Hello,

I am enjoying a bit of a slow down that one associates with summer.  I have done a lot of walking and enjoying all the colors of summer.    This shot is from Susan’s garden.    I have been  doing a bit of sorting too.  When I put things away from QBL it is always a good time to look at the collections of stuff I have and prepare some of it to pass along to others who can and will use it.    Most will go to the school that I once taught in as I know Margaret will use it with the kids.

Progress Report:  Remote Recesses 

I started this work in Independent Studio at QBL.  It is  a selected section from the same photo graph that I used for Relinquished Regions.    I am enjoy the movement and action in this piece.   This work has lots of different textures and materials in it.  There is silk fabric, silk paper, wool, velour, and  organza, and some  imitation leather that Susan gave me when I went to visit her in FL.    The  cream and white fabric with the orange speckles on it is from the studio sale that I went to two weeks before QBL.  I just find fabric every were that works for me.

 

Free Flight   I had started this work before I went away to quilt camp.   It did not get quilted until this week.    The Butterflies are cut from ground cloth and painted.  I then stitched them down with silver thread and  did reflective quilting around the out side with little loops added every now and then to represent butterfly erratic flight patterns.

Scrap Happy   This quilt is will be a wedding gift for one of my friends sons.    I sure enjoy building these and I think this is  # 140 of this style.

 

New  Work    This quilt is also one I started in independent studio.  Some of the fabric is from Randy and the brown pieces with the leaf prints on them are from a long ago week end outing at Mill Sight Lake.    I have started the quilting by doing some stitch in the ditch so it is well anchored.   Now I need to decide what type of free motion decorative stitching I will add to fill in the rest of the spaces.

New Rock     I started a new rock based piece on Wenesday.  My friend Tanya gave me some fabric and it just had to be used in this manner.

  This work  is only the pin up stage and it will change with time.   It too is a detailed section of my       Arcadia shore shot.   A very small section that this shot shows.  It is  the basis of the quilt for what I have pinned down.

 

Label Block   I am back in the hand work pattern again.    Enjoy the slow days of summer.

Carol