Back to Rochester (read Gloom) and RAFA

I finally got the Yellowstone piece hung up so that you can see it as you go down the stairs from the third to second floors at the beach house. My email friends helped me find just the right place to hang it. There are so many wonderful empty walls at this house just waiting for quilt art to be hung!! (Of course I have to pass everything by daughter first as she is co-owner) I have to make a new hanging post for one of my pieces from Priscilla (a beautiful Equadorian rug with two stylized cats in exactly the colors of the house on it) but that will get hung up so that you can see it coming up the stairs when I next go to NC.

These are the clever reversible placemats I made with some fabric from Joanns just to see how the process worked. It is basically one placemat with four different sides! I made six in very quick time. Each side of each placemat takes a fat quarter of fabric.

After the glorious days in North Carolina, Rochester and its traditional fall gloom and rain are a bit depressing. The last few days in North Carolina were spent with family and getting the house ready for some renters who are coming down in a couple of weeks. We will be back down again for Thanksgiving and then onto Florida for three weeks! I could get used to warm weather and sunshine without much trouble!

The October Rochester Area Fiber Artists (RAFA) meeting was yesterday and there are always surprises! We had a new visitor who is a dyer (yeh) and teaches it locally and sounds as obsessed as a number of us are! Hopefully, she will bring some of her work to a meeting so we can see what she does. I am always amazed at everyone's slightly different look -- I can always pick out my fabrics from a pile!

This was a piece that Janet Root started in a class with Bob Adams at QBL this last summer. She used his dense stitching technique to embellish this piece. We decided we liked it better than many of his pieces!! Janet is a meticulous worker with a great design sensibility.
This was one of several vessels that were made by a new member. She created the dyed felted surfaces and then used stiffener to make them into vessels. They were all beautiful. They were made with silk and nylon organza and she used a technique she found in a Quilting Arts magazine which utilized RIT dyes. We cautioned her that the RIT dyes wouldn't work on the cottons and rayons (which she had found out for herself).


This was one of three pieces that Barb Seils had begun in Nancy Crow workshops. They will be appearing in our group show in Old Forge NY starting on October 10 through November 11.