Mini-WILD Flowers

I had several people interested in the large WILD Flowers, but one of them preferred, 'just a taste' rather than the entire buffet...so, I made a mini-WILD Flower. There will be several more minis, as I have had so much fun making the flowers I have a miniature Mount Rainier pile of them ready to use!

Hand dyed background. Free motion embroidery leaves. Hand wrapped, machine 'quilted' flowers and grass. 11"x14" artist canvas mounted, ready to hang.

Last Vestige

 

 This was started during my very fun, creative, restive Art Camp week. Just finished it yesterday. I had to be in the proper mood to make design decisions...I loved creating the quilting; free motion/no pattern/leafy leafy. The gold background is one of my hand dyes, the tree is of commercial fabric. The leaves are the ones I tutorialed on this blog. I cropped the photo too closely to show, but there is traditional French binding around the perimeter, except in the root area of the tree. I left that 'raw'.

Falling

 This is a proud moment! I scanned leaves onto fabric about 10 years ago, when I got my first scanner. Didn't know about prepping the fabric so the ink would 'take' and the picture be bright, so it was dull and boring in appearance. It has made move after move, been unearthed, sunk to the bottom of the UFO pool over and over...But I have grown and learned and when I dug it out again a few weeks back I had the tadah moment!  I sliced one fabric sheet into strips and sliced the other to receive the weaving, creating a nice subtle background. I then appliqued the batik leaves on top for vavoom, then stitched that, sandwiched with a thin batting. onto the batik gold and brown fabric. I fringed the edges of the woven fabrics.  A UFO no longer! It's nearly a miracle!

Mtn. Majesty transformed to Mystic Mtn.

This is the little UFO quiltlet that gets its PBS debut sometime in 2011 on Quilting Arts TV. Beryl and Pokey had very good suggestions. But as I tried to implement them, the quiltlet just morphed as I worked! It is a totally different feel, and look, but I like it! I am learning so much! Everyone is so helpful on QA.

"Anticipation"

"Anticipation" is/was my final entry for the Quilting Arts/Bernina, 'Stitch This!" contest. I decided that, win or not, a triptych was called for. Thread painting has really been fun and I have several more scenes planned- my grandbaby wearing her 'going to Mexico' hat, and a pair of Adirondack chairs facing a sunset/mountain scene.