Comments on: Artist Date http://quiltsandcreativity.com/artist-date Fine art to funky traditional: life and quilting Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ginger http://quiltsandcreativity.com/artist-date/comment-page-1#comment-5 Ginger Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:27:03 +0000 http://quiltsandcreativity.com/?p=78#comment-5 Always nice to touch base with you and see that you keep doing new things. Here the summer school break is almost over and I really haven't done any quilting. I made slip covers for my 2 love seats in the living room. Then I needed to paint the living room. I feel comfortable choosing fabric colors but was quite intimidated to pick paint colors other than light tints. With the help of a friend, I chose "soft pumpkin" I love it and it really compliments all the colorful Mexico stuff in the room. We were in Austria for 2 weeks in July and went to many art museums. I noticed that the walls were painted deep, rich colors rather than the white that US art museums usually do the walls. I often found myself thinking about the color of the walls and how much that complimented the paintings. That also gave me courage to be come home and paint the living room a stronger color. A friend asked me to make a quilt for her using some cotton drapery samples. I really liked the samples so am taking the project on. With less than a week til school starts, I pulled them out today. It is fun be playing with fabric again. She is only paying me a few hundred plus materials so I can't let myself get to wrapped up in choosing fabric. Just do it. "Almost French" was a book that our book group read a few months ago. I enjoyed it. Our latest book was Barbara Kingsolver's newest book "Animal, Vegetable and Miracle." Looks at food and eating in a way that many quilters look at life and using what is available to us. Highly recommend it. Miss seeing you on a regular basis. Let me know when you are down this way so we can have dinner or something. ginger Always nice to touch base with you and see that you keep doing new things.
Here the summer school break is almost over and I really haven’t done any quilting. I made slip covers for my 2 love seats in the living room. Then I needed to paint the living room. I feel comfortable choosing fabric colors but was quite intimidated to pick paint colors other than light tints. With the help of a friend, I chose “soft pumpkin” I love it and it really compliments all the colorful Mexico stuff in the room.
We were in Austria for 2 weeks in July and went to many art museums. I noticed that the walls were painted deep, rich colors rather than the white that US art museums usually do the walls. I often found myself thinking about the color of the walls and how much that complimented the paintings. That also gave me courage to be come home and paint the living room a stronger color.

A friend asked me to make a quilt for her using some cotton drapery samples. I really liked the samples so am taking the project on. With less than a week til school starts, I pulled them out today. It is fun be playing with fabric again. She is only paying me a few hundred plus materials so I can’t let myself get to wrapped up in choosing fabric. Just do it.

“Almost French” was a book that our book group read a few months ago. I enjoyed it. Our latest book was Barbara Kingsolver’s newest book “Animal, Vegetable and Miracle.” Looks at food and eating in a way that many quilters look at life and using what is available to us. Highly recommend it.

Miss seeing you on a regular basis. Let me know when you are down this way so we can have dinner or something.

ginger

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