Not cerebral, at all. I just sliced and diced and fused. I still need to add some architectural details and some vegetation. I hope to get it nearly completed tomorrow.
I made some corned beef and cabbage with egg noodles for dinner tonight. Not very exciting, but tasty enough with a beer, not green.
I made this homage to St. Patty’s day for my 3 x 3. I think I need to redo the machine quilting – pretty bad.
I was having so much trouble with my motivation and energy, trying to use a photo as my inspiration. I had to do something else.
Here is the story. I showed these fabrics a while back:
They are part of a line of fabrics, Coral Tree, printed in Africa and represented by Magie Ralph in the UK. Helen Conway, part of the Twelve by Twelve group, asked us if we would be interested in receiving a set of fabrics from Magie and then making a quilt to hang in her booth at UK quilts shows. Terry Grant, Diane Hock and I, plus Helen, volunteered to participate. We each selected a different pattern. You can see Terry’s quilt, here.
When I first received my fabrics, for some reason I flashed to buildings of some kind. The colors reminded me of the colorful buildings in Tabermory. So, that is what I settled on. I enlarged my photo and made patterns and started cutting and laying it out yesterday. I was not enjoying it. I am not a realistic, pattern kind of quilter. I like to work improvisationally. I wondered if these fabrics would work with some of my funky commercial prints. I decided to go in another direction and create a little village of wonky houses. I think it works.
I was so happy that I didn’t want to leave my studio, but we had an early dinner reservation and so I had to leave. I can’t wait to work on the landscape for this tomorrow.
Here is today’s 3 x 3:
I keep thinking about the arrival of the grandbaby and our trip in April. I really should be kicking it up a notch to get every thing done that I need to do before we leave. I talked to Jayme and Mark tonight, and they have assured me that there will be a baby and soon!!
That is today’s 3 x 3 up there. And here is yesterday’s. which was 3.14!
I have been plugging away on the Tobermary piece. It is one of those things that I agreed to do and I am not doing what I want to do, but I think this will be nice when it is done.
Yesterday was Columbia Fiberarts Guild. We had a wearable art fashion show and some of the members had good stuff for sale. I bought some hand-dyed fabric and some curly roving. Here are some other goodies being offered.
Dye painted roving:
Dye painted yarn:
This is a jacket made by a member. I love how she does this stitching on a lot of her work.
Bonnie Bucknam was in Guatemala and brought back these beautifully embroidered tops to sell. She has them for sale, here.
Tomorrow is Columbia Fiberarts Guild annual luncheon. We were told to bring something for the table that we had made. I wanted to take my felted eggs so I made a quick felted container tonight. I took a square of blue prefelt and needle felted it. Here is the bottom –
Here is one side.
Here is today’s yellow 3 X 3:
I had a busy day. I did a couple of Constant Contact e-mails for SDA. One was to the entire membership to announce Diane Sandlin, a friend, as the new executive director. I am so excited for her. I know she will do a fantastic job. I had a Trinity Arts meeting tonight. This afternoon, I did some work on my next quilt. I am going to interpret this photo of a charming little village of Tobermary in Scotland, on the Isle of Mull.
There is actually a whole row of colorful buildings, but I like these three, with the one up on the hill.
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