Wild Goose Chase

My Wild Goose Chase quilt was finished and arrived at the Berea Quilt Extravaganza on time.  It is part of the "Flying Things Challenge"  The challenge fabric is the navy blue in the sky.Here is a picture of it and another  of my quilts in the exhibit, Greener Pastures.  Now Wild Goose Chase is being exhibited at the Berea Hospital.  Fabric used are mostly batiks.  Wings are made of my own walnut dyed fabriks and batiks.  Wings are quilted, are not flat against the quilt.  One foot extends forward our of quilt.  

Wing in progress, before quilting.

My shoes aren't quite so boring now!

Having way to much to do this morning, and not knowing whether to start with my studio and clean so I could get my sewing done, or scrub the fish tanks, I started a new project  Here are some pictures of my zentangle tennis shoes.

 right shoe

 Left shoe

 Back

front

Now, I'm scrapping down my cane again.  I might do zentangles on it too!

Zentangles days 14-17

Been tangling but haven't posted.
Day 17
This tangle was drawn while watching my daughter get new wires in her braces.

 Day 16  This is redemption

 

Day 15 - Enjoying the warm weather and thinking about spring.  The right side looks like grub worms in the soil.

Day 14
A rose for Valentine's Day

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Snow dyeing - my favorite piece

 Okay so I never shared the rest of my snow dye results. Here are step by step pictures of my next piece. Same process as in my 1st post Snow dyeing.

melting

whole cloth

This is my favorite section

Zentangle Journey Day 13 - bird of paradise

Something simple but intricate, today.

Zentangle Journey Day 12 - Hearts

I missed posting yesterday, but I did do a simple zentangle just before going to sleep last night.  Had a great day at my pen and ink class.  The oil paint is wet so it is put way up out of reach of little hands.  My grandson spent 2 days with us last week and might be coming for a whole week.  Need to childproof.

Day 8 -Zentangle Journey

Today is my 8th day for exploring Zentangles. I think this Mandela tangle is better than the first one.  It has some shading that gives it dimension, but other parts are still too flat.

I think tomorrow I will use some quilt squares for the base.

Sketch book Project Day VIIII, X, and XI

Here are days 9, 10 and11! Hope you enjoy!

2010 Guild Challenge

Monday evening my quill guild revealed their challenge quilts. The two red and green fabrics were from the challenge.  The beige was from my Black-eyed Susan dye experiment. I posted a few leaves in an earlier blog.  The leaves were free motion thread painted on a fabric with stabilizer.  The quilting was also done in free motion stitching without marking. 

Here is a picture before quilting and after as well as a few close-ups.
 

2011 Rainbow Scrap Challenge

While sifting through the avalanche of fabric scraps on my table and floor, I gathered up lots of blue for January's  Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Here is a picture of my blue moon rose.

This 8.5" by  11'' piece is made with fusible web on a piece of light blue fabric.  I drew the rose on the fusible. The background scraps were put down first with edges cut to lie just under the rose.  Raw edges were folded under or tucked under the next piece and then tacked with my mini iron.  Next I made the rose from the center out, the same way and fused all.  I used a satin stitch to outline all the rose petals. Next the batting and background were added.  I put a scrap piece of blue tulle over the entire piece. It was a last minute thought and just fit with a bit of tugging.  I basted the edges and outlined the rose with invisible thread.  The quilting was free motion leaves in multicolored thread. Thread was mostly blue with analogous  colors purple and green.

Side note- I have a Blue Moon rose and they are more purple than blue.  Here is a picture of one from my garden.

 

Sketchbook Poject Day VI

Day 5 sketchbook project

Sketchbook Poject Day V

Nothing fancy on this page just random Haiku.

Sketchbook Project Day III

Pen and Ink

I am finally getting around to posting my finished pen and ink lighthouse.  I used it as one of the gifts for my family Christmas games.  I also made angels, satin ornaments, wallets from chocolate wrappers, book marks and lots of those bags that get thrown in the microwave to heat up and put on sore backs.  They had a lot of fun steeling the gifts from each other.  My second oldest  sister and her husband got the lighthouse painting.  It will go great in her TV room which has a lighthouse theme.
Here is a picture of the finished lighthouse, the edge is cut of due to the scanner size.

Here is a picture of the Apple Dry House:

Christmas Angels

Here are pictures of a few of my Christmas Angels.  I started by layering fabric and free-motion quilting. Some had stars, some leaves, hearts and some intersecting lines Then I drew the angels on the batting side and placed the backing fabric face down on the quilted side.  The hands were pinned in place and then the outline was sewn around.  The heads were attached separately after the faces were painted and finally the hair.

A change of venue

I've gotten my pen and inks out and am taking a class.  Forgot how much I likes doing this; it is so relaxing.  I finished my inking, I pick up my brushes today. still waiting on the paints to arrive.  Here's a peek at the ink drawing.

Remake for my logo

My daughter (13) updated my logo.  The first was a bit too sexy in her skin tight overalls, so she made them a little looser.  I love her drawings.  Here is the old girl I drew with a mouse a few years ago and the new one my daughter made.