manic monday

No art today...

...no art this week.

Lots of cleaning and baking.

Family coming for Thanksgiving!

Have an artful week for me.

weekend update

...quilt update...

I worked on this sucker for five hours yesterday.

It neatly covers the top of my table...

...all 1000 sets

That is 1000 sets of four squares.

So there is 4000 squares of fabric on my table, ready to be put together. And I am ready to start sewing them up. I didn't get to all the bins of fabric yet but I have to stop and get going on this. I noticed a few duplicates but after a while I couldn't remember them all.

That's it.

Have an artful weekend!

good news

Doing the happy dance today...while I can....before I get another painful shot in my still bruised foot from two weeks ago...ugh! BUT...Art Quilting Studio magazine has published a couple pieces of my cloth art.

They put Danita's cute Frida on the cover.

I love her work.

I entered the "What's in your fridge?" challenge.

If it's summer there is always a watermelon in my fridge.

I knew in advance that this was going to be in there...

...but....

As I was having my coffee this morning I was reading thru the rest of the magazine and I found this on page 130. Here is another piece in the Patchworks section. Total surprise.

The bee and the buckle inchies were from a swap and I forgot to give credit to my inchie swap friends...oops...sorry. It was an oversight...but don't they look great on there.

Busy day today...

...dreaded shot at 3:45...

...have all day to (dread) look forward to it.

Hope you are having a dread free-shot free day!

random this and that

Playing with stamps...

Stampotique has some new stamps and I love that they are heads. They are cousins to the other stamps I have designed by Daniel Torrente. I gussied up this girl with a crown and funny glasses.

These are the vintage earrings I purchased at the Girlie show a couple weekends ago, from my favorite vendor...Skip to my Lou. These are made from rosaries. And the finishing touch...she always attaches her jewerly to an old photograph.

Tomorrow I will show you where this little gem has shown up...

Hope your Tuesday is going well.

new junque

Happy Monday. This week has barely started and I will be glad when it's over. Doctor appointment today, dental tomorrow and another doctor on Wednesday, and then my car also goes back for another recall.


Last week whilst rummaging through my many stacks of fabric, I managed to add this little item to my junque journal collection. I taught my class last Thursday and wanted to add something new. It is made of those pesky postcard thingy's that always fall out of the magazines. The front and back covers are made from cardboard.

...closeup..

I glued 4 or 5 of the cards together to give the page some strength.

I stamped this image onto a piece of soft interfacing then sewed it onto the page. I really like the look and feel of it.

I used my newest tool...the corner rounder.

...it's made by the Crop-o-dile people...
It gives you the choice of a quarted inch or half inch corner.

And like the crop...it's so easy to use.

I guess that's my plug for the day.

Have a great day!

final fabric frenzy

She who dies with the most fabric wins!

I have a "shewhodi" card at Oklahoma Quiltworks. When you buy fabric, they stamp your card and you get free stuff when your card is filled. Actually most quilt shops have these cards and I need a filing system in my wallet to keep them all in order.

These cool prints came in the mail this week.

Click on the photo to enlarge and see details.

I was leaving the quilt shop yesterday...empty handed...

...until this pattern reached out and grabbed me.

The green is more lime green but for some reason (lighting) it appears to look muddy.

...then I had to add the sister prints.

That's it.

No more new fabric ...

...until next year.

Can I do it?

Sure gonna try!

This is the black/white/purple wall hanging from yesterday.

back and label

...no artful weekend for me...I am cleaning up the fabric mess I created this week.

collections

Ah, day four of fabric frenzyness.

...there is a method to my madness...

I'm a collector.

And these are some of my fabric collections.

...cherries! they make me happy.

black and white

I am a huge collector of black and white fabs.

My quilt guild in Maryland had a challenge every year and one year it was to make a wall hanging in black and white and one other color. I used purple and did both sides. I'll show it tomorrow.

beach prints

I stock up on these when I find them. My peeps back home are always wanting a bag in beachy style prints

...cupcakes in the making...

These are prints resembling cake and rich frostings. I have started this cakey quilt but have a long way to go. But the material is there.

...did someone say cake?

Yep, have those too.



And then there are my favorite fabric designers...



I love...

Kaffe Fassett

Tina Givens

Martha Negley and all those yummy rich Westminster prints.

The above photo is also a quilt in the works using the desiner prints of those I mentioned. It's a drunkards path pattern.
I shouldn't single out my favorite designers because there are many more.

In case you are a non quilter and are wondering why so many quilts are just started and in the works at the same time....I can't really say why...but it's what we quilters do.

These are a few snippets of collection fabric's. I have bins of these.

Other collections include...building materials (pun?) bricks and others that resemble building in a city. I want to make some city scapes.

Prints with text and writing on them for a journal quilt book in the making.

Polka dots...who doesn't love these?

Flowers in larger scale to cut out and use on my rag bagz.

The list goes on but you get the idea...I do have some structure here. I just need more TIME!

So needless to say that I am never bored...and that's a good thing.

Tomorrow...

selvages and what to do with them...

Have a terrific Thursday!