Hello,          Today in my part of the world it is raining again.  We need the water, but I am tired of  the gloom that the gray skies seem to bring along too.  It makes me want to take a nap.    This photo is one I took on my way home on Tuesday after taking down the “Sticks and Stones” show.  As you can see from the image it was  gray  that day too.

Progress Report:  Pumpkin Lichens
I am not showing this  work  this week because I had a bit of a disaster with it .   I though I had trimmed it all up and I was adding  the sleeve  when I realized that one side was a good inch longer than the other….. I have not done all the deconstruction that needs to happen before I can correct that mistake yet, but I will do so and  show that next week.

  On the Road to Dry Falls       I made progress on this work this week.  I am doing more of the tron  and  free motion stitch down work on this surface. I used this technique with the fused silk, some taffeta and some nylon netting.  I like how it allowed for a  feeling of shadow and texture.

 

Oak Leaves
I started this at Quilting by the Lake.  The leaves are free floating and made with a top layer of silk and a bottom of cotton.  I have been looking at it in this state for a few weeks now and it finally came to me that It needed a three dimensional limb too.  So I pulled out some roving and frapped it with  a dark patterned fabric.    In this closeup you can see how the  fabric is wrapping around and creating a new texture.  There is a little of the roving showing at the bottom of this shot.

  This second shot is of the full limb as it is now.  I need to create a background  and stitch the limb to it before I add the leaves.

I though I might add fused silk clouds to this work as well.  I will at least create some clouds for myself in the fused silk workshop that I am teaching on Friday.

New Work
I am doing pure explorations with this new piece.   I took a class with Valerie Goodwin at QBL in 2012 and she suggested  we use all the different way we knew to attach fabric to the surface to add texture.  I had not really applied this idea before but when I came across my class notes I though I would give it a try.  So with this small piece I have used flip piecing, raw edge and hand stitching.    The next process is to add paint…..  I am having fun as I am not at all sure what I am doing and  the class notes are not as complete as I had though.  A year plus is a long time  and one does forget  details.

I hope fall is sending you visual joy and creative time.

Hugs

Carol