tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222102382024-03-07T12:54:08.671-05:00Art-Quilt Works.Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.comBlogger741125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-64095011918131961632017-08-19T17:35:00.004-04:002017-08-19T17:35:39.210-04:00Having fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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piecing on my Feather weight..<br />
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Since I began several months ago working with Mariner's compasses I have reconfigured this piece several time, even taking it apart when it was almost completed and made way more M-compass circles than I had initially thought I would. The first image is of it is when I thought using black and white would be a good thing. But half way through I thought not so good.<br />
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So I did a lot of un-sewing and left it on the wall while the G-kids where here and redrew the cartoon. Moved the circles around and made more M-compasses. Got back to it piecing all the circles into the background last week but not steady at it because I have now caught the same knitting bug I had last winter and I am knitting baby caps at the rate of one a day for the local hospital's nursery . Most of them are in an unisex ecru color cotton yarn but I am also knitting some in red to get a jump start on making the requested red ones for February heart month.</div>
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Here is what my piece looks like currently.</div>
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I am down 21 pounds with lots more to go and still walking on my treadmill. I am doing 4 to 5 miles a day now but want to walk 5 every day.<br />
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Physically I could do it all at once but mentally no matter what I do to entertain myself, books on cd, music or the TV, I get bored at 2 miles and have to really kick myself mentally to walk for 3, so the thought of doing 5 miles straight . So I do it in two sessions, one mid-day and the other at bedtime. 2-1/2 x 2 gets me to 5. I was about to type, no sweat but that would be a lie. I sweat oh boy do I sweat.<br />
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<br />Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-76756364287339959442017-07-26T19:00:00.000-04:002017-07-26T19:00:21.735-04:00It has been the Summer of the the grand and great grandsand ferrying them back and forth to gymnastic, and baseball camp. No one with little people think and know that it is not as simple as said. There is laundry and lost items and lunch boxes to fill and getting them to bed and worse getting them up if not kept to a set bedtime. Needless to say I have been busy but not so much as I would like to have been in the studio. My knitting needles are getting a good workout making charity knitted hats for a local hospital nursery. I have no problem putting my needles down and picking up where I left off when I here my name being called by a little person.<br />
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I was trying to take a picture of Olivia. My youngest grandchild. She has been here for almost two months this summer. Below is my daughter Rene with Xaviar 8 and Aundrea 5. Feather weight, 77. Just acquired it a week ago and had time to stitch with it today.</div>
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Still working on the Mariner's compass composition. Have changed the arrangement several times and still not sure of it yet. </div>
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I haven't had enough concentrated time to audition my fabric choices for the background yet. </div>
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The great-grands are here for another two weeks. Olivia is going home on Monday. The school year for her is starting soon.</div>
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I went to the library on Sunday afternoon and picked up a few books on CD's to listen to while stitching. Have finished listening to "In the Company of Others" a Father Tim novel by Jan Karon. It was nice to reacquaint myself with her main character and was happy to see a newer issue by her, "Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good" on the library shelf which I will listen to next.<br />
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Collection of stars...hmm, what shall they become. While I contemplate, I am starting another one.</div>
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Freezer paper pieces are all cut out and waiting for me to select the fabrics for the next star. </div>
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Almost every light in my studio space is on. It is a really grey and gloomy day with periods of heavy rain and distant lightening</div>
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<br />Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-71799180774808297652017-06-01T21:24:00.001-04:002017-06-01T21:24:58.033-04:00I can't believe it is June. Sorry I have been away for so long. I've had several friends and blog followers ask if I am okay and if I am going to blog again. For several months I have been meaning to get back to doing so, but life stepped in and tripped me up on the way to my desk top computer on more than one occasion. But again when I thought about blogging, I realized I had no pictures to add to the post. All words, no images, not good. It is not that I don't have pictures it just that of late, I am more apt to take pictures with my I-pad which I upload to my Facebook page instead using my camera and posting on my blog. <br />
I will try to do better. <br />
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Since I was last here, <br />
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<li>I went to Quilt-Con in Savannah. GA. That is the annual Modern Quilters big show. Really enjoyed seeing Savannah and spending time with my daughter Rene. She was the driver. I will reserve my comments on the quilts. </li>
<li>I did a couple of shifts at the SAQA membership table, during the AQS Show in Dayton Beach. The quilts there were more to my liking. </li>
<li>My little Mini was rear ended in a hit and run accident, It spend a week in the repair shop. Good as new and all is well with it and me.</li>
<li>I traveled to Westchester, NY to do a trunk show, talk and teach a class for the Northern Star Quilt guild. That was fun. I arrived there a week after the big snow fall they had the week before. Despite not owning a coat I survived with a long sleeve t-shirt, socks and several thick sweaters. </li>
<li>I taught a one day workshop here in my studio space for 5 quilters from the quilt guild in Melbourne, FL I like doing that. It is really nice not having to pack up and haul stuff to a off site location.</li>
<li>I enjoyed my nine day stay in Virginia for weeklong retreat with the Girl Friends in Sandbridge, VA Several of us were ill with a stomach flu. Even though I was not as sick as some, it took me a week to feel like normal after I got home.</li>
