Hello-
It is starting to really feel like spring here in central New York. I see little bits of green on the tips of branches and shoots in the flower beds on my walks. This was the fist week of the month so I had meetings. The QuEG’s meeting was small but there was lots of work.
Liz finished this beauty using all Kay Facet’s fabrics. She and Sue Ellen both had work for the group challenge for the guild.
This is Liz’s finished star challenge piece. It looks good I think. Sue Ellen’s star is a good one as well.
The use of the light blue fabric and the size were the other two limitations to the challenge. 
Angela is busy working on felting some of her patterns from her tip to Hawaii I think the limited pallet will server her well with this exploration.
The Divas also meant on Tue eve. with more exciting stuff. This is Lori’s completed tundra piece from her trip to Alaska.
Maureen showed us lots of the new wonderful hand printed fabric that she is working on. Donna is proud of finally finishing her big king sized top. It is amazing as it is her first quilt. 
She is also working away on some figures in paper clay. These bathing beauties are fun I think.
Regina is doing lots of handwork on her shobori pieces from last month. She is also exploring with rust dyeing. 
Lliesa shared her memory scrolls from her semester in Japan. They are so wonderful. 
All created while she was there with her husband and made from fabric she got at the temple sales that she attended.
There are four scrolls and each one is full of beautiful appliqued works all with memories and stories too. 
She stitched the insect by hand here and told a story about the cricket pets one has in the small houses there. I just could not look enough at this piece of work.
Progress Report: Summer Meadow
This work is 15” X 21.5 “ in size. Sewing of the flowers was done from the back of the work with thick thread and cord in the bobbin.
The dragon fly has wings cut from ribbon that was then free motion attached to the background. The body is made of bugle beads that I hand stitched to the surface.
Blooming Branch This work is 33” X 40.5”. It is the result of a challenge by my friend Sharron. We bot purchased some silk kimono fabric
This shot is a close up of that fabric. The challenge was to use it in a project to show at QBL in the summer of 2017. 
This is my solution.
Crow Calls 
I am adding the trees to the surface of the work now. It takes about 50 minuets to do each tree and the birds have not been started yet. I am enjoying it none the less.
Samurai Romance
I finished the leaf panels this week . I am beginning to feel it is a bit over crowded and I still have one more technique to add to the surface.
I may do some editing before this is all done and I am happy now that I only pinned things in place as I went along.
Banner –Year of the Rooster This is one of my works that I started in Florida with Susan. The lettering on this one is stamped. The rooster is colored with crayon.
Banner- Birds This is my second banner this week. The texture is created by rubbing over a plastic doily with crayon. The text here is cut felt letters that were machine stitched down.
New Ice
I am just starting to free motion stitch down the parts of this work. The bright pink at the bottom, is the felt inside that I am building on.
New Scarves Chris asked for more scarves so I got busy and did these two this week. 
I am always surprised by the bits of stuff that seem to pile up and work in these projects.
Pod 6
I gave in and decided to create a few more pods. This one needs some weight/beads on the bottom and it will be complete.
Label Block # 114 I made it to the fabric store this week and got more black fabric for the last 25 blocks. Cutting them is the next step. Only 36 to go now.
Keep Creating
Carol
PS check out my tutorial on how to rust print.
