Material Mavens: Linda and Andrea play and post

Friday, July 22, 2011

Linda and Andrea play and post

In 100 degree heat, nothing compared to Tx, Linda traveled to Andrea's studio where the two are exploring blogging and dyeing fabric. You should see Andrea's beautiful fabrics. She cut her strips first before dyeing for more interesting textures and believes this is a good discovery.

8 comments:

AliceJuly 22, 2011 at 3:55 PM
How delightful to see a picture of Andrea, as well as to see her gorgeous fabric! I've ventured into painting fabric. Obviously, dyeing is the next experiment to try! Beautiful!
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CarolynJuly 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM
Hi Andrea, I'm very impressed with your beautiful hand-dyed fabric. That sounds like fun, but alas, I'm no where ready to start dyeing my own fabric - or even painting fabric as Alice has done. Maybe sometime during the next year! Thanks for sharing!!!
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Linda HicksJuly 22, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Hi Andrea. I am back home safe after your lovely silk screen lesson and I can't wait to play the Grabowski dvd on the subject. That was fun even at 102 degrees. Got to the SouthEnd bead and quilt stores as well, packed in a cookie and water and made it back! Easy peasy
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AliceJuly 22, 2011 at 5:33 PM
102 in BOSTON! Unbelieveable! That dome of hot air that is affecting nearly the entire country is awful. But just think when you are out in it, "Those Texans have been enduring weather like this for weeks!" I loved this post and the picture!
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Judy HartmanJuly 24, 2011 at 2:24 PM
You look great Andrea! I can attest to the fact that your fabric looks even better in person!
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AndreaJuly 24, 2011 at 3:46 PM
Thanks Judy!
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Carol A. BabineauJuly 30, 2011 at 2:58 PM
Been to Andrea's and she is one of the reasons I went back to fabric!
She is very creative and inspiring.
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AndreaJuly 30, 2011 at 4:20 PM
Thanks Carol !
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Themes for the Quilts

Below are the themes on which our quilts have been based:

Round One Quilts

9/15/11 Harmony

11/15/15 Surprise

1/15/12 South
3/15/12 Element
5/15/12 Mystery
7/15/12 Daydream
9/15/12 Spiral
11/15/12 Travel
1/15/13 Interwoven
3/15/13 Communication
5/15/13 Canyon

7/15/13 Cell

9/15/13 Green

11/15/13 Comfort

1/15/14 Strong

3/15/14 Translate

5/15/14 Spring

7/15/14 Friendship

Round Two Quilts

10/15/14 Contrast

1/15/15 Modern
4/15/15 Neighbor
7/15/15 Time
10/15/15 Circle(s)
1/15/16 Pun

4/15/16 Doodle

7/15/16 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

10/15/16 Reflection

1/15/17 Boundaries

4/15/17 Quote

7/15/17 Space

10/15/17 Reach

1/15/18 Rock

4/15/18 Blues

THE MATERIAL MAVENS

We are a group of art quilters who come from various parts of the United States, from the East coast and then south to Arkansas and Texas. We were inspired by the original Twelve by Twelve international art quilting group.

Beginning in September, 2011, we started posting our 12"x 12" art quilts, which were based on themes chosen in turn by our members. For Round One, we posted quilts every two months, always on the 15th of the designated months.

Round Two of The Material Mavens began in October, 2014. Some changes were made: quilts were posted every three months, and the quilts could be be either 12"x 12" or rectangular ones measuring 11" x 14", either horizontal or vertical in orientation.

Round Three of The Material Mavens began in July, 2018. Again, changes have been made. Now those members who wish to stay affiliated with the group are free to post quilts every time or every now and then. Two, our blog administrator collected suggested themes from the members who wanted to remain affiliated. These themes were then pulled at random from a "hat," and they were then assigned in order for the posting dates. Since we had 13 members who wanted to remain, we will be posting quilts every 3 months until 2021! This date is significant and appropriate, because 2021 will be the 10th year that our group has been in existence.

MEMBERS REMAINING

1. Alice Baird (Waco, TX) (abaird125@gmail.com)

2. Andrea Willey (MA)
3. Carolyn Henson (TX) (cjhenson214@gmail.com)

5. Gail Bradney (AR)
6. Jane Hartfield (AR) (arkjjhart@mynewroads.com)
7. Judy Steward (TX)
8. Kathy Harte (TX)

9. Karen Pulaski
10. Sara Norris (TX)
11. Tricia Deck (Lincoln, (MA)

12. Teresa Schlabach (AR)

13. Nedra Weaver