Gaze Upon My Beauties!

I figured you have gazed  upon my mighty Mt Fuji creation long enough and are in need of a new unbelievable sight.  Well, peoples, here it is before you.  Behold!  Shield your eyes from the beauty.

First, while at Santa CAAWS on Sunday someone brought in a dog bed as a donation.  Frank took it out of his truck since he had to go to work.  I was going to bring it to the shelter Today.  however, it has been appropriated by all the bassets.  It has been in constant use despite the fact it is really too small for any of them.  I decided to leave it for a while. It may just become a permanent part of the decor.






Here is one of the leaves I monoprinted.  I guess it is actually a monotype since the leaves kept sticking to the previous fabric and each one is unique.

I dropped the feed dogs and went at it.  The new machine needs one of those tables. I know you an get one made, if anyone knows what the name of the place is, I'd appreciate it.

 There are two sides that were printed.

Here is the back side, almost as cool as the front.
 I adhered some fusible batting Tracy gave me.  It gave the fabric the stability to handle the freemotion work.

Smile for your close up!

This is sooooo cool.  Carol of Quilted Fabric Art has done a series of white prints on darker fabric.  I thought black was the way to go, until I saw hers. WOW!

Funny, both of us cut one fabric set too small for the book we wanted to cover.  Are we not twins, or what?

Meanwhile,  I loaded this baby up on the longarm and quilted it quickly.  I just did a random squiggly lines and switchbacks.  Just something that didn't nee a lot of precision since the quilt itself is visual heavy.

If that is a word!  You understand what I mean. 

This is the piece of fabric that did fit the notebook.  Still not sure why the other one didn't fit, I must have measured incorrectly......as I am known to do sometimes.  I need to find a slightly smaller book.

This is so cool.

 And here is the other side.  Either one can be the front.  I kinda like this one for the cover.

My Fiber Group will be equally impressed. And more so, they will be impressed that i actually did the challenge........next year.

Next time I will do a white print.  Of course, you know i can't let Carol do ALL the cool stuff!

PS  I shared this on Sew Stitch Snap Share

Leaf Printing

I know it is Saturday.  And I try not to o anything too exciting because I know you are probably off having fun with family or maybe on quilt retreat.  But this was dangled in front of me by Carol of Quilted Fabric Art.  And of course I couldn't resist.

Darn you, Carol.  Now I had to spend $30 on more art supplies.

I scavenged some leaves from the back yard.

 Dug through some boxes for my brayer. 








I did a test print on some muslin.  I think I like this better than the real prints.  A testament to the "keep it simple" thought.

This is the typing paper I use to collect the overflow paint when I "brayed" the leaf pieces. 

This is cool.  Now I want to toss the sewing machine and do this forever!










These are bookcovers to be.

More later.

This technique is courtesy of Mad Quilter Woman. 






And I am linking up with Nina Marie at Creations.  Maybe I can do better in 2018 and post every week again.