Hello,
Mother Nature is starting to paint our trees with color around where. I love the daily changes even though I know that raking will soon be a big part of my days.
It has been a very quiet week for me with only the Textile Talk yesterday and the Pixie meeting.
Tomorrow I depart for a five day quilt retreat so I have put a lot of time into preparing for that event.
Progress Report: Rough Cut This work is 40″ w X 37.5″ t. All the scissors are cut form wool this time.
Some have frayed out more than others. And several just felted when I washed them.
Tropical Floor This work is 27.5″w X 21″t. I sure had a good time building this project. The fish are all free motion thread drawings on roving done with neon threads.
I am sure I will do even more of this work in the future.
Lap # 4 I now have four of these done. I want to do a couple more before I drop them off at a nursing home. These are always play events for me.
Lap #5 Yesterday I pinned out out these blocks as starting points for the next lap project.
Drawing Now that Susan has reminded me how much I like to draw I am trying to put that idea back into my routine.
Line Shirt I saw a shirt for $179.0 in a catalogue this week and I love it. But not the price. So I decided to try something similar myself. I had also come across a new technique were on stitched across a squire to give the stitch some texture. So I am trying that on this project too.
Cut and Print I took the Gelli Prints form last week and printed scissors on top . Angela suggested that one could make stencils with Tyvek, so I tried that too. I was trying to work out a new Scissors project -but the print that is pinned to the left just dose not work for me. At m\least not with the prints. So I will try to work the piece out at the retreat.
Roundies I realized I had not done any hand applique in a while , so got busy and tried my hand at a little of it. I am pleased with these little guys. I will keep playing until I run out of gas on this one.
Enjoy the changing season and keep Creating
Carol