"COMING HOME"-WALL ART QUILT

I've just finished this piece. I call it "Coming Home" and it will be my entry in my art group's showing in mid August. It's not complex or fancy, nor is it abstract. I like my pieces to tell a story. Coming home can mean many things to many people. The gulls come home in the evening, children seeking comfort or aid come home to their parents, we all end up coming home in the end (where ever home is for us).

So....anyway....this is it.....like my sister says, "kiss it up to God and send it out".

I tried to make the center glow out beyond the confines of the picture and into the border.

It measures 15x17".

This is all done with un altered fabric. The background fabric in the picture is hand dyed, but not by me. It was the inspiration for the piece.

Another Padfolio done on the Baby Lock embellisher

The cover for this padfolio was a "no sew" piece that was done on my Baby Lock embellisher. I used canvas as a base and co-ordinating fabric for the cut pieces and just punched the devil out of them so they'd hold tight to the canvas! So easy !

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the new DIVA cord maker

I've purchased the Diva cord maker from Joggles and here's my first cord. It's much prettier in real life. It's laying on some coffee stained fabric.
It was made on the medium size "maker" and used 3 yds. each of seven different yarns.
See them on the left side of the photo.
I'm totally hooked. It's addictive. I'll make a skinny cord next. You can even add beads.....I haven't reached that level of patience yet.

MY WINDOW BOX

I JUST FINISHED WORKING ON THIS PROJECT THAT I STARTED IN A CLASS LAST YEAR.
THE CLASS DESIGN CALLED FOR FLOWERS IN A WINDOWBOX, AND I WENT A BIT NUTS AND ADDED THE TALL LEAVES AND ALL THE BUGS AND MADE THE FLOWERS OVER FLOW THE BOX. I ALSO THREAD PAINTED EVERTHING WITH NEON THREAD FOR AN EXTRA "PUNCH". IT FEELS GOOD TO COMPLETE A PROJECT. I SHOULD DO IT MORE OFTEN !

FELTED FLOWERS ON SCARVES

I've been playing with my Baby Lock Embellisher more and more. This time I took a strip of 100% wool and using yarn, I free hand embellished flowers on the ends of the scarf, then loosely outlined them in free motion stitches, finally doing a decorative cut out and adding beads.

I included the backside photo to show the "water color" look that's on the reverse side.

The wool used for the scarf is smooth and soft and light weight.

ANGELINA EXPERIMENT CLOSE UP

Oh dear.....this posting is backwards.....but I decided that the first picture I took of my Angelina Fiber experiment (the picture you see below this one) didn't show much detail and I wanted to correct it. I should really think these things through before publishing them.
I applied rows of machine stitching to the surface in 4 patterns, and 4 colors.

ANGELINA EXPERIMENT

Last night I was playing with a sheet of Angelina that I had made earlier.

I was lucky enough to record a show with Christopher Nieman (the pillow/purse guy) and he used this method on a decorative pillow. I'm not "into" decorative pillows all over the place, so don't know what I'll do with this piece.......another padfolio perhaps?