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Birthday April 24, 2014

-daycard  Hello,

Today is my birthday and this wonderful hand made card arrived from my great friend Barbara with birthday wishes in it..  The card sure makes me feel loved- and it delights my eye too.

Spring is finally a part of central New York.  I was awakened by a bird singing at 4:10 this morning- but I am not complaining-  Just surprised to hear him singing up the sun so early.  There are so many tints and shades of green that it dassel the eye now.  Things here are changing so very fast. Necklace-2 It was raining yesterday and so I did not walk out doors.  But when  I went today I could see changes in the buds of many of the plants that I had looked at just two days before.  One can almost see the plants growing.   I love it!

I am still making fabric flowers from  Noel’s workshop last week.    It is just Necklace1so much fun to use those little scarps of silk in such beautiful ways that I can’t seem to stop.    The “What If  Factor ” is kicking in too and I think my work tray has as many new flowers on it as these two necklaces put together.    Now I am also trying Yoyo flowers- like Cheri did and   I can’t think why wide silk ribbons would not work too, as well as the silky hem tape I seems to have lots of …..  Oh the mind- it  just keeps pumping out possibilites.Foundations-XV

Progress Report:  Foundation XV New Direction  I am nearly finished with this project.  I like all the colors I have be able to use here and feel that I have New-Direction-close-upadded a lot of machine work to the surface.    By making this one irregular in shape I have created a new problem for myself- it does not hang flat at the end of some of the horizional extensions.     That is why I am not showing a full shot this week.  I will work on this problem and get back to you.

 Foundation XVI   GraniteFoundationsXVII-granite

 

  This one is almost done too and because it is a rectangle it does not have the hanging problem of New Directions.   I am still in the” look and see”   stage with this one so that is why there is not a full shot of it either.    ( If you want a good idea of that look at last week)   I am very happy with the flow lines of the free motion work however.

 

  obsidian1Foundation XVII Obsidian   I have wanted to do a piece that is all shades of black and gray so I started this last week.    I  like the rock  Obsidian and how it  seems to have such strong angles in the surfaces that I used it as my inspiration for this project.  It is the second irregular shaped one. Foundations-XVI-Obisidian And lest anyone start to believe I just know how I want things to be placed, I shot this photo the first day I worked on pinning things up.  I thought it was too busy the next morning so I took half the stuff off and started a second time. ( And yes, it us inverted too)    I have used many different fabrics here.  Everything from corduroy and cotton to velvet and silks to get the various  tones of black.    I enjoy how the color changes bepending on what it is next to.  I am enjoying the free motion work now too.New-work

Foundations XVIII-New Work    When I went to play with Noel last week she gave me a box full of wonderful earth toned fabric.  I am using it as my jumping off point for this next Foundations work.  The big piece of rusty wool is so very rich that I am enjoying working with it.

Daily's Daily’s   I am still working away on the Daily’s and they continue to be a calming enjoyment.  So here is the showing for this week.

I hope that spring is dancing at everyone ‘s door and bringing lots of new visuals to everyone too.

Keep Creating

Carol

 

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Flowers April 17, 2014

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Crockuses Hello,

Spring is teasing us here  in central New York.  It was so very nice and warm for three days and then we had a  cold day that ended in a snowstorm.   I am waiting for my spring flowers to appear.     The day that it snowed I took matters into my own hands and spent the day with Noel in her studio along with several others and we madeCherri's-flowers our own flowers.    (look back two weeks to see Noel and Victoria’s  first ones)   It always amazes me how we human beings fliter and  apply our own tastes to the same processes.     These red, pink and purple blossems are Cheri’s and the black, tan and Noel's-flowerswhite ones are Noel’s.       We  all took the same basic materials and techhniques  but treated them with our own unique “stamp”.    Noel showed us how to create several types of flowers and then turned us loose. Victoria    Victoria, like Noel had made flowers before,  she cheerfully tried a complex rose type flower where each petal is made indavigaly.     I can hardly wait to see how everyone finishes her  necklace.     I was so excited by the processes that I kept making more flowers for the next two evenings.   I am sure I will have two or three necklaces even if I stopped with what I have.  I did take the time to lay out one possible my-Flowerscombination.  It needs small additions like  beads and buttons.   I just keep thinking of more ways to play with these ideas.   And recalling things I did not try yet like yoyo flowers   that Cherri  did.    It sure  was a wonderful way to combat the snow falling outside that day!

Foundations-XVNew-DirProgress Report:  Foundations XV –New Direction   I am still struggling with this project.  I have added to the sides to pull away from the square format.  Then  this morning when I hung it on the wall- “What If” – hit Foundatons-XV#1and I turned it 45 degrees to the right and I liked it better- and even more so when I added to the those two sides as well. I try to always be open to what is happening while I am designing and wonderful things can happen.    I will push myself to do the remaining work on this one over the next few days.

 

New work1New Work   I am still playing with this newest member of the  Foundation series.     This one  does not seem to know what way is up yet either- but I am enjoying the process.    I do think I will   leaves this one in a basic square format even though I am trying to go beyond that idea.     It is holding it’s own without that  challenge. Grove

Grove    I am making progress here too.  All the trees now have their horizontal branches.  I have them all connected to one another but I feel that it is almost too much to take in visually.   The blue below the trees is too busy as well,  so I plan to remove it and try again.   I just don’t know what will work until I try it sometimes. Mia's-back

 Mia’s Quilt    These green and blue pieces are my prepations for the back of Mia’s Tee shirt quilt.  I am building the units and when they are big enough I will assemble them into the big back.  It is a fun process from my point of view.

Daily's                      Daily’s    I am finding time to do my Daily’s too.  They are starting to really pile up.

Think Spring and Keep Creating

Carol