<li>I drove over to the Gulf side of the state to do a trunk show and teach a workshop for the Manatee Quilters Guild and I spent two nights with my friend Carole. She offered me a bed and I treated her to dinner both evenings. Just like every time we are together, we ran our mouths and the time flew.</li>
<li>My son Myke and his wife Mel were here for a visit. She was here for a conference, Myke to golf . Loved seeing them. Hoping they come back soon and stay longer. </li>
<li>I had my annual blood work, heart check-up and echo gram done in May. All is good. </li>
<li>Yes, I am over my sock knitting addiction. I completed 6 pair which I love wearing around the house. Since I have been spending more time in my studio stitching, I haven't had much interest in socks.</li>
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So I guess you want to know what I stitched and what I am working on. <br />
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I have used this simple flower to teach one day machine applique and machine quilting classes in the past. Most recently for the Manatee Quilt guild and during the Girl Friends retreat. Thought I'd see what several flowers in a composition would look like. It was quick, fun and looks like Spring.<br />
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The piece below is a pieced version of the flowers I paint when I can't think of any thing else. I am getting really comfortable with my Janome again.</div>
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So much so that I am working on a composition using varying sizes of Mariner's compasses, I have been working on this for a week or so. The largest star measures 30 inches so this is going to be a rather large piece. </div>
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Three-four weeks ago when I stayed with my friend Carole over in Sarasota, FL she put me on to her way of organizing her fabric stash and keeping it neat. She wraps her fabric on BCW Golden comic book boards. They are certified acid free which is a good thing. Carole orders her boards from Amazon. There is a comic book and toy store less than 1/2 a mile from my front door and I was happy to learn they carries them. <br />
On my first visit to the store I brought one pack of 100 boards and a book shelf on the way home from Big Lots. Silly me, even though I don't have a large stash, not anywhere close to number of yards I had once upon a time. I should have know one pack and one shelf was not going to suffice. The next day I had Josh, my grandson put together a second shelf and I drove to the store for two more packs of boards. <br />
Now all of my commercial and hand dyes are neatly stored and visible.<br />
I really like this and I have three cubbies left in this book shelf to fill. <br />
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Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-36731018588878386502017-01-04T21:00:00.000-05:002017-01-04T21:00:34.910-05:00Knit one, purl two or ch1, dc in next stWhat?<br />
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Yes I am knitting and crocheting. Two activities I have not done in years. <br />
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Several days ago I got an email from one of the ladies I meet with on Fridays. She was forwarding a request from a group of hospitals in the Orlando area that cater to women and babies. They wanted to acknowledge Heart Health Month by having every baby wear a red knitted or crocheted hat while in the nursery. So they were asking knitters and hookers to make 1,000 red hats.<br />
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I have a soft spot for babies, after all I had four. I also have a soft spot for preemies since NICU was where I spent several years as a nurse in my really early nursing career.<br />
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While I haven't knitted or crocheted as I said in years, the needles for these two crafts do not take up much room, so I still had them stored in a drawer as well as several balls of year that I could not bring myself to get rid of. Several happened to be red. More blue red that what I would call heart red, but hey, red is red. <br />
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The first hat I crochet I used a variegated cotton yarn to see if I could get comfortable doing it. It was like riding a bike. Once you know how you never forget. Same with the knitting, although it did take several tries getting the hang of working with double pointed needles that I went out and brought on New Years day from Joann's after I spent several hours earlier being frustrated with trying to knit in the round using the magic loop techniques. For the non knitters that is a way to knit in the round on a single set of cable needles.<br />
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I did not have a number of hats I wanted to donate to the cause in mind when I started, but since<br />
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Now I have decided I see how many I can make before the turn in deadline of January 15.<br />
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Hope everyone 2017 is getting off to a great and creative start.<br />
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<br />Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-58265560487589423402016-12-27T20:05:00.000-05:002016-12-27T20:05:41.862-05:00Ending the year in a sew sew mood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once again, a little Christmas spirit arrived in the mail. I am always cheered when I open the envelope containing an ornament from <a href="http://artwithaneedle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kathy Loomis.</a> This year it was no different. I am always in awe of her creativity. Every year she comes up with something really neat. I am glad she described how she made the one she sent this year because I was studying it to see if I could figure out what she use and how she constructed it. <br />
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I no longer go through the motions of decorating for the season. My Christmas cactus is in full bloom and I brought three small pots of Red Poinsettias that I grouped together on the table behind the love seat. That was it. <br />
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With no little people around who are waiting for Santa it just isn't the same. But the ornaments are not just a things for a season. Rather they have a permanent place in my art space and decorate my places all year. This one will hang from one of the thread guilds on my Janome. Last year's hangs from a similar guide on the HQ16. <br />
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<br />Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-86140639721566499622016-12-08T18:43:00.000-05:002016-12-08T18:43:02.896-05:00Piecing: a new pathIt's not that I have forgotten how to piece, it just that it's been so long since piecing was how I created so a few days of practice was what I did.<br />
