Hello,
The yucca is blooming and the smell fills the air.
My big event for this week was to help hang the Associated Artist show at the Beaver Lake Nature center on Sunday. 
It was fun and I enjoyed helping and talking with my fellow artists. This show will be up until the end of Aug.
It was so hot on Wed that Liz and I did not dye. I made screens with house paint and interfacing instead.
The light gray areas will allow the dye to pass through and print on the fabric below.
The heat has kept me in the studio and I have accomplished a lot.
Progress Report: Linda’s Luck This work is 36” w X 41”l. It has been created with the use of the cut aways from several other text pieces. 
I used the vertical parallel stitching to do the quilting job.
Summer Heat This in the start of one of my new pieces. The center block is a scrap of painted silk and the started the whole thing.
Beth’s Baby Quilt 
This quilt is ready for the detail work now. I have not done a baby quilt in about three years and it was a bit more difficult to get back into this process then I expected.
How and Why The addition of the word why really helped this quilt work for me. I am doing the quilting step now. I am sure it will be finished by next Thursday.
Why I had to create a quilt using Why and this is it. I like the strong contrast between the text and the background.
Sky 
I painted this piece of fabric to create the base for my sky from the class I am following.
New work- Collections 3 This is step one in the collections works. I just lay out a few squares of fabric to build on top of.
Daily Project 
I finished the orange coring. Then I moved onto the rickrack. It is going very slowly as I am being so elaborate with the stitches I am using to tack it down are complex.
Label Card: Ideas
I think that a good idea is like the cracks in mud, because it can lead and connect to so many other things. One just needs to be open to that idea.
Enjoy the summer and keep creating.
Carol
