Hello,

After three days of wet snow, I have  been thinking a lot about white.   In this  photo the door that is painted white and that is different then the white siding and the snow created a third white.      Snow quickly becomes a dirty white with age and light can also effect snow  making it appear blue at times.   This is a good time of year to look closely at this color.

This is the second snow with more than 4 “ so I snow dyed again this morning.   This shot of the pot makes it look like it is red and black- but the dark color is labeled navy blue……. only time will tell what I get.   This shot is of the first snow dye that I did two weeks ago with yellow and blue.       I have been home a lot between events the last two weeks  and I have worked away in the studio.    There is a lot  to show for that effort.

Progress Report: Rain Puddle  This work is 18” X 24”  stretched.    It is a rework piece.   I started with this Mossy Rock  that I created in my   Foundations   series.  I did  27 of those and very few are of any interest to anyone but me.   So in recalling what my good friend Ethel said “Carol,  you make good backgrounds”  I thought what a better background then  a rock for a puddle.     So I looked at puddles on my walks and noted how they appeared to darken the leaves and thought I could use organza and nylon net to create that depth.   I also noticed how the oak leaves were all so uniformly cream and brown so I used them as my  subjects for this work.

 

Daily Practice V  This work is also  18” X 24” .       It takes about 7 weeks for me to complete one of these works.      I enjoy all the hand work that is a part of the process.   This one also used  a great hand dyed that I did last year with a piece of upholstery  fabric that Regina gave me.      This is the last one this series as I have a new challenge to do for my daily work that involves a lot of hand work.

 

Scrap Happy   This is a queen sized quilt that I  created for my granddaughter Alexis for Christmas.    It is made from the box of scraps from Ethel. This is the fifth one using up her scraps.Many of the little units were created by her.

 Southern Crows    I am to the quilting stage on this work now .      I am doing reflective work  around the bird square and   just building around the squares out side of that.

Butterfly Wing   This work is nearly done and I really like some parts of this experiment.   Others – not so much.   I may just cut this up and use sections separately as it is a bit much all together.    Little areas work so much better.

 

 

Earth – Waterfall   This work is building up.   I built this tree( on the left)  and then added foliage to create the crown.       I am ready to build up the stones and add the water now.

Noogoora Pods I just finished quilting stitch in the ditch on this piece.   I am now ready to build the steams and add the pods to the surface.    Hopefully it will not need additional quilting after that point.

Felts 1   I am building backgrounds for the machine drawn birds that I have been creating.       This is an early stage  but a start

Felt- 2   Because I have to give up part of my desk when I use the felting machine I like to build more than one background at a time.   This is the second and it is even rougher than  the first.

Felt-3   This one is hardly tacked at all.  I have only layer in the base and will build color over the top before I do much felting on this one.

Creative Assistants    I have watched some sports on TV lately so I am creating little faces on my assistants.   I just packed away 30 of them that were totally done on Tue  and did not pull them out for a photo.

Totem – Fox   The Sisterhood of the Scissors has a challenge.   It is to create ones totem and this is my enlarged sketch for that project.   I plan not to use the traditional color scheme, but  limit it  none the less.

Label Cards: Marriage  As a part of my thinking about what I  was thankful for over the last holiday I realized how very important my marriage is to me.    So I made this card.

Saving.   At the other end of what is happening is all the pressure to Shop!   Black Friday , Small  Business Saturdays,   Cyber Monday…….. and for what?   Do we really need more things?    I going to give experiences, Theater tickets, and trips to the Zoo.   That way I can save MEMORIEs instead of spend money of things that really do not matter.

Keep Creating,

Carol