I practiced piecing curves and making intersections meet and achieving accurate 1/4 seam allowances and a few other techniques. I've had to relearn my sewing machine too. For some time all the Janome was used for was sewing on facings and making sleeves.<br />
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As I was designing and thinking of colors and fabrics for the compositions, I realized that not many of the pieces of fabric I had in the house matched what I was seeing I'm in my head. I picked these out because that sort of fit.<br />
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And there I was thinking the last time I posted that I would work with what I had on hand. HAH!!! Truth was, the fabrics I had on hand was purchased mainly to be used as backs for the work I painted.<br />
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So off I went yesterday to buy fabric that works with my vision. All I brought was Kona solids. <br />
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I had to raise a table to cutting height for comfort. <br />
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I roll out of bed now, ready to go to the studio instead of to the treadmill first thing.<br />
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Don't fear, I am still walking religiously. Just doing it either before lunch or at the end of the day an hour after supper.<br />
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Will let you see what's on the design wall when it is more than a vision in my head.Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-37919542464029752402016-11-16T18:23:00.000-05:002016-11-16T18:23:23.467-05:00Update on my return to piecing.I am doodling my ideas, and plotting them out on 4 squares to 1inch graph paper. I have several ideas that look promising and one old idea I'd like to revisit. <br />
I am finding it hard not to see flowers when I doodle or draw circles. I am going to stop fighting that and see where I go.<br />
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Since I am still in the early planning stage for one of the compositions I want to make, I did decide to work with the fabric I have on hand and supplement them with some new purchases as needed. <br />
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I smiled thinking there was once a time when I was in the running to win the "who ever dies with the most fabric wins" competition. Today that is no longer the case. Here are some of the fabrics in my small stash that are speaking to me. This collection represent about one third of what I have on hand. <br />
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Good thing I have two well stocked quilt/fabric stores. Both depending on traffic are about 15 minutes away. My first choice is <a href="http://www.sewing.net/virtualtour/" target="_blank">The Sewing Studio</a> which stocks more than just quilters cottons. I think I've said before that they remind me of a mini Baer Fabrics (that's a reference that Louisville and Southern Indiana sewers understand) and <a href="http://www.sewithappens.com/virtual-tour.htm" target="_blank">The Bernina Store in Lake Mary</a> which is more of a traditional shop for quilters is. <br />
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I know if I continue on this piecing path I will have to get back to dyeing fabric and beefing up my stash with commercial prints that play well with the hand dyes. But for now, as I said I am using what I got.<br />
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When I was about to get started on one of my ideas a light bulb went on and I had one of those slap to the forehead moments that brought my momentum to a screeching halt. I had gotten way ahead of myself when I put that 48" x 80" piece of freezer paper up on my design wall.<br />
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You see I am a planner and a plotter. When piecing I work from full size freezer paper cartons/ patterns. I do not have, not one, free wheeling improvisational bone in my body. So in returning to my piecing style I was missing a step. What I forgot was; in order to go from scaled drawing on 4 squares to 1inch graph paper to a full size drawing I needed 48" wide alpha numeric paper and sadly I have none in my house. <br />
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Through an Internet search I found several sources for the paper. I ordered some. The shipping notice said it should be here by FedEx in 2-3 days. Yeah! Years ago back in 1988 or 89 I ordered 4 or 500 feet of the stuff, but for now, until I know for sure this is my new path, I ordered 1/4 0f that amount. Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-8975675932301773612016-11-08T12:11:00.000-05:002016-11-08T12:11:32.316-05:00I've been away so longmainly because I had lost my enthusiasm or muse if you will was taking a long very long vacation from which I could not coax it or her back from. I have not made anything new for,,, I can't remember. But about five days ago at the back of my mind came this urging that got stronger and stronger until two days ago I got up wanting to do something new. <br />
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So I looked through all of my flower photos and back through all of my past works. I looked through some of my sketch books too. To my surprise what got me wanting to get my hands on fabric again was some early 2000 quilted works I had pieced with joy back before I moved to Florida, back when npt sp simple piecing was what I loved doing, back before when selling my work was not top most in my mind and back before when I created works in series for solo exhibits was my priority.<br />
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I have for some months been mulling over whether I want to continue being a vendor at local quilt shows. I have decided that after March 2017 I will stop. I have also decided that I will no longer get on a plane to go teach, but I am still open to teaching in Florida. My last trip is scheduled for NY in March 2017.<br />
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That settled, I plan to work on projects for my own satisfaction. They may or may not be ones that I will enter in national quilt show competition. I know I will not work to a theme just to entry. Rather I will create what I want and if it fits I will submit it for consideration to shows like AQS, or the Mancuso's or possibly if I think what I am doing warrants consideration, I will enter Visions or Quilt National or several other art quilt venues. <br />
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So thinking all that I said to myself, "Juanita, if you are going to be doing a lot of piecing again, you need to reconfigure your work spaceyou can get to the design wall. Done.<br />
