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Archive for October, 2013

Stalled

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

everyinchaterrier

I was so excited to get down to the studio after church and lunch today. I was happy to have something fun to do. However, the stitching on this postcard is as far as I got and then my Janome went bonkers and started jamming. I think the timing is off or there is a problem with the bobbin case. My shop is open on Sunday, so I dropped it off. Hope it won’t take long to fix.

Here are the cards that I got fused and ready to stitch.

fusedpuppies1

fusedpuppies2

We have had two glorious and sunny fall days in the 70’s. It is ending tomorrow. Here are some photos I took today while we were out and about.

giantspiderweb

A really big spider web by our garage.

Reedlake

The lake on Reed College campus.

yellowtrees

Yellow trees – a common fall color here in Oregon.

Back in My Happy Place

Saturday, October 5th, 2013

downwarddogprint2

I have been either moping around or at the Dr’s office getting poked and prodded. I have a mysterious medical problem and the cause has not yet been found. I am having an ultrasound next week and hopefully I will get some resolution. I hope it is nothing and will go away.

Today, I needed to get out of my funk so I headed to the studio this afternoon to work on some pet postcards for Pokey Bolton’s project to benefit Friends for Life. You can read about it here. The postcards will be sold at IQF in Houston. Last year, they made more than $20,000.

I made two screens. One is Scooter in the downward dog position and one of my beloved Maggie, long gone.

Here is the Scooter photo that I used.

downwarddog

downwardogprint1

I am using scraps of my art cloth as the background. It will be fused to batting and have some quilting and then cut to postcard size.

maggieprint1

maggieprint3

maggieprint2

On the Maggie prints, I want to free motion quilt, “Every inch a Terrier!” We heard one of the commentators at the Westminster Dog show say this, and we felt it fit our Maggie perfectly. The image is a drawing I did of her when  I took a print making class back when we lived in Wilmington.

So that is it from here for today. Hope you are having a great week-end.

Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

WW 10-2