Hello,
It has been a quiet week here with a few events thrown in for spice.
I hung a dozen works at the Oaks for the on Saturday . Then on Sunday I went to Marcia’s to Percilla’s Sale. The flowers are from Marcia’s garden.
I purchased a few Jackets and got this wonderful applique from Gautama that Percilla had purchased on one of her trips. I love this little bat.
Tues was the QuEG’s meeting and folks had a lot to share. This is a work that Victoria made and gave to Susan. They were working with hand painted silk organs.
They were in Micky Laure’s class and Susan purchased this piece at the scholarship auction by the teacher.
This is Susan’s work from the class.
Corrine is off to Ghost Ranch for a workshop and she made these leather journals for her self and her daughter for that trip.
Sue Ellen did this commission of one of the lakes in the Adorancks.
Linda made this nice bed sized quilt at QBL . It is from a Jelly Roll with the dark blue added for contrast.
Angela is taking a class on line dealing with hand stitching. This is one of nine squares she has done for one of the first three units of this class.
They are only using strait stitches with different spacing and yarn thicknesses. 
Here are two more.
Progress Report: Fox in the Rocks This work is 27″ w
X 39.5″ t. I started it in the Rock On class with Cynthia Corbin and finished it this week. I used some of the techniques from Betty Busby’s class to create the fox. The painting and the use of colored pencil to create detail are from that class.
There are several more form this class that I am working on now too.
The cheese cloth texture is some I painted earlier this spring.
Bee Blouse I loved this shirt but it had a bad spot on it and I thought I would save it by covering up the spot. I had purchased bee appliques from Amanda Mc Carver at QBL and thought to use them.
I though three bees were not enough 
so I made some myself and some lady bugs too. The bees are on the shirt and the lady bugs were used to cover a tear on my new blue jeans. This shot is of the insects drying after I washed out the wash away.
Blue Jeans
They do the trick I’d say.
Feathers I made the fabric for the feathers in Betty’s class and she cut them out on her stencil machine. They are fused the fabric and I am building a quilt around them.
Old and New- Purple and Blue
I keep adding the new hand stitching to the blocks and I can see the end now. There are only four more blocks to do. It takes about 15 min to do each one so this project will be done with this phase by next week.
Beaded Bag I came across this old project while looking for a piece of fabric. I could not remember when I had started it, but I knew it was long ago so I started the neck unit. This little red tab is what an hour will do- so now I know why I put it aside.
Childhood Memories; Saturday’s in 6th grade.
My allowance when I was in 6th grade was $.75. $.25 of that went into the Skippy Peanut Butter jar bank. That was saving for a $25.00 savings bond. The rest was for spending.
My best friend was Julie and her parents owned the local roller skating rink. It cost $25 cents to get in and .25 for sake rental so that is what how I spent my allowance. I loved the Limbo and the Hokey Poky. Julie was the first person I had meant with a birth defect. Her second finger did not have the last digit and she had a very small fingernail growing out the top of it. She was an excellent skater and the first Sat of every month she went off to competitions. So on the Saturdays when she was not at the rink I did not go rollerskating. I went instead to movies with Gene and Lee. $ .25 admission and $.10 for popcorn. That allowed for a nickel for a Slim Jim- a Camel Taffy on a stick that took the whole afternoon to consume. The remaining dine was spent for ice cream on the walk home from the theater. We saw a lot of old westerns and had a good time. I had always blown my whole spending allowance by Saturday evening.
Keep Creating
Carol