Thursday, September 30, 2010

Last Day to see me for FREE

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Today is the last free day to watch my episode on The Quilt Show. If you haven’t logged in to watch I hope you find the time today.
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Look at the three of us, all with our “cheater” glasses on just so we can see up close. I hope my eyesight is good until the end so that I can make quilts until I drop.
The Quilt Show
TQS will open up my Episode #705 for *you* to watch for FREE!
It is scheduled at -
* Link: https://www.thequiltshow.com/os/create_account_705.php
AND a link where you can receive a discount on a TQS membership. There is a coupon code for you to receive a discount of 20% when joining:
* Coupon Number: 121473865706
I hope you enjoy watching the show. It features my pattern "Winter Dreaming". You can order the pattern and fabric kit after watching me make the quilt on the show. I have used the Deckle Blade to make the triangle outline for kitty and the leaves of the plant.
FrieStyle/Chicago School of Fusing Pattern Works
These are the rest of the quilt shows this fall I will be teaching at, if you are close to any of these places, please stop in and say hello. I always love seeing everyone.
Georgia Quilt show - Gwinnett Center Duluth GA
International Quilt Festival - Houston TX
Fall Schedule

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Wrought Iron

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The British Museum is so great!! Here are some pictures of wrought iron from the collection. IMG_0452 IMG_0456

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They had a whole hall and wing full of different things made out of wrought iron. I love the decorativeness of it all. We have lost the art of beautiful in the things that work for us.

Having said that I love my I-phone.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Obsessions

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Hey I haven’t posted for awhile, life got in the way and I actually had to work. I just got back from a wonderful trip to Fargo ND. I had such a wonderful time in that great town and the people I meet were all so friendly and kind, actually happy, there must be something in the water there.

Anyway I wanted to post more pictures from the UK. Laura and I each have our little obsessions. Laura likes to have her picture taken with animals and statuary. I like to have my picture take with statues of naked women . You figure it out.

Here are some of those images for your amusement.

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IMG_0318 Large modern woman at the V&A. I lost the tag that says the artist.

Here are some fabulous stone figures of stylized woman at the British Museum. I really wish we could have spent more time at both museums.

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IMG_0517 These gorgeous ladies were part of a Mayan exhibit in the British Museum. Love them. I wonder why their hands are resting on their stomachs, perhaps a symbol of fertility?

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Fargo North Dakota

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I’m off to teach in Fargo ND. I have never really visited this fair state so I am looking forward to seeing the landscape of the wild west. I loved watching the rolling fields of Nebraska when I was there earlier in the summer and it will be interesting to see just what the plains are like in ND.

I am teaching Little Landscapes and Laughing Leaves along with Machine quilting. I know I will meet some wonderful new friends and quilters.

If you still haven’t viewed my episode on THE QUILT SHOW and would like to, send me your email and I will send you a link to the show.

I have had several requests for the 2011 calendar, so it is now ready. I haven’t had time to load it on the website, but any orders I get for a calendar I will send out the new 2011 version. I can’t you believe it is almost here.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

SAQA Benefit Auction

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The Annual SAQA auction has begun.
Over 280 pieces have been donated to the 2010 SAQA Benefit Auction.  The funds raised through the Auction are critical to supporting SAQA's exhibitions, catalogs and outreach programs. 

This year's Auction will began on Monday, September 20th at 2:00 Eastern.  Price points will again be: $750, $550, $350, $250, $150 and $75.  Unsold work will be placed on the SAQA website for a month and then returned to the artist.




I donated a piece. Here is your chance to own one of my works. I hope you go to the site and check it out and bid. I have added a slide show on the right here that will run through the course of the auction. Enjoy!
 

Monday, September 20, 2010

Fabric to Dye For

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My long time friend Gayle bought my book Fabric to Dye For and had such a good time dyeing fabric this summer she had to share her photos with us. Here are some of the things that she has done already. She is going to do the two color gradations this winter inside.

All of the rainbows of Frieda

Here are all of the rainbows.

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Dark, medium light using lemon yellow, fuchsia and turquoise.

bright and warm silk rainbows

Bright and warm silk rainbows all on one piece of fabric.

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Using her platters to dye fabric flat outside. She said she didn’t even cover these with plastic and they cleaned up just fine.

Flat blues, silk for sunflowers Close up of rainbow died cotton Over dyed commercial fabric Over dyed commercial fabrics.

Here’s what Gayle had to say about the whole thing.

Hello!

Here are the pictures I promised you.

I wanted to do all the color ways in your new book.  Fabric to Dye for.  So I mixed all my dyes and set about doing that.

I started out doing the "squishing" of the fabric, in a dish pan, to saturate it with the dye but quickly realized my pan was too shallow and I was making a huge mess.  So I retreated to the method I normally use.  I  just poured the dye over the crushed fabric and manipulated it for a few seconds, in it's container, then moved on to the next color.  So all of my colors are mottled but that's okay I still love them.  Next time I'll use a deeper pan or more dye solution in the pots.

