TIMES A CHANGING

I know, I know...it has been a really long time since I've posted.  Life happens.  But tonite, sitting here just a little before midnight, I feel a really big urge to write.  So here goes.

It is almost a new year and things are a changing.  I am always way behind the times on change.  It is time for me to embrace more of the digital world.  My works in the last year have changed and more and more I am printing my collages onto fabric.

HOW DO I MAKE A SHADOW DANCE?

 This is one of my favorite quilts.  I based this quilt on a poem written by Susan Wooldridge.  Susan wrote a wonderful book called Poem Crazy and I love to use her poetry as inspiration.

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 In this quilt I used all the characters that I have used in my books and other quilts.  I collaged and then printed on fabric run through my inkjet printer.  I then pieced the printed pages and stamped with different letter stamps and red paint.  I quilted the piece with simple lines so as not to distract from the pictures.

When I say that I am doing digital, I am kinda bluffing.  The only digital part is the printed fabric.  The collages are all cut and paste the old fashion way...
            WITH SCISSORS AND GLUE.

This quilt has been accepted into the AQS Phoenix Quilt Week
show.

HOW DO I MAKE A SHADOW DANCE 2

 

 This is the second quilt I made and actually I like this one better.  I did it the same way, but used stencils and rust paint to make the border look like it was discharged.  I used scrapbook paper for the backgrounds.  Again it was all printed except for the lettering and the painted hair on my he-shes.

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 The mustaches were appliqued on the he-she.  He-She...I think maybe that is not politically correct.  But then neither am I.

So do you think this is enough change to consider myself in the digital age?...         
                                PROBABLY NOT
                                   ...REDFOX