tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994703555319023122024-02-18T23:40:21.419-08:00Fiber Artist JourneyWelcome to my Fiber Artist Journey blog! Inspiration, quilting, embroidery, fiber exhibitions, surface design, and more. I hope that through my sharing of my experiences, I will gain some new friends and help encourage myself and others on our art paths.
Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-61600681334662183552013-05-22T19:19:00.000-07:002013-05-22T19:19:50.653-07:00Taking a break... choosing my priorities<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My husband, Randy Erickson, and Christina Fairley Erickson</td></tr>
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My dear friends,
I've decided to take a break for a little while from blogging. After working hard last week in my new class, then getting the "Salsa!" exhibition installed at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse Gallery, I've looked around at my priorities and have realized that I need to spend more time with my family and with making my own artwork, rather than being on the computer so much. I've loved sharing with you and will be continuing to read (and comment) on my favorite blogs. Thanks for all the support and encouragement you've provided for me.<br />
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Warmly,<br />
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Christina Fairley EricksonChristina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-5564932339559372272013-05-17T00:28:00.001-07:002013-05-17T00:28:25.580-07:00Color Explorations & DWW #7Welcome to Design Wall Weekend! If you have a blog relating to quilting, fiber art, or related topics, please check out our rules and post your link below!<br />
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Today's been very exciting for me... I'm spending my birthday realizing a goal of mine- to be in the ongoing, long-term coursework at the <a href="http://gailcreativestudies.com/" target="_blank">Gail Harker Center for the Creative Arts</a>. I started in "Studies in Design, Experimental Machine and Hand Stitch Level 200" yesterday.<br />
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We mainly have been working on color theory and dyeing the last two days. The photo above is a great example of color. You probably know and can see how the complementary colors of blue and orange make this photo extremely vibrant. But the photo also works well because it has red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow, and yellow green. The spectrum of the color wheel from yellow-green through to red-orange are all included, which are analogous colors. Also, the blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange combine to make a split-complementary theme. Now, if the colors were all in the same proportionate amount, it wouldn't be nearly as effective. but the dashes of yellow-green and red-orange really help the photo POP!<br />
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Beyond playing with dyes on paper and practicing color schemes, we started hand-dying our thread today. I played around with variegating between colors, from dark to light in one color, and with using a split-complementary color scheme on the thread. </div>
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Tomorrow we will get started on dyeing our fabric and hopefully get to stitching. I have three more wonderful days of this session... then it's home and off to set up the Tieton, WA "Salsa!" exhibition, which will be opening Memorial Day weekend. I'm pretty confident that I'll be freemotion quilting as soon as I get through my show opening!<br />
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<b><a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/design-wall-weekends.html" target="_blank">Design Wall Weekend #7 -- What do You Have on Your Design Wall?</a></b></h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mixed media art</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book-making, art journals, and sketchbooks</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From my sketchbook- Creating shades by adding black to a pure color (orange) and mixing a triad of<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">If you would like to add a button to your blog you can copy the code which is below my buttons and add it as a gadget on the layout page of your blog. <span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/tutorial-adding-button-to-your-blog.html" target="_blank">Here is a<b> </b><span style="text-decoration: none;">tutorial</span> on how to do it.</a></span></span><br />
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<b>Other Great Blogs to Link Up with and Check Out!</b><br />
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Leah Day's <a href="http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">Freemotion Quilting Project</a><br />
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<a href="http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nina Marie Sayre's Art Quilt Blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Fabric Addict</a><br />
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<a href="http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/" target="_blank">Balzar Designs - Art Journal Every Day</a><br />
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<a href="http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Richard and Tanya Quilts</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.quiltmatters.blogspot.ca/2013/05/tgiff-seeing-forest.html" target="_blank">Quilt Matters</a><br />
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<a href="http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sew Many Ways</a></div>
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Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com7La Conner, WA 98257, USA48.3887142 -122.4962752000000148.3676272 -122.53661570000001 48.409801200000004 -122.45593470000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-79336481584819260452013-05-14T22:41:00.000-07:002013-05-14T22:41:34.546-07:00La Conner Quilt Museum New Collection of Antique QuiltsAs a special supporter (or "Stashfest Friend") of the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, I was honored to attend a tea this afternoon. A lovely group of supporters, board members, and quilt aficionados enjoyed getting to know each other a little bit and were the first to see a new collection of antique quilts that the museum recently acquired. Here are a few which I thought you might enjoy!<br />
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This 1932 "bluework" quilt is exquisite. The patterns were so different from anything I've seen from that era. The part I was most surprised with was how the quilter used a dense field of French Knots to create the filling/dark shading of the cross.</div>
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Here is part of the area filled with French Knots.<br />
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Here's a close-up of some of the incredible embroidered blocks.<br />
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This log cabin block quilt from 1865 is particularly unique because it's a two-sided quilt... quite unusual for that time period.<br />
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Here's the back side of the log cabin quilt.</div>
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This incredible piece has feathered triangles and appliquéd flowers and leaves as a large wide border. It's in pristine condition... for a quilt that will be celebrating two centuries in a few decades. It was made in the 1840s.</div>
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Here's another piece from the 1840's. What makes this quilt special is that it is a very early example for broderie perce. This technique is done by cutting out a part of a printed fabric and appliquéing it onto a background, such as the center piece you see here. The fabric was also used to make the large diamond shape border around the quilt.</div>
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The full 1840 broderie perce quilt.</div>
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This cherry quilt from the 1890's is Mennonite.<br />
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A wonderful and unique example of redwork from the 1890's.<br />
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I'm staying up on Whidbey Island for the rest of the week, while I attend my first session of the Level Two series in hand and machine stitch and design at the Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts. I'll do my best to keep up with what all I'm working on this week, </div>
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This is being a tough month. It's not like I didn't expect it... but here I am in the midst of it and I'm feeling a little in overwhelm. <br />
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First, as most of you know, I'm share the head of exhibitions for the Contemporary QuiltArt Association and we have our "Salsa!" exhibit opening Memorial day weekend. Our jury met on April 28 at my home... you'd think that once the pieces were picked out, it should be smooth sailing, right? Wrong. <br />
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One of the wonderful things about the venue we're going to be in, the Mighty Tieton Warehouse Gallery, is that they're going to print a catalog of the exhibit. So, as soon as I know the juror selections, I needed to get the photos of accepted pieces to their printer, which meant I had to download 114 photos (a full and detail shot of each piece) from the place where the artists had submitted them. However, I soon found out that not every artist had sent high-resolution photos. This meant I had to contact those artists who had sent low-res photos and help them get high resolution ones to me. I even ended up taking photos for one artist! <br />
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Once the photos were sent over, I had to start working on compiling all the information for the catalog... artist's statements, sizes of artwork, materials and techniques used, photographer, price of piece, year completed, as well as artist and title of the piece. We have 57 pieces in the show, so that's quite a bit of info to put together. <br />
