Ginkgo Leaves

Ginkgo leaf shapes are intriguing and make a great shape for this hand/portable project even if I have no idea what it will become from here.

Look Familiar?

Last year I created my daughter-in-love a wall quilt for her birthday which has lead to a similar piece that she and family member commissioned for a present for Christmas for someone. I rarely make such similar pieces but this one has been fun.

Rules To Live By

Created years ago when blue was "in"

and my kids were very young,

this simple plaque still displays

3 simple rules of our home.

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Visitors

In the 28 years I've lived here I have not seen one bear until June of this year. Since then I've seen 3 while walking my dog, and just this week the 4th one wandered into our yard.

Triangular "Doodles"

One of the ladies in the Improvisational Workshop had incorporated some designs similar to these so i created some Triangular "Doodles."

Improvisational Results

My piece included some previously

created Bull's Eye "doodles"

as Martha Jane called them.

Most of us talked of later

adding bead embellishments.

Aren't the figures interesting in Martha Jane's piece.

Olivia's piece is a good use of contrasting colors.

Ann's weaving fabric inspired us all.

I like the asymmetry of Lisa's piece.

Improvisational Quilting Workshop

What fun to pilfer through "scraps' and create something spontaneous at this workshop yesterday led by Martha Jane Peterson. (in aqua.) More photos next time of the fun creations.

Fun In The Mailbox

These fun fabric strips/scraps/remnants

arrived in the mail recently.
What FUN!!
I could probably get 2 preemie quilts from them.

Thanks Wanda.

Paint Embellishments

Although the background is coming together, one set of fabric strips needed embellishing. Of course, that was evident until pieced. So, masking tape, paint, textile medium, sponge, leaf stamp and opened recycled envelope came out to add just what was missing.

Train Them Thoroughly

Works for me Wednesday is a site with lots of fun information. Here's my tidbit for this week's cleaning theme. We divided the responsibilities for the kitchen, living area and bathroom between all the family members who kept that job for a month. We have a job chart with Velcro pieces that move monthly. The kids got to name the responsibilities. Kitchen jobs were done daily (floor manager, pet manager, dish manager, cook, etc.) while Bathroom (sink,toilet,mirror, floor etc) and living area ( floor manager, dust manager, straightener, etc.) were done weekly. This trained them for their college and beyond days which their spouses are now thankful.

Background Begun

6 inch strips are so much fun

and make a wonderful background

for applique.

"A Time To Tear And A Time To Mend"

Ok - I admit I like to mend and with 5 kids I've had lots of practice. But yesterday, our church actually canceled regular services to go out into the community to share God's love in many practical ways. (Feeding quarters to laundry mat machines, cutting and delivering wood, packages for soldiers, worship service at local Juvenile Evaluation Center, lunch at local shelter etc.) I went with the group to the local men's shelter and a few of us mended clothes. Actually, I called it triage tailoring. Fast, a bit overwhelming but fun and worth doing again.

Cobblestone Fun

Putting odd sized Cobblestone blocks together is like creating a puzzle of your own design. It's so much fun. This piece so far is almost square shaped...just turned out that way. How can you go wrong with batiks??

Fiber Artist

Carol S. says I should call myself a Fiber Artist istead on a

Quilt Artist since I like to create in several fiber mediums. These cards
were my creations for the latest Crafting With Kindness group meeting.

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Blogger's Quilt Festival - Fall 2009

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2009 is sponsored by Park City Girl. My entry began with a repurposed batik piece and other batik fabric were built around that. The flower, also repurposed from a skirt is embellished with a screen swirl and black beading. The verse, "Wait for the LORD, be strong and take heart, and wait for the LORD." Psalm 27:14 is hand embroidered. Hand quilted and machine signed signature. This one of my favorite pieces.

Crafting With Kindness

Barbara brought this Show and Tell to the Crafting With Kindness group recently. She created this adorable baby blanket for a newborn friend. Notice the hand quilting of the letters in the "blank" squares. It's backed with flannel and is cuddly. Nice job Barbara.

Creative License

Textile paint and a fern stamp recovered a previously plain blue border. First you tape it down, then stamp away and voila!

Cobblestones Growing

It's so much fun fitting randomly pieced Cobblestone blocks together. This may not be the final placement but it's great to have a photo in case I rearrange them and then want to go back to this.

Fiber Arts Alliance

These 2 pieces were created by Fran Williams, a member of our Fiber Arts Alliance group. The bottom piece is wool felted. The photos don't do them justice.

Cobblestone Blocks Again

The batik bin is out again and Cobblestone Blocks are being created out of remnants to add to the stack of ones remaining ones from the Cross Banner. Notice the embroidered one on the right just waiting to be added to something wonderful.

Quilting Complete

After "dividing" up the columns with wavy quilting in the sashing strips, the columns were quilted a couple at a time taking a break to rest my arms. I like the different green and blue borders.

No Snow Yet

The mountains and moon are appliqued onto the snowy night sky.

Now for the snow.

It's too early to think about snow for me. :)

Ready to Quilt

Choose Life is embroidered, batting and backing on, turned and quilting begun.

Butterfly Ties

It takes about 60 repurposed ties that are stenciled with a butterfly for each guys Chrysalis /Journey Flight in our area. Chrysalis, for 15- 18 year old and Journey, for college aged folks, is a weekend opportunity for them to renew or rekindle their commitment to Christ. These butterfly ties are small token reminders of God's love called Agape. It takes a lot of repurposed ties to make this work. For girls Chrysalis/Journey you can see the Butterfly tins and here.