The Primal Green Experience

Here's a look at  CQFA's Primal Green show (through 7/30) that is now showing at the San Francisco Public Library.  First up is the official sign announcing the show, isn't it beautiful all lit up?  The quilts are scattered around through the whole area, and there is a map showing where to find them.

 Here is the view from the table before all the guests for our talk arrived.  It was a little nerve-wracking waiting for the panel discussion to start, so I distracted myself by taking pictures.  I kind of wish I'd taken one when the audience was there! It was a fun experience being part of the panel and I was really glad I got asked to do it.

 Thanks mom for taking this picture of me in front of my piece "Lorabund 3-step"

 I really liked the displays of ATC's that were put together, mine is on the lower row second from left.

 One of the coolest things in this beautiful new library building is this long curving wall that is covered in the cards from the old card catalog. 

I guess they let people write on them and "art" them up.  It makes for a beautifully textured wall, just fascinating and a great way to re-use/re-purpose/recycle.

I hope you can go see the exhibit!

Making Do With Dots

 Happy April!  Way back in March, well two days ago I showed the process of making this dotted fabric.  I thought you might like to see what I made with it eventually.  This time around it turned out to be a few ATC's for possible inclusion in CQFA's show at the San Francisco Public Library - Primal Green.
First I sandwiched the fabric with batting and backing and planned out how  I would stitch this up.  I decided I didn't want the stitches crossing over the dots, so I settled on a grid with a bright green thread.

 After all the stitching was done, time to slice these up into the official ATC size (2.5"x3.5").  It was hard to choose how to select the direction and color combinations I wanted for each individual ATC.  But  I dove in and started cutting.

 I zig-zag stitched twice around the edge of the first one with the same bright green I'd used for the quilting, but I didn't really like how the color looked with the fabric design.  I switched over to a more khaki green and liked that better.  I also decided I didn't like those big white dots anymore when seen at this smaller ATC size, so I rubber stamped in a small leaf shape into each dot.  Stamping on a quilted surface doesn't make a very clear image unfortunately so you can't really tell that it is a leaf.  But I know it is, and these ATC's were supposed to be environmentally  related somehow.

 Here's how all four turned out, you can see I went with a terracotta ink for most of the stamping.  I thought that somewhat muted color went really well with the rest of the colors already involved.  And yes one of these ATC's is decidedly smaller than the others, must have been because I was paying more attention to fussy cutting to make the fabric look good than getting the exactly correct measurement, oops.

And now some gratuitous gigantic closeups of the individuals.

 One of these did end up in the show, which I hope you can go see if you're near San Francisco.   There is a really nice display of many ATC's from CQFA in addition to a rather fabulous quilt exhibit.

Made any ATC's lately?