Hello,

Mother Nature has now stripped the trees of all there  golden leaves and put  down a carpet of gold and cream on the lawn. I sure like the quiet colors.  But, I need to rake yet again.  This week was a retreat at the Schweinfurth.  I along with 11 other gals took advantages of the open wet studio to dye and print fabric.

We all made messes and wonderful fabric too. The wash room  line  quickly filled with a colorful collection of fabrics that were batching.

  Liz and Susan took advantage of the big sinks that are in the wet studio to wash out dyes before putting them in the washers.    Penny and I along with other  retreaters,  did visit the Quilts= Art = Quilts show up stairs at lunch time and enjoyed it.  

Not everyone worked with dye.   Cheri painted this wonderful piece for her circle challenge.   It was all very exciting and I am still washing out the dye from the stuff that I tried.  But here are some of the final pieces.   I have a lot of  raw material for some future work.

There was a FAB meeting this week too.  Judy has made great progress on the quilt she started in Augest when we were up at  her camp.   I really love the colors she is using on this piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress  Report:   Wool Works 1  This work has the felted part done and a bit of fabric pinned to the surface.  Last week it was only a line drawing on the black felt.   This is  just a beginning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wool 2   I put in  a lot of time on this work this week.   I added the yellow leaf to the top of the rock yesterday as I though it needed  a more focused  point of interest.   It is not stitched down yet and I keep moving it about as I am not sure about were I want it to “fall”.  When  it is just right I will stitch it down.

 

 

Wool work 3 This wool work is now ready for lots of machine work.  I have started  that process- but just in small areas.     

 

 

 

 

 

Self Challenge    I did not do much on this work as I was away.  I  am also unsure about  what I want to do with it so it sets were I can look up and see it  very now and then.  I hope that will lead to inspiration.

Felted Landscape  Regina and I  shared a room at the retreat.  We were awakened on Sat morning at 5 am by the call  of crows.  Our room was on the third floor so when we looked out we were in the tree tops along with the crows.    There were so many in the predawn that it looked like the trees had leaves on them.  As the sun came up the birds  flew  away a few at a time.  It was a wonderful experience.   We watched until most of them had left for their foraging for the day.   It was amazing.  I am going to use my felted landscape from last week as  a place to add this memory to  a new work.   So far I have only gotten the tree to add to the top.

Label Block # 94  Being away I only got one block completed this week.

Keep Creating

Carol