Cape Cod Memories 2016

A rock from the Kindness Rock Project on the hike to Great Island.

Just back from two weeks at Cape Cod which I spent with my Mom and brothers and significant others, family and friends. Great times and even some art!

My Mom and I were greeted the first night by a gorgeous sunset.

We walked beaches...

Picked up stones (I have some plans swirling in my head about those!)...

Judy, Ivy and Kai made stone cairns.

Went on nature walks...

Walk to Great Island.

Walk to Great Island.

Rode boogie boards (even my 84-year-old Mom!), ate great food...

Played games (Bananagrams was a favorite!) and worked on the annual art project...

Poppy painting over resist.

Some painted backgrounds.

Kai and Poppy working on their book pages.

Printing with blocks.

Printed "pages".

 Here are a couple of photos from one of the books that my Mom finished...

I'll post some additional photos of finished books in another post.

We had a great time...I felt so close to nature...especially when the local coyotes were howling!

June 2016 Stitch-In

Ann Z.

Stitchers have been busy! It was so great to see all the creative stitched work.

Ann Z. is putting the finishing touches on her sampler book started in my Hand Stitching class. Here is a sampling of pages...

Ann Z.: Front cover

Ann Z.: Title page

Ann Z.

Ann Z.

Ann Z.

Ann Z.: Front side

Ann Z.: Back side

Jodie F. continues to be inspired by her trip to the beach..

Jodie F.: Adding more details.

Jodie F.

Jodie F.

This was Maria S's first time to the Stitch-in. She brought in some of her rusted fabrics and a number of great books by Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn.

Maria S.: Sampler from PM Fiberarts Guild workshop.

Maria S.

Maria S.: Stitching on a new piece.

Peggy G.'s been having fun jumping off from commercial fabrics. I love the spider made from the Spider Web stitch and the flies (Fly stitches) caught in the web. Look closely and you will see the word, YUM in the corner.

Peggy G.

Peggy G.

I finally finished my Hand Stitching sampler book. I had fun working both sides of the title page and then deciding which I wanted to stitch the title to.

Julie B.: Title page

Julie B.: Back side of title page.

I tried spreading it out on the floor (rather than accordion-folding it)...too long for me to get a shot of the whole piece...around 10 feet long!

Julie B.: This is only about a third of the book.

Sarah H. and Lisa B. were also at the bee. And Barbara M-C. popped in for a quick "hi".

I'm really so excited to see all the different stitching directions...such a variety of artistic voices!

Printing Adventures in Woodstock, Virginia

Phyllis A.

I am just back from teaching a one day printing workshop in Woodstock, Virginia. Well...actually...I don't know if we were exactly in Woodstock for the workshop itself...but close by. My friend, Trudi, asked me to come give a workshop for her quilt guild. Trudi lives in Woodstock in a beautiful home on 11 acres of land. I was invited to come out the afternoon before the workshop and spend the night. I spent a lovely dinner and evening with Trudi, her husband, George and some of the quilt guild members.

Skeeter S.

The workshop was a variation of my Beyond Potato Prints workshop. I lugged two big bags full of veggies from home to play with. Also, moldable foam blocks and craft foam blocks. You can see that students had fun designing their blocks and carving vegetables...

Glenna D.: Print blocks

Lynne C.: Carved vegetables

Marty H.: Print blocks

printing samplers...

Zoe H.: Print sampler

Glenna D.: Print sampler

Skeeter S.: Print sampler

Nancy R.: Print sampler

Lynne C.: Print sampler

and then putting it all together to create some fabulous fabrics!

Margie M.

Margie M.

Mary

Mary

Casey

Lynne C.

Marty M.

Phyllis A.

Phyllis A.

Skeeter S.

Trudi V-D.

Trudi V-D.

Nancy R.

Zoe H.

Thanks to all who came from near and far to take the workshop. I really had a great time watching you experiment and stretch!