a moment, right the terrible tilt to the world brought on by the loss of a loved one.<br />
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Apparently the sun had not made an appearance for close to 2 months and as soon as it broke through the clouds everyone's first thought was to get outside!!<br />
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For me and my Uncle there is something very restorative and calming about the water. The smell of the tangy salt air and the cry of the gulls really helped to get us both out of ourselves. It was a lovely afternoon to be able to share with a wonderful man.</div>
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That evening's sunset was a wonderful gift as well. As viewed from my Uncles kitchen!! I am so very grateful that i was able to pick up and go out to be with family and to have this time together, perspective and the knowledge of what is most important in life is such a treasure!</div>
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The next three pieces are wet felted collage works that are very much still in the works!! I have lots of plans for these pieces, but as I have been in the mood for wet felting lately, I have been churning out the starting collage felted pieces and have quite a few projects to complete. These will have machine stitching, hand stitching and OF COURSE ,BEADS, added to them before they will be done!</div>
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Here are some of the collage necklaces also in progress. I am using my hand made beads, some of my resin pieces, freshwater pears and vintage mop buttons, ss chain and copper chain and wire. I have kept track of the time involved in creating just one of these pieces, once all of the components are ready and i was surprised to find how long a process it is. The time to design and then implement that design is not a matter of moments, but hours.<br />
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I have also been replenishing my stocks of painted papers and painted tissue paper as you see here. I have several book and journal making classes scheduled and I have to keep my paper stocks full of enticing materials. Besides when nothing else feels right, throwing some paint onto paper can help settle the muse!! <br />
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And lastly for today, I will share some hints at several art quilts, a tryptic , if all goes well, that I am stitching away on. Most of the fabric in these pieces I have designed myself using sun printing , gelatin mono printing and hand dyeing techniques. You will see more of these pieces later.</div>
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As you can see, I have lots to keep me busy and you will see pictures of all of these projects and more as I stitch and bead and felt away on each!!<br />
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-81785752378396687252013-01-19T16:29:00.000-08:002013-01-19T16:29:57.680-08:00Really Red For Hearts Day!! ( And very late to the party!!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The party I speak of is the "Grow Your Blog Party !! Anyone who may be visiting as a part of this wonderful event I apologize for my tardiness I have been teaching for most of the day and prior to teaching I participated in the National Day of Service to honor Martin Luther King Junior and his Birthday.<br />
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I have just moved my Studio at <a href="http://www.artfuldimensionsgallery.com/">Artful Dimensions Gallery in Fredericksburg, VA</a> and much of my time has been taken up with the resettlement from Studio 7 to Studio 5.<br />
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Before the move I completed this free form bracelet to have it ready for any Christmas sales. It got lots of attention but the right customer did not find it. So now it will be on display for the Valentines season. Each one of the free form beaded pieces that I create is an adventure in creativity. I do not use patterns and I try to include as many interesting and unusual bits and beads as possible<br />
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This week I put together a few collaged fabric and felted pins. The hearts are cut from some scraps of left over felting projects, a few bits of old lace, some crystals and blanket stitch all came together quite nicely, I think.<br />
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Now I must be off to visit some of my blogging friends at the Grow Your Blog Party ! First I must turn off the Robot ID so folks can move along with their party hopping!! A very special thanks to Vicki at</div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-357136667304250122013-01-02T18:27:00.000-08:002013-01-02T18:27:40.109-08:00"Put A Lid On It" First Friday OpeningThe new show opening at Artful Dimensions Gallery, where I have my studio and am a member, is titled" Put a Lid on It". Each of us ahs embellished a finished box that was fitted with a bed for a 4 inch tile. As each member works in a different medium, there are many different kinds of boxes. On the First Friday of each month all of the galleries in town have evening hours, the artists who show at each venue are present to meet the public and wine and nibbles are served. It is a wonderful evening to spend in Fredericksburg, especialy if the weather cooperates!<br />
