Karla's Color Corner

Earth From Above Challenge

My friends and I were invited to take part in this amazing Fiber Art Challenge. The Exhibit is currently on display at Aunt Annie's Quilts & Silks in Avon, Minneosta. It will then be on exhibit at the Minnesota Quilt Show in Rochester, MN from June 14-16, 2012.

Earth From Above Challenge

"Wouldn't that make a great quilt? Oh, and this one, and this one..." was my response after serendipitously finding a copy of Earth From Above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand on the donation/sale cart at my local library.

I brought it with me on my next trip to Aunt Annie's Quilt SHop in Avon (MN). Such and inspiration has to be shared. Inspiration has spread at the feverish pace -- more than 40 artists have taken at least one page out of the now three versions we have of this series of books.

The guideline were simple: make a piece of art inspired by, but not duplicating a page from one of the books. Keep is "smallish" and have it ready to hang by Feb. 15. Aunt Annie's will be the site of it's first showing. We can hardly wait to see what comes...

To date, we have over 60 pieces on display at Aunt Annie's. During the month of April and May, they will be on display at the Wait Park branch of Great River Regional Library. From June 13-16, they will be a special exhibit at the Minnesota Quilt Show in Rochester. Plans are being made to send this exhibit to other locations.

-Caron Lage and Lucy Senstad

 This is Lucy. She is owner of Aunt Annie's Quilts & Silks in Avon, Minnesota. Really cool quilt shop with interesting fabrics and a welcoming atmosphere. And cool music.

Here are four of the six fiber artists who make up the group "Fabulous Five (and a half)". We jumped in the car on this amazingly warm day and took a road trip to see this exhibit. Left to right: Kathy Bardolph, Joanne Wotczak, Caronlina Warner, Carolyn Abbott.

This is Kathy Carney, the fifth person:

I will show the photo from the book that inspired us, followed by the Fiber Art Piece:

(click on the images to see them larger)

 

 

 

 

Cherrywood is a proud Sponsor of QuiltCon

Cherrywood Fabrics is a sponsor of the new quilt show coming up in February next year. QuiltCon is organized by the Modern Quilt Guild and will take place in Austin, TX. We will be vending there, showing off our new line of fabric - chéFAB.

QuiltCon is having a Quilt BLock Challenge using the colors of their logo plus grey and white. You can create a block depicting what "Modern Quilting" is to you.The blocks must measure 12.5" on one side and may be any measurement on the other side. Click here for complete details.

We have dyed our own bright and juicy QuiltCon Bundle - turquoise, aqua, light teal, chartreuse, lime, apple green, marigold and orange as well as 2 greys and white. It is available in fat eighths, quarters, half yards and full yards. Order today so you have time to play...

Here are two blocks I played around with to give you an idea how the colors work together...

Top 10 People We Got to Know in 2011

I LOVE Googling, don't you? I was searching for something totally unrelated... ended up on the Quilters Newsletter Blog... and found this:

Top 10 People We Got to Know in 2011.

This is the first Top Ten list I have ever made. 

That made my day. :-)

Look what I found at our local quilt shop a.k.a. The Brainerd outlet for Cherrywood Fabrics... a.k.a. Colorz for Quilts

Transparency Quilts

Have you seen the new book by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of Fun Quilts (now called Modern Quilt Studio)? It is called Transparency Quilts and it is a great study in the importance of value in a quilt. All the quilts use solid fabrics so that the subtle design takes center stage. So OBVIOUSLY, this book begs for Cherrywood.

The "Whisper" quilt is made from our Potter's Wheel Collection. Such a quiet color pallet is a nice change from the wild prints we see on the market today. There are actually 14 colors in the quilt, so we have hand-picked extra fabrics from different dye lots to expand on the Potter's Wheel bundle.

Kits are available by calling us at 888-298-0967 or ordering online at http://chefab.cherrywoodfabrics.com.

Book is available at C&T Publishing or Amazon.com

Field Trip!!

It feels like summer in Minnesota (70 degrees!!) my Fiber Friends and I hit the road for a day of shopping, gathering creative inspiration and friendship. Our first stop was Aunt Annie's Quilt Shop in Avon Minnesota. The owner Lucy does a great job touching all the bases from traditional to contemporary quilting. Her specialty is hard-to-find fabrics like Australian and Japanese prints. She carries silk and fiber art supplies. She also sells her fiber art such as the cool gelatin print I bought.

