A Couple of postcards

My friend Sandy cut her finger - bad.

So I sent her this jungle...with a bead lady.

This one got to be 3-D.

 Gave it to Doug and Ann for good health.

Wet Paint in St Paul had a postcard challenge.

My postcard was in the window with a bunch of other postcards offered by other artists.

 

I have more recent postcards - just can seem to load them.

I'll try again later.

Have a creative day.

A couple of things

The Textile Center has an annual exhibit inviting any members of the Textile Center to show some of their work. Usually it's only one piece per artist. The really nice thing about it is that it is not judged.

 

This is my piece for this year's show.

The container has a fiber landscape all around it using fabric, mesh, beading, and thread painting.

The fishing pole is a dried Echinacea stem which is really sturdy. A good thing since it has to hold up a giant fish!

                                       (That fish must be all of 4" long)

This is just a photo of my selvage ball.

Every time new fabric gets used in my studio, the selvage gets cut off and wound around the ball.

It changes colors every time I take the time to add to it.

 

 

Seven Quilts for Seven Grandchildren

This year my challenge and pleasure was to make a quilt for each of our grandchildren as a Christmas gift. And the task was accomplished!

 

I made the fronts and the backs and Nancy Birger did all the quilting on all seven quilts - one right after another which is a HUGE favor. Most quilters don't have the inclination - and usually the time to do that kind of thing. I know that Nancy put a number of quilt customers off till January just to help me out. The other customers quilts were not Christmas

 

So here they are for you to take a look:

 

 

Ryan Charles - 14 years

Ryan is the oldest of the "tribe" and has leadership qualities. 

I thought this quilt looked quite tribal.

Isabel Rose (Izi) - 13 years

Izi loves to be cozy and values her family history - so she got a very special quilt.

Twenty five years ago our daughter Carolyn wanted to have us make a quilt together. She was off to college with no sewing machine so we put all these pieces together BY HAND STITCHING. It was put away for those 25 years for various reasons. After making final touches and making the back for this one, it finally made it's debut as Isi's gift.

Cepeda Rose - 10 years

Cepeda is into a huge variety of artistic endeavors so her quilt is made with many colors of hand dyed and hand printed fabric.

 

Zachary Mark - 9 years

Zach is our brave and lovable grandson so his quilt pictures a variety of wolves howling at the moon. The wolves are printed on a soft-to-the-touch flannel.

Savannah Rose - 8 years

Savannah is our puzzler and reader. This quilt has several squares with news articles written by and about cats (cute). The border is one Sudoku after another. 

 

Lily Michelle - 7 years

Lily is a little lady and loves all the things that go with that.

She loves pink and pink she got!

Francesca Simone (Frankie) - 6 years

Frankie completes the tribe with her amazing wit and colorful personality. She got the Road Walkers quilt with the main center design from a pattern by my cousin Arlene Walsh.