Hello,

The weather here continues to be cold and filled with snow flurries.  I dream of spring and hope next week will find us warmer.  Done a bit more drawing this week too.   I have been watching a video , “Interpertations ”  by  Jan Beaney  and  Jean Littlejohn, that Angela lent me and hope by following some of their suggestions I will build some better compositions and avoid the struggle I am still feeling with my Frozen piece. I have been reworking the ice lines.

  I went  south  with Liz  to visit Regina yesterday to do some printing.  Regina always has beautiful treasures that this shot shows.  I like the patterns of these two beaded add  onus.    Regina is also doing finishing hand work on this big print she made of the Tree of Life.

  These are the prints that I made.

Progress Report:  Fiddlehead Ferns     This stretched work is 24” X 18”.    I built up the forest floor with bits and pieces of fabric and yarn  before adding the ferns on top.I used silk paper, fused backed hand dyed cotton for the leaves and frapped chenille cleaners for the steams of the fiddleheads.

Layers  This is my entry for the  SAQA auction.  It is 12” X 12”  and is a work built to show how one just keeps adding more and more experiences   layers on top of one another as we age.

 

 

 

Parts   I   have been building little units to work together for the last few weeks.  Now I am beginning to add them together as a whole. Another example of how I feel we are many small things added together.

Asters  I am building the flowers on the surface of this piece now.   The petals are raw edge applique and the centers are hand stitched on top.

Felting   This is just the start of the background for one of the Black Capped Chickadees  that I did in tread painting  at the spring retreat two weeks ago.

 Daily Practice    This   work just keeps steadily building up  with stitches.

Cards: Relax   Time just keeps rushing forward in this day and age.  I find I often feel a bit overwhelmed so I need to remind myself to slow down and  breath.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discover    One is forever changing, but unlike butterflies that graduate from a caterpillar to a butterfly  our changes are often much less dramatic and slower.

 

Keep Creating

Carol