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Fire Inchies

Like a little candle, burning in the night

A fiery eye

Bring on the marshmallows :-)

Where there's smoke.....

Ready, aim, ..what a messy job!

Here are a few very quickly done Fire Inchies. Some of them are quite silly but... Sorry about the messy little pistol. I LIKE my little pistol, but not the rest of it. No time to fix it, so ...fire away!

Blue Inchies

Melted Tyvek and micro beads

Jones Tones foil and a button and two beads

Texture Magic under cotton , stitched and shrunk with the iron . Turquoise beads.

Cotton fabric wit Angelina fibre and beads

Beads and "jewels" on paper with blue ink

Evolon painted with Dye na Flo and beads

This week was great fun. I love BLUE anyway , so this was fun. No special messages. No high ideas. Just pretty blue! Mmmm!

Moving right along

The Irises stitched

The Poppies stitched

The Sunflowers ready for stitching

I have done the thread paintng on the poppies and on the irises now and the sunflowers are next.The tear away stabilizer I used is not wonderful. It is wonderfully hard to tear away!!! In the end, I am leaving it where the pieces are small and removing it behind the larger open areas. That will be fine . So far, I am pleased but I will be very glad when the job is done.

The Irises - stitch detail

Details of the stitching on the poppies

Stay tuned for the finishing which I hope will happen early this week.
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First of three

This little poppies piece is one of three little ones I am doing as gifts for friends in England. We HOPE, if the petrol strike does not happen, to be visiting them in May! If it does happen, you are all stuck with me :-( Obviously , this is only a top and still needs thread painting and quilting etc. Sorry about the wrinkles, This is not the ideal spot to hang anything for a photo shoot!

River Inchies

Sunsets over a river are some of my favourite things.

Paddling down a calm river - a past joy. Guess I am a little creaky for that any more :-(

Gorgeous mountain streams become mighty rivers as they collect water from little tributaries.

Moonlight on a river is lovely- as long as your moon is not blobby!!! Sorry!

Started off as Niagara but ended up looking pretty tame . Ah, well!

In the past week, I have been up close and personal with some big rivers. I crossed the Niagara, the Ohio, the Kentucky and the Tennessee - and a whole lot of smaller ones too. Then, I did the whole trip in reverse but in the meantime, I had a lovely family visit. Here are my River Inchies-well, up there ^

Technology

I LOVE my new iPad . It is a second gen one, not the third, but it is GREAT and it has 3G so I am in a waiting room . Posting online. How cool os THAT?

I have been away for a few days visiting our daughter.Had a lovely visit but we are really tired now so not much exciting stuff happening artistically just for a couple of days. Back at it soon!

Dance Inchies

At our house,Highland Dancing was front and centre for many years. Velvet, tartan and lace was the order of the day....and, NO, this is NOT our tartan!

For me , it was tutus and roses and sequins. Divine!!

So many little girls dream of becoming ballerinas.

Life IS a dance! Let yourself go.

Hours of practice. Sore, bleeding toes. GREAT satisfaction

Express yourself with abandon!

Life is a sort of dance. Express yourself well in your dance. Enjoy it all and, as the saying goes, " dance like there is no one watching"! Good advice.

Done and dusted at last


I am calling this the Wall of Wierd- because all of the little pieces here have odd, interesting , mostly industrial fabrics in them . NOT very Trad!

I finally finished the little Alien Critter and really enjoyed doing it. It is bound and backed by a glorious fabric by Caryl Bryer Fallert from her Ombre Stripe collection- delicious! I put some commercially dyed "batik" on the back. Funny little piece- about 18" x20".Here he is in a starring role...


Pity the colours are not TOO accurate. However, you get the idea.

Next?........

Agreement on Blog Security issues

Having read Morning AJ's comment this morning, I feel I should voice my opinion in agreement with hers and with the opinions of many other Blogspot Bloggers. ENOUGH, already! Enough with the "prove you are not a robot" nonsense. We DO all know where the Delete button is and how many of us have found nasty comments or spam all over our blogs anyway? I am sorely tempted to refrain from commenting on those sites that persist in using this silly system. It is insulting and unnecessary. Please feel free to comment on MY blog , unencumbered by robots or by proving you are NOT one. If you are cheeky though, be prepared to be zapped into oblivion.

The Zentangle beast

I have been quilting the background of this little piece - having a ball! I did a little bit of bobbin work on the curlicues at the end of the spikes. It is ok, but I need to speak to my Guru to get the tensions adjusted properly. The quilting is ALMOST finished and I still like this piece. It is abnormal for me, but maybe I am growing ? I am less fearful now of trying wild and crazy things than I used to be. This one just grew out of my head :-)( shows the state of my head, doesn't it!!)

Just showing the background quilting

Detail

Bobbin work on the curlicues

Too bad it is cropped so much. I will get a better one next time but this is as far as I have gotten to date. I HOPE to finish the quilting tonight.

Garden Inchies

....and pretty maids, all in a row.

...a host of golden daffodils

...mille fiore

..pansies are for thoughts

Tulip

...inch by inch, row by row...

...cherry blossom

Imaginary bloom

... yet another thought

If there is one thing that competes with my love of quilting and drawing, it is my love of gardening. I was out there today, "liberating" my hellebores. They are all in bloom but mired under a tangled mess of last year's leaves and the detritus of winter. I am WHACKED now, but the hellebores no longer blush unseen. They ARE lovely and so much is starting to come up in our garden now after a week of very mild weather. As a parting shot on the subject of gardens, here is a garden of Garden Inchies. Enjoy!!Go out and see what is growing in YOUR part of the world.

Alien Entity!!

Alien Entity!

Look what this has morphed into over night!I have been adding these little spiky tentacles to some of my Zentangles and as this piece started out as a Zentangle... I like it!It may not have general appeal. The public at large may be a little freaked out, but I LIKE it! I was very glad that this piece of doll stocking striped fabric was big enough to do what I wanted. I am continuing with the quilting and thread painting and we shall see what befalls tonight :-)