Category: rags

• Marcia McDade McMann at the Orange County Library

  

  Paintings and Drawings on display 132 W Margaret Lane Hillsborough NC August -October The Exhibition includes my most recent watercolors and a sampling of oil pastels from the past. There are two example of soft pastel and monotype which represent what I am currently working on. Over the years I have worked with the silkscreen,…

  marcia mcdade

  September 1, 2022

  Acrylic, animals, drawing, fiber, Hand work, landscape, mountain, oil pastel, painting, pastel, printing, rags, watercolor

  abstract, colorful, embellished, expressive, handwork, imaginative, impressionistic, painterly, print, vibrant

• Monkey Wrench 2019-2020 Designing as I go

  

  Machine pieced Monkey Wrench Pattern using triangles and squares to form the 10″ Squares.  This quilt was started in May 2019 and finished in August 2020. A friend from quilting mentioned that she wanted to do a monkey wrench quilt but all she had was directions for a twelve inch block. Thinking about it I…

  marcia mcdade

  June 30, 2019

  abstract, collage, fiber, Hand work, quilting, rags, scraps, Sewing

  Crafts, piecing, quilting, scraps, techniques

• Quilts Speak at NC Museum of History

  

  Highlights from our day at the Quilt In with the Cedar Grove Quilters

  marcia mcdade

  June 16, 2019

  abstract, fiber, folkart, Hand work, quilting, rags, scraps, Sewing

  cedar grove quilters, colorful, demonstration, handmade, quilting, quilts, Sewing, worshops

• A New String Quilt 2018

  

  Finished on June 24th in 2019 The Blue and Yellow color scheme is a favorite of mine these days. After an inventory purging and reorganization of my quilting scrapes I am ready to start. I have come up with a pattern and I think I can pull it off with Four different string blocks. I am…

  marcia mcdade

  March 8, 2018

  abstract, fiber, Hand work, landscape, mountain, quilting, rags, scraps

• Rag Dolls–Alpaca Hair and the Bath Town Dolls

  

  I was inspired to make dolls for a while. Two converging experience caused this. I was helping my great aunt finish a quilting project that had been laying around for a longtime. It was important to let her complete as much on her own. I was just a guiding force. While she would work I…

  marcia mcdade

  January 4, 2017

  dolls, fiber, figurative, folkart, Hand work, rags, scraps, Sewing

  Crafts, dolls, handwork, rags, recycle, Reuse, scraps, Sewing, soft sculpture

• One on one art lessons-Finishing the Mermaid Doll

  

  This doll had a crazy start.  My great niece liked to play with old Barbies from the time she was a baby and she loved the Little Mermaid so I made a tail that would fit over the Barbie Legs.  I came across this tail the other day and needing a refresher course in doll making, I thought,  I…

  marcia mcdade

  July 24, 2014

  dolls, fiber, figurative, Hand work, rags, scraps, Sewing, Soft Sculpture

  creative, design, dollmaking, expressive, handmade, imagination, play, Sewing