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Marianne R. Williamson
Professional Artist Member, Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)
What a great night ... Marianne Williamson's trunk show was wonderful. Like any artist should, she has a passion for her work and it shows.We all appreciated the easy manner in which Marianne shared her knowledge, as well as the techniques she's developed over the years to create these wonderful art quilts. Beautiful from a distance, her unique style is even more fascinating when you get a chance to see it up close (and yes, even to touch it!). She was more than generous with her common sense approach to painting, stenciling and stitching. Absolutely liberating! [Some class photos are included this month, following Guild member Show-n-Tell photos]
Joyce and Gretchen, Tote Bags
Jeanette Flint, B's; Santa, Santa
Dolly Clouse, Piecemakers; Applique Quilt
Well, almost the whole quilt
Connie Paquette, Piecemakers; Star Light
Joan Keltner, Allamanda; Back to Nature rug
Joan's jacket was pretty, too!
Pat Wallace, Mulberry; One Block Wonder
Jeannine Haller, B's; The Witch Is All Me!
Barbara Rule-Mispel; Piecemakers
Suzy Golden, SeaBreeze, gave everyone a hint of what's to come with the Charity Quilt for the Showcase of Quilts 2013
Then it was Show-n-Tell time for Guild members
LEFT: (Forcing the Webmaster to get creative with captions :>)
Joyce Doig, Lake Miona and
Gretchen Nonnemacher, Sterling Stitchers
Marianne R. Williamson talks technique
Her free-motion creates texture
The lace-like blending of colors
My stash is so old, this will be an antique
Everyone felt free to snip and pin, snip and pin
Every class has overachievers :>)
Cute fabric for a pathway to ??
Great example for perspective
Later we talked about water
Since your Webmaster took her first-ever quilting class beyond the "This is a rotary cutter. Be careful, that's very sharp!" level, I thought I'd share some of the class photos. Everyone had a great time, even those who could never squiggle black paint onto a quilt top, much less add water to smush it around J The ragged-edge applique, free-motion quilting style creates wonderful images from photos; especially when you learn how to add stenciling and paint and ... well, the world is a big place and your imagination is your only limit. We learned the beauty of not trying to create a quilt to replicate a photo, but rather to have the photo be the stepping stone toward an impressionist piece of fabric art, ala Claude Monet
- Marilyn Paluszak, Webmaster
