Circling Circles, Hand work, Label Blocks, Parts

Deep Winter

 

IMG_5116  Hello-

We are in the deep cold of winter here in central New York.  Ice storms and then snow on top.  I was fascinated by the ice marks on the tree yesterday when I went out for my walk.  There was melting water running down the trunk under the ice too so it added to the textures.  Alieen                My aunt Aileen gave me  a wonderful gift  this week.  She presented me with a quilt that my great Grandmother Todd had made for my grandmother Ester as a gift for the birth of her third child, Leonard McElhinney in 1928.  I IMG_5131was so very surprised and honored by the gift.    All the little hand stitches are wonderfully done.  As a child I remember sleeping under quilts made by this great grand mother and how I felt like I was protected by a layer of armor that no dream monsters could penetrate.

PartsProgress Report: Parts   This work is getting a lot of attention at the moment.  I have just about stitched down all the camera parts now and I am filling in all the hand stitches for interest.

IMG_5129Scrap Happy  This work is ready for binding and the quilting now.  Both of those steps take about an hour a piece on the machine.  That work will get tackled this week.    Then when the folks who want them for fundraisers come calling there will be at least two to choose from.

Circling Circles circling circles I did collages last week and so I was ready for a new project.  This one fills all three on my monthly  challenges.    The red shobori is Ethel’s fabric.  The blue with the purple print is some fabric I silk screened last year.  I also used (the pink) some of the fabric I snow dyed in this one.

 

New Work IMG_5120    I visited with my friend Beth this week and she was working in curvier cuts.  So I got inspired and started one using that technique  again too.  I put  a part of one of the bodices that Regina gave me in this one.     I am having fun.

New feltNew Felted Work   I have built up the base for another abstract work here.  This time I did not back the wool that I felted into and although this is much heavier wool than I used before when I tried this technique,  I do not seem to have and much warping as I had with the first ones.     Doing the machine build up on top will be the real test.

IMG_5121.jpgLabel Block 40  Hurray- this block makes me one third through this process.

Keep Creating

Carol