Hello-

I am as cold as everyone else here in Central New York.  The sun is shinning today and that helps- but I am still cold.   This last week has not been very productive.  I seem to be in a sort and clean mode.  Granted the studio needs it, and I limit myself to only an hour a day, but it still seems to slow me down a bit.

Progress Report: Foundations XI  I am doing the free motion stitching on this work now.   This work is also based on a photo of a cut in a rock wall.   I am drawing to all the little nooks and the high texture of rock.   I have added  lots of yarn to the surface to add to the texture on this surface too.

 

 

 

 

 

Lighting    I found these fabrics when I was doing the cleaning thing.   I though they  worked together but some how they top needed a bit of punch.   So I started the slender cut troughs.  The blue green fabric started to look like lighting to me so I have decided to push that idea forward.   I have been working on these narrow cuts for over a year now, but still do not feel like I have the control I really want with them.  I will keep trying.      

 New Work  I though I might try a new approach to my foundations work.   I backed wool  fabric with felt( see the orange felt on the upper right)  and I am also including paper on the surface of this one.  The map of Canada is an old National Geographic map and the paper is very tough.   The ”  What If” factor is alive and well in my studio.

Daily’s   As this shot shows I am still busy with the Daily’s.  I am finding that I look forward to doing them in the evenings.  It is the only hand work I have at the moment so I am actually a few squares ahead of myself.  But I am planning a trip in the spring so being a head will be covered then.

Keep Creating

Carol