February--OLLI Exhibit

The exhibit of Linda's and my quilts and fiber art is at the OLLI building (3601 Pearl Street, Hattiesburg, MS) and we hope people attending classes are enjoying seeing them. The exhibit will hang through April, with a Reception on Friday, February 21 from 1-2:30.  

We have five pieces using Katie Pasquini Masopust's Artful Log Cabin technique (ALC), with the photo inspiration for the quilts. Katie's book is entitled Artful Log Cabin Quilts; she also teaches online classes through American Quilter's Society.

Interleave Symphony, 34" x 31", Red-Green Interleave, 14" x 15"

Hector's Flower Pot, 12" x 24"

Flying Geese Over Lake Michigan, 9" x 12"
Horses on Parade, 8" x 10"
Marta Boldo, 16" x 24"
Yellow Fish, 21" x 16"
Green Fish, 20" x 19"

Finding My Way, 64" x 65"

In the Beginning, 36" x 44"

 

Artful Kitten, 22" x 26" and photo inspiration
Artful Log Cabin (ALC) technique, Linda Ginn

Caladium I and II, 12" x 15" 
Dried Caladium Leaf, stitched

Mosaic, 69" x 69", Arabian, 20" x 20" 
Linda Ginn

Twisted Tree II, 18" x 20"

City of Lights, 55" x 64"
Linda Ginn
Sunday Ties, 12" x 25"

One Day at a Time (temperature quilt), 49" x 65"
City of Lights, 55" x 64"
Linda Ginn

Leaf Study, Sycamore, 15" x 15"

Carpenter's Star. 20" x 29"
Linda Ginn

Outrageous Orange Windows, 15" x 45" - Martha
Cook Library 210AA, 31" x 37" - Linda

Mountain Snow Melt, ALC 32" x 24"
The Conversation, ALC 26" x 26"

Ireland Street, ALC 26" x 18"

Red Daylily, 20" x 20"

Black Swallowtail Butterfly ALC, Austin Market ALC 
Leaf Study-Crotons
Linda, Martha, Karrie & Dean Pennington, Theresa Ratti, Autumn Pennington

Violets, 62" x 62"
Linda Ginn

April Art Market

I took part in an Art Market sponsored by Parks & Recreation Department of the City of Hattiesburg  yesterday. It was a day of fun spent with other artists and craftspeople and plant lovers. There was also a plant swap and I brought home three interesting pots. 

The venue was the Hattiesburg Community Arts Center, a donated building which formerly housed the local Hattiesburg American newspaper. The building is being upgraded, updated, and remodeled to provide space for drama, art classes, and a variety of other events. It is definitely a work in progress.

My display

Thread painting

I got to visit with people and acquaint them with fiber art and explain how it evolved from traditional quiltmaking to using these skills to make "quilts for the walls." I showed the difference between piecing (sewing small pieces together) and quilting (stitching the top, batting/middle, and backing together). I showed straight stitching on a regular sewing machine and free-motion quilting and "thread-painting" where I use threads as my paints to add to a surface. Then there was Interleave, twisted trees, ghost quilting as well as improvisational pieced strips to fabric collage to create a scene or my cat Elizabeth. 

Persimmon leaves inspired by photo in my yard

Color Blocks with quilting

Detail of thread painting with Elizabeth supervising

Color Bars

Interleave technique

Ghost quilting

Ghost quilting

Improvisational piecing, mounted on gallery-wrapped canvas

Twisted Tree

I bought these handmade clay earrings from a group of talented women whose label is Eighteen-Six,  based on the scripture Jeremiah 18:6. 

The Eighteen-Six crew

Amazingly lightweight clay earrings

Kitties Win Best of Show in Art Show

Tonight was the Awards Reception for our 43rd Annual South Mississippi Art Association Show on 

Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, at the Historic Hattiesburg Train Depot. It is a beautiful show with watercolor, oil, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and other. "Other" includes fiber art, and my "The Window Watchers" won a blue ribbon and Best of Show. Quite a thrill for those kitties and me! 

The Window Watchers, 23" x 30"

 

Ireland Street, 26" x 18"

Improv Zebras, 17" x 25"

Black Swallowtail Butterfly, 34" x 26"

Interleave Symphony, 34" x 31"

I have three pieces in the Clothesline area.

Color Blocks, 8" x 10" and Improv-Blue, 10" x 16"

Improv-Pink, 8" x 10"

Butterflies, Art Exhibit, and Some Quilting

It's the first of September and I got to see my last two butterflies hatch. I hope they recognize my yard for egg laying, since all these caterpillars were brought over from Ellen Hall's yard, about five miles from mine. I felt like a third-grader getting excited about these beautiful creatures. Elizabeth, my constant companion, was fascinated at the butterfly emerging from the chrysalis. She wanted to touch but was calm as I kept her paw back. I think this one is female--with smaller yellow spots and larger blue area on back of wings (fourth picture). The fifth picture shows a male for comparison.

Elizabeth watches butterfly emerge from chrysalis

Butterfly on coleus flowers drying her wings

 

Butterfly on portulaca

Female Butterfly with wings open 

Male (larger yellow spots on open wings, smaller blue area)

I entered three fiber art pieces in the South Mississippi Art Association's exhibit at the Lucile Parker Gallery on the William Carey University campus. One was pictured on the invitation (far left), and another won an honorable mention.

Invitation to  the Exhibit

My pieces hanging with those of Jeanette Graham and Mary Judice

Improv Music, 25" x 28"

Pine Belt Quilters had a workshop for Leanne Green to teach us how to use a Bosal product to make this little bowl which can be molded into a curved shape. It's a clever project but took longer to make than it looks like it would. It's about 10" from top to bottom and 8" side to side.

Molded bowl, taught by Leanne Green

The Interleave Symphony is finished except for black binding (so named because one of the fabrics contains composers' names), and I decided it needs to hang vertical instead of horizontal.

Interleave Symphony in progress

Interleave Symphony, 31" x 34" ready for black binding