On the Quilt art list Jamie Fingal regularly asks, So what are you doing Art Quilt wise. I have a few things going. I am doing applique for the medallion on the Bicentennial 2012 Quilt for Red Hook. It is coming out nicely.
I am also working on a small landscape quilt based on photographs my sister took of Laguna Beach, while she was on her honeymoon. I was just going to use it as an example for the local landscapes workshop I am teaching, but in the process I found a totally perfect fabric that I had hand painted that IS sun on the water as in the photo so perfectly I can't believe it. Now I need to take this piece all the way to done. I will give it to my sister when it is done.
I am also designing a quilt called Beautiful Valley that will be the Block of the Month at the shop. It has a dozen motif blocks with images of flora and fauna that are significant to the Hudson Valley. They are based on my drawings, colored with Inktense pencils and enhanced with hand embroidery. They are separated by Mountain Star, a string pieced block that forms a wonderful framework that blends into the colorings of the swag border. I have done several of the drawings and written the instructions for the Mountain star block. I have also worked a few samples in the alternate colorway to be sure that my instructions make sense. The hardest part of this process is the writing. It is a hard balance between enough instruction to make it work well and so much instruction that it appears too complicated. I would dearly love to have the full quilt ready to show at the First Dutchess Quilt Show this Columbus Day weekend.
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