Priscilla's Two Day Jacket Class

Having taken Priscilla's jacket class a number of times, I didn't sign up for our club's class which was pretty much filled anyway!

However, since it was close by, I decided to stop in and take some pictures and nag people to finish!! No one actually finished but many were well on their way and had at least the back done and parts of the front. Priscilla actually taught two jackets in this class -- one a classic sleeved version and another she calls the "Butterfly Jacket" which is kind of a marriage of a vest and a jacket. I have made two of this kind of jacket and it is a wonderful starting place for making pieced clothing. You can see the jacket above is well on its way. I was really impressed with the color choices that the people in this group made -- some beautiful combinations.

Priscilla teaches an excellent class as I have mentioned before. She is super knowledgeable and shares very freely everything she knows. She can also be counted on to help later on if you don't finish in class. She never imposes her own tastes (unless it is to one of her friends and then she doesn't hesitate to tell you what she thinks!!).

This is some of the strips that were created by the end of the first day. It is a good loosening up exercise and gets you to look at your fabrics closely.

Here is a primary color scheme and it uses a strip set that I really like and hadn't seen before (the one on the right).

This was a beautiful combination. She started out with a whole rainbow of colors and then moved to this wonderful blue and yellow combination.

Here is another beautiful start to a jacket.

Priscilla is helping the ladies finish up here and has her "signature" diet coke sitting in front of her. I have never seen Priscilla without diet cokes somewhere nearby!

Everybody is around Priscilla to get directions for starting.

Jenna is hard at work here.

Another pretty combination of colors and strips!

And the Star of the Show -- Priscilla Kibbee

Today was the March meeting of the Genesee Valley Quilt club and Priscilla Kibbee did an trunk show of some of her more recent garments. She only bought 50 of her tremendously large collection of garments as she had done a trunk show for the same audience over ten years ago. It was a fantastic show and the models did a wonderful job of showing off the jackets and coats.

Mary was wearing this beautiful turquoise outfit -- not even a Bernina outfit and look how beautiful it is!

This is the tiger jacket with appliqued tigers all over!

This was one of the garments that was featured in either the Bernina or Fairfield Fashion Show (Bernina took over the show from Fairfield).

This is Priscilla's interpretation of a Rachel Clark pattern. It just sparkled.

This is the back of a beautiful turquoise and orange jacket.

Priscilla (you can see her blog on my blog list) travels all over the world and uses many purchased textiles and embellishments in her jackets. She even creates many from patterns she has drafted.

It is truly amazing how much you can learn in just one class from her. I am a relatively competent seamstress but I learned so much about how to alter garments, structure them as well as designing for garments that are essentially three dimensional.

It is no surprise that she got a standing ovation at the end of the trunk show!! I have only seen that a couple of times in the 12 years I have been in the Club.

To see the whole show, follow this link: https://picasaweb.google.com/Elizabeth.Brandkamp/20110310GvqcMarchMeeting##

This was a stunning quilt that was part of our show and tell. I didn't get any of the names today unfortunately.

I also loved this beautiful quilt.

This is an album quilt which is our 2011 raffle quilt. It contains scenes from various Rochester area sights. It was hand quilted by Chris Wickert and if you go to the GVQC.org website, you can see a better picture than this that shows all the stitching. It is a beautiful quilt and was appraised at $8500 which is not a surprise!

This was a beautiful applique row quilt.

Here a Duck, There a Duck, Everywhere a Duck Duck...

After going to the ACC show, I decided I may as well swing by the Irondequoit Bay Outlet into Lake Ontario on my way home.

Unfortunately, I was not dressed for the very cold weather. The ducks were everywhere and so many different kinds. I again went Friday morning and spotted these two American Wigeons (male and female), a species I hadn't seen before.

Here you can see the facial white on the male Wigeon. He did have the iridescent green head as well so I can add these birds to my list!
There were the everpresent Greylag Geese and this one was more distinctive than the rest. The geese (both Greylag and Canada) are very, very noisy now!!

