Frayed Edges

My small art quilt group, The Frayed Edges, met on Monday. We had a delightful time! Seriously, we all feel very lucky. I think we all go home full of energy and creative enthusiasm and our husband's nod and say, "that's great, honey." (I mean, they really are happy for us too!)

We started with cappaccinos and croissants and general catching up. I shared my rock quilt almost done, the fabric I dyed at AQM recently, the top of the picnic quilt, several in-progress postcards, a small fiber collage that is on the back burner and some new letterboxing stuff. (I've been busy and I've posted about almost none of this. It's all on it's way, I promise.)

Then Kathy shared an amazing retrospective of her work. Sarah and I had not seen several of these pieces since we're fairly new to the Maine quilters community. Amazing! Wonderfully creative, full, meaningful, detailed and deliciously embellished. These pictures are not even close to real life.


Look! Bundles! These are wonderful fabric origami embellishments. This is Kathy's alzheimers quilt. Her mother was diagnosed 15 years ago. On the darker left side, which you can't see much of, is her mother "now." It's filled with little letters to her mother about how the family is living through this experience. On the right, is Kathy's depiction of her Mother restored to her true spirit. Someday she hopes this quilt will hang in a health care facility where other families can share in her experience -- because for many many families the feelings are very similar.


Here's Kate looking at Kathy's seasons quilt. Yes, that's a big pile of all of Kathy's work. She's prolific! This quilt is embellished with wonderful haikus about the seasons amazingly free motioned quilted over the top.


And here's Sarah looking at Kathy's angel. The fish on the bottom are inspired by a Susan Carlson class. Isn't the purple goat guy just wonderful? He is embellished with green sequined spirals!


Frayed Edges June Menu
Curry Chicken Salad with Apricots
Fresh Pineapple
Corn Bread
Fruit Crepes

After lunch Sarah shared her latest work in progress. I don't have pictures of it because some day you're going to see it in Houston in all it's glory. She's rushing to meet the deadline. It really is totally unique and like nothing I've ever seen before -- yet grounded in many wonderful techniques that art quilters are familiar with. Maybe I could at least tell you the title... Dancing in the Solstice Winds. Isn't that lovely?


Then we kicked off our new group project. We're doing a book round robin! Kathy covered a three ring binder and picked an ocean theme. Sarah used a scrapbook and picked aphrodisiac foods for her theme. Kate created a "hand book." And I did small fabric pages and bound them with big metal rings for my numbers book.

Stay tuned for updates.