Hello,

I am surprised that we are now in February.  January flew by in my eyes.   I came across a quote by Salvador Dali this week and it is haunting me.

Mistakes are almost always of a scared nature.

They sure do seem to stretch us and make us rethink what we are doing and how things are going.  I, like most folks, have made some “duzzies”.     My Father always called them learning opportunities and I guess looking at the quote in that light they are scared if you use them that way.  I sure know they have lead me down so strange pathways I am sure I would not have explored with out the errors.   Like the time I accidently cut a whole in a finished work.   It resulted in a whole series were I did wholes on purpose and I learned a lot.  It is something I am now rethinking.   Perhaps there may be some more wholly quilts in my future.

I continue to work away on the 100 day challenge for SAQA.  I  was sick for three days so I am a little behind but working to catch up.   I cut a Rooster as my next image for another  Chinese Zodiac symbol.

 

 

 

I did the printing the same as before with the new images on the left and the over printing on the right.

 

 

Next  I cut a Tiger.

 

 

 

 

   I mixed and orange just for the tiger here.   But it reads as red.

 

 

 

The  last thing  I cut  was an Ox for the series.   I plan to print it later today and  cut another creature for the group too.   That will make me caught up I think.

The pixies did meet this week and that is always an up lifting thing.

Progress Report: Presume   All the machine quilting is done on this now and I am ready to square and add a binding.   It will be done in the next day or two.   I learned that doing reflective quilting  creates bubbles in the surface of the quilt if you do not alternate the directions of the path ways with each trip around.   The pressing that out is not fun.

Envision  I finished the hand work on this on   Tue and started the free motion machine work yesterday.

 

 

Understanding Orange   I am almost done building units for this top.  I am still shuffling them around and will soon begin to assemble the units.

 

 

 

 

Textile Artists Stitch workshop  I stared this project in the free workshop a few weeks ago.  I am working slowly away on it  and like  the addition of some solids in it.

Stay safe and Keep Creating

Carol