Hello,

I am home again from my trip to sunny Florida.  I continue to be in love with the sea grape leaves and the pelicans  that I see only there.  .   I now have lots of shots of both of those subjects along with lots of others.

My week was full of adventures.  Chris did a wonderful workshop on Eco Dyeing on Monday and  I got to do it too.  I came home with a beautiful silk scarf that  was dyed with oak leaves and onion skins.   I will enjoy wearing it for a long time.

We went to the Museum of Art  in St Petersburg and visited a great traveling costume show with wardrobe pieces from the Star Wars series.     There were wonderful detailed concept drawings   along with the final works.   There were  lots of explanations about the sources for many of the costumes too.The Interviews from the actors who had to “live” inside the droids was also  a fascinating part of this exhibit.

I got to meet with the folks who are part of the card exchange on Wed.  and we did a little folded book project together.  This shot is of Robert and his book. I can’t believe we have been at this a year.   We will continue to do this little challenge.

Cris and I walked along the beach on day and found this egg case and bit of coral.  That resulted in a little challenge between the two of us.   ( watch for further developments)

 

Cris, Laura and I went to the Fabulous Fashions play day on Friday.   Cris worked on this   top   that she made form an antique table cloth.

Laura  made this colorful  ruffled scarf from an old blouse.

Sat was play day in Susan’s studio.  We all printed different stuff.   Cris worked with her Gelli Plate and printed beautiful leaves from Susan’s garden.   Susan did some fun altering/printing on an old baby gown  that she then hung on the fence.  I got carried away as usual and now have a group of black birds to work into with stitches and beads.   I had a good time on my adventure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At home  on Tues I went to  the final meeting of Social Art for this season and was  a part of the small art show of work from the women who are a part of the group.  This shot is of Noel explaining something about her work( in the background)  She used “Punch and Judy” to   talk about female abuse.

Yesterday the FAB group meant and Nancy had a lot to share.  This is a shot of the bottom half of Arabic Twist.  One of two works that she is doing at the moment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Glyph IV   This work is finally completed.  I was so excited about finally finishing this pieces that I put the sleeve on the bottom and only discovered the mistake this morning when I hung it to shot it for the blog.  I  removed the sleeve and it  is pinned in the correct place now.    I will add the sleeve on the top this eve.I have been showing shots of the bead and button additions all along.    I started this work in July  in Cyntaia Corbin’s Class at QBL.   

Asters I am still working on the veins of the leaves on this project.  I am half done with that step now.

 

 

 

 

 

FrozenI am still struggling to decide if this work is complete.     I feel I am almost there.

Memory map-  Carroll, Iowa  I am just starting the organza add on’s  for this project.  I drew the house and street on the organza and will add paint and stitching before I stitch  them to the surface.

  Parts    One of my personal goals for this year is to try    some  projects that are  inspired fro m  some of the  magazines I get  and have collected.  This month the Quilting Arts had an article about  making many  little units and adding them to the surface to build a complex final work.  This is my start

Daily Practice II    I am nearing the end of my six weeks work on this project.   I want to add some buttons on this week and I hope to finish it.

Daily Practice III   I did  not take Daily Practice II  ( pictured above) with me on my trip- but I did take the start of then next  piece all pinned together.  I did hand work for about an hour a day   during the week and will move on to it when I  have finished Daily Practice  II.

New Work   This is just the pin up for a new piece.    I am still working toward Liz’s challenge to  use some of the fabric that I have hand dyed.   This is early in the development and I am not at all sure this is how the final product will be arranged.

Cards: Travel    I always feel traveling opens one  up to new ideas and perspectives  so I am celebrating those ideas with this card.

 

Equinox    Last week the days and nights were in perfect balance for one 24 hour period- or at least the light and dark hours were the same.  That will happen again in the fall of course- but that equal  distribution of light and dark needs to be celebrated.   Most of the time our lives are anything but  an equal balance .     But  it is something to strive for.

Keep Creating

Carol