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  I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving.   I am thankful for my family, friends and health.    This week I had a little bit of a break down with my projects system.  I try to keep the fabric for each project in a separate little plastic bin.  There is a bookshelf on in the corner were they are stacked.  Well I have been so harried these last few weeks I had not been using my system- hurrying too much meant I did not put things back and sometimes threw things in the wrong bin.   The bins themselves were piled up on the cutting table instead of the shelves so it was a real mess.   I was spending far too much time looking for what I needed and I was frustrated.  I had to stop work for a morning and put everything to writes again.  It was worth it as I was so very relived the next day when I walked back into the studio and things were tidy again.   I hope I have learned my lesson and will do a better job of taking the time at the end of each work period to do the clean up correctly.   Last Saturday was the first  year anniversary of the mixed group meetings.  ( all the gals pictured are from that meeting)  It was good to get together again and talk even thought there were only 8 of us.

Progress report: Approach  This piece is 18 ” high by 13″ wide.    I do so enjoy doing these free motion drawing works.  This one like many is based on a rock image that I shot.   I try to sty true to the lights and darks on the rocks surfaces but I do not feel I must stay with the colors that I see in my photo.  I enjoy building up the textures.

 

  First Fall  This work too is based on a rock shot.  It is 26″ long by 20″ wide.   It was formerly referred to as Wool 2.      I added the single maple leaf to the surface to give the work a focus.  Building the veins added  more to this part of the image too.     Again my love of texture is a strong part of this work.

 Awakened by Black Birds    This project grew out of my experience at the dye workshop the weekend before.  Sense our room was on the third floor we were even with the tops of the trees and the crows roosting there.  They awakened us early in the morning and flew off as the sun came up.  I want to remember the wonder I felt as we watched them.  There where so many!     I need to darken the bottom section of the work and add more birds to the sky and it will be complete.

New Work   This is  a work based on a drawing I did based on a dream image.   I have changed it and modified it as I enlarged it.     There is some of the dyed fabric ( the yellow ) that I did at the dye workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wool 1 I am to the fabric addition stage with this work.   No machine work yet.   It still needs more fabric on top too.

 

Circle Challenge 1  I have added the extra circles to the surface and I am now ready to do the quilting step on this project.    There are beads in the upper left hand corner that I plan to add by hand.

 

 

 

Label Block #95  I just keep at it  one little square at a time.

Keep Creating

Carol

PS:  There will be no blog post until Friday next week as well as I will be away in NYC until Thursday evening.