Book

I had tried felting scraps of fabrics of unknown fiber content to a piece of craft felt to see what would happen. The finished piece sat around for ages when inspiration hit-a book cover! Because the fabrics were assorted, I machine quilted a wonky grid on top of them to make sure it didn't fall apart. It's tied with a leather strip that had also sat around for years. It's so satisfying to be using things that I couldn't part with but had not found a place to put.

The signature covers are painted papers. The two toned one is embossed wallpaper from a sample book.

Journal Quilt

MaIrish Annie http://quilttilyouwilt.blogspot.com sent me the center piece for this Journal quilt when we exchanged things. It is so pretty that it needed little else. I bordered it with painted fabric and edged it by zigzagging yarn to it.  The buttons are from my collection.

This is another Journal Quilt for www.3creativestudios.com  It's been a good exercise to do one a week and get a chance to experiment with some ideas.

Art and Soul

I took the Letterpress book class at Art and Soul given by Sharyn Sowell http://sharynsowellartblog.blogspot.com  She had so much to share, so I made lots of printed images. Here are just a few.

Of course, I had to do the chickens. Now I have quite a stack to use in projects.

This is my version of the book. I liked the idea of a button closure.

This is how one side looks opened.

And I put decorations on some of the pages with tags in the pockets created by the way we folded the paper.

A fun class and teacher. I'm looking forward to seeing her again.

Felting

A while back I made this purse from a piece I had felted on the embellisher. It's machine quilted with metallic thread.

The closure before was a pin from my collection. When Sue http://suebleiweiss.com/blog/ sent me buttons she had made in a pottery class this summer, I knew this was a much better closure. Here is a detail.

Bead Journal Project

This 4th year that I am parat of www.beadjournalproject.com I decided to do a Journal sized crazy quilt piece. October to me means Halloween and orange, so here it is.

After piecing the background, I sewed on braid, then stitched over the other seams and added beads.

This also meets the Journal Quilt a week challenge at www.3creativestudios.com

Class

 These are four small collages I did in Jane Davies Class on Scribble Collage. What a fun lady.  http://janedavies-collagejourneys.blogspot.com/  If you get a chance to take a class from her be sure to do it.

We decorated papers with paint in the morning to use in our collages after lunch. There were lots of methods for texturing the paint. It was nice to see what everyone was doing, because other people have other ways of looking at things.

The first three are sort of a series, since they are all geometric and use green.

This one is so different. It was the end of the day, so I was tired and just sitting and playing, but I think it is probably the best.

Five years of going to Art and Soul and taking 4 or 5 classes each time with never a bad one!         http://www.artandsoulretreat.com/   

Journal Quilt, gift

Art and Soul is over for another year. I'm pleasantly tired and will show things once I get organized. Another year with 5 great classes.

This journal quilt-on its side thanks to blogger, too tired to mess with it-started with the Challenge of the month from www.3creativestudios.com  It is fused triangles on a marbled background. I machine quilted to echo the spiral and edge it with satin stitch. I seem to still be doing spirals.

Vivika from the Fiberactions group sent each of us a Prayer Flag. Isn't it wonderful and so nice of her? I'm hanging it in my studio.