7/31/08

Ironing board finds


I cleaned off my ironing board this week (it's 2 x 4 so it holds a lot of stuff) anyway these are just a few of the treasures I found. The kitten postcard just needs a backing and edges finished and that will be good to go. The purple post card, not sure why it go buried other than I guess I was waiting for a little inspiration. The Dotee doll is ready to be adopted and the Artist Trading Card is an abstract one that I didn't know where I was going with it, since I don't really do abstract.

7/29/08

Stella and Bella


Here are two more Dotee's for the exchange. I thought I would do a mother-daughter duo. I'm not sure if I will split them up or keep them together.

7/27/08

Karen's Round Robin

This is the block when I received it.

Close up of the heart wreath.

Close up of my work.

The block in it's entirety.
Here is another block for a round robin. I added a tatted butterfly, keeping with the tatted heart theme. I also did a feather stitch with beads, added a seam treatment of silk ribbon flowers and leaves and added beads. Then topped it off with a wreath heart done with lazy daisy stitches and added flower beads and more beads.

7/23/08

Bird ATC


This is my latest artist trading card for a bird swap. This bird is printed on fabric, then I needle felted around it and added beads.

7/17/08

Violet


This is a Dotee doll from Judy, my swap partner at Stitching Fingers. I sent her a doll named Violet and she sent me a doll named Violet, kind of spooky isn't it.

7/15/08

Round Robin




Our small group of local crazy quilters is doing a round robin, where everyone makes their own block and we each take a turn at working on them. I'm always a little nervous about being the first person as that seems to set the tone for the rest of the block and I fear it may not be the tone they are looking for. But this block immediately spoke to me and said "tree".

7/13/08

I'm so cool!



This is what all the lake dogs are wearing this year.

7/11/08

Violet



This Dotee doll is for a swap. I'm still struggling with faces but at least they aren't so huge anymore.

7/9/08

30's Fun



I'm in a small group ( fourteen) to be exact of 30's quilting friends and every month we are each demonstrating a nine inch block. This is the one I chose to demo for the month of July.

We are also doing a birthday fabric postcard swap, so I decided to make my block in miniature and it will be going out today.

7/3/08

Crazy Quilt Round Robin


This is a round robin I've been working on. The first picture is the block in its entirety. The second picture is just the area that I worked on.

7/2/08

Birthday Post Card


Here is a post card that is going out to my daughter for her birthday. It has birthday confetti, balloons and stars under tulle so they kind of float around. I sewed a couple of embellishments on the top so all the confetti doesn't end up in one corner.