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On Saturday, we pick up the pieces at our CQA meeting. We're working on figuring out a way to best hang the works... the gallery has a wire hanging system. At this point, we're planning on using a heavy-duty fishing line to attach the quilts and art cloth from the wire. However, we will need to tie the fishing line onto all the hanging sticks and haven't fully worked out how we will adjust the length of the fishing line to make sure each piece is at the right level and even. My husband and I have even gone to a couple hardware stores to try and see if there was some sort of hardware that we could put the line through and pull it and it would catch and not slip. At this point, it looks like we're going to just be adjusting it by hand and tying it off.<br />
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On the 20th, we head over to Tieton (about a 2 and a half hour drive) to hang the show. I'm not sure how long it will take considering the tying aspect. Then our Opening will be on Saturday the 25th, so another long drive that day (I may stay overnight for that one since it goes from 12-5 and there is an artist celebratory dinner afterwards!)<br />
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Oh, did I forget to mention that my two-year long program at the <a href="http://www.gailcreativestudies.com/" target="_blank">Gail Harker Center for the Creative Arts</a> starts this month too? I will be going up to La Conner from May 14-19 for my first class. We'll be meeting approximately every three months and have a good deal of homework in between each session. However, as you can see from the photos here, Gail's student's create some amazing fiber artwork! <br />
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All this said, I've decided to back off of my initial goal this year to create a 5 x 7 piece each week. I'm a little disappointed, but I am working on my artwork daily, so I suppose that's the real goal. Since I'll be staying up at our cabin on Whidbey Island next week while I go to classes in La Conner, I plan to bring my freemotion quilting sampler quilt that I'm working on for<a href="http://www.craftsy.com/class/free-motion-fillers-vol-1/166" target="_blank"> Leah Day's Craftsy class </a>to work on in the evening. Having six days away from my husband and kids to just work on my art will be a real vacation!<br />
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Speaking of Leah's Craftsy class, she has just released "Freemotion Fillers Volume 2." In celebration, if you go to her blog, <a href="http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-craftsy-class-free-motion-fillers.html" target="_blank">you can click a link to get 50% off any of her three Craftsy classes (click here to get the page with the 50% off)!</a><br />
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OK, let's get going with Design Wall Weekend:<br />
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<b><a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/design-wall-weekends.html" target="_blank">Design Wall Weekend #6 -- What do You Have on Your Design Wall?</a></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think that it's best to have content that matches the content and interests served with the blog that's hosting the party, so please only link up if your blog post is about any of the following:</span></div>
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<b>Other Great Blogs to Link Up with and Check Out!</b><br />
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<a href="http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nina Marie Sayre's Art Quilt Blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Fabric Addict</a><br />
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<a href="http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/" target="_blank">Balzar Designs - Art Journal Every Day</a><br />
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<a href="http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Richard and Tanya Quilts</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.quiltmatters.blogspot.ca/2013/05/tgiff-seeing-forest.html" target="_blank">Quilt Matters</a><br />
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<a href="http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sew Many Ways</a><br />
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One of the things I'd never seen before was a digital "ground" that you can mix with all sorts of products, including glass bead gel, acrylic ground, fiber paste, mica flakes and more. This specially formulated acrylic allows you to make almost any reasonably flat surface into something that can be printed in your ink-jet printer. For instance you can get a crisp clean image on a metal foil, on specialty papers, and even on acrylic "skins" which you create by painting on a layer one of the products and letting it dry. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Examples of using Digital Ground with different substrates and then putting through<br />
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Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com1Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.439057 -122.5234021 47.781697 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-44123549550519902772013-05-02T21:56:00.001-07:002013-05-03T08:16:07.590-07:00The Jury Process and Design Wall Weekend #5I've been incredible busy getting ready for the Salsa! show this week. First we had our CQA (<a href="http://www.contemporaryquiltart.com/" target="_blank">Contemporary QuiltArt Association</a>) jury meet at my house on Sunday. Jurying a show is a fascinating process. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From my art journal - Page painted with acrylics, Magazine photo, drawing with colored pencil</td></tr>
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We have a PowerPoint slide show of all the full and detailed views of the entries, which we project onto a screen. The first run-through is quick, just for the three jurors to get an idea of all the entries and the overall scope of the show. Next, we go more slowly, allowing the jurors to choose whether their initial impression is to YES (have the piece in the show), NO (don't have it in), or MAYBE. During this second run through, there is no discussion. We then tally each of the jurors Y-N-M votes and any piece with 3 Yes' is automatically juried in. Likewise, 3 No's excludes it from the show. <br />
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After that, the jurors go through and make decisions about each of the pieces with has anything other than a unanimous decision. We also have jury helpers to handle other jobs during the process... secretary to take notes on the juror's comments to share with the artists; assistant to navigate through the slides; and a person who tallies the linear inches of width of each accepted piece to ensure that we don't exceed what the gallery can hold. <br />
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So, after getting the show decided upon (and my Salsa quilt was accepted!), I've had lots of work to prepare for the show. I had to get notifications of acceptance and of regret out to each of the artists. I had to get photos to the venue for printing in a catalog. I had to get new photos from a few of the artists when I found they hadn't sent high resolution photos. I had to get things sent out to our publicity chairperson. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. <br />
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So, I haven't had time with my sewing machine all week, and I'm feeling a bit guilty. I am working on preparing my freemotion quilting sampler quilt that I'm doing in conjunction with <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/class/free-motion-fillers-vol-1/166" target="_blank">Leah Day's Craftsy course, "FreeMotion Fillers Volume 1."</a> Now that I have it all pieced together, I need to layer it with the backing and batting and then baste it. I don't know that I'll be getting it finished this weekend, however, as I have a <a href="http://contemporaryquiltart.com/" target="_blank">Contemporary QuiltArt Association</a> Board retreat, as well as I'm hosting a <a href="http://www.surfacedesign.org/" target="_blank">Surface Design Association</a> group where we'll be hearing about and trying out<a href="http://www.goldenpaints.com/artist/wap/artist.php?uid=8" target="_blank"> Golden Acrylic products</a> with <a href="http://depirro.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Barbara De Pirro. </a> I have, however, spent more time on my hand stitch and am working on a new little stitch book. I've also been working in my art journals and thought I'd share a few photos from them today, before going into Design Wall Weekend. <br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quilting and fabrics </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fiber art of any kind</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hand & machine stitch or embroidery</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mixed media art</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book-making, art journals, and sketchbooks</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tutorials for any quilting, fiber, mixed media, sketchbook and other arts</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>These can be works in progress or finishes</i></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.796875px;">Mention <i><b>Fiber Artist Journey</b></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;"> in your post, either with a link or button-</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">use the direct l</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">ink to the</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">specific</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">post - not just your main blog website (this helps with your search engine position.) </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;"> If you have buttons on your sidebar that works great, please just at least mention something in your post, for example "I'm linking to Fiber Artist Journey, see my sidebar for their button." </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">If you need help on <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/tutorial-adding-your-link-to-blog.html" target="_blank">how to add your link, read this</a>.</span></span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please take the time to visit other links, everyone loves new visitors and comments! Try to <i>comment on at least two other blogs</i> in the party.</span></li>
