Bafa Meeting March 2, 2019

Members met and shared work as seen below:  Journal pages (word was Memories) - see fig. 1-8.    Memory (whole different meaning) - fig. 9.  Classwork - fig. 10-13.  Show and tell - fig. 14-16.  Early color exercises were shown however they will be posted next meeting when they are due.

Melissa Tweedel                                         fig. 1

Dot Collins                                fig. 2

Kathy Risinger                               fig. 3

Cindy Thomas                                                 fig. 4

Connie                                                     fig. 5

Connie                                                     fig. 6

Dianna                                         fig. 7

Sylvia                                                 fig. 8

Memory            Connie                        fig. 9

Jean Aguilar      fig. 10

Lisa Johnson                                              fig.11

Lisa Johnson                                                 fig. 12

Lisa Johnson                                        fig. 13

Cindy Thomas   Front                                   fig. 14

Cindy Thomas   Back                                   fig. 15

Lisa Johnson t-shirt quilt top         fig. 16 

Classwork 2018

I took 3 classes (Hilde Morin - fig. 1, Lenore Crawford - fig. 2-3, and Esterita Austen - fig. 4-5) last year and helped teach one (FiberVoices workshop on creating a stamped veggie floral bouquet).  Lenore taught two methods of composition, one working with pattern (poppies) and fabric confetti.  I used her poppy pattern in my composition, Poppies and Puffs, fig. 2 and created my own composition (her class project was a forest of trees which on second thought would have looked better...couldn't resist playing) in fabric confetti (Pink Poppies, fig. 3).  Esterita's class was called Sheer Portraits, using sheer in randomly cut pieces to create a portrait (see fig. 3).  I later digitally manipulated the photo of the finished work (again just playing) and quilted it (see fig. 4).

Feeling the Heat                                        fig. 1

Poppies and Puffs                  fig. 2

Pink Poppies                                     fig. 3

Portrait in Blue                   fig. 4

Portrait in Blue Redo       fig. 5

Interpreting Caillebotte

Bafa members met in January and presented their interpretations (fig. 2-12) of Gustave Caillebotte's painting, The Orange Trees, painted in 1878 (fig. 1).  This was my favorite painting to date.  Journal word interpretations are due next month.  The word is "memories".

The Orange Trees by Gustave Caillebotte

                                                       fig. 1

Jean Aguilar                                   fig. 2

Melissa Tweedel                      fig. 3

Nancy B. Dickey                        fig. 4

Susan Cornell                   fig. 5

Sylvia Weir                                     fig. 6

Sylvia Weir                                                fig. 7

Cindy Thomas                                     fig. 8

Dianna Eichorn                                 fig. 9

Dot Collins                                    fig. 10

Sherry Walker                                            fig. 11

cmf WIP                                       fig. 12

Jenni's House on Snow Day

For this piece, I worked from a photo taken and supplied by Dot Collins (fig. 1).  I created Jenni's House on Snow Day for Jenni Beaumont (fig. 2) as part of this year's Sew Pieceful Bee exchange.

Every project is a learning lesson for me, mainly because I am frequently doing something I don't know how to do...or, it is so unplanned I'm never quite sure how to proceed.  I usually start then "fix-it" as I continue along to its conclusion.  This project was no different.  By the time it was finished, I knew exactly what I wanted to do differently and how I wanted to proceed should I ever be challenged to do it again.

 Photo by Dot Collins                                      fig. 1

Jenni's House on Snow Day    15" x 20"         fig. 2

                                                                       

 

Bafa Meeting December 2018

The group met and presented their journal page word challenge for the previous month.  Our word was slave (see figures 1-13).  Work related to being a slave to compulsions, emotions, weekly chores, continuing cycles, an engine part called a slave, breaking bondage, being set free and one poignant statement on the subject of human slavery put forth by the country of France, I believe, which read:  "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.  Slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms".  This statement was printed onto Lydie Raimbault's vintage quilt with her own vintage stamps (see fig. 12).  I wished I had written down the artist statement for each of these works.

Cindy Thomas                                fig. 1

Dot Collins                 fig. 2

Sylvia Weir                  fig. 3

Sherry Walker                           fig. 4

Lisa Johnson                                                                      fig. 5

Susan Cornell                                                 fig. 6

Linda Ainsworth                                        fig. 7

Melissa Tweedel                                    fig. 8

Kathy Risinger                                               fig. 9

Connie                                                       fig. 10

Lydie Raimbault  (back)                             fig. 11

Lydie Raimbault   (front)            fig. 12

Sylvia Weir                                     fig. 13

Bafa Meeting October 2018

Members met for a morning of quilt art inspiration, sharing work, news, and laughs.  Critique was offered here and there.  Our journal page word for October was Clock (fig. 1 - 10).  See also classwork (fig. 11 - 12) , and show and tell (fig. 13 - 20).

Sylvia Weir          On the Clock                      fig. 1

Dianna Eichorn                                               fig. 2

Linda Ainsworth                                      fig.3

Lisa Johnson    Break Time            fig. 4

Dot Collins             On Dot Time                   fig. 5

Dot Collins     Making A Clean Getaway       fig. 6

Jean Aguilar                                           fig. 7

Cindy Thomas                                            fig. 8

Susan Cornell                                         fig. 9

cmf                    Sunrise/Sunset                    fig. 10

Susan Cornell                      fig. 11

Dot Collins                       fig. 12

Dot's Friendship Block                      fig. 13

Dot's Friendship Block                              fig. 14

Beth Mayer - FB for Dot                               fig. 15

Sylvia's Postcards                                         fig. 16

Sylvia Weir                                       fig. 17

Kathy Risinger                              fig. 18

Kathy's Miniature                fig. 19

Sherry Walker                     fig. 20