tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90012575276117680422024-02-07T01:19:00.468-08:00Carol Gilham Jones Quilts, etc.Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-57368608789638245262012-04-23T12:16:00.002-07:002012-04-23T12:16:25.806-07:00Look What Bobbi's Done<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here is a photo of the latest tile quilt by my friend and co-author, Bobbi Finley:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's terrific! The orange peel block is patterned in our book, Tile Quilt Revival. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I'm fascinated by the secondary circle patterns she created in repeating the block.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Check out Bobbi's blog, </span><a href="http://bobbifinleytilequilts.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" target="_blank">http://bobbifinleytilequilts.blogspot.com/</a> , <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to see what she has to say about her quilt.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-51793322194901341202012-03-27T09:48:00.000-07:002012-03-27T09:48:44.425-07:00Another Perpetual Project<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My new perpetual project combines two types of quiltmaking I'm particularly interested in: </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tile quilt construction</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tessellated piecing</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. And I'm hoping it results in a dancing, calligraphic overall look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The quilt top will be constructed of identical, irregular four-sided blocks in which each side is a different length. They will tessellate, which just means that as long as all the blocks are right-side-up they will fit together to form a gapless plane. Any four-sided shape will tessellate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The blocks are constructed in a hand-applique tile quilt method. See <i>Tile Quilt Revival: Reinventing a Forgotten Form</i> for instructions on preparing and stitching tile blocks. The look that results is that of fabric "tiles" surrounded by narrow channels of background fabric "grout." See the Orange Peel block at the top of this column, the cover of <i>Tile Quilt Revival</i>, and the workshop block to the right for examples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here are a couple of photos of the few individual blocks I've stitched so far:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With these blocks my idea was to make the calligraphic "tiles" dark and the other "tiles" very close in value to the scrappy background fabrics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's a photo showing how the blocks will tessellate:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As you can see, the two blocks on the right are pin basted but not yet stitched. There will be less background fabric between blocks when they are pieced, which will improve the flow of the darker shapes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Should keep my hands busy at stitch group get-togethers for quite awhile.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-62850405840666017792012-03-08T16:01:00.000-08:002012-03-08T16:01:24.459-08:00Perpetual Projects<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Being involved in a couple of small stitch groups that meet at least weekly, I like to have a long-term hand sewing project to carry around and keep me occupied. Emphasis on long-term--a perpetual project, one that will keep me occupied for many, many, many months and during that span of time will be ready to grab as I head out the door. So it was with some regret, but mostly with real satisfaction, that I recently completed a perpetual project.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I used a traditional applique pattern, Hickory Leaf, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">very slightly modified </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from Barbara Brackman's book, </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">America's Printed Fabrics, 1770-1890</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Here is Barbara's version, which uses large-scale reproduction prints on neutral background: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's what I did with contemporary prints:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bad photo of a quilt that is too large to light well and too large to fit flat on my design wall... The color shows better in these details:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's festive. Kris Barlow did a terrific job of machine-quilting it. I love the way it looks on a (queen-size) bed:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next time--a preview of the new perpetual project.