Up to the Challenge

Kim gave me a challenge and I think I

will be able to say soon that I have successfully completed it. Looking to the right you will see how Janice goes creative - the mess moves from the kitchen to my office to my quilt room. I'm grateful Roger is still in Bangkok for a couple of weeks.

While looking through Quilting Arts for inspiration (I am not an artist like Kim) I ran across an article by Peggy Brown, who watered colored on tissue paper fused with webbing to a cotton fabric base. Her work is amazing and I immediately fell in love with it. It's muddy and free flowing, Everything Kim told me to stay away from. But then, you have to do what you like, or there is no sense in doing it - So I pulled together what I had (luckily most of the materials) and went for it. I haven't water colored for years, mainly because I wasn't very good at it. But this was fun. Moving the paint around, playing with it, exploring color combinations and then throwing away the evidence when I didn't like the results.

So I have gotten it this far and I am cleaning up for a few days. I took lessons for my new sewing

machine last night and have to get started on playing with that - which means practicing my free motion quilting. So much to do - so little time.

I have also cut nine four inch squares to lay out in a grid of 3X3. I'm not sure how I will sew them yet, but I'm pleased with the look of the sashing, so that will probably be the way I will go. With the fabric that was left over, I cut out small squares to stamp. Not sure what will become of them, but they may end up on cards, my bulletin board or in a book. So Kim, while not finished, thanks for the push. It has been fun.