Precision Piecing

 I am oooohhhhh so comfortable..  rotary cutting, great seam allowances and block construction 

Putting the strips of color together!!  

I’ve had major excitement with HIGH CRAFT… the challenge of artistic-narrative quilt art

But…re-entering and re-sorting my everywhere gorgeous soothing fabric….  I want to make a quilt.  Patterns I’ve save…….  Wanting to DO!    So today was a good single block day!

Time. Oh My

 Is it running out// standing still/// or moving right along?  TIME

I spent 2 hours of casual teaching block construction of 12” BIRDS IN YHE AIR block for my STQG fellow quilter!!!   One on One!  She’s good.  Will do super!!!

My Quilts ~ Under The Big Tent

 

My Quilts …. Time & Time Again

Thanking Amena

High Craft:  Beverly— you should apply/sign up for this exhibit……   Here’s the link!  So said Amena about 14 months ago!

Contemporary Fine Craft Exhibition High Craft is an exhibition that showcases the diverse landscape of artists of color in Oklahoma who work primarily within the craft genre. The term craft refers to works done where the imagination and the hand of the maker are evident. 

Finished In A Big Way 2023!

NOTES FROM Inclusion In Art:  thanks to all the artists participating in this exhibition as it has truly been a wonderful experience. 

Artists Maria Do Anderson, Beverly Huggins Kirk, Lawrence Naff, Ann Solinski, and Amy Young, have formed a real bond that will continue to grow and evolve. We are so excited to see more from them in the future. 

Inclusion In Art would also like to give a big thank you to the High Craft Curatorial Committee, without their hard work and dedication this project would not have been a success. 

Inclusion In Art thanks Heather Lunsford and Oklahoma City University, for the opportunity to use the incredible space at the Norick Art Center’s Nona Jean Husley Gallery.

 

The organization provides exhibitions, practical arts programming, workshops, and professional development. 

INCLUSION IN ART 

Board of Directors 

Amena Butler, President 

Madison Moody-Torres, Vice President 

Kimberly Campbell, Secretary 

Marjorie Bontemps 

Lauren Rosenfelt 

Marcus Mallard 

Freddy Baeza 

Jordan Vineyard

It's a FINSH

 

Refreshing Thread Weight when Poly vs Cotton

 

Embroidery Polyester 40WT Thread...... vs ..... Cotton 50WT Thread

Hello Quilt Friends.....   A bit of re-learning for me today.

I rummaged --- or Estate Sale shopped at a quilter's closeout of all her stuff this AM.

Isacord Embroidery Thread, 5000M, 40W Polyester Thread.  abt $9.00

my cost.... $2.00

A smaller weight number indicates a heavier thread

ISACORD is a polyester continuous thread that has a comparable shine to a rayon embroidery thread. 

Polyester thread is nearly twice the strength of rayon thread

Can I use Isacord 40 for quilting?

Polyester embroidery thread

 This 40 wt. thread is very thin, making it an excellent choice for free motion quilting designs that require a lot of travel stitching. Isacord is also very strong and able to take the high speed and intensity of machine quilting and embroidery.

What weight thread is best for quilting?

50-weight

Quilt piecing

The gold standard for piecing quilt tops is a 50-weight cotton thread. A few excellent choices for piecing are Aurifil Mako 50 weight cotton thread and our exclusive Bluprint Pima Thread . Both threads are smooth and fine, while at the same time being strong and durable

Pushing Thru Depression via Quiltin

 Yes   The cutting, sewing and forming a BOLD BEAUTIFUL ROSE BLOCK     Bit by bit into a quilt!

Rose’s 90 Birthday TX

Black Pioneer: Bass Reeves

 The Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West exhibit opened at the California Museum in Sacramento, CA on June 10, 2023 

GoodDay Sacramento morning show had a segment on the exhibit.  The two reporters close out —-standing next to my Bass Reeves quilted art @ the end of the segment):

Happy Colorful Quil Life

 

Quiltin in the Sunshine

 

Reunion Quiltin

 AM progress!  I intend to vertically appliqué LUCINDA on left border   And on right side…. Fisher/Huggins wording!

And no:   Not Gonna raffle nor give it away! 💥💥

Our family history says that at abt the age of 15-20 years old ... Lucinda was a slave, and the daughter of a slave master.  She was sold from an auction block in Memphis, Tn in about 1860.  She was bought primarily because she was a good cook.  

Nothing is mentioned of Lucinda before the sale, except it is believed that she was in a shipment of slaves from North Carolina.  (Seems thereafter… she was bought by a Civil War Captain from McGehee, Arkansas.  She never mentioned his first name: only Cap’n Anderson. Captain shipped her back to McGehee by train to his plantation.  Lucinda had a beautiful brown-reddish complexion and soft brown hair.   Cap’n Anderson fathered and raised two separate families in the same yard….one by his wife, and the other by Lucinda, my great-grandmother.   

The two sets of children played together, but Lucinda said her children hated their father. Whenever they saw him coming on his big fine horse with a fancy saddle, they would hide under the house and in the bushes.  Lucinda was a virgin when Cap’n Anderson acquired her as a teenager.  Our family historians state two important facts: (1)  it is not surprising that she grew to love him…. He was the only man she knew during her entire life.  

(2) The oldest son Frank, born …….. was born near the beginning of the Civil War.  When he was a very young man, he built a modest house near Herds, AR and moved his mother and younger siblings away. 

Slow spirit today

Slow-like….. the big word is CONTEMPLATIVE..quiltin 

Bold n Beautiful Black Fabric