Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics. Improvisational composition, machine stitched. Quiet time allows for creative sparks to percolate and ignite.
Exhibition Year Archives
Downtime
3 SistersTracy Lampkins
Machine pieced and hand tied.
Cool Koi PondTracy Lampkins
Hand appliqued and quilted.
Mini Cool Koi PondTracy Lampkins
Hand appliqued and quilted.
Summer: FulfillmentJana Vander Lee
Tapestry, handwoven. From Hal Borland’s “Twelve Moons of the Year”, a collection of his nature essays from the “New York Times” – “The solstice comes, and all about us is the sense of summer’s foreverness…”
Winter: DurationJana Vander Lee
Tapestry, handwoven. “When the night has been too lonely, the path too long – remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow lies a seed that with the sun’s love becomes a blooming rose”, popular song.
View From Above – Home Sweet HomeRonna Leibach
Fused and pieced on crinoline, enhanced by machine quilting and luminere paint. Cotton, silk and organza. This was a project from Valerie Goodwin’s class – Favorite Places. Valerie inspired us to use architectural maps and an “aerial” perspective. My home is on the right – the golf course out my window.
Jumping off Rock, North CarolinaRonna Leibach
Fused with Steam-a-Seam II. Cotton fabric fused to fabric sandwich. Free-motion quilting over design. After visiting Laurel, NC (near Hendersonville), the beauty of the Smokies and Blue Ridge mountains are inspiring. The protective fencing was art work itself – a sculpture of the mountains.
Moon Over Midnight GardenRonna Leibach
Printed fabric, beading over Veltex. Vintage buttons. This was from a beading class taught by Lisa Binkley. The beading was challengingand the “moon” is a vintage button from my mother.