I want to use up some of my orange fabrics. This is the shelf where I have most of them, but there are more scattered in with the hand dyes and in other spots. Most of them have been there for quite a few years…once loved, now forgotten. I love an orange and turquoise combination,… Continue reading Orange!
Still working on several things at once, but some are getting close to done. I have a set of sugar skulls ready to mount and get wired. A couple more still to work on, but I think I need a break from them. I got the lawn (weeds!) mowed and took a few moments to… Continue reading What to do with leaves…
Because I almost always have several projects going on at the same time, the finishing parts get done at different times also. I finished up the last of the leaf pieces, label, sleeve and all! These 2 quilts were made a little while ago, to use up scraps. Almost immediately, I found out that my… Continue reading Bits and pieces, again!
So many motivators–a simple google search brings up hundreds. Some days I can use EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey “You see, in life, lots of… Continue reading Slogans and clichès
Improvisation welcomes change, answers challenge, celebrates the serendipitous. Stitched in Color These words struck a chord with me today. It seems to explain why I love improv so much.
It’s that old ‘too many choices’ situation again and I’m having a hard time deciding! I had 3 extra leafy type blocks left from my other projects and rather than put them on the shelf for a ‘someday’ finish, I’m going to finish them into something and be done with them. I took two of… Continue reading Be my brain…….
I have had this raw edge woven piece and this packet of gray dye in my piles of stuff forever. Each always waiting for the right project to come along. Baloney! They could wait forever so today is the day we are going to try out that dye. Of course none of my dye experience… Continue reading For today’s experiment…
I love making fanciful faces in quilts and also love making those sugar skulls. I don’t make faces often because I’ve never been able to sell one. That bit of discouragement is partly what turned me to the sugar skulls. People really love those!!! Here are the 3 faces that I have available, just for… Continue reading Faces and skulls
Yes, sometimes they almost seem to make themselves. This was one of the easiest pieces I think I’ve ever made. From the first moment I looked at the fabric pieces for this Half by Half by Half challenge, they jumped into the positions that pleased me the most. It’s all done except for the hanging… Continue reading Sometimes…
You know…those squirrels of distraction that go running by, trying to draw you away from what you started out to do. I definitely had a few running around today, but I refused to follow them! I was sorting through some scraps to give away–yes, I did promise to do that. I ran across these leftover… Continue reading Banishing squirrels…
Quirks Ltd. 