Hello, again, after a long winter! We closed our yarn shop and became 'retired'. I still can't stop spinning yarns, knitting, crocheting-retirement is exhausting!
I am also revamping this blog beginning with the Title. My quilting has waned and my artistic outlets include so much more than that!

I dye and spin.

Polwarth organic wool roving.

Hand dyed silk hankies.

And weave.

Julie, my weaving mentor, wove the background and I am making a dimensional art piece upon it.

My first woven shawl. Very, very happy with it!

A woven scarf commission. 'Metrosexual' was the desired flavor he asked for.

Knit 

 
My latest phase craze is BIG needle knitting.

And crochet.

I do cutesy sometimes...

 

And learn new stitches like waffle weave and wave...

I still needle felt now and then, and long to return to making the thread flower pictures. I want to get back to thread painting as well. I have crazy quilt blocks all prepared, sitting there staring at me until I get started again. There are quilt tops to be completed or repaired. There is purging to accomplish. Balancing what I SHOULD do with what I WANT to do is the whole trick! So, off this computer and back to dishes? 

I don't think so...

More and more fluffy flowers!

Here are the latest fluffy flowers, pre-framed.

A Little Rusty

Plethora

Perky!

WILD Flowers completed!

     In an earlier blog I gave a tutorial on making these wild flowers. I have now completed this piece and am madly making tons more flowers, as there seems to be more demands for it! Yeah!
     I am working on more of the wild variety, but have also started a silver gray color scheme, and a naturalistic yellows/browns theme to mimic sunflowers.
An important follow up I am going to add to the tutorial is the 'learned the difficult way' information regarding the background. Choose your background colors and size, piece, quilt and bind it, THEN place your flowers, stems and leaves onto it. I used masking tape to hold all the fluff and stuff aside while I struggled to quilt, which made it doable, but still difficult!
I will post a picture soon of the sunflower or gray theme, as I have come up with a further embellishment-little flower as center of big flower. Way cool!