So here we are standing in front of the store: Carolyn, Joanne, Carolina and Kathy. The main reason we started at Aunt Annie's was to see a fantastic Art Quilt Challenge. But that is for another post! Stay Tuned...

Breakfast with friends

We are at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton, VA. We are setting up the booth today and will be ready to sell, sell, sell! Gotta get a good breakfast. I brought my friends Erin along to help. We met our friends Usha and Theo from Handloom Batiks in New York. She sells the most beautiful fabric from India.

Pin It to Win It Contest Announced

Pinterest.com is the newest craze in social media and it is a great way to collect things that you love and keep them in one spot. We are running a contest on Pinterest in March to get you familiarized with chéFAB.

Simply create a virtual bulletin board on Pinterest featuring your favorite items from chéFAB.cherrywoodfabrics.com. 

You could win these prizes: 

• $150 Cherrywood Gift Card - Two lucky winners will be chosen at random

 

 

• Charm Pack - The first 50 qualified submissions win charms from the Minnesota Bundle

 

 Here's how it works:

1. Set up your account on Pinterest.com. There is a waiting list for accounts so do this TODAY

2. Create a Cherrywood Fabrics Pin It to Win It board - Click here for help.

- Title your board "Cherrywood Fabrics Pin It to Win It"

- Categorize your board as "DIY and Crafts"

3.  Add the "Pin It" button to your browser - Click here for help.

4. Go to chefab.cherrywoodfabrics.com and look around. When you see something you like, use the "Pin It" button to pin 10-20 of your favorite items to your board. You can be creative with the description and feel free to write "Cherrywood Hand-Dyed Fabric" as much as possible...

5. Email your board link (URL address) to info@cherrywoodfabrics.com

Official Rules and Legal Stuff:

- No purchase necessary to enter or to win.

- Contest is open to anyone, any age, any country.

- Contest begins at 12:01 a.m. CST on March 17, 2012 until 11:59 p.m. CST on March 24, 2012

- Pinterest membership is not guaranteed by Cherrywood Fabrics, Inc.

- Pin 10-20 items from the chefab.cherrywoodfabrics.com website on to your board

- To enter contest, you must email board entry along with your full name to info@cherrywoodfabrics.com

- One board submission per person.

- Cherrywood Fabrics will not be responsible for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected, copied entries due to technical failures of any kind. 

- Fifty (50) Winners will receive a charm pack of fabric containing sixteen 5" by 5" squares of fabric in 8 colors. Winners will be informed via e-mail and will be asked for their mailing address in order to receive their prize.

- Two (2)Winners will receive a Gift Card worth $150 of merchandise. This may be redeemed at www.cherrywoodfabrics.com or http://chefab.cherrywoodfabrics.com. Or by calling 888-298-0967.

- Odds of winning depends on the number of eligible participants.

- Grand Prize Winners will be chosen on or about March 25, 2012.

- All entrants herby agree that upon submission, Cherrywood Fabrics reserves the right to publish in any media whatsoever the Board and the entrant's name without further compensation.

- By entering the Contest, contestants release Cherrywood Fabrics, Inc. from any liability whatsoever for any claims, costs, injuries or losses of any kind.

- The Cherrywood Fabrics Pin It to Win It Contest is sponsored by Cherrywood Fabrics, Inc., whose decisions regarding the selection of winners shall be final and binding. Sponsor will not be responsible for any typographical errors in the Official Rules.

The Next Generation of Quilters

This is Tennor. He is 8. I was designing the Color Wheel quilt on the left, and he was fascinated with my colorful scraps. He really wanted to make something.
Since there was already fusible web on the back of all the scraps, I just chopped up strips for him and let him go. He also gave me advice for my design of the Color Wheel. Kids have such open, free views of color and design.

Look how happy he is to be playing with color...

Here is the proud artist with his artwork. Mom, Christina was also very proud. I quilted it for him:

 

And here is my 7-year-old son, Abram. I taught him how to use my old sewing machine and he is completely hooked. He proclaimed this was "the best day in his whole entire life" and that he felt "like a professional."

 

Just look at him pivot. <proud>

Past and Present

Color wheel assignments . . . A generation apart! 

My son (sophomore) just brought this home from art class. He got an A.

This is MY old Color Wheel assignment from Jr. High. I just stumbled across it when cleaning at my parents house. Bizarre! Notice how the Primary Colors have TWO scoops - clever, huh??

Karla Voorhees, circa 1982. Cut paper.