We caught these two on the wildlife camera this past September. Unfortunately the light wasn’t good and there was hardly any contrast in the photos, so I used Photoshop Elements® to make them a little more interesting.
Whitetail doe and gray fox.
In my last post, I wrote about trying to use up the fabric from containers — I have also been making containers from fabric, trying out different techniques I have seen on YouTube. First, for myself — I bought this double wedding ring quilt in the 1980s; it was labeled as a cutter quilt even […]
Recently I did an inventory of all my containers of fabrics, and I have 88! Ranging in size from a shoebox to a suitcase. My aim is to reduce that by a fourth in the coming year, and there was no better place to start than with my tub of Christmas scraps. The highlighted fabric […]
It is time once again for our online group to reveal projects in response to a quarterly theme. This time it was “Sashiko,” which is a traditional Japanese craft, often done with white stitching on indigo cloth. I had never done any, so I went through all the books I got in a Blockbuster Book […]
This is another quilt based on Sharon Tucker’s String Theory pattern, which was in the April 2017 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting. The original pattern had nine big blocks. Each block started with a central square, and then built out with alternating rows of scraps and solids for a total of five go-rounds, and […]
A few months ago, I saw “Reclamation” as the title of someone’s blog post (which, sadly, I didn’t bookmark), and I thought, “That is what I want to do with all my left-over blocks — get them out of the storage tubs, reclaim them, and turn them into a finished top.” Back in 2017, I […]
A very artistic rendering. Good work. 🙂