Empty Spools - Sue Benner "Abstraction" Class (cont'd) 03-12-17

 Annette Friedlein receive the magazine page on the left - her abstraction on the right.

 

 Annette Friedlein larger work.

Annette Friedlein's inspiration at top, her abstraction at bottom

Annette's further abstractions of the flower image.

 

 

 

On the left the magazine picture and Barbara Friedman's abstraction on the right.

 

Barbara's inspiration for these four small studies was in a book and I didn't get a photo.  I believe it was a picture of large stones.

 This was Barbara's inspiration for a larger work. The top is a photo, the bottom a Xerox copy that she has divided into a grid.

 

Here is Barbara's abstraction of the photo above.

 

 

 Cheryl Wood's inspiration is at the top left, with her five abstractions.

 

Cheryl's magazine image at left and her abstraction on the right.

 

Cheryl Wood's large piece - an abstraction of her cabin inspiration.

 

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Asilomar/Empty Spools - Day Four 03-04-13

As usual the time is whizzing by and we only have a day and a half left of classes.  Everyone worked hard today and some nice pieces were created.  Some of us are slower than others and I am about the slowest!  Instead of staying in the classroom and applying myself I am off  "taking care of business".  First thing this morning I drove to FedEx/Kinko's in Monterey to print the class list.  This is the first time in all the years that I had all the info for the list on the 2nd day!  Of course, I had to type it, proofread it and draw the "map" of the classroom because we know each other by the quilt we are designing and where in the room we are sitting.  I had the lists printed on acid green paper, like the white/yellow leaves on acid green in the quilt below. 


This is my design board with two separate projects on it.  The top part with the turquoise is one quilt and the yellow/green/white below is another. 
 

On the other side of my folding design board is yet another quilt for which I was just auditioning fabrics.   This one will probably never be made - I like clear, bright colors, so this is a bit mushy for my taste.  However, it is interesting to practice picking out color and texture that might work together.  The tiny white dots are the heads of pins holding the fabric to the design board. 
 

One of two projects done by Annette Friedlein -Encinitas, CA.

Annette Friedlein's second completed top. 
 

Dolores Roseveare - Cupertino, CA,  is my table mate and she just keeps cranking out amazing designs.  This one she is still working on - a completed block on the left and a strip set on the right. 

This is Dolores Roseveare's 2nd top done in class.  It represents the beach, sand and sea glass.  The first top she completed is shown on Saturday's blog post. 
 http://www.delquilts.blogspot.com/2013/03/second-day-at-empty-spoolsasilomar-03.html
 

 
Barbara Friedman - San Diego, has completed three quilt tops and is working on a fourth.  This is number one.
 

The third quilt on Barbara's design board implies a wonderful watery looking world.
 

 
Barbara's first piece is this one featuring a parrot fabric. 
 

 
Here are all Barbara Friedman's works, including the beginning of a fourth!

I have a lot more pictures, but I am too tired to continue tonight. 

A morning at Visions Art Museum 02-16-13

This morning was the Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast at VAM.  This year, for the first time the biennial Visions exhibit has been at our own facility, so we had many white glove volunteers.  They were very much appreciated.  The food provided by the Board members of the museum was very good in quality and quantity.  And the event was well attended.

 
We had a special treat since Won Ju Seo, whose work in the exhibit "A Korean Woman in Modern Times #1" took the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Recognition Award, was in town with her husband  They came from a cold and snowy New Jersey to enjoy the lovely winter sunshine in SCalifornia.   Won Ju talked about her work and her inspiration.  Here she is wearing a necklace that she made from silk scraps and stitches. 
 

 
Here I am with Won Ju and her lovely hand stitched piece.
 

 
Beth Smith, Director of the Visions Art Museum, with volunteer Mary Tabar.
 

This is Won Ju's husband, Howard, visiting with volunteer Judy Birchett.  He is a wonderfully supportive guy and spent his time taking pictures for Won Ju and visiting with the volunteers.  In the background are volunteers Barbara Friedman and Nelda McComb.

Last Saturday there was a closing reception for the exhibit and the Viewer's Choice was announced.  It is this piece from Valarie Robinson of Victoria, Australia.  Which garnered the most votes from visitors and, incidentally, sold just last week to a couple visiting from out of town.

 

 

 

 

 

It is quite a large piece and very white with black quilting.  Hung on a white wall it is impossible to take a good picture, so I am showing two not very successful images.  The quilt is white-white - the color in the pictures come from shadows and no flash used.  

 

The Free Motion Quilting (FMQ) is amazing.  Full of motifs that represent the era of each dress the all over view from a distance looks like lace is attached over the white fabric. 

 

These little motifs represent women's tasks during the English settlement of the continent.

 

The filler quilting is imaginative and connected to the theme of the dresses.  

 

PIQF 10-16-09

I find the labels almost impossible to photograph clearly, but I am not willing to retype them into a new format and transfer that to Blogger. I think you can make out every word, even if the pictures of the labels are less than adequate.

Barbara has captured the feel of 1939 very well - I can believe that this lady is off to Catalina!

The eyebrows, the lipstick, the great hat - all are appropriate to the era.
I don't find a website for Barbara and the only work of hers I have seen before was traditional.

The Mancuso shows all have a theme, this year it was, "It's the Getting There...". So all the quilts supposedly express something to do with that. Some labels seem to have very little connection to the quilt, although this one slightly connects. One odd thing I noticed this year is that there were almost no teachers/designers credited on the labels. I don't know if this is something the Mancuso brothers have decided to do or that nobody (and I find this hard to believe) acknowledged the direct connection of their work to the teacher of a workshop or the designer of the original pattern that has been used - modified or not. I don't believe quilt makers should be anonymous, nor should their teachers or the originator of the design used.

Phyllis quilt won the Best use of Color in the Wall Quilt category.

This quilt has an irregular shaped bottom, so the white that you see is not part of the quilt, but the background drape.

A closer shot of just the pelicans. You may click on the pictures for a larger view.