We have reached the” Ides of March”. This comes from Latin  ides… that means the middle- and the 15 is  of this mouth.  The reason we in the western world note the date is because Julius Cesar was stabbed that day.   I will admit that the mouth has been rushing along for me.   I enjoyed the waining half moon this morning as I did my daily check of the sky.   I am still a little sluggish in the morning having not made the full switch of the lost hour that day light savings time  brings.      I did start spring cleaning as this  week.   The quilter in me makes me break up the task into lots of little pieces.  So I tackled my ribbon wall on the back of the studio closet .

This is a before shot…….. then we have the after shot.   I should be able to access colors a lot better now.   I will keep at the clean up one little piece at a time and perhaps by the Ides of April I will be nearly finished.

Progress Report:     Spiraling Out

This quilt caused me some frustration this week.  I had quilted it following the spiraling action….. it was awful!   So I spent an evening removing all the machine work.    I am still not sure this is the answer for this work. I guess I will need to put it at the bottom of the stack for a while and see how I feel when I can look at it with fresh eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crimson Diminished DMC IV

I am still using us the fabric from the DMC project.  I feel I have gained a great deal form this process.  Making me slow down and not try to do everything on one work is one of the main lessons for me.   I believe this work uses the new material well and it still holds to the simple approach.   I think there is just enough fabric – mostly in Dawn’s crimson and Marty’s turquoise that I can add one additional fabric and create one last work in this series.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cycling Circuits

  I am now ready to begin to fill in the openings.   I have several  treatments  to audition.

This is cotton netting in a navy blue

 

  This next trial is  inner facing  painted in pink and rose with some of the area left white.   This treatment  could use some spark- like beads too.

 

 

This third image shows a purple plastic screening in the opening.   This one too needs some embellishment to make the whole more interesting.   I will again just have to live with these for a while before I will know what is the most effective.Golden Rounds Paper Quilt IV

  This is a full view of the  paper quilt in progress.   I am having fun doing more of the Faggotting  between the paper sections.   I have learned several things along the way here.  Number one- when cutting a curve the spacing is difficult- at least for me.  This irregular spacing, plus the uneven sizes of beads is  the second thing I learned.  And that is I must try each set before I stitch into the section across the opening.  I do like the effect!  It has been fun.    Sugar Spill

This is a quilt that uses a simple composition  a and special materials.  I played with the Angelina  adding  sequins and  felt in the mix.   It was an enjoyable exploration process.

I reflected the squares of felt in the quilting in this work.  I created a pattern that I may repeat in a future piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New work- Fire Works

  This is a new piece that I am excited about.   After playing with the Angelina for Sugar Spill, I did my  typical” What IF????” and  this new thing with fire works came into being.    I have had this strong purple fabric with the turquoise in it ever sense the DMC project got started.   But it is so intense a color that I had not used it before this time.  As you can see here I am still intimidated by it and have mostly covered it with the Angelina.   This work  also spawned a second new piece were I am trying the powerful purple fabric as a whole cloth unit.

 

 

 

 

 

Mini 4

I still have so much to learn about the photo process.  This time I did manage to  not have the flash show on the glass- but it is very tilted! I see this as room for growth.

 

Keep Creating everyone

Hugs

Carol