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ryan watkins-hughes
Comments (1)My teacher told us about Ryan Watkins-Hughes so I thought I’d share. His photography captures the urban landscape in a really bold way and his concept of shopdropping is awesome.
midterm check-in
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Comments (4) Ive been going non stop all weekend!
Quilting is complete on the quilt Im calling Baby Steps. So many channels.
I love the texture that the channels create. I cant wait to finish the binding and put it in the wash.
I have had this idea for a pillow since last spring and Im finally getting around to making it.
This is the Repair series. I cut the felt in strips and sew it back together.
This is the top I pieced using those strips of fabric I showed last time. This quilt looks suspiciously like this. I adore Jen and love her quilts, as well as Denise Schmidt’s (whom she interned for during grad school). I think their designs are modern and accessible and I feel Im learning a lot by letting their design sensibilities influence me while Im still getting the basics.
These are the fabrics I am using for my next quilt which will have more of my aesthetic. Simple and clean (at least I hope that will be the outcome).
a few things i meant to post last week…
My friend Jen’s quilts in the window of ShopSCAD, one of my favorite galleries in Savannah. It has the most innovative and creative art, and it its always inspiring.
Jen Jenkins is a graduate of the MFA Fibers program. Her fine art website blows me away. When working on her thesis show, a period of only a couple months, she said she sewed over 1 or 2 million stitches and had to have her Bernina serviced twice (or something like that, which apparently is a lot!). The surfaces are heavily stitched and textured. Her production design company, Double J Designs makes gorgeous (functional) quilts. Make sure to check her out!
Vogue Knitting Stitchionary and a handspun skein of yarn from Urban Gypz that I got while I was in Asheville. I love this book! Not only are the samples interesting but the layout is clean and easy to follow. This is really embarrassing, but since working on one of the samples Ive realized I have been doing yarn overs wrong! Wow. But now I know and I am following an eyelet pattern and learning a lot. Like, I dont really like following eyelet or lace patterns… but I do like the way they look so Im gonna stick it out for now.
Im going to use the yarn as the fringe for a dark brown cable knit scarf Ive been trying to finish for a year now. Check out her etsy shop, she is awesome!
Beautiful beautiful raw fleece. I got this from an art supply store in Asheville.
I had such a busy weekend because we were having a few events at my gallery for an Italian artist, Stefano Cecchini.
Thats me on the left, Stefano, Brenda and Joey. I had a great time hanging out with my co-workers and Stefano but I seriously have to get some work done now. I hope you all had a great weekend!
Oh! Before I go……
Chris got a Mohawk! Its awesome! 