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These roses were made with my hand dyed vintage damask linen tablecloth strips. I stitched them onto a piece of velvet wrapped around a piece of heavy interfacing that was glued down into the cover. i also added in bits of dyed vintage doily and leaves stitched from the same linen strips.<br />
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This box is covered with Ice Resin over a sheet of my fabric /paper . I did it in several layers and trapped the butterfly in the final layer of resin.<br />
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This box is covered with a bit of the felted piece from this <a href="http://elizabethcreates.blogspot.com/2012/12/felting-experiments.html">post</a>. Before the beading was done I had color copies made of each fiber piece, lined each box with the paper and then coated the interiors with Ice Resin as well.<br />
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The orange box is from a piece that I needle felted quite awhile ago. I then free motion stitched with circles in orange, yellow and bringt pink thread. It is difficult to see in this picture but I did some extra stitch work and some beading on this box as well.</div>
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This is a smaple shot of the display in my new studio!! On December 27th , my wonderful husband and kids helped me move studios from #7 to #5. The advantages of #5 are many fold! I am located immediately off the amin gallery floor, the space is larger and i am much closer to my art pals in this new location. Here are a few pictures of my new setup!</div>
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Here is the new glass shelved display with the neato pencil sized LED lights that Tom installed for me. The wonderful light makes all of my beaded pieces dance and sparkle!! Love the sparklies!! In the foreground of this picture you can see my new aquisition of a iron dress form. I have skirted her with pieces of silk fabric, some silk scarves but mostly pieces of clothes harvested form thrift shop finds. I will use these pieces in my textile collage work but I will use the lovely colors and patterns of the fabric as a studio embellishment in the meantime. On top of the dress form you can see the felted vest that I spoke of in this <a href="http://elizabethcreates.blogspot.com/2012/11/gone-way-too-long.html">post</a>.</div>
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I will be back for another post with more gallery pictures after our upcoming First Friday opening! I hope everyone had a very Happy New Year"s celebration and your year is off to a very creatvie start!! Be back soon!</div>
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This year the Best Buzzer Beater was this scarf that I knit for my Mother in Law. The yarn is called Monarch, it is made in Italy. It comes in glorious colorways and looks really special when finished.<br />
The gal at the wonderful new yarn shop in Fredericksburg assured me it would only take a couple of hours. Other scarves of this type had been a snap,so what could go wrong???? WELL, I was confident till I unwrapped the yarn and saw that all of the wonderful texture and color came from a mass of thin and sticky filaments of fiber that had to be sorted through in order to find the stitch!!! ARGH!!!!! I quickly had to abandon the metal #5 needles and go out to purchase a set of bamboo needles as the yarn , once stitches were located, insisted on sliding off the metal needles. Cursing, swearing, throwing of yarn ensued, even the dogs decided that they could find quieter spots to snooze. The 40% off coupon at least cured the sliding stitches bit and the shop had #5's in stock, miracle that!! We were due to travel north to gather for Christmas Eve with Tom's family at 3 pm. That was the hour that I determined the baking would be done, I would be ready and gifts would be wrapped tagged and bagged. The last stitch was taken on the scarf at 2:45. The wrapping was accomplished with a gift bag- boy do I love gift bags!! I only wish that I could get to a point where I could have the time to make my own gift bags, Perhaps next year, or not!!!<br />
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I did a bit of Christmas shopping in my studio and took care of the rest of the in laws in that fashion. Very satisfying to pass on some wonderful hand crafted items that had not been purchased yet! For my college sophomore niece Sarah, I had started a journal project. This project came in a close second to the Buzzer Beating scarf. As the cookies for dessert were baking, I was finishing up the binding and binding embellishments on Sarah's journal. I am not really sure if Sarah is one who might journal but if she had a neat hand made book, made with her in mind, perhaps she would become a journaling type. that was the justification behind the gift, anyway!<br />
