Thursday, June 23, 2011

wooly heart







This is a wip and I would have posted the pictures yesterday but "Blogger" decided not
to let me : /
I have used the beautiful red hand dyed wool and other hand dyed fabrics from Gerdiary.

The indigo colored background cloth is not hand dyed.
I do not even know what I will call this cloth, but I will see.... The inspiration for it came after I hung all of my quilt pieces on the wall. When I stood back I realized a common theme I use is the "heart".
I decided I wanted to do a study of different hearts in cloth. "Different",  meaning just different ways of stitching and expressing "matters of the heart".






details....




The "woolly" or "wooly"  heart! ( wool-ee can be spelled both ways, I learned something new)

<3

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Summer Solstice

Summer Celebration!
(gifted) rusty bell, which has a beautiful sound, bundled sage, etc.....

feathers, sea shell, sea glass, turquoise, amethyst, and (gifted) piece of driftwood from the ocean.

Have a great day!
<3

Thursday, June 16, 2011

delicious fabric!

Some delicious fabric....hand dyed red wool and various hand dyed fabrics from Gerdiary.





As I pulled these lovelies out and ironed them it felt like "play" time for me.....



Hand dyed fabrics are just exquisite to stitch with. This is going to be fun!

<3

mending ways...


Just a bit of mending....
This is a pair of my favorite jeans for my days off. The denim is so worn it is the softest
 of soft...ahhhhh! : )


A wooden sign I recently bought....
Have a great day!
<3

Sunday, June 12, 2011

finishing touches

I have spent time alone outdoors. Quiet time... just thinking.

Inspired by this:
Look at : "hearts in the garden" title.


I spent time today finishing these pieces:

Before you cringe and wonder what this devilish creature is let me explain:
As we all watched the situation in Japan unfold I felt so much sadness for the people of Japan.
I kept thinking about the Tsunami and the water because I had been working on my water quilt pieces.
I was thinking how the radiation was like a devil or demon making everything so much worse.....

The devilish creature originally had the radiation warning symbol on it's forehead  I did not like it so
 I ripped out the symbol. note: Anyone who embroiders knows that ripping out stitches is not an easy task especially on a small piece. This piece is not more than 5" or so.
(This was a fun piece to embroider because there are so many colors of thread in it.
I also used some different metallic threads which really give the piece a fun twist. I hope to get a better picture of it at some point so you can see all the different colors/shades of thread. It would be impossible
to duplicate this one because I just kept grabbing thread from my scrap pile.)



I was thinking about how water gives life and takes life. Inspired by these thoughts, I created this piece:
(the devilish piece was suppose to go on this, but I decided to leave it off.)
Also, I made the red stitches around the border look a little rugged on purpose. I kept thinking almost "childlike" is how I wanted it to look...
I wanted this to look like an ocean bottom, but not a typical blue water kind of scene.

I know my pictures lately are not the best...sigh!
I just can not invest in a new camera right now and the child who broke mine could not give me a brand new one.
At least you get the idea of what I am working on.
: ) 
Lastly, I hung most all of my quilt pieces inspired by this:

I have covered most of my bedroom walls! And Jude if you read this...I only have a few tacks left...lol!
: )
thank you for the inspiration Jude. Once I hung everything I looked around and realized these pieces are a part of me. Every stitch and every moment echo through my mind.
I look at some things and think, "what was I thinking?" I also look at others a realize how much I really appreciate the spirit of what was created.

Monday June 13, 2011~ upon further reflection of all the quilt pieces I have hung, I see that I am "all over the map" with my little cloth creations. However, in my defense, I do see a common thread amongst all those little scraps: soul-searching, spirit and matters of the heart.
Have a wonderful week!
<3

Saturday, June 11, 2011

almost Summer daze....


 I have been on vacation this week and I spent time at the beach (lake).

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daughter #2 and me at the beach. <3





I did a little fabric weaving to add to my Spring quilt.

I am calling this piece the "Bird Weaving"....
It is going next to the butterfly piece. 
I used India Ink to write the words from the Emily Dickinson
poem
called "Hope"
for you who do not know the poem:
this is the piece of the poem I wrote on the cloth.....

"Hope" is the thing with feathers~
That perches in the soul~
And sings the tune without the words~
And never stops~at all~ 



 a "cloudy"  photo shopped version of the butterfly piece and the "Bird Weaving"

I came across this embroidery artist work and found it sooo inspirational:

http://louiseriley.blogspot.com/


and this is something I want to do:

http://aestheticoutburst.blogspot.com/2010/06/twiggy.html

<3

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

piecing Spring...

Playing with the layout of these pieces for the Spring quilt I began last year....



I will add the butterfly piece, (from the previous post),
once I decide what else I want to add to it......
possibly words or just more stitching.


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Something fun!!!!
Love this David Marsh furniture........


can be found here: