Art

Two of my kitties. Drawings with colored pencil.

Watercolor painting. I need to frame it.

Pine needle basket

At Heritage Textile guild meeting last Saturday, we made pine needle baskets - or at least began them. I finished mine last evening. It has an agate for the base that was within an acrylic envelope to protect it.

Kumihumo

Kumihumo or Japanese braiding. I made a necklace chain (left) and several key chains. The key chains were in a craft fair last December.

The bag (below) I spun the yarn from wool, crocheted the bag and did kumihumo for the strap. I was not particularly happy with the strap, it stretches too much. I added some thin sparkly colored thread for part of the bag to add interest. The bead used as a closure is dichroic glass.

Three art quilts

I did a small quilt as a sampler doing fabric origami using mostly Stonehenge fabrics by Northcutt. I put a button in the center of most of them rather than sewing that down. 

This was a kit but I changed a few of the fabrics. I did the quilting with monofilament so that it would not interfere with the colors of fabric.

This quilt is titled: 1+2=Qi. It is a reference to the Chinese theory that 1 is the Tao, 2 is yin and yang or opposites, and 3 is movement between the opposites (energy). And I like dragons;) I beaded the two circular centers of the yin/yang symbol. 

Autumn Fall

One of my favorite quilts that I made. It was finished in 2012. The center leaves were fused fabric that I painted with acrylic paints and curled until dry. The colors look a little faded in this picture. I put some silver glitter at a few places to look like ice forming on the leaves. There is a crocheted worm eating the holes in the leaves.

Yowling

YOWLING

A marmalade cat named Merlin

Sits by his dish not purrin’

He knows most certain it’s time

Definitely he’s going to dine

Just get those people to feed him

He dances around

With feet on the ground

At the top of his lungs, he’s yowling

His tail is held high, demanding

But certainly he loves the sound

He yowls in the morning

He yowls in the evening

It’s more than a hunch

He’s ready for lunch

It’s definitely time for a feeding

Pacing around to and fro

Crying with great gusto

Finally his dude will act

Open a can that’s packed

Food put on his plate just so

Oh, what a treat

Chicken or beef

Maybe there’s tuna today

Whether it’s stew or puree

Whatever it is, let’s eat

View from backyard

Great view of my backyard from the deck.