GREENS THE THING

A recent Group of Eight challenge was to try to make a piece of art using only monochromatic colours, meaning using only one colour or shade of one colour.  Since I love blue, I tend to use a lot of it, but I looked at my stash of fabrics and found that I had many different greens.  This time I went out on a limb and tried to use green as my base colour.  This piece has over 50 different greens.   

GROUP OF EIGHT FIBRE ARTISTS

I'm proud to say that I'm a member of the Group of Eight Fibre Artists.    We  are working tirelessly to bring you awe inspiring art.  Why not plan your daily excursions around our schedule?  

THREADWORKS 2013

After a long and drawn out process, I finally have my new hard drive installed.  Yippee!!!  

Was I ever excited to hear the news that "Bubbles" was accepted into the juried exhibition of needle arts "Threadworks 2013" show.   

Bubbles is representative of the summer times spent walking along the Georgian Bay shoreline.  The deep blue waters roll onto the sand causing millions of bubbles, reflecting glistening sunlight.  This piece is machine quilted, embellished, embroidered, and beaded.

The show takes place April 20 - June 9, at the Wellington County Museum & Archives.  I do hope that you take the time to visit the show.

BUBBLES

I'm not what you'd call a "beader".  I love the look, but do I really want to put in the time?  Well, I've been trying to add beads to my latest project.  Here's a peak at what I've been doing.  A few more weeks of stitching should do it.

JAPANESE SWORD COVER

Recently, I was asked to make some covers for some Japanese swords.  I immediately thought that it was time to try Sashiko (What was I thinking?).  It's been a time-consuming event for sure.  I've been stitching on and off for weeks just to make the base with which to continue on with my project.  I'm not finished yet, but I'll persevere.

This is just under a half metre of fabric.

Here's a closer look.

POSTCARD THEME

While on the postcard theme, here are a few more that I received in the past few days. 

This one is almost three dimensional as it is puffy includes embellished flowers. 

I guess the post from South Africa is not too reliable.  I just received December's theme card.  It's never too late for Christmas!

Mary, from my local postcard exchange group, sent this one.  I can relate.

PURPLE! REALLY?????

I haven' been spending too much time quilting during the past few weeks, but I have just finished some postcards for the March exchange.  The theme is PURPLE.  When I was 12 I loved purple, but not so much any more.  However . . . 

I started by pulling out scraps of purple - velvets, satins, chiffons, cottons - then machine pieced the scraps together.  Various circle shapes were stamped on the fabric using purple acrylic paints.  It was then sandwiched with batting and backing and cut into six 4"x6" postcard size pieces and machine satin-stitched around the perimeter.

I had just enough hand-dyed fabric to back only five of the six postcards.  The sixth card was backed with a commercially printed fabric.