Anticipating a busy day of Kings and Castles on the Bayeux, I worked late into the night last night and finished Geraldine.
Category: Capture & Create
Sockittome-Challenge
The socks came out of the drawer, the fabric I might use, the vintage knitting needles I’ve been collecting for years and then I look at the shape of the socks as they are laying there.
Capture and create.
This time last year I was taking off for snow bound Chicago !!!!It was snowing, freezing cold and an interesting start to the year.
The drawing and quilt above came about after another trip to Chicago and it is the way I captured the view from my hotel window.
My Applique Techniques – Capture and Create.
I’ve had quite a few requests to add more about my appliqué method… to be honest its probably the same as everyone elses but I do have a lot of images on my computer so I thought I would add that so that its self explanatory.
A creative day.
This afternoon I’ve been working on this project today, this is actually the back of the quilt. I’ve been experimenting with different fabrics and I used Osnaberg.
Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’
The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ”Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, ‘tapping at…
Working on the pot for the jolly bird quilt.
The reason I’m working on something creative and bright this morning is to try and put aside the horror and sadness broadcast on our TV this morning confirming the terrible siege in the centre of Sydney is over. However it will never end for those who were killed and became the victims  of terror. This…
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
A visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is an institution. I’m a member of the Gallery and try to visit whenever I can. Its a bit difficult when you live thousands of miles away. Its the first time I was able to share it with Husband Keith and he loved it….
On to New York.
The morning dawned grey and misty and in a short space of time the wind began to rise. The trees waved their branches in freedom and the grasses bent low following the wind stream. purple grasses Our anticipated visit to Round top was cancelled and we relaxed a little with no urgent deadlines. I…
inspiration, relaxation, perspiration and imagination.
Its been a week of inspiration, relaxation, perspiration and imagination. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.†– Albert Einstein Inspiration flows from being at the International Quilt…