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-12019816236668127122012-02-20T12:53:00.000-08:002012-02-20T13:06:04.568-08:00The Great Shirley Greenhoe<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I do mean great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shirley is an extraordinary machine quilter. On page 36 of <i>Tile Quilt Revival </i>there is a photo of Shirley's quilting of a tile quilt of mine that features printed hydrangeas and stitched circles. As always, Shirley's design for the quilting brings it all together perfectly--beautifully stitched hydrangea blossoms combined with spirals upon spirals. But that's another story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today's actual topic is Shirley's brilliant taking tile technique to another level! She is using tile construction method to create a terrific border on a Tree of Life medallion quilt:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The graceful lines of the tile border work so beautifully with the crisp geometry of the tree leaves and the pieced inner borders. Here are a couple of details:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love it that Shirley used light grout (background fabric) in the border strips and dark grout for the fans/shells. The combination makes for a nice positive/negative play. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shirley's quilt is obviously a work in progress, and I can hardly wait to see how it develops. I understand there may be more tile technique in the works.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks, Shirley, for sharing. I hope you'll let all of us see the completed quilt.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-92191012850897249592012-02-10T12:19:00.000-08:002012-02-10T12:19:12.474-08:00Dog Day<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We recently celebrated the 10th birthday of our mutt, Sumo. We've pretty much ignored the previous 9, but 10 means 70 in dog years, and this one just seemed too important to pass over. Here's the cake (divided in two to be shared with her friend, Grace):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Name notwithstanding, Sumo is of the female persuasion--she got the name by being pushy. Here she and Grace are waiting to be told they can taste the cake:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And here's the Sumo dog hopelessly smitten with her present, a little stuffed beaver:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I learned from reading the dog DNA story in the current issue of National Geographic that her Andy Rooney eyebrows are called "furnishings." Nice.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-6003530366103783292012-01-10T11:25:00.000-08:002012-01-10T11:25:47.409-08:00Quilt Talk Radio!<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy New Year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's a link to Pat's website: </span><a href="http://www.creativetalknetwork.com/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.creativetalknetwork.com/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bobbi and I will be guests on Pat's show next</span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"> Monday, January 16</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, 2012. It's 4:00 Eastern Time, so remember to adjust for your time zone if you plan to listen to the live broadcast. Go to this link to listen: </span><a href="http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/radio/index.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">www.allpeoplequilt.com/radio/index.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We will be talking about tile quilts and our book, Tile Quilt Revival. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I was in 9th grade I won a pair of (cheap) shoes for being Best Dressed Girl on the local television dance show, Hi Fi Hop. I've waited a long time for this second showbiz opportunity, and I'm excited about it. I hope you can be in the audience.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The blue-green fingerprint with the occasional black dot is glazed, which gives it a wonderful crispness. And it is vintage--exactly what vintage, I don't know, but it was well-aged when I got it years ago at Beverly Hills Silks & Woolens. BHS&W was a set decorator's paradise where bark cloth and 36"-wide fabric, as well as almost anything else you fancied, could still be found on the bolt. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The other fingerprint fabric is an African Dutch wax print. I like the two together--the fingerprint collection.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doing lots of fusing I made a small top, displayed it along with other challenge results at the retreat, and then put it away. But, when I came across it recently, I was happy to see it again and thought it deserved to be quilted. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Done and done.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-12422344267010357332011-10-31T11:42:00.000-07:002011-10-31T11:42:56.130-07:00All that glitters...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks to Linda Frost for a swell idea! Sitting on my back porch, Linda asked if the privacy fence around the back garden belonged to us or the neighbor. When I told her it is ours, she brightened and said she had seen a photo online of just such a fence with marbles in it. Not long after she left that afternoon, Linda sent the link, and I was pretty knocked out. