Week in Review 2025 – 01/31

Now What?

Now what? This is a question I often ask myself, especially after I have accomplished items I have been focusing on for a while. Sometimes the answer is clear. Other times I feel adrift as I sift through projects I have put off and speculate about other things I can turn my attention to.

Solo Exhibitions

Celestial Celebration will be in Seeing Sky: An Artist’s Perspective

One thing I worked on this week is preparing for two solo exhibitions I have in March and April. Every day leading up to the exhibitions is peppered with now what questions. I find it helps to set a theme. Two of my favorite subjects are sky and flowers. My sky pieces are wall hangings, some quite sizable. They will go to the largest space. Fortunately, I have sufficient work in my inventory to fill the space.

  • Tropical Breeze
  • Tower View
  • Drifting Clouds

The smaller space is just right for diminutive work. Turns out I needed a few more pieces to fill the exhibition. That settled the now what question for this week. I made 3 more of my 8″ x 8″ attic window pieces. These will do double duty, since I place these around my “gallery” when I host my annual open studio. You can see all three pieces, created in a single week, by clicking on the left and right arrows on the image above. Shout out to Preeti Harris. The sky in Tower View is Island Batik fabric I won in her blog hop a month or so back.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

What’s next for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge? The answer is blue. Good news, I finished January’s pink last week. Bad news, I was so busy this week I didn’t have time to work on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. However, the answer to that pesky now what question is that I pulled out and sorted my blue fabric. Therefore, when I’m back in the studio I will start by working on my blue blocks. After that, who knows.

Drifting Clouds

I may not have worked on the RSC, but I did use blue in my work this week. ;).

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I am an artist who uses fabric, thread and miscellany to create designs gifted to me by my imagination.

26 comments

  1. TWO solo exhibits! Beautiful work to display! Congratulations; that is quite an accomplishment.

    1. I’m feeling rather chuffed, Jenny. Both exhibitions are local opportunities because I put myself out there and joined Cohasset Open Studios. This is a small organization of artists of which I am sole fiber artist, other than someone who hooks rugs, in the group. COS keeps an exhibition wall going on a rotating basis. The other exhibition was an invitational because someone was checking out local artists and found me through COS.

      Thank you, Jenny. I know you understand what it takes to put yourself out there and then to not let yourself others down when opportunities arise. I am constantly impressed by your artistry and you business acumen.

    1. Thank you, Nancy. One thing I love about the attic window is putting together eclectic fabrics from my stash in unexpected ways. I often start with a focus fabric and that focus fabric may not even make it into the piece. One selection leads to the next and then the next…

  3. Wow!! I’m with Jenny! That is a lot of putting yourself out there! Congratulations!!! Your new pieces of work are lovely!

  4. congrats on the showings and the finish of so many works of art
    I feel like I’ve finished a term paper when something is totally finished.
    Now what indeed. Helps to always have something to turn to
    LeeAnna

    1. I have zero interest in making the same quilt over and over again. Yet, I am quite happy to tweak the same pattern and see how I can create something different. It’s fun to hold my open studio and watch visitors debate which of the attic window pieces they might purchase. These are all day scenes, but I have night scenes, too. I’ve been thinking about the possibility of scenes outside the window and possibly looking from outside in. Seems my brain is in constant overdrive. I am glad you enjoyed the variety.

    1. Awesome and daunting. Couldn’t believe I already had selected March and April for one exhibition, when I was invited to exhibit in March. Fortunately, I have known about “crunch” time for nearly year.

      Thank you, Alycia for your flattering words.

  7. I like all of the little attic window quilts but I think my favorite is the one with the longer orange vase, so vibrant! Enjoy your exhibition!

    1. Gretchen, I am enjoying how you and others gravitate towards different attic window scenes. Before I started this grouping I went on line for vase shapes. I realized the elongated vase you gravitate towards needed flowers with stems. This is the first time I have hand embroidered a portion of piece. Those tropical colors call out to those of us in the northern hemisphere coping with colder temperatures.Glad it appealed to you.

    1. The curved windows are new iteration of my attic window series. It is good to hear you like my tweak to the traditional pattern. The inspiration is a similar window that is across from my studio. I have always loved palladium windows.

  9. These bouquets and pretty skies just took my breath away. One of the prettiest things I’ve seen in quilting and what clever use of interesting fabrics and framing too. What an artist you are, Gwyned, and so deserving of an exhibition or two! Huge Congrats!

    1. Thank you, Jocelyn. I have so much fun putting the bouquets together by carefully fussy cutting my floral fabrics. Two of the skies were hand painted by me. I was fortunate to take a class, several decades back, with Mickey Lawler of Sky Dyes fame. I still use her techniques. They are timeless. Part of the fun of having solo exhibitions is getting to see my work displayed together. I had fun pulling out unexpected fabrics to frame the windows. Sometimes you just have to go gutsy and try something different.

  10. Your work is beautiful, I love these skies, and the fun paperwalls! I’m totally in love with Drifting Clouds, so very pretty. Blue is going to be fun to work with for your RSC broken hearts. Thank you for sharing and good luck with the two solo exhibitions to prepare!

    1. The sky in Drifting Clouds is one I hand painted myself. I paint skies on fat quarters. It took me a while to get gutsy enough to cut them up. I am looking forward to turning my attention back to the RSC next.

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