{"id":212,"date":"2008-11-15T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2008-11-15T08:41:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:41:31","slug":"such-a-good-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Such a Good Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, my goodness!\u00a0 I’ve been home several days and have not caught up yet! So much to do, so little time.\u00a0 Much is put away but not all.<\/p>\n

It was such a good trip!\u00a0 The Omaha Guild is a wonderful, welcoming group who turned out for the lecture with lots of quilts and my two workshops – here’s a photo of them hard at work on their Coneflowers wallhangings.\u00a0 They all did an amazing job!<\/p>\n

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My fears of snow did not develop for which I am VERY grateful.\u00a0 We did have a couple of rainy days and decided to spend them inside dying fabric; that was a great way to pass the time.\u00a0 I don’t generally use a lot of hand dyes in my work but occasionally I do, and especially for skies. so I concentrated on dying some skies, mostly.<\/p>\n

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These are some of the better ones. keep in mind that for the way I work they will not be used as a whole piece, but cut apart so I think there are some very usable sections here.<\/p>\n

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I was specifically trying for not your typical blue skies.<\/p>\n

While I was away I had occasion to look at my website on two different computers and was dismayed to discover that my pictures were extremely dark. I had adjusted them to look good on my monitor which I now think needs to be calibrated. I am posting the dyed fabric pictures un-adjusted. They look light on my screen, but I would be interested in feedback as to how you think the pictures have been looking, now and in the past. I realize that you don’t really know, not having seen the real thing! But do you have the sense that you have been unable to see detail due to darkness?<\/p>\n

The real reason that I was on my hostess’s computer was to check on the progress of the SAQA Auction.\u00a0 I am thrilled to announce that “Don’t Piss Off the Fairies” was purchased in the first minutes of the auction by the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection!!\u00a0 Thank you , Del!\u00a0 I am so happy that the fairy has found a good home with you, now perhaps she will get happy, too.<\/p>\n

More good news — during the time I was gone I received word that “Mon Grand Pere” has been accepted to the “Form Not Function: Quilt Art At The Carnegie” exhibit in Albany, IN. There were 276 entries and only 39 were accepted so I feel very fortunate!<\/p>\n

These last pieces of dyed fabric were done in a different method. I love how the crinkles and the blended colors add texture.\u00a0 I think that dying could become addictive as one gained mastery over the effects that can be achieved. For me, I had no clue what I would get, but it was still fun and exciting to see what we got!<\/p>\n

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Oh, my goodness!\u00a0 I’ve been home several days and have not caught up yet! So much to do, so little time.\u00a0 Much is put away but not all. It was such a good trip!\u00a0 The Omaha Guild is a wonderful, welcoming group who turned out for the lecture with lots of quilts and my two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,92,91,95],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-form-not-function","tag-hand-dyes","tag-omaha","tag-saqa-auction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}