Hello,
It has stopped raining here and warmed up nicely. The flowers are blooming in every direction. This seems to have been a super year for Iris as there are so many big ones open in our neighborhood. I enjoy the bird song as we walk in the mornings and I have even been out to trim my hedge. The season has really changed. I only hand on line meetings this week.
Progress report: Past Times- Grandmother’s Gloves This work is 49″ w X 51″ l. I have been working on this hand project for about 9 months. The doilies and handkerchiefs are from the family box that cousin Casey sent me.
The gloves from both sides. I asked for help with how to finish this work and Kathy suggested it have a lace boarder. I like that solution.
Lap 11- 25 This lap quilt is made from mostly leftovers from the Sisterhood of the Scissors retreat challenge fabrics.
Three Trees( group challenge) This work is 12″X12″. It came from mixing tow ideas. The Marcia group meets once a month and we decided to do a set of four small pieces. Nothing over 12 ” square. It is based on a book about painting by Paul Bailey called Experimental Nature in Acrylics. We all got to make our own limitations beyond that. My rules were to use only trims from the Ethel Whittemore bag and follow the one third rules from Paul’s book. I colored my four backgrounds with Ink tense pencils at Angela’s play day last month. One done three to go.
Spot On I am to the quilting sage of this project. I want to add some hand work too.
Cut It Out- test piece Liz was passing forward this yellow screening. It did not get picked up by anyone and when I got home it ended up next to some of the fabric from the dye class. I did this test piece to see how it will work. Now I need to begin the real thing.
New Work I enjoyed playing with pink and sense I feel like it took on a life of it’s own when I was laying it out I am going to try again with some different fabrics.
One last celebration of spring.
Keep Creating
Carol