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Spine with embellishments of hand made beads, jewelry bits ( some of the ugliest dated jewelry can make the most wonderful embellishments!!) and glass beads.<br />
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The cover paper is done with a fun technique that starts with severely crumpled paper. Then varnish mixed with mica powders is brushed over the wrinkles, allowed to dry and then the paper is sprayed with spray acrylic inks and coated with a gloss sealer. Pretty snazzy, eh??? (these colors are perfect for Sarah!)<br />
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The foundation of the book was a french bread pizza box. It appealed to me as it was long and thin and a very unusual shape for a book. The first signature cover page on the right was done using a gesso resist technique. (Another favorite of mine)<br />
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I included several pockets throughout. The pocket on the left was created from a paint brochure that I picked up in the paints isle at our local Lowes home store. Great images with great color and they are free hand outs!!<br />
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Here you can see tow signature covers done with gesso resist and messing inks techniques similar to what you find on Roben Marie Smith's fabulous <a href="http://www.robenmarie.com/">blog</a>!! Super messy and fun!!</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> Sarah has thoroughly enjoyed the hand made gifts that I have made for her in the past and goodness knows I cannot afford the items from shops, that she aspires to own!! She is majoring in Environmental Studies and Marine Biology, so I added images and used colors that would fit with her interests and hopefully will inspire her to document her experiences or joust use the journal to gather bits of her life. We shall see. She seemed to be very pleased when she opened the gift and had to be cajoled to open other gifts as she was quite interested in looking at all of the details. A very good sign!! :)</span></div>
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I am still working on gifts to be shipped out to my brother and his family in Ethiopia- yes, they have moved again and are now settled in Addis Ababa ,the capital city. My Sister in Law Elise is working at the Embassy and brother Peter is digging in and creating soil wherever he can find interest and spots to do so!! </div>
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I hope that everyone had a nice Christmas and holiday in whatever form you celebrate and I want to wish a Happy Boxing Day to all of my British, Canadian and Australian friends!! ( Someone please educate me on how one celebrates Boxing Day these days!!)</div>
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You can see that I used some vintage buttons and some bits of old jewelry along with seed beads and larger beads from my stash of left over beady bits. For the next ornament, after drying, I added some of my own fabric/paper scraps in various patterns. Jenny showed her "Baubles" as she calls them, done entirely in beads and jewelry, I wanted to speed up the beading process and also to add more of my own style to each ornament. I am now calling these creations, my Mosaic Beaded Ornaments.<br />
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With the horrific and heart-wrenching news of last Friday, I turned to my art to calm my nerves and force me to concentrate on something other than the huge flood of pain that is washing over us all. This process of creating from "trash" and gluing on beads and bits in a haphazard mosaic fashion was, and is, very soothing and gratifying. The repetitive and quiet process of adding beads and bits was extremely soothing and peaceful for me. With each sparkling crystal I place, I think of a child's laughter and the joy that was brought into the lives of parents and their teachers despite the life being taken far far too early. that laughter and joy can Never be erased from the hearts of the loved ones who are left behind. As the ornaments hang sparkling and twinkling on our tree, I look at each twinkle as representing the precious smile of a child. These ornaments are gifts for other's and those that receive them will know that they were created to help me walk out of the darkness through the power of Art! I have quite a few of these ornaments planned and it will be an activity that I look forward to after a busy day, for quite awhile.<br />
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We must all work hard to overcome the strangle hold that the gun lobby has on our society. We MUST be able to honestly tell our children that we are doing everything in our power to keep them safe and secure.<br />
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For the next Mosaic Beaded Ornament, I started thinking about combining fiber with the beads and bits. So after the tissue paper drying bit was done, I glued on bits and snips of vintage lace and trim and then filled in the spaces with crystals and old pearls and flat backed crystals. ( A great place to find inexpensive, very sparkly flat backed crystals is in the Scrap booking area of your local craft store!! If they have adhesive backs, be sure to add some glue as the sticky back will probably not hold up well over time.)<br />