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com4Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.439057 -122.5234021 47.781697 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-55636840347595533872013-04-27T23:07:00.001-07:002013-04-27T23:07:05.732-07:00The Creative World Book Arts - 1First, if you're looking for the <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/100th-post-anniversary-design-wall.html" target="_blank">Design Wall Weekend blog party, click here!</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Red Necklace" by Barbara Barnes Allen<br />
Mixed media (book art) $175</td></tr>
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As I've mentioned in the past, my mother is a librarian. I grew up surrounded by and delighting in books. She started reading to me early and I carried on the tradition with my children. Even after she retired from her job as a school librarian, she took on and continues to serve as a librarian for the retirement community where she lives. So it's not surprising that I'm fascinated with book arts.<br />
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The idea of combining three of my most favorite things- books, textiles and art- delights me. I do work on art journals, although I haven't spent a lot of time combining textile into them yet, I'm sure I will in the future. And, although I haven't yet forayed into making my own paper, it is something I'd like to play with in the future (being yet another type of fiber!) <br />
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Today I went to a fabulous exhibit at the <a href="http://www.schack.org/" target="_blank">Schack Center for the Arts</a> in Everett, WA, called "The Creative World of Book Arts." I hope you'll enjoy seeing some of these wonderful pieces!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Display of Barbara Barnes Allen's wonderful handmade books (foreground)<br />
at the Schack Art Center</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> "Marilyn" by Lisa JonesMoore (from side)<br />
Metal, photos, paper, mixed media NFS</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> "Marilyn" by Lisa JonesMoore (front)<br />
Metal, photos, paper, mixed media NFS</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> "Marilyn" by Lisa JonesMoore (back)<br />
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There was an entire wall of these large sculptural pieces (generally 2-4 feet in diameter) which I thought must have been a different exhibit... from afar they looked like wood carved into rounds like a cross-section of a tree. I was sure surprised when I moved in for a closer look!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sculpture by Ellen Jane Michael made of books</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sculpture by Ellen Jane Michael made of books</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of side of book Sculpture by<br />
Ellen Jane Michael </td></tr>
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I'll share more of these (and perhaps some of my art journals) soon!<br />
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com3Everett, WA, USA47.9789848 -122.202079447.6387018 -122.8475264 48.3192678 -121.5566324tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-73490660630251545472013-04-25T23:28:00.000-07:002013-04-25T23:38:33.202-07:00100th Post Anniversary & Design Wall Weekend #4Whoo-Hoo! Today is my 100th published post!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Stitch book by Christina Fairley Erickson<br />
Hand-dyed wool/acrylic felt, hand stitched with hand-dyed and<br />
commercial pearl cotton, embroidery floss and yarn</td></tr>
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This week, I've been working mainly on finishing up some little hand-stitch samples which I'm making into books. It's a bit different from my typical heavily machine stitched and freemotion quilted pieces, but they've been fun and relaxing. Here is my first book I've completed:<br />
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I'm still a little unhappy with my binding, but I think it may just require more practice to get it right. Since this was my first time to actually complete a hand-made book, I'm pretty happy with it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Binding of my book</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stitch sampler on cover- Running Stitch, Back Stitch,<br />
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Other Great Blogs to Link Up with and Check Out!<br />
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<a href="http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The FreeMotion Quilting Project</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Fabric Addict</a><br />
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<a href="http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nina Marie Sayre's Art Quilt Blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://whatahootquilts.blogspot.ca/2013/04/tgiff-is-here-today-at-wild-rose.html" target="_blank">What a Hoot Quilts</a></div>
Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com15Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.4390545 -122.5234021 47.7816995 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-67129464962872408872013-04-25T23:24:00.001-07:002013-04-25T23:24:59.552-07:00Simplicity versus ExuberanceI love looking at different fiber artist's work. Even when it's very different from my personal style or taste, I generally find things I like about most pieces. The couple I want to share with you tonight are also from the <a href="http://whidbeyislandsda.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Whidbey Island Surface Design Association</a>'s recent exhibit up at the Schack Art Center in Everett, WA.<br />
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First, <a href="http://www2.whidbey.net/jandon/" target="_blank">Janet Steadman</a> displayed a stimulating series with bright stripes of color, even sweeps of quilting stitches, and a simplicity that made it all come together. The series displayed together really works well... it makes me think of a library filled with books stacked to the ceiling. (I am a daughter of a librarian, so my house can look like this too!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janet Steadman's series "Keepers"<br />
Fiber $375 each (set of six $2100)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of one of Janet Steadman's<br />
"Keepers"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Exuberance" by Fine Gelfand<br />
Cotton & syntetic fabrics, fused & machine stitched $650</td></tr>
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In contrast to Janet's style, <a href="http://www.fbistudios.com/gratitudegallery/galleries/fine-gelfand/" target="_blank">Fine Gelfand</a>'s piece is a study in busy-ness. The patterns and textures feel as though they are moving- spinning right off the piece. Again, the colors are quite vivid and there is a sense of being somewhat like a traditional quilt, but you get a much different feel from this piece. The name of this piece, "Exuberance" really says it all.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of "Exuberance" by Fine Gelfand</td></tr>
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<a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/beginning-to-exhibit-tips-to-manage.html" target="_blank">Tips to Manage Showing</a></td>
<td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/02/bam-high-fiber-diet.html" target="_blank">BAM High Fiber Diet</a></td>
<td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2012/12/designing-for-theme.html" target="_blank">Designing for a Theme</a></td>
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Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com1Whidbey Island, Washington, USA47.9982761 -122.4395025999999747.3203241 -123.73039609999996 48.676228099999996 -121.14860909999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-88726980475262730912013-04-23T23:49:00.001-07:002013-04-23T23:49:50.157-07:00Beginning to Exhibit- Tips to Manage Showing<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">I've been a bit over my head in preparing for the Salsa Exhibition that's coming up next month. I'll be hosting the <a href="http://www.contemporaryquiltart.com/" target="_blank">Contemporary QuiltArt Association</a> jury at my house this coming weekend, to go through all the slides of entries and make decisions about the show. Furthermore, I've been contacted by three other venues (two which I'd sent information to and one that was unsolicited) about potential shows for our group in the future. More on these when I get them scheduled!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">For those of you
interested in showing, I have a bunch of management tools I've made to help me. You might want to think about how you can incorporate similar tools to help yourself organize for exhibitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a spreadsheet of all my quilts/art with their
sizes, descriptions, the materials and techniques used on each, completion
date, any awards or prizes it has won, the price, and whether there are
dates that it is committed to be at an exhibition.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a page of links to all the places I go to find
potential exhibitions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have templates for the labels that I make for my
quilts (which I print on fabric) so they have a consistent look.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a list of the shows I am interested in showing
at, have sent submissions to, and where I have work currently showing.
