Heading to the fair

"memory verse" will be included in the Mid Atlantic Quilt show in Feb.  It's included in the SAQA regional show 'Bending the Rules" More info coming! It's about 26x28" all overdyed and re-dyed fabric, mixed media. And a little poem from Emily Dickinson.Too..

Dress series continues

New art dress entitled "Sackcloth and ashes'' Hand dyed fiber, discharged fabrics, hand and machine sewn, embellished.

About 65" long. 

"Viewpoints" National show entry

New piece that was juried into "Viewpoints" National show at the FCCA, here in Fredericksburg. Looks like a lot of great art. I'm looking forward to First Fridays!  "Do as I say" is about 36x52", fiber and fabric, hand and machine quilted, appliqued and embroidered.

thankfulness..

I'm loving Valerie's 'Thankfulness project' what wonderful, tactile way of  expressing our thankfulness.

Read about it here

meadow views

Even though it doesn't look like the picture on the bottom, the art quilt was distilled from that view, just in a different season!

With hand dyed fabric (I'm really loving this process, and have lots of hand dyed silk stuff to show you)!

Not a whole lot of embellishment , an excercise in restraint.

The back garden in high summer.

evolution

A few shots of this piece, that went through several stages, my pic's are out of order,, the top one is the finished one. With hand-dyed fabric (fun fun!) and machine and hand quilting, applique and embellishment.

about 28x36"..

applique panel

This is a small part of a large whole..One pannel of a large wall hanging I've done. I love the idea of using the sewing machine as a drawing instrument, and plan on doing a lot more of that!

Here I've machine and hand sewn pannels onto a large, long banner-style hanging with much embelishment going on..




applique panel
Originally uploaded by loriemccown

Still here!

My poor, neglected blog.. but there has been LOADS of art being made, just cutting back on the computer time..

Stitching here is an art quilt, "Hollyhocks" about 20x30" hand and machine sewn with color color color..

detail of the blooms..


and more here:

Some beading and embellishment, of course!

And paintings galore! this one's "In the Garden" 20x20" oil on canvas

And "poppies" again oil on canvas, 20x20"

And an Etsy update coming soon.. now I have (I hope!) my picture and computer skills working..

cheers.

all is well.

My fabric and wire/paper/thread piece.."Paul" 20x24" mounted on canvas.. May this Easter Sunday be a wonderful one.

plenty of stitching going on..

This dimensional landscape is shaping up..I'm really enjoying the couching effect here!!

This primitive eagle it getting ready to take off! I haven't done needle turn applique in a while..

And this is a long scarf-strip with dyed acetate on the back, and dyed scrim (cheesecloth) on the front, interwoven with laces and floss.. a sampler of sorts..

ahh there it is, the pile of dreams!

Happy Thursday..

small stitches

A few smallish items that have been on the table:
These are some handmade cards made from left over scraps I've had in the scrap pile. It was really fun sewing through paper, then a little hand stamping for embellishment..


Once people know you are a sewer, you inherit a lot of stuff, which is very nice. I have a whole lot of lace, seam binding and trims..

Here's a little wool felt pin cushion. What fun this was to make. Except squares are pretty hard to sew..

Happy Friday!

more

A little larger picture of the sea... about 24x36"..and has just been accepted into show! Yay! I am trying to take more pictures out and about. We really live in a very historical town, many old homes and buildings around..I just can't seem to point my camera at those, rather than the ground, or dirt or trees or water, wonder why?

by the sea

I've taken some better pictures of some recent works..this is hand and machine stitched, appliqued,, beaded and couched.. a detail shot

quiet

Well, school's back in session, so I can ease off the 5am work start. If I don't get distracted. I am happy to have the quiet back, though..I think better.

I am contemplating a big camera upgrade, I think I enjoy the picture taking a lot more than I used to..

These are two separate pieces, that I'm working on. The top is a landscape quilt/fiber piece that's a lot of couched down fabric and embroidery embellishment. I've used the machine on some of it too. These things tend to come in 3's..interesting. Maybe I'm used to thinking in series form, which I love.

The one below is a horizontal landscape the top 1/2 done with strips of fabric sewn and folded down. The bottom 1/2 is again, couched down and then is getting heavily embellished w/floss and beads. Some dyed scrim in there too..

There's another one going on w/underwater elements in it..more pic's coming..

Hope you have a creative week!

a stitched landscape

I've noticed that trees crop up in the majority of things I do. Maybe it's because I'm surrounded by them, or they represent a lot of steady, living things to me, but there they appear, often. This is a machine/hand stitched piece that going on, trying to incorporate the feel of nature, and the meaning of the steadiness of trees..the Methuselah tree, perhaps.

no excuses

When I go for a project, I go for it. The fabric, thread, needles (watch out!) fly without reserve. I am not a neat person. God bless those of you who are. I am not.

I like music when I create too..loud. So I wear the headphones..


I like to go for the gusto too, I don't work on one project at a time, I have a lot going on at once. It doesn't bother me to have a lot of unfinished projects, it's ok..

No excuses, I pull fabric, let it fall, reject, edit as I go. I should refold and store after I do something but I don't..

I work in our basement, I like it that way, I hope to have walls by the end of 2009..

A happy New year, and a wonderful 2009 to all..

a little halloween

A sampler quilt I did for fall/halloween/autumn..I love combining piecing and applique in one quilt..my designs, and about 50" x 65", lap size..

middle: a japanese bowl I love, if I did ceramics, I'd want to do this type.. Hey M.K. recognize that blue table runner? Thanks again!

a child's eye view

Finished quilt hand and machine stitched, 24" x 24". Much pleasure in doing this one, I love the idea of "drawing" w/the free motion on the machine. I plan to do more of that.

eye candy

This basket of indigo cloth, I've had for many years, I just can't bring myself to cut it up, but maybe soon it will happen. Until then, I'm happy to just finger it and look at it.

While sitting outside, this little gem fluttered down and landed nearby. A bit gruesome, but such a pretty thing, isn't it?

crazy quilting revisited

Over at Jude's blogs and Flickr group we are re-working the old crazy quilt blocks..take a look! Here, I've used whatever was floating around my studio to make this block, wool, cotton, cotton yarn, linen, and then layered, rather than pieced the block.. about 10 x10 ".