September 2007 4 Quilts

Losing My Marbles is self explanatory. They are jumping out of my head and running away...

I made this quilt, called "Ricky Inspired," after attending a Ricky Tims seminar in September 2007. It is my own miniature impression and is made from a digital painting that I made and printed on fabric, cut into strips and machine quilted.

This quilt, "Turning Leaves" started with a piece of my own hand dyed fabric. In addition, I painted and sponged it with acrylics in autumn colors. Tree trunks, rocks and stream are painted Tyvek.

This started as a piece of solid black fabric. I painted and stamped it using several kinds of paint to make it look like a crowded pond.

August 2007 (4 quilts) All approx. 9 x 12 inches

I guess with this one I was reverting to the kind of landscape / seascape that I have always liked to make.

What can I say? I JUST DON'T LIKE TO IRON! I printed the drawing and lettering on fabric. The iron shape is painted Tyvek, melted with the (dreaded) iron and sewn on..

This is an ode to a toad friend of ours who lived in our garden shed for several summers and dined on the crickets there. This year, developers came to clear nearby property and their machinery disrupted 'Mr. Toad's' route to the riverside that he always visited in Spring. We fear that he perished. We miss him.

This quilt, "Ravens," uses Tyvek for the rocks and tree. Ravens are fused fabric. Background is hand dyed commercial fabric scraps, trimmed from the "Heron and Boat" quilt shown above.

Making a quilt every week.

Inspired by Jeanne Williamson's wonderful book, 'The Uncommon Quilter', about making one small quilt every week for seven years, I resolved to try it for myself. I don't anticipate keeping it up for seven years, but who knows?
I decided that my 'rules' would be simple and few. My first rule would be to ignore all of the conventional quilting 'rules'. Each design would be mine alone--no patterns!-- and as the weeks passed, I would try to explore as many different surface design techniques as possible.
It seems obvious that not all of these quilts would be 'successful'--iactually, maybe very few would be---- but I have found that I learn something each time, and sometimes I learn the most from the ones that turn out worst. I intend to put every quilt on this blog.

I'm Ba-a-a-a-a-ck!

I thought I'd get right back to this right after Thanksgiving.
Then I thought I'd find some time after Christmas.
So here we are at the end of January. Where does time go?
But the good news is that although I've neglected my new blog, I've kept making little quilts, and now I'm going to put pictures of them on this site.