A Daily Dose of Fiber - Week Six

[Shepherdess]

I don't know Lyn, I like it. it is very pail on my screen is that right?

[lyn]

Yes Ann - it's a very delicate peppermint green, but it is a little deeper 'in real life' - it's quite dark here so I had to shine a light on it to photograph it so some of the colour did bleach out a bit.

[MTRuth]

I like it too. I really like the shape with the stripes. Very effective.

[jufergu]

Finally back with my laptop working again. I did do my daily dose of fiber yesterday. I did another try at the Kayla Coo circle and I like it much better. I made it 4 inches instead of 2 inches. I did not look at her work again because I wanted it to be my own ideas. I am thinking of making some very small projects and put them in shadow boxes. They would be good for exhibits or gifts. Got to check on the prices of shadow boxes.

[MTRuth]

I'd love to see your Kayla Coo inspired pieces

[lyn]

Yes please Judy - piccies would be lovely.

[jufergu]

I am just no good at putting pictures on the forum, but I will put one on my blog page and let you know when I post it. Today was the February meeting of my small fiber art group. We are 5 women who meet at this enormous house in the country for a day a month. The whole basement is one big sewing studio. You can't imagine how great it is to have this space. We work on group as well as individual projects around pre chosen themes for the year. We exhibit together for the big quilt show that happens every other year. We enter the Art Quilt category and last year 3 of us won top places in our category. So we sort of compete against one another. We also take trips together. A little sisterhood. One of the member's daughter committed suicide last year. We try to talk about everything that sisters would talk about. We are different faiths, ages and political persuasions. But we all get along and work together. Our pet portraits are mostly all finished and we are moving on to a year long challenge. We will be doing a mixed media collage, held together with Zippers project. 8 X 10 journal size quilts done in a Steampunk style. Some of them had no idea what steampunk even meant. So this is going to be a REAL challenge for us. We will display it at the quilt show in 2014.

[Karen]

Sounds like you have a great time with your sisterhood Judy. I couldnt imagine going through anything like loosing a child, very sad

I am just starting to understand steampunk a little better now to, i couldnt really figure it out before and if i'm right its sort of a cross between lace and metal / grunge lol i really love it though.
I've been playing with another painting, i found a couple of people id really like to learn from so i might just go with the flow and see what happens lol

[jufergu]

Steampunk style is a cross between Victorian era elements and science fiction. It started back in the time of Queen Victoria and has evolved through Jules Vern novels when science fiction really took off. Maybe that explains it better.

I am babysitting the cockatiel, Dewey, this weekend. He is entertaining me at 6:00 am with wolf whistles and whistling the entire "Colonial Bogie March." I am dropping off some art work for a new exhibit that will be a juried show. It is a combined show of the Artist's Alliance and the local college art students. Should be interesting. I am also picking up some artwork from the last exhibit I entered. I will clean and sort my studio for the next project later on.

[Shepherdess]

yes its like if steam power evolved because there was no internal combustion engine and then combine that with the way they build in the Victorian era. Lots of scroll work velvet and lace and showing off the gears. I saw a picture of the big steam pistons at a water or sewer plant that were built in that time. They are beautifully build and painted and gilded and they where named Victoria and Albert. Then on the small end was how you can open a watch and see all the gears moving.

[jufergu]

I am going to watch the old 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Time Machine movies for more ideas. This is going to be a fun project, don't you think?

[jufergu]

Ok, I uploaded a picture of my Kayla Coo experiment onto my Artfelt Wishes page. I think mine is different enough that it is not a copy of her work. I used the embellisher on organza and did some threadpainting and hand embroidery. I tried not to over work it. Just very simple because I did not want to cover up all the texture in the feltwork. You can take a look here. I called it "Memory of Trees." judysfiberart.blogspot.com/p/artfelt-wishes.html

[lyn]

It's lovely Judy and the organza has given it a dreamlike quality.

[Shepherdess]

It's great Judy, I didn't know who Kayla Coo was but as soon as I saw your piece I new exactly who you meant. I have looked at her pieces many times and would like to makes some as well. The organza on the piece does give it a magical feel like there are fairies just around the corner.

[MTRuth]

It's a beautiful piece, well done.