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My journal cover

I just completed making my journal cover, complete with a mojo doll. She's there to encourage me to use my new journal for sketches, notes and all things of interest to me. It's the result of my weekend retreat with my most favorite and talented fabric art teacher and a beading class.

ANOTHER RETREAT PROJECT

One of the lovely, creative women I met on my retreat suggested that I post a picture of this project, that I made. It was a kind of "pull it out of the air" idea. I really enjoyed watching it develop over the day.
Thanks Linda.....are you gonna post your creations?

MY BEADED MOJO

I just finished making this mojo good luck doll. The latest in my learning endevors
from my weekend retreat. I find that when I'm taught something in class, I have to take the idea home and chew on it for a while before I can "spit it out" into a finished project. That's why I love classes...I learn the technique....ponder over the ideas presented, then try to do my own take on it.
So--take classes in whatever interests you, my friends. You'll be paid back many times over.

STORY TELLING WITH FABRIC

I had the pleasure of attending a weekend seminar at The Hermitage in Three Rivers, Michigan...about 76 miles south of Grand Rapids.
There I learned to kick start my creativity in fabric art with the assistance of 2 wonderful facilitators and 8 other Quilters.
Fabric art is not like quilting as you might think of it.
I could never call myself a traditional quilter....I guess because I'm not good at following hard and fast rules and patterns, and I'm a bit sloppy when it comes to finishing the work. I admire all the beautiful quilts I've seen and the people that create them. Anyway, I'm not even close to "showing off" any work I've done...in fact I'm just scratching the surface of all that fabric art has to offer.
I'm reading books and taking classes and trying to figure out where this new art form is going to take me. It's like starting with a fresh clean page and whatever I want to put on it will be all mine.