Hello Friends,

I am just home from my walk on this glorious autumn day.  Here the sun is shinning and the temperature is oh so wonderfully mild with a slight breeze.  One would not know it was Sept except for a few little signs like the grasshoppers that jump and fly way from my path as I walk along.  Some  wall nuts have fallen and their green/yellow husks stain the streets.  I find myself looking for the skeletons of nuts that some squirrels clean out to look like hollow eye alien heads- or perhaps they are strange buttons.     The golden rod is blooming as are a few blue purple bachelor buttons.  What colors! The passing yellow school buses add to the feeling of fall too.   I like to store up these of images for colorful memories when the world is all blues and whites of winter.   I must really do a good job of that this week as I left my camera in Maine between the cushions of a friends house.  She will ship it to me, but for the time being memory must do all the work.  The absence of my camera also means that I can not show what  my wonderful students did in the card making class.   I was so very pleased with all there efforts as  the cards were all as beautiful and unique as all the gals who were there.  I really like teaching when it is as open ended as that class can be.  They cut there own stamps from erasers and stamped them with dyes and inks.  They them mixed those images  with great papers and fabric scraps into wonderful cards to send to there friends.  One gal said she was not going to send all her creations, but frame two of them instead.  We all had fun and laughed  together.    My lecture titled  “Playing to your Strengths” on Sat was well received too.    I felt very pleased as I drove home -a  1009 mile trip round trip – to be able to drive into a newly completed garage.  We have been planning that project for years and I am sure I will be even more delighted in mid winter when I do not have to scrap off my car before I can drive away.   I feel ready to take on what ever Mother Nature throws at me this year.

Progress Report:   Tides Out

  I am showing this quilt because I do have a photo of it.  I took the quilt to my  art quilters meeting a week ago Tue and when it was up on the wall I suddenly realized that the bottom was not adding to the work at all.   Just weighting it down.   So when I got home I cut 9.5 inches off the bottom got rid of the sand and most of the second fence and refaced that area.  I gave the improved and  finished quilt to my hostess as a thank you  gift.  She was delighted as she knew it was the coast of Maine that was the inspiration.   I know that I work too quickly some times and it take time and fresh eyes to sometimes see the errors.

 

Line Work  The only other area I have been working on is a little challenge of my own to work through the elements and principles of design this year.  I  have been reading art and design books and this mouth I am playing with line in my quilt work.  I will take photos when I get my camera and post the progress.

I hope you are enjoying the wonders of fall and creating great things.

Hugs

Carol