The Latest Little Quilt

Here's the unfinished quilt. You can see - sort of - the quilting lines I've drawn on. I started sewing with dark thread..... but I'm not sure I like that. I'm almost considering hand quilting.....
All suggestions and ideas are welcome. 

Playing With Design

This is one of the drawings in my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project. I started playing with a design I had used a couple years ago. It's based on the idea of a root with shoots springing up. I looked at this, and it's a Hebrew letter - shin. It took me a long time to discover I'm Jewish. Now, I'm playing with this design for a small quilt. 

Making New Pins

A friend asked if I could make the beaded triangles into a hat pin. Sure. They will go up on the etsy site in a day or so. 

Jim Has Been Turning Wood This Weekend

Jim spent the weekend turning bowls. Here are some of his latest pieces. 

Hand Dyed Pineapple Fiber Fabric

I hand dyed fabric made of pineapple fiber and then turned it into one piece that could be a hajib, or a shawl, or a wrap. I used an embroidery thread nearly the same color as the fabric for a tone on tone embroidery using fancy stitches on my sewing machine. 




The second piece is a scarf and I played with a little bolder embroidery. I've got another piece for a scarf left and I think I'm going to be using white embroidery tread for that one. 


If you click on the headline for this post, you will be magically taken to my etsy store where you can shop in your jammies.  

Playing In My Sketchbook

I've been working in my sketchbook for my Sketchbook Project that needs to be finished this month. For the last few days, I've come up with some interesting designs that I would like to translate into clay or quilts. In the meantime, I want to keep playing. I'm using watercolor pencils and I'm about to use some watercolor paper to do some serious playing with these designs. 

Just Listed In My Etsy Store

I woke up with major depression this morning. About the only cure for that is art. So, I got out my beads and began to make jewelry. 

A waitress in the local Middle Eastern restaurant wears a hajib with a hajib pin. I was intrigued by the pin and inspired to make some. While I had in mind a hajib when I made the pins, there are no jewelry police and the pins would also look nice on a scarf, a lapel, or any other place you'd like to wear them. 

All of these items are in my etsy store. If you click on the headline to this post, you will be taken to my etsy store.