auditions

Beautiful, right?  That’s three pieces of arlee barr‘s master dyeing (stablizied, cut (yes! cut!! — one of the many moments in the life of a quilter requiring FEARLESSNESS) and read to go), and a little end of a silk scarf (tie-dyed) given to me recently by a friend.  The light and the fabric are really working together here.

And speaking of fearlessness, I went ahead and added machine stitching to the blonde (yesterday’s post).  So far, only gold thread and pale sea green — will I venture to black?!!

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the blonde

Last week, I tried to turn a sketch into a quilt, hoping to capture the same quickness of construction and freshness of line.  It was a disaster because I was trying to copy something I had already made and wasn’t really looking at the fabric.

Once I started looking at the fabric, and forgot about the sketch, the face kind of assembled itself.  Originally, I thought I would overlay this with some dense machine quilting.  Now, I’m not so sure.  One thing IS for sure -”the blonde” is designated for show/sale on December 3 at the New Art Center, so she will be finished within the week (when I have said THAT last?!!)

K thinks she looks a little like me.  I can see that, but she reminds me more of my mother, or at least, my mother’s generation during their toddler-caring years.

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Bird woman

This was going to be a bear, but the bird just emerged.

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Old pages

Am going through some old pages… every once in a while, I find something worth keeping.  Some journals are faithfully entered into many times a week… others go years with not a single note.  Most years, the jottings are scattered among three, four, five journals.  I want to collect them, select pieces, and burn the rest.

This was about four weeks after my mother died; two days before C’s second birthday; five days before D’s birth.

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in-spire

All pictures from Cape Ann last week.  Such unseasonably warm weather permits jaunts like these, in comfort, though it was very windy on Good Harbor Beach.

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