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday my husband helped me drill holes in a section of our fence where afternoon sun streams through the slats. We made two basic sizes of holes and then customized most of them with a burr to accommodate the somewhat-less-than-uniform small and medium marbles. Here is the happy result:</span><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-52502943825149132602011-10-14T14:37:00.000-07:002011-10-17T09:19:46.727-07:00Taking the "U" out of UFO's<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bobbi Finley and I are winding up a new book, which C&T Publishing will be releasing in August 2012. We are very excited about it and will tell you more about it as the release date nears.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We made some really terrific quilts for the new book. A LOT of quilts--there are <u>18 projects!</u></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We had a wonderful time making the quilts for the book, but, in order to get them all done by deadline, we didn't work on much else for quite awhile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now that the deadline has come and gone, I am all about finishing, finishing, finishing some of those UFO's cluttering my shelves. So, imagine my smile when local quilter Lori Kukuk, recently empty-nested on account of the Boston Red Sox organization's drafting her son for its pitching squad, expressed a need for something to keep her occupied... She took a top I put together in 1996 (Clinton was President, and we'd never heard of Homeland Security) and quilted it with a simple, overall design.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's a photo of the quilt, not yet bound:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Made in 1996 by Carol Gilham Jones using Grandmother Themer's blocks and fabric from Louise Townsend and Marion Mengel.</span><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-76456038088142167162011-10-10T12:03:00.000-07:002011-10-10T12:03:47.611-07:00Crossroads<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Douglas County AIDS Project's annual fundraising art auction is coming up. Last year a small group of us made and donated <i>Vuvuzela:</i></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUEahTkdPtICCdzAng-Z3zwk5_T3UXBQJzc5JAhhz2IsXJ2aiFG5yOFtFYNsTEgCK3HLI52JwJE7zyBUEJB6XBnCoEvC9iKvActKMQGGPpeR2LnD3bx6j82A4tVaj63MU6qJXR_2PcFfCO/s1600/IMG_2530.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUEahTkdPtICCdzAng-Z3zwk5_T3UXBQJzc5JAhhz2IsXJ2aiFG5yOFtFYNsTEgCK3HLI52JwJE7zyBUEJB6XBnCoEvC9iKvActKMQGGPpeR2LnD3bx6j82A4tVaj63MU6qJXR_2PcFfCO/s320/IMG_2530.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This year we've gone in quite a different direction. A member of our quilt guild inspired us when she showed an antique silk quilt that has been in her family and on which she'd been doing some conservation work. We slightly modified the pattern of the antique quilt and stitched blocks using primarily remnants from a tie maker. We unified the composition by using a dark red, changeable silk in two corners of each block. The quilting is machine herringbone stitch on major seam lines. Here's the happy result:</span><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-24621533656377768222011-09-01T14:28:00.000-07:002011-09-01T14:28:11.472-07:00Sarah's Challenge(s)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Back from the top of the world.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, back in the Heartland now and back to the design wall and the sewing machine, with an August 1 manuscript deadline behind me and UFO's to transform into FO's. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sarah's first challenge is DONE:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAVz1KFWjbRZ4NRVihOaZg5M_0zRw-XYgC3HMXK-jyHx5SCi25G6tzgf90SDTZ9b7rd8-qv1caw5pKPgQvjSYXrHjQgBL7K3oiBCBTTpqS38iVfXJbWQtriB90IVtDdf9pljBHnoGDnYw/s1600/426-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAVz1KFWjbRZ4NRVihOaZg5M_0zRw-XYgC3HMXK-jyHx5SCi25G6tzgf90SDTZ9b7rd8-qv1caw5pKPgQvjSYXrHjQgBL7K3oiBCBTTpqS38iVfXJbWQtriB90IVtDdf9pljBHnoGDnYw/s320/426-1.JPG" width="302" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As promised with acceptance of the fat quarter (see the border) that started this challenge, it will go in the mini-quilt auction, proceeds to non-profits, at our guild show next spring.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At the guild's show-and-tell, it w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">as great fun to see the variety of ways folks used the challenge fabric. Sarah rose to the occasion and announced a second challenge. This time, 3 solids--deep blue, brown, and violet. She had "a little bit Amish" in mind. Here's the top I've made, which I'm calling, Not at All Amish:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-ZjBXs9mczkWAidi4-6Yc5_PO7ePRnfg_0fEeM7UOgjLCcks4b2Tdkpob5JITfpK6Mz0V7tFcDNTmSEs4Jxll8kfFeIxK0hZexDVygGnhZeoSczIc7KSbQpE5ivZWHn2iktDDJNrQoxJ/s1600/Not+at+All+Amish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-ZjBXs9mczkWAidi4-6Yc5_PO7ePRnfg_0fEeM7UOgjLCcks4b2Tdkpob5JITfpK6Mz0V7tFcDNTmSEs4Jxll8kfFeIxK0hZexDVygGnhZeoSczIc7KSbQpE5ivZWHn2iktDDJNrQoxJ/s320/Not+at+All+Amish.