A class with Lura Schwarz Smith

Our quilt guild hosted Lura Schwarz Smith today and everyone had a great time...Lura is well known as an TOP award national award winning quilter who makes intricate quilts with faces drawn with tsunieko inks....We had people from as faraway as Raleigh, Atlanta and Charleston driving to take her class...she did a great job and everyone drew some great looking faces with the inks she specializes in. She always found something positive to say about everyones work.

This is what I drew in class today . Fabric drawn with tsunieko inks which can be bought at www.jukeboxquilts.comThis is the original photograph...she is a cutie...Kim's niece...guess i will have to give this to Kylies mom or to Kim to give to Kylies mom! I think it would look good framed under the Christmas tree for her mom...right now I cant think of another thing to do with it...

Practicing shading with the tsunieko inks...
Lura teaching...she was a great teacher...working hard all day long using every teachable moment she could find...

Ann Stalnaker and Ille Waters working hard on inking thier grandchildren.
Marlene Seabrook-O'Bryant drove from Charleston to take the class...Marlene is a very interesting person...the first woman hired by the Citadel...and she is also a hoot...I run into her all over the place at all the best quilt spots like International Quilt Festival...a few hundred thousand quilters but I found Marlene!! or did Marlene find me? We do that alot at quilt shows!
Marsha Boasso having too much fun...knowing Marsha she was picking on Connie....and MARSHA WHY didnt you take all your l eftovers home with you...I didnt need them:>
Connie...I hear her now...I can do this I will learn how to draw...
Diana...another of our travelers...from Raleigh NC drove down 5 hours to take Lura's class...

My altered fabrics sooo far and

Just to remind you of our great trip:>
This is the cover of Kristi Steiners altered fabric book I am a woman who......in this fun freeing class Kristi teaches 8 techniques to alter fabrics...someone please add to the supply list dont bring fabric you cant paint on...I brought a bunch of Kaffe Fassets and had a hard time messing them up since I think they are perfect the way they are...

This is the only page that I have almost finished....its the collage page...I am sure more beads are coming...everything here is glued together...this page is inkjet transferred images with acrylic medium....you surely do have to rub alot to get them to transfer to fabric...the two on the left lifted and moved around...practice practice practice is needed here:> The one on the right did MUCH better....but i rubbed MUCH more...
This is a stamped page...we all had a great time using everyone's stamps...I blotted it with Sues rust colored stamp pad to get the odd color ...got better at it the more i blotted it with the ink pad...this was supposed to be done with walnut ink but i thought it was too dark..started to dunk it in my tea butt....there was none for once...This is another dyed and stamped page ...it was dyed with Kristis creative dye kit from Country in the City which is supposed to be great for dyeing laces and other fibers too...as well as paper...


This is the second piece of fabric that i did ...i call it the murdered fabric because I did everything to it trying to get it over the uglies...finally got decent overdying it and then I tried to mess it up again making sloppy stenciled fleur de lis...too much paint


This tag was made the same way and I splatted it with hmmm...well they have a tip shaped like a stamp pad inker...but makes these wonderful spots...why didnt i buy some while i was there....got everything else but these!:<

Dyed, dried out by the daffodils and then stenciled using a piece of plastic that wraps clementines....Kristis looked like fish scales but i was in tooo big a hurry when
This was done with gesso mixed with whatever was on the table...then you draw and stamp in it...fun technique

so many more pages to go....and beads to add and trims and who knows what else....after all i am a woman who loves to make art...any art ....