This includes links to the call to artists, the contact person and
address, entry dates, when the quilt is due, the show run dates, and when
the quilt is expected to be returned by.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I even have a database of my library of fiber and art
books (OK, this may be overboard,
but I was raised by a librarian!)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Rhapsody in Blue" by Ilene Rae Sorenson<br />Hard Core Kumihimo braiding, satin cord, mixed<br />yarns, wooden dowels, wire, wood frame $2400.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I
think you probably get the drift. I guess one of the challenges for me is
to not get so caught up in making systems that I don't actually spend my time
in the studio. But, you can see that if you have multiple pieces going to various shows, making sure to track all this information can be critical.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Here's another wonderful piece from the Whidbey Island Surface Design Association's show. This striking piece by Ilene Rae Sorenson is using a traditional Japanese braiding technique. She collaborated with a local woodworker to design and build a specialized table for the braiding process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm always thrilled to see a different type of fiber art... particularly those which mix the traditional with contemporary. Although the monochromatic color scheme has very little light colors, there is enough differences in value and particularly texture to give a great deal of contrast, creating interest. The long vertical cords create repetition and the curly ends crossing the columns breaks it up, creating movement. I think this piece is very successful and beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm getting back to my 5 x 7 challenge this week... I'll have something to share soon.</span><br />
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Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com0Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.4390545 -122.5234021 47.7816995 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-58965139313973601122013-04-19T08:57:00.001-07:002013-04-19T08:57:45.641-07:00Salsa Complete! and Design Wall Weekend #3<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Salsa" by Christina Fairley Erickson<br />
Freehand Machine Embroidery, decorative stitching, freemotion quilting, trapunto</td></tr>
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It's been a tough week. Of course, completing my "Salsa" quilt and getting it entered in the Contemporary QuiltArt Association's (CQA) show (of the same name... Salsa), is a big achievement. But perhaps it's a bit of a let-down too... I've put so much effort into this piece I'm not quite sure where to go from here. I apologize for being offline this week- between taxes being due, having lots of work to get ready for the jury process for the Salsa show, and feeling a bit under the weather a couple days, I just didn't get much time at the computer. I'll work at doing better over the next week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pray for the Forest II" by Larkin J. Van Horn<br />Fabric, beads $750.</td></tr>
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I did get to a wonderful fiber art show of artists from the Whidbey Island branch of the Surface Design Association earlier this month at <a href="http://www.schack.org/" target="_blank">Schack Art Center in Everett</a>. Here are a couple of the wonderful pieces exhibited there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Compare and Contrast" by Liz Axford<br />3 layers silk organza- front and back layers<br />are screen-printed multiple times, hand-stitched <br />with cotton floss to reveal patterning $6500.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think that it's best to have content that matches the content and interests served with the blog that's hosting the party, so please only link up if your blog post is about any of the following:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quilting and fabrics </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fiber art of any kind</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hand & machine stitch or embroidery</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mixed media art</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book-making, art journals, and sketchbooks</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tutorials for any quilting, fiber, mixed media, sketchbook and other arts</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.796875px;">Mention <i><b>Fiber Artist Journey</b></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;"> in your post, either with a link or button-</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">use the direct l</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">ink to the</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">specific</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">post - not just your main blog website (this helps with your search engine position.) </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;"> If you have buttons on your sidebar that works great, please just at least mention something in your post, for example "I'm linking to Fiber Artist Journey, see my sidebar for their button." An example of a link to a specific post would be: </span></span><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;"><a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/red-hot-chili-peppers.html">http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/red-hot-chili-peppers.html</a> rather than <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com </a>. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">If you need help on <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/tutorial-adding-your-link-to-blog.html" target="_blank">how to add your link, read this</a>.</span></span></li>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwx1EiIXBf7ynRq7kG2Qwnk47upRsaybKQ2cccWGDtLP92NUDmgrTr2LTH0_KX4-e6a_gVtIgtYEELLaFX6idxg9CfM1oRl3Ow8VnkIoAovE0di_oYQlktKWR6-lk1dCwYQTpdK-3D3Zw/s1600/DSC_0274.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwx1EiIXBf7ynRq7kG2Qwnk47upRsaybKQ2cccWGDtLP92NUDmgrTr2LTH0_KX4-e6a_gVtIgtYEELLaFX6idxg9CfM1oRl3Ow8VnkIoAovE0di_oYQlktKWR6-lk1dCwYQTpdK-3D3Zw/s400/DSC_0274.jpg" width="293" /></a></td></tr>
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My Salsa quilt is <i>almost </i>finished... I only have 3 sides of the sashing/border to quilt and the binding to go... good thing since the show deadline is tomorrow! After trying several different styles of freemotion quilting for the sashing (as well as thread color), I decided to let the fabric be my guide and created what I'm calling the "Here Comes the Sun" freemotion quilting design. I'll work on getting a tutorial out on this design later this week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of the sashing fabric<br />
which inspired the design</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Layout of my quilt-top for a free-motion quilting sampler<br />
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I've also finally got started on piecing my quilt top together that I'll be using for a freemotion quilting sampler. I'm enrolled in <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/class/free-motion-fillers-vol-1/166" target="_blank">Leah Day's Craftsy class "Freemotion Fillers Volume 1"</a> which teaches 50 different freemotion quilting designs (49 blocks each with their own design and 1 design throughout the sashing and border.) I'm thinking, however, of substituting some of the designs that Leah teaches in the class with some of my own, such as my True Triangles design. Make sure to check out the <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/true-triangles-video-tutorial.html" target="_blank">True Triangles Video Tutorial here!</a><br />
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So, <b style="font-style: italic;">what do you have on your design wall? </b>By the way, if you don't yet have your own design wall, <a href="http://quiltsbyjen.ca/how-to-make-a-design-wall/" target="_blank">click here for a great tutorial on how to make one for yourself from Quilts by Jen</a>.<b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>I'm looking forward to seeing all sorts of inspiring blogs for our blog party link up!<br />
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com7Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.4390545 -122.5234021 47.7816995 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-51744164645364151322013-04-09T23:14:00.000-07:002013-04-09T23:14:04.727-07:00Sashing Pre-Quilted Blocks - Tutorial<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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I've never made a "quilt-as-you-go" quilt before. This piece, however, was my attempt to both satisfy my personal <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/2013-5-x-7-challenge.html" target="_blank">challenge to complete a 5 x 7 art piece each week</a> along with preparing a piece to enter in the Contemporary QuiltArt Association's upcoming "Salsa!" Show. <br />
