Hi ,

 Welcome to all the new followers that have signed up this week.  32 new folks were added to the  subscription list and I am quite flattered. 

 This is a shot of the Turquoise Street Studio wall with work by Beth Houston Barholdt and Barbara Vural.  They are having an open studio this eve as a part of Third Thursday.  I was asked to join them and I have work for sale as well.  I know I should have posted this bit of news last week- but I did not think of it.  I will try to keep my eye on that ball in the furture.   So as that bit of news suggests I have been busy getting ready for that event.     Tagging, matting and framing of little works really take a lot longer than their size suggests.

  On Tuesday, I went along with the other gals who are part of FAB- our mini group, to see the Quilts= Art= Quits at the Schweinfurth  Art Center.  We spent two hours looking and talking about the work shown there.  It is always so inspiring.  Then on the way home we stopped at  Patchwork Plus and did a little shopping.  Nancy and Victoria both purchased material, while Patti and I purchased other things.  We had a good full day and I went home with my mind spinning in many directions.  

I started working on Christmas Cards this week too.  I stitched down green silk scraps from the Oak Leaves project on top of green triangles.  Then I added a star and squeezie paint balls to the trees.   It was a fun way to spend an afternoon.

Progress Report:  Oak Leaves   This quilt is complete now.  I had shown it to the gals in FAB at the last meeting and they suggested that I add something to the bottom left hand side.   This work hung on the design wall all week and finally yesterday morning it  hit me that what it needed was a little bit of  suggested green leaf fromation  from another  branch.  So I added it.      I really like how the silk leaves are fraying with time on this piece.   That added texture plus the wonderful shadows created by the  overlapping leaves, especially were they cross the frapped branches,  are enjoyable to me.   I have never used silk in this fashion before and think there is more exploration for me in that direction.  I do not have any more silk at the moment so it will have to stay at the dream/ imagination stage for now.

 On The Road to Dry Falls   This is the lost top that I mentioned last week.  I had started it at QBL.   I used some very old material here- the yellow, orange and white in the center and left sections- and some more recently altered stuff.  The cream and green at the top on the right and lower left is from the discharged play day I did with Marty last spring.    I also used some of the silk paper on this work.  I am enjoying the process of free motion attachment of yarn( the white lines) as well as the sewing/quilting lines for texture.   I am getting better at stretching the silk out to create more of a web like effect too.    

This quilt also has some hand painted fabric in it. Well that many not exactly be hand painted as this light sections is really a wipe up cloth- but I do not know how else to describe it.  Nothing is trash to me I guess.

Daily’s    The Daily’s continue to be joy for me.  This week’s collection seems to be  a mixture of crazy and control…. I am not even going to guess what that says about my mind.  There are only a few more prepared blocks using the black circles and red squares….. So there will be a change in something by next week.

  Keep Creating

Carol