Art & Beer Success!!

imageThanks to Powder Hollow Brewery for letting me exhibit at their July, Art and Beer event. What a cheerful and well-lit room to display in!   There was great wall space to hang pieces and I covered the window sills with art.  Everyone thought with the sun shining through Blossoms that it looked like a stained glass window.

Blossoms - fused organza, tulle & voile with yarn & thread lengths, machine quilted, melted away to form giant lace
Blossoms – fused organza, tulle & voile with yarn & thread lengths, machine quilted, melted away to form giant lace

Once I was set up I tried their Scottish beer which both I and Dave thoroughly enjoyed, enough so, once he sipped some of mine he went and got his own. Thank you everyone who stopped by, it was great visiting with all of you.  I think many people were surprised that some of my pieces include original made fabrics, sometimes melted with a heat gun or soldering iron, and some that include heat treated metals.

Powder Hollow Brewery exhibit 2016
Powder Hollow Brewery exhibit 2016

 

Through talking to all of you about my work I discovered that I have been expanding my fabric creating process, from as simple as adding dye to fabric, to enhancing a base (sometimes muslin) by adhering additional materials, to fusing material to material with no based to create my own new material.  I’m  always amazed to see all my art set up in one room, like that saying “can’t see the forest  through the trees”, at an exhibit, suddenly there’s a forest in front of me and I see that some of my work is progressing in a series I didn’t even know I was exploring.

Powder Hollow Brewery 2016
Powder Hollow Brewery 2016

 

 

Thanks again to all that stopped by, and to those of you who purchased a piece, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

Not everything needs to be quilted? –right?

Although I love to quilt everything, sometimes people say they’re afraid to cut up hand dyed fabric. Although I’m a strong advocate for using your beautiful fabrics, and trust me your fabrics would rather be in a quilt than in your closet (they tell me this during my one on one dyeing time with them).  There are other options.

Firey mountains landscape hand dye - hand dyed cotton wrapped around archival stretcher, ready for handing
Firey mountains landscape hand dye – hand dyed cotton wrapped around archival stretcher, ready for handing
Hand dyed landscape line - hand dyed cotton wrapped around archival stretcher, ready for handing
Hand dyed landscape line – hand dyed cotton wrapped around archival stretcher, ready for handing

Here are two hand dyed fabrics from my landscape line simply wrapped around a stretcher. Just one of the many alternative options!  These will be available at the Powder Hollow Brewery event this Sunday.

Fiber Art and Powder Hollow Brewery???

Charlie's Sew Unique Studio Fiber Art Exhibit at Powder Hollow Brewery - July 10, 2016
Charlie’s Sew Unique Studio Fiber Art Exhibit at Powder Hollow Brewery – July 10, 2016

 

What does a brewery have to do with fiber art you may ask? Well in this case, it’s the venue for my next Fiber Art Exhibit.

Fiber Art Exhibit

Sunday, July 10, 2016

1:00 – 4:00 pm

At

Powder Hollow Brewery

504 Hazard Avenue (Rte 190)

Enfield, CT

Powder Hollow Brewery http://www.powderhollowbrewery.com/ has graciously given me a spot to display and sell my art. This is a great pub where Powder Hollow Brewery offers Beer Flights (a sampling of their assorted brews) or a glass of your favorite.  I’ll be displaying some newer pieces and some pieces that have elected to live at my house for a while.   My art is primarily 100% made of textile and thread however I do have a few pieces that incorporate recycled materials, metals and other unusual items to combine with textile.

I hope you can stop in and say Hi, and sample the brews!!

Thank you! Eastern Long Island Quilters – Quilt Show

Thank you! Eastern Long Island Quilters – Quilt Show

First an apology, I’ve been absent for a while and it’s was a very personal reason that I’m just not ready to share but maybe in the future.

The almost current news is that my Mom and I returned from having a great time and meeting wonderful quilters at the Eastern long Island Quilters Guild 2016 Quilt Show. We took the ferry out of New London to Orient Point and were treated to the spectacular countryside views.

Bye Bye Connecticut
Bye Bye Connecticut

The show had some beautiful quilts and as a vendor I was allowed to present a ribbon to my favorite.  I was running a little late and forgot to take a picture but the one I chose had some beautiful machine quilting!!

Eastern Long Island Quilt Show 2016
Eastern Long Island Quilt Show 2016

 

We had the largest area for our booth we’ve ever had. It was sooo great to stretch out the booth to see everything we carry more easily.  Here’s some pics from the show

 

2016 Fabric Line
2016 Fabric Line

 

As you can see, I’m continuing to expand my fabric lines: tone on tones, overalls, landscapes, trees and snowflakes for any season. We’re developing more kits and instructions for finishing some quick quilts with hand dyes.  We always carry a variety of one of a kind pincushions.

 

Oh Sew Sally shares her sewing machine
Oh Sew Sally shares her sewing machine

We shared our room with a great vendor, Oh Sew Sally who had a terrific assortment of quilting supplies and fabric, I was drooling over her variety of solids and people kept wanting to buy her tuffet – she’s offering classes on the tuffet, if you can catch up with her they are beautiful!!  Roberta is so sweet, she even let me borrow her sewing machine to demo feed dogs up machine quilting to finish my Snowball fabric.  You can find her online here with fabric, threads and kits – http://www.ohsewsally.com/ or https://www.etsy.com/shop/OhSewSallyQuilts