Fibre Content Show and Open Door Studio Tour

It has been a busy few weeks.

FIBRE CONTENT - ART GALLERY of BURLINGTON

Shortly after our week-end retreat, I headed south to Burlington for the Fibre Content Show.

The show was wonderful with so much eye candy, I spent a whole afternoon there and still wished I could have gone back for another day to really take it all in.  I met several fibre artists on this trip and everyone involved with this show was so nice and welcoming.  Thank you everyone!

Seven Create

Our group entry "Seven Create" by Northern Ontario Fibre Artists was well received, lots and lots of great comments.

A nice surprise was that it came in third place as viewer's choice.

OPEN DOOR STUDIO TOUR

This past week was the Open Door Studio Tour held by the Englehart Area Artists.  This was my first year to participate.  Since I live a little ways away from the tour area, I set up at the Heritage Centre in Charlton along with 4 other artists.

Here's a couple of shots of my area:

Mini-books, post-cards, greeting cards and watercolours.

Gift bags, mini quilts and infinity scarves.

Mother Nature co-operated with the added bonus of gorgeous fall colour.

A decorated door marked each studio location.

I'm now hoping that things will settle down for a bit.

Happy quilting,

Terry 

NOFA – Week-end Retreat 2014

This year, the Northern Ontario Fibre Artists met for a week-end retreat at Marie's cottage. This our third annual fun week-end.

Kit, Silvia, Marnie, Terry, Marie, Karen.
Jane was unable to attend this year.

As usual, we experimented with several techniques, ate great food and had lots of laughs.

Here's a few pictures from the week-end.

The Stained & Scorched article by Victoria Gertenbach in a recent Quilting Arts magazine was the inspiration for these pieces.  The cotton was "painted" with lemon juice and ironed with hot iron. Red wine works as well and gives a pinkish tinge.   This was really fun to play with and see what would happen.

Lemon juice and red wine stained and scorched

A closer look

We also experimented with stencils.

Terry and Silvia taking a break from stencilling

Next the paints came out and we mono printed, scraped, and stamped on fabric as well as water colour papers.

Scraping paint around with credit card and stamping with hand carved stamp on paper

These are greeting cards I made from some of mono printed paper

And of course, we had to have a pj picture.

Yummy dessert, a glass of wine and good company.  It does not get any better!

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

Happy Quilting,

Terry 

Broken Herringbone Placemats

From Quilt Top to Placemats

Quilt Documentation # 164

Broken Herringbone Placemat

This all started last winter when the quilt in this picture on someone's blog, of the Violet Craft booth at a show, caught my eye.

Violet Craft booth

I must have been in a sewing/piecing mood and thought that these 5” wide quilt strips that I had won a few years back would make a wonderful King size quilt.

5" "jelly roll"

This was my process:

sewing panels together

Assembling panels in long strip

I made four of these

These fabrics and colours are not me and I just could not go any further with the quilt idea.

Then I remembered I had previously cut up a quilt for placemats before, see here.

The strips were perfect to cut into placemats.  This is what they look like:

As cut from strip

Four more

back - plain white - 13" x 18"

I will be taking part in a Studio Tour at the end of the month so hopefully someone might be interested.

14 completed placemats (could make as many again)

Colour and fabric choices make such a difference. I just had a look at Violet's blog and found this quilt she made using the same pattern. I love her "Modern colour choices".

Link to The Needle and Thread Networks and Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting

Terry

Temagami Sunset

ART PROMPT - #12 – Use old make-up

Temagami Sunset - make-up painting

So the prompt is to use make-up to make something creative!

When I pulled this prompt, I thought “I don't have any old make-up”. Well guess what?  Don't   I throw anything away!

I was a little worried about not having enough variety of colour, so I did a test of what I had.

It looked like sunset colours to me. Here's my inspiration photo.

I chose a 9" x 12" (140 lb) watercolour paper.

I started by applying tanning make-up as background and using an eyeliner for the trees.  The rubber end on the eyeliner worked great for spreading the black around. 

Lip gloss and eye shadow did the rest.

Make-up used for painting

Temagami Sunset - make-up painting

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

See you next time,

Terry

NEXT ART PROMPT - #12 – Add something from nature.

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.

Yes You Can Do it Sampler

Quilt Documentation # 163

More quilt documentation, this one from year 2000.

Yes You Can Do It Sampler

This quilt was started in 1999 for a guild project on how to make a quilt from start to finish. The design was in a magazine at the time. Sorry, do not remember which. The progession each month went like this: Fan Block, Pieced Block, Applique, Lattice and Cornerstones, Borders, Quilt Sandwich, Quilting, Binding, and Show & Tell.

Fan Block

Pieced Block

Applique

back

label

Borders & Binding

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

Happy Quilting

Terry 

DOCUMENTATION:

Quilt Name: Yes You Can Do It Sampler

Description: 3 x 3 pieced and appliqued blocks in lattice setting

Pattern: from magazine ???

Size: 40” x 40”

Fabrics: 100% cotton

Predominant colours: Maroon, green, white, gold

Construction Techniques: Applique, piecing

Back: cotton

Batting:

Edge finish: Double fold french binding

Quilting: Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine

Quilted by: Terry Whyte

Sleeve: yes

Label: yes

Date completed: 2000

Maker: Terry Whyte

Postcard Fun #3

Six Postcards for one little kit.

These postcards were all made using only a few scraps and couple of pieces of wool.

I posted about making up little postcard kits (see here) with the idea of only using the bits and scraps in the kit.

So here are the results of another fun day.

These are the scraps I used for all 6 postcards:

Scrap kit

Cards in order made:

What was left after making 5 postcards.

Scraps left after making 5 postcards

Decided to try one more:

Arranged tiny pieces and covered with tulle before quilting

Turned out to be my favourite and I entered it in the Englehart Post Card Exhibit.
It sold at the Open House.

Northern Forest

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

Happy quilting,

Terry

Englehart Post Card Exhibit

The Englehart and Area Historical Museum hosted its second Juried Post Card Art Exhibit from July 17^th to August 3^rd.

Here are my 2 entries:

Northern Forest - sold during the Open House

Demoiselle

The Competition Standards were:

Art must be f4” x 6” postcard size

Art must be for sale

Art in any 2D medium

3D work with a depth no greater than 3/8”

Matted to 8” x 10” either landscape or portrait orientation

Mat to be white in colour

No framed works

Article and photo from The Temiskaming Speaker

June Simpson and her winning entry on the bottom - mine just happened to be above it.

Taking first place honours at the Postcard Exhibition hosted by the Englehart & Area Historical Museum is Kirkland Lake artist June Simpson standing beside her watercolour on yupo painting called “My Garden.” (Staff photo by Sue Nielsen)

Linking to The Needle and Thread Network WIP.

Happy stitching,

Terry