Baby Quilt Wallhanging

This is one of my WIP's. The background for my quilt in progress is made of scrap yellows sewn together and then cut in to squares and rectangles. These were sewn together in log cabin style, trimmed and sewn to other blocks.

This is a picture of the flower and girl that will be appliqued to the quilt and then embellished.

Up all night ...quilt lock in

Just getting home from our quilt lock in. Yesterday morning was gentle and sunny, this morning a really thick ice had to be scraped from the window before driving home. I Spent the day working on UFO's with the other Sassy Stitchers. We teamed up with the night quilters for an all night lock in. We have great fun and get a lot accomplished. I began quilting the quilts I've made to cover the windows, added 10" to my granddaughter's quilt and thread painted the hair. I made one purse as a Christmas present and a large microwave bowl holder.
Am falling asleep at the keyboard, Good Morning and good night.

Fall leaves - eco dyeing

I am currently allowing several jars of leaves to batch on my porch. Monday will make 2 weeks. I plan on straining the liquid and preparing the fabric for dyeing then. Here are a few preparation pictures. I used japanese red maple (these had not turned all the way), sugar maple, various oak leaves, as well as sumac leave and berries.

Rose Dye

2 weeks ago I made fabric dye from red knock out roses. I stuffed a jar full of rose petals and hips. I poured boiling water over this and let steep overnight.

Next i strained the liquid and returned to jar with fabric. The petals were added to another jar along with a mixture of stars and stripes petals from the freezer. More hot water was added and allowed to sit overnight. I strained and added a few frozen petals wrapped in cloth. Both jars were set on the porch to batch.

The end result was a lovely shade of pink for dye 1. The second looked better before being washed and dried.

Michigoose's gander at quilts & life: Halloween Power Suits

Michigoose's gander at quilts & life: Halloween Power Suits

Happy Haunting

Slideshow design personalized with Smilebox

Trumpet Flowers

A beautiful day before the cold weather.

Deconstructive fiber art

I've decided to use those bit I dug from the ground from my compost dyeing disaster. I have 5 different fiber art pieces inspired from these bits. I am combining them with bleach discharged fabrics, burlap, cheesecloth and other loose weaves. The plan is to add lots and lots of hand and machine stitching. Here are photos of my starter ideas. They still need to simmer awhile so i will go back to working on my other ufo's.

Natural dyes - New baby

My second grandchild arrived this morning around 4am. It's a 7lb girl!
I've been busy with too many projects. Was given a small loom and am trying that out. My long arm quilting is improving with practice, the bottom stitches are looking as good as the top.
I'm still collecting material for natural dyeing. Worked with magnolia seed pods which give a nice variety of peach and tans. Goldenrod gave a nice soft yellow. The most surprising effect was adding ammonia to turmeric.
Here are some pictures.

All though I loved the rust color reaction, it dried bright yellow.

Power Suits

Power Suit Art Quilt Challenge
I'm part of something BIG! Little did I know that when I accepted a challenge package that more than 100 artists would respond. Here is the website that talks about the challenge and lists the artists Power Suit Quilts

The opening reception is on October 22 at Artistic Artifacts. The quilts will be displayed through November 23, 2011. I will be able to post pictures of what Power Suit means to me on October 23. I have 3 quilt in this exhibit. Stay tuned.

Here is what we received to work with:
Each artist received a free packet of materials containing fabric swatches (wool and cotton samples), a necktie, and some random buttons. They could use the fabric we gave them, supplement with their own fabric, or use only their own fabric.

Read about how this challenge got started on Cyndi Souder's blog