All right! All right! For friends chomping at the bit, here's my lowdown on the second workshop week at the Crow Timber Barn – Strip Piecing & Restructuring with Nancy Crow. I'll report about the first week in True Colors with Carol Soderlund later.
It was great having familiar faces there, including three from my guild - EBHQ - as well as meeting new ones. Everyone was focused and produced terrific pieces. I can't show you their work but here are mine.
Out of many many strip-pieced fabrics, we produced three compositions. What? You only see two?
I am not showing you my third and final composition. It was a disaster. I was constipated - not bodily, but creatively. And
I am very pleased with the first two compositions. And miracles do happen - I finished them on time! They came together easily. Even Nancy Nancy
Despite the labor intensiveness of strip piecing, I like this way of working. But there's no way I could do a quilt top a
week like Addendum: see Robert Genn's, The Painter's Keys, post about choking. Did he read my mind? To prevent creative constipation, I will sing as I work. You may suffer a little dissonance, but better that than a visual cacophony.
Your pieces from this class are great! In the first piece, I love the vibration between the colors in the upper left corner, and how it contrasts with the grey coolness on the right. And the second one has an architectural feel, like looking up into the second floor of an open atrium. Love what you've done here.
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Thank you, Connie! The second piece is small and maybe that's why I was free-er with it.
ReplyDeleteAwww...two weeks there is not really fair.I am jealous. So happy you are enjoying your time there again. Nice work. It is frustrating to get stuck there-but you walk away with so much you can process later. Enjoy what you have learned!
ReplyDeleteToday is 12/16 and this is just a reminder that your next blog post might be way overdue! :-)
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right! Thanks for the reminder, Anonymous.
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