Many Small Pieces Make the Whole

On Monday, Sept. 26th the opening reception for

the Fiber Art Society gallery show called,

Many Small Pieces Make the Whole, took place.

We had 30+ pieces to show,

including art quilts, baskets, fiber creations and more.

The show is taking place at the

Parkway Presbyterian Church

in Corpus Christi until October 20th.

I wanted to share a few of my favorites.

To see the pieces better please clilck on each photo to enlarge.

Cornelia Morgan made this large colorful art quilt called

L.O.L. (lots of love).

She made it for her grand niece.

Cornelia used designs from the wedding invitation.

Bali jelly roll strips were used to make the background

The piece hanging was made by Happy Jonas, our FAS president.

It is called Peaceful Conversation #1 World Ark. 

She used decorator fabrics from sample books, plus cotton dyed fabric

and colorful threads.

It is one part of a diptych or possibly a triptych she told me.

The art doll above was made by Carlene Schleider.

It stands 20 inches and is made from cloth and wood beads for joints.

She calls this piece

Woman from Pibor, Sunday Morning

Below you can see my goddess tree art quilt called

Imagine Peace.

To see more of it click here.

http://inkspillersattic.blogspot.com/2011/08/imagine-peace-painted-and-dyed-fabric.html

Beside it is a piece by Lisa B.,

and this piece just glowed under the lighting.

It is made from one inch square pieces of batik fabrics.

On the table above is another art doll and also

a fiber art basket made from wet felted wool.

The felted backet was made by Laura Davidson.

Laura also made this piece below.

It is called

Fibers Trail through New Mexico.

You can actually go to this site and find out more about the fiber art trails.

http://www.nmfiberarts.org/

Laura's piece was created using dried cholla cactus that she stained

and that she collected on the New Mexico hiking trails.

Laura did some weaving with various yarns, ribbons and fibers,

using the cholla as a frame.

I think the leaves are made from Angelina fibers.

This piece just sparkled and was very unique.

Another unique and beautiful piece

was made by Laura O.

Laura used quite a few different paper napkins

that she shredded and then reassembled into

"Sunshine and Flowers".

The paper was glued down on a muslin foundation

creating 'paper fabric'

and then free motion quilting and French knots were added.

She wrapped it around a canvas

to create a beautiful piece.

It sort of had a transparent look to it,

which I loved.

This final piece,

I'm sorry to say,

I can not remember who created it,

or what it was titled.

I loved it, and it was one of my favorites of all.

Every piece in the show was wonderfully creative.

All in all the reception was a great success,

with lots of people attending.

So congrats to all of you!

Savor the Day!

Yvonne

"Imagine Peace" painted and dyed fabric

For Paint Party Friday

I am sharing

Imagine Peace.

It is hand dyed fabric and also

 painted with oil pastels

and watercolor crayons.

I also used paper fabric, beads

and free motion quilting.

The face was painted on a piece of muslin

with watercolor crayons.

Here it is pinned to my design board.

Below is a close up of the face.

I sewed leaf beads around part of her forehead.

The next picture shows detail at the bottom.

I stenciled the words on with oil pastels.

The little butterfly on the 'A' is just stamped on.

I stenciled/stamped/painted on some flowers here and there,

and some tiny blue birds in the canopy of the tree.

The stars are stenciled and then I used metallic thread on top

to bring them out a bit more.

The tree goddess roots and canopy

form the peace symbol,

as shown in the first picture above.

This fiber art piece will be entered in a show

in September for the Fiber Art Society

that I belong to.

The show is

"Much Made from Small Pieces" A World View.

This piece measures 24 inches by 34 inches.

To see more PPF art

click on the PPF logo in my sidebar.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne



African mask blocks

My quilting Bee had a fun project lately.

We made African masks using a picture as a guide.

Each one of us made either one or two each.

These two are the ones I made.

The top one is made using fabric paper.

The other one I just used African looking fabric,

and my bleach discharge fabric for the background.

It has a bit of my hand dyed fabric in it too.

Then we had a drawing to see who won

all of the blocks.

There were nine blocks total.

Judy was the winner and she was thrilled.

Here are all of the blocks.

Click on the photo to enlarge it,

so you can see the detail more easily.

Aren't they wonderful!

Next month we are doing a

tree block.

Each block will be 12 inches square

when finished, just like these.

Then we do anything we want,

any kind of tree,

any kind of embellishment.

Then we will draw again

to see who wins them all!

This is FUN!

Fabric/Paper African Art Quilt

I wanted to do something out of my fabric paper that I've been making and some of my batik (she's holding scraps of batik) also, so I made this little art quilt. I bought the shells (they are old shells) recently on my New Mexico trip and the seed (her necklace) is an orchid tree seed from my area here in south Texas. I decided to leave the edges of the piece raw (it's the tissue paper in the fabric paper process) to add more character and add to the primitiveness of it. I did some free motion quilting in the background areas. I left the African fabric (which is commercial fabric that I bought) plain, in order not to take away from its beauty and design