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My way of working on a pieced design is to doodle my idea on a piece of paper and refining it on 1/4" grid graph paper. From that refined drawing I scale it up on freezer paper. The freezer paper line drawing becomes my pattern or templates.<br />
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By style, most of what I have done since 2009 has been whole cloth painted works and of late most of those have been rather small ( 20" x 30" or less) . But now, what I am thinking and planning to do will be large. <br />
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Its been some years since I have worked large do long that to my surprise I was shocked when I began to pull off 2 lengths of 24 wide freezer paper to made my 48" x 96" full size cartoon for this idea I have. I also under estimated the lengths and had to add 18 more inches.<br />
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I won't say that when I left my works space last evening that I was overwhelmed at the prospect of making something that large again but I was, shall I say, I was second guessing my decision to jump back into working by starting with this large a piece.<br />
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But I must say that for the first time in months I bounced out of bed thinking I got to hurry up and get dressed and what can I fix for breakfast that is quick. I can't wait to get to work. Fabric!<br />
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I am hoping this is the beginning of me getting back to my life as a quilt maker.</div>
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It has been a long, really long time since I have done nothing but sit and read and sip iced tea.<br />
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I am still walking on my treadmill everyday. My goal was 3 miles in an hour when I started. Haven't quite gotten to that point yet, however I am doing 1-1/4 miles in 31 minutes twice a day. Which I find is better than walking for an hour straight. Soooo boring. I did that once upon a time when I had to get in the car and drive five miles or so to do it. Back then, when I lived in Missouri walking for an hour didn't seem so boring. Back then I could look at other people huffing and puffing and sweating like me, but here alone with nothing going on outside my window or on the television I get so bored just putting one foot in front of the other so I tell myself to just walk as fast and as far as you can for 30 minutes. So that is what I do. With the treadmill down the hall from the bedroom, it's no problem to come back and do 30 minutes later in the day telling myself once again to just walk for 30 minutes as fast and as far as you can. <br />
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Back at the start of Spring I missed the deadline to apply to be a vendor at the well attended 2016 Quiltfest Quilt Show in Jacksonville, FL I chose not to be a part of the show in 2015 even though I did very well there in 2014. Since I missed the deadline, I'd put it out of my mind. But then two weeks ago a vendor friend who did not want to use all three of the booths she had paid for asked if I wanted to use part of her space and after doing an inventor check I said yes. So anyone who is planning to go to the Jacksonville show, September 15-17 look for me. I will be in booth 701 listed in the program under Birds Nest Quilt Shop. I will have a 10 foot space on one end or the other of her space. Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-1356305131187803682016-07-04T12:09:00.000-04:002016-07-04T12:09:46.592-04:00Happy Fourth I passed on getting on a plane to go to Vegas for the Fourth. Too hot. Orlando is hot enough for me thank you very much. I've done Vegas before but Olivia, the grand-daughter, hasn't and she through she'd like to see it so off to the airport she, Rene and Justin went this morning. I will be a one backpack trip kind of trips. They will be back on Wednesday. Below is a picture of Olivia and my youngest great grand daughter Ni-yah for short pronounced with a long I. Ni-yah lives in Detroit, she is almost three years old. She was here with her Mom for a few days a week or so ago. <br />
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Nothing exciting around here to report on. Just the same old same old. I am waiting for the cable guy to come. I was surprised that they would make house calls on a holiday. I am still finding pretty flowers for inspiration. I spied the pinks ones blooming near the road by a mailbox in a neighborhood I ventured into on Friday because of an "Estate Sale" sign. <br />
My friend Lois picked up a few small things. Not me. There was nothing there that spoke to me in the well organized rooms of stuff. <br />
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The ugly buzzard like birds that make their home in the green space behind my condo must have had babies this spring. I say two smaller versions of them sitting on the fence but I didn't bother to take a picture. But when I began seeing flits of red in the trees back there I tried to capture what were Cardinals. There were two of them. Babies too. Here's one. had to use the zoom feature on my camera to get this. Too quickly they were gone.<br />
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were in full bloom this morning. What a great sight that greeted me when I pulled the blinds to open them on the slider today. Couldn't stop myself from grabbing my camera and stepping outside to what was a very humid day to snap some pictures. I love these but they are far to complex to paint and quilt although I'd really like to give it a try. Will let you see if I am at all successful in doing them justice.<br />
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Finished hand stitching down the facing on the two pieces I showed you a couple of days ago. I upgraded to Windows 10 again. Now that I have time to fool with it if it gives me grief I am giving it one more change to not frustrate me. </div>
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The large box in the garage went out for waste removal so now I can back the car out and hang yardage of silk broadcloth in the garage to dry. Soy milk in refrigerator is waiting. Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-72589662264268517932016-06-16T17:38:00.001-04:002016-06-16T17:38:48.066-04:00Quilting is done<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There have been a few things in my life that I have wanted to kick myself for buying, but my treadmill is not on that list. I really like the idea of rolling out of bed and into my walking shoes to go for a walk in my nightgown. I must confess that I am a MSNBC political junkie. So I watch Morning Joe while I walk. </div>
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The treadmill is in front of the window so I can watch my neighbors drive by on their way to work and I smile thankfully to myself. So glad my days of getting up, dressed and out the door to work are long ago over. </div>