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's a detail in which you can see the 3 solids:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwkmhK1Ry99p4DPWN6HjyM07Muv8I4L4sIs3I24CEEyYflMXOhEs8ZpdkIiH4ij3c7tcDmiw0DCyy9EZS_n6QYIllBrmS5ceoOUPlhHrU6gqVpG8E0cpET3vzMaqRL8Of-UJFd2Au_Iod/s1600/Not+at+All+Amish%252C+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwkmhK1Ry99p4DPWN6HjyM07Muv8I4L4sIs3I24CEEyYflMXOhEs8ZpdkIiH4ij3c7tcDmiw0DCyy9EZS_n6QYIllBrmS5ceoOUPlhHrU6gqVpG8E0cpET3vzMaqRL8Of-UJFd2Au_Iod/s320/Not+at+All+Amish%252C+detail.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The violet is a beautiful thistle color, isn't it?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy September:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIAHqO2sl-kLYsrLVYNroFReofdZeHG32sgaMyD_0RiKGvaRAhez2gX12GWU1aSfQHPZWAvh12_gubVFy6HCd0qbpARTZO2JICW53uoBSmaFROiI7KB_X2A1Wstyq8T91G2-QHwOEF_ryW/s1600/September+Thistle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIAHqO2sl-kLYsrLVYNroFReofdZeHG32sgaMyD_0RiKGvaRAhez2gX12GWU1aSfQHPZWAvh12_gubVFy6HCd0qbpARTZO2JICW53uoBSmaFROiI7KB_X2A1Wstyq8T91G2-QHwOEF_ryW/s320/September+Thistle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-75636308824835822372011-07-22T07:49:00.000-07:002011-07-22T07:49:11.025-07:00As Anticipated<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm happy to report that Carol Taylor's free-cut workshop was as enjoyable as anticipated. A day with a pile of favorite fabrics and no templates--how could it not be great?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My somber group of fabrics, with dashes of yellow-green and school bus yellow thrown in, got the nod. Here is what is up on my design wall now:</span><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-27137213054501391522011-07-18T13:41:00.000-07:002011-07-18T13:41:55.990-07:00Exciting Prospect<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Carol Taylor, a marvelous contemporary quiltmaker, is the guest speaker/teacher at our guild this week. I'm signed up to participate in her Circles workshop on Wednesday, and I'm very much looking forward to it. It will be interesting and exciting to hear what she has to say about design process; and it will be such fun to spend a day sewing without a fixed purpose for the sewn product. That last part is what comes of sewing, for months, quilts intended for a book. As rewarding as that is, there's nothing like "aimless" cutting and stitching. So, I'm more than ready to wake up Wednesday morning with the prospect of a day devoted to freely playing with color and pattern and learning a fresh approach or approaches to my favorite geometric shape, the circle. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here are the fabric arrays I've gathered (with a day still to go and, as always, reserving the right to change my mind for any or no reason):</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFehobVdy7sTdiysr0wC_PK5DY6JbFB29sWB1kW21iBhdSISmx3KqpqZZF8W1vXpi9_jkoLRJ6tUneTWxr-91U8yixvefCnv9-JyESB8Kcry0Q32dzYU04wwrM7HneCbtHWL7L4d_wGwb1/s1600/Taylor+workshop+fabrics+003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFehobVdy7sTdiysr0wC_PK5DY6JbFB29sWB1kW21iBhdSISmx3KqpqZZF8W1vXpi9_jkoLRJ6tUneTWxr-91U8yixvefCnv9-JyESB8Kcry0Q32dzYU04wwrM7HneCbtHWL7L4d_wGwb1/s320/Taylor+workshop+fabrics+003.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's the other. Predominantly swimming pool blue and deeper values of swimming pool blue. It's in the upper 90's and humid here. Has been for well over a week with no cool front on the horizon. Wonder why I'm drawn to that lagoony blue..... Not just in this fabric bundle, either. I just got home from the paint store with lagoony blue chips to consider for our dining room wall, which currently is red. How do you suppose I'll feel about that lovely cool color when the season has changed?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stay cool. Don't change major wall colors during extreme weather--tantamount to grocery shopping while famished.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Looking forward to Wednesday. </span><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-50522870610006024202011-06-16T17:46:00.000-07:002011-06-16T17:46:33.945-07:00Workshop Wonders<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here is a a basted block from a workshop earlier this week:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's right! A doily surrounded by tile pieces. Don't they make a fine combination? The maker of this block was pleased with the look of it, but noted that the edges of the doily would have to be securely stitched to the background fabric if she were going to have someone machine quilt it for her. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Another workshop participant pieced and fussy cut one of the circles in her block to give this great mirror image effect:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePPg9U8bwEhDdojlukpFkxkZ8FPAHNWaX3ablvo0S2mKkZBwdWW-FIrazCS3a63BkvKU4qY-7Psw8h3dUzp6B5-J7Y76qgJU2yDJka6QGxnIbZF5jQEX9OngFG62WxJozU-olmJK10L_r/s1600/pieced+circle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhePPg9U8bwEhDdojlukpFkxkZ8FPAHNWaX3ablvo0S2mKkZBwdWW-FIrazCS3a63BkvKU4qY-7Psw8h3dUzp6B5-J7Y76qgJU2yDJka6QGxnIbZF5jQEX9OngFG62WxJozU-olmJK10L_r/s1600/pieced+circle.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And how about these paisley orange peel shapes?</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjkbphBaLYFCjZmG1rAup3Mjblz94QsfWJoChLkVGXKpg136axXl0-f3uNjzNuNaLchzXHybys-8Ddh2XVqZVkSRhgBM9oRgyYwn0E82tYCTkvhFzmupMuL8rDYcdufg5dC_mH6GGeV2y/s1600/Paula%2527s.