May, 2012
Already into May, I see that the last newsletter I wrote was about March! I totally skipped April! And what a great month April was. I was teaching in Scotland and when I was done teaching my darling husband joined me for a week vacation of Castle hunting. We found plenty of them and they were very fun to explore |
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I loved Scotland the sights and the people were so wonderful. I hope to be there again next year!
I finished another log cabin quilt, this one is made of old kimono fabric and fits with the high ceilings in my house perfectly between a corner and a window. It was really fun to work on.
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I also finished a little quilt I call Libero which is a musical term meaning freely, It is from a small water color painting that used rubber cement glue to create a thin line mask that I painted over then rubbed off. |
I am working on a little quilt also made from a water color painting where I covered the paper with watery paint then blew soap bubbles on them to create pattern. That one is turning out quite good! I will post it when I finish it. |
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The Alegre Retreat at Gateway Canyons resort was also in April and we had a great time. The weather was spectacular and the teacher were fantastic, and the food was yummy. Go to www.alegreretreat.com to see about signing up for next year’s retreat. We will have Nancy Crow, Joan Schultz, Jan Myers Newbury, Laura Wasilowski and myself. April 7 to 14 2013. |
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May 5th we had a baby shower for Brad and Natalia, we are expecting our new grandson, Sam the first few weeks of July.
I made a little quilt for little Sam and Brad and Nat loved it. |
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Off to teach in Main this month, check out my itinerary page to see where I will be teaching the rest of the year, maybe you could join me!
I will also be spending some quality time in my studio! Join me on facebook at katiepm to see my work in progress.
Until next month, happy quilting!
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March, 2012
| March is coming in like the Lion here. It is cold and very windy. Really great for staying inside and quilting and painting. I am almost done with my large piece about the grid and lines. I will post it when it is finished. I am very happy with it. I have painted 10 pieces in my goal to paint 25 pieces in my new direction, painting with acrylic, applying many layers one of the middle layers are strips of fabric and the last layer is stitching. Here are the two latest. |
Painting 9 of 25 |
Painting 10 of 25 |
I will be teaching for the Quilter's Connection in Boston the middle of the month then off to Scotland to teach for a week then my husband will be joining me for a week vacation, hiking, eating, drinking and staying in a Castle. Too much fun.
Have a great March.
katiepm
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February, 2012
Welcome. The first of the year has been great for me so far.
I had a wonderful time teaching in Florida this January, and took a painting class from a great abstract painter who used to live in Santa Fe, now living in Boca Raton, and is a member of the Wednesday painters that I paint with here. Brenda Hope Zapittell. We painted together for two days and I am really excited about creating "paintings" That may sound funny but I usually make paintings with the sole intent of making them into quilts. Now I am exploring making paintings to be paintings. That means that the whole painting must turn out and there is a more thinking about pathways and composition and color. I am very excited and a bit nervous. So I have given myself the challenge of completing 25 pieces before I get over critical. I have the first three done! I have set up a corner of my garage for painting as it is a bit messy to be done in my studio. |
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Painting 1 of 25 |
Painting 2 of 25 |
| I finished and delivered a commission in early January. It is for a special client who has 4 other quilts that they have either bought or commissioned from me. This latest one is of their flat coated retrievers, Spade and Seven. I love the way that it turned out although it was a bit difficult to work on as it had to be done in one big piece and it is 74 inches across. They were happy with it and I was glad to help them hang it and get a picture of it, me and the dogs. |
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I am currently working on my piece for entry into Quilt National. It is a quilt made from several paintings that were cut up into two inch squares then arranged to make a flowing composition. These two inch squares were enlarged to six inch squares to be translated in fabric. It is really fun working in this smaller format although the quilt will be quiet large it is 12 squares by 9 squares. Each little square is a tiny quilt!
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I have no more room on my walls to hang my quilts and my paintings so I am having a clearance sale to make more room. Please check out the reduction on some of the prices in the Quilts for Sale and painting for sale page on this web site. These prices do not include shipping and handling and New Mexico tax if you are a resident. Maybe it is your year to add me to your collection!? |
Have a creative year!
love and hugs
katiepm |
P.s.
This is the advertisement for a teaching assignment for June at the Madeline Island School of the Arts! It is a tough job I have to do but someone has to do it! Join us for a great week of creativity.
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January, 2012
2012 is going to be a great year for all of us, I can just feel it in my bones. I brought it in by taking a driving trip with my husband out to California. I stayed with my sister and my cousin and we had our log cabin sew-a-thon. It was great. I started a wall hanging made from Japanese kimono fabric that I bought the last time I was in Japan. I like the way that it is turning out and will post a finished picture of it when I get done. |
| My husband went further along the road and hung out with my cousins husband. We were traveling with his 9 month old yellow lab as a training trip and he did really great as a traveling companion. We had a lovely drive home through Nevada and Utah and got home January 5th. |
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Now I am ready to work on my newest quilt that is all designed and pattern enlarged just hanging on the wall waiting for me. I think it is going to be a good one so I will work on it for my Quilt National entry for 2013 so I won't be able to post pictures of it except on this web site when it is all done so check pack for a sneak peak in a couple of months. I have a lot of teaching this year that I am really excited about so check out my places and dates on the itinerary page. Two big overseas trips this year one to Scotland, my husband is going to join me for a little vacation when I am done teaching, and my trip to Japan for my Quilts Japan prize that I won at the 2011 Quilt National exhibition, my best girl friend Randi is going to go with me on that trip! |
| So have a great year creating and check back to see what I am up to or join me by clicking "Like" on facebook at katiepm. |
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October, 2011
Fall is in the air and we might have snow today, just the end of October! It will be a cold night for trick or treating!