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<br />Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-66091270756315254502016-06-12T18:01:00.001-04:002016-06-12T18:01:49.837-04:00On this Sundaythe news that greeted me this morning when I turned on the television to keep me company while I walked on the treadmill was bad, so sad and as the morning went on it got worse. 103 people shot, 50 died. <br />
I normally don't work in my Studio on Sundays, not that I consider making art laboring, it's just that I figure I could do something else, like see a movie or read a book. My mind wouldn't entertain either one of those activities so I did what brings me peace. I painted.<br />
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quilting and adding the acrylic center details of this small piece (15" x 20"). Still needs facing and sleeve. I painted this while I was in Virginia at the Girl Friends Retreat. For the last few days I have been going through my collection of flower photos looking for my next project. I have selected a few that I have to enlarge to full size. </div>
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But more importantly I'm not all that upset about the rain because I forgot I have a rather large box in my garage and a wooden pallet that is in the way of the clothesline that is stretched across the width of the garage. I can't get to the clothes line if I wanted to, at least not most of it. Might be a few more days before I can, at least Monday and if all goes worse, Thursday. The next two times the trash man comes. </div>
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The full story of the large box is, a treadmill was delivered last Thursday and brought into the garage with an motorized hand dolly . Rene and Steve, my very tall, strong and 30 something y/o neighbor managed to get it into unpacked and into the house last Saturday. I decided to put it into the front bedroom that I am using for painting and studio supply storage. Thought it would be nice to look out at the street as I walk each morning. I am determined to walk myself back to the fitness level I had when I first moved here and walked a minimum of three miles each day first thing each morning.</div>
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Rene, my daughter who is quite handy began putting it together and Justin the grandson came to finish the job on Sunday evening. But once he did, it did not work. I called the manufacture, left a message about my issue and they determined when they called me back on Monday morning that I needed a new part. That part arrived today. Not sure when the service tech, they promised would call me and come to install what looks to me like a Motherboard, will do that. Waiting for the call. In the meantime, I'll work on enlarging some images and maybe work on something smaller.</div>
<br />Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-88058738873920039742016-05-28T18:40:00.001-04:002016-05-28T18:40:18.844-04:00My Etsy shop is open.<br />
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Yesterday I had an enjoyable day was with the group of ladies who gather on Fridays to chat, eat and do hand work of some kind; knitting, embroidery, crochet, sewn down bindings hand piece or applique. You get the idea. We do our own thing. I took my little box of Hexies I've been working on for years to keep my fingers busy. If this becomes anything, it will require me working on it for many more years.<br />
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One of the ladies reported that she had just sold a quilt from her Etsy shop and we were all happy about the amount she sold it far. I hadn't considered Etsy as a place where I would consider placing my work for sale. But her report gave me pause and I decided to open a Etsy Shop to sell my quilts instead of opening a store through my website which I had considered doing.<br />
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Working with their site was easy, really easy. So far, I've got about 17-18 items on the site. I am planning to add others as well as kits and patterns and some supplies, at least the stuff that my student ask, " Where can I get that?". <br />
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained I say, so I will see how this goes. Self promoting is key to selling I know. So I began by putting my Etsy Shop on my blog.<br />
It was easy to do that. The Etsy site walks you through it. Ta-da! Now I need to see if I can link the Etsy shop as easily to my website "contact me" page. <br />
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I finally got the last quilting done on the piece that has been on the HQ16 for months. Blocked it, trimmed the excess, but have not trued the sides and corners yet. Depending if it will cool enough to use the raised tables in the garage on Sunday or Monday, I will get around to doing that. But more than likely I will get this piece sandwiched and quilted instead. It measures only 15" x 20" . I painted while I was in Virginia at the Girl Friends Retreat. <br />
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Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend and Holiday. Honor all who have served.<br />
And be careful if you are on the roads or in the skies traveling.Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-87186790774311713702016-05-23T18:15:00.002-04:002016-05-23T19:10:55.773-04:00I've had the creative dahssince I returned from a very enjoyable week at the beach in Virginia. It's been a while since I have had this feeling of wondering in the desert without knowing where I was going or in what direction to turn. I am still working on this piece that has been under the needle for months. <br />
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I think I spoke of getting rid of my website, but changed my mind and updated it instead. I left out a listing of the workshops I teach because I have not fully made up my mind about if I want to continue doing so, although I do know for sure that I don't like getting on planes to do so. I still have one commitment in the Spring of 2017 to do.<br />
Because I have been stumbling around mentally and creatively, I thought I needed to get back to basics. Long years ago I did the 12 weeks as set out in the Artist Way and for a long time after I began each day with Morning pages and I did Artist Dates but not once a week as advised. I have slowly over the last few years gotten out of the habit of doing both. So today I decided that I would begin again. I also decided to re-read the book. One chapter per week. 12 weeks and hopefully a change or a clearer artistic direction.<br />
I also determined that I like sitting in my front room, the one that faces the street to do my Morning pages It is a nice bright room and I do love the sunshine. <br />
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Because I am a fan of Jane Dunnewold I decided to order her newest book. It came today and I am in a state of joy. I think it will be a good partner for the Artist Way and how I am trying to deal with my creativity draught. Cab not wait to sit down with a cup of tea after dinner and begin reading it. Let's hope there is some insight I can garnish from her words. <br />
