February 2018 Bafa Meeting

Members presented their color design exercise for February - secondary color plus its split compliments (Fig. 1-3).  Our selected journal page word for February was Holiday.  (Fig. 3-9). Word for March is Tranquility.  Classwork and show and tell was presented (Fig. 10-12 and 13-16).  Dot repurposed an old Judy Murrah pattern into a background for her stitchwork class with Lydie (Fig. 12) and Jean covered a flipflop with fiddlystick motifs (Fig. 13).  Lydie plans to donate a book or two to the Boutique at the Golden Triangle Quilt Show and Market, April 13-14.

                                                                        Fig. 1

                                                              Fig. 2

  Sylvia                                                           Fig. 3

Jean                                    Fig. 4

Dot                                                          Fig.5

Lisa                                                                                                                                     Fig. 6

Kathy                                                         Fig. 7

Melissa                                                      Fig. 8

Connie                                                           Fig. 9

Beth              Shibori Work         Fig. 10

Lydie                                Fig. 11

Dot                                                               Fig. 12

Jean                 Fig.13

Lydie Bookcover1                                      Fig. 14

Lydie Bookcover 2                                     Fig. 15

            Lydie                Bookcover 3                      Fig. 16            

SAQA Spotlight Auction Work 2018

This little acrylic (fabric paint and pigmented inks) collage study (see Fig. 1 below) was originally created to explore depth using commercial stamps and my own rubbing plates.  The subtle, barely exposed patterning in some areas and more pronounced in others made it a successful effort, I thought.  See Fig. 2 to see what the work will look like with a 3/4" mat all around.

Untitled   6" x 8"                                       Fig. 1

Untitled                                             Fig. 2

                

SAQA Regional TEXtiles Exhibit

Coming Ashore (see Figures 1-2) will be appearing at the SAQA Regional TEXtiles Exhibit at the Drury Hotel, San Antonio, Tx., during the 2018 SAQA Conference, April 5-8.  The work is about the never-ending timelessness of the act itself and, upon discovery, wondering where my water-washed and deteriorated "beach treasures" came from, how long did it take them to reach shore and what were they once when they were whole.

Coming Ashore                 Fig. 1

Coming Ashore    Detail      Fig. 2

BAFA Meeting January 2018

Much of our area flooded again.  Some just moved back into their houses after Hurricane Harvey repairs! Many of our members detoured to get to the meeting but get to it they did.

Color exercises, word interpretations (morphed from journal pages we did last year), show and tell, friendship blocks viewed and exchanged (no photos taken), and new member, Vera Berry, welcomed at our meeting yesterday.  Color exercise was secondary color plus its compliment (fig. 1-5).  Our word for January was "scraps".  Interpretations were varied and interesting (fig. 6-14).  Show and Tell was shown  (fig. 15 - 23).

One of our members, Lisa Johnson, is a teacher.  She shows her "homework" to her students who say, "Awww, you have fun homework"!  Our homework for next month is our next color exercise, secondary color plus color on each side of its compliment and next word interpretation based on the word "holiday".

Kathy Risinger                                     fig. 1

Susan Cornell                                fig. 2

Sylvia Weir                                         fig. 3

Dot Collins                                       fig. 4

cmf                                            fig. 5

Dot Collins                                                     fig. 6

Jean Aguilar                                                   fig. 7

Kathy Risinger                                               fig. 8

Susan Cornell                                          fig. 9

Dot Collins                                                  fig. 10

Christine Schmelebeck                                  fig. 11

Lisa Johnson                                                fig. 12

Sylvia Weir                                                 fig. 13

cmf                                                            fig. 14

Lanterns          Melissa Tweedel                  fig. 15

Melissa  Tweedel                                         fig. 16

Sherry Walker                                              fig. 17

Sylvia Weir Circle Challenge           fig. 18

Sylvia Weir                                            fig. 19

Sylvia Weir                            fig. 20

Vera Berry   Zippered Pouch Bag   fig. 21

Kathy Risinger    Classwork

fig. 22

Dot Collins  Urchin Pincushion                   fig. 23

Friendship Blocks for Bafa Members

Some members of Bafa agreed to participate in a friendship block challenge with fellow members.  Each individual set their own rules for their own chosen theme.  Eleven members signed up to do it so it will go for 11 or 12 months, after which each participant will set and quilt the results.  Each quilt will then be photographed for the record and exhibited at a later date.  Below are the ones I have done so far.  Jean's theme, Buttons, featured handpainted buttons (fig. 1).  Lisa's theme, Pond Life, (fig. 2)., featured a red dragonfly from my own pond memory of my own red dragonfly who returned to the same plant every year.  Sherry's theme was Vintage Linen (fig. 3).  I used vintage in the center (stitcher unknown) then cut the corners from a linen napkin and worked the corners myself using lace and pearl cotton.  There is leftover hexagon's and lots of thread work on Sylvia's flowers (fig. 4-6).  I created a stamp for Jerry's Shamrocks (fig. 7) and thread painted over an acrylic ink under painting for Dot's Kookaburra (fig. 8).  For Susan's Poppy, I did bead work on wool (fig. 9), my least favorite process so far although I have enjoyed exploring the various stitch and paint possibilities .  Cathy's Passenger Pidgeon was thread painted then stitched to a stamped background (fig. 10).  Lydie's Gifts came from France in a balloon invented in France and first flown in 1783 (fig. 11).  Block Exchange is now done and groups are shown below (fig. 12-21).  Finished quilts to be posted as they are shown to the group.

Buttons for Jean                   fig. 1

Dragonfly for Lisa                   fig. 2

Vintage Linen for Sherry                          fig. 3

Sylvia's Blocks given Florals                                        fig. 4

Block 1                                                  fig. 5

Block 2                                                     fig. 6

Shamrocks for Jerry Lynne                          fig. 7

Kookaburra for Dot                                    fig.8

Poppy for Susan                                           fig. 9

Cathy's Passenger Pidgeon                        fig. 10

Lydie's Gifts                                                                 fig. 11

Vintage Blocks for Sherry                                              fig. 12

Sylvia's Crumb Blocks                                               fig. 12

Lisa's Pond                                                                      fig. 13

Dot's Birds                                                                      fig. 14

Susan's Poppies                                                           fig. 15

Jean's Buttons                                                                fig. 16

JerryLynne's Calendar                                fig. 17

Melissa's Flowers                                                          fig. 18

Cathy's Birds                                                                fig. 19

Lydie's Gifts                                                                   fig. 20

Connie's Peas and Carrots                                           fig. 21