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!!

Long Time away

Such a busy time of year, and still dealing with the left hand. Did have a cortisone shot a week ago, haven't noticed a great deal of difference. I did have some fun over the past month hand dyeing some fabric.  Here are some of the results. Oh and fun sun dyeing many pieces too!
The colors are a bit brighter on the page than they actually are.  I am attending a retreat on the 21st and will be selling my patterns and hand dyed fabric, looking forward to a fun weekend with friends.

I would like to wish all my Canadian friends a Happy Thanksgiving, and to those of you who don't celebrate a Happy Fall! And a gorgeous one it is.

still more snow dye fun

I had some great results from yesterdays snow dyeing, of course there is NO shortage of snow up north. For these three I used Rit dye. Very neat designs, and more whitish than I've got using the other dyes I have here. I see a background for my funky flowers done in Pamela's class for Lesson 2.

I'm excited about the results.

more snow dyeing

Here are two more pieces that I have done. The turqoise colored one is Jacquard silk dyes, and the brown/rust one is reed dye!

Self Portrait

I am having so much fun in Pamela's class and learning so much. No sketching or drawing, no fusibles, just taking the scissors and cutting the shapes. Our present lesson is a self portrait, here is mine. The hair, well I was a blonde but am greying nicely, the purple/blue? It's just a laugh on many older women that I knew that put that blue rinse in their hair :) The hair is yarn. It will look better when I get some stitching done on it, so far it's just fabric glued down.
A gorgeous day in the far north, little snow left can now see some green grass and I'm thinking spring is on it's way.