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Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-89455386708245933012016-05-07T17:54:00.000-04:002016-05-07T17:54:01.662-04:00Derby Day You can take the woman out of Kentucky but you can not take Kentucky out of her heart, especially on the first Saturday in May. I never think of horses or the races any more. It's been forever that I was conscious of what the name of the most favorite horse running is. My husband was a racing fan and while I didn't bet do more than let him place a $2 bet on a horse with an interesting name for me I did attended many races with him in Kentucky and in other States if we happened to be close to a track when we vacationed. <br />
Philip read the racing form and I read a book. One Summer day when we were at the race track in Saratoga, NY I sat in the picnic area at a bench under a tree and hand pieced some of the blocks for this double bed size quilts you see below. This was one of my first efforts. It is hand pieced and hand quilted, which is what most quilters did in the early 80's.<br />
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I was just feeling nostalgic today as I was up dating my website and came across images of these three quilt and I let my mind wonder to the connection they have in my life. So I thought I would share them with you all. If you bet, I hope you have the winner. </div>
Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-30958135536590433302016-04-06T18:59:00.002-04:002016-04-06T18:59:58.894-04:00New directions and thoughts I am thinking seriously of closing my website. I had a purpose for it when I first decided to have one, but I don't anymore. I once took time to keep it current, but I don't anymore. And now I don't want to go back through my images of work; most of which has been sold nor take time away from creating to update something I no longer find useful. <br />
What is the alternative? I am thinking I could add pages to my blog and get the same benefit which is directing interested persons to those pages it to see what classes I offer. Or what my current work looks like. Not that I plan to offer classes for long. The body is getting older and 2017 will be the last year I plan to get on a plane to go teach out of the State of Florida. I think I said that to myself in 2015 about 2016 if I remember correctly.<br />
I am thinking about opening an online store mail order kits for two or three of my smaller painted flower patterns. The kits would contained everything one needs to get started. I got a really good response for the kits I took to sell in Venice on a whim. Could have sold several time over the number that I took had I only known. Not sure what else I will have in the store but I should have it all worked out by next month.<br />
Last week I had an inquiry from one quilter I met at the Venice show. She is back home in PA. Got there in time for the snow that fell in her area last week. I don't think she was too pleased about that. She said she wanted a kit at the show but I was sold out and wanted to know if I would make up a kit for her. "Sure", I said. The shipping and handling is costing her just a little more than if she had gotten the kit at the show and paid the Florida sales tax.<br />
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Since I was in the process of making kits for a class I will be teaching in Virginia in a week or so, it was no added effort on my part short of me driving to the Post Office this morning.<br />
Still working on the piece that has been under the needle for what seems like forever. I am better at starting something, sticking to it tell it is done. This piece has had too many interruptions. I am planning to get it done before I leave on the 16th. Take it with me and do the facing and sleeves while I am away, Maybe. The maybe was about the sleeves not the facing.<br />
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Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-67728629490602150202016-03-26T12:45:00.002-04:002016-03-26T12:48:38.230-04:00My love hate relationship with my computerwas in full force last week, right before I was about to leave for Venice, FL and the quilt show I was vending at. The first one this year. I like the small city of Venice, especially the "on island" portion of it that you reach by driving across a really short bridge.<br />
I dropped my CPU off at Stables on my way out of town. It was acting like it had a virus. When I checked to see if the virus program I had purchased was even installed and it wasn't. Needles to say I was NOT happy. Sure enough it hadn't been so they de bugged the CPU and installed the software that I paid for along with two years of tech services. <br />
Then after I got it home and was going to blog about my trip to Venice, I could get to my blog. Not even sure how I did it this morning. Just let me say, it wasn't how I have done it for all the past times/years. <br />
There is usually a guild show somewhere in Central/south Florida every weekend beginning in January and lasting to maybe the middle of April. Because this was the first one for the year that I have attended I can't be entirely sure my observation is accurate, but I am going to put my thoughts out there anyway.<br />
Two, no three things have happened in Florida in the last several months that is changing the outlook and profitability long range for small guild shows. First, the Mancuso show moved to Orlando from West Palm where it steadily decreased in show floor size mainly because of poor attendance. I did that show as a vendor once and swore I'd never do it again. The attendance was terrible. When they opted to move to Orlando their dates collide with an established guild here in Central Florida which prompted them to cancel their show instead of competing with a more professionally staged one. <br />
The second thing is a AQS show was held in Dayton Beach this year for the first time. AQS always puts on a quality show. More competition for quilt guilds. And lastly the Sewing & Quilting Expo overlapped the show in Venice and according to the guild show chair she felt that caused their attendance to drop. Since this was my first time there and I was steady busy, not sure how I could have handled being much busier by myself so they must have in the past had a tremendous gate.<br />
I passed on both the Mancuso and AQS show even though I could have done both and driven to and from each day and slept in my own bed. <br />
I like small guild shows. I get to see different parts of the State that I wouldn't get in my car and drive to alone, just to be going. The cost of a vendor space is reasonable and doesn't dent the bank account even if I have a couple of not so good selling days, like this past weekend. But I had fun.<br />
