The Frayed Edges — May 2009, Part 1
A couple Mondays ago my mini-art-quilt-group got together, this time at Hannah’s house down the Harpswell peninsula. It was a lovely quiet day, and a much needed respite from our insane daily lives…. When we first started our group in 2005 (OMG HOW has it been so long? ), we worked on various new techniques or projects in our meetings, and we decided to do a round robin of art books. Instead of doing a round robin quilt, we would instead make pages for each other. We were each free to pick the size of the book and theme (or lack thereof). Deborah chose numbers, Kate chose hands, Kathy chose the sea, and I chose Isabel’s fruits (Isabel Allende wrote a book called Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses, which is about supposedly aphrodisiac foods….folks could pick anything from her book, or anything they considered aphrodisiac). Here’s a link to an older blogpost about my book.
When Hannah joined us about the time Deborah was about to move to Texas (SOB, yet again) , we talked about doing another round on the books so we could get Hannah a book, too. Well, at long last we have begun to make and trade pages! The photo above is of Kate continuing to work on one of Kathy’s pages.
For this round, we gave ourselves the option of changing themes. Kathy, Deborah and I kept the same ones (the sea, numbers, and Isabel’s fruits), Kate changed from hands to hearts, and Hannah selected Mothering.
Here is Hannah, being a mom with her youngest daughter, sharing her first ever page for her Mothering book:
Kathy made these two pages. The Peter Rabbit is, I believe, a transfer which Kathy free-motion stitched and decorated.
The second page is based on a painting by Gustav Klimt and is glorious:
Kate worked on Sea pages for Kath, including the jellyfish one in the photo above, and this one which is a quotation from Ann Morrow Lindbergh’s Gifts from the Sea:
Kathy made two GLORIOUS pages for mine; both Absinthe and Lavender are on Isabel’s lists…. The absinthe page is a transfer onto silk with decorative threadwork, and I adore it… I wish the luminescence of the silk showed in the photo:
And here is the lavender; my dear late father-in-law lived in Sequim which is home to many lavender farms, plus there was one on San Juan island where we used to live, and this is exactly how they look:
Aren’t I lucky to be amongst such talented and wonderful people? In a post soon I’ll share the pages I made for Deborah, Kathy and Kate (still working on Hannah’s).
And no post would be truly complete without the meal:
YUMMM!
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Wow! These are stunning! What a great idea & a great group of quilting friends!