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I have to admit I'm a bit behind on my weekly 5x7's, but putting together the Salsa quilt, as well as some other projects, have taken priority for me right now. I'll be getting back to my 5 x 7's soon enough.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front side of my Salsa quilt with sashing</td></tr>
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So, now that I have all my blocks done, how do I put it all together without having a problem of differing amounts of layers in the sashing versus the blocks? The way I solved this puzzle is to start with making the sashing and puting the front side all together. <br />
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Then, I turned it over and carefully cut pieces of batting to fit right between the blocks seam allowances, so that the batting would be consistently uniform across the quilt. I chose to do the vertical pieces between the blocks, then the long horizontal strips, and afterwards the vertical borders.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Batting cut and added between blocks vertically</td></tr>
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After cutting all the batting to size, I did a long whip-stitch to hold the batting in place while I will be freemotion quilting the sashing. I then cut pieces of the backing fabric about 3/4" wider than the finished width of the sashing and pressed under the edges of these strips with my steam iron.<br />
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Next, I carefully hand-stitched down the strips over the batting and seam allowances of the blocks.<br />
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While this might not be the most expedient (or fast) method, I think the outcome will be quite nice. Next step is going to be freemotion quilting the sashing/borders!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Batting added other than vertical border; backing<br />
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Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com5Oak Harbor, WA, USA48.2931559 -122.6432244999999748.2086459 -122.80458599999997 48.377665900000004 -122.48186299999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-64215743851181076012013-04-09T01:22:00.003-07:002013-04-09T01:22:21.026-07:00Stashfest 2013<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbara O'Steen, Marylee Drake, and Rosalyn Duffy at the<br />
Contemporary QuiltArt Association's (CQA) booth</td></tr>
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This past aweekend I enjoyed going to <a href="http://stashfest.com/" target="_blank">Stashfest</a>, the fund-raiser for the<a href="http://www.laconnerquilts.com/" target="_blank"> La Conner Quilt and Textile museum</a>. As a contributor in several ways for this event, it was exciting to see it come to fruition. <br />
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The biggest effort I was involved in was in making fabric with the <a href="http://www.contemporaryquiltart.com/" target="_blank">Contemporary QuiltArt Association</a> (CQA), as a vendor for Stashfest. I got an early entry and have photos to share of all the fantastic unusual fabrics that were available at this event.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donna DeShazo from CQA with more of our handmade fabrics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ice-dyed and other hand-dyed fabrics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More of the CQA collection</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Annie Lewis with her fabulous hand silk-screened fabrics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hand-dyed Kona Cottons</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hand-dyed Kona Cottons</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vintage Kimono Silks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Margot Myer's NW Batiked Cottons</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbara Kanaya (of CQA)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Ogwell's West African cottons</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patricia Beleya's Japanese Yukata fabrics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early-bird shoppers get a spring on all the unique fabrics!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patricia Beleya's incredible Yukata fabrics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rack of "insider visits" for sale- studio tours<br />
of NW Quilt Artists (mine on top!)</td></tr>
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I'll be getting some photos up soon from a new fiber exhibition that I went to last week, as well as my finishing my Salsa quilt and the start of a freemotion quilting practice quilt. Make sure and stop in this coming weekend and link your blog up for <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/design-wall-weekends.html" target="_blank">Design Wall Weekends</a>!</div>
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com1La Conner, WA 98257, USA48.3887142 -122.4962752000000148.3676272 -122.53661570000001 48.409801200000004 -122.45593470000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-90806884937006652682013-04-07T04:00:00.000-07:002013-04-09T21:55:56.775-07:00True Triangles - Video Tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working on sample of True Triangles</td></tr>
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I've had some wonderful comments on my Salsa blocks, as well as a few questions on how I did certain aspects, including my background of my most recent block, Chili Pepper. Today, I'm going to go over the triangles freemotion quilting design. </div>
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I started working out this triangle design in my sketchbook, because I wanted a way to have triangles, but not a bunch of connecting lines or other angles.<br />
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The main trick with this design is to make your first triangle and then backtrack (or "travel stitch" as Leah Day of the <a href="http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Freemotion Quilting Project</a> calls it) to the middle of one of the sides of your triangle, where you start the first corner of your next triangle. <br />
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Difficulty: Beginner- The main difficulty with this design is in getting your sides of your triangles straight and in carefully backtracking, so your stitches stay on the line of the original triangle's line.<br />
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OK, I'm still working out the bugs on how to do a nice job on videography for my tutorials, so bear with me. I cut down time on this video by speeding it up a bit during part of the sewing, but I need a bit more practice on my hand position while videoing and also adding audio to the part which has increased speed. <br />
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<td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/tutorial-adding-your-link-to-blog.html" target="_blank">Tutorial: Adding Your<br />
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<a href="http://www.conniekresin.com/2013/04/linky-tuesday_8.html" target="_blank">Freemotion by the River</a><br />
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I don't know about you, but I generally have too much on my design wall... and sometimes the things that are up aren't what I'm currently working on! Not only am I working on <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-use-your-design-wall.html" target="_blank">finishing up my Salsa Quilt</a>, I have my <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/01/curved-piecing-tutorial-waterfall-quilt.html" target="_blank">Waterfall colorplay quilt</a>, my little <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/03/waiting-fiber-funsters-challenge.html" target="_blank">"Waiting"</a> piece, and fabric to start a piece for the <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/02/outdoor-fiber-art-call-for-entry.html" target="_blank">Outdoor "Salsa in the Sun" show.</a> I guess if they're up on my wall, I don't really count them as a UFO... which implies that you've sort of given up on it. <br />