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I also added some strips of muslin that I had written on. these bits were left over from an old project and I am pleased with the vintage text effect that the scraps add to this ornament.<br />
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There are so many directions that this tutorial can be taken, be sure to stop by <a href="http://jennibelliestudio.blogspot.com/">Jenny's blog</a> and check out all of the fabulous projects and inspiration that she has to offer!!!Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-90844284044560821652012-12-14T19:57:00.004-08:002012-12-14T19:57:51.112-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So many innocents gone in the blink of an eye. Sadness does not even begin to describe the feelings..............We must never allow their precious light to be extinguished.</div>
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After being inspired by my friend <a href="http://robruhn.blogspot.com/2012/11/felting-dyeing-journal-making.html">Ro Bruhn's</a> fabulous felting examples, I pulled out the fibers and fabric ( silk and scraps of felted sweaters) and had a go for myself. This truly was just for play and was a decompression exercise following my whirlwind Workshop of last week.</div>
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To start I laid out merino tops color block fashion and then started sprinkling on bits of silk fabrics ( most of my silk fabric is harvested from Thrift shop finds) and yarn scraps followed by silk fibers.<br />
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After wetting out the fibers, i was ready to ROLL!!! And Roll and Roll and Roll and ROLL and ROLL I did!! And then I rolled some more! Next came the throwing to shock the fibers into place.</div>
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Here is a close up of a portion of the felted collage. Not a single needle was used to create this project. Now what to do with it??????? I have a plan up my sleeve and I will share it with you very soon!!<br />
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15 students,2 teachers and 4 large tables filled the main gallery of Artful Dimensions with creative and colorful construction and learning.</div>
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We used recycled cereal boxes to create unique art journals and covered them with papers created with varnish, mica powders, acrylic paint, spray inks and matte medium.<br />
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Watching the ink drip along the crumpled paper.</div>
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After the morning spent creating various papers for the journals the ladies traveled down the street- all of 200 yrds to Castiglia's Italian for some delectable pizza. The proprietor, Luigi had the pizza's ready and waiting for the girls as they walked in!!<br />
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After lunch we constructed the journals and discussed the many options for journaling and use of the books.<br />
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The girls did a fabulous job with their journals, don't you think? They are well on their way to exploring all of the wonderful possibilities that the routine of Journaling can add to their creative lives.</div>
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At 3pm the girls had to be on the bus and ready for their trek back to Dominion High . We could have gone on for at least several more hours and reconvened the next day for more!!! Plans are in the works for me to travel up to northern VA , during the spring semester, to spend some more creative time with this wonderful class!!</div>
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*****The idea to create these journals from cereal boxes came from artist Jennibellie and her fabulous tutorials!! She has some amazing ideas and you can see her tutorial for this basic idea <a href="http://youtu.be/Ec04rVh0ndU">here</a>. I started with her idea and have made the technique my own.*******</div>
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-72617342627257155382012-12-05T17:47:00.000-08:002012-12-05T17:48:25.727-08:00Sun Prints, Resin and Fabric/Paper <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are a few shots of some jewelry that i created in time for this weeks First Friday Opening at Artful Dimensions Gallery. I have been thinking about this piece for a long time. I love the shape of hearts, the symbol, what it represents and the universality of that symbol. I created these hearts with fabric/paper collage and then rimmed each heart with a golden edge, backed each with my own sun printed red fabric and encased each one in Ice Resin. I added some of my fabric/paper rolled beads that were also dipped in Ice Resin and combined them with glass beads and bits of vintage copper chains.
