Next Up: Within the Frame

We've traded a leaf pattern for some improv piecing. Within the Frame used a set of fabrics, some simple cuts, a few tricks, and we come away with a center medallion. Tomorrow is taking the frame abstractly! All at Mission Point for the Mackinac Island Quilt Seminar, a retreat in Northern Michigan.
 

New Big Leaf on Mackinac Island

We spent day building a New Big Leaf in the Art Quilt Seminar, and the results were all different and well thought out. I love using freezer paper templates to land the design, and I know that once the planning is set, I have only to determine the pallet. There's more tomorrow, this is plenty to learn today.

Between the Lakes

The Mackinaw Bridge is the demarcation line between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, If you could see the line. This was on my way to Mackinac Island and hanging with the Mackinac Island Quilting Art Seminar this week.

 

I'm Keeping This

A demo print, this is a print with a soy wax screen, where the wax is put on the screen instead of on the fabric. I love making a motif that has a spine -- it means that I can attach the motif in a line and imply a large screen or a large image. I'll have to make more.

Don't Think It's All Fun

It's not all fun and games, these workshops, sometimes I have to do reconiscience and gather data. This is for the Bar Harbor class "Printing the Colors of the Sea" and I figure that east coast is east coast, so I'm tracking these blues out of Provincetown on the Cape for use in September. Join me to see if I get it right.
 

Make It & Break It

After printing for four days, the group had two days of sewing and design. Terry took fabric she'd just printed (and washed) and took on the project of Make It & Break It, where she put fabrics together to take apart and reset in a grid structure. I've made a few of these, and they are always a good puzzle.
 

Pro Chem's Room

The class at Pro Chemical and Dye in Fall River, Massachusetts has seven tables. The group limited itself so each person had an entire table. I've done classes there where there are two to table. This made the experience luxurious, and we took advantage of the expanse to print large. Hard to beat this, but possible.
 

Parts is Parts

Lisa assembles her work with the suggestion to join a few fabrics together before adding them to the design wall. Once a few sets are made, they can be shuffled. Sounds easy? Sounds odd? It's not for the faint. We're working in columns, but you'd not guess. And in that great space in Warren, RI, Cutler Mills.
 

Busman's Holiday

 When in Warren, check the quilt store. Of course there was a quilt store minutes from the class, and yes, there were buttons. But I ended up buying socks.  

Yarn Factory

 

Our classroom was in Cutler Mills, a refurbished yarn mill in Warren, Rhode Island. It's a lot of space, and a peaceful place to be for two days. 
 

Design With Prints -- Ours!

The four day print class at Pro Chem signed up for a two-day class in design, specifically to use the fabric that was printed the previous days. Each had prints exclusively their own pallet and design to work from. It brought surprises, a few laughs, and a round of responses. We'll do it again tomorrow.