Claire Sherman Art

SAQA benifit auction

Posted on October 8, 2024 by admin

This 12″ 12″ quilt of mine just sold in the SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) benefit auction. This is the first time I’ve donated a quilt to their auction.

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My very tiny quilt show at Art and Lit!

Posted on August 18, 2024 by admin

I’m having a quilt show in a little free library. Art & Lit is a half-square-foot gallery located above a free little library in the Berkeley Hills. It has a website: www.bayviewartandlit.com and a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bayviewartandlit

My show will be up from August 17 through Sept 6th.

Here are several photographs of my show by Andrea Scharff, the owner of Art and Lit.

This is what it looks like from the outside.

Here’s another photo of the little plastic people who are looking at my show.

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My Cubist Friend- quilt

Posted on July 17, 2024 by admin

My Cubist Friend_full This is the second Cubist inspired quilt I made for the SAQA show called Art Movements- making quilts inspired by art movements. I finished the previous quilt- the Cubist style village, three and a half days before the deadline. In those three and a half days I made this quilt! It’s fabric collage with fusible web. I didn’t do any sewing on it until I quilted it. If I had pieced it, it would have taken a lot more time to make. It unintentionally looks a little like a friend of mine.

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There’s nothing like a deadline for motivation!

Posted on July 3, 2024 by admin

I just finished this quilt! It’s for a SAQA show called Art Movements- making quilts inspired by art movements, like Cubism.

When I was eleven years old I painted a self portrait that my art teacher said was reminiscent of Paul Klee’s cubist paintings. I’ve liked Paul Klee’s work ever since then. I intended to sew a cubist face, but then I saw Klee’s painting, Castle and Sun, which looks just like a quilt! There are even four-patch blocks in it. This quilt is my third attempt at sewing cubist houses. Each time, the houses have become more abstract and perhaps more cubist as well. In this quilt the houses are made of only squares and triangles. However, I’ve hinted at more of the architectural details in the quilting. I’m excited to have rediscovered Paul Klee and plan to make more cubist style cityscape quilts in the future

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Royzelach paper rose/snowflake class in person this Sunday in Berkeley

Posted on June 7, 2024 by admin

I’ll be teaching how to make these royzelach (paper cut-out roses) at the Shavu’ot, (pre) Tikun this Sunday at the JCC /east Bay. But if you can’t come in person, here’s a video of me teaching it. However, it’s easier and more fun to learn it in person.

There’s a midrash (folkloric legend) that when we received the Torah/10 Commandments at Mt. Sinai, we received them with all our senses. There was thunder, lightning, and the smell of roses. Royzelach (roses in Yiddish) are paper cut-outs that were used to decorate windows for Shavuot in Eastern Europe. Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that celebrates receiving the Torah, which starts this year on the evening of June 11, 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4umcZB8w8o

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First finish of 2024

Posted on February 17, 2024 by admin

This week I finished quilting and binding my Seed Pods quilt. I used a facing, sometimes called an infinity binding rather than a traditional binding. It’s such a relief to have finished it! This is one of my quilts for the Voices in Cloth Quilt Show on March 23 and 24 in Oakland. More info at http://www.ebhq.org › VIC

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New photos!

Posted on January 8, 2024 by admin

I’m preparing a slideshow of the quilts that were in my solo show at St Albans for EBHQ Quilters Gather on 1/11/24. I’ve been taking new photos because my old photos aren’t up to my current standards. If you go to www.EBHQ.org you can request the Zoom link. Quilters Gather starts at 7 PM. Here are a few new photos.

Above is Axis Mundi: Jacob’s Ladder

Above is Gesher Tzar: Narrow Bridge

Above is Blue Pomegranate Hamsa. It looks huge here but it’s only 12″ x 12″.

Below is First Lone Robin.

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Seed Pod pinned and ready to quilt!

Posted on December 26, 2023 by admin

The first photo is at EBHQ’s Open Quilting. The second photo is at Bay Quilts at the EBMQ meeting. Now I just need to quilt it before the Voices in Cloth deadline!

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A plethora of hearts

Posted on November 7, 2023 by admin

Here is my latest batch of hearts. I used the two inches of quilt that I cut off my all-blue quilt for the Prism Play show. Then I sewed two strips together and had enough for a 4″ heart. I used a tight zigzag stitch to sew them together. If you double click on the image, it will get larger, so that you can see the hand stitched details.

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My quilt top from Sarah Goer’s class

Posted on November 6, 2023 by admin

I took a Zoom workshop with Sarah Goer on making an improv quilt with squares. Each of us cut out random squares of fabric- mine ranged from 7.5″ down to 2.5″. I decided that I didn’t want to deal with 1.5″ squares! We each arranged our squares (differently) on our own design walls. My design is above. Then we drew our arrangement on graph paper, taking into account that when sewn the squares would each lose a half inch. Then we drew in the background squares we’d need to finish the quilt. Here’s my drawing:

Then we cut out all the background squares and rectangles and sewed them all together. I used three different background fabrics: math themed, radio diagrams, and music fabric. Although I tried to avoid partial seams or Y seams, I did end up with one. Here’s my finished quilt top, all made in one day.

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