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By the way, I'm just finishing up my tutorial on "True Triangles", the freemotion quilting design which I've created for the<a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/2013/04/red-hot-chili-peppers.html" target="_blank"> Chili Pepper block</a>. Check back on Sunday (April 7) to see the video tutorial!<br />
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So, <b style="font-style: italic;">what do you have on your design wall? </b>By the way, if you don't yet have your own design wall, <a href="http://quiltsbyjen.ca/how-to-make-a-design-wall/" target="_blank">click here for a great tutorial on how to make one for yourself from Quilts by Jen</a>.<b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>I'm looking forward to seeing all sorts of inspiring blogs for our kick-off blog party link up!<br />
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Other Great Blogs To Check Out:<br />
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Sara's <a href="http://creativejewishmom.typepad.com/blog/" target="_blank">Creative Jewish Mom's Crafting Weekend </a>- wonderful crochet projects!<br />
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<a href="http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sew Many Ways</a>Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com5Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.439057 -122.5234021 47.781697 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-52457013499560901062013-04-04T22:53:00.001-07:002013-04-04T22:53:39.058-07:00How to Use Your Design WallYears back, I never used a design wall. I might sketch out a design on graph paper or in my sketchbook, but then I pretty much just went with it and constructed as close to what I'd drawn as I could. It certainly is possible to get a good result from that... but it's kind of hit or miss. It's much more effective to use a design wall. <br />
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Your design wall can simply be a piece of batting that you pin up on a wall anywhere you have some space to step back from it (preferably at least 8-12 feet or 3-4 meters) and be able to look at your design as it progresses. <br />
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The change for me came when I started taking a Design series - classes for quilters that taught you the basic fundamentals of design. Our teacher always said "Make visual decisions Visually." In other words, you have to actually look at something to see if it's going to work, rather than just thinking it will work. <br />
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Tonight it was time to put my Salsa blocks all together. So, up they went on the design wall. I arranged them, then stepped back and took a look (and a picture).<br />
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I then rearranged them several times, each time checking to see how I liked the arrangement.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5e5J-wu4gbHOgPYD-iPHGyPpln-5XGpTd00trClO2w4eHi3huDOsgGe-Sfh-5oLFOzJODT35IKuNLpE25gYy98jtXLirgCdlsve2PuTkh8-5QeCdDfc1MZvN9Uu1gvgLPhISd4P8cq7sE/s1600/DSC_0032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5e5J-wu4gbHOgPYD-iPHGyPpln-5XGpTd00trClO2w4eHi3huDOsgGe-Sfh-5oLFOzJODT35IKuNLpE25gYy98jtXLirgCdlsve2PuTkh8-5QeCdDfc1MZvN9Uu1gvgLPhISd4P8cq7sE/s200/DSC_0032.jpg" width="200" /></a>After determining the placement of the blocks, I then had to decide which fabic I was going to use for the sashing. To do this, I pinned different pieces of fabric up and put the blocks on top, stepped back and looked at the overall effect. <br />
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The green fabric to the right is bold and seemed like a good prospect, but when I tried out the black with red/yellow/orange batik, I think I found a winner!<br />
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Next step will adding batting/backing and freemotion quilting of the sashing.<br />
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Make sure to check back this weekend for our first <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/design-wall-weekends.html" target="_blank">Design Wall Weekend Blog Link-up Party</a>!<br />
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One of the best places to learn FreeMotion Quilting: <a href="http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Leah Day's FreeMotion Quilting Project</a>Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com11Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.439057 -122.5234021 47.781697 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-60651157823038723112013-04-02T16:20:00.000-07:002013-04-02T16:24:02.758-07:00Coming on Saturday- Design Wall Weekends Link Party!I've decided to open a "<a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/design-wall-weekends.html" target="_blank">Design Wall Weekend</a>" link party each week for Fiber and Mixed Media of all sorts. You might notice a couple new tutorials I just posted to help out anyone who is interested in participating in the link party.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think that it's best to have content that matches the content and interests served with the blog that's hosting the party, so blogs that will be </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">featured will have and emphasis on the following:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quilting and fabrics </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fiber art of any kind</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hand & machine stitch or embroidery</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mixed media art</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book-making, art journals, and sketchbooks</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tutorials for any quilting, fiber, mixed media, sketchbook and other arts</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>These can be works in progress or finishes</i></span></li>
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<span style="line-height: 22px;">So, if you're a blogger, make sure and check in on Saturday or Sunday and post your blog. If you're just interested as a reader, you'll find a whole lot of additional diverse, fun and interesting content during the weekends!</span></div>
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com1Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.439057 -122.5234021 47.781697 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-38487967036914666342013-04-02T15:39:00.001-07:002013-04-02T15:39:04.565-07:00Tutorial: Adding a Button to Your BlogThis Tutorial is for "Adding a Button to Your Blog" using Blogger.com.<br />
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When you find a button that you'd like to add that has the code included underneath the button, copy the code (highlight it and click Control-C or Command-C.) You can use my "Design Wall Weekend" button on the right.</div>
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Your layout (below) can be modified in the Template Designer, but at this point, let's focus on adding the button. Look over your existing layout. You should see several "Add a Gadget" links. Choose where on your page you'd like to have the button and click the "Add a Gadget" link.</div>
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com2Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.439057 -122.5234021 47.781697 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-30796217607067008582013-04-02T15:31:00.001-07:002013-04-02T15:40:02.199-07:00Tutorial: Adding Your Link to a Blog Linking PartyFirst of all, it's important to understand WHY? you'd want to have a link from another blog to yours. The obvious main reason is to get more people aware of your blog and reading it. But beyond the additional people that will come directly from one blog to the other, you'll also get more traffic from search engines like Google. One way that search engines determine your ranking (how far up on their pages your site turns up) is whether you have other websites linking to your page. By having reciprocal links (where you link to my page and I link back to yours), your search engine ranking will increase, helping you get more traffic from people searching for content like you have on your blog. It's also important to fill out the Post Settings of "Labels" and "Search Description" for each of your posts.<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">Go to the "Add your link" butt<span style="font-family: inherit;">on. T<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">his opens up three fields that you need to fill</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">(1) This is the URL to your post which you can copy and paste from your browser</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">(2) The name or description that will show up under your link</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">(3) Your email. This is only known to the owner of the link-up and it is not visible to anyone else</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You have 3 different options for adding an image: picking one from your blog's post, giving a direct image URL, or uploading an image from your computer. With picking an image from your blog, you will see a "Select" and a "Crop" button under each image. If you choose "Select", your image will automatically be converted to a square thumbnail and proceed to link-up. Personally, I prefer to choose how my images are cropped, so I recommend choosing "Crop".</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You will then have the option to tweet or post to facebook about your link. Clicking on "Tweet" or "Share on facebook" will pop up a window to let you take action. InLinkz will first let you choose your text to post and then tweet or cancel. The default text on twitter mentions both your blog and the target blog. </span>
