Mini Art Quilts

 Good Morning all.

Saturday's are good days.

I finally took a little time to make something

small. a few 4x6 art quilts for cards.

Been too busy to create.

Soon I will be able to spend 5 days quilting.

Cannot wait.

Today I have a pit fire scheduled by the pond

for the local high school pottery class.

Should be a fun event.

I have saved branches, dried grasses and leaves,

the kids are bringing horse pies and horse hair.

The pies make a pink cast and the hair black lines

on the pottery.

I have some copper carbonate and will borrow

some dog food from the neighbor.

Dog food  has minerals and salts that provide

 another layer of color.

We burn today cover the fire and pots with sand

 and than dig up either Sunday or Monday.

Picking my fabrics for QSDS

 Is this too much fabric to take to QSDS?

Choices.  Choices such indecision.

I thought putting the fabric in Zip lock bags would keep it

organized. Probably for about 2 seconds.

I am glad I started last week putting things out for class.

I just need a couple of hours to screen, stamp

over paint and alter some fabrics.

I dropped my shirts at the cleaner to be ironed.

Just not enough time.

Isn't it interesting how life stays so busy

even in our golden years.

Yesterday I spent 5 hours clearing out the last of

my Mothers room. Bittersweet to see how our

 lives keep getting smaller as we age.

 She will be down to her recliner some clothes

and a couple of personal things hanging on the wall.

Her mind flits in and out.

Sometime she knows us sometimes not.

10 years of watching the decline into dementia

is a sad thing. 91 years and counting.

Not what the golden years should be.



Results of the Dye pot.

I love  the greens and browns. I learned a lot doing this dye.

Mainly to do less at a time.15 pots of dye is too much.

6 will be about all I should handle in a day. 

The eggplant on the right below is luscious.

Amethyst I was hoping for a pale lavender.

It is more magenta. Next time add some eggplant to it.

 The over dyes were not bad .

I do not like the bright green on the right

but will cover it with some surface designs

and have a good fabric to work with.

 The one on the left and below are paint rags from

acrylic painting sessions over dyed.

They will be great to work with.

Overall the results are all usable.

I will finish selecting fabric this morning

for QSDS2012 and than try to get 2 hours in

my mothers assisted living apartment packing it up.

She is moving to Skilled care and they want her room

emptied before I leave.

 Her dementia's worsened over the week-end

and it is no longer safe for her to be alone.

Something always comes up when you are the busiest.

Bright spots in my day.

 Spring brings lots of flowers and birds.

This is the first year I had an Oriole in the yard.

They sure stand out.

I was dyeing fabric yesterday and the sun yellow

turned out a bright orange so I dulled it with brown.

I did some amethyst too.

I will go out in a couple minutes and start rinsing

them off under the pine trees.

My day is so busy yes I am going out a 5 am.

It should be light.

Hopefully no snakes like yesterday.

Went out to move the sprinkler and saw the end of a snake

my eyes followed the body back to the head

just an inch from my toes. I moved pretty fast.

I almost stepped on the head.

I DO NOT LIKE SNAKES.

ever.

Results of play date with FibR

 Finally showing you the results of my play date.

In 3 hours I was able to make 2 large background for

landscape art quilts that will be matted to 11x14.

I have 5 small backgrounds that will be cards.

 The top 2 are my favorites.

 The small ones were made from my scrap box.

 Some are abstract and will be embellished with objects,

Others were from stamped fabric and foiled paper.

I may not get back to these until after

the Columbus trip.

I hope everyone who are mothers had a great day.

I did my son and his wife hosted the lunch.

I am thinking of giving up on being the hostess

on everything except Christmas.

It was nice not to have to prep everything.

More time to play that way.