Digital to Textile

Sunday was the reveal day for a fiber art group I belong to called Digital to Textile: Eight Views.  Every other month we interpret a photo one of us has selected.  Check it out...http://digitaltotextile.blogspot.com/

Book Deal Is Official!

The Twelve by Twelve artists are excited twelve times over to announce that:

(drum roll, please.... )

Sterling Publications/Lark Books will be publishing a book on our Twelve by Twelve Collaborative Art Quilt project!   We are thrilled beyond words to have this wonderful opportunity, and so happy that our art endeavors and friendships are turning us into authors, too. We know that Lark was impressed by the loyal folks who follow our blogs and website, so thanks to all of you friends-of-Twelves for your encouraging words through our explorations!

We'll keep you posted as we know publication dates. 

We are lifting a virtual glass of champagne to each other and to all of you for your support!

More Shibori

I continued with the shibori action yesterday and overdyed the circles red. I am trying to make something that resembles various cells in the blood stream, including WBC's, RBC's and platelets. I tried stitching the platelet shape with thread, gathering it, throwing it into a black dyebath, then rinsing it and throwing it into an orange dye bath and I thing it held it's shape really well. I'm not sure if I like the black background, but I think if I try it in a color, I would have to go in and paint the shapes, and I think the black gives it a nice definition.

Shibori

I finally have time to play around with the shibori techniques I learned in the Jan Myers Newbury class at the Crow Barn last month.

I painted dye onto to a piece of fabric (no soda ash involved yet), let it dry, then marked large circles on it that I basted and pulled up tight.

Wrapping and securing these took hours, but was sort of meditating.

I sewed some darts into a second piece of fabric, then pole wrapped it with string.

I put the whole thing in a black dye bath, adding soda after 15 minutes. As you can see, lots of the yellow washes out, and the black dye bath kind of leaches into the yellow making a green color.

4/12's

As you've seen if you follow this site http://www.gericondesigns.com/weblog/, or this site http://goingtopieces.blogspot.com/, or this site http://www.twelveby12.blogspot.com/, I am standing with 3 of the 12's. That's 1/3 of us together in one picture! Not an easy accomplishment when you consider where we all live. Lunch at Diane's in northern California was so worth the trip. I had met Diane in a class before the 12's started, but it was the first time I met the other 2 face to face, and it was like meeting old friends. We didn't get to hang out together long enough, but I'm sure there will be a next time.

Ohio Crow Barn - Last Day

On Friday we finished putting our compositions together with Jan's help. This piece below is Judy Carpenters and isn't it wonderful? The colors are so rich, and there is so much movement in it. And here is Barbara's. If I remember correctly, Barbara lived by the great lakes for a while, and she wanted to recapture the feeling she had there.

And mine. I worked with rectangular ideas and as always, I'm not happy with it. Mainly the colors I chose, but I will continue the process and see what happens.

This is one of Jan's quilts. It is named Urubamba
and reminds her of Peru.

Aand Jayne Larson made the piece below which I just love. I hope it stays irregular.




I want to let you know about a new group that has formed called Digital to Textile and it's at http://digitaltotextile.blogspot.com/ Please check us out and let us know wht you think.

Crow Barn- day3

We figured out after the first night that there is cocktail hour at the Barn. We all started roaming around with our glasses around 5pm, giving wonderful critiques of each others work. The picture below is Carol from Portland, and she has made a great strat in this class with some beautiful shiburi and clamping.

This picture is what I ended up with at the end of day 2. On the 3rd day we walked around and look at each others work and discussed what we wanted to focus on until Friday.

Jayne Larson is my traveling companion and has so wonderful shibori here after 2 days.

Judy Carpenter http://judyinthedyes.blogspot.com/ is doing some really wonderful, colorful work, wait until you see what she did Wed. and today

And this last piece is by Gunilla, from Sweden, who is here for this class and last weeks class with Sue Benner

We are a really good group here, well taken care of by Jan, Nancy and her family. I'd like to make it a yearly event.