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A Fall Chickadee

Posted in Animals, Art Class, Paint Party, tagged chickadee, Fall, fall leaves, leaf season on October 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Did we have a good time painting this little chickadee on a fall branch? You know we did! Great job by everyone too. We have a whole lot more coming up at The Studio. Check out upcoming events here including a beautiful painting this Sunday.

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The Centennial Featherweight

Posted in Furniture, Little Known Facts, Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged Centennial, Featherweight, Sewing machine, Singer, Singer Featherweight on October 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Last year I posted about finally finding the last Featherweight that I had been searching for in order to have one of each color. Read about that here. And with that I thought I was finished collecting these wonderful little machines. But as it turns out I needed one more…..The Centennial! These machines have a special badge that marks a hundred years of sewing for Singer….1851-1951. Not too long ago I had a chance to buy one…and you guessed it, I did! Here she is! And she is beautiful. I took her down to the river earlier this week to sew with her. She did a great job. I realized as I was sewing that I had now shared her yet here so I wanted to show her off as well as the Featherweight Table that I bought not too long ago at an auction thanks to the sharp eye of my friend, Jackie, who picked it up for me.

If you read the blog link above you saw that people who collect Featherweights name them. My first three are named Barbara for my mom and Lucille and Nola Mae for my grandmothers. The three of them taught me so much about sewing, crafting and creating. I am forever in their debt for that. So as I thought about what to name the Centennial just one name came to mind….June. I am naming her for June Winn Thomas who was my Home Ec teacher in high school and a great friend. Even after all these years she still cheers me on commenting on what all we are doing at The Studio. So meet June…the newest addition to my Featherweight collection. I would say I am done buying these little machines but never say never.

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Savannah’s Painting

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, Eyes on October 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Savannah is a good artist…and actress…who paints with the Wednesday evening class at The Studio. She just completed this piece. She is always creating interesting art. We love what you do Savannah! Keep up the good work.

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Gorgeous Abstract Florals

Posted in Art Class, Flowers, Paint Party, The Studio/Classes, tagged Abstract, floral, flowers, palette knife on October 9, 2023| 1 Comment »

Yesterday’s Large Abstract Floral with palette knife class resulted in some beautiful art. Nice work everyone!!! That was fun…we’ll do it again soon. For upcoming classes at The Studio click here.

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Saturday’s Banner Class

Posted in Quilting, Sewing, tagged banner, crow, holiday, Pumpkin, QAYG, Quilting, sewing on October 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Here is our second class of October Banners. Don’t they look fabulous? These quilters did terrific work on these little banners. We are so excited for this series we are working on. Even Lincoln was impressed! We will continue with the November banner on Saturday, November 4th…and we will have 2 seats available if you want to join in our fun. Click here for more details and to register.

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Dianne’s Mural Continues

Posted in Landscape, Private Lesson, Serendipity, tagged Fall, Landscape, mural, Winter Landscape on October 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Dianne and I worked on her mural a few more hours today. You’ll remember the right section….Fall…from a week or so ago. Today we added the Winter scene. It is about 70% finished. We need to add more snow to the trees and a few more limbs. And we plan to add a cardinal in the tree. But because of travel plans we won’t be able to do more for a few weeks so we’ll show you more as we get it done. At this rate we may have it done for her Thanksgiving dinner.

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At Wednesday Morning Class

Posted in Art Class, Flowers on October 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Loretta and Mishelle have the most fun at our Wednesday morning art classes. And they are creating some lovely art while their at it! So glad to have these two painting with us each week. Nice work ladies!!! If you are interested in learning to paint or improving your skills, contact kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com about weekly art classes on Wednesdays at 10:30 or 5:30 or Thursdays at 2 pm.

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Small Christmas Tablerunner

Posted in Holidays, tagged Christmas Flamingo, Christmas tablerunner, Holidays, tablerunner on October 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Just completed this cute little applique tablerunner using preprinted red squares that I picked up at a sale last year. They worked out great for putting some little appliques on them. This little runner is perfect for my dresser top. This would make a fun and easy class. It would be a great way to learn or improve applique work plus learn to use special stitches on your machine. Maybe we can get it on the calendar soon.

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A Year of Banners Underway

Posted in Holidays, Quilting, tagged banner, bird, crow, Fall, October banner, Pumpkin, Quilting on October 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday we started our “Year of Banners” class. These quilters did beautiful work on their first banner in our year long series. I love these. We have another session of this class on Saturday, October 7th. We have two spaces left so if you would like to join us click here for more info and to register.

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