snow dyeing

Well, it was really SLUSH dyeing, but still fun!

Here are two good tutorials:

Beth Hartford:
http://quiltersstitchtogether.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-version-of-snow-dye-process.html

and Bunk's Blog

http://bunks.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/snow-dyeing-and-grannyland/

My quilt is going on the Saturn V Rocket!!!

well not exactly...but my quilt is going to be part of a panel on the Dream Rocket project.

http://www.thedreamrocket.com/

Full panel coming soon...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28GUU1YbP_E

the Twelve Days of Christmas: Straight No Chaser

Christmas Quilts

Christmas Show at the Martin County Arts Council:
http://artrageousfibreart.blogspot.com/2009/12/mcac-show.html

Two of my quilts for the show:

Black + white Transformed: discharge

Black fabrics:
before

and after
discharge with bleach

Happy 4th

six months to Christmas!

I dyed silk scarves this morning, now to felt them for presents!

Imagine HOPE: Awareness through Art

Textile artist Hollis Chatelain plays with colors and emotions, inviting us into her dreams.


Yellow, color of drought and advancing desertsBlue, color of dreams of a better life for millions of economic refugees
White, color of death, genocide, and vanishing hopes
Purple, color of peace and spiritual joy
Green, color of hope for migrants and resident aliens
Our world is changing fast
Almost out of control
Revealing its fragility and our own fears
But beyond wars and global warming
Beyond arrogance and injustice
Beyond exploitation and human rights abuse
Beyond blatant wealth and extreme poverty
We believe there is room for hope
If we speak up and reveal the humanity within us
If we rise above racial and religious differences
If we use tolerance and fight selfishness
If we care about our planet and the future of our children
Then we can believe again
Believe in peace and humanity
Believe in a better world
Then we can imagine hope

http://www.imagine-hope.org/


please visit

I had the priviledge of viewing these quilts hanging in Duke Chapel; it was a truly moving, and AWESOME experience.

dye painting

I took a dye-painting class with Hollis Chatelain

http://www.hollisart.com/about.php

last week at NCQSI.

I worked on my butterfly; way too cool!

next for quilting...then I will get back to the Butterflyabstract!

fly away butterflies...

still working on butterflies:

the top is my current plan, wings and parts of wings, symbolic I guess, since I'm stretching out of the box, to create not just another butterfly, but not a good scan.

the second is truer colors and clearer pictures of the parts that will be collaged...

also the orientation is 90* different.

so butterflies fly away...

scroll down to April for more

Red and purple

.

Wolfpack Red azealeas and purple irises

(that I have moved from NC to PA to OK

and back to NC over the last 20years).

I LOVE these two together!