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjkbphBaLYFCjZmG1rAup3Mjblz94QsfWJoChLkVGXKpg136axXl0-f3uNjzNuNaLchzXHybys-8Ddh2XVqZVkSRhgBM9oRgyYwn0E82tYCTkvhFzmupMuL8rDYcdufg5dC_mH6GGeV2y/s1600/Paula%2527s.JPG" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pretty wonderful.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-35025124545328047602011-06-08T08:42:00.000-07:002011-06-08T08:42:53.526-07:00Sarah's Challenge<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sarah Fayman of Sarah's (fabulous) Fabrics in Lawrence, KS, is issuing a fat quarter of this fabric--</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtYQelETrJ7v6lmbIEOQkGXyLJDs6viCMAWfBJM61TWfxQ7QzOehLCR42ZkAHNk7qV93d-2zzxMpLCG4oGenkkMJocH9-URejTxihn4N6MM5gbdWzzg8ZpzBrwXxm_lTYL0651I-8JkCRF/s1600/THM+fabric.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtYQelETrJ7v6lmbIEOQkGXyLJDs6viCMAWfBJM61TWfxQ7QzOehLCR42ZkAHNk7qV93d-2zzxMpLCG4oGenkkMJocH9-URejTxihn4N6MM5gbdWzzg8ZpzBrwXxm_lTYL0651I-8JkCRF/s320/THM+fabric.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to any member of the Kaw Valley Quilt Guild who will use it to make a small quilt, c. 18'' to 24'', to donate to the guild's mini-quilt auction for charitable purposes. A very real aspect of this challenge is to use such a large-scale print in a small quilt. After pondering the possibilities, I decided a tile block centering on the challenge fabric and bordered with it was my answer. Here's the block in progress--you may be able to see the needle and thread poised to stitch the central circles of the challenge fabric:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGICRXxDxYztl1iU-5GpbKoW0heuJmWMVNmDNh092KB24h9jsQ5TssZ8t83ZwOX118Dk0YizjfPvZu8H5nCfVuAOrBnNLs9EB62l3_m5Z-xw6riByxpmDLpMh_eZiicghuqD3zpFVIj8A/s1600/tile+block+with+THM+fabric+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGICRXxDxYztl1iU-5GpbKoW0heuJmWMVNmDNh092KB24h9jsQ5TssZ8t83ZwOX118Dk0YizjfPvZu8H5nCfVuAOrBnNLs9EB62l3_m5Z-xw6riByxpmDLpMh_eZiicghuqD3zpFVIj8A/s320/tile+block+with+THM+fabric+002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll post a photo of the completed block with the border.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sarah plans to make this an ongoing challenge, issuing fat quarters of a different fabric every few months. It's going to be fun to see what people come up with, and it's a great idea for stocking our mini-quilt auction.</span></div>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-3889543631840770142011-06-02T13:15:00.000-07:002011-06-02T13:31:42.857-07:00Atlasta Hasselblad<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, here is the perfectly sized and detailed Hasselblad crocheted by Nadra Dangerfield for John Gary Brown:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's awesome from every angle:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And something else delightful--an illustrated edition of <i>The Elements of Style</i>! Not just any illustrations, but illustrations by Maira Kalman. She is a visual columnist for The New York Times and writes the blog, And the Pursuit of Happiness. She has such an interesting and quirky way of looking at the world--her Illustration for <i>The Elements of Style's</i> Table of Contents is a watermelon pink package tied with string...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I came across the wonderful little volume while sorting books at lunchtime today. The Friends of our local public library twice a year conducts a grand sale of donated books. Proceeds, of course, benefit the library. I help in a tiny way by sorting books into sale categories. It's always a joy to come across something unknown or unexpected, and it certainly was a joy today to find, of all things, the classic style manual with charming illustrations.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-53620401006993140872011-05-14T14:31:00.000-07:002011-05-14T14:31:02.284-07:00Off the Subject<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A bit of a departure is always good.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A friend has sent this link:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cmybacon.com/2011/05/hand-stitched-vogue-covers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CMYBacon+(CMYBacon)">http://www.cmybacon.com/2011/05/hand-stitched-vogue-covers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CMYBacon+(CMYBacon)</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She sent it with the mild disclaimer, "I'm not sure I understand the impulse." Ditto. But I would say, I do not understand the impulse. Understanding why is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">absolutely unnecessary to enjoying the product, though. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It reminded me of when a friend crocheted a perfectly sized and detailed Hasselblad for a photographer. Tune in again soon for photos of the stitched camera.</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-80463961516483773902011-04-15T10:12:00.000-07:002011-04-15T10:12:57.093-07:00Variations on a Theme<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have such a good time teaching a tile block workshop. It never fails--there are always interesting people in a workshop who quickly absorb the simple, direct construction of a tile block and then make it a means to express themselves. