Quilt

Here is the mushroom piece finished. It was a photo of mushrooms I took in our yard and printed on fabric. I added net, cheesecloth, and hand stitching to the center. Then the strip piecing was done and finally the quilting with a variegated rayon thread to echo the centers of the mushrooms.

Now I'm heading over to http://fiberactions.blogspot.com/ to tell about my second discarded attempt at making a quilt to represent Initiative.

Knitting

Marie at http://zquilts.blogspot.com/ has been making fingerless gloves. They look cool, so I decided to try a pair. She told me that the pattern is at http://www.knitty.com/  It was a fun one with the cables but easy to do.

Winners

Micki and Jacq, I need your addresses to mail you the postcards. My email is sjandik@tds.net

Gifts, Class

Here's my final piece from Susan Sorrell's Fiber Collage class. It was a lot of fun. I had never whipped stitched a binding before but like the effect. Beads and stitching I always like to do. Yesterday a group of us got together and a dear friend gave us the little book and the card which is her original watercolor. I just love them.

Winners, Gifts

And the winners are:.....1. Vicki W.
                                    2. Micki
                                    3. Jacq
If you ladies would send me your address, I'll get the cards off to you this week. Vicki gets first choice, Micki second.

I was a winner too on C & T's blog and received the filagree pieces which will be perfect for altered books, journals, and jewelry. A lady in Ohio sent me the stamp block of the vintage looking Santa. I can hardly wait to try him in a book.

Crazy Quilt

For a change of pace, this is a purse I just finished. One of the first jobs I had in fiber was making people's needlepoint into a useable object. There was a petit point piece done in roses that I attached to a purse frame. The work was exquisite; the frame also had roses. That started me on the trail of finding purse frames and collecting purses when I could afford them. While in California, I often went to one store owned by a special lady. She gave me this frame. We have been back in the NW for 13 years, but I finally did something with it.The lace was white, so I painted it to blend into the piece better. It is hand embroidery and beading. I always have a crazy quilt project going with a block, threads, needles, and a scissors in a bag for grabbing when I need to go somewhere.

Remember on Monday I will draw a name for the postcards. Thanks to everyone who commented.

Calendar Girls, Gift

This is the calendar page Neki picked for our December inspiration. It looks like outer space to me.I used the Embellisher to felt down some wool roving, then machine embroidered a spiral in metallic thread. The clear beads are added by hand.

Yesterday was such a pleasant day. The sun was shining, I shopped at Michael's and then met a friend at Fabric Depot-Portland's store that is an acre of fabrics. Of course, I bought a couple of books-my obsession. We had a nice lunch, and she gave me a gift "just because...". It's rovings and silk tops in our favorite colors. I think I will use them for a background for a Bead Journal Project next year.