Bafa Meeting July 2019

Bafa members met and showed work related to their journal word which was Shoes in History (fig. 1-11).  Dot's Dorothy's Shoes depicted the book's silver shoes, the films red shoes and her grand-daughter's musical (she played and sang Dorothy) shoes.  Other classwork and show and tell was shown and discussed (fig. 12-16).  Photo of Christine Schmelebeck (fig. 12) shows her 50 yr. moon landing anniversary celebration outfit.  She attended celebrations at NASA Space Center, Houston.

I took a class called Strips and Curves with Maria Shell, however, what I created is what she would call a "kitchen sink" quilt.  I incorporated drawings created by my granddaughters, a flower block by Bafa member, Melissa Tweedel, and positive/negative translations of a flower I created in a previous notan exercise.  I had taken this other work to use as inspiration during the class.  When Maria saw it she said I was going rogue.  Even I thought I had

two different quilts going but in the end I could not resist going rogue. See fig. 16.

Dorothy's Shoes    Dot Collins                   fig. 1

Lisa Johnson                                              fig. 2

Nancy B. Dickey                                     fig. 3

Kathy Risinger                                               fig. 4

Otzi's Shoe  Christine Schmelebeck           fig. 5

Historical Shoe    Christine S.       fig. 6

Viking Shoe   Christine S.             fig. 7

Lydie Rambault       View A                          fig. 8

Lydie      View B                                          fig. 9

Lydie    View C                                           fig. 10

Connie's Shoes                                            fig. 11

Christine                          fig. 12

Susan Cornell Classwork                             fig. 13

Linda Ainsworth    Classwork         fig. 14

Linda A. Classwork                                 fig. 15

Sorry, Maria, Had to Go Rogue                                    fig. 16

                                      

Exploring Negative Space using Positive and Negative Images

Bafa members met and discussed exploring and creating negative space.  Some members used positive images and some used negative images.  Some also brought the photos they plan to use in their exploration (see Figures 1-12).

I loved working with negative image since I had not done it before.  I created the first one using value gradations and multiple pieces (See Fig. 11) then finally boiled it down to very few pieces in black and white (See Fig. 10).

Sylvia                              Fig. 1

Sylvia  WIP                     Fig. 2

Dianna                                                            Fig. 3

Dianna                                                        Fig. 4

Cindy                                                             Fig. 5

Dot selected photos                                      Fig. 6

Follow the Yellow Brick Road     Dot Collins  Fig. 7

Kathy selected photo/drawing                      Fig. 8

Kathy Risinger                                          Fig. 9

Missy and Bub                                 Fig. 10

Missy                      Fig. 11

Linda Ainsworth                                          Fig. 12

Zen Garden

My Zentangle inspired art drawing yielded this fun wall quilt, Zen Garden, 36.5" x 37.5" (fig. 1).  The drawing was printed onto 4 letter-sized fabric sheets then set vertically and horizontally alternating the pattern to create circular movement.  Subtle color and background quilting were free-motion stitched using colored 40 wt. cotton and 40 wt. trilobal poly threads with 100 wt. monofilament in the bobbin.  The inner raw-edge applique border was created using design elements already in the drawing.  Outer border is a commercial fabric with some of the design elements placed out into the interior to create an irregular line.

Zen Garden          36.5" x 37.5"                  fig. 1

BAFA Meeting April 2019

Members met and presented color and design exercises (fig. 1-16), show and tell (fig. 17-19) and journal page work, Memories, (fig. 20-21) as shown below.  Window to my World, fig. 19 below, is my submission to Sacred Threads exhibit on The Human Eye.  As part of this work, I deliberately used a piece of stitched work created by the women of Afghanistan to honor their stitch work and show solidarity with our stitching lives.  Our eyes are a mirror, a reflection, a window to what we see not only as the creator but as the viewer and I thank them for their contribution to what my eyes see.

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Sylvia                               Color                 fig. 1

Sylvia     Design 1              fig. 2

Sylvia     Design 2                                       fig. 3

Sylvia     Design 3                                      fig. 4

Dot   Color                           fig. 5

Dot              Design                                   fig. 6

Lydie           Color/Design         fig. 7

Cindy Color                    fig. 8

Cindy Design 1                              fig. 9

Cindy Design 2                fig. 10

Susan     Color      fig. 11

Susan     Design                                           fig. 12

Dianna        C/D                                  fig. 13

Nancy C/D                                               fig. 14

Connie C/D                   fig. 15

Lisa C/D                                                     fig. 16

Cindy's Old Blocks Made New                 fig. 17

Susan's old-ready-to-be-made-new  fig. 18

Window to my World   5" x 23"                    fig. 19

Dianna        Memories                fig. 20

Sylvia    Memories                       fig. 21