Hello,

This evening we will view the last quarter moon for this month.    I have always wondered why the  cookies that are half choclate and half white are called Half Moon cookies?  Quarter moon would be more accurate.  Oh well, I know they are all good to eat no matter what they are called.  The other seasonal event this week is Summer Solstice.  That happens on Saturday .  Hurray! Bring on Summer.

I spent last Friday with my friend Susan.  We made silk paper.  Susan is very interested including  text and words in her work,  so I did some experimenting that I might not have tried other wise.   The 3’s are letters on tying paper that are tarped between layers of silk.  Then I thought why not just write words – so I tried my name as you can see.   It is doable.  I will use my name  to make a new name tag to put over my work area at QBL.

Then on Monday I drove down to visit Regina.  She is amazing and I had a wonderful day.  She gave me this stack of sample l dress tops  to play with.  Her techniques is to cut off all the beads and use them in other work.   I do not know just what I will do with them- but I love the challenge.  Regna  loves texture almost  as much as I do.  This wonderful  little evening bag is a good example of that.     She weaves rag rugs that are all over her house.  She has an embroidery machine and has wonderful examples all over the place too.     I went home with my head spinning full of ideas and aw.

With all my travel I have not done a lot of work in the studio this week, but that seem to be the nature of summer.   I want to be out of doors and enjoy my environment.

Progress Report:   New Iris’s     I am adding applique iris on the surface of this quilt now.    I am going to add the greenery first and then the flowers.    I may need more blossems – but I will only know that with lots of looking and thinking.

 Dusty Roads    This was formerly labeled as new work one.   I can see where I am going with it now so it has a name.  This is a good example of many of the surfacing altering techniques I like to use.  There is rust  work,  eraser stamping, silk screen printing, direct painting,  and fabric from the soy dye class in this piece.   The dark brown with the white lines is drawing done with liquid dish washer detergent.   Most of the blue areas on this work are painted interfacing pieces.   I sure had fun mixing all of them  and it made me realize that I do work in color families most of the time.

Daily News   I am working away on the back unit to put my little squares on now with this project.  It is all black so I did not do a photo of it- not very interesting at this point.    When it is done I will start to shoot it with the various squares velcro-ed  on the surface.

Enjoy the beauty of the season.

Keep Creating

Carol