Posts made in September, 2005
Uncommon Threads WOW
Here’s a new quilt that Cathy Jeffery showed at our Uncommon Threads meeting last week. I love this quilt! I always love the scrappy ones. In October, it will be Uncommon Threads 2nd anniversary. We just finished our WOW exhibition at the Driskill Gallery based on a triptych challenge that the group started last year. Of course I was a slacker all summer and had no triptych to enter. I may...
Read MoreIllustration Friday – Fresh!
I thought of this drawing for Illustration Friday’s theme Fresh early this morning. To get the full effect, I think you have to imagine how Jerry Seinfeld would say “Fresh!”
Read MoreThe Mad Hatter
While in North Carolina, I tried to hook up with some art quilters. I did get a chance to visit Lyric Kinard’s studio and very much enjoyed seeing her quilts, studio and her great art books. However, I was chicken about taking photos – somehow it seemed intrusive. But check out her web site for lots of goodies. I didn’t ask permission to take these photos of a terrific little...
Read MoreGood Mail Day
Oh goody! Someone sent me a big box, and it’s very heavy. But what can be inside? Could it possibly be ….fabric? Ho ho – it is fabric! But who could have possibly known how much I like stripes and polka-dots? Just kidding, it was me of course. I drove from Cary to Carrboro to answer the siren’s call from the elusive Thimble Pleasures, and was richly rewarded. So well,...
Read MoreThe Stick Man
On Tuesday, we went to see the North Carolina Museum of Art and also get a bit of homework done for an on-line class I’m taking called Museums and Artists. The NCMA was getting ready to open a contemporary exhibition called Crosscurrents: Art, Craft and Design in North Carolina in cooperation with the Mint Museums. The exhibition hasn’t opened yet, but luckily Russ’s sister...
Read MoreAirport Drawings
Yesterday we were flying from St. Louis to Cary, NC, and I’m not as good as Melody and you others at packing my knitting on the plane. How am I going to get that sweater that needs sleeves into a carry-on with two laptops, a camera and all my other important essentials? I had got down to using one laptop on trips, because I look like a total mess at the security points when they make me...
Read MoreLittle Critters
This is what my sketchbooks usually look like, full of little critters. I’m running out of room in this one, so have been drawing in pen on top of some old yucky pencil sketches. These are ideas for the Fishing for Trouble quilt. You can click on the photo for a closer look at their funny faces. There’s also a girl boxer, because I just recently saw Million Dollar Baby, no offense to...
Read MoreIllustration Friday: Depth
I’ve had this idea for a quilt, every since the warnings came out about all the mercury in fish (which I love to eat, wah!). So when Illustration Friday posted the theme “Depth”, I thought I’d get off my tush and work up a sketch. For a quilt, I’ll want more details, but the deadline for posting is tonight. I’m thinking of a title like Holy Mackerel!...
Read MoreItchin’ to Knit
Back when my grandmother was in the hospital, I took the opportunity to do something I’d been itching to do for a month…knit! I’m using a nice wool, an alpaca boucle, neither word being one that I know how to pronounce, and it’s a beautiful pink and orange blend that may not show up in the photos. Although I haven’t started the arms yet, thought I’d give you a...
Read MoreLife and Death goes on…
Some things seem to hard to write about. This past week, watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been like watching a train wreck on a global scale…Can’t look and can’t look away. Meanwhile in my small part of the world, we’ve had another funeral and another wedding. My sister got married last weekend, and for the first time in my life, I was part of a wedding...
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I'm an artist who makes humorous quilts and drawings and shares a studio in an old peanut butter factory with my husband who is also an artist and sculptor. You can also see more of my art at PamRuBert.com