I talked to a lost of quilters. I passed out a lot of peppermints and my business card (post cards with contact info on the back) At quilt show is where I get most of my teaching engagements in other parts of the country. I even had an inquiry about coming to Canada and another inquiry about being an artist in residence for a private school which was something I did in Kentucky back in the 1990 for two weeks. hmmm not sure if I want to do that again. :) <br />
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My cactus finally stopped blooming a week ago, so no blooms for Easter. But 10 of the 12 battery powered candles from Christmas are still flickering. </div>
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Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-84194214055718036772016-03-04T18:51:00.000-05:002016-03-26T11:37:55.225-04:00Not quite a tutorialjust showing one of my former student ( Claudia) a way she can finish her painted quilts since she hates doing facings and sleeves as much as I do. Of course for this to work, you have to begin the piece knowing what size stretched canvas is available. <br />
So I started this piece knowing I had a 11 x 14 inch stretched canvas in the house. I also had several larger ones but opted for the 11 x 14<br />
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I started with a piece of silk that was 15 x 19. I layered it with a piece of 35% wool x 65% wool, leaving out the first layer of Warm and Natural that I normally use with the felt layer and backing fabric. The felt layer was cut about 11-1/2" x 14-1/2". I also used a piece of heavy weight Pellon (R)leave in interfacing as the backing. That was cut to the exact size of the canvas 11x 14.<br />
I quilted the piece and was surprised that the shrinkage from quilting was negligible. I guess due to the interfacing. The piece was pretty flat, no blocking was needed so I just dry pressed it to remove the Pilot Frixion pen marks I use this pen to draw on the silk with. .<br />
I trimmed the piece down to measure 1-1/2 inches larger than the 11 x 14 piece of interfacing all around<br />
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I used a generous application of Aleen's Fabric Fusion clear glue and pinned the silk in place until it dried with t-pins, ball head pins and mostly tacks. The variety was because I didn't have enough tacks and only a few t-pins, but the wood is soft enough that they all worked well. I let it dry over night<br />
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This what the 11 x 14 stretched canvas looked like and below what the other one looks like on the back side<br />
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When the glued down in place silk edges were dry I cut a piece of interfacing 1/2 inch shorter length and width and used the same glue and glued it in place to cover the opened back a metal hanger can be added<br />
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I put a heavy book on the back to weight it down until the felt dusk cover dried<br />
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Laura, I was quilting that piece without a backing testing out a way to finish a quilt without a facing and for a way to add a sleeve without having to do any hand work. I worked it out, but did not like the way the edges looked. That's why I tried one more approach, todays blog post, </div>
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It measures about 30 x 42<br />
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Everything I've painted is quilted except the one large piece on the easel so I went back to it on Saturday and finished painting it along with painting three smaller pieces. Not knowing which piece I would quilt first I painted all of the small pieces so they would fit the 12 x 12 inch requirements for the SAQA Auction. There is lot of stuff SAQA does that I don't participate in but I like doing this. I guess maybe because both times I have done so in the past the pieces sold, which makes me feel good. They are not due until April, but I wanted to get it off of my to-do list. <br />
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Here is a look at the three little pieces.<br />
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They are of a image I have used before so other than painting them in different for me colors they were quick and easy. I started quilting one today after lunch and got it done by the end of my studio day. <br />
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I tried out a new to me way of finishing the edge and back of this piece that required no hand work, not even for the sleeve. To do this, the piece was quilted without the backing fabric. I was zooming along then clunk, clunk, clunk, which I ignored and did it twice more before I stopped and investigated why my stitches were off.<br />
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I have sewn my needle threader to the back of a quilts before, and each time I've cursed and vowed never again but as you see I did it again. <br />
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I was down to less than a yard of the wool/rayon blend felt I use in my work so a trip to Joann with a 50% off coupon was what I did first thing this morning. Got there and luckily it was not on sale already, but my goodness the cost is sky rocketing. I know, I know the cost of all things quilt related is increasing. </div>
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Not sure if I will finish the two other small pieces or start on this larger piece tomorrow. These long stemmed poppy like flowers are my favorites. I always enjoy painting them and quilting them.</div>
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My Christmas Cactus is blooming like crazy. What joy.</div>
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each morning as I enter my studio space for the day. For the last eight days the sky has been, for the most part. sunny. It has been a little nippy here in Central Florida, but I am not complaining when so many others are getting snow and really cold weather.</div>
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Why you ask are you showing three lite candles? Well... last December on the 10 I think I went to the Dollar store and brought 12 of thm for $1 each and some really cheap AA batteries. I put them in the windows thinking that would be the extent of my making merry. Then as I told you my neighbor offered to hang lights from the roof for me. .I put a wreath on the front door and called it done. </div>
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As I put the candles in the windows I thought I'd be lucky if they lasted until Christmas, cheap batteries and all and then I wondered how many batteries I'd go through if I wanted them to stay lit until New Year' s Day. I was so glad that all 12 were still glowing on Three Kings day or Twelfth Night or Epiphany, (Jan5th). </div>
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ey were all still burning bright on January 6 when I took them out of the windows. But I couldn't bring myself to turning them off, so here they are, continuing to glow on Valentines Day. . Now I am wondering if the batteries will last until Easter.</div>