I am off to the Houston Quilt Market with my new book! Then Quilt Festival to teach two two day classes and man the Alegre Retreat booth. So a very busy week. Then home for one day and then off to Greenville New York for a five day stitched painting class that I am looking forward to. And that is it for the year!
I will be home working on a commission piece until the new year. Last month I went to France for an exhibition of my work and Sue Benner's work. Sue and I traveled together and taught several one day classes and each of us taught a master class for four days, then three days of sight seeing in Paris, way too much fun.
Here are a few photos of our trip.
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Upon arrival we were given our space and we laid our quilts out.
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Here are a few shots of the quilts installed.
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And a few shots of us in Paris!
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We will always have Paris! |
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September, 2011
Hi Everyone. I am off to France to teach for two weeks the 10th to the 26th. I am traveling with one of my favorite quilting buddies, Sue Benner. We will both be teaching at the big Patchwork meeting in Saint Marie-aux-Mines in the Alsace region.
We are also having an exhibition of our works along with several pieces by Libby Lehman who will be teaching there at the nest years meeting. I am very excited as I taught at the meeting last year and had a great time.
It will be fun traveling with Sue and having an exhibition. When all of the "work" is over we are spending three days in Paris with two friends of ours so that will be a new adventure. |
Watercolors Tangled 39" x39"
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| I wish to show you two pieces that I have made in the last month. One is for an exhibition that I juried with two other judges with the theme of Tangled. They asked each of the judges to create a piece to exhibit at the show and here is mine. |
My Garden 43" x43"
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I had a few weeks before taking off so I made a new quilt for the exhibition of Sue and Libby and myself and it is titled My Garden 43" x 43"
Please join me on facebook at katiepm to see my daily posts about our trip. I hope to get many inspirations from all of our adventures for future quilts. |
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Also I was invited to join a taping of the Alex Anderson and Ricky Tim's Internet show and
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Watch the episode for FREE September 19-25, 2011 at: TheQuiltShow.com
You can also receive 20% off TQS membership by entering in the following code when joining: 182843736119
Check out a slideshow from behind the scenes during the actual taping of the episode: http://www.thequiltshow.com/slideshows/906/index.php |
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August, 2011
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It is almost the end of August and I have had a great summer. Lots of teaching and lots of time in my garden and even more time in my studio.
September 10th I am off to teach in St. Marie-aux-Mines in the Alsace region of France at their 17th European Meeting Patchwork. I taught there last year and had a great time.
They asked me back for this year as well and Sue Benner and I are traveling together and having a show of our Work in St. Marie. We will both be teaching a master class after the meeting, and several classes during the meeting. We are both very excited about the trip. |
We both have dear friends that live in Paris so we are planning on a whirl wind three day tour of Paris with our friends. I am sure that we will come home with many inspirations for our work.
Have a great end to your summer, I am so looking forward to winter.
love and hugs
katiepm |
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June, 2011
| I have just returned from the Quit National opening at the Dairy Barn in Athens Ohio. I had a wonderful time! I won the Quilt Japan Prize for my quilt Con Brio-With Spirit. |
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I am so excited. This prize consists of round trip to Japan and room and breakfast for 10 days! I have, I really mean get to teach a one day class and then the rest of the time is free to be a tourist. I am taking my best friend Randi with me and we will have such a great time.
The opening was a lot of fun and then we had a morning walk through the next day and everyone that was there, 66 of the 85 accepted artist, we all got to talk about our work for two minutes, it was fascinating to hear people talk about their inspirations for their works. Saturday night there was a pizza party in the space above the Dairy Barn where we got to chat informally with each other, then some of us snuck, we were allowed in to the gallery but it felt as if we were sneaking because there was no one in the gallery and four of us ran around like idiots dancing in front of our quilts. It was so much fun to be silly and enjoy being in the show |
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My husband and I awarded the first YEA award to the youngest entrant in the show and it went to Kate Themel for Dandelion. This award is for an artist that gets into the Quilt National Show who is under 30 years of age. Kate is 30 something but the youngest and you have to start somewhere. So please encourage the younger artist to enter the show they could win the YEA award which is $700.00, not bad to encourage the younger generation.
The Hendricks also give a YEA scholarship at the Alegre Retreat for a deserving artist under 30 to attend the retreat go to the web site www.alegreretreat.com for more information.
