February

January brought me several beautiful Amaryllis

gifts that bloomed through February.

This first bright amaryllis has short stems, 10 inches, 

with 4 flowers, each about 8 inches in diameter. 

 This striped beauty bloomed later on stems about 

3 feet high with blooms about 10 inches in diameter.

 This last one is still blooming and was a surprise. 

It was a gift from last year that 

I had hoped might bloom again.

The New Image Artists meeting for February 

was close to Valentines Day so we needed a 

Valentine theme for the centerpiece

 Julia Fogg helped me create cake pops 

for the center of the centerpiece. 

She made a red velvet cake 

for the base of the pops.

 Saturday, February 22 was the opening of the 

NO FABRIC, NO RULES exhibit at 

the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg.

Here, a few of the artworks we saw.

This small piece (20 by 11 inches) 

by Connie L. Broy, NOTHING BUT THREAD

is embroidered on recycled dryer sheets.

 PACKAGED PINWHEELS (44 by 28 inches) 

is by Eileen Doughty

and was shown in a window so it glowed.

Masking tape, bubble wrap, and shipping tape.

 This extraordinary art is by Jennifer L. Hand.

WHILE WE HAVE LIGHT....is 60 by 48 inches.

Oak leaves, thread, vellum, graphite, beeswax.

 Joan Dryer had two quite different artworks 

in the exhibit.

This first one TIME PIECES is 20 by 20 inches

and is of tree bark and thread.

 Her FLAG is 43 by 17 inches and was hung 

in the center of the room.

She stitched Dental X-rays and MRI film.

 Mary Beth Bellah created her 

CHICKENS IN THE BEER GARDEN 

from Polytex feed sacks, bottle caps, wire, thread, 

bubble wrap, and batting. It is 72 by 40 inches.

 TRAVEL QUILT is by Sally Cooney Anderson.

It is 36 by 24 inches, 

a plastic assemblage using hotel key cards. 

My two are at the end and 

were mentioned in my last blog.

One idea now taking hold is having each member

of New Image Artists 

create one large scissors or is that scissor ?

Each will be identically sized.

Scissors may be a beginning of a group piece.

 Opening Saturday, February 29  at the BlackRock 

Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD,

HANDCRAFTED: FIBER ART + TURNED WOOD

My SATIRICAL STILLNESS is included.

And, last.....

My ONCE READ NOT FORGOTTEN

 of paperback books was included 

along with my big Tyvek piece, SEISMIC SHIFT 

in the NO FABRIC, NO RULES exhibit.

There will be more news and 

further developments 

in March of 2020