Hello,

This morning when I made my diary entry I realized today is 10-11-12.   I am not into numerology- but it did catch my eye when I had it written.  What did catch my eye happened today on my walk.  The sky was that  incredible deep blue that comes with the crispness of fall. The wind was busy pulling the leaves down  off the beech tree  and they swam like gold fish to the ground were they created a wonderful yellow carpet.  The colors plus one of my favorite sounds- the crunch and swish of those leaves as one walks through them- filled me with sensual joy today.  I do like this season.  I am working away on the wedding quilt commission and with a bit of concentrated effort this eve I will get the binding done and be able to finish the project on time.  I will admit that this has not been my favorite quilts.  I have a hard time with cream and black for a wedding quilt,but them it is not my choice.   I am just glad that she liked what I showed her last week when the client brought me the material that she wanted for the back.

 

 Progress  Report: Lace Layers  I was nearly finished with this piece before I went off to Idaho and I am glad as it made and easy transition back into getting to work.  When I came home I was so full of new ideas that I found it hard to get started on any one of them.   But finishing up this work made that a lot easier.  This is only a partial shot as it is twin sized and I really do not have a space to shoot anything that big.  The rest is more of the same idea

Two Spires     This quilt is done – at least I think it is.     I may need to live with it a while on the wall to make a final decision about that part of the process.   I am unsure about it and I can not tell what it is that is not working for me yet.

The detail shows the stitching and I am very happy with that part of this work.   I will let it hang on the wall for a while and perhaps I will walk in one morning and know what to do- or I can bring it to one of the group meeting and perhaps “new” eyes can see what it needs. The shot on the left is the  top  of  the spires and the other shot is of the left hand spire from about 10 inches back.

  Purple ???       I am not sure what to call this top.  I got inspired from the marbleized material with the  white, purple, blue and greens for this work.  It was again a easy and simple way to get back into the studio and back into doing something I really wanted to work on.    Goddesses
These images are drawings I did of primitive goddess that will become part of some future work  I need to get started on.  I have a show that is set to open in January and it is to feature goddess.  This is a start toward that.  All the drawings are based on images from the Marija  Gimbutas ” The Language of the Goddess” book.   It was a fun exercise.

Blocks  When I was with Marty a fellow quilter visited us and she showed us a quilt that used luminosity as  its main emphasis.   I am trying to recreate that idea with these blocks.  I need to now make two more cuts with reassembly in mind to pull this off.  So this is step one.   The colors that I have used here are the ones Lauren wants in her quilt so that is my second intention with this work.

I hope fall is filling you with a new sense of color as we approach the onset of winter.

Keep Creating

Carol