Final Fabric - I love it!

Painted, stamped, scrunched, dried, painted some more, then over dyed, dried, rinsed and ironed. Here is the final background fabric for Heidi and Andy's quilt. The top should be completed this week, then comes the quilting. Oh - check the last photo for the design prototype. Colors will be different, but this is the basic design. It will be a triptych with the main design flowing across all three pieces.

Painting fabric

I painted some fabric this afternoon for Heidi and Andy's artpeice.

Where the heck have I been???

Hmm - sort of lost track of time for six months. Here are some photos from my latest Art-o-mat series.

Happy Valentine's Day

I was inspired by Valentine's Day to create two cards - mirror images of eachother and sort of a Yin Yang style. I represents two hearts creating one love while retaining individuality. I was even inpired to write a poem. May your day be filled with love...

The heart has a rhythm, much like a rhyme,
Two hearts joined beat together over time.
While two hearts together should beat the same,
Their individual rhythms should remain.

creating for love

We spent 10 days in Seattle at the end of January, so it's taken me some time to get going inthte studio again!
This past weekend, I created this 15 x 15" piece as a Valentine's Day gift for my husband. It will be framed in a 20" x 20" shadowbox frame.

Creating Organization

I organized fabric today with the help of my friend Heidi. A fellow quilter who is highly logical and organized, we make a great pair of opposites! We started by folding fabric. She showed me a neat trick of folding over an Omnigrid ruler so that all pieces are the same size and can stack neatly.
What a difference it already makes! The Qi can now flow freely. I feel more creative already!

Back to the basics

I am frantically creating pieces for Art-o-Mat this week so I can take them with us to Seattle next week to mail them to North Carolina. Sounds convoluted? Well, postage from Denmark is very expensive. And slow.

I'm still working on the A-Z series and I have not been happy with the pieces I've produced. I was stuck on Q. What art movement begins with Q? And this morning in that twilight space between awake and asleep I realized the answer was always right there in my own back yard. Q is for Quilt. (Big DOH!)

So, here is my little quiltlet in the Amish style:









Here is our view of Rosenborg Castle across the street. And look - I see a shadow! And the manic birds returned this afternoon but I was not quick enough to capture them.