Archive | May, 2005
Workshop Gone Awry

Workshop Gone Awry

Yesterday we had a great workshop by Laura Wasiloski. If you don’t know Laura, she makes fun colorful quilts like this one with crazy little birdhouses. She gives very funny lectures about her quilt-making and sings her own hilarious songs about irons, scissors, quilts, and anything else you can think of. We were treated to [...]

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Uncommon Threads – May Meeting

Uncommon Threads – May Meeting

We had a great meeting last Thursday of our art quilt group, Uncommon Threads. Everyone seems to have been busy, both getting work done, getting into shows or getting commissions. Above is Lucy Silliman’s piece that she did in a Yvonne Porcella workshop. We all loved the bright colors and Lucy’s great quilting with the [...]

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Kinetic Man Sculpture Dedication

Kinetic Man Sculpture Dedication

Lots of kids, big and small, showed up for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Kinetic Man. There were free ice-cream sandwiches for everyone… and everyone got a turn to make K-Man move. I think the little kids like the fact that it’s just a little bit hard for them to turn the handle because it makes [...]

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Raining Fire

Raining Fire

After I got my Viking entry in the mail, I went back to the K-Man site with dinner for the guys and again later to take them some jackets. There is an awesome aspect to the site for the sculpture that we didn’t anticipate. When the baseball games across the street end, the finale fireworks [...]

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Kinetic Man Announcement

Kinetic Man Announcement

At sort of the last minute Russ decided that he’s like some announcements sent out to 400 people about a sculpture event on Saturday. Or was it sort of last minute I actually listened to him. Or was it at the last minute, I actually had an idea and inspiration of something to send out? [...]

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