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The second piece that is ready for display is called Blue Bee. This wonderful brass bee is mounted in a square black bezel that contains a piece of my gold/green/blue fabric paper all held in place by Ice Resin . Hanging from the Bee's antenna are a collection of tiny gold chains, a tiny vintage glass prism and some glue and green glass beads.</div>
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I am having some wonderful success with experiments using my sun printed linen textiles in combination with the Ice Resin. They are not quite ready for prime time, but I will share them with you very soon!</div>
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This is what arrived in the mail 3 days later- all the way from Utah!! This pile is actually three hanks of merino roving at 4 ozs per hank in three different color ways!<br />
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This part took quite awhile but it is the most important step!!<br />
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The finished layout of the wool, only about half of the length- I wanted a long scarf. There is nothing so frustrating as a scarf that is just a bit too short!!!<br />
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This is the width of the scarf next to the roving as it arrived int he braid. It is really amazing that there is so much fiber packed into that roll, and I could have stretched the fiber out much more loosely, but since this was my first go with this technique, I erred on the side of a bit thicker cobweb!<br />
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Next was the usual wetting out with soapy water, patting and rubbing of the fibers and then the inevitable rolling between sheets of shelf liner and plastic all wound round a pool noodle. Then after throwing and cutting fringe and felting the dreadlocks ( the fringe), this was the result!!! I am just a bit thrilled and excited!!
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Now all it needs is a good steam press and a special someone to wear it!!This scarf is so soft and lightweight! I used approximately 1.5 oz of the roving so it weighs literally almost nothing and the warmth is incredible. I see several more of these scarves in my very near future. I will definitely become a regular customer of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenwood-Fiberworks/110209012367574?fref=ts">Greenwood Fiber Works!!</a></div>
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861364748418692061noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653275833895297118.post-64107060799093641282012-11-23T06:25:00.002-08:002012-11-24T11:15:14.590-08:00Gone way too long.........It has been a very hectic and crazy fall and the blogging has definitely suffered!! To keep this short and very visual I am going to give you a picture review of some of the things that have been keeping me busy since my last post!!!
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Stitching journals with my own sun prints and creating Art Quilts.</div>
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Creating some fun textile necklaces with my fabric/paper/resin beads for sale at <a href="http://www.artfuldimensionsgallery.com/">Artful Dimensions Gallery.</a><br />
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Managed to squeeze in a trip to Cape Cod to visit my Mom over a long weekend in October. I even managed to catch a glorious sunset at Rock Harbor in Orleans, MA.<br />
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We took a wonderful little drive to a friends organic sheep and veg farm!!</div>
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Once back in VA, I have taught several classes, Collage Jewelry classes have been very popular.<br />
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I took part in Fredericksburg VA, first experiment with Yarn Bombing! Hopefully more events will be coming this summer!!<br />
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I was very involved in the Presidential Campaign for Barack Obama !! Becca and I were able to get VIP tickets to go to a Rally featuring our wonderful First Lady, Michelle Obama!! What a thrill that was!!! She is such an amazing woman, incredible Ambassador for our Country, a wonderful Mother and an amazing speaker!!<br />
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Unfortunately we could not get close enough to shake her hand or to give her a hug.</div>
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Becca and I had a wonderfully inspiring time with all sorts of like minded Democrats and Obama supporters!!<br />
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Election night was so very exciting as our candidates, President Obama and Senator Tim Kaine, easily won their respective political races!!!! I spent many hours working the phones and knocking on doors to make sure that Virginia came out in the Democrats column. Such a relief!!<br />
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Buddy and I spent several hours sewing and getting things organized in the sewing room . I have been making finger-less gloves using cashmere and wool sweaters that I have recovered and re purposed after felting the sweaters in the washing machine.</div>
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This group of my gloves have already been sold but I have just listed several new pairs in my Etsy shop. You can take a peek <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ElizabethCreatesArt?ref=si_shop">here</a>.</div>
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I created some collaged fabric with silk fibers, silk fabrics, wool fibers and recycled cashmere sweaters to create this swing vest. After needle felting , lots of free motion embroidery and then wet felting, this garment is now available for purchase at Artful Dimensions Gallery in Fredericksburg, VA.<br />
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Creating this piece was a wonderful adventure and I plan to work on many more garments in the near future.<br />
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So that is a quick wrap up of what I have been doing with some of my time! I promise not to ignore my blog and my wonderful followers for such a long period again!! I have missed you all! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful Fall and Thanksgiving , Spring if you are among my Down Under buddies!! </div>
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ART ON EVERYONE!!!! </div>
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