Post by Honeylioness on Oct 20, 2009 19:59:22 GMT -5
Sharing the Simple Lifestyle - 10/19/09 10:19 AM
Honey, OMG. 1. The pies. Too, too magnificent. OMG. 2. Your DOD's "Adult Ed for Women." Too, too funny! OMG. I am ROTFLMAO. I know I should be outraged. But...hilarious! 3. Your E-mail. OMG. Too, too gorgeous! Wow, wow, wow! Remind me again, ladies, how we got lucky enough to get Honeylioness on our thread? Mittenkitten must just have that kind of power.
Honeylioness - 10/19/09 03:05 PM
Aww geez....... *shuffling my feet* ... You made me blush Sharing. However I am glad to get your nice words about my accidental peacock quilt. Perhaps only another quilter can appreciate a half finished project
Sharing the Simple Lifestyle - 10/19/09 08:51 PM
Grrr. This oil painting is a struggle. The cat looks more folk art and not like my Nugget, though not not, if that makes any sense. Serves me right for going too long without painting in oils. I'm going to keep at it, though.
SES_, big excitement. "Black Beauty" came into the garage this evening while I was painting. My, he's just one great big kitty cat. He has gorgeous green eyes. He's every bit of seventeen pounds. Very large for a DSH male.
SES_Books - 10/19/09 09:05 PM
Sharing--Has Black Beauty acknowledged you yet- or is he still doing the "ignore the elephant in the room" routine? One of my friends swears that black cats, once they accept you, make the best and most affectionate cats. Judging by Onyx I have to agree. Will you post a photo of the painting of Nugget when you are done? Which reminds me, Honey, would you post a photo of your quilt? It sounds amazing.
Honeylioness - 10/19/09 10:38 PM
SES - Umm ...okay, I am usually rather gun shy about showing my work at all but I know you will all be kind.
Keep in mind that this peacock quilt top is not finished yet.
Full Picture
Detail 1
Detail 2
3catslady - 10/19/09 11:01 PM
Honey; That quilt is beautiful. I love the details. I can't wait to see the finished product.
SES_Books - 10/19/09 11:23 PM
Honey--your quilt is absolutely georgous! Whatever brought this idea to mind-and execution? Truly an original piece of art.
cdarrow26 - 10/20/09 08:14 AM
Honey Your quilt is absolutely beautiful! My mom is an avid quilter and even owned her own quilt shop for many years when she still lived here in the NE. I have a great admiration for quilts, but, unfortunately, I never got the "bug". I love looking at quilts, fabrics, etc. but I'm just not creative at all **sigh**.
kath74 - 10/20/09 08:55 AM
Honey - oh my goodness, salivating from pies and quilt viewing! You've inspired me to get back to quilting, I'm about 3 baby quilts behind right now, I need to get on that!
Honeylioness - 10/20/09 09:20 AM
Ahhhhh, thanks for the nice words about my half finished quilt.
SES - I am actually going to name this piece "Accidental Peacock" because of how he came to be. A couple of years ago during the Vermont Quilt Festival I attended a class teaching a method of constructing designs with soft curves. The pieces were cut free hand, no templates, no straight lines, no pattern to follow - for a Type A person this means lots of stress!
The teacher had developed this method to get more organic looking and realistic landscapes - waterfalls, oceans, meadows etc. We were to bring one focus fabric and several coordinating fabrics. My focus fabric is the black Japanese floral one you see.
So as the day goes along everyone else is using more earth and water colors and they are getting rivers, and canyon walls etc. And mine is this blaze of different colors. And I notice something else - their work is tending to come together in long strips of approximate linear qualities - and mine is turning - or rather arcing. To be honest this did not bother me really. I see taking classes as not necessarily as a way to copy a teacher's piece of work, but as a way to expand my skills, learn a new technique or just an excuse to buy more fabric (*snort* yeah, like a quilter NEEDS an excuse). I have let go of the need to make and finish the featured work - especially when I find the class did not really speak to me.
So after VQF I have this "thing" tacked up to my design wall - I like the colors, still happy with how they work together and not willing to just toss it and move on to the next project. Of course I have NO idea what I would ever DO with this "blob". A year later my friend R was over visiting, stared at the "thing", walked over to the wall, unpinned the blob and rotated it 90 degrees to the left and said "There, it's a peacock" And dang if she wasn't right!!!!
And so the blob became a peacock. And my little brain said "Hmmmm, I think he is too plain, let's jazz him up a bit" and thus began my odyssey into the world of beads because I already had the silk ribbons and embroidery floss from past decades of doing that kind of needlework. I like the plain unrelieved black of the peacock figure against the gaudiness of the "feathers" and will be using the oriental floral fabric as my border with another inset technique I learned from the same teacher. Hard to explain but I will post a picture when it is done.
So there you have it - the story of my "Accidental Peacock" ((Probably more than you had ever wanted to know ))
Sharing - sorry you are struggling with the painting - does this mean you have not yet finished your State Flower quilt?? Glad to see though that you had a visit from the neighborhood big boy. He sounds like my Abraham.
Cards/Secret Santa - I am in this year also and second SES's suggestion as to cost and/or re-purposing!
Sharing the Simple Lifestyle - 10/20/09 10:45 AM
Honey, I read your post over and over, right in the moment with your artistic journey. Gosh, I'll bet you're one inspiring teacher of all things quilt related. Your post made me long for an art retreat. I haven't found what I'm looking for in our little area. The quilt group of 30 is comprised of 15 divas and 15 mousies, if you catch my drift. I'm looking for a group of happy ladies without agendas who just want to do art/arts and crafts and laugh their heads off.
