Working Down the List

I’m not sure what happened to the first two weeks of April but was stunned yesterday to realize that they’re gone. I only wish that winter had disappeared along with those two weeks but we are still under a cover of snow and very frosty mornings. My garden sits under about two feet of snow but the ground is beginning to peak through in some spots around the yard, and it is muddy! The rubber boots came out of the closet yesterday, as it was at the zero mark and a perfect day to walk to the studio. I haven’t been over there in months, except to pick up supplies, due to the cold weather and I’m very behind in my quilt tops, but I hope all that will change now that spring is in the air.

I’ve just completed a fairly intense project that has kept me pre-occupied since the end of February, with lots of machine and hand quilting and fiddly bindings, so I do have something to share finally. This is part of an ongoing series based on an old sketch from a few years ago that I felt was worthy of revisiting and developing into new work, so I’ve created some small abstract pieces exploring the theme of ‘reflection’ and incorporating my own hand dyed fabrics and threads.

Reflections II

Reflections III

Fissure

Portal

Crossroads

This small body of work will be delivered to its destination this week and then I can move on to other pressing matters, like getting some quilt tops onto the longarm. I’m also ‘itching’ to get back on the sewing machine and finish piecing up the large quilt on the design wall at the studio… and I have my Blindman’s Fancy blocks to put together… and I still have work to do on my bohemian quilt blocks… and I can’t wait to show you what I’ve been doing with some old thrift store shirts…

well you get the idea, right? I truly have a lot to catch up on, so stay tuned for plenty of progress reports.

As always, carol