What a great year this has been

Looking back over this year has shown me the many great techniques I have tried and loved this year.

Fun with stencils

I have had a great two days. I wanted to creat my own Christmas cards. Great idea!
Lesson learned I do not want to work in a factory.
I took lots of breaks and still kept the sprirt in the making.
This is my best season in several years. No hassles!
The best part has been playing with paint, dye, and ink!

Play day was fun!

Yesterday was a play day. We silk screened and painted silk ribbon with color hue dyes. Dyed lace for crazy quilts. What fun.

Rain makes for a beautiful day

Today has been the most beautiful day in a long while. Rain all day!

Charity quilts again

Sandy, a friend from church came over yesterday and we made two quilt tops for charity. Working together made the laughs louder and the work easier. Great day!

Finally fall

The cool weather has finally arrived. We had rain two days in a row. Just the right time to finish some work on crazy blocks. Felting keeps drawing my attention then I want to embellish like a crazy block. Seems like wool felt should be my next crazy quilt fabric.

IQF

I am having a wonderful time at IQF. Class with Judy Coates Perez is wonderful. Covered with gel medium. Drawing on tea bags just a hoot!

Wheelbarrow means work

Even a shiny blue wheelbarrow is work to push around. What happened to the days you could get your kids excited about chores for fifty cents?
Fiber keeps calling even when the weather is beautiful and the birds are calling.
When will we get rain again?

New blue wheel barrow!

Today is a beautiful day. Stitching is second to my new blue wheelbarrow today. Of course I am mighty tired, but if it ever rains again plants will have a better chance of holding the moisture. Fall asters are mounds of lush purple. Finally some color.

Still keeping at it

I am still working on the charity quilts. I have added three more to the count.
Working crazy now. Fun with the ladies last night.

I finished my challenge quilt yesterday. Very happy with the final little quilt. Hope to load a picture soon. Beautiful day 64 degrees this morning.

Finished two more quilt tops for charity.
Working on an art quilt today.
Hoping to get the binding on by the end of the day.

Sick day is good day

This is a good day. Sick G granddaughter. She has the fastest color wash I have ever seen. Then it's time to go downstairs while it drys then up again to draw over with colored pencils. More art! Luckily Opa is able to play school. He is the helper dad and helps the teacher G. I am resting and stitching on a felted quilt.

Returned from a great quilt retreat. Only finished one more chariy quilt, but had great time. Worked on lots of projects.

Five quilt tops finished

Beautiful day ! A little breeze. Only 90 degrees.
Cleaned up after the cat. Still not sure what she ate.
Wet felting and watercolors today. Not even looking at the mountain of fabric.

This is another example of learning the hard way. A quilt a day is way too much. I am so glad that there is grace. I am now setting a more realistic goal. One a week is good enough. Now I will get back to reading, knitting, playing in the garden and making fiber art. Retirement should not feel like working in a sweat shop.

Too much stuff!

Sometime it takes me a long time to catch on to the concept that less is more.
I love my art which uses very little fabric, but once in a while I just fall to the temptation that more is good.
I have a huge pile of clean fabric from a fabric store going out of business. I have washed four loads so it is clean. Now I am trying to sew it up into charity quilt tops. One a day is my goal. To keep myself honest and working on this goal; I will post the number as the tops get finished. The idea is to keep it fun and enjoy the process. Help keep me on track, if you will.
This may get hard as the weather cools down and I start yearning for play with wool and silk in the outdoors.

Another hot day in central Texas

Some clouds are good. Hard to believe 107 degrees not even to the hottest part of the day yet.