The instructions were simple to follow and I had fun while doing it which is after all the most important part of dyeing fabric.

I am impressed with the value differences of the fabrics and I now have a lot of fabric to choose from when making a small quilt.

I did the flat dyeing as well using the styrofoam boards and just squirted the mixed colors on the fabric.  The foam platters worked out very well even though I didn't cover them in plastic.  They cleaned up beautifully except for the blue and that came right off with 409.  It takes dye off of white siding too.  I am not the neatest person I have to confess.

I use fat quarters to clean up spills while mixing dyes and mixing my colors in the runs.   I put in the pan and dumped the leftover dye into before I stopped using the dish pan.

I liked the colors I got using your recipes as well.  I can't wait now to use other primary colors to see what different colors I can achieve.

I am also anxious to do some complimentary color gradations.  But I can do that in the basement and don't need the warm weather for that. 

I dyed 11 yards of silk too.

I really do wish that this had been the first method I used to dye fabric.  I took a class early on and almost ran from the building screaming.  One of the great things about dyeing a lot of fabric is that you are no longer "saving" it for something special.  You can just dive in and use it!

Thanks Gayle, it looks all so yummy!!

Friday, September 17, 2010

More Festival of Quilts UK

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I’ve been so busy getting ready to go on the road I hardly have time to do anything else. But I really want to share more of the photos I took in Birmingham.

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Susan Shie had a solo exhibit. It is always fun to see her work in person. She is doing some new political work. Very interesting.

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And I always love to see what Philapa Naylor is up to. Her machine quilting is amazing.

On another note, I just found out our booth number in Houston. Booth #434 – ArtFabrik/FrieStyle,  I hope you will stop in and say hello. Laura and I will have lots of new fabric and patterns and all kinds of things we can’t travel with, like silk ribbon thread and decorative rotary blades and lots of silk and my new favorite thing silk and cotton blend fabric. This stuff is scrumptious, I love it!

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Frieda and Laura modeling our turbans of hand dyed fabric.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Desdamas

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This is my friend Merce from Spain. We are in front of her quilt in the European Quilters exhibit at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. I own a silk panel that she made that is very similar to her quilt. It is gorgeous.

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This is her sister Cecila’s quilt in the show. Together they have a company called Desedamas, go check it out.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

September Newsletter

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Here it is, almost Autumn where did the summer go? I have several exciting things happening in my family this fall and winter. My oldest son is getting married in late October in Florida to a wonderful woman, Amelia, yea another girl for my family. I will be a grandma soon. Our middle son, Lars, and his wife, Megan, are expecting our first grandchild. I know I will be making lots of new baby quilts soon. I will keep you posted on the progress of it all.

I love going in to my studio and starting a new fall project. I have several new colors for you to play with this fall. They are -

You can get these new colors in yard pieces or, for the month of September, get them as a four pack - fat long quarter yards of each color for just $22.00

The Quilt Show

TQS will open up my Episode #705 for *you* to watch for FREE!
It is scheduled from *September 6-12, 2010*

* Link: https://www.thequiltshow.com/os/create_account_705.php

AND a link where you can receive a discount on a TQS membership. There is a coupon code for you to receive a discount of 20% when joining:

* Coupon Number: 121473865706

I hope you enjoy watching the show. It features my pattern "Winter Dreaming". You can order the pattern and fabric kit after watching me make the quilt on the show. I have used the Deckle Blade to make the triangle outline for kitty and the leaves of the plant.

FrieStyle/Chicago School of Fusing Pattern Works

I will be at four quilt shows this fall and many quilt guilds. Iif you are close to any of these places, please stop in and say hello. I always love seeing everyone.

Quilt Expo - Madison WI

Indian Summer Quilt Show and Conference - Fargo North Dakota

Georgia Quilt show - Gwinnett Center Duluth GA

International Quilt Festival - Houston TX

Fall Schedule

SAQA Auction

I have donated a small silk "Jack in the Pulpit" to the SAQA auction. You don't want to miss this auction.

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The 2010 SAQA Benefit Auction will start September 20th at 2:00 Eastern with the pieces on pages 1a and 1b and a bid price of $750. The price will drop to $550 at 2:00 Eastern on September 21st. Then it will go to $350 on September 22nd; $250 on September 23rd; $150 on September 24th; and a final bid price of $75 on September 25th.

frieda@friestyle.com http://www.friestyle.blogspot.com http://www.friestyle.com

Thursday, September 2, 2010

FAC show Mid-West Meditations at Bloomingdale Park District Museum

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Yesterday my husband Brett and I hung the new FAC show at the Bloomingdale Park District  Museum in Bloomingdale IL. It was so great having him there to help me. He is so logical and practical. We measured and leveled and had the show up in 2 1/2 hours. Then we went out for sea food. Perfect afternoon with my husband. A little art, a little food, a little fun.

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