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.

My opinion and I'm entitled to it !

FiberCardArt

Here are some fiber art cards I sent out to my swap group of 25. I decided to do a Lake Michigan theme since this is where I live and thought that it would be a good way to greet the new members. We hope to have a second swap, starting in April.
It's a wonderful way to be creative in a small space, and to share that with others with the same interest.

One of my favorite blogs

http://julaine.blogspot.com/
This is one cool fiber artist and teacher. I found this blog purely by coincidence, and it's fascinating.

HERE'S THE LATEST FABRIC ART POSTCARDS

I JOINED A SWAP GROUP OF 25 FABRIC ARTISTS AND WE ARE CREATING WHAT WE CALL FABRICARDART.
We are creating our own postcards that we send through the mail to the other members of the swap. They have to be hand cancelled and go through the mail without a protective envelope....just like a postcard is sent. We have fabric artists from all over America and even England and Denmark!. We've been given 3 months to create and send our cards, with whatever theme we wished.
Since I'm from Michigan, the "Great Lakes State"....my cards are all scenic lake landscapes, representing the many moods of Lake Michigan. Doing this kind of miniature fabric art is really a good practice in creativity. I find that one idea leads to another, etc. and am already looking forward to my next swap.
The people participating in the swap are friendly and helpful and encouraging. What more could one ask for?
My sister and I are in the same swap and are always exchanging ideas and techniques.
So...here they are..some of my post cards. They were fun to make and they challenged my creativity.......and that's
A GOOD THING.

FABRICARDART