We Are Three Of A Kind

Robbie, Kay and Beth all love to play with fabric, fiber, paint, dyes, design and  creativity. We each have our own way of doing this.

We all are continually trying new things and even revisited things from our pasts.

Friday the three of us got together for lunch and sharing, showing and telling.

It was an amazing day with each of us having things that were so different that what the other two were doing.  

Robbie does some of the most amazing beading I have ever seen. She is constantly trying new things and currently is taking a year long class online from an artist in the UK. Beth is an accomplished doll artists. She also does a variety of surface design techniques and is continually trying so many new things.
All of us make quilts, with each of us producing totally different types. I hope to be able to share some of the pictures I took at our get together on future posts. Blogger is still making me fight to put up a post so I feel one photo is my limit right now.
Robbie has a blog which I am sure you will enjoy: robbiespawprints.blogger.com

My Talented Friends

I already shared the work Beth Sherman and Robbie Porter Payne did with my Dye Dogs.
In addition to sharing those we each shared what we had been working on.

Beth has done a lot of research and work recently with bleeding tissue paper. She used it on fabric and other surfaces. Some of these pieces were ones she did previously and now layered the color on from the bleeding tissue.  I was very impressed with all the different ways she used it.

This is a quilt Robbie made a while ago. I believe it was for a nature challenge. I was impressed how tasteful if was with so many different stitches and embellishments. It worked because it had a limited color scheme, yet many values of each color.
It’s great to have such wonderful girlfriends who enjoy the same things I do and continue to add to their repertoire.

Inktense Blocks

Today I did a little playing with Derwent Inktense Blocks and some stencils. This is the first one I did. It needs to dry and then I will seal it with a fabric medium.

This is the other one I did. Because of the design of the stencil the effect is quite different.
At this point I have no idea how I will use these, but that is not the reason I create. Each different thing I try gives me a new tool in my design arsenal.