Getting ready for a group show I’m part of that will open this Friday at the Waverly House of Contemporary Craft, I’ve been trying some different ways of framing smaller pieces. The figurative pieces are sewn to stretched canvas and framed. This one is called “Cell Cat on a Date.”
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Announcing ThreadLines 2008 Call for Entries
Finally after months of work on this project, I’m pleased to announce that my local group Uncommon Threads has teamed up with Missouri State University Art & Design Gallery to organize ThreadLines 2008, an exhibition of contemporary art quilts. Our juror will be Jason Pollen — artist, teacher, and president of the Surface Design Association. [...]
Okonomoyaki Party
Our local PBS station replayed The Art of Quilting yesterday at noon, so Uncommon Threads had a lunch party celebrate. Our newest member Christine hosted the party and made okonomoyaki which is a family-style Japanese dish, sort of like a big pancake filled with cabbage, meat, and shrimp, and topped with okonomoyaki sauce and nori [...]
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 [...]
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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