The show was a big success!

Yesterday was the opening reception for my art show at the Bellefonte Art Museum. (Current exhibits). The museum is an old house in an historic Victorian town. The person that hung my show (Lori) did a great job. I was really pleased with how it looked.

It was an ego boosting experience. There were a lot of people that came through and they really, really liked my work. Of course plenty of people said I should sell my quilts. I suppose I should have put some prices on things, but am still skeptical that things would have sold. Or maybe I'm not ready to part with them yet....

Here are some photos. The first one is my friend Ellie and I in front of my most recent circle quilt.  I am the grinning fool on the left. My energy quilts got a lot of attention. I don't think people had seen anything like them before. What was also amazing is how many people got that they looked beautiful from a distance, but then when you look at them up close you see they reveal an ugly problem. A lot of people really liked the toxic barrel one....go figure!

I never took a photo of this quilt that was also in the show. This one got a lot of attention.  It is based on a Frank Lloyd Wright window.  I almost wish I had put a price on it. That price would have been $600 ($450 plus some added for the 30% commission the museum takes). Not sure people would have payed that much!

Visions Past 19 in by 26 in

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Chris

Blocking in progress

Well I finished quilting the toxic barrels and it is now blocking. With our rainy humid weather who knows how many days it will take to to dry!  Then of course I get to trim it and sew on facings and sleeves....yuck.  I can't believe how many times I changed thread color while quilting this....certainly much more than a normal quilt.  At any rate we are now on the home stretch!

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Chris

“Taking its Toll” is ready to quilt

Linking to Nina-Marie.  http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/  Check out the quilt artists on her blog.

“Taking it’s Toll” 13 inches by 35 inches

I fused and stitched all the pieces down. I have picked my backing fabric and will be able to quilt this next week. We are going to New Jersey for the weekend so quilting will have to wait until then. 

Here are some close up photos that show the colors and the fabric better.

I took all the ideas for titles for the quilt from a few weeks ago and created a poem titled "Profitable pollution"

Profitable pollution

Human arrogance

The road that leads to nowhere

Time to wake up

We say we care

Do we really care?

Progress came and took it's toll

How much is enough?

Mercy, mercy me

Song for a dying planet 

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Chris

Painted rust dyed fabrics

I have now painted several pieces of the rust dyed fabrics. I think at this point I will print out the pattern for the toxic barrels and get started. I suppose I might need to paint some more fabrics if I don't have the right values, but I will hold off until I determine that. The painted fabrics that you see in the photo have several values in them depending on where I cut the barrels. Plus the backside is lighter than the frontside.

Linking to Nina-Marie. http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

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Chris