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Finished the piece on the left yesterday. Even though the picture doesn't show it, the left one is twice the size as the one on the right. It is complete with facing and sleeves as I promised myself, </div>
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And I have started on a new piece. ( about 20 x 44 inches ) Sorry about the poor lightening. I took this picture at the end of the day yesterday as I was turning off the light in my studio space for the day. Will give a better look see in my next post.</div>
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<br />Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-49679385131738429012016-02-09T17:50:00.001-05:002016-02-14T20:12:36.462-05:00All the sleeves are doneFrom now on I have promised myself that as I finish quilting each piece I will not put off adding the sleeve especially since I have about a month left before I go off to vend in Venice. All of these small pieces will be added to my inventory closet.<br />
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I have un-sewn a section of quilting where the tension was off. And did some quilting on this piece.<br />
which is twice the size of the one pictured on the right that I finished earlier.<br />
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I know some of you are having Winter weather with some of that white stuff falling from the sky but here, the flowers are blooming.in my little garden outside and blooming inside too.</div>
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I am not sure why my Christmas Cactus has decided it wants to continue to bloom two months past the time it should, Looking closely I can see it has far more pink buds now than it did in December. </div>
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Juanita Yeagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692527021231149220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22210238.post-68686175212446086232016-02-06T18:52:00.000-05:002016-02-06T18:52:27.200-05:00I've had a favorite quoteabout how to end a day for many years. I found it on the <a href="http://www.wallwords.com/" target="_blank">Wall Words</a> website and had it on the wall where I lived in Louisville. I had them make me another one for my bedroom wall in Columbia, MO but never used it because the wall had a flat paint finish on them. I brought the wall quote with me and affixed it to a wall in my apartment when I moved to FL I am thinking of ordering it again now that my wall here in the condo are painted with an egg shell finish instead of the flat that was here originally. Here is the quote.<br />
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<em>"Finish the day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well."</em> Emerson.<br />
Today I found a quote I like that speaks to a day's beginning. <br />
<em>"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."</em> J. B. Priestley<br />
Now I am really tempted to place an order for both.<br />
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This quote about new day spoke to my heart. From the first days of the year I've made a conscious effort to look at the sky. Take note of what I can see of it through each of my three little east facing windows in my studio space. The middle one with the palm tree to the lower left allows me the best view of the sky. The movement of the palm or lack thereof tells me if there is a breezy or not. Because of this view I have begun to take a picture each day as I begin my studio day. Here are the last six days.<br />
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As I have said before the weather influences my mood and my level of creatively on a given day. I have written about that on this blog. What I have not acknowledged is the fact that my tendency to be a hermit is more pronounced on sunny days. You would think it would be the reverse, but I really don't want to leave home, run errands and lose time when the light is good. I paint on sunny days. I quilt on bright days when it is a little overcast and I have to stop as the day light fails.. I do hand work, facings and sleeves on days like today when it is raining while sitting close to my lamps with daylight bulbs and try to find something interesting on TV. What would a sewer's life be without Ott light bulbs and other daylight lamps.<br />
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Here is the pile of small pieces I have made for my vendor booth that still need sleeves. Two more larger ones are also waiting. I am vending at a quilt show in Venice, FL in March. The only one on my schedule this year. </div>
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Like everywhere else in the world, the day can start off really sunny and full of promise only for the sky to cloud over and pour rain. So I set aside the painting and the quilting and started sewing on sleeves.<br />
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You noticed the un-sewer did you... yes I have more than a few stiches that need undoing.. (blasted top tension) but on another day. That chore, un-sewing white on white is best done with good light.<br />
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**** To my friend Karen. I guess you could say my whole condo is sort of my studio, as more and more of my footage is being used for my art. <br />
Part of the garage is used as wet studio space. That was set up shortly after I moved in, but best used this time of year until about May, then put on hold until October. The pantry in the kitchen holds my dye and dying supplies that which isn't in the garage. Of course I use the kitchen to make my soy milk and I store it in the refrigerator. And I have been known to keep soy milk soaked silk in the refrigerator too when I can't get all I've soaked hung up and dried in one day. <br />
The Front bedroom, is now used for painting, squaring up larger works and for my not nearly as large as my previous fabric stashes have been. Especially the one when I lived in MO. The rolls of batting live in the Murphy bed bedroom closet along with a still in the box, yet to be assembled, easel until I have a guest who needs the space for its intended purpose, then the batting gets moved to my bedroom closet. <br />
The living room, dining room combo, is my primary studio space, but it is also used for sitting, TV watching, office/and desktop computer use.<br />
I had to laugh at your comment, two days ago I was serious thinking of setting up two fold up leg tables on bed risers in the middle of the third bedroom, the one with the Murphy bed so I would have a space I didn't have to clear off before sandwiching a piece. Instead, now that the weather is not too hot and humid, being in the garage is not uncomfortable, so I opted to set up the two table out there for now. After all my car (a mini cooper) doesn't need nearly half of the space available out there. <br />
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