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com2Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.439057 -122.5234021 47.781697 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-24021585478208906952013-04-01T20:47:00.001-07:002013-04-03T06:49:42.389-07:00Red Hot Chili Peppers!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Chili Pepper" by Christina Fairley Erickson<br />
Freehand machine embroidery with decorative stitching and freemotion quilting</td></tr>
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Make sure to check out the start of my <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/design-wall-weekends.html" target="_blank">Design Wall Weekends Blog Link Party</a> coming Saturday April 6!<br />
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Well, I finally finished up my final 5 x 7" block for the Salsa Quilt. I had some fun with this and will be posting a couple of tutorials later this week for both how to do unusual lettering and a new freemotion quilting design. I also will work on documenting my process for installing new fonts onto your computer, so you can play around with different lettering styles like this "Taco Modern" font I use in each of my salsa blocks.<br />
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I've been super busy this last week catching up after being gone for 5 days in the "Experimental Hand Stitch class." I've been working on continuing to complete my hand-stitch samples, which are quite relaxing to do. I've also started cutting and piecing a new practice quilt, which I'm doing along with <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/class/free-motion-fillers-vol-1/166" target="_blank">Leah Day's Craftsy class</a>. Although I'm pretty comfortable with freemotion machine quilting, the more you practice, the better you get. The one thing I haven't completely decided upon is whether I'm going to do all the fillers which Leah suggests in her class, or whether I'll pick and choose those which I want to do. I'm not 100% thrilled with every design she's picked, so I may just substitute some of my own, or others I've learned from <a href="http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/p/365-designs.html" target="_blank">Leah's blog.</a><br />
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One thing that's going to be a little different in the future is that I will be hosting a "Design Wall Weekend" blog linking party. This will be open to quilters, fiber artists, mixed media artists, and book/art journalists who have blogs to help increase exposure to all sorts of great ideas. <br />
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Now, it's on to do the sashing and binding for this quilt. Not to mention, I will need to get going on a new <a href="http://fiberartistjourney.blogspot.com/p/2013-5-x-7-challenge.html" target="_blank">5 x 7 Challenge </a>piece for next week! So check back for tutorials later this week and I hope you will have some fun quilting this week. <br />
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<br />Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com9Bellevue, WA, USA47.610377 -122.200678647.4390595 -122.5234021 47.7816945 -121.87795510000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-87272324386511954702013-03-28T23:03:00.000-07:002013-03-29T07:55:32.977-07:00Waiting- the Fiber Funster's Challenge<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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My small art-quilt group, the Fiber Funsters, met yesterday with our every-other month challenge. We take turns choosing a theme. This time, Charo picked "Waiting" for us to interpret. Charo's piece, left, features her cat gazing out the window at little birds and bugs made from beads, buttons, and embroidery. The pillow her kitty sits on is puffy and with little braid and tassels. <br />
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Allison started with white fabric and she wrote "Waiting" in Chinese characters across it. She then fused shapes in a metallic gold, red, green, and black. The squares and plaids contrasted with the circles, spirals, and dramatic red diagonal slashes made for active composition. She also has put three half spheres of beaded wool felted roving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carolyn Hitter posed for several photos for her quilt</td></tr>
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Carolyn started with having her husband, Jim, take some photos of her contemplating something from behind. Using a method she le<span style="font-family: inherit;">arned in<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span class="h3color" style="background-color: white;">Leni Levenson Wiener's</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>"</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0896898040/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0896898040&linkCode=as2&tag=cearqu-20" target="_blank">Photo-Inspired Art Quilts: From Composition to Finished Piece</a>", Carolyn took the photos and applied a Cutout Filter in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0093FROMA/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0093FROMA&linkCode=as2&tag=cearqu-20" target="_blank">Adobe Photoshop Elements</a>. She then chose the photo she liked the best (on the far left) and traced the shapes (below.) The background of Carolyn's quilt is made from a fuzzy interfacing... just like on a design wall! Her title says it all: "Waiting for Inspiration"</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Waiting for Inspiration" by Carolyn Hitter</td></tr>
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Any of us who are mothers can relate to the sense of waiting that goes along with pregnancy. Waiting to get pregnant, to find out whether you'll have a son or a daughter, to make sure they're healthy, and finally for the wonderous day when you meet your child. Lise's humourous spin on these aspects of pregnancy is whimsical with the pink (for girls) and blue (for boys) background that the pollywog shaped sperm are swimming through. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Waiting" by Lise Vandandaigue</td></tr>
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My piece is still a work-in-progress. After missing a flight out of Paris one year, I had to wait for 9 hours for the next flight. Pretty tough when you're by yourself and already time-lagged. Of course, it's nothing compared to those who have been stuck in an airport for days due to whether or other problems... my heart always goes out to them. I'm adding freemotion quilting for shading will continue for background </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Waiting" by Christina Fairley Erickson (work in progress)</td></tr>
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I'm back from five days in "stitch heaven" with <a href="http://www.gailcreativestudies.com/" target="_blank">Gail Harker</a>. The class, "Experimental Hand Stitch" focuses on Procion MX dyeing of embroidery thread and a wool/acrylic felt to stitch on, and then learning some of the basic embroidery stitches and how to use them in a contemporary context.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friends", Debbie and Rebecca, dyed felts and threads</td></tr>
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The felt and threads are vibrant and beautiful. Gail feels that having your materials inspire you is important, so she helps her students understand their color choices and combinations to be successful with the dyeing process. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of my dyed felts and threads</td></tr>
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I basically stuck with an analogous color scheme from yellow-green through red-violet. If you're unfamiliar with analogous color schemes, it means that you pick colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. So the colors I worked with were greens, blues, and violets. <br />
