finished quilt....

It was cold this morning.

Very cold....below zero (Fahrenheit)

But I wanted to get a picture of the finished Zombie quilt before the sun came up...

while it was nice and bright, but no glaring sun hitting it!

I added red button eyes because Mary Lou Weidman says in her book...

(when making faces)

"avoid red or orange buttons-they make the person or animal look a little crazy."

Perfect.

Now all I need is to give this to Jacob. 

He will be so happy! The first thing he says when I see him is...

"is it done yet??"

I can finally say yes!!!!!

fabric, fabric and wood.....

There is a small box of cherrywood fabrics that are left overs.

scraps!

I have been playing with them.

This is what I have so far.

The LOVE ones (tonya loves) are potholders and the other one

is going to be a mug rug for the table in the living room.

(or will be once I put on some binding)

other sewing......

This month's block lotto block had me thinking. What is light? What is bright?

I hope next month I won't have to think so much.

I really have 7 to enter, but I lost the picture of the first one.

I did a quick table quilt using the scraps. I used raw edge applique. Should have tried a little harder getting all the edges sewn down. The edges are sorta hairy.

Now the wood...

When we moved here, there was a table base made out of 2x4's.

Nothing special.

Tractor joe added some  wood to the top and and we used it outside for the last 

decade or so. But the top started cracking and falling apart.

I had visions of putting on some "new" old barn wood and painting the base black.

A table for the living room so you could put your feet up.

Tractor joe was hesitant.

"it's junk"

"in the living room?"

"it should be thrown out and burned"

But he cut, attached and sanded some of the old barn wood for the top.

I painted and stained the top.

I love how it turned out. 

It is now upstairs where I can put my feet up if I want.

& I think tractor joe is glad he didn't burn it after all.

Ian Malcolm.....

I am still busy staring at fabric.

and it is staring back at me.

painting and paper.....

This post doesn't have any fabric or sewing in it. This will be about what I do when I am not busy staring at fabric and wondering what to do next. (this way? that way? what color?)

This is about a free online workshop. [strathmoreartiststudio.com] The first one is doodles unleashed or some such thing.

I should have stopped at this point. It looked kinda cool. But no, I added doodles like the video showed.

These images are the before. When I finished, I was horrified by the doodling I did. It wasn't very pleasing to look at. (I never took a picture, it was late and dark outside) 

So I painted over everything and started over. 

I have come to the conclusion that I am not very good at doodling. 

I went back to what I know, stencils and cut-up sponges to apply the paint.

I will try again, but for now I am happy with these sheets of painted paper, as they are, right now.

All of them hiding 3 different workshop attempts. The sheets are 18x24 inches.

What to do with these now??

Well, 

My other latest obsession is making little books by folding paper.

Like this [8 page] or, this one that is [16 pages]...

I have used an old atlas page, 

12x12 scrapbook paper, (they are the tall skinny ones) 

18x24 makes the garden/love size with 16 pages

my paycheck deposit sheet, (the little white one) 

and brown packing paper. 

Plus several at school using unclaimed painted paper.

I think the workshop papers will be very happy becoming little books.

the lastest start, a movie quilt......

When I was ready to start on Crispy's zombie quilt....

he said, "i don't want that"

WHAT?

"I want Jurassic Park"

So what goes in a Jurassic Park quilt?

"well you need a raptor"

I had to think about this for a while.

Never did a dinosaur.

When Crispy and I cleaned in the basement...I found a random dinosaur!

How perfect, a model.

I kept adding pieces.

Went with a closed mouth. Seemed easiest, even if it is a curve.

Crispy could see the raptor, but is blue really a good camouflage color for a dinosaur?

Well, when you are using the very last of a fabric, you can't be picky.

I got to thinking, the neck was sort of boring.

So I cut it off!

He is still in pieces, but when I start putting it all together.....

I can use these flying geese in the neck.

What else goes in a Jurassic Park quilt?

Muldoon! The raptor gets him at the end of the movie

He will be spooked and looking up at the raptor.

He says, "clever girl"

I do have those letter done, just no picture yet. It will have other quotes too. 

I'll take more pictures when I start putting it all together.

It is time for filler!

But it is also time to go back to work, so things may slow down on this project.