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Archive for September, 2013

SAQA Auction

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

saqaauctionquilt

The annual benefit auction for Studio Art Quilt Associates has been going on for a couple of weeks. I have been remiss for not blogging about it. I acquired this wonderful piece by Sherri McCauley during the first week. I  really love it. It has some wonderful surface design and the quilting is very creative. I also love the touch of color to enhance, but not overwhelm the design. Sherri lives in Texas and I was not familiar with her or her work, but I am so happy that I snagged this piece. Here is the back. You can see how creatively she quilted this. She has a very nice label, but I blurred her personal information.

saqaauctionquiltback

My piece is going on the auction block tomorrow in the final group. You can find it in group 3a. I am a bit nervous because this is a departure from the work I have donated in the past. I have been honored to have my work purchased early in the bidding cycle. Here is my piece, which is one of my discharged silk and shrunk pieces. All of the pieces are 12 inches square.

Montanas y Lunas copy

Four other members of the 12 x 12 group have quilts in this group, you can see them all in a lovely blog post by Deborah on the Twelve blog.

My whirlwind of activity over the past month is winding down. I need and want to get some studio work done. Yesterday, I picked up the 20×12 quilts and 4 of my quilts in the High Fiber Diet Show from Quilt Expo. I did a little shopping the day before. I bought some pre-wound bobbins and titanium needles from Superior threads and this lovely handdyed fabric from my friend Maureen Schmidt from Santa Rosa, where we used to live.

The first bundle is titled Truffle.

trufflehanddyes

This set is Eucalyptus – so gorgeous.

eucalyptushaanddyes

Fall arrived today and so did our fall weather. It rainy, cold and windy. I had to pull our warm clothes and wear socks – ugh! Lisa is flying into Portland tomorrow to spend a week with us. I am looking forward to spending some quality time with her.

Daughter Love

Thursday, September 19th, 2013

MomQACover

My daughter, Lisa, can make be cry so easily, but in a good way. She has a way of making me feel valued and loved unconditionally. Today, she wrote a blog post about my cover for Quilting Arts. You can read it here on her blog, Today is Going to be Awesome. If you go to her blog, you can click around on her website and see what an amazing artist she is. She got a few facts wrong. I actually only started art quilting about 11 years ago when I was 64.

We are meeting with the realtor in a bit and then I am heading out to NW Quilt Expo. I have work in 3 special exhibits. If you are in the Portland area, I hope to see you there.

 

Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

WW9-18-13

Oh My Aching Back

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

Terryhanging20x12

Here is Terry Grant helping to hang our 20 X 12 quilts at NW Quilt Expo this afternoon. She came over to my house this morning and we attached the quilts to the felt panels that we made last year for the 12 x 12 quilts. We could 4 of those on a panel, but we could only fit 3 20 X 12 quilts on each panel so it took 4 panels for each set. Here we are – following a printout I did of how the panels needed to be attached.

12x20feltpanels

There was a lot of stretching and bunching and pinning and I am tired. So, hear is my lazy attempt at blogging — photos of the display.

12x20mythologymapsmetamprphosis

12x20mavericksweet

Metamorphosis:

metamorphosisatexpo

Maps:

mapsatexpo

Mythology:

mythologyatexpo

Maverick:

maverickatexpo

Sweet:

sweetatexpo

It was so exciting to see all of the pieces in the flesh, so to speak. Such talent we have in this group.

Tonight, I put together my presentation on Websites for the SAQA meeting tomorrow. And so my whirlwind of non-studio activity continues.

Chugging Along

Monday, September 16th, 2013

20X12quilts1

I have not had much down time — so much to do. I got my resume updated and wrote a new artist statement:

Gerrie Congdon is an artist who works with textiles. She transforms white fabric into complex cloth, using dyes and paints and a variety of techniques. The resulting fabric becomes serene landscapes and abstract compositions. Her work has been exhibited in many venues, locally, nationally and internationally. She is a member of Columbia Fiberarts Guild, High Fiber Diet, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Surface Design Association.

I had some SDA work to do and I have also been working on preparing for an exhibit of the Twelve’s 20 x 12 quilts at NW Quilt Expo. Terry Grant is coming tomorrow and we will attach them to felt panels for display by theme. I have collected half of the quilts and she has the other half.

20X12quilts2

Those are Nikki Wheeler’s quilts on the top of the various piles. I love seeing and fondling all of the quilts made by my fellow Twelves.

I have also printed all the signage on ledger size paper.

meetthetwelves

Tomorrow afternoon, we will deliver them to the venue.

On Wednesday, Terry and I are doing a presentation for SAQA on blogs and websites. I am doing websites. After I get back from delivering the quilts, I have to print out my notes on websites and make copies.

On Thursday, after checking in with the quilt show to see how the display looks, I have to rush back home because (gulp!), we are meeting with a realtor. Looks like we are going to move ahead with the downsizing. It has to be done sooner than later and I want to do it when I have some control over it!