My zoom zoom pace had come to a halt. I have had a raging sinus headache all day and have not accomplished much. I have been futzing around with the water fabrics and have left it like this. The kelp fabric was not working.
Here is today’s uninspired 3 x 3.
And now, I am taking an Aleve and I am off to bed. I can barely hold my head up tonight.
This is a fairly large piece of cotton on which I got 5 prints from one of my large screens. I filled in the rest with cobalt blue so that I could use it in the deep sea piece. The chartreuse will be used, too. I will be cutting this up to reassemble as a kelp garden, I think.
I did a facing on the air/thermal piece and looked at it upside down and thought maybe I should orient it that way.
What do you think?
Here is today’s 3 x 3.
I am not sure why or when it happened, but I now feel so happy in my studio, full of ideas, getting work done and feeling good about it. I used to feel this way, but something happened to me last year — maybe a several things — I don’t know for sure. I just know that I am happy and creating again. And that is a good thing.
We had a fairly uneventful 4th of July. It was a perfect day. We took a long walk with Scooter and checked out the end of the parade that our neighborhood has every year. I quilted the air quilt. In the evening, the Barnes family, minus Mia, came for a BBQ on the deck.
Here is the air quilt which I think will be titled, Riding the Thermal.
I am in the process of finishing the edges of this quilt and the fire quilt. I decided to do satin stitch edges, but my satin stitch on my Janome is nor behaving. I don’t know what the problem is. I have cleaned my machine, changed the needle, fiddled with the tension. Not sure what to do next.
Yesterday’s 3 x 3 – up there – is a piece of hand-dyed fabric which I cut and stitched. Here is today’s:
You have to love magenta and lime green!!
This piece is moving right along. And, I am having fun with it. I started quilting the thermal tonight.
I will applique the bird once the background is quilted.
I have had a busy and productive day. I got Alternate Universe labeled and the hanging sleeve is attached. It is ready to send to SAQA for the I’m Not Crazy exhibit.
I got my hair cut and did grocery shopping and picked up some great veggies from the CSA farm. I don’t have any big plans for the 4th of July, but I think Steph, Jack and Miles may come over for dinner.
Here is my 3 x 3 for today. I am enjoying the red/violet color.
I am working on another quilt for the elements theme. This one is air. I cut up some indigo shibori cotton to create an “airy” feeling. What I am actually wanting to do is simulate a thermal. I found this on Wikipedia:
Thermals are often indicated by the presence of visible cumulus clouds at the apex of the thermal. When a steady wind is present thermals and their respective cumulus clouds can align in rows oriented with wind direction, sometimes referred to as “cloud streets” by soaring and glider pilots. Cumulus clouds are formed by the rising air in a thermal as it ascends and cools, until the water vapor in the air begins to condense into visible droplets. The condensing water releases latent heat energy allowing the air to rise higher.
Thermals are one of the many sources of lift used by soaring birds and gliders to soar.
My plan is to “put a bird on it” – soaring of course. The work up there was just a quick and dirty cut and place. It needs some more work, but I like the idea.
I put away all the orange fabrics today and found several fabrics in the red/violet family.
Here are the oranges all together.
And here is today’s 3 x 3. I enjoy taking some time to do hand work.
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