Unseamly News

Nicole is participating in Longmont Studio Tours again this year: Saturday September 22nd, 10am-5pm and Sunday, September 23rd, 12pm-5pm. Her husband David is also showing this year. http://www.longmontstudiotour.org/index.html

Nicole is teaching a 3-D Flower class on Mon. Oct. 8 & 22 10am-1pm at Quilter's Studio http://www.thequiltersstudio.com/

Sharon, Martha, Cara, Denny and Cynthia all won ribbons at the Boulder County Fair this summer. http://www.timescall.com/bcof/results080307.asp

Cynthia won 2nd place in the exhibit "She Made Her Mark Too" http://shemadehermarktoo.blogspot.com/

Nicole will be showing a piece at the juried show, "Not to Scale" at Old Firehouse Art Center September 14 – October 20 http://www.firehouseart.org/todo.html

Cynthia is a finalist in the Houston show, A World of Beauty 2007 http://www.quilts.org/

Instructional photos for creating a landscape with Shiva paint sticks

Sharon prepared these instructional photos with text for the Unseamlies unable to attend our Shiva session and fun & food filled meeting on August 26. Double click on the photos to get a larger readable view.

Starting with plain fabric -we all used cotton or silk - or try hand dyed fabric:

Shiva artists at work/play

We had a wonderful lesson and demo from Sharon and quickly went to work on our own pieces.

Shiva Results

Sharon's landscape on cotton

Betty's landscape on cotton

Martha's dragonflies, landscape and textures on cotton

Nicole's landscape and textures on silk

Cynthia's landscapes on cotton and hand dyed fabric

Show and Tell from August 26

Sharon brought her Malamute quilt partially quilted (see photo in background of instructional photos above) Nic brought her 2 recent pieces made with beautiful fabrics from her travels as well as the Tahitian silks she found in Tahiti (sorry, no photo of the silks) and Betty brought the birdhouse she made at a retreat with her Santa Fe group.