Monday Morning Apology - Nudes Bathing

I hate to start a week with an apology, but this one is amusing.

How many of you looked at the post about the Purple Cow and the fish duvet I scored?  Well, if you

were good friends and looked closely when I first put it up, you would have noticed a scandalous thing.

One of the shots included Frank drying off after his bath as we were getting ready to meet friends for dinner. 

Yep.  A nudie.  Don't worry,  I have already taken it  off.........

And, embarrassingly enough, I got a call from Carrie last night who had gotten a call from her mother-in-law.  So now the whole family and all of you out there has seen his cutey butt. 

All the while I was minding my own business making hexies!

 The middle stack is  the original stack, so Inow have nearly twice that done. 

And I just read that this one person has 1200 hexies in her quilt.  Probably larger than my hexies, which are 1 inch. 

Maybe I should make a hexie nude!

Swimmer Gets Some Leaves

I have been talking out the problem with several people over the last few days.  Trying to get some insight into any ways they can think of to attach the leaves.  I keep envisioning floral wire and floral tape.  I said this to Ann and she says, Oh, I have some in my car!

I really thought she was joking, but she did have some in her car!  I got several feet of the tiny wire, which I thought would be the perfect thickness.  I have previously tried clothesline, electrical wire, copper wire, and fabric.  Nothing had worked.

I think this is actually going to work.

I cut the wire into a short section that would reach from the top of the piece to the bottom.  These long nosed pliers are older than I am, they came from my dad's shop.


 Here are the leaves and the stem wrap.  I found a fabric that has yellow batik leaves and green background.  It would make a nice mix of color for the stem or branch.


Out came the hot glue gun.  It is the new one I bought about 2 months ago.  This one is a lot better than the other one because this one is low heat (I don't burn myself on it, which I did a lot of with the hot hot glue gun) and it has a trigger squeeze.  The other one you had to push the glue stick with your thumb and it got tiring.

I started assembling the leaves.  I cut the tip of my index finger at Carrie's Easter Brunch when I was washing the sharp knives.  It hurts like a son of a gun.  And, guess what?  You NEED that finger to do this!

Two sets of leave

Here is the Swimmer (heading off the page I see, she must be upset with all the attention) and two sections of leaves.  I made one more, and I like it with a lot of leaves.

three sets of leaves

I like the leaves and I think this will actually work.  But I need to quilt the background and add my swimmer first.  Before I get into putting the leaves on the background all that needs to be done.

Whew!  I sure am glad i didn't wait to the last minute like SOME people!

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!