ART PROMPT - #11 – Add string

Encaustics

A good opportunity to “add string” as my Art Prompt #11.

I try hard to go to Charlton Tuesdays art group every week. Everyone works on their own project but there is a lot of support and help available if you run into a snag.

Approximately once a month, someone gives a demo or workshop.

This month was Encaustics with Berdina Beavan.

Here is my Project, it measures 12” x 12”:

Encaustics using string

And this was our little postcard size project we experimented with first.

I added some tangled threads and a little tulle.

Encaustics with tangled threads and tulle

I really want to do more of this!

Linking up to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

See you next time,

Terry

NEXT ART PROMPT - #12 – Use old make-up.

HERE'S MY “ART PROMPT” PLAN

One prompt, one project (taking as long as required to finish the project)

It's OK to finish or use a previously started project (UFO) as a starting point.

Make something creative.

Use any Media.

Blog about the project.

Pick another prompt once the project is done.

Take a Stitch Tuesday

Stitches 80 to 83

Four samples for TAST this week with Sharon b. at Pin Tangle. 

Sharon presents a new stitch challenge every week at Take a Stitch Tuesday.

Take a Stitch Tuesday - Stitches 80 to 83

After practicing the stitch around a 4” frame, I try to come with a design using that stitch.

At the rate I'm going , I probably won't ever get caught up but I really enjoy learning new stitches and then trying to figure what I can do with them.

Stitch 80– Raised Chain Version 1

I really like the looks of this, gave a nice raised rounded shape as more rows were added to the base stitches.

Raised chain - Version 1

Stitch 81– Raised Chain Version 2

I didn't like the looks of this one as much as Version 1 which is probably due to the thread I used.

Raised Chain - Version 2

I like trying all different kinds of threads and wools. I found this at our Hobby Shop and thought I'd give it a try. It is called Sizzle by Red Heart, a 100% Nylon #2 (colour Fiesta Mix). It is very slippery and very hard to keep even tension on the stitches .

Stitch 82 – Spanish Feather Stitch

I think this stitch looks so elegant, I like it a lot.

Spanish Feather Stitch

Stitch 83 – Siennese Stitch

Fast and easy. I think a lot could be done with this stitch, see my corners. It is sometimes hard to figure out how to turn the corners.

Good filler, I used a varigeated wool and offset the stitches.

Siennese Stitch

I will link up to TAST at Pin Tangle .

Check out this site as well as the comments to see all the beautiful work going on there.

Happy Stitching,

Terry

Fibre Content 2014

Yeh for us!

Four entries by the Northern Ontario Fibre Artists were juried into Fibre Content Show to be held September 9 – 16, 2014, at the Art Gallery of Burlington.

The following were accepted into the show:

Seven Create, a group project by all seven members of Northern Ontario Fibre Artists.

This project was a long time in the making and we are so happy to be able to share it again.

Seven Create by Northern Ontario Fibre Artists

Waste Not, Want Not. A beautiful bowl of recycled threads and fabric by Marie Black. 

See more of Marie's beautiful art on her Pinterest board My Art

Waste Not, Want Not by Marie Black

Ghost Ship – Ciudad de Inca, whole cloth, hand dyed by wicking, machine quilted by Terry Whyte

Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca by Terry Whyte

Escape to the Surreal, whole cloth, hand dyed by wicking, machine quilted by Terry Whyte

Escape to the Surreal by Terry Whyte

Linking to The Needle and Thread Network.  Have a look at what Canadian bloggers are up to.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

Fantasy Garden

Quilt Documentation # 162

Fantasy Garden - Terry Whyte

 I started blogging in order to document as many as my quilts as I could.

While putting away my quilts from my Waterloo Guild trunk show, I decided to sort out any quilts that had not been documented on my blog.

I was surprised that I had not blogged about the very first challenge the Northern Ontario Fibre Artists undertook.

Fantasy Garden is my quilt from the Round Robin Challenge, see below, and this is how it progressed:

Background onto which I added printer photos of some of my garden flowers

After three members added embellishments 

When I got it back I added a spider web and then added the back and batting this way:

Batik for the back with markings for size of finished quilt

Corners stitched and turned to front

Batting inserted inside the folds

Stitched the top over the "binding" edges

I then couched a piece of fuzzy wool just inside the raw frayed edges of the top.

After all the quilting was done, I added a spider and the dragonfly.

Fantasy Garden - Terry Whyte

NOFA Round Robin Embellished Collage

The idea was introduced in September, 2007 and the quilts were completed in 2008.

