Study in red/gree tones and hues

Don't have a title for this one yet, another one done in Pamela's class. We were to choose complimentary colors and uses anything but the true colors I did sneak in some true red on her lips :)
I was amazed what I had in my stash for red/greens. The sky is a piece of hand dye I did, and wouldn't you know it with the help of some colored pencils a moon appeared.

Enjoy.

Washday

Here is the final one from Pamela's class, I got stuck and had to redo it several times.  First we did a small composition, then we cut a section out and re-built it. This one needs stitching. Thank goodness Pamela is a patient teacher :)

The Dock

Finished stitiching  The Dock, stitching always brings the raw edge applique to life.
Also finished cupcakes, and added some bling :) The Dock is all hand stitched whereas the Cupcake one is machine stitched.
Two more to go.

The Jive

Here is the third one done in Pamela's class, still needs stitched. I have several pieces now that need stitching. The challenge here was to show emotions/mood...I think I've caught the 50/60's jive, music and fun...right down to the poodle skirt.  I am working on Lesson #4, when that is done I can get with the stitching.
June 3rd and we are having wet snow, not nice at all!

Annual quilt Show

Our guild held their annual quilt show on May 15, I was busy all winter preparing for it.  . I did won 1st place viewers choice for this one. It is called stitchers garden, and is an exercise in using all those fancy stitches on your machine as well as bobbin work, and different feet.  I mainly used my hand dyes for the applique sections.  It fits my queen bed and hangs over quite nicely.

'Cupcake'

The second lesson in Figures and Faces, with Pamela Allen. This challenge was head and shoulders.

All the hooplah over the delicious cupcake outbreak brought about this composition, she still needs stitched, but here she is in all her glory. The next lesson is 'mood'...mmmm...wonder what I'll do? stay tuned....

New Class "The Dock"

I finally feel like the creative mojo has returned after a long hiatus. It took a class with Pamela Allen to bring it back. The class is called Figures and Faces and I am having so much fun. Here is my composition for the first lesson. I call it "The Dock" , I am now in the process of stitching it, but will post the picture for your enjoyment.It will really come alive with some hand stitching on it.

I was thinking of the impending flooding on the Mississippi and how this scene could vanish, a couple very happy with days catch.

Sisters

I have been so lazy keeping up my blog, just too much happening.

This is a piece I did in Pamela's class, the challenge was to take a palette of one of the masters and use the same palette to create a composition. I chose one by Henry Matisse, re-created it in fabric and then the third one is the same color palette and my composition. I call it 'Sisters' , my dear oldest sister played the piano and I always wanted to play stand up bass :) Using Pamela's method there is no drawing, the scissors are the drawing tool.
I have another one I started in the class but haven't finished yet. Still snowing up our way, and I can tell you I am sure ready for spring!!

More Snow Fun

This is the wagon this morning, we had a lot of drifting last night.
I also had fun with some snow dyeing, here are the results, I've got four more on the go :) This is my first time using Procion dyes for snow dyeing, and realize I should have used more dye.  Have more dye on the ones I've got batching today.  The first one I twisted before putting into the container.
Must take advantage of all this fluffy snow.  And I love the surprises that happen when snow dyeing.
Hope you are having a great day.

And the other picture is a small car that has been parked at the hospital for the past week, yesterday you couldn't see it at all, the wind has loosened some of the snow...yes we have had a lot of snow!

Ravens

Any of you that were in the Still Life class of Pamela's will know my love affair with ravens.  This morning I looked out the back window and this is what I saw.  At least twenty Ravens, hunkered down in this tree trying to stay warm in our frigid snowy weather. I am sure it is very hard for them to find food right now with the amount of snow we have had, and we have a heavy snowfall warning for today 20-25cm which is more than 6 inches!  The temp is in  the -30's with the windchill....ahh gotta love winter in the north.
The trees out front are loaded with snow, and the yard out back...well that's the wagon under there and it is a large wagon that horses pull!  Enjoy the photos.

FFFC #52 Color Field

These are the two pieces that I started for the last Fast Friday Fabric Challenge. Our challenge was doing a piece in the 'color field' technique. This is large blocks of color, sort of abstract but not really?  You can see I had some trouble with this challenge.  Here are the two pieces, started and still not quilted.

The first one I did is 'Fields of Tulips', and it is quite landscapey, perhaps too much so to be called color field.
This next one I called 'Morning Sunshine" and it is more like  the technique of 'color field'.  I guess I am just too much of a realist to wrap my brain around this technique :) But hey, I tried!