SES_Books - 10/20/09 12:15 PM
Honey--The back story is almost as fascinating as the quilt and should be displayed whenever the quilt is.
Honey, OMG. 1. The pies. Too, too magnificent. OMG. 2. Your DOD's "Adult Ed for Women." Too, too funny! OMG. I am ROTFLMAO. I know I should be outraged. But...hilarious! 3. Your E-mail. OMG. Too, too gorgeous! Wow, wow, wow! Remind me again, ladies, how we got lucky enough to get Honeylioness on our thread? Mittenkitten must just have that kind of power.
Honeylioness - 10/19/09 03:05 PM
Aww geez....... *shuffling my feet* ... You made me blush Sharing. However I am glad to get your nice words about my accidental peacock quilt. Perhaps only another quilter can appreciate a half finished project
Sharing the Simple Lifestyle - 10/19/09 08:51 PM
Grrr. This oil painting is a struggle. The cat looks more folk art and not like my Nugget, though not not, if that makes any sense. Serves me right for going too long without painting in oils. I'm going to keep at it, though.
SES_, big excitement. "Black Beauty" came into the garage this evening while I was painting. My, he's just one great big kitty cat. He has gorgeous green eyes. He's every bit of seventeen pounds. Very large for a DSH male.
SES_Books - 10/19/09 09:05 PM
Sharing--Has Black Beauty acknowledged you yet- or is he still doing the "ignore the elephant in the room" routine? One of my friends swears that black cats, once they accept you, make the best and most affectionate cats. Judging by Onyx I have to agree. Will you post a photo of the painting of Nugget when you are done? Which reminds me, Honey, would you post a photo of your quilt? It sounds amazing.
Honeylioness - 10/19/09 10:38 PM
SES - Umm ...okay, I am usually rather gun shy about showing my work at all but I know you will all be kind.
Keep in mind that this peacock quilt top is not finished yet.
Full Picture
Detail 1
Detail 2
3catslady - 10/19/09 11:01 PM
Honey; That quilt is beautiful. I love the details. I can't wait to see the finished product.
SES_Books - 10/19/09 11:23 PM
Honey--your quilt is absolutely georgous! Whatever brought this idea to mind-and execution? Truly an original piece of art.
cdarrow26 - 10/20/09 08:14 AM
Honey Your quilt is absolutely beautiful! My mom is an avid quilter and even owned her own quilt shop for many years when she still lived here in the NE. I have a great admiration for quilts, but, unfortunately, I never got the "bug". I love looking at quilts, fabrics, etc. but I'm just not creative at all **sigh**.
kath74 - 10/20/09 08:55 AM
Honey - oh my goodness, salivating from pies and quilt viewing! You've inspired me to get back to quilting, I'm about 3 baby quilts behind right now, I need to get on that!
Honeylioness - 10/20/09 09:20 AM
Ahhhhh, thanks for the nice words about my half finished quilt.
SES - I am actually going to name this piece "Accidental Peacock" because of how he came to be. A couple of years ago during the Vermont Quilt Festival I attended a class teaching a method of constructing designs with soft curves. The pieces were cut free hand, no templates, no straight lines, no pattern to follow - for a Type A person this means lots of stress!
The teacher had developed this method to get more organic looking and realistic landscapes - waterfalls, oceans, meadows etc. We were to bring one focus fabric and several coordinating fabrics. My focus fabric is the black Japanese floral one you see.
So as the day goes along everyone else is using more earth and water colors and they are getting rivers, and canyon walls etc. And mine is this blaze of different colors. And I notice something else - their work is tending to come together in long strips of approximate linear qualities - and mine is turning - or rather arcing. To be honest this did not bother me really. I see taking classes as not necessarily as a way to copy a teacher's piece of work, but as a way to expand my skills, learn a new technique or just an excuse to buy more fabric (*snort* yeah, like a quilter NEEDS an excuse). I have let go of the need to make and finish the featured work - especially when I find the class did not really speak to me.
So after VQF I have this "thing" tacked up to my design wall - I like the colors, still happy with how they work together and not willing to just toss it and move on to the next project. Of course I have NO idea what I would ever DO with this "blob". A year later my friend R was over visiting, stared at the "thing", walked over to the wall, unpinned the blob and rotated it 90 degrees to the left and said "There, it's a peacock" And dang if she wasn't right!!!!
And so the blob became a peacock. And my little brain said "Hmmmm, I think he is too plain, let's jazz him up a bit" and thus began my odyssey into the world of beads because I already had the silk ribbons and embroidery floss from past decades of doing that kind of needlework. I like the plain unrelieved black of the peacock figure against the gaudiness of the "feathers" and will be using the oriental floral fabric as my border with another inset technique I learned from the same teacher. Hard to explain but I will post a picture when it is done.
So there you have it - the story of my "Accidental Peacock" ((Probably more than you had ever wanted to know ))
Sharing - sorry you are struggling with the painting - does this mean you have not yet finished your State Flower quilt?? Glad to see though that you had a visit from the neighborhood big boy. He sounds like my Abraham.
Cards/Secret Santa - I am in this year also and second SES's suggestion as to cost and/or re-purposing!
Sharing the Simple Lifestyle - 10/20/09 10:45 AM
Honey, I read your post over and over, right in the moment with your artistic journey. Gosh, I'll bet you're one inspiring teacher of all things quilt related. Your post made me long for an art retreat. I haven't found what I'm looking for in our little area. The quilt group of 30 is comprised of 15 divas and 15 mousies, if you catch my drift. I'm looking for a group of happy ladies without agendas who just want to do art/arts and crafts and laugh their heads off.
SES_Books - 10/20/09 12:15 PM
Honey--The back story is almost as fascinating as the quilt and should be displayed whenever the quilt is.