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To illustrate the point, here are just a few photos of blocks-in-progress from a workshop yesterday afternoon in North Kansas City. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Another quilter used floral prints in an unexpected and wonderful way--as the tail of a shooting star.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Several quilters worked with Oriental-theme fabrics. Both chose dark background fabrics; one, in fact, chose black, but that black was patterned with gold and will add a rich dimension to the block once she has revealed it by stitching the tiles down.</span><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-86319583893251197032011-04-07T13:36:00.000-07:002011-04-07T13:36:13.497-07:00Soft Tile Trivets!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ruthmary Schnauer of C&T Publishing has posted a fun entry at <a href="http://www.ctpubblog.com/">http://www.ctpubblog.com/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At an in-house "craft camp," Ruthmary taught her colleagues how to make soft trivets using C&T's product, Insul-Fleece, and designs from <i>Tile Quilt Revival. </i>There are some great photos in her blog, and she gives step-by-step instructions. Have fun. </span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-11055774841902682232011-03-14T09:40:00.000-07:002011-03-14T09:40:51.860-07:00Pattern ID<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's something quilters will identify with--<i>Pattern ID</i>, a current exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. I can't tell you how happy it made me. And, if you love pattern, and if you're a quilter I'm guessing you do, it will be an exciting experience for you, too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Judi teaches and has written a wonderful book, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Collage + Cloth = Quilt</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, about her technique for designing quilts from collages of personal photos. A haiku by Claudia Alldredge, one of Judi's students, says it very well:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The quilts Judi has designed and made based on photo collages are truly breathtaking, and you can see many of them on her website. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lucky, lucky me--I am one of the quiltmakers who has had the opportunity to learn Judi's design strategy from her. Here is my quilt, <i>Water Ways</i>, designed from a collage of photos of water plants, reflections, and a stone wall:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can see from these details that <i>Water Ways</i> is machine-pieced with just a couple of incidental hand-stitched details and machine-quilted:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And if you want to do a little shopping after feasting your eyes on Judi's quilts, also featured on the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">new website are Judi's delightful stitched paper quilts. I'm very happy to say that one of the paper quilts, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Patron Saint of Seamstresses</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, graces my studio. Now that I've seen her on the new website, I'm longing to have Gertrude here, too.... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Welcome to the web, Judi.</span><br />
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</span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001257527611768042.post-1208397288115754702011-02-14T08:54:00.000-08:002011-02-14T08:54:08.829-08:00Spotlight on Ann Burgess<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ann Burgess (a/k/a C. Ann Burgess) is a magician with fabric. She dyes, paints, and marbles the most marvelous fabrics and then incorporates them into stunning quilts of her own design. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ann made a tile quilt that is included in the Gallery of Contemporary Tile Quilts in <i>Tile Quilt Revival</i>: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The <b>only</b> commercial fabric she used on the top is the gray batik background fabric in the blocks, which you see as the narrow channels of "grout" around the tiles. All other fabrics you see are hand marbled, dyed, and painted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The tile quilt technique, with its large and simple shapes, creates an ideal showcase for interesting fabrics. Ann recognized the potential in a tile quilt for putting her fabrics to good use. She designed 15" tile blocks with large, graceful tile shapes that show her fabrics to great advantage:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here is a detail of one of her exotic dragonflies:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In this last detail, in addition to the marbled tile fabrics, you can see a bit of the fabrics Ann painted and dyed for the inner and outer borders of her quilt:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks, Ann, for sharing your inspired creations. </span>Carol Gilham Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863701321609907318noreply@blogger.com4