Marbling Class with Sharon Gellerman

Yesterday, our Cutting Edge Fiber Art  Group met at one of our members' houses to create breathtakingly gorgeous marbled scarves under the direction of Sharon Gellerman  http://colorvibedesigns.com/  She was a good teacher, very knowledgeable about this technique that she's been using for many years to create one of kind wearables.

Below are the two I made.

Here's lots of photos showing scarves in the process of being created and some finished ones.

What a great day! Thank you to Ms. Gellerman for being such a great teacher.  Thanks to Rene for hosting our group.  Thanks to Sharon E. for setting it up.

Dyeing Silk with Color Hue Dyes

My Cutting Edge group had a chance to experiment with Color Hue Dyes yesterday at our meeting thanks to a great demo from Rene Jennings.

Here's  a link to Dharma with more info about this fun, easy technique http://www.dharmatrading.com/kits/starter/sets/colorhue-silk-dyes-10-color-set.html

Below are pictures of our experiments.

Here is one of my pieces very wet and still on the plastic.

 Here's Ann Louise and I figuring out the next move to make in our creations.

Above is the dry version of the top piece.

Here is another one I made.  Both pieces are approximately 12 x 18 inches.

Here's a vibrant one Mary Ann was doing.

One from Ann Louise

Another of Mary Ann's

Fabrications Show and Reception

Many great friends and fun strangers showed up last night for our Cutting Edge's show reception.  It was lots of fun. Thank you to all of you who took time to come out and see the show.

  Here's a picture of Studios on the Park, where our quilts are displayed.

This is a picture of our quilts in the window.  Kathy's is on the left and the other three are mine.

Here I am waxing poetic about something, I'm sure.

 Andi Perejda and her beautiful quilt.

 Kathy and her wonderful quilts

 Rene and one of her fabulous quilts.  Gay's quilt is behind Rene

Sharon and her wonderful quilt

Signe and her very textural quilt

Andi took this picture and caught me with my eyes closed, in a blissful smile

Honest, I had only one small taste of wine when this was taken.

Cutting Edge's New Show at Studios on the Park

Thursday, May 1st, Cutting Edge, one of the quilting groups I belong to will open their new show, Fabrications II at Studios on the Park in Paso Robles.  We will have an opening reception May 3rd from 6 to 9 pm.  There will be great food, wine and of course fabulous quilts. The show will run through May 18th.  There are 12 other members in our group and we all have some great quilts to display.  Hope you can stop by.

 Torrential Dreams, Finally Morning and Fried Eggs by me.

 Glacier by Gay McNeal

 Transformation, No. 2  by me.

 Night at the Improv by Gay McNeal

 Naupilus by Sharon Emerson

Reflection by Andi Perejda

Controlled Burn by me

Cutting Edge Show and Pacific International Quilt Show

Sorry I haven't posted in two weeks but it's just been a very busy time getting our house back to normal from the leak we had under our slab and I had lots of school related stuff.  Being a full-time teacher tends to be pretty full time.

Our Cutting Edge Fiber Art group had a great special exhibit at PIQF this weekend.  Here's a picture of one of my quilts there.  This one is called "Controlled Burn" and is made of arashi shirbori fabrics I dyed.

I think my favorite quilt there was this fabulous one by Kathryn Harmer Fox.  It measured 59" x 49" and was made up of many small pieces of fabric and threads, as you will see in the closeup of the eye.

Of course there were hundreds of other great quilts and too many vendors enticing all of us to spend more than we could afford.  I didn't go too crazy spending money. Being on furlough days has made me look very hard at what I buy.