Is There a Brain in There Among the Quilt Patterns?

Yesterday was filled with doctor stuff.  Carrie called to ask if I could baby sit since his school was closed, but I had appointments already filling my day. Luckily Frank was home and he was delighted to take charge.  We don't often get to have him and I was glad to be have the opportunity.  Andrew's mother seems to live there so I didn't want to miss out on that. 

I was in and out of the house, doing Papa-Relief in between driving on some still icy streets.  But once again, I was alone dealing with everything on my own.  Seems like that is my state of being.

They were able to combine to the MRI and Ultrasound into one appointment due to the cancellations they had.

Interestingly, it was recommended that I see a neurologist.  I looked up his stats once I got home and I was a bit uneasy.  His specialty is brain tumors and brain oncology.  I have a quilting friend who is having brain surgery today and one of our board members died of a brain cancer several years ago.  Not sure I want to be in their company.

We met Carrie and Andrew for dinner and baby dump and I went home to bed, exhausted from the day.


I did get a a bit of a chance to work on one of my little 3D pieces.  But the machine does such a horrible job of stitching, that I ripped it all out in favor of hand-stitching a big running stitch with perl cotton.  I really need to take that stupid machine back and let them dismantle it.

I thought I would make a star block, but this guy had a mind of his own.  Does not look like a star at all!  but it looks very Improv!

My favorite block I think is this one with the curves.   Also very improv.  I would like a whole quilt like this one. 

I  am going to get a pile of these faced so I can sit at night and do the hand work.

You know, I might have to get some 12 wt thread.  Wouldn't that work in the machine and be a heavy thread?  I guess I have to order it, that it probably would not be easily found in the local stores.

Then I am going to start on one of the big print quilts.

And soon I will have to start giving a quilt to everyone I know again!  LOL

Nudes Bathing Continued

the Nudettes have progressed one step more. However, I did not work on them Monday.  I cleaned house.  Cousin Karen and son Matt were up for the State Science Fair at LSU today.  He has gotten through his school, the regional of 11 parishes and now he is competing on state level.  His project involves the osmosis of oxygen in algae plant cells.  Amazing.

Last year he was interviewed by Duke University as part of the program where they recruit pre-high school kids for their University later on.  Amazing.  He is 14.  Even more amazing.  So Duke tracks him academically.

He and mom Karen were inundated with bassets last night!  And they loved it.

Walker

Swimmer

The Nudes Bathing have progressed to where they are no longer formless ideas.  They have bodies!  I added a bit of hair made with yarn to see what it would look like.  But I am actually going to use embroidery thread for the hair.

And I need more leaves. A lot more.  And a natural looking way to put them on.  I need to go look at trees today.

 This is the fabric I used for the transition between water and land.  It looks like sand and does the work for me by employing the stripes in the yellows and greens.  I could not have done a better placement of color for that part.

The Walker needs something in the background, like mountains or something.  What do you think?  Is she too large scale for the background?  I have another smaller figure I could cut out.

Here they are with the hair and the tulle placed in the water.  I love the way it looks like their bodies are submerged and you are seeing though crystal clear water! The tulle makes such a difference in the pieces.  I thought, well, maybe it doesn't really matter, but it does!

I bought three blues and this one is the perfect tone.  Maybe if I had some of those crystals it would look like the water was sparkling!

It is not looking like anything I had in my head.  Does that happen to you?  The failure of the process between your head and your hands?  I guess the fact that my head has all the fabric in the world and my hands are limited to what is in my room!

I am stoked, so many people are loving this!  Thank you all for your comments.  I totally appreciate them.  I had the largest hit of people looking at the post of all my posts so far!