The View ....

from my studio table. Lots of projects in going on over here!

Plastered!

I took Stephanie Lee and Judy Wise's awesome on-line class on plaster. They are coming out with an e-book on the subject if youre sorry you missed the class. (It was truly fabulous).

By The Way...

I forgot to mention that Rice is one of my all time favorite teachers. She is fun, yet low key, and extremely generous with her time, information and supplies. She threaded every needle for me when I just couldn't see the eye. Just know that she believes on sewing on each and every bead... no glue for her!

Learning Curve

I am having fun playing with my new Mac, but theres definitely a learning curve... especially with photoshop elements.

Speaking of learning curves I wanted to post a picture of my bird quilt from Jane LaFazio's class. It came out just ok... I really struggled with it. I cant wait for her to offer another class though.


The last project I am doing for her class is a shrine. I need to do a lot of handwork on it... so it may take me awhile to finish it, but here it is as a WIP:

Art Quilt Class

I am three weeks into a six week art quilt class taught by Jane LaFazio on joggles.com. Its really been a great class. The lessons are wonderfully presented: clear and easy yet very inspiring. The first week was to make a landscape quilt. They are all very small about 8x10". This isnt the best picture, but here's my first quilt. I used hand painted cottons, commercial batiks and silk. It was really fun to put together.


Week two was to use felt, but I ended up using cotton batting that I hand dyed using RIT dyes. I had a great time and ended up making two quilt tops! She suggested using mola or the quilts of Gee's Bend for our inspiration.




This week's lesson is to make a pet potrait... can you guess who my muse will be?

Artwork

My mom and I had tea and gift party before Christmas. Here are some of the things I made for it: This first piece is me when I was about 9 years old and wasn't for sale... but I love this picture of me. It makes me laugh every time I see... that outfit... you gotta love it!!

Its a really fun party and chance to see lots of our family friends during the holidays. Not everything sold so some will show up in my etsy shop.

It Worked!

I have been so very frustrated with this new to me computer, but maybe, just maybe its starting to work. Here is a picture I took yesterday of a WIP! Its one of four crazy patches that I am doing for a mini quilt. I am just learning quilting and this is our first assignment!