Hello,
This week has been full of differing weather events. When we last walked on Sunday the air was full of the floating seeds from the Cottonwood trees. When my grandson was young he called it “Summer Snow” and it dose cover parts of the ground just as snow dose. The air has changed a lot sense then. We are really feeling the effects of the Canadian wild fires here. Smoke from hundreds of fires has polluted our air so much, that warnings about the content have kept us from walking for four days. I remember being concerned with air pollution 40 years ago and building artworks with my students for a show titled ” Once upon a time, when the earth was green and there was air you could not see…” The kids did some great work and the quilt I made for the show ended up as a part of the perinate display at a nature reserve. We were concerned about coal burning power plants then and we felt we could have some say about that action. Many of them are phased out now. But this is different as nature is in charge. We do take the availability of clean air for granted. The sky has been so many distressing colors and tints of gray, and dirty yellow over the last few days. It is also the feeling of powerlessness that is part of my unhappiness. What can one do?
Progress Report: Pony Boy I did complete this lap quilt that is a part of the 100 Day
Challenge prints stuff.
The process is fun for me as I get to mix some strange stuff together.
Hands I am to the place in the work were I am satin stitching down the organza hands. It takes me about 35 min to do each one so this step is slow. I do like the effect so it is well worth my time.
Conflict This work is all assembled now and I am at the quilting step. I have made free motion circles around and along all the curves and inserted lines. I am ready to do the reflective quilting now.
new 110 Day Challenge piece I am still building on this piece. The best part in my eyes.
Creative Assistants I am building lots of faces as it it baseball season and I worked during a game on the weekend. I need to move forward with the completion steps so this little tribe can be put away until I get to a place were I can give them away.
Collage I think there are times when one is really in the creative grove and then there are times when you just cannot force it. I had five false starts this week when I played with collage. I got too busy with layers in one case and nothing seemed to go together in a second. The values were too close in a third. Oh well, I can cut up what I did and look at it with new eyes next week. And after all of that I am not suer about this one either. Then again one does not get on base every time on goes to bat.
Blue Beach I just keep building and looking at this work. I do not feel it is done yet.
Felting I was handed a bunch of blue roving by a friend and that made me pull out the stuff to start a new piece. It is a bit bigger then I usually work as I want to use some of the embroidery wool on it.
I hope you are all breathing freely and that things are going well for you.
Keep Creating
Carol