CQFA Meeting

I can’t remember the last time I went to a CQFA meeting, which is a very sad thing. I think it may have been May, which is forever ago. It was a great meeting – very well attended. In a way I wish BAMQG and CQFA were not on the same day, but, on the other hand, I get all the driving and being out of the house out of the way in one day.

ATCs

November 2012 ATCs
November 2012 ATCs

I made really cool ATCs. I saved the mesh wrapping from two different bags of fruit. Limes had a green mesh wrapping. The other was a red mesh bag. I opened them up to flatten them, then placed them in layers over a piece of fabric, which was of an unfortunate design. I tried not to think too much about the choices I made while I was making them. I just made the choices and worked through the design in my head.

I placed the two kinds of mesh over the fabric, pinned everything together and wove eyelash yarn through the mesh over and over using one of my book binding needles. Once I felt like I had woven enough of the eyelash yarn through the mesh, I pinned the backs to the front (which was one piece) and sewed with a straight stitch around the two parts to hold them together. To finish, I satin stitched around the outside.

There were only 4 of us swapping, so I got one of mine back, which I was happy about.

Notan

Notan Exercise #2
Notan Exercise #2

Julie, Dolores and Maureen set up a presentation on Notan. They did a great job. I learned a lot and can use some of it in my Design Series presentation on negative space in the future.

The thing to remember for me was to the think of the whole design not just the foreground.  In the photo of the exercise 2 the white is just as important as the black. The designs are whole and neither the black nor white is more important.

I borrowed Julie’s book, because I couldn’t find mine and am looking forward to reading more.

Show & Tell

I showed the Flowering Snowball, which I finished the other day. No photo yet, but look for one soon. I have to get one of the boys to hold it up so I can take a photo. I am in love with the back mostly because of the large piece of Philip Jacobs fabric I included.

Dolores Self-Portrait
Dolores Self-Portrait

Maureen, Dolores and Bron brought their self portraits (workshop from last meeting), which really turned out great.  Maureen wasn’t happy with hers, but I liked it. It didn’t look like the photo she started with, but it did look like a person.

I like Dolores’ self portrait, because it has the essence of Dolores. It has her feeling, joie de vivre and expressiveness without looking exactly like her. I have always thought that getting the feeling of the person right is more important than having the painting or quilt look exactly like a person. I love the way Dolores has used the different fabrics for different parts of her self portrait. The black on white works very well for the hair even though the fabric is numbers. I think it was an inspired choice.

Bron's piece
Bron’s piece

I am not sure that Bron’s piece is a rendition of her grandmother, but I think it is. Many people commented on the background of the piece. The two different fabrics she used for the background are inspired choices. The different scales are good. The gold of the one piece of the background brings out the skin of the figure while the stripes in the left hand background mimic the stripes in the figure’s dress/shirt.

I also really like the scarf. I never thought of adding a scarf, but it really looks great and solves a lot of neck/skin problems. I would have liked to have looked at the scarf for longer to see how it was sewn, but didn’t get the chance.

I am constantly impressed by what CQFA people make and the choices they make within their pieces.

Author: Jaye

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

2 thoughts on “CQFA Meeting”

  1. I’m glad you liked the Notan class and hope the book is useful. It really was a great meeting and I wish I’d made atc’s so I could have snagged one of yours!

    1. I might make more if I get some more mesh. If I do, I’ll make sure you get one. 😉

      Haven’t had a chance to delve into the book yet, but need to work on one of the design series podcasts so will soon. Thanks for the loan.

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