Summer is upon us and I have a lot of teaching to do and a family reunion this month so I am very happy. I have a new quilt in the works that I will post when it is done in a month or so.
Enjoy your summer and have joy making new works.
love
katiepm
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May, 2011
| May is here and it still feels like winter! The weather across the nation has been very unsettled. I just returned from Judging the show at Paducah with Libby Lehman and Donna Wilder. We had two tornado warnings, one that stopped the judging for awhile so we could take shelter in the center lower level of the convention center, that was a bit scary but we took the miniature quilts with us and kept right on judging. Nothing happened, thank goodness! |
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| Then on Easter Sunday the Mayor called for the flood gates to be put up! The convention center is on the river (wrong) side of the flood wall. It was interesting to see them installing the flood gates in the long concrete wall that is always there. |
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| The show and the classrooms and the vendors were moved to temporary buildings and everything went on as usual. As Meredith Schrader said, it was like a treasure hunt to find all of your favorite vendors, which it looked like everyone did. As of my leaving on Sunday after Easter there was no actual flooding of the lovely town. Next year should be normal, I hope, but I will always be able to say that I survived Paducah Quilt Show 2011. Oh and the quilts were wonderful. Pat Holly won Best of show with her gorgeous peacock quilt.
I am not teaching much this month so I will be spending lots of time in my studio working on some new pieces. Check back and I will post them when I am through. Or you could "Like" me on face book where I post my progress several times a week.
I will be teaching at the Studio Art Quilt conference in Denver the middle of the month. My class is all about becoming a traveling quilt teacher. I defiantly know my subject. It will be a great time to be with all of the members of SAQA and reconnect with everyone.
The end of the month I will be going to Quilt National in Athens Ohio. I am very excited about that as I have a quilt in the show. Con Brio - With Spirit. |
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It will be great to see it hang at the Dairy Barn. I am also presenting the YEA award. This is a new award that my husband and I are sponsoring. It goes to a Young, Emerging Artist. YEA! It is a 700 dollar award for a person under 30 years of age that has been juried into the show. This year there was no one under 30 in the show! So we are giving it to the youngest artist. But that is why we are doing this award, there are not many young people making quilts and entering so help get the word out that this award is available to encourage young people to join us, we also give the award at Quilt Visions. There is also a YEA scholarship for Alegre Retreat. Alegre Retreat is a conference that I run at the Discovery Workshops held at the Gateway Canyons Resort in Gateway Colorado. It is a full scholarship for a 5 day workshop for an artist under 30. |
| This March we had our first scholarship winner join us, Abigail Kokai and she was fantastic! She had a really great time and said that she learned a lot. She was so inspiring that Sandy Chapin, one of our dedicated participants has put up the money to sponsor another YEA scholarship in her mother-in-laws name. Elspeth Hart and Sandy have been coming to Alegre Retreat since its beginning so that is around 17 years. So a big thanks to Sandy for this second YEA award. So again help us get the word out to students and Young quilt makers to apply for this scholarship. The application includes 10 images of works done and a one page essay on what it would mean to the applicant to attend the Alegre Retreat. Find out more at the Alegre Retreat web site www.alegreretreat.com. And check out the resorts web site at www.gatewaycanyons.com |
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| Thanks for stopping by the site. We have just updated the whole site. My daughter-in-law Natalia is doing my site for me and I am very happy with the results. |
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| Fall is in the air and I am so happy to leave the hot summer behind. I just finished my latest piece, Con Brio-With Spirit. For the last year I have been painting on Wednesday mornings with some very strong, talented women. We took the summer off and I really missed our time together. Two weeks ago we resumed our painting together and I find it very inspirational. This new quilt is a result of all of the painting. To create this piece I first painted two canvases, one with a black background and one with a white. I then cut these apart into concentric squares and alternated the pieces to create two opposite paintings. I chose to make the quilt out of the white combination and insert the black combination into the center of the quilt. I added a shadow to make it appear as if the center painted square was floating above the quilt. I love the way it turned out.
Here are the two paintings and then the quilt. I hope you enjoy.
I am headed for France on the 14th for the European Patchwork meeting and I am very excited. I will be giving three one day classes at the conference and then staying for an additional four days for a master design classes. A couple of days thrown in for sight seeing then home again to my studio.
In November I will be teaching at Houston Quilt Festival and I will also be helping man the Alegre Retreat booth. We are promoting the art quilt conference that I run at Gateway Canyons Resorts in Colorado. If you are there stop by and see us at booth number 1819. We will be promoting the two new scholarships offered at Alegre. One for any needed artist who would like to attend and a YEA scholarship for an artist who is under 30 years of age who would like to experience the retreat. See us in Houston for more information or go to the Alegre Retreat web site at www.alegreretreat.com. The information for scholarships is at the bottom of the Alegre Retreat page. The teachers for March 20 to 27 2011 are Nancy Crow, Judy Warren Blaydon, Rosalie Dace, Emily Richardson and my self. Think about joining us it is a really great time.
Enjoy the fall
katiepm
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