Jayden and her brother just spent the weekend with us. What a joy!! Before she got here I just finished a few new outfits for her. But first, here are some new pictures of or little angel.
Jayden sleeping with JR (my big stuffed Polar Bear) watching over her.
Jayden and her Papa taking a nap
Papa woke up but Jayden is still sleeping like a log!
Here are some of the new outfits I just finished for her.
First is her new bib. Her dad and brother both have full Mossy Oak and camo outfits. She also has a mossy oak outift (complete with little white lace - too cute!!) So I kinda designed my own version of a mossy oak bib for her.
"Butterfly Kisses"
"Looking Sharp"
"Looking Sharp" with bib
That's it for now. So much fun to dye clothes for her I'm sure it won't be that last time!
Jeffrey is my new budding artist!! His latest project is a dinosaur shirt. We found the stencil at a local store and the shirt is from JoAnn's.
We taped the stencil to the shirt and put it over a box so the paint would not go through to the back of the shirt. He is using Jacquard Lumiere Bronze, Burnt Orange, Rust and Olive Green. One surprise - when I went to wash the stencil I discovered it was paper!!! That was the end of THAT stencil!!! It was heavily coated with something that made it feel like plastic!!! Oh well......
New Artist at Work
Finished shirt drying on the box. After it was dry I heat set it with the iron and then ran it through a cycle in the clothes dryer to help set it.
Finished and ready to wear!
Now, let's see what I might want for Christmas!! (looking through the newest Christmas toy catalog)
Tired and sleepy after a hard day of art and play
One of the online groups I am a pert of is having a swap of dyed flour sack towels. Here are the ones I did for the swap. All the towels are 100% cotton, of course, and were scoured before being put in the soda ash/water to soak. Then I dyed them with some of the dyes I had left over from another dyeing project. These were really fun and I will DEFINITELY be doing some more!!
Just did some new pieces discharged with bleach for a DyeHard swap.
The following three pieces were done on Kona black. I layered some cheesecloth over the fabric and then sprayed it with full strength bleach from a spray bottle.
The following two pieces are done on Kona black. I squirted bleach gel across the fabric and then with a drywall tool scraped it down the fabric.
This piece is one of my hand dyed dark blue pieces. I stamped some leaves on the right hand side with a chunky stamp and gel bleach. Then I sprayed it with full strength bleach from a spray bottle.
Discharging fabric has to be one of my favorite techniques. I think it is because to some extent the results are a bit of a surprise.
All pieces were soaked in anti-chlor/water solution after bleaching and then washed in the washing machine with Synthrapol.
The Surfacing group I belong to has a couple of swaps I just completed pieces for. The first two are apx. 8.5" X 11"
The Landscape quilt I thought about and thougt about but nothing really grabbed me. Then I was at a friends house and saw a postcard of Antelope Canyon AZ. I knew the minute I saw it that it HAD to be a quilt. And what better project than my Landscape quiltlet???? Below is a picture of the quilt and a picture of the quilt with the postcard that inspired it.
This one is for the current challenge - Fibers. All the fibers (except the coral) are needle felted onto the blue felt background. Even the fish dorsal fin and the seaweed. The coral wouldn't needle felt so I glued it on. It was a really fun little quiltlet to do.
As many of you know, I am slowly but surely going through the book called "The Artist's Way". Every morning I write pages in a notebook. The first notebook I did had such a plain cover and after a class I took on tissue paper fabric I decided that any notebook that was about art should have a more artistic cover. So, I used one of the leftover pieces I had from that class to cover the front cover and then added a pink ribbon to tie it closed.
I just started a new notebook and KNEW I wanted to cover it with something creative. I searched and searched and when I came upon this piece I knew it was just what I wanted. It is a complex piece from a round robin in our Surfacing group and it is perfect!!! It was a little too long for the notebook so I cut off the ends and used one of them to serve as a closure for the book. There is Velcro used to close the flap. The button is just sewn on top for decoration. The leaf on the cover is from an experiment I did needle felting a 3-D object. The center spine of the leaf is a spike from a plant I found on an excursion to Yellowstone. It was growing along the side of the road at an overlook before we got to the park. I am SOOOO enjoying writing my pages in my wonderful notebook!
Now, I only have one more project to complete to be all caught up. I had dedicated October as my catch up month and so after this last project I will be all caught up on all my projects!!! I can hardly wait for November and keeping up!
FINALLY finished my challenge quilt part 1. The challenge was to create a 40X40 quilt that represented our environment. I chose to do a pine tree in winter with a cardinal. That is one of my favorite views where I live. We have a lot of pine trees and a lot of cardinals. I love the way they stand out so bright against the trees and the snow. It makes me feel very peaceful and calm just seeing them.
Anyway, here it part one. Now I need to choose from one of the other quilts as an inspiration and make Challenge Quilt part 2!!
WINTER SOLITUDE
One of the online groups I belong to focuses on surfacing techniques - mostly for art quilts. We formed one year ago and at that time had a "baby shower" quilt challenge. Well, we are now one year old so we had a First Anniversary quilt challenge. Each member sent an item to two other members. From these two items from two different people we were to design a 8.5" X 11" quiltlet to celebrate our first anniversary.
I received a yummy lavendar wool roving and a piece of white mulberry bark.
I needle felted the wool roving and a cool piece of shiney purple yarn onto purple felt. Stamped the number "1" on it in the open spaces with white Jacquard Neopaque. Then I quilted it and put on the binding.
Next I painted a purple gradation on the mulberry bark with Jacquard Violet DynaFlow paint, tore it in 5 pieces and starting at common point, looped them out to five different points. At those points I glued 5 different number "1"s. Then I needle felted a circle with the wool roving and a piece of the yarn and glued that at the point where the mulberry bark met.
The title of the First Anniversary Quilt is --- "We're #1"
Here is a detail of the quiltlet
And since it is a 3 dimensional quiltlet and that didn't show up in the main picture, I have also taken a side view.
HAPPY FIRST ANNIVERSARY DYEHARD SURFACING!!!!!
October, 2007
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