Recent Work
2009 has sucked for art, although that is changing NOW as of summer vacation. Work has taken so much of my time, that I still have tons of stuff in progress, but I have finished very little since the start of the year. The first piece finished in 2009 was Here.
3-Piece Family was finished in August, after sitting around since the end of June, because the quilt spoke to me and suggested hand embroidery. It took a while for me to hear exactly what it wanted.
The second piece finished in August was Stump.
There is still work to be done this year…there is one half quilted, one pinbasted, three quilt tops ready to be stitched down, two quilt tops ready to be ironed onto fabric, plus one that is quilted and bound, but needs drastic painting or something. That’s plenty of work that could be finished this year.
2008
2008 was a better year for artmaking. I beat out 2007’s completion rate by 100%. I’m feeling good about that.
Birdsick had 17 names until it got that one. My smaller sketchbook has a lot of simpler, smaller drawings in it that seem to have birds as their focus. Birdhead (scroll WAY down) is one of them, as is Birdfoot (still unfinished). This one used my son as a model, although it looks nothing like him…for one thing, his nose faces the right way. But he was sick when I drew him; hence the title.
25 1/2″w x 20 1/2″h, July 2008
The colors above are more accurate than when I tried taking shots before, but it’s still problematic.
I think the blue is so vibrant, it just really messes with every other color on there.
Trapped in a Room with You sat around for months waiting for me to put beads and embroidery on it. Then I decided it didn’t need it. You could argue that it was completed back in February or March, but since the mental decision process of Is It Done Yet? was not completed until July, that’s the date I’m considering it finished. Plus I really don’t remember when the binding was stitched on (don’t go back to my blog and tell me…I don’t want to know!).
36″w x 43 1/2″h, July 2008
This is one of those quilts with that bright magenta that camera loves to hate. Details below…
I spent hours on the tiny stipple (and no, it’s not really TINY, just compared to most of mine). It was wacky.
The background was actually a hand-dye of my own, one of the “soak up all the excess dye” pieces.
Here’s a detail of a piece I can’t show yet, in case it gets into a show that doesn’t want it posted ANYWHERE until it’s accepted or rejected. Okey dokey. I follow your rules.
I didn’t get in (no shock lately), so here’s the whole piece and some more details…Untied was finished in May 2008.
50 3/4″ wide by 55 1/2″ high
Here are some detail shots.
This next piece is named Loosely Wound. I was living with the new title for a while (since I called it spiral woman for a long time until I decided it needed a real name, which happens often enough…sometimes quilts don’t tell me what they’re called for months on end).
45″w x 45 1/2″h, July 2008
I wonder why I didn’t make it square? Um. Because I don’t measure that way. A few details below.
The piece below, Anger Management, was drawn in 2001, but refused to be finished until January 2008.
I didn’t realize I haven’t officially taken pictures of this one. Duh.
Primal Scream was finished on January 1st or 3rd. I needed a little extra time to finish the embroidery, so I didn’t get it done in 2007.
52 1/2″ w x 62″ h
A few detail shots…
Unfinished Work
This is half quilted, but I’m not happy with it, so it got bumped out from under the machine.
Part of that Bird series, still in progress, is Birdfoot. It needs quilting and lots of work.
