I now live on Moreland Lane; I’ve never lived on a Lane – Drive, Road, Street – but not Lane. I like it, but it is hard for me to remember. It has been sunny and lovely in my neighborhood for the past two days. After two days of frustration, waiting for workmen and deliveries and dead-end shopping for the phones that we wanted, I have finally accomplished quite a bit today.

• The twins arrived! They are fraternal. They are my new front loading GE washer and dryer. They sit on pedestals and look huge. Now I have to wait for a dryer vent to be blasted through the brick!!
• I got the main mama Mac up and running so that I could see which Journal Quilts are going to be in the book. Scroll down to see them.
• We got our new wireless phone system charged and working.
• Mr. C installed shelves in the small closet off the kitchen so I now have a pantry which gave me more space in the kitchen.
• I got the laundry room and kitchen fairly well put away and organized.
• I cooked a real meal for the two of us: grilled pork, red, white and purple steamed potatoes, green beans with sun-dried tomatoes.
• The dining room stuff is all unpacked and will get put away tomorrow.
• The new furnace is finally working so that we won’t freeze our buns off tonight.
• I have an appointment to get my hair cut tomorrow – wish me luck!

Since I have not made any new art, I thought I would post the Journal Quilts that will be in the book that Quilting Arts and IQS are publishing.

August 2003: Bubbly Mia I photographed my granddaughter blowing bubbles. In photoshop, I changed the photo to grayscale and then to a bitmap image, dithered it and printed in sepia tones on treated silk fabric. The bubbles are metallic silk organza.

The next four are one of the series that was selected. I think 20 of us will have a set that represents the series that we did that year. In my second year of participation, I decided to use one object that I would use in different techniques each month. I found a beautiful, leathery Sycamore leaf in our yard. I scanned it, photocopied it and printed with it until it was in shreds. Following are  the journals that were selected.

April: Sycamore Transparency ?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ I printed the leaf on white silk. The beautiful natural colors of the leaf looked wonderful. I wanted to do something that was transparent so I sandwiched the leaf between layers of silk organza with netting as a stabilizer. I couched various decorative yarns, using a serpentine stitch.

May: Trees ?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ For this journal, I made photocopies of the leaf, a bare tree drawing and Joyce Kilmer?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s poem. This was an experiment in collaging images and text. I transferred the images to silk dupioni using citrasolve.

June: Swirling Sycamores ?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ I made smaller images of the leaves in Photoshop and printed them in four different colors. I then fused the resulting leaves to their complements in a grid. I placed the leaves to give a sense of movement around the piece. I machine quilted swirls and added beads to enhance the swirling theme.

September: Icy Sycamore ?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ For this image, I discharged a leaf on a hand-dyed,lime green fabric. The result was the icy blue/green leaf which I cut and fused to the batik background. To enhance the icy feeling of this image, I mixed Pearl-ex pigment with textile medium and thickener and dribbled the mixture over the leaf.

I am tres pooped or is it tres pouped? Must get some shut-eye and hit the ground running again, tomorrow.

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