We have a house guest, our daughter’s dog Riley. He is a good husky, but requires three walks a day. That sure is eating into my work time. I am enjoying myself .
I discovered this is my 300th post. I never envisioned that I would still be writing and creating this work this far into the future when I started it. The first one was Sept. 1, 2011 and I have come a long way. That first blog only had three pictures. Now I see photos as one of the strongest parts of my posts. I was so tentative about what to write in the beginning. Now I am surprised and proud of this work. I look forward to the postings and think about what I want to cover over the week. It makes me pay more attention to my peers, what I am doing and my environment. I look forward to noting things every week. I do not plan to end any time soon as I just renewed my domain name for the next three years.
Progress Report: Collection 2- Grandmother Mc This work is 18” w X 31” l. I started out with some lace that grandmother Ester had created and built up the surface with more items that where hers and represented her.
She had button tin and I spent many hours stringing them for her. Three different ones from the collection are shown here.
Perception I am done adding the text to the background with metallic threads on this work. Now I am doing reflective quilting around all the words.
Persuasion I am still doing pebble quilting of the words for this quilt. I seem to only be able to quilt three words in an hour. I have seven words remaining.
Rocky Shores I am doing a Quilt University class by Linda Schmidt. The first lesson is on water. I painted the sky and water and them I followed the instructions on how to make the rocks and foam. I am making up my own shore line. It is all pinned in place now and I will begin stitching next.
Mulberry Memories This week I worked on the winter memories for this quilt. Ice skating, and sledding were two of the things we did lots of those years. Gene had a flexible flyer and it was a wonderful sled. We even built snow jumps for it.
Old Barn I just started this work based on a photo of the old barn on Dad’s farm. It fell down before he moved from there and the lumber was burnt in the stove in that house.
Daily Practice I am now adding some lace flowers to the surface of this project. I hand dyed the lace last summer with Liz. This project continues my effort to use materials that I have altered with dye this year.
Card It is hard some times to keep things balanced. I often go to excess on some things. I am trying to pay attention to this as I get older and think about the need to keep my many interests in line.
I just could not seem to stop working on collage this week. Collection, sifting, placing and creating a new image from scraps- it is a wonderful process in my eyes.
Keep Creating
Carol