New Floral Trellis Table Runner

Here is a green and brown batik version of my Floral Trellis Table Runner pattern that I finished this week.

In The Name of Love - Chunky Book Swap

Well, I'm trying another new thing - a chunky book swap! It's a paper arts swap where we all contribute 4x4" pages, and the person hosting the swap makes books from all our pages and returns a book to each of us. This one is sponsored by ARTchix, so it has some of their images, and the front and back of my page have a regular image (glass slide size) as well as some of their faux postage images. I mailed my pages off to the swap hostess, so now all I can do is wait for my book to arrive, so I can see everyone else's artwork.

Unphotographed quilt projects

Have you ever sent off your projects before remembering to take a photograph? I made postcards for Virginia Spiegel's FFAC project in Houston, and because of the deadline, packed them up and shipped them off before it occurred to me that I hadn't taken any pictures.

Well, now I've gone and done it again. I made a bargello wall quilt for my relatives in England, and with all of our storms and power outages, let my husband take it to them without thinking about pictures. Hopefully, when he returns, he will have taken a picture for me, and it can be uploaded.

Crazy Quilt ATC

When I made some fiber postcards for the FFAC booth at the Houston Quilt Festival, I mailed them so fast that I forgot to photograph them. This is a fabric ATC that I made for a friend, and it is only 2-1/ 2" x 3-1/ 2".

Forever project final update

Well, since the signature on my project kept bothering me, and I thought I wanted more contrast, I just had to mess with it again. Other than being able to make the signature blend in more, maybe I shouldn't have messed with it again.... Anyways, I thought the title blended in, and the whole piece was too gold, so off to the paint shop I went. Since there wasn't any lighter bronzy color, I added a pearl white and pearl shimmer to my bronze to add more lights, removed the original signature as much as I could, then re-signed it, ending up with the upper photo. Now it felt too silvery - I guess I was just getting picky, but I decided to thin out some darker colors that I had used when I had painted the background with gel medium, then shaded around the corners. I also added more bronze (with less of the pearls) to the ladies to tone them back down a bit. It's finished other than adding varnish to protect it - finally!

Forever art project done???

Well, I've added several metallic highlights, and I liked it until I signed it - the signature came out too large, and now I'll have to try to fix it, if I can - if not, I'll have to live with it.

Forever art project update

Right now it's looking dark and dingy, but I'm only finished distressing it, and now have to wait for it to dry again. Once it's dry, I intend to add layers of highlights.