Background fabric could be pieced, appliqued, painted, dyed or left as is.

The owner of the background would add something to it in the form of:

• applique
• stamp
• beads or other embellishments
• stitch
• numbers or lettering
• yarn, ribbon, thread, etc
• paint
• add colour with crayons, Shiva Paint Stiks, markers, ink, etc.
• Add photos
• anything else you could think of

The background fabric would be passed along from one member to the other to embellish further until it had gone to each member.

The owner would then add more, or not, and finish the quilt in any way they wished.

These are the other quilts made in the challenge:

Spy......ral - Jane Hughes

Dancing in the Moonlight - Karen Pilch

Sunflowers - Silvia Bos

Pond Life - Kit Ormsby

Midnight Garden - Marnie Mascioli

Nature at Dawn - Marie Black

Linking to Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday  and The Needle and Thread Network.

Happy Quilting

Terry 

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Fantasy Garden

Description: Embellished Collage

Pattern: Original

Size: 21½” x 28½”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Green, red, yellow

Construction Techniques: Applique, photo transfer, beading, thread painting, and more

Back: batik

Batting: bamboo

Edge finish: Back turned to front

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2008

Maker: Terry Whyte

Ribboned Moon

ART PROMPT - #10 – Use tulle

Ribboned Mood -- In my mind I call it "Tulle Time"

See previous post here.

This quilt has been finished for a while but I just have not had time to blog about it.

I drew the design on the back, then covered the front with one piece of tulle at a time and stitched from the back and trimmed.

design drawn on back (pencil)

I then added trapunto (2 layers) it's a little more puffy than I wanted. Sorry, forgot to take photos of trapunto.

Here it is before trapunto and quilting

Add caption

Blocked (wet)

Blocked - wet

Dry and  trimmed

Dry - trimmed 

I like this orientation better, but it can be hung either way.

The back complete with hanging slat and label

back

Quilt measures 38" x 15".

My “plan” has changed again! I like to call it a “plan” rather than rules. I don't seem to follow rules very well.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network  and Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

See you next time,

Terry

NEXT ART PROMPT - #11 – Add string

HERE'S MY PLAN

One prompt, one project (taking as long as required to finish the project)

It's OK to finish or use a previously started project (UFO) as a starting point.

Make something creative.

Use any Media.

Blog about the project.

Pick another prompt once the project is done.

Waterloo County Quilter's Guild Trunk Show

I'm back!

Lack of posting has been due to several different circumstances, some unexpected (like a bad case of sciatica).

Another reason was that I was away, for a bit, doing a Trunk Show as Guest Speaker for the Waterloo County Quilter's Guild at their May meeting.

I visited a friend along the way and then spent a few days with Charlene Stevens who now lives in Kitchener and is a member of the Waterloo guild but was, for several years,a member of my guild, the Kirkland Lake Mile of Gold Quilter's Guild and a former student.

We had a great time visiting several quilt and fibre art shows and a few quilt shops.

Here's a few pictures from the Trunk Show:

Waterloo County Quilters Guild 

Show and Tell Quilts on railing

Charlene and friends

Their wonderful lending library - there are as many books on the other side of the room

I had the opportunity to meet Renske Helmuth, a member of the Waterloo guild, who organized the making of the wonderful quilt shown below.  Learn more about it on her blog here.

Renske Helmuth 

This African Theme quilt will be auctioned at the Mennonite Relief Sale. (sorry I can't remember the actual name of the quilt)

These were all small finished quilts made by guild members that Renske organized and designed into this beautiful quilt.  Two or three guild members sewed it together under her direction.

This quilt blew me away!!

There was enough small quilts left-over for another quilt.  Renske has the design in place and this to take place after a well-deserved rest.

Second quilt

Some of my trunk show:

Due North

Spring Time

Northern Ontario Fibre Artist Round Robin - Fantasy Garden

Star Struck

One Thing Leads to Another

Dyeing fabric by wicking

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Thanks for stopping by.

Terry

CQA Best of Show

A phone call last night, from Marnie, who was attending the CQA National Juried Show in St Catherines made my day!

The Northern Ontario Fibre Artists (NOFA) are very excited and honoured to have won Best of Show in the Canadian Quilters Association National Juried Show.

Here is our entry “Seven Create”. It measures 10 feet by 55 inches.

Seven Create

The members of NOFA are Marie Black, Silvia Bos, Jane Hughes, Marnie Mascioli, Kit Ormsby, Karen Pilch and Terry Whyte.

I blogged about “Seven Create” here if you are interested about how this project started and progressed to completion.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network and Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Quilting,

Terry