Welcome! Thanks for coming by. I want to show you my art quilts and mixed media. My artwork is created like a painting, with many layers of fabric and it often tells a story. Here’s hoping you’ll enjoy a fresh approach to quilting. Please email me if you have any comments. Cathy is a Professional Artist Member of SAQA.
The Sky is Falling (detail) 2008
Urban Nights Down Town Dayton DVAC & The Dayton Sideshow lll May 16-17, 2008
6:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
Goal for this weekend is to finish Lisa’s quilt and get the The Sky is Falling quilt out the door by next week to Nebraska.
Restrain me. I started on Lisa’s quilt and she is giving me the blessing that it doesn’t have to be exact. She has a beautiful home in up state NY and asked me for a landscape quilt to hang in her house. Her home is on the Finger Lakes. Hey, I’ve never been there but the views look wonderful and I’m-doing-it-& …. giving it my best shot!
I return to St. Theresa Textile Trove to teach another art quilt class on Sunday. Remeber the class filled with a waiting list-and now I’m teaching the original one-I really look forward to it. Maybe I’ll ask them to take pictures so you can see me in action.
The Dayton Visual Arts Center has posted some of my quilts and view pictures from my artist talk.
Hop on over there to see what I have to offer. http://www.daytonvisualarts.org/exhibitions/ARTtoBUYStories.html
DVAC will host my work, along with other artists that night, for Urban Nights on May 16th. More opportunities to see local art, that night , all around down town, the Oregon Distrist, Cannery, and the Merc- where Dayton’s young urban artist present the SideShow 111 where friends and artists will have an installation. Cool.
Upcoming Events:
May 3
Family Workshop
Adult/child pairs: Make a hand-stitched keepsake with fiber artist Cathy Jeffers at a family fun workshop sponsored by Dayton Power and Light Co. 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; all materials & snacks included; $20/pair; reservations required.
Special Thanks to a certain Art Teacher, (JV) who gave me her credits so I can attend a class or two at Miami University- CraftSummer. What a joy to have such wonderful friends in my life.
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Just back from going to the International Quilt Festival in Chicago. What fun!
I went up on Friday and got to spend my birthday knee deep in fabric, people watching, attending classes, meeting wonderful vendors- from the The Sewing Revolution- from Australia, some art teachers and enjoyed some time with SAQA members. That was just one day.
The next day, I spoke about being an art teacher- how everything you loved about the artroom at school- could be used on fabric. There were about sixty people in the audience and my “new best friends” Cheryl and Ann helped me manage my talk, holding examples up and keeping me focused while a camera which displayed my art work, was on a monitor. Yes… it was cool.
Other good news is that I learned the day before I left for Chicago that I was a finalist in the Mountain- Mist/eCO-craft competition. So the “The Sky… (is Falling)” will be seen in Nebraska in the fall.
Pinch me. The new university job is going well… I really enjoy working with all of the young teachers so much.
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You know we have had one heck of a snowy winter and I have had about enough! I long for a bright blue sky.
Well, here’s one good thing- I have been sewing like crazy. I call it “sewed-in” instead of snowed-in when we have days like this. I definitely think this winter has got to go! Yesterday, I was out getting some basics for the bad weather. I didn’t get the milk and juice- like I should have- I got cheese puffs and chocolate to wait out the snow storm. You’re- laughing now- but wait until you see my quilt- “Cheese Puffs and Chocolate” Ha! Another story.
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