sew stitch snap SHARE #24

I am really having fun with the gang over at sew stitch snap SHARE this year.  (you can have fun too, just join in like you own the place).  Just click and it will take you there.

I really admire how Linda puts together those fabrics.  I haven't gotten that courageous yet, Modern is as far as I am willing to stretch.   But maybe one Sew Stitch Snap Share Week I will shock the pants off Miss Linda and have some wild and crazy mixed up fabrics all tossed into one quilt and see what comes out on the other side.  I am excited to try my hand at it actually.   Maybe this summer when I get some of these projects out of the way.

Here is what I am working on right now.

I have a Fiber Group meeting on Wednesday morning.  We are doing those Inspiration Letters.  I have the letters H and E and put together the Tenement and Factory.

I was looking for something to use as the background and found this piece that I think will be good for the outside.  If it needs an outside?  I am actually not sure it does.

 I will sleep on it and if it still needs one tomorrow I will add one.

Gale Garber came to our guild meeting this week and did a presentation tonight.  It was interesting.  She had a trunk show and of course her stuff is really nice  Flying geese galore. 





I bought some poly clothes line because I couldn't find cotton. 

I was all hot to see how it would work. 




I had done a couple baskets with the cotton and liked it but had not worked with poly before. 

It was a bit stiffer as a finished product, but I liked it as well as the cotton. 



 I need to order some cotton line online I think so I can compare the two since I can't seem to find it around here anymore.

   I found some purple poly so I might try adding some interesting stripes to another basket.

 If I  can overcome the boredom of going round and round and round and round I can make a tote  bag and some handles..........

Chocolate Chipolte Bacon Beignets and Cambodian Art

 This morning we had breakfast at Batch 13 (Chocolate Chipotle Bacon Beignets) and headed to the Cambodian Art Sale.

It was part of the Mission from the Methodist Women who travel there monthly bringing supplies to the school they support.  Lots of had embroidered purses, back packs, jewelry and hand dyed scarves.  I bought a fish purse and some bead bracelets.  Frank gave
them the rest of the $20 as a donation.  I can see some Christmas presents down the road!

Later at home, I told Frank he had to take care of all the dogs
.  That meant I could have uninterrupted time in my studio without having to let dogs in and out.  I could concentrate and complete my thoughts.

I got so much done in the afternoon.

I finished the first round on the Cotton Robin and packaged it up for mailing off to Christa in Virginia.

I got the Modern Robin round finished up and boxed for the meeting on Monday.

I did the Lotto Block for Remember Me for the April Meeting.

I did the Lotto Block for the Modern Guild meeting for Monday night.

I did an improvisational piece for my Fiber Exploration Group this month.







 I passed out some letters like E, T, H, I, L and O.

I asked the members to use those letters as inspiration and use the shape  to

create a piece for the next meeting.

I am really happy with what I have so far on my project.  Being
able to work improvisationally is incredible.  You start out with an idea.  I work with a What If...... style.  What if I add this color....yes or no.  What if I add white......oh no!

I wanted a cityscape.  Then I wanted to add a factory to my piece.  I guess I am into factories since I have one in my blue jean road piece as well.  

I kept trying to add white into the mix and it kept kicking it out!  After looking at it for a while on my design wall, I may be able to add some in by doing a ladder grid under the last row of grey.  I can try it a bit in the next day or so.

Sawyer is sick, so I get to have him tomorrow.  So long planned day........

One Road Through Town

(I am linking up to Freemotion on the River, check out what others are working on too.)

My One Road piece is coming along.  I just need  to do a few more squares and I am going to call it done.  If you remember this is going to be one of my entries into the  CFAL Show this spring.  I forget where it will be. The theme for the year is Journeys and for the first  quarter the sub theme is Entry Ways.




And the challenge for the Fiber Group for December is Doorways.  So I need to pull together a piece for that as well.  I need to add that to my OMG goal for December!  
 
I realized the embroidery looked like it was overwhelmed by the blue jean background.  But as I went on I changed my mind; I thought it might be a good thing.

When you look at the piece, it appears complicated, so that draws the eye to the lines and colors.  But as you look at it, you realize there is so much more.  So it draws you closer as you look for the rest of the town.

You see the alligator in the swamp first.  And you see a house, a factory and a playground. 

The quiet embroidery draws you into the piece.


A sailboat on a lake.

 A playground, 












 A  factory for the moms and dads to go to work. 



I am liking it.  Even though it is not what my mind's eye envisioned in the beginning of the piece, it is OK.

I like the turn it took. 

Sometimes in art, you need to go where where the piece takes you.  Regardless of where you want to go!