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After our dyeing days, we started doing small stitch samplers. Each stitch will have its own page in a small stitch book (we even learned how to bind our books!) We also worked on documenting our samples within a sketchbook, including what threads we used, any observations we have, needles that were chosen, etc. <br />
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Some of our samples were also worked on sketchbook pages which we dyed and then fused together, so they are quite stiff. We then poked holes in the sketchbook pages along the line which we wanted to stitch, and then added the stitch afterwards. It was so fun... it reminded me of when I was a little girl and had cards with pictures on them and holes to "stitch" through (really it was more like lacing.) <br />
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While none of these samples is complete yet, you can get an idea of what they'll look like here. I have additional ones started, but these are the most complete. The other thing which was different and interesting was the freedom which we were encouraged to take with each piece. For instance, in years past, French knots were expected to have the thread wrapped neatly around the needle two times. With contemporary hand stitching, however, we can make a variety of sizes and different textures and effects by wrapping a thread more times around the needle, or by wrapping it loosely, rather than tight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blanket Stitch by Christina Fairley Erickson</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Open Chain Stitch (in process) by Christina Fairley Erickson</td></tr>
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Each of the pages is about 5"x 7", so they fit in well with my 5 x 7 Challenge! I'll be getting my final Salsa piece finished up this week, then I'll need to work on the sashing and binding of all the Salsa blocks into a finished quilt.<br />
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<a href="http://quiltstory.blogspot.com/p/fabric-tuesday.html" target="_blank">Quilt Story</a>Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com4La Conner, WA 98257, USA48.3887142 -122.4962752000000148.3676272 -122.53661570000001 48.409801200000004 -122.45593470000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-399470355531902312.post-67984605078942878332013-03-21T22:14:00.000-07:002013-03-21T22:14:04.550-07:00More Procion MX DyeingWow... another fantastic day of mostly working with Procion MX dyeing at the<a href="http://www.gailcreativestudies.com/" target="_blank"> Gail Harker Center for Creative Studies.</a> To be completely honest, I'm pretty tired... this can be hard work. So, I'm going to keep it short and sweet tonight, and just put up some images and descriptions of the processes and projects we worked on.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7EUOjOLkh6ath_0VGgxwoA-9E-h3Z3FNaSHf9EYrHw25VjiiIbWcXRpuKNSxwO722kXRZF_A5aInI4ZMJyPHekyT_5CpKO1AUtVFE_sZ93rVmPtfU_Fbzq25j1gK7RhSvy9DUIULUw10/s1600/DSC_0040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7EUOjOLkh6ath_0VGgxwoA-9E-h3Z3FNaSHf9EYrHw25VjiiIbWcXRpuKNSxwO722kXRZF_A5aInI4ZMJyPHekyT_5CpKO1AUtVFE_sZ93rVmPtfU_Fbzq25j1gK7RhSvy9DUIULUw10/s400/DSC_0040.jpg" width="400" /></a>First, our hand-dyed embroidery threads are totally luscious! Here they are drying in our classroom. We had to rinse them out and then set the color in hot water with Synthropol today. <br />
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We then started dyeing wool-rayon felt, which we'd cut into pieces prior to class, and will be making into hand-stitched books. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Felt with dye poured on (wet)</td></tr>
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The felt totally soaks up the dye... you have to pour it on and it looks horrible and dark for the most part.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rinsing out the felt</td></tr>
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After allowing it to sit for a few hours, we rinsed it out and also set the dye with Synthropol. Since the felt soaks up so much water, we had to carefully wrap it in towels to help dry it. You don't want to press or agitate it very much, or it starts the felting process. We then left it to completely dry overnight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Felt dyeing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rinsed felt for hand-made stitch books, laid out to dry</td></tr>
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We also worked with painting dyes on sketchbook pages. We do these in 2-page "spreads" so that they will go together when the book is opened. We then fuse pages together, to make the pages stiff and able to be stitched on. We started working on a few pages by drawing a design on them, then punching holes through the paper with a darning needle. We then can easily put our stitches through the holes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some sketchbook pages painted with dye</td></tr>
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I believe we're done with the dyeing now... on to more stitchwork tomorrow!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A two-page spread for a sketchbook, painted with Procion MX dye</td></tr>
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I spent the day literally dyeing to embroider... yes, I am anxiously awaiting getting down to stitching, but I mean "dyeing" with an "e" in it. Rather than using all commercially available embroidery floss, we spent the day making our own threads, for the first of 5 days in "Experimental Hand Stitch" at the <a href="http://www.gailcreativestudies.com/" target="_blank">Gail Harker Center for the Creative Arts</a> in LaConner, WA. I've always salivated at the yummy colors of hand-dyed threads. Now I know how to make them!<br />
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First, we had to prepare the skeins of thread. There are two main types of embroidery thread, pearl (or perle in French) cotton which is a twisted cotton and cotton floss (also known as 6-stranded cotton.) Pearl cotton comes in many different thicknesses: 3, 5, 8, 12, and 16, with 3 being the thickest and 16 being quite delicate. Six-stranded cotton is literally that, 6 strands that you can separate, depending upon how thick a piece you want for your project. Of course there are many other types of threads or yarns you can use for embroidery and any natural fiber will work for dyeing (silk, rayon, bamboo, etc.) We have several unusual yarns and threads as well as the pearl cotton and cotton floss.<br />
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To prepare for dyeing, we had to get the thread into skeins (some of it came on balls or rolls that we had to wind into a skein) and then tie the skeins about every 12 inches (30 cm), to make sure it wouldn't get tangled up. We used a figure 8 tie with a square knot, tight enough to hold the skein in place, but not so tight that it would cause a resist and have the thread not take up the dye underneath the tie.<br />
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As with any Procion MX dyeing, we then soaked our threads in a soda ash solution, so that the chemical bond would occur in the fiber when the dye is introduced.<br />
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When all the dye is on the threads, you carefully roll the threads up in plastic (see red arrow) and then leave it overnight to process. I can't wait to see them in the morning!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Mom, Nan Lopis, working<br />
on her dyed threads</td></tr>
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The best thing of all... my Mom has joined me for the 5 day class at <a href="http://www.gailcreativestudies.com/" target="_blank">Gail Harker's</a>! I was concerned that the dyeing might not be something she'd enjoy (she'll love the hand-stitching), but she came through like a champ, and made a lovely yellow-olive-greens colorway of threads.<br />
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Note: all the threads in the photos above have wet dye on them. The colors will change somewhat upon the dye setting and washing them afterwards. One of my favorite parts of dyeing is when you unwrap it the next day and wash it out... it's like getting a present!<br />
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Christina Fairley Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10229688169194750430noreply@blogger.com2La Conner, WA 98257, USA48.3887142 -122.4962752000000148.3676272 -122.53661570000001 48.409801200000004 -122.45593470000001