I am working on a couple of pieces that I cannot show. Today was a day of getting myself organized so that I have some uninterrupted time for working.

I bought some beads and blue perle cotton to finish the lorikeet felted piece. I love to test myself. I went off to the store with no color samples and came home with perfect color matches.

When we were remodeling a house in North Carolina, we had all of our furnishings in storage. The designer we were working with picked a blue for the dining room walls. I came in and looked at it and said, this is wrong. It will not match the Karastan rug that is in storage. We kept fiddling with the color until I was happy with it. When they unrolled the carpet from storage, she took one look and said, “Damn, you are good!”

I found a bag of scraps that I started saving after taking a class with Sue Benner. She is a fuser. When you attach Wonder Under to the back of fabric, it does not go all the way to the edges. She cuts these off, leaving a bit of fusing on the edge and then uses them to create wonderful strip landscapes.

I used some of the painted lutradur as the background and let it show through in areas. That piece is rather Lorikeet looking, don’t you think?

Tomorrow, I am off  to see the ENT doctor and find out if sinus surgery is in my future. Then, I hope to get a lot done in my studio. No time to waste.