Here is a group of Redheads and Scaups -- there were Greater and Lesser Scaups there today and LOTS of Redheads.

More Redheads and Scaups.

This was a particularly handsome Red Breasted Merganser who was hanging out with the gang!

Of course the male and female Scaups were with the Merganser constantly.

Here is a Common Goldeneye (the one to the left) with a Scaup.

I had never seen American Coots up here but there are several there now.

Here is a Common Merganser with a couple of Redheads.

Another new sighting (although they were really distant) were the Canvasbacks. Another birder was there and commented that he had seen a lot of these the past few days mixed in with the Redheads. I finally spotted them off in the distance and he confirmed I was right!

This birder also showed me pictures of the Wood Ducks he had taken that morning at the Outlet. He said he had seen eagles and Harlequin Ducks here also on different days as well as the falcons. There are nesting eagles at the foot of the bay now although I haven't seen them yet. Another thing to look forward to.
Another closer picture of the Red Breasted male Merganser. I think he is quite handsome.

With the usual ducks, geese and gulls, I counted 14 different species mingling in the icy water. And this is a 7 1/2 minute commute from my house!! Awesome....

RAFA March Meeting and Arts Council Show

Hard to believe that Anne has yet another vest that she has felted. I know how much work this is!! She does a beautiful job and I particularly like this one!

Here is Anne yet again with a nuno felted scarf to go with the vest! Definite a high achiever.

We all got a big kick out of this tshirt quilt by Mary W whose son wanted a new blanket! This was her test one!

Donna had a ton of stuff to show including these two nuno felted scarves, at least one of which was using her indigo vat dyed silks.

Caris also shared a new felted scarf. My arms just ached thinking of all the rolling of the tubes they did to get these beautiful scarves.

This was a memorial piece done by Brenda. This will be in the library show at Cazenovia in June.

Mary has been using her marbled fabric in the Ricky Tims pattern with wonderful thread painting on top. This is one of several she has done.

After show and tell and scooping up all of Priscilla's wonderful textiles she had purchased on a recent Nepal and India trip, we headed off to a wonderful group lunch at the Gateway Cafe at Village Gate. The food was excellent and will have to go there again! Unfortunately, I didn't have room for the desserts which looked super yummy!

This is Caren B's entry into our Arts and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester Show which is up until the end of March. This is very different from Caren's usual pictoral quilts. I loved it!!

This was Margaret's piece commemorating her teaching trip to Kenya last spring.

You can see my heron on this wall.

Elaine did a beautiful job with this minimalist piece.

This was Sarah's beautiful thread painted daffodil.

Lemons to Lemonade, Snow to Snow Dyes

This is about 1/8 of a 2 yard piece of my most recent snow resist dyes. These were literally done with old dyes that had been in solution for a week as well as some miscellaneous small bottles of dyes with no labels so I had no idea what color I would get. I don't even know if I got any color from them!! Really is time to order some of my favorite colors! This was a pretty raspberry colored piece though -- looks like flowers to me!

This was my favorite of the three tshirts I did. I have since overdyed two others but I am still not satisfied with one so will probably overdye again!! Again these are the Basic Editions from Kmart. I like the colors and patterning on this one. I wait for them to be on sale and then buy all in white in two sizes at least!

Again like the above, about 1/8 of a two yard piece. This was mostly yellows and basic brown.

This is a pretty rich piece with lots of different colors. This shows only a small bit of the whole piece.

Nancy C came today to get some help from Priscilla in adding shoulder pads to a garment she had made in one of Priscilla's classes. It is just a beautiful jacket!

This is the back view of the above jacket. Lots of Seminole and couching here.

The tick marks on the main freezer paper pattern for my lions are pretty much done. Now just to find an 8 foot by 8 foot design wall space in my house so I can complete the piece!!

Priscilla is proceeding with her leaves and they are really shaping up.

Marcia was working on her newest jacket but we won't see a picture until next time!