Fast Friday Fabric Challenge Group

I have joined the Fast Friday Fabric Challenge group from the QuiltArt list.  Wow!  That's a mouthfull!  This is a group of talented art quilters who stretch themselves with a challenge on the fourth Friday of the month.  You have one week to complete and post your work. They only take new members once a year and this year, I got in!  First challenge is this week!

Deadlines...yikes.  What was I thinking!  I hate deadlines.  Haven't missed them at all since I quit teaching dancers.  I have lots of ideas floating around but NO work done.  I tried to comment on the work already done by the "go getters" and it won't connect right.  Too many email accounts messed up with the goggle accounts perhaps.  Who knows.  But I will complete this...I will.

Cracked Paper Quilts

Hey, just read several articles on Cracked Paper Quilts and it seems So You Say, (see previous post) is a Cracked paper quilt; who knew?   The top is made from mostly art papers that I created in a workshop with Traci Bautista at the IQF Long Beach convention in July.

I stayed with my dd and her honey so I thought they were appropriate to use in the band's piece.  Class was awesome and I will be applying the techniques I learned to future pieces.

Simply, the permission to play seemed to be her main idea.  No rules really except those that govern all good art technique.  Line, color, value, shape, and texture.  but she gave us the permission to just "see what happens when..."

This is so necessary for my psyche now cause I am tending to think only on the finished product and not the process.  That thought process really gets in my way

Good Grief...September

I really need to focus!  September is here already and the sales party is less than 30 days away.  I need to get crackin on the inventory or drop out.  Cozies, art scarves and small mixed media pieces will be the focus using my own art cloth.  Photos will have to come later.

I hate taking pictures because I suck at it!  They all look flat.  Bad lighting.   I know they need fixed but I don't have the patience or the time now to get them up to snuff.  I need a photographer who is willing to work cheap!  They don't exist.

Enough ranting....here is the very bad photo of the mixed media piece done for the Rally for One CD release party.  The band commissioned pieces to be done for each of their new songs and they were raffled off at the party.  My song was So You Say, chosen for me by my daughter cause she is singing background vocals.  My dd's honey is the